Buddhism Quotes - Page 14

• In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

  Thich Thien-An

  Happiness, Evil, Suffering

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• To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.

  Thich Thien-An

  Kindness, Anger, Practice

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• The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Essence, Historical, Followers

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.42, Souvenir Press

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• The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, War, Hands

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• I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Loneliness, Believe, Keys

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• By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Chakra Meditation, Mind

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Moving, Eye

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• Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Eye, Chakra Meditation

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• For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in Sanskrit, is located in the center of the chest, dead center. If you focus there you will feel a warm and tingling sensation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Years

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• The heart chakra is the central chakra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Meditation

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• In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Heart, Chakra Meditation

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• The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest. Hold your right or left hand out. Now say "Me" and, as you do so, touch your chest. You will automatically touch your heart chakra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Hands

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• Close your eyes and simply "feel" the spot your finger is touching. Then, after a couple of minutes, let your hands down. Continue to hold your attention on the spot just as you did when your finger was there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Eye, Chakra Meditation

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• Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Chakra Meditation, Focus, Floating

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• Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

  Frederick Lenz

  Chakra Meditation, Joy, Stronger

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• After two or three sessions of meditating on your heart chakra, it will no longer be necessary for you to physically touch your chest. You will sense the spot automatically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Two

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• Your heart chakra is not in your physical body. It is in your subtle physical body, but it comes in contact with your physical body in this location.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Body

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• Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Years

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• Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Focus

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• As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Focus

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• Focus on the heart center and feel love. There is a flower there, but it's like a rose folded up. As you meditate, feel that the flower is opening. Each time you open a set of petals you're going deeper into eternal awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Heart, Chakra Meditation

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• Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Chakra Meditation, Rose, Focus

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• To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty, laughter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Heart, Chakra Meditation

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• It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Chakra Meditation, Two

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• When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Chakra Meditation, Roots, Focus

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