Frederick Lenz Quotes About Concentration

• During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase and sharpen their innate psychic abilities.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Exercise, Psychics

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

• What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Discovery

• Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Meditation, Each Day

• Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Practice

• Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Exercise

• Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.

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  Health, Buddhism, Winning

• Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Focus, Mind

• Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras are designs of power that tap into other levels of attention. They remind us of things in other worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Other Worlds, Design, Attention

• Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.

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  Mean, Listening, Mind

• You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Feel Good, Gains

• Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Meditation, Today

• Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Flames, Focus

• Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.

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  Moving, Sight, Perception

• Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Meditation, Desire

• To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Mean, Perfect

• The more completely you concentrate, the stronger your mind becomes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Stronger, Concentration

• If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling.

  Frederick Lenz

  Focus, Feelings, Blind

• A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.

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  Meditation, Mind, Study

• The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Self, Enlightenment

• In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory, but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in other lifetimes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Memories, Mean, Enlightenment

• You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

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  Flower, Flames, Use

• The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow.

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  Keys, Focus, Touching

• There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Two Sides

• There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, Meditation, Path

• Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Might Use, Rocks, Flames

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