Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 138

• A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of reality. It creates a powerful force. It starts the kundalini moving.

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  Powerful, Moving, Buddhism

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• There are thousands of mantras. Everyone has favorites. I prefer three - Aum, Sring, and Kring.

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  Buddhism, Meditation, Three

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• Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.

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  Buddhism, Self, Meditation

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• You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.

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  Buddhism, Ideas, Meditation

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• There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.

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  Buddhism, Meditation, Way

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• To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.

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• If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

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• There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.

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  Buddhism, Meditation, Risk

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• Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.

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  Book, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.

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• Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

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  Buddhism, People, Meditation

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• When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.

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  Letting Go, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts

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  Real, Buddhism, Winning

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• Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

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  Buddhism, Winning, Meditation

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• The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.

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  Buddhism, Practice, Meditation

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• Pure and simple, balance is happiness.

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• The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

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  Children, Essence, Taoism

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• The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

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  Humility, Water, Taoism

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• Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.

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  Water, Taoism, Laos

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• Water is the symbol of pure consciousness.

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  Water, Taoism, Consciousness

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• Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.

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  Water, Taoism, Levels

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• Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.

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  Taoism, Way, Path

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• When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.

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  Water, Taoism, Flow

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• Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.

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  Water, Taoism, Needs

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• The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.

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  Powerful, Water, Taoism

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