Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 45

• Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.

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  World, Hinduism, Krishna

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• The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.

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  Dream, Real, Night

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• Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.

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  Yoga, Dimensions, Consciousness

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• Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.

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  Heart, Self, Enlightenment

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• In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.

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  Forever, Arjuna, Gita

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• Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

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  Enjoy Life, Doe, Consciousness

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• Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

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  Mind, Filters, Hinduism

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

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  Mind, Stronger, Concentration

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• 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.

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  Might Use, Rocks, Flames

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• 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.

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  Other Worlds, Design, Attention

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• Focus on an object of some type, hopefully an object that's beautiful or powerful. You could find a pretty colored stone that you just feel good about.

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  Beautiful, Powerful, Focus

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• 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

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• Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.

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  Rocks, Flames, Focus

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• As long as you visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts, hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations cannot enter you.

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  Long, Feelings, Energy

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• To meditate with humility, consider existence. It is infinite. You are finite. You are a finite portion of infinite existence. Let this be your meditation.

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  Humility, Meditation, Infinite

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• Visualize a beautiful rose in the center of your chest. Imagine a soft reddish rose. Imagine that the rose is completely folded up. Visualize the first set of petals is gradually unfolding.

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  Beautiful, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• There is no end to the petals of the inner rose. Continue to unfold set after set of petals until you have completed your meditation session.

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  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Rose

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• An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Light

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• You can focus on me or on any spiritual teacher. Spiritual teachers who have left the body, who are no longer on earth can help you too. When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, People

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• You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Jesus

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• Focusing on an enlightened teacher is a doorway. It is not a person. We are focusing on the light that passes through them. We are moving through them into the planes of light and eventually to nirvana.

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  Teacher, Moving, Light

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• The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Meditation

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• When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Flames

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• If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are.

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  Grateful, Thinking, Facts

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• Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.

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  Couple, Children, Break Through

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