Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 46

• Try to feel that you are beyond time and space when you practice meditation. Go beyond this world, beyond time, beyond life, not a feeling of being spaced out, but in touch with the moment and with eternity.

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  Practice, Space, Meditation

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• Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!

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  Karma, Laughter, Visits You

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• In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.

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  Spiritual, Silly, Oneness

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• Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You can focus on any spiritual teacher. We are glad to help you.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Remember You

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• The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple.

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  Simple, Practice, Perfect

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• There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

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  Trying, Three, Stage

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• In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.

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  Stage, Periods

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• The third stage is no thought.

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  Stage, Thirds

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• The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.

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  Moving, Long, Meditation

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• The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.

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  Meditation, Ends, Stage

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• Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it's not. If it's not getting brighter, it's because there's no risk. There's no risk in thinking instead of stopping your thought. There's a lot of risk in stopping your thought.

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  Thinking, Risk, Stopping

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• Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.

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  Meditation, Different, Method

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• We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought.

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  Trying, Phases, Existence

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• To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.

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  Unconscious Thoughts, Balance, Flow

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• We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.

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  Natural, States, Stillness

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• Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images.

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  Thinking, Meditation, Mind

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• In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind.

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  Shining, Mind, Trying

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• Don't fight with your thoughts or try to suppress them with your will. This will only frustrate you and bind you to your thoughts even more strongly.

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  Fighting, Trying

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.95, St. Martin's Press

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• Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

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  Ideas, Stopping, World

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• We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.

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  Children, Ideas, Triggers

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• I observe many people who say they are meditating, but I sure don't see them meditating. They sit and touch a lot of people, places and things psychically, but they sure don't meditate.

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  People, Meditating

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• When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop!

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  Mistake, Thinking, People

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• If you focus on another person you take their energy in your body completely.

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  Focus, Energy, Body

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• If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras and you be much more confused and dissociated than you were prior to your meditation experience.

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  Confused, People, Meditation

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• If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.

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  People, Meditation, Impression

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