Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 93

• How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.

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  Self, Return, Awareness

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• When you go into samadhi there is no breath at all. The kundalini is perfectly stabilized. Usually it stabilizes in the solar plexus area.

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  Samadhi, Areas, Breaths

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• You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.

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  Mean, Forever, Mind

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• When you stop your thoughts, you stop the world.

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  World, Samadhi

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• When the world stops, time stops.

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  World, Samadhi, Stop Time

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• When time stops, matter stops.

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  Matter, Samadhi

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• When matter stops, self-consciousness stops.

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  Self, Matter, Consciousness

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• When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.

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  Self, Consciousness, Samadhi

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• The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.

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  Gone Away, Samadhi, Existence

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• It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.

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  Past, Way, Samadhi

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• The light of the supra-conscious, of salvakalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, is not connected to this world at all. It passes through this world but it is not part of this world, in a way of speaking.

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  Light, World, Way

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• Advanced meditation is facing the immensity of eternity, embracing that which terrifies you and frightens you and loving it because it's God. You are God.

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  Meditation, Eternity, Samadhi

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• You are all dirty and grungy. You go step in the shower and you come out clean. When you enter into the white light, it does something to you.

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  Dirty, Light, White

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• The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.

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  Average, Lifetime, Individual

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• Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.

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  Light, Meditation, Eternity

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• Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana; concepts of self and no-self go away completely.

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  Real, Self, Going Away

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• For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more

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  Fashion, Real, Self

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• Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.

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  Acceptance, Consciousness, Samadhi

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• The final entrance into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, into nirvana, God-realization, when you become the absolutely best friend of God, can only come when your love is completely pure.

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  Love Is, Finals, Realization

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• Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being has gone through countless changes and refinements.

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  Gone, Matter, Samadhi

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• There is a big difference between the lower samadhis and the upper samadhis, like the difference between the Sierras and the Himalayas.

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  Differences, Samadhi, Bigs

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• Salvakalpa samadhi is like a sea of perfect light; nirvikalpa samadhi is no light, no darkness, no way to describe it. Absorption is complete, that's nirvana.

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  Light, Sea, Perfect

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• The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.

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  Spiritual, Teaching, Interesting

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• They reach the point where they feel, "I can go into samadhi now. I can do everything on my own," and that's exactly where they stay, in the lower samadhis. There are many, many people on this earth who can go into salvakalpa samadhi.

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  People, Earth, Samadhi

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• Once you become very powerful and advanced, you must be willing to go back to school and start over, and go to a wise person who will show you the way. Very few people are willing to do that.

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  Wise, Powerful, School

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