Buddhism Quotes - Page 25

• The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Essence, Historical, Followers

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.42, Souvenir Press

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• The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, War, Hands

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• I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Loneliness, Believe, Keys

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• By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Chakra Meditation, Mind

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

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• Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Moving, Eye

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• For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in Sanskrit, is located in the center of the chest, dead center. If you focus there you will feel a warm and tingling sensation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Years

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• The heart chakra is the central chakra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Meditation

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• Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

  Frederick Lenz

  Chakra Meditation, Joy, Stronger

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• After two or three sessions of meditating on your heart chakra, it will no longer be necessary for you to physically touch your chest. You will sense the spot automatically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Two

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• Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Years

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• Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Chakra Meditation, Focus

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• Focus on the heart center and feel love. There is a flower there, but it's like a rose folded up. As you meditate, feel that the flower is opening. Each time you open a set of petals you're going deeper into eternal awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Heart, Chakra Meditation

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• Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Chakra Meditation, Rose, Focus

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• To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty, laughter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Heart, Chakra Meditation

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• It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Chakra Meditation, Two

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• Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!

  Frederick Lenz

  Chakra Meditation, Focus, Mind

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• One doesn't actually meditate on the navel. The chakra is located about two or three inches below the navel, at that point there is an energy access sphere in the middle of the body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Chakra Meditation, Two, Energy

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• If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

  Frederick Lenz

  Chakra Meditation, Enlightenment, Phrases

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• Move the kundalini from the solar plexus region into the heart center, which purifies it and connects the two halves of you being. Bring the kundalini down again from the heart center to the navel center.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Heart, Chakra Meditation

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• Focus your attention on the center of your forehead. Visualize that there is a slow but steady swirl of white light there. Visualize that the white light above your forehead is slowly moving in a clockwise direction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Light, Chakra Meditation

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.103, St. Martin's Press

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• Visualize the soft white light continuing to expand as it gently swirls around, until it has filled the earth, the sky, the universe, and all of infinity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Chakra Meditation, Sky

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• If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Eye, Chakra Meditation

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• You can take the kundalini from the crown center and bring it down. You can bring it up or you can stabilize them both. When you stop breathing in meditation, the kundalini is stabilized.

  Frederick Lenz

  Breathing, Chakra Meditation, Crowns

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• As the prana current, kundalini and different energies begin to move through you, you will feel yourself moving and rocking. Keep the body still, otherwise that energy will be lost as it expresses itself through the physical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Chakra Meditation, Energy

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• All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes open and closed. Most people find that it is easier initially to practice meditation with their eyes closed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Chakra Meditation, Practice

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.104, St. Martin's Press

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