Buddhism Quotes - Page 26

• Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.

  Frederick Lenz

  Chakra Meditation, Use, Rotation

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

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• The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Creating, Chakra Meditation

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

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• Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Train Of Thought, Chakra Meditation

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• Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Becoming One, Way

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• The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Perfect, Enlightenment

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• Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Practice, People

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• Real Buddhism is about meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Real, Meditation

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• Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes to codify.

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  Buddhist, Forever, Together

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• Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Cosmology

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• Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Self

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• The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Stress, Promise

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• Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have the sense that you can change the way you perceive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Way, Study

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• Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with such volatility and force that we simply perceive life correctly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Perception, Mind

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• Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Dark, Light

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• In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of the present and of future moments.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Believe, Limitless Possibilities

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• Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, News, Lasts

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• Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Ideas, Forever

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• The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Mind, Empty

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• You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a thing. There's just is-ness; there's just eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moments, Eternity

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• The world is filled with people who understand. I personally value people who don't understand. People who understand have nothing more to learn. People who don't understand have hope. Do you understand?

  Frederick Lenz

  People, World, Having Hope

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• I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Facts, Matter

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• A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Trying, Action

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• Stop trying to figure it all. Why worry about it all so much? Why not just live? And then you die. And then you live again, unless, of course, you follow me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Worry, Trying, Why Not

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• Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfection, Mind, Finals

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• The reason you see yourself as a creep is because you have an appreciation of what perfection is, whereas no one else conceives of themselves in that way, since they don't even strive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Appreciation, Perfection, Way

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