Meditation Quotes - Page 18

• You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ideas, Matter

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• Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Ego

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• Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Buddhism, Winning

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• Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Views

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• Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind out of the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Breathing, Mind

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• If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Ifs

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• Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Buddhism, Confusing

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• Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Trying

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• In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Emotional

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• Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Buddhism, Bows

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• I want people to look at themselves. I want people to go into a space for meditation. It's funny to use a word like meditation as the music is fairly brutal but there is a hypnotic element to it and the way that I try and create that for someone just happens to be through a fairly heavy form of music. You are constantly barraged and beaten down with a lot of bullshit and I find that heavy and extreme music helps me to go into a very tranquil place and I hope, more than anything, that the music does create a space for people to go inward with.

  David W. Marsden

  People, Bullshit, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ideas, Giving

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• At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Names, Bows

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• There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Risk, Enlightenment

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• The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Discovery, Self

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• The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism

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

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• To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Effort, Infinity

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• There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Way, Feels

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• To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Lying, Buddhism

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• The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

  Annie Besant

  Opportunity, Men, Missing

  Annie Besant (1918). “Thought Power, Its Control and Culture”

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• The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: "to a mind that is 'still' the whole universe surrenders".

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Long, Mind, Moments

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Focus

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• Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Winning, Mind

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• The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Needs

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• Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Light

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