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Frederick Lenz was an American author known for his profound understanding and unique insights into Zen Buddhism. His works blended Zen philosophy with modern life, resonating with readers worldwide.

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“When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.”

Ifs World Persons Happens Moving Meditation Buddhism Periods Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.”

Ifs World Meditation Buddhism Eternity Stuck Dimensions Other Worlds

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“As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality.”

Meditation Buddhism This Life

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“When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.”

Dies Meditation Buddhism Life And Death Meditating

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“In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world.”

World Mind Meditation Materials Buddhism Illusion Empty Folds Material World

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

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“Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic intuition will start to come about.”

Trying Mind Stills Able Meditation Buddhism Quiet Intuition Psychics

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“When you develop your psychic vision after some meditation, you will be able to see the subtle physical of others, or perhaps yourself. At first you will see it as an aura; eventually you can see the whole subtle physical.”

Firsts Whole Able Vision Meditation Buddhism Subtle Psychics Auras

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“A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.”

People Thinking Should Dies Attitude Study Meditation Buddhism Rest Of Your Life Mediation

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“Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.”

Thinking Kind Real Meditation Humility Buddhism Demand Lifestyle Purity

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“The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.”

Way Trying Fun Meditation Buddhism Essentials

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“You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.”

Giving Happens Force Meditation Buddhism Gentle

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“Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities”

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“Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.”

Way Certain Courses Practice Meditation Buddhism Type Dresses Lifestyle Ritual Insulted

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“Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.”

Should Trying Teach Meditation Buddhism Being Yourself Mediation

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“Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.”

People Trying Littles Teacher Meditation Groups Week Inspire Buddhism Better Than You Meditating

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“In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.”

Light Pain Taken Meditation Buddhism Frustration

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“The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.”

Humans Light Spirit Meditation Buddhism Pure Picks Planes Ecstasy Pure Love

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“The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is waiting for you.”

Light Waiting Meditation Buddhism Ego Limitation Waiting For You

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“Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity.”

Mind Perfect Meditation Buddhism Mirrors Infinity

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“What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.”

Ifs Two Light Hours Focus Meditation Buddhism Meditating

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“The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.”

World Needs Light Meditation Buddhism Keys Enlightenment Personal Experiences

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“Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.”

Path Meditation Buddhism Enlightenment Path To Enlightenment

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“This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me.”

Ifs Ends Form Asks Simple Meditation Color Buddhism Clever Endless Ask Me Void Nothingness

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“Meditation... never leave the body without it!”

Body Meditation Buddhism

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“The kundalini is the life force; it is the essential energy of existence. It is the hidden ingredient in life. It is what makes it all work.”

Energy Force Existence Buddhism Essentials Ingredients

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“Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.”

Spiritual Energy Force Term Awareness Buddhism Active Spiritual Power Energy Of Life

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“The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.”

Used Energy Awareness Buddhism All Things Active Primaries

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“The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel mentally from one dimension to another, from one experience to another.”

Energy Buddhism Band Perception Dimensions

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“The power that enables us to transform our awareness is the release of kundalini. All yoga, either directly or indirectly, all Buddhism, relates to the release of the kundalini energy.”

Energy Awareness Buddhism Yoga Release Relate

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“Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it's called shakti. Nice names, it is energy.”

Different Sometimes Names Energy Given Force Nice Buddhism Divides Different Names Prana Shakti

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“Kundalini is almost a misleading word, unless you define it as broadly as I do.”

Buddhism Mislead

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“Kundalini is prana as it passes through a human being.”

Humans Human Beings Buddhism Prana

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“Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.”

Spiritual Certain Energy Principles Worry Too Much Buddhism Elements Indian Manifestation Cosmology Spiritual Power Prana Shakti

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“The Kundalini resides in the base of the spine. It's a bit of a misnomer because the kundalini really is not so much in the physical body, as in what we call the subtle physical body, the body of energy.”

Body Energy Bits Buddhism Subtle Spine Physical Body

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“The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power.”

Use Fields Buddhism Mystical Field Trip

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“The kundalini energy rests in potential at the base of the spine. It is possible to take that energy and allow it to move, to unleash it, from the base of the spine up to the third eye.”

Eye Moving Energy Buddhism Thirds Spine Third Eye

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“Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column.”

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“The shushumna is the tube that the kundalini passes up in the subtle body, and on one side is the ida and the other side is the pingala.”

Body Sides Buddhism Subtle Tubes

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“A certain amount of the kundalini is always floating through the ida and the pingala. These two little nerve tubes, on either side of the shushumna, keep us alive.”

Littles Two Certain Sides Alive Buddhism Amount Nerves Floating Tubes

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“Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.”

Different States Past Awareness Buddhism Opening Serpent Chakra

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“The kundalini runs through you. It runs through the ida and the pingala, the two nerve channels in the subtle body; but there's a central channel, the shushumna, which is blocked. When it runs through that, then you can use the mystical kundalini.”

Two Use Body Running Buddhism Subtle Nerves Mystical Blocked

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“When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna.”

Buddhism Flow Vacuums Chakra

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“If you take the time to bring the light of the supra-conscious into your being, then automatically all blockages will go away. These are just ways of talking, there are no blockages, schematically I mean.”

Ifs Way Mean Light Talking Buddhism Conscious Going Away Way Of Talking Blockage

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“As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away.”

Mind Doe States Energy Silence Buddhism Increase

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“Personal power changes or shapes consciousness, and that is kundalini. Kundalini exists within us. Some people have more of it, some dimensions have more of it.”

People Consciousness Buddhism Shapes Dimensions Personal Power

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“At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.”

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“The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very quickly. It can jump and extend itself very far.”

Energy Buddhism Spring Snakes

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“Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.”

Giving Levels Study Teacher Meditation Humility Buddhism Purity Selfless Cultivating Right Action Selfless Giving

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“People are under the assumption that the kundalini just flows from the base of the spine up. That's not the case at all. Kundalini also flows downward.”

People Cases Buddhism Flow Assumption Spine

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“The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually.”

Way Different Buddhism Flow Complexes Different Ways

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About the Author

Born: February 9, 1950
Died: April 12, 1998
Known for: Author
Quotes: 4397

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