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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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“Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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“The heart chakra is the central chakra.”

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“In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.”

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“The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest. Hold your right or left hand out. Now say "Me" and, as you do so, touch your chest. You will automatically touch your heart chakra.”

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“Close your eyes and simply "feel" the spot your finger is touching. Then, after a couple of minutes, let your hands down. Continue to hold your attention on the spot just as you did when your finger was there.”

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“Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your heart chakra is not in your physical body. It is in your subtle physical body, but it comes in contact with your physical body in this location.”

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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.”

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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.”

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“As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

“When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.”

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“The navel center will bring the power of all three of the lower chakras into your being, but with safety.”

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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!”

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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.”

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“To become powerful, to develop will, meditate on the naval center.”

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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!”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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“Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.”

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“To become wise, meditate on the third eye, between the eyebrows and a little bit above. Focus on that spot, the Agni chakra.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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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.”

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“The kundalini is raised or brought down. It can be done in several different ways, and as it moves to the different chakras or energy centers in the subtle physical body, it endows one with various powers.”

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“Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then from the hands, bounce that energy right back to the heart center and ground it.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we are doing is taking an occult energy; it's amplifying in the chakras and the hands. Then we are neutralizing it and spreading it through the being.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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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.”

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

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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.”

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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.”

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“Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.”

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

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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.”

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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.”

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“Real Buddhism is about meditation.”

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“Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.”

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

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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.”

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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.”

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“Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.”

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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.”

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About the Author

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

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