“Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.” IfsInspirationalMindIdeasSelfStatesPhilosophyNiceBuddhismDiscoveryBuiltSelf DiscoveryEnlightenedRealisticState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you're a person who just wants to be in the world and doesn't want any knowledge, then I don't know what you are doing with this tape. Turn it off immediately.” IfsKnowsWorldWantInspirationalPersonsTurnsBuddhismTape Author:Frederick Lenz
“If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.” IfsMeditationMissingBuddhismCaughtRhetoricCaught Up Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.” IfsShouldLightMeditationBuddhismBest ThingsGentleRealmsThings To Do Author:Frederick Lenz
“Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.” PeopleIfsWantKindMeditationBuddhismDiscouraging Author:Frederick Lenz
“The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.” IfsMindStillsLosesPerfectClearMeditationBuddhismReflectionEternityClarityLakesRipple Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.” IfsStillsSpiritOrderSpeakMeditationBuddhismGuidesOur ThoughtsSpeak Softly Author:Frederick Lenz
“You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.” IfsLittlesMeditationBuddhismTechniquePursueEvolve Author:Frederick Lenz
“If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.” IfsMindKindSelfStatesMeditationBuddhismBoringDullGrayState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you start to meditate, if you stick with it, you will see tremendous changes in your life and state of mind.” IfsMindStatesMeditationBuddhismSticksState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you meditate, then the real miracle is the transformation of your awareness field beyond the body. Beyond the body there are oceans of light, continents of light, universes of light. Meditation frees you from this world.” IfsWorldRealBodyLightUniverseMeditationAwarenessFieldsThis WorldBuddhismOceanMiracleTransformationContinents Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.” IfsWayMeditationBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try, you are growing. It's not as if you have to meditate perfectly to make progress.” IfsTryingYearsPracticeMeditationGrowingProgressBuddhismFrustrated Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.” IfsWorldFeelsMeditationBuddhismMeditatingMediation Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser.” IfsMindMemoriesAbilityMeditationTalentBuddhismEach DayWiserOur MemoriesRazorsSuperbRetentionTalents And AbilitiesNew Talent Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that power. Use that power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingFeelsHeartUseMeditationProgressBuddhismTreatsPersonal Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you will become a very benign and powerful being, one who is at peace with himself and the universe.” IfsUniversePowerfulAttitudeMeditationViolenceBuddhismPursueHopefulHelpfulBenign Author:Frederick Lenz
“Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.” IfsWorldMindStatesBeliefRealizingDealsMeditationConditionsBuddhismStressState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.” IfsWorldWould BeSpaceMeditationConditionsBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.” IfsWorldWayTryingMeditationImpossibleBuddhismEmptinessFullness Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” IfsWorldPersonsHappensMovingMeditationBuddhismPeriodsOther 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.” IfsWorldMeditationBuddhismEternityStuckDimensionsOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“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” IfsMindSelfUseLightUniversePerfectQualityClearMeditationBuddhismInfiniteOriginalsComing BackSense Of SelfRadiantIdentifying Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” IfsTwoLightHoursFocusMeditationBuddhismMeditating Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” IfsEndsFormAsksSimpleMeditationColorBuddhismCleverEndlessAsk MeVoidNothingness Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” IfsWayMeanLightTalkingBuddhismConsciousGoing AwayWay Of TalkingBlockage Author:Frederick Lenz
“If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have great problems with the study.” IfsProblemStudyBuddhismHarmonyRateRapidsDharma Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is a way to open up the chakras, there is a mystical way. But if you do that, you'll get yourself into very hot water, and it's ultimately slower.” IfsWayWaterBuddhismHotMysticalChakraHot Water Author:Frederick Lenz
“The mystical kundalini energy has some, I don't know if you'd call them limitations, but there are certain operational factors which you should understand about it.” IfsKnowsShouldCertainEnergyBuddhismFactorsLimitationMystical Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.” IfsI CanLightBuddhismPicksOrientationSamadhi Author:Frederick Lenz
“Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate. But astral traveling doesn't bring a person lasting happiness. If astral traveling is not done properly, it can be quite dangerous.” PeopleIfsPersonsDoneBodyDangerousBuddhismDimensionsLastingLasting Happiness Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives.” IfsWellsNextAwarenessBuddhismStructureLifetimeAvailableThis LifeFuture LifeNext Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you. The more conscious you are of those selves and the more you let them find expression through you, the more complete you will be.” IfsSelfVoiceExpressionBuddhismConsciousWithin YouDig Deep Author:Frederick Lenz
“Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.” PeopleIfsEndsUniverseSpeakRecordsBuddhismRestaurantsIbmMainframe Author:Frederick Lenz
“Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.” IfsMadeLightSeemsEyeLife IsSeeingIllusionSensesHinduism Author:Frederick Lenz
“The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.” IfsWellsUniversePerfectYogaLifetimePerceiveEcstasyHinduism Author:Frederick Lenz
“You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.” IfsThinkingPastOrderUniverseToughBillsWarriorEnlightenedHinduismPast PresentPast Present And Future Author:Frederick Lenz
“Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.” IfsSelfTermRealizingMeditationStrangeSelf RealizationRealizationGoing AwayHinduismButterflyMetamorphosisCaterpillarsCocoons Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you don't really know that it is there until later.” IfsKnowsSoulLightQualityClearEnlightenedHinduismLiberated Author:Frederick Lenz
“Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.” IfsDoeEnjoyConsciousnessSlavePossessionHinduismEnjoy LifeFamily FriendsSuccess Or Failure Author:Frederick Lenz
“If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling.” IfsFeelingsFocusBlindConcentration Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet.” IfsMindEnergyCausesQuietHappeningsDisappearConcentration Author:Frederick Lenz
“The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow.” IfsLooksFocusKeysMountainConcentrationTouchingStoppingGazing Author:Frederick Lenz
“In pranayama you don't worry about taking breaths, you focus on exhalation. If you exhale properly you will inhale. The more deeply you exhale the more deeply you will inhale.” IfsWorryFocusBreathsConcentrationInhalePranayama Author:Frederick Lenz
“An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.” IfsWayLightSpiritualCoursesFocusTeacherFlowAccessVisualizationMediationSpiritual Teachers Author:Frederick Lenz
“You can focus on me or on any spiritual teacher. Spiritual teachers who have left the body, who are no longer on earth can help you too. When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.” PeopleIfsI CanHelpingBodyEarthSpiritualLeftFocusTeacherSomedayVisualizationSpiritual TeachersFocus On Me Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are.” IfsThinkingFeelsFactsGratefulDiscouragedVisualization Author:Frederick Lenz
“Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.” IfsWantMindChildrenWholeBreakMinutesCryCoupleBarriersCookiesVisualizationBreak Through Author:Frederick Lenz
“Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it's not. If it's not getting brighter, it's because there's no risk. There's no risk in thinking instead of stopping your thought. There's a lot of risk in stopping your thought.” IfsThinkingMomentsLife IsRiskStoppingBrighter Author:Frederick Lenz
“If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.” IfsWorldDoeRealMeditationPerceptionShiningSensualSat Author:Frederick Lenz
