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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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“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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“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.”

Meditation Buddhism Keys Symbols Chakra

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“Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person's chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles.”

Humans Persons Use Energy Meditation Masters Buddhism Draws Miracle Stores Mystical Occult Auras Chakra

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.”

Light Wise Meditation Buddhism Planes Dimensions

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“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.”

Ifs Self Term Realizing Meditation Strange Self Realization Realization Going Away Hinduism Butterfly Metamorphosis Caterpillars Cocoons

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“The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.”

Giving Past Suffering Causes Pleasure Meditation Ecstasy Hinduism Perpetual Krishna Transient Arjuna

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“Place an object within your view, hopefully at about eye level. You might have to look down a little bit. Some people have a meditation table on which they put an object of concentration on.”

People Looks Littles Might Eye Bits Levels Views Meditation Objects Little Bit Tables Hopefully Concentration

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“Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.”

Knows Lines Focus Meditation Keys Concentration Bows Know Me Arrows

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“When you start your meditation, picture a beautiful blue sky without any clouds in it. Feel that your body is growing lighter. Visualize that you are floating in the sky and that all tension, fatigue, worry and problems have left you.”

Feels Problem Body Beautiful Left Worry Meditation Growing Sky Blue Clouds Your Body Tension Floating Fatigue Visualization Lighters Blue Sky

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“Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.”

World Light Steps Darkness Meditation Symbols Immortality Emptiness Doorways Visualization

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“To meditate with humility, consider existence. It is infinite. You are finite. You are a finite portion of infinite existence. Let this be your meditation.”

Existence Meditation Humility Infinite Portions Finite Visualization

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“There is no end to the petals of the inner rose. Continue to unfold set after set of petals until you have completed your meditation session.”

Ends Meditation Buddhism Rose Session Visualization Petals Chakra Meditation

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“The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.”

Way Spiritual Teacher Meditation Cry Particular Source Sitting Very Good Goddess Good Way Visualization Spiritual Teachers

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“Try to feel that you are beyond time and space when you practice meditation. Go beyond this world, beyond time, beyond life, not a feeling of being spaced out, but in touch with the moment and with eternity.”

World Feels Trying Moments Feelings Space Practice Meditation This World Eternity Time And Space Visualization

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“In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.”

Knows Light Spiritual Focus Meditation Eternity Silly Oneness Infinity Visualization Brightness Silly Things

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“The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple.”

Mind Simple Perfect Practice Meditation Empty

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“The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.”

Firsts Meditation Stage Conscious

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“The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.”

World Long Moving Meditation Stage Awareness This World Periods Long Periods Of Time

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“The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.”

Ends Meditation Stage Higher Thirds

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“Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.”

Different Meditation Particular Method Streams Never Expect

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“Everything is dependent on your ability to stop thoughts. The longer you can stop your thoughts in meditation, the faster you will evolve, the more power you will pick up and the more knowledgeable and balanced you will become.”

Ability Meditation Picks Faster Evolve Dependent Balanced Knowledgeable

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“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.”

Ifs World Doe Real Meditation Perception Shining Sensual Sat

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“Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images.”

Thinking Mind Meditation Negative Wander Usual Replacements

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“Whatever you focus on during meditation, you psychically travel to and touch. In meditation, when you think of somebody, you actually go into their aura. That is the issue. Keep your meditation pristine, unalloyed.”

Thinking Issues Focus Meditation Auras Pristine

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“If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras and you be much more confused and dissociated than you were prior to your meditation experience.”

People Ifs Mind Meditation Confused Auras

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“If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.”

People Ifs Meditation Impression Meditating Clearing

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“When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the technique you were practicing and begin again.”

Mind Moving Secret Meditation Technique Upset Frustrated Begin Again

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“Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.”

Mind Practice Meditation Impression Glorious

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“People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.”

People Focus Meditation Sick Vibrate

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“Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience.”

Ifs Mind Meditation Wander Allowing Empowered Disservice Impurity

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“Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.”

People Thinking Problem Reality Hours Meditation Sitting Including Buddhist Call Me Monk Buddhist Monk

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“Love is the shortcut to meditation. Above thought is love, and within and below thought is love. Love is a ladder that we can climb through thought.”

Love Is Meditation Climbs Ladders Shortcuts Bhakti Yoga

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“Any of the exercises that you start out with will get the kundalini moving. You don't have to stay with them for the entire period of meditation.”

Moving Meditation Periods Exercise

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“The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.”

Next Steps Focus Meditation Amount Gains Next Steps Personal Power

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“When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.”

Mind Universe Meditation Void Tranquil

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

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

“You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.”

People Thinking Space Meditation Wonderful

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“Meditation is not this kind of spacey stuff that makes it difficult to orient your life. If that's your experience of meditation, you're not meditating. You're tapping into the lower astral planes, which is not a healthy place for human beings to tap.”

Ifs Humans Kind Stuff Difficult Human Beings Meditation Healthy Planes Meditating Tapping

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“There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric, cosmic, and dissolute.”

Energy Differences Perfect Clear Meditation Buddhism Planes Cosmic Precise Occult Luminous Fuzzy Spacing

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“There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy, brilliance beyond comprehension.”

Want Light Interest Meditation Planes Ecstasy Brilliance Comprehension Brightness

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“Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.”

Mind Important Powerful Attention Meditation Wander Psychics Very Powerful

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“At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties.”

Thinking World Problem Meditation Anxiety Difficulty About Yourself Session World Problems

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“As the meditation evolves, you attention passes into higher realms of consciousness.”

Attention Consciousness Meditation Higher Evolve Realms

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“You will notice the phenomena of meditation. You may see dazzling lights, feel energy coursing through different parts of your body, feel as if you are floating, hear sounds, or smell fragrances.”

Ifs Feels May Different Body Light Energy Sound Meditation Smell Your Body Floating Fragrance Dazzling

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“Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.”

Ifs Beautiful Enjoy Vision Meditation Buddhism Caught Horrible Caught Up Popcorn

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“Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.”

Action Energy Attention Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Divided Passive

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“Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.”

Mind Different States Levels Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Absence Engaged Different Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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