“Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.” PeopleWinningEnergyPracticeMeditationHealthBuddhismMindfulnessRidiculousAthleticsPersonal PowerDrainingRidiculous Things Author:Frederick Lenz
“Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.” ActionEnergyAttentionPracticeMeditationBuddhismMindfulnessDividedPassive Author:Frederick Lenz
“Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.” WayMindMeanEnergySimpleEmotionPracticeBuddhismMindfulnessGainsComplicatedBuddhistVariety Author:Frederick Lenz
“You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you.” ThinkingLooksBodyFormHateEnergyBuddhismMindfulnessSittingNegativeAngrySubtleNegative ThoughtsSitting Around Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.” ThinkingMindStatesEnergyProcessWorryBuddhismWasteMindfulnessSillyState Of MindSlow Down Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the person, but it will crash your consciousness. All the hard work of meditating is sabotaged.” IfsPersonsHardEnergyPowerfulConsciousnessHard WorkBuddhismMindfulnessNegativeCrashMeditatingNegative ThoughtsBad Energy Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.” IfsThinkingWayMomentsEnergyBuddhismMindfulnessNegativeDown AndAngryThat MomentJealousPausesNegative Energy Author:Frederick Lenz
“Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.” PeopleNightEnergyBuddhismMindfulnessEnd TimesSpend TimeAll NightMonitoring Author:Frederick Lenz
“Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.” ThinkingKnowsWayMatterFactsEnergyEasyBuddhismWasteMindfulnessWasting TimeMatter Of FactEasy WayTime And Energy Author:Frederick Lenz
“The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.” WorldFeelsMomentsPainEnergyMeditationExpressionMindfulnessUltimateUnconditional LoveUnconditionalEquanimity Author:Shinzen Young
“If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.” IfsDreamBodyTodayEnergyPracticeMeditationTomorrowWalkingMindfulnessSittingCellsConcentrationToday And Tomorrow Author:Nhat Hanh
“Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.” IfsKnowsMayEnergyKnow HowMeditationMinutesFlowerWalkingTenPerceptionMindfulnessSittingAngerTwentiesEmbraceCome UpFollowingBreathingTrue NatureWalking Meditation Author:Nhat Hanh
“Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.” KnowsFirstsEnergyMeditationElementsMindfulnessToolsHarmonyCalmTerritory Book:Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition
“Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.” HappinessJoyEnergyPeacePracticeDependsHabitMindfulnessNegativeEmbraceRecognizingTransformingPeace And Happiness Author:Nhat Hanh