“With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.” WayMindStatesMovingPracticeMeditationSeeingParticularBuddhismState Of MindGlueIllusory Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” WaySpiritualTeacherMeditationCryParticularSourceSittingVery GoodGoddessGood WayVisualizationSpiritual Teachers Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” DifferentMeditationParticularMethodStreamsNever Expect Author:Frederick Lenz
“If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they're quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.” IfsLittlesPersonsSpiritualBitsBehindsPracticeMeditationImpossibleParticularEvolutionLittle BitTasksLifetimeDedicatedSamadhiSpiritual Evolution Author:Frederick Lenz
“To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking.” IfsThinkingWholeProcessMeditationParticularCallingConcentrationInvites Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1956-1957, A light to yourself Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1956-1957, A light to yourself
“meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.” MindStatesMeditationAwarenessParticularSupposed To BeCultivationFabricationReinforcement Author:Thrangu Rinpoche
“Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra.” ShouldMindGivenFocusMeditationStudentsParticularBuddhismTraditionRepetitionMantras Author:Frederick Lenz
“The primary object of meditation is to not become overly attached to any particular thoughts that may come into to the mind. It is most important to let the mind "flow," with less mental worry about, and attachment to, the various thoughts that may come into the mind.” MindMayImportantWorryMeditationObjectsParticularFlowVariousPrimariesAttachment Author:Tim McCarthy
“Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.” MayTwoAbleDesireEffortSecretMeditationParticularConstructionDisplayMysticalTrophiesSecret Desire Author:Sharon Salzberg
“Because the development of inner calm and energy happens completely within and isn't dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful - and a huge relief.” FeelsPersonsHappensBeautifulEnergySituationMeditationParticularHugeDevelopmentIndependenceCalmReliefDependentResourcefulness Author:Sharon Salzberg
“Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.” MindMeditationParticularDependsYogaEngagedStrength Of MindNovices Author:Ramana Maharshi
“Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.” KnowsLifeNeedsKindUseWisdomSpiritualTimeHoursSleepQualityKnowledgeKnowingLearningWiseFourMeditationParticularWise WordsRootsTwentiesMedicineWordsSpreadIndianOver YouDo You KnowDeep ThoughtAttainmentWise Man Once SaidLife Learning Author:Rajneesh