Best practice & buddhism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.”

People Practice Buddhism Yoga Scared Absurd Sorcery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.”

Feels Mind Attitude Practice Buddhism Balance Beginners

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.”

Process Natural Practice Study Buddhism Balance Commitment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access more planes of awareness then others because of past lives, because of practice in this life.”

Different Body Past Energy Ability Practice Awareness Buddhism Access This Life Planes Linked Past Life Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.”

Firsts Long Dream Practice Magic Conditions Awareness Buddhism Higher Thick Stopping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.”

Trying Matter Happiness Practice Five Minutes Buddhism Bigger Unhappy Miserable Five Minutes Stop Trying Your Smile Just Smile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.”

Happiness Realizing Roles Practice Buddhism Auditions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.”

Needs Body Moving Spirit Sports Practice Path Meditation Health Buddhism Your Body Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.”

Ifs Mind Two Together Practice Meditation Health Buddhism Easier Unbelievable Athletic Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.”

Inspirational Practice Meditation Buddhism Lifetime Meditation Practice Daily Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.”

Ifs World Inspirational Should Humans Self Practice Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.”

Inspirational Littles Practice Buddhism Enlightenment Yoga Each Day Enlightened Cumulative

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.”

Thinking Inspirational Care Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Enlightenment Including Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of enlightenment can flow through us.”

Mind Light Perfect Practice Meditation Buddhism Quiet Enlightenment Flow Infinite Hopeful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is something that is indigenous to the heart, which makes it hard to talk about. We don't necessarily need to talk about it too much other than to get a sense of the practice.”

Needs Heart Hard Practice Too Much Meditation Buddhism Indigenous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy.”

World Simple Practice Meditation Buddhism Unhappy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.”

May Practice Meditation Land Buddhism Lifetime Ancient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can't tell what's going on. You need to practice meditation.”

Needs Feels Energy Force Dark Rooms Practice Meditation Buddhism Dark Room Energy And Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As your meditation practice improves from month to month, more and more light and ecstasy will spill over into the moments of your daily life. Eventually you will always exist in a state of continual light.”

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

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

“For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.”

Years Art Enough Attention Practice Focus Meditation Buddhism Down And Get Better Each Day

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you.”

Light Practice Meditation Buddhism Delight

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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.”

Thinking Perfect Consciousness Practice Meditation Awareness Buddhism Highest Aspect Flow Our Thoughts Stopping Interruptions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Way Mind States Moving Practice Meditation Seeing Particular Buddhism State Of Mind Glue Illusory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.”

Firsts Practice Buddhism Yoga Determine Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.”

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Author:Joan Halifax

“The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.”

Mind Night Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Unhappy Remove All Night Enjoyable Monitoring

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.”

Action Energy Attention Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Divided Passive

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.”

Way Mind Mean Energy Simple Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Gains Complicated Buddhist Variety

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.”

Ifs Want Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Accomplish Buddhist Ecstasy Twins

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

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

“Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.”

Stills Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Active Passive Meditation Practice Sitting Still

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.”

Mind Practice Our Lives Buddhism Mindfulness Developing Interfere Our Thoughts Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.”

Sides Practice Buddhism Mindfulness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.”

Individual Practice Buddhism Endeavor Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push those thoughts aside.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Seek to advance your fortunes in this world. Set up a strong base so that you can practice your spirituality and be of service to others. This is purity to.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

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