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“You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these lines dissolve gradually so you become less formed.”

Different Form Energy Lines Buddhism Samadhi Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.”

Ifs Way Karma Enlightened Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.”

Yoga Patterns Buddhist Who We Are Internals Traits Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.”

Way Strong Situation Seeing Habit Lifetime Karma Tendencies Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras.”

Spirit Grows Yoga Essence Lifetime Buddhist Carrie Traits Incarnation Samskara

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.”

Personality Temporary Incarnation Infancy Transient Amnesia Samskara

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

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

“As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.”

Grows Interest Pursuit Mature Incarnation Samskara

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

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

“Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.”

Mean Speak Meditation Karma Jargon Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method.”

Persons Religious Battle Method Finals Karma Hung Avoidance Samadhi Religious Person Good Karma Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil.”

Three Evil Sex Religious Practice Brands Principal Incarnation Avoidance Money And Power Religious Practices Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.”

Process Wonderful Enlightenment Reaching Mystical Eliminating Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.”

Light Past Grows Week Buddhism Tendencies This Life Rama Past Life Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.”

“The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.”

Humans Soul Form Human Beings Higher Highest Impression Human Soul Samskara

Book:Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

“Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.”

Humans Play Action Life Is Tendencies Human Life Samskara

Author:Vinoba Bhave