It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz 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. Frederick Lenz wander meditation mind 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. Frederick Lenz buddhist reality thinking When you are meditating, thinking about things in this world is not going to help you. Instead, forget about everything for a while and look at something that is perfect, this will help you deal with the world better. Frederick Lenz perfect looks thinking When your thoughts come and you're trying to stop them, simply say "No". Learn the mantra "No". Every time a thought comes in your mind ... just say no. Frederick Lenz just-say-no mind trying Once you've done that, push the thought of no thought away. Frederick Lenz done 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. Frederick Lenz ladders meditation love-is Instead of tryig to stop thought when you meditate, focus your attention on love. Suddenly you'll find your thoughts are slacking. Light is everywhere and suddenly there is no thought. Frederick Lenz focus light attention To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention. Frederick Lenz energy attention water 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. Frederick Lenz meditation exercise moving 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. Frederick Lenz next-steps focus meditation When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation. Frederick Lenz void meditation mind Consciously join with and become part of the power that is in everything around you. Frederick Lenz You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view. Frederick Lenz space views world Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux. Frederick Lenz flux roles steps Learn to let go. You do it a little at a time. Frederick Lenz learn-to-let-go letting-go littles Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts. Frederick Lenz practice years thinking You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation. Frederick Lenz space people thinking 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. Frederick Lenz healthy meditation stuff 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. Frederick Lenz buddhism differences perfect 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. Frederick Lenz light meditation want