Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. In order to enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, you must have a great deal of humility. Frederick Lenz humility matter order When you eneter into samadhi and seek to make that magical walk between salvikalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, it's necessary to focus your awareness not on being or nonbeing. Frederick Lenz samadhi focus awareness You must realize you are not the doer, that you are not the action. Frederick Lenz doers realizing action Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions. Frederick Lenz samadhi illusion becoming Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You have attained liberation and are no longer bound by the cycle of existence. You just are, and yet you're not, at the same time. Frederick Lenz boards gone mean Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality. Frederick Lenz ego perfection self Nirvikalpa Samadhi means you are sitting in meditation and you go beyond the planes of light to nirvana. Then you come back and here you are "back in the saddle again". Frederick Lenz light meditation mean Sahaja samadhi means that you have just gone back and forth so many times that there is no back and forth. All you see is enlightenment in this world and the other side. There is no other side anymore. It means that you are wakeful. Frederick Lenz enlightenment gone mean You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony. Frederick Lenz ponies india understanding To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly. Frederick Lenz enlightenment silly ideas The best meditation I ever had, I haven't had yet. It's in the future, which as anyone knows doesn't exist - anyone who meditates knows. But yet, I will have it someday. Frederick Lenz samadhi someday meditation The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada. Frederick Lenz three teaching philosophy His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts. Frederick Lenz teaching philosophy years The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years. Frederick Lenz buddhism philosophy years The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation. Frederick Lenz philosophy mean book The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public. Frederick Lenz buddhist powerful teacher Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. Frederick Lenz buddhism philosophy mean The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it. Frederick Lenz mind philosophy order Everything is subtle. Everything has a million sides. Everything is a manifestation of god. Everything is light. All beings are infinite. All things are perfect, in their own way. Frederick Lenz light perfect philosophy Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment. Frederick Lenz reflection mind philosophy