There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives. Frederick Lenz buddhismbeautifulinspirational Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is considered an auspicious time to "reboot" your life. It's a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting. Frederick Lenz ramaagemoving You exist forever. You've always existed and you'll always exist. You move in and out of bodies like some people in Los Angeles move in and out of houses, every other week, every other lifetime. Frederick Lenz buddhismpeoplemoving Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind. Frederick Lenz attachmentmindideas Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life. Frederick Lenz buddhismpainmean There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order. Frederick Lenz buddhismdestinyorder Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind out of the mind. Frederick Lenz breathingbuddhismmeditation Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy! Frederick Lenz karmacrazyyoga There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating. Frederick Lenz buddhismmeditationworld This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment. Frederick Lenz buddhismeventsscience 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. Frederick Lenz sunsetbuddhismpractice As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you. Frederick Lenz chakra-meditationknowledge-and-powerbuddhism The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored. Frederick Lenz teachingselfteacher I like to shop. I don't always buy things when I shop, but I think it's fun to go out and look at the worlds of colors. I love to roam through supermarkets. I am a great lover of household products. I particularly like the packaging of cereal boxes. Frederick Lenz cerealfunthinking Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness. Frederick Lenz buddhismdifferentpast Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go. Frederick Lenz awe-and-wonderbuddhismself Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world. Frederick Lenz buddhismstressmeditation Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us. Frederick Lenz painyogamean This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light. Frederick Lenz intelligentlightignorance By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana. Frederick Lenz chakra-meditationbuddhismlight
