Frederick Lenz Quotes About Awareness

• The power that enables us to transform our awareness is the release of kundalini. All yoga, either directly or indirectly, all Buddhism, relates to the release of the kundalini energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Buddhism, Energy

• When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.

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  Life Changing, Buddhism, Mind

• We all have auras. But it's much easier to see the aura of someone who is in a state of samadhi or other profound state of awareness.

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  Profound, Auras, Christianity

• You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.

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  Buddhism, Light, Patterns

• Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

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  Buddhism, Reflection, Perception

• Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, Dark

• Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

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  Buddhism, Islands, Want

• Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

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  Buddhist, Consciousness, Awareness

• If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.

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  Buddhism, Understanding, World

• Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.

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  Buddhism, Enlightenment, Gains

• Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body of experience.

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  Mean, Buddhism, Heaven

• In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your experience of the suchness of existence.

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  Buddhism, Careers, Evolution

• When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.

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  Pain, Buddhism, Suffering

• Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.

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  Buddhism, Self, Meditation

• Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.

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  Letting Go, Moving, Eye

• When you chant "Aum" or any mantra, do so softly and gently. Extend the sound. Focus your awareness on the sound of the mantra and become absorbed in it.

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  Buddhism, Meditation, Focus

• Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body.

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  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

• After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, Meditation

• Focus on the heart center and feel love. There is a flower there, but it's like a rose folded up. As you meditate, feel that the flower is opening. Each time you open a set of petals you're going deeper into eternal awareness.

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  Flower, Heart, Buddhism

• To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.

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  Art, Lying, Buddhism

• Powerful people affect many others and if I can in some way contribute to their awareness, they will put out better energy to millions and millions of people.

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  Powerful, People, Rama

• 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.

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  Focus, Awareness, Samadhi

• It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness.

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  Buddhism, Reflection, Night

• Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

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  Philosophy, Joy, Radiance

• It is important to have intensive blocks of time together. During our nights together there is a tremendous interchange of knowledge, power and awareness.

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  Block, Buddhism, Night

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