Frederick Lenz Quotes About Concentration

• During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase and sharpen their innate psychic abilities.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Exercise, Psychics

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

• Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Exercise

• Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Meditation, Each Day

• What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Discovery

• Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.

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  Buddhism, Light, Practice

• You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

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  Flower, Flames, Use

• The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Keys, Focus, Touching

• There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.

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  Discovery, Self, Two Sides

• There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, Meditation, Path

• Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Might Use, Rocks, Flames

• Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Rocks, Flames, Focus

• It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better, and in the doing we're releasing energy that is taking our mind in higher diffuse planes of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Years, Numbers, Mind

• As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Profound, Desire

• All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

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  Teacher, Mean, Use

• When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place.

  Frederick Lenz

  Focus, Metaphysical, Process

• Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.

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  Flames, Looks, Intensity

• If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Energy, Causes

• The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Concentration, Deeper

• Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move beyond this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Dressing Up

• Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhism

• Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.

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  Keys, Arrows, Focus

• In pranayama you don't worry about taking breaths, you focus on exhalation. If you exhale properly you will inhale. The more deeply you exhale the more deeply you will inhale.

  Frederick Lenz

  Worry, Focus, Pranayama

• By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Focus, Perception, Training

• To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Ideas, Perfect

• Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Mind

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