Frederick Lenz Quotes About Focus

• You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Jesus

• You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Tv Shows

• 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

• Focus your attention on the center of your forehead. Visualize that there is a slow but steady swirl of white light there. Visualize that the white light above your forehead is slowly moving in a clockwise direction.

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  Moving, Buddhism, Light

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.103, St. Martin's Press

• As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.

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  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

• Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then from the hands, bounce that energy right back to the heart center and ground it.

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  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra 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

• What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

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  Buddhism, Focus, Enlightenment

• Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts.

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  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Rose

• The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.

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  Buddhism, Exercise, Other Worlds

• 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 focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.

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  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Roots

• Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, "Aum", which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the mantra perhaps a dozen times, focus on a yantra.

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  Powerful, Buddhism, Meditation

• Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them.

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  Heart, Eye, Buddhism

• Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!

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  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Focus

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Focus

• For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in Sanskrit, is located in the center of the chest, dead center. If you focus there you will feel a warm and tingling sensation.

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  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

• Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Buddhism, Light

• Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra.

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  Buddhism, Focus, Meditation

• Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.

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  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Focus

• To become wise, meditate on the third eye, between the eyebrows and a little bit above. Focus on that spot, the Agni chakra.

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  Wise, Eye, Buddhism

• When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.

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  Letting Go, Buddhism, Meditation

• People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.

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  Teacher, Buddhist, Responsibility

• In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.

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  Thinking, Perfect, Focus

• I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Twilight, Eye, California

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