Meditation Quotes - Page 19

• After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ideas, Giving

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• At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."

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  Buddhism, Names, Bows

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• At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground. Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you feel you have done well or poorly, simply give your efforts to the universe.

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  Buddhism, Giving, Effort

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.104, St. Martin's Press

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• Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Buddhism, Bows

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• 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, Mind

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• Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

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  Buddhism, Judging, Periods

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• How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity.

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  Nice, Buddhism, Giving

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• Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Long, Judging

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• The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.

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  Buddhism, Discovery, Self

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• The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.104, St. Martin's Press

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• To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Effort, Infinity

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• Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.

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  Heart, Buddhism, Light

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• Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.

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  Moving, Buddhism, Ego

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• You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.

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  Buddhism, Ideas, Matter

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• There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Way, Feels

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Buddhism, Breathing, Mind

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• If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

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  Running, Buddhism, Ifs

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• There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Risk, Enlightenment

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• Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Buddhism, Confusing

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• Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Views

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• Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Trying

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Focus

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• Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Buddhism, Winning

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• Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

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  Buddhism, Winning, Mind

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