Samadhi Quotes - Page 2

I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where I could no longer distinguish between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. For me it is all the same. I am in a state of continuous absorption in the Self.

Frederick Lenz

Reality, Self, Rama

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The final entrance into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, into nirvana, God-realization, when you become the absolutely best friend of God, can only come when your love is completely pure.

Frederick Lenz

Love Is, Finals, Realization

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After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.

Frederick Lenz

Satori, Introduction, Again And Again

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Nirvikalpa samadhi or sahaja samadhi is all the way up. You get above the cloud line to the land of eternal snows and it's ecstasy beyond ecstasy.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Clouds, Land

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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.

Frederick Lenz

Profound, Auras, Christianity

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Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it.

Rajneesh

Meditation, Dhyana, Way

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Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.

Frederick Lenz

Perfect, Meditation, Enlightenment

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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

Ramana Maharshi

Natural, States, Results

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Now when you meditate, try to meditate in a sustained way, first of all sustain it. Then you find that you are getting into the state of Samadhi, means at a state where you start feeling the joy and the bliss of God's blessings, and then you start saying "O God, what a blessing, what a blessing, and what a blessing". Once you have reached that state then you have to realize "Who am I". Who are you? What are you? You are the Spirit. After establishing your sustained attention on the Spirit you'll develop a state where you'll be in a complete state of witnessing with joy.

Nirmala Srivastava

Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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When you go into samadhi there is no breath at all. The kundalini is perfectly stabilized. Usually it stabilizes in the solar plexus area.

Frederick Lenz

Areas, Breaths

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If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will help towards satisfaction you will still be in bondage. There is no harm in this, but the higher samadhi, without such motives, is best.

Ernest Wood

Thinking, Curiosity, Satisfaction

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How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.

Frederick Lenz

Self, Return, Awareness

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The light of the supra-conscious, of salvakalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, is not connected to this world at all. It passes through this world but it is not part of this world, in a way of speaking.

Frederick Lenz

Light, World, Way

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The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.

Frederick Lenz

Mind, Dissolution

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The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.

Frederick Lenz

Spiritual, Teaching, Interesting

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The experience of yoga is unspeakable. It's the experience of samadhi. It's the experience of connectedness, of oneness, boundlessness, merging with God consciousness... even if it's just for an instant.

Beryl Bender Birch

Yoga, Oneness, Consciousness

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Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience.

Frederick Lenz

Knowing, Perfect, Consciousness

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When matter stops, self-consciousness stops.

Frederick Lenz

Self, Matter, Consciousness

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I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.

Frederick Lenz

Real, Compassion, Offering

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You must realize you are not the doer, that you are not the action.

Frederick Lenz

Doers, Action, Realizing

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Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.

Frederick Lenz

Average, Stopping, Realizing

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Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters, who have the power to perform miracles, with enlightened masters who can enter into samadhi.

Frederick Lenz

Teacher, People, Accomplishment

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Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned, you are asleep as far as the mind is concerned, because there is no disturbance of any dream, there is no tension in the body - but beyond the mind, the no-mind is fully alert. He knows that the mind is without any dreams, he sees it, it is without any dreams, he sees it the body is absolutely relaxed. And this seeing, this alertness, continues twenty-four hours. Then sushupti becomes samadhi.

Rajneesh

Dream, Mean, Sleep

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Sometimes you have a flash of insight, but it's not strong enough to survive. Therefore in the practice of Buddhism, samadhi is the power to maintain insight alive in every moment, so that every speech, every word, every act will bear the nature of that insight. It is a question of cleaning. And you clean better if you are surrounded by those who are practicing exactly the same.

Nhat Hanh

Strong, Buddhism, Practice

"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more

Frederick Lenz

Fashion, Real, Self

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