Frederick Lenz Quotes

Love is the shortcut to meditation. Above thought is love, and within and below thought is love. Love is a ladder that we can climb through thought.

To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.

Any of the exercises that you start out with will get the kundalini moving. You don't have to stay with them for the entire period of meditation.

The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.

When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.

Consciously join with and become part of the power that is in everything around you.

You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.

Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux.

Learn to let go. You do it a little at a time.

Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.

You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.

There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy, brilliance beyond comprehension.

You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a world of light.

Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.

The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or sleep until you are refreshed.

At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties.

As the meditation evolves, you attention passes into higher realms of consciousness.

You will notice the phenomena of meditation. You may see dazzling lights, feel energy coursing through different parts of your body, feel as if you are floating, hear sounds, or smell fragrances.

Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.

When you meditate your body shouldn't move. Some people get into this kundalini sway business. Your body shouldn't move.

How do you deal with meditating when you stop breathing? The trick is to meditate just a little higher and you won't even know that you're not breathing.

To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes, the higher realities, the infinite cosmos itself is beyond thought.

Meditating everyday is essential. If you meditate every day and learn to control and stop your thoughts, you will become psychic.

The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.

Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.

Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.

Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.

It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.

To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.

Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.

When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.

Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.

If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.

When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.

In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.

Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.

This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.

Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.

If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.

Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.

We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.

You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.