Meditation Buddhism Quotes
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Meditation Buddhism Quotes & Sayings
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To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.
— Frederick Lenz
Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.
— Frederick Lenz
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.
— Sharon Salzberg
Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy.
— Frederick Lenz
You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
— T. Scott McLeod
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
— Sharon Salzberg
Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
— Frederick Lenz
Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts.
— Frederick Lenz
You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.
— Frederick Lenz
Being in touch with oneself is the meaning of meditation, to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Let the breath lead the way.
— Sharon Salzberg
There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.
— Frederick Lenz
The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.
— Frederick Lenz
What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.
— Jay Michaelson
All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.
— Frederick Lenz
Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.
— Sharon Salzberg
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
— Sharon Salzberg
Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.
— Sharon Salzberg
The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.
— Sharon Salzberg
Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.
— Sharon Salzberg
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
— Sharon Salzberg
Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.
— Frederick Lenz
To become powerful, to develop will, meditate on the naval center.
— Frederick Lenz
Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
— Sharon Salzberg
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.
— Frederick Lenz
Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.
— Frederick Lenz
In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.
— Frederick Lenz
Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.
— Frederick Lenz
Kring is the mantra of power. "Kring" should only be repeated when you are in deep meditation.
— Frederick Lenz
The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.
— Frederick Lenz
Taking in another's criticism, even when it's offered out of love, requires courage.
— Sharon Salzberg
At the last stages of the journey, there's no journey at all.
— Jay Michaelson
If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.
— Frederick Lenz
Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.
— Frederick Lenz
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.
— Frederick Lenz
In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.
— Frederick Lenz
At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
— Frederick Lenz
Heaven is the natural spaciousness of our mind before we make it small with self-protection.
— Sakyong Mipham
With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully loveourselves and to more consistently love others. — Sharon Salzberg
When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.
— Frederick Lenz
A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.
— Allan Lokos
The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.
— Frederick Lenz
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration.
— Frederick Lenz
Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.
— T. Scott McLeod
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
— Sharon Salzberg
It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.
— Frederick Lenz
To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves - and each other.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
The navel center will bring the power of all three of the lower chakras into your being, but with safety.
— Frederick Lenz
A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.
— Frederick Lenz
Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.
— Frederick Lenz
As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.
— Frederick Lenz
Don't preach about meditation.
— Frederick Lenz
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.
— Frederick Lenz
So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates.
— Allan Lokos
When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special.
— Frederick Lenz
As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.
— Frederick Lenz
Meditation ... never leave the body without it!
— Frederick Lenz
You might as well be perfect. There is really not all that much else to do here that is exciting.
— Frederick Lenz
The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.
— Frederick Lenz
Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.
— Frederick Lenz
Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The heart chakra is the central chakra.
— Frederick Lenz
In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.
— Robert A.F. Thurman
Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.
— Frederick Lenz
Maybe it's something which can't be defined," Enso Roshi says. "Maybe it's a question, to be lived.
— T. Scott McLeod
Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.
— Frederick Lenz
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.
— Frederick Lenz
The big realization when we go beyond the ego is simply seeing that we've always been ok.
— Loch Kelly
There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.
— Frederick Lenz
When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.
— Frederick Lenz
To forgive does not mean to forget.
— Allan Lokos
Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.
— Frederick Lenz
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".
— Frederick Lenz
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
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
— Sharon Salzberg
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
— Sharon Salzberg
When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.
— Frederick Lenz
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.
— Frederick Lenz
As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality.
— Frederick Lenz
The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.
— T. Scott McLeod
Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?
— T. Scott McLeod
There are thousands of mantras. Everyone has favorites. I prefer three - Aum, Sring, and Kring.
— Frederick Lenz
Our actions speak for us & they speak loudly.
— Allan Lokos
