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Practice Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Meditation is called a practice that can be hard when people cling to old habits. Gaining enlightenment is likened to learning any art, needing time, a teacher, and steady effort. A simple smile for five minutes is offered as an easy alternative to quiet meditation.

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I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!

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One who practices jnana yoga has practiced the other yogas for many, many lifetimes.

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Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life.

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The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an…

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You never devote yourself to a teacher. You devote yourself to the practice.

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The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.

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Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

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Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

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Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a…

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The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or…

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Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts…

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Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation…

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Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love -…

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The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They…

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You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have…

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A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree…

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What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for…

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Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that…

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When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes…

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As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to…

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You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a…

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The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark…

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As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined,…

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In the course of an individual being's evolution we will practice each of these yogas. One path is not superior to another.

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Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.

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To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.

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

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Tantra is for someone who practices all the paths because all the paths encompass tantra.

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Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.

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I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is…

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Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you.

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When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.

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When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.

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Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.

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If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.

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It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.

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Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

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If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously.

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Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they…

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You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.

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Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

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You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a…

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on…