Yoga - Meditation Instruction - Stopping Thought - Quotations by Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

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Meditation Instruction - Stopping Thought - Quotations by Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

Buddhist Monk

2005-11-13, 12:58 am

Organized Quotations on Meditation Instruction, Buddhism and Mysticism.

By Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

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There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the
beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought. In the second stage
we stop thought for limited periods of time. The third stage is no
thought.

The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become
conscious as you're sitting there that there is something beyond
thought.

The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop
thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the
awareness of this world.

The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of
meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.

Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have
gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let go and
let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.

We are learning for a while to perceive existence in separate phases.
One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and
feel what is beyond thought and sense that you are separate from
thought.

To stop thought it is necessary to put your life into a state of
balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and hours and
hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow
through you.

Everything is dependent on your ability to stop thoughts. The longer
you can stop your thoughts in meditation, the faster you will evolve,
the more power you will pick up and the more knowledgeable and balanced
you will become.

The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will.

Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of
having the usual negative things that wonder around in your mind, you
are replacing those with very bright images.

In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine
it on. Then, after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively
eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind.

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is
stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory
experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative
thoughts and ideas.

Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires,
frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many
things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to
still the mind.

I observe many people who say they are meditating, but I sure don't see
them meditating. They sit and touch a lot of people, places and things
psychically, but they sure don't meditate.

When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about
other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop! If
you focus on another person you take their energy in your body
completely.

If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind
during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras and you be
much more confused and dissociated than you were prior to your
meditation experience.

If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are
meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to
completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.

People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and
because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.

Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than
clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are
allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience.

Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting
in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is
thinking and ruminating upon their problems.

When your thoughts come and you're trying to stop them, simply say
"No". Learn the mantra "No". Every time a thought comes in your mind
just say "No".

When you are meditating, thinking about things in this world is not
going to help you. Instead, forget about everything for a while and
look at something that is perfect and will help you deal with the world
better.

Whatever you focus on during meditation, you psychically travel to and
touch. In meditation, when you think of somebody, you actually go into
their aura. That is the issue. Keep your meditation pristine,
unalloyed.

Every time a thought comes, whether it's beautiful or not so beautiful,
just think "No." Don't let it happen, push it away. Then once you've
done that, push the thought of no thought away.

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

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; then here
is no thought - we are in altered states of attention.

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

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. It comes into your life.

Learn to let go. You do it a little at a time and you have small
successes in terms of mental clarity, feeling better, deep perceptions
about life, developing your psychic abilities, whatever it my be.

Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have
gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let go and
let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.

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.

Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort.
Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.

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

Meditation is not this kind of spacey stuff that makes it difficult to
orient your life. If that's your experience of meditation, you're not
meditating. You're tapping into the lower astral planes, which is not
a healthy place for human beings to tap.

There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult
astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation
is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric,
cosmic, and dissolute.

The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates
are not suitable for human life. So it's very necessary to meditate on
higher octave energy, on the clear light, on joy, on happiness.

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.

You must have tremendous power of focus to direct your life and not
allow all these variant forces, different vibrations, to enter you.

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

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.

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.

- Rama

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Frederamameister Mercedes Lenz

2005-11-13, 5:59 pm

Buddhist Monk wrote:
> Organized Quotations on Meditation Instruction, Buddhism and Mysticism.
>
> By Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
>

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