Rama Quotes - Page 10

• As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Different

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• I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Needs

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• Then there are most of my students who don't know a whole lot about love. You don't know what fun love is. I will remain inaccessible to you until you learn how to love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Love You, Buddhism

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• I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy watching them learn and helping them, assisting them. I find it a beautiful process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Mistake, Teaching

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• I'd love to find some people to teach advanced meditation to. I've been looking for many years. There are a few around. Once in a while I run into another one. It's a very limited league at this time, in this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Years

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• Variación / Variations El remanso de aire bajo la rama del eco. El remanso del agua bajo fronda de luceros. El remanso de tu boca bajo espesura de besos. * The still waters of the air under the bough of the echo. The still waters of the water under a frond of stars. The still waters of your mouth under a thicket of kisses. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Stars, Kissing, Echoes

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• The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Majority

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• I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .

  Ramakrishna

  Servant, Disciple

  "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna". Translated by Swami Nikhilananda, p. 742, 1942.

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• I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Angle, Existence

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• At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Light, Age

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• I never considered myself to be essentially different from anyone else. Although I knew I was.

  Frederick Lenz

  Different

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• At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Age, World

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• They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Description

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• Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Rip, Mean

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• It really doesn't matter to me whether a person has a lot of money or a little bit of money.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Littles, Matter

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• I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Girlfriend, Hate

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• Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Coal, World

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• 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

  Teaching, Writing, Buddhism

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• It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, School, Buddhism

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• People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Buddhism, People

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• Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Juan

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• There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Stories

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• I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Enlightenment, Serious

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• The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Levels, Next

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• If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Want, Chosen

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