Rama Quotes - Page 11

• Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Abuse, Important

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• It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw that light into them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Light

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• My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't need to know. I can send them energy and light and help them in their evolution.

  Frederick Lenz

  Growing Up, Teenage, Buddhism

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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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• 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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• Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure.

  Frederick Lenz

  Auras, Dimensions, Students

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• Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Snowboarding, Doe

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• My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.

  Frederick Lenz

  Water, Musical, Listening

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• I go to the movies. I absolutely love film.

  Frederick Lenz

  Film, Love Films

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• I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Knowledge And Power

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• Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Believe, Heart

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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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• That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Purpose

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• Tonight I have inundated you with the mystical kundalini. Now, of course, I'm moving into the supra-conscious; it's kind of a doubleheader this evening.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Tonight

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• As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Light

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