Rama Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Numbers, People

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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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• A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Gita, May, Said

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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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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• All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias against Westerners who dare to embrace an Eastern belief-system.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Foundation, Stories

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• Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mother, Father, Buddhism

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• The source of their motivation ranges from what you might expect - from the seeking of money and publicity, to those who genuinely suffer from chronic personal problems and have fixated on me as the cause of their frustrations and failures.

  Frederick Lenz

  Motivation, Buddhism, Frustration

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• Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Buddhism, America

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• No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

  David Frawley

  Civilization, Generations, Stories

  David Frawley (2000). “The Oracle of Rama”, p.16, Lotus Press

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• You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Rama will be in my care, and he will be quite well. But ultimately, he will leave me too. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way.

  Valmiki

  Feet, Tree, Parent

  "The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic". Book by R. K. Narayan, 1972.

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• My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Thinking, Yield

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• Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Past, People

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• I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Uplifting, Levels, Good Times

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• As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had.

  Frederick Lenz

  Understanding, Wonderful, Grew

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• I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Community, Definitions

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• One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Enlightenment

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• There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Back When

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