Rama Quotes - Page 5

• I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also try to show people that truth exists as much in this world as it does in any other world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, People

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• I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Philosophy, Believe

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• Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly in the twentieth century. Teaching meditation is a very expensive hobby.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Buddhism

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• People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Independent, Buddhism, People

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• We have a spiritual community but everyone lives where they want to. I recommend certain areas to live because of their power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Community

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• When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Powerful, Buddhism

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• Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Light

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• If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Justice

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• To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mistake, Buddhism

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• Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Desire

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• As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love You, Buddhism, Incarnation

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• Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or for their own mistakes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Pain, Mistake

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• Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Guilt

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• It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Hurt, Jobs

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• A part of them has grown very attached to a certain way of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Way, Certain

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• Sometimes their immediate reaction is to want to run away because they realize inwardly that the transpositions their life will go through will be remarkable, change everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Want

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• Their whole life will begin to shift, from their first physical contact with you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Firsts, Whole Life

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• I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, People

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• I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their is someone there who is waiting. Where they'll show up or not, I don't know. That depneds upon many factors.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Buddhism, Cities

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• Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, California

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• Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Vibrations

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• It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love You, Buddhism, Terrible

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• We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Balance

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• When I sit with my students and meditate with them, I channel the kundalini directly into them. I bring them to plane after plane of consciousness. What they would do in 100 years of meditation, I can do in an hour with them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Years, Meditation

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• Most of the teaching I do is not verbal. It's in every movement of my body. It's in my dance. It's in the way I lift a glass of water. It's in my voice tone. It's in every aspect of my life - because it isn't my life anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Buddhism, Glasses

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