Rama Quotes - Page 5

• I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Years, Meditation

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• As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination, the aggregate of beings that I was, dissolved in the white light of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Years, White

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• At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a very powerful occultist, but who I thought was, to some extent, limiting others in their spiritual growth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Powerful

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• So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teaching, Process

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• I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where I could no longer distinguish between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. For me it is all the same. I am in a state of continuous absorption in the Self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Self, Ordinary

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• From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perspective, Special, Age

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• Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is considered an auspicious time to "reboot" your life. It's a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Age, Return

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• One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Names, California

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• Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I do not claim to have any past life connection with the historical Rama. It's just a name I liked.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Past, Names

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• I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Remarkable, Ecstasy

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• I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Yoga, Reading

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• I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?

  Frederick Lenz

  Luxury, Unhappy, Too Much

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• My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Endless, Dependent

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• I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I've never studied with teachers. To be honest, the only thing that's ever interested me in life is eternity. Nothing else makes any sense to me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Numbers, Different

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• I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Appropriate, Depends

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• I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night.

  Frederick Lenz

  Night, Bed, Next

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• I like extreme athletics, extreme meditation and extremely beautiful women. Perhaps I'm an extreme person, or it's simply my Karma. But I must tell you, as if you hadn't read about me in a newspaper or seen me on a magazine format television show, there are extreme risks involved with all three.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Karma, Meditation

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• I am a certified PADI Divemaster and a technical scuba diver. That is to say, I am involved with decompression diving where we dive to depths of 300 plus feet. But I was also recently certified for the Atlantis rebreather, where we dive to shallower depths ranging from about 60-130 feet.

  Frederick Lenz

  Feet, Depth, Diving

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• I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.

  Frederick Lenz

  Australia, Fiji, Hawaii

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• When I dive, I dive into a different dimensional plane. I am not in this world anymore. Someone might see the body, but the spirit has left. It has gone everywhere or nowhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Different, Gone, World

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• I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of my own mind. I also find that extreme athletics helps to clarify your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Snowboarding, Mind, Diving

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• Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother.

  Frederick Lenz

  Brother, Islands, Feet

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• Master Fwap, who told me that snowboarding, or any activity could be improved by the practice of meditation. Since I had had previously some training in Korean martial arts, I was somewhat open to the idea.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Snowboarding, Practice

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• Love can be the only answer. But snowboarding also works for me. Because I love snowboarding!

  Frederick Lenz

  Snowboarding, Answers

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• When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots.

  Frederick Lenz

  Play, Tree, Lines

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