Rama Quotes - Page 6

• A teacher had two types of students. One type of student is a close student. The other is also a close student, but not in the sense of physical proximity. The close students rotate a lot.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Two

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• I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Giving

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• Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama...or something.

  Daniel Palladino

  Girl, Jobs, College

  "Fictional character: Lorelai Gilmore". "Gilmore Girls/ Application Anxiety", October 2002.

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 deal with two types of students. Those who have a very deep-seated knowledge of love, which are few, or those in all their lives have ignored love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, Students

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• You only find your Teacher once in many lifetimes. Never be afraid to see them and meditate with them. Your Teacher always understands and always forgives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Forgiving

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• I consider those persons to be my students who come and meditate with me on a regular basis, who, in spite of the hardships and difficulties on the path of knowledge, still continue to try, and who respect me as I respect them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Trying, Hardship

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• I no longer teach meditation, only software design.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Design, Meditation

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• The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, People

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• I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Years, Self

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• With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Enlightenment, Use

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• We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.

  Frederick Lenz

  Years, Two, Awareness

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• We sought a tribal society, to be close to each other, not to sit behind a television with our families and not see our families, not just to watch the evening news and the inane comedies designed to pacify the multitudes, but rather to explore ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Watches, News, Television

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• It was a time period in the 1960, when a generation of souls looked at the established society, looked at the pettiness, the greed, the hate, and rejected it and tried to create something new. Their creation neither succeeded nor failed. It was another experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Greed, Soul

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• I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fashion, Consciousness, States

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• I was very fortunate, and have always been, that the women I met and fell in love with were exceptional, from my first girlfriend to the woman I married when I was 21, to all the remarkable women I have known as either friends or lovers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Girlfriend, Firsts, Lovers

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• I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.

  Frederick Lenz

  Together, World, Married

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• In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Perfect, Focus

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• Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Sexuality

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• For some reason, the women in my life have always been extremely powerful. I've learned a great deal from that. I've learned that we're all women when we're complete and we're all men.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Men, I've Learned

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