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Frederick Lenz was an American author known for his profound understanding and unique insights into Zen Buddhism. His works blended Zen philosophy with modern life, resonating with readers worldwide.

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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.”

Pain Mistake Teacher Students Buddhism Blame Confusion Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Persons Love You Buddhism Incarnation Rama Detrimental

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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.”

Persons Stills Desire Teacher Buddhism Destructive Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Ifs Used Justice Buddhism Karma Like Me Destroyed Rama Don't Like Me You Don't Like Me

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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.”

Persons Hate Turns Buddhism Destructive Hate You Rama Back When

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“Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point, has to go back to the person; it's intensified and hurts them spiritually.”

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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.”

Seems Deals Love You Buddhism Terrible My Friends Misunderstanding Rama

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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.”

Courses Teacher Buddhism Balance Gains Proportion Enlightened Sense Of Humor Rama

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“I no longer teach meditation, only software design.”

Teach Meditation Design Buddhism Software Rama Software Design

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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.”

Trying Persons Stills Path Students Buddhism Bases Difficulty Spite Hardship Rama Respect Me

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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.”

Teacher Buddhism Forgiving Lifetime Rama

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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.”

Two Deals Students Buddhism Type Ignored Rama Very Deep

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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.”

Different Teach Teacher Taught Buddhism Theme Mysticism Rama Tibetan Tibetan Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Want Needs Ability Perfect Students Buddhism Graduates Rama Graduate Students Ability To Love

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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.”

Knows Whole Fun Love Is Love You Students Buddhism Rama How To Love Inaccessible

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

People Helping Beautiful Process Enjoy Mistake Teaching Buddhism Making Mistakes Rama Assisting

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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.”

People World Years Running Teach Meditation This World Buddhism League Rama

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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".”

Ifs Writing America Meditation Teaching Wind Buddhism West Autobiography Rama

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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.”

People Want School Spiritual Teach Achieve Buddhism Training Liberation Rama Guidelines Funny People

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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.”

People World Want Feels Firsts Buddhism Higher Misery Sorry Enlightened Camps Boots Rama Boot Camp

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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.”

People Buddhism Fool Seeking Rama Don Juan Juan Volition

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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.”

Stories Light Found Students Buddhism Fool Seeking Rings Rama Apprentice Don Juan Juan

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“I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.”

Serious Buddhism Mets Enlightenment Rama

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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.”

Next Levels Buddhism Best Things Rama

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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.”

Ifs Want Can Do Buddhism Chosen You Choose Liberated Rama

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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.”

Today Past Life Is Purpose Can Do Buddhism Right Now Purpose Of Life Sole Our Past Your Past Rama Past Life Future Life

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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.”

People Knows Giving Buddhism Type Tasks Prepared Select Rama

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“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.”

Two Teacher Students Buddhism Type Rama Proximity

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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.”

Way Body Voice Water Teaching Movement Buddhism Aspect Glasses Lifts Tone Rama

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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.”

Years I Can Can Do Hours Consciousness Meditation Students Buddhism Planes Rama

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

Light Spiritual Buddhism Highest Rama Samadhi Spiritual Light

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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.”

Feels Reason Light Spiritual Powerful Buddhism Transformation Steady Very Powerful Rama Spiritual Transformation Samadhi

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“Occasionally at a Center Meeting, not that often, every couple of months, I'll break down and demonstrate a little mystical kundalini; but not that often, simply because it wouldn't be that effective.”

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“You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.”

Path Students Buddhism Capacity Increase Mysticism Mystical Rama

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“You don't need to be able to absorb a tremendous amount of the mystical kundalini to realize God.”

Needs Able Realizing Buddhism Amount Mystical Rama

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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.”

Kind Moving Courses Buddhism Conscious Evening Tonight Mystical Rama

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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.”

Light Past Grows Week Buddhism Tendencies This Life Rama Past Life Samskara

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“When I meditate, people see manifestations of light when I go into samadhi and through the samadhis. Sometimes the energy of enlightenment is so clear that people don't realize that their attention has been elevated.”

People Has Beens Sometimes Light Energy Realizing Attention Clear Buddhism Enlightenment Manifestation Rama Samadhi

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“It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness.”

Has Beens Night Energy Awareness Buddhism Periods Reflection Transition Exposure Networking Rama Repetitive

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“It is important to have intensive blocks of time together. During our nights together there is a tremendous interchange of knowledge, power and awareness.”

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“It will take about a month for that awareness to be fully absorbed and modify someone's attention field. During that period of time, a person who studies with me will meditate on their own, and apply those things that they have learned to their daily lives.”

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“Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power.”

World Opportunity Fields Buddhism Mystical Rama Field Trip

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“As far as miracles are concerned, I'm not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am able to use the kundalini energy to alter other people's awareness and aid them in their search for light and certainty.”

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“I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really matter. There are no absolute rights or wrongs in spiritual practice”

Knows Matter Spiritual Practice Teacher Rights Buddhism Concerned Absolutes Display Psychics Rama Spiritual Practice

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“I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.”

Doe Self Fun Teacher Inspire Buddhism Enlightenment Discovery Miracle Self Discovery Have Faith Rama

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“The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.”

Self Individual Enjoy Students Taught Buddhism Majority Sufficient Rama Self Sufficient

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“Every day I get letters from people thanking me for helping them to become successful, whether because of their personal growth or because of economic rewards. A few of my former students have even become millionaires.”

People Helping Growth Successful Economic Students Buddhism Letters Personal Growth Rewards Former Millionaire Rama Becoming Successful Former Students

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“Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.”

States Philosophy Awareness Materials Masters Buddhism Rama Zen Master

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“Of course, there are the old hardcore teacher types like me who sit around and tell jokes, realizing, what's the difference anyway - it's all timeless.”

Courses Realizing Differences Teacher Buddhism Type Jokes Like Me All Time Timeless Rama Hardcore

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

Born: February 9, 1950
Died: April 12, 1998
Known for: Author
Quotes: 4397

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