“I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do the same for others.” PeopleHelpingFeltResponsibilityTakenBuddhismHelp MeRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long time ago and continue to, want to climb that mountain to the highest light.” PeopleKnowsWantLongLightTeachMeditationBuddhismMountainHighestLong TimeEnlightenmentClimbsLong Time AgoPathwaysRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.” PeopleArtRealEnjoyBlackLevelsTeachingTalentStudentsBuddhismDegreesMartial ArtsBeltsRamaBlack BeltReal Talent Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleWayLightTeachMeditationTaughtBuddhismEnlightenedRamaTransfersTransference Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeoplePastStudentsBuddhismMovedLifetimeCaliforniaRamaPast Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleGivingWantedEnergyTeacherStudentsBuddhismTraditionalRamaPlacebo 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.” PeopleHelpingBeautifulProcessEnjoyMistakeTeachingBuddhismMaking MistakesRamaAssisting Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleWorldYearsRunningTeachMeditationThis WorldBuddhismLeagueRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleWantSchoolSpiritualTeachAchieveBuddhismTrainingLiberationRamaGuidelinesFunny People Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleWorldWantFeelsFirstsBuddhismHigherMiserySorryEnlightenedCampsBootsRamaBoot Camp Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleBuddhismFoolSeekingRamaDon JuanJuanVolition Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleKnowsGivingBuddhismTypeTasksPreparedSelectRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleHas BeensSometimesLightEnergyRealizingAttentionClearBuddhismEnlightenmentManifestationRamaSamadhi Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleYearsUseLightAbleEnergyMeditationAwarenessBuddhismConcernedMiracleLifetimeAidsCertaintyRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleHelpingGrowthSuccessfulEconomicStudentsBuddhismLettersPersonal GrowthRewardsFormerMillionaireRamaBecoming SuccessfulFormer Students Author:Frederick Lenz
“The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you what to do with your life. You assume no responsibility. A lot of people want that free ride.” PeopleWantUsedResponsibilityBuddhismSceneAssumingContemporaryGuruRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.” PeopleBelieveFormBuddhismMassLifestyleRamaBrainwashing Author:Frederick Lenz
“People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.” PeopleTogetherBuddhismIndependentRamaGet Together Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleShouldIdeasBeliefTeachTeacherMeditationTeachingCenturyBuddhismExpensiveHobbiesTwentieth CenturyHarborsRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleTryingBelieveSelfPhilosophyJobsTeachTaughtBuddhismDiscoveryMethodTrainSelf DiscoveryRamaImpart Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleWorldTryingDoeShowsThis WorldInspireBuddhismTechniqueRamaOther WorldsSearch For TruthFreedom And HappinessGaining Knowledge Author:Frederick Lenz
“My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.” PeoplePhilosophyReligiousTeachingBuddhismPrejudiceComplexesTargetIntoleranceRamaReligious PhilosophyReligious Intolerance Author:Frederick Lenz
“Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces.” PeopleHelpingForceBuddhismResistanceEncountersHelp MeRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleHardStatesAmericaFeltReligiousLinesUnitedUnited StatesGroupsAwarenessMovementBuddhismCultRamaProtestantismLaxReligious Cults Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem strange or unusual - in the same way that Christianity and Judaism may seem strange and unusual to people from the Far East.” PeopleWayMayCountrySeemsProcessChristianityTeachingStrangeBuddhismWesternEastInevitableUnusualJudaismAsianRamaChristianity And Judaism Author:Frederick Lenz
“I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly.” PeopleFeelsNumbersStudentsBuddhismRamaCorresponding Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are people I feel in other parts of the world who will never meet me or hear my name. They are probably better off. I help them inwardly. I feel their souls seeking light, and I help all who come.” PeopleWorldFeelsSoulHelpingLightNamesBuddhismSeekingBetter OffRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.” PeopleIfsI CanHelpingBodyFocusBuddhismSomedayRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in harmony with their environment.” PeopleWayEnergyDealsEnvironmentBuddhismHarmonyBuddhistEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesConsciousnessLaughingGoneBuddhismFoolishBuddhistBest ThingsThings To DoEnlightenedSensiblePhasesEtiquetteStates Of ConsciousnessLaugh At Yourself Author:Frederick Lenz
“People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.” PeopleSelfWorryBuddhismSelf RealizationRealizationBuddhistLiberationWelfareEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate. They learn how to ride the energy.” PeopleSometimesEnergyTeacherBuddhismBuddhistEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“Do not be selfish and feel new people will take more of the teacher's attention and you won't get it. That's nonsense. With that attitude, you won't get it. The teacher sees that attitude and will have very little to do with you.” PeopleFeelsLittlesAttentionAttitudeTeacherBuddhismSelfishBuddhistNonsenseEtiquetteBeing Selfish Author:Frederick Lenz
“The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?” PeopleUseTeachTeacherBuddhismEnlightenmentBlockBuddhistEtiquetteMental Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“Some people like a harsh teacher. They feel the demands make them learn more quickly. Some like a gentle teacher because they feel that makes them learn more quickly.” PeopleFeelsTeacherBuddhismDemandBuddhistGentleHarshEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.” PeopleMeanTeachingBuddhismHigherCapableWorthyLustBuddhistFrustrationEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.” PeopleWayFeelingsCareResponsibilityFocusTeacherFailingBuddhismExcuseTake CareBuddhistTaking ResponsibilityEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.” PeopleIdeasAmericaLevelsStudyBuddhismEnlightenmentCommitmentUniversityBuddhistEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.” PeopleBuddhismWorthyBuddhistImmortalityFaithfulnessEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance to associate with them, to live with them, to share with them, words and moments of power - this is the nature of spiritual study.” PeopleKnowsMomentsLightSpiritualChanceStudyShareBuddhismGloryBuddhistWarriorAssociatesEtiquetteTrue Warrior Author:Frederick Lenz
“If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards we set down for ourselves, then maybe we don't have to do that with other people.” PeopleIfsBuddhismStandardsViolentBuddhistEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.” PeopleKnowsWantSelfCertainBuddhismSelf RealizationRealizationBuddhistCodeThings To DoRight ThingEtiquetteRecommendations Author:Frederick Lenz
“That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.” PeopleFeelsMeanSelfSeemsBuddhismBeatsDiscoverySelf DiscoveryBuddhistSupposed To BeEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.” PeopleDifferentSeemsAmericaSpiritDifficultTeamBuddhismHarderHarmonyWestEastConditioningMonasteries Author:Frederick Lenz
“People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.” PeopleLooksSometimesForgetVisionBuddhismWalkingEnlightenmentIndiaAssumingRoseWestGlassesBreathingMarvelousForget ItTibetColored GlassRose Colored Glasses Author:Frederick Lenz
“You exist forever. You've always existed and you'll always exist. You move in and out of bodies like some people in Los Angeles move in and out of houses, every other week, every other lifetime.” PeopleBodyMovingHouseForeverWeekBuddhismLifetimeLos Angeles Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.” PeopleWayUseProblemSuccessEnergyCareersBuddhismTiredWestTime And EnergyTired Of Working Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.” PeopleIfsWantArtPlayHelpingCarePainFunCitiesHellBuddhismIf You Care Author:Frederick Lenz
“Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.” PeopleMindHumansDifferentScienceOrderTheoryBuddhismTypeSeriesChaosFamiliarHuman MindChaoticChaos Theory Author:Frederick Lenz
“One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.” PeopleWorldShouldSelfSuccessMistakeCareersThis WorldBuddhismEnlightenmentDiscoveryNotionSelf DiscoveryPursueAbandonNeglect Author:Frederick Lenz