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“Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.”

States Students Health Buddhism Training Perpetual Athletic Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.”

Way Mind Body Study Sea Students Buddhism Keys Offers Sake Mind And Body Renounce

Author:Dogen

“I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.”

Mind States Action Attention Stage Students Buddhism Moved State Of Mind Rama Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be?”

I Can Helping Students Buddhism Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.”

Thinking Way Happens Watches Students Buddhism Things Happen Miraculous Rama Amazing Things

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.”

People Art Real Enjoy Black Levels Teaching Talent Students Buddhism Degrees Martial Arts Belts Rama Black Belt Real Talent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Ifs Doe Teacher Students Buddhism Easier Sitting Strongest Vibrations Rama Transmission Proximity

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.”

People Past Students Buddhism Moved Lifetime California Rama Past 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.”

People Giving Wanted Energy Teacher Students Buddhism Traditional Rama Placebo

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Feels Teacher Students Buddhism Type Higher Guilt Incapable Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

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.”

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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly.”

People Feels Numbers Students Buddhism Rama Corresponding

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly your teacher. These are methods that have been handed down for thousands of years.”

Way Years Has Beens Certain Teacher Students Buddhism Intelligent Method Buddhist Etiquette Way To Live

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.”

Want Self Courses Causes Attention Teacher Students Buddhism Buddhist Controlled Dedicated Happy Life Restraint Etiquette Self Restraint

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.”

Mind Looks Self Levels Teacher Students Emotional Buddhism Higher Essentials Degrees Buddhist Self Control Etiquette Higher Level Coldness Emotional Control

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.”

Should Attitude Students Buddhism Enlightenment Buddhist Enlightened Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.”

Jobs Teacher Teaching Students Buddhism Enlightenment Gains Buddhist Enlightened Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.”

Process Teacher Teaching Students Buddhism Buddhist Etiquette Receptive Esoteric Teacher And Student Transference

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed”

Way Sometimes Use Success Used Actors Causes Careers Taken Students Mines Buddhism Succeed Interviews

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?”

Students Buddhism Balance

Author:Frederick Lenz