“In Nirvana, there’s no winning or losing, but as long as you’re in the relative worlds, there is winning and losing. Only the completely enlightened are beyond winning and losing, and they had to win to get to that point.” Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz What is winning in Rama’s view? Winning in Zen…
We do not need to shave our head and wear an ochre robe to meditate and progress on the path to enlightenment. No, we do not, and that is what is so exciting! We can meditate anywhere at any time. All we need to do is still our mind. Find out as a spiritual aspirant…
There is more than just this world and heaven and hell. In Buddhist cosmology, we realize there are many worlds and that these worlds really exist inside our own mind. Everything exists within our own minds. How we navigate through these worlds and what the path is that leads beyond all worlds is what the…
Tantric Buddhism is a pathway to Enlightenment. In Tantra, we do not avoid the world. We embrace it. We believe that God exists in everything. We focus on the clear light of reality in and through all experiences. Tantric Buddism is talk 1 of 27 in the Tantric Buddhism series. © ℗ 1990, The Frederick…
“Buddhism is the study of light and the study of life.” Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz “Buddhism is an unfoldment of the spirit.” Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz Rama has journeyed into different states of mind and beyond states of mind to Nirvana. He has experienced the light, merged with it, and become it. Rama…
“The world is constantly imprinting us. It’s imprinting us with ideas, beliefs, vibrational forms, all kinds of things. And the imprinting is so constant and so powerful, that it’s necessary for us to allow Eternity to imprint ourselves in a slightly different way. So when we have one of these moments, the longer we can…
“Personal power is a feeling — a feeling that everybody wants called satisfaction. We can see it in someone who has a powerful life, someone who is able to get what they want to get or avoid what they want to avoid. That’s one level of personal power. Now naturally, there’s an entirely different level…
“As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I’d like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I’d like to encourage you, based upon my own personal experience and the personal experience of countless others, to meditate — to be more positive, to engage in the practice of meditation, to learn how to do this wonderful…
“I like miracles. They inspire me. Miracles cause you to believe, to have faith in the unseen, to look further into things. So miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. Some people don’t need miracles, they just believe. But for many people, miracles are important, and some enlightened teachers do miracles to…
“A Buddhist monastery has a certain chemistry. There’s a certain laughter, a certain excitement, a certain brightness, and ebullience, and it’s hard to capture that here (in the West). I think that same brightness here is captured in another way, and that’s by living and working in the world.” Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz Career…
“What’s interesting about reincarnation, from the point of view of the more advanced soul, is how the process works. Where am I? What are my possibilities? Is there some way that I can know this system better so that I can gain more out of it? That’s the perspective of the more…
“What makes us happy is contact with Light. As you have experiences with the inner light, which are gained through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, it immediately delights you.” Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz Personal Happiness is talk 7 of 12 in The Enlightenment Cycle series. © ℗ 1992, The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation…