Mysticism – Personal Power – Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

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Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz:

“Personal power is a feeling, like life. Personal power is the ability to enter into different planes of reality. A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the experiences themselves, who knows? But the principles that are presented are quite valuable for one who seeks power. There is a grace and an ease to power. You feel good about yourself and your life when you have it. It is well worth having, and it is certainly miserable not to have it.

A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind. All living things have an aura, a rapidly vibrating, invisible psychic
energy field that protects them from toxic, non-physical energies that would otherwise be detrimental to them.

Life wears us down. We all die here. Depending upon the way you expose yourself to energies and powers and forces will determine whether you have a lot of energy or you lose energy. Everything that we do involves energy, personal power. The more energy
we have, the more we can accomplish. Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires
requires power.

You can measure your power in your ability to stop thought. The longer you can stop thought, the more powerful you are. The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power. The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don’t have the power or chi flowing through you. When you pick up that sword and you start to fight, a power comes to you. When you shy back from it, that’s when all the little doubts, the insecurities, the terrible deadness of the human condition surrounds you.

Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don’t, you tend to lose. A person with power controls their life and their destiny.  They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted. What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren’t anything in particular. We can be anything. That’s the good news. It is necessary to store power to be free. Right now you are in the gravity field of many different people in your life. Each person you feel attached to is a planetary body…perhaps a heavenly body! It is necessary to do a systems analysis of your life. Look at where you gain power and where you lose power.

Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life. No one’s lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things. If President Bush does a lousy job, then he’ll lose power. If the guy
at McDonalds who’s selling burgers does a great job, then he’ll be much more powerful than President Bush. Personal power is something that is not visible. We can see its effects, but we cannot see power itself in the same way we see the effects of wind; but we cannot actually see the wind.

Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal
power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process. I don’t think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance. Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.”

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Mysticism – Gaining Power – Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

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Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz:

“Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty. Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy. You can simulate perfection, but it’s not the same. Some one can do a copy of Rembrandt, but it’s not a Rembrandt. It doesn’t have the vibration or the power. If you want to succeed always associate with winners, people who have understood something. You will notice that they all share something in common, tremendous attention to detail in their personal lives and associations. Power has destroyed many people – not really. Power doesn’t destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It’s how you use it.

There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy. Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what’s going on in your life. You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. Turn your life into a field of power and energy to draw from. Take your energy – instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn’t matter. You must have tremendous power of focus to direct your life and not allow all these variant forces, different vibrations, to enter you.

You have got to get your power up and do something and not just sit around. You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power. There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy. Things that raise your energy usually don’t involve humans; things that cause energy loss usually involve humans. Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

Your life either takes your energy or gives you energy. Set up your life so that it gives you energy. Avoid the things in your life that take away from your stillness. Find things that add to that stillness. Bring them more into your life. It doesn’t matter what works or doesn’t. It is all individual. It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you. Make lists. Write down the things that give you power. Write down the things that take your power away also. Make lists of people close to you. Are you associations raising you to a higher level of attention?

Take out two pieces of paper. One piece of paper, list all the people you know who are adding to your life. Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they’re adding. Include people from the past. It is necessary to bring our life in order, to examine each thing, and ask ourselves if it is bringing power into our life or if it is draining us. Ask yourself, is your life taking power from you or adding power to you? What will increase one person’s personal power will not necessarily be the same for another. Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning. When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates. Fears are just conditioning. They don’t exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to make us afraid. It is time to unload the baggage. Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of.  Start out with the small fears and conquer them.

Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear. How to overcome fear? Be around people who are fearless. If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts. Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.

Be a perpetual beginner. Always be inspired. It is that attitude of inspiration and belief that creates energy. If you are happier than you have ever been, then your power is increasing. But is it a fast a rate of climb as you would like? You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time. It is really important that you live in a place that has good energy. Where you sleep, where you dream, where you meditate, where you spend a lot of time is key.

You need to turn your room into a place of power. It’s a good idea to have flowers around, candles, incense, you know, happy things. Make your room into a beautiful place and keep it impeccably clean. The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain If you are finding that you can stop thought longer and longer, I would say your life is bringing power into your being. You are gaining things out from that field behind the house. You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy. A person who seeks power usually goes into other dimensional planes to find it. Then they bring that power back into this world and they use it to enhance their life.

Your understanding of the astral dimensions can help you alter structures in the physical dimensions.  It is in and through the medium of the astral dimensions that all of the siddha powers function and work. Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today. What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can’t stop thought at all, then you are not powerful. You might be quite evolved, but you have no access to that evolution. The unlocking of the kundalini, which occurs by meditating on the first, second and third chakras, is the entrance into the planes of power. There can be very powerful releases of energy that can catch you off guard until you have a better sense of what you are doing. I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two. Power comes from the navel center. If you meditate for an hour or so a day and you focus on that sphere, you will release a tremendous power that will enter your body. We call it the chi.

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power. The reason you study with a teacher is primarily for the empowerments, for someone who is enlightened to transfer power to you. What is most important is that the student uses that power intelligently and wisely An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness. A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of mind the teaching will take place in non-verbal ways through direct experience. If the teacher sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task. The task is charged with power and if it’s performed properly.

A good teacher will show you the ropes in the world of power. They will give you the wisdom that is necessary to be able to use power. You just don’t give a kid a new Ferrari. You teach him how to drive it. Naturally you need someone who is versed in the ways of power to teach you a thing or two about it. When you reach the next power level, they will teach you more. It is very much like the study of martial arts. Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very happy. You move beyond delusion.”

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Mysticism – Losing Power – Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

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Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz:

“You are drained by foolish actions and others. When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power. If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident; you will pick up a disease. That is why it is very important to keep your power level high, just to be a happy human being. Life wears us down. We all die here. Depending upon the way you expose yourself to energies and powers and forces, both physical and non-physical, will determine whether you have a lot of energy or you lose energy.

Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life. Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don’t see opportunities. When you deal with people, it tends to drag your energy down, if those people are in a lower auric state than you. If you meditate and they don’t, then by the end of the day you tend to be more drained.

The real problem is not increasing your energy. The problem is losing it. If you stop the loss and you simply meditate, you will have more than enough energy. You will learn to live strategically. Start to give more thought to the world around you. Stop exposing yourself to situations that drain your energy. You will discover through a trial and error process that you will have more energy. Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don’t you remember anything from your other lives?

Most power is lost in one’s own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts. If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you’re always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low. Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving – then your power is dwindling.

You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used. If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won’t go to them, but it will leave you. In the world of power, people will come looking for you. If you’re a movie star, you know what I am saying. People will come around you, little groupie types. They think that being around you they can get something. The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through our attachments – opening up to people who might be very nice on the surface but underneath they have a lot of problems.

If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you. Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards. Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and they are not very sharp or defined. That brings you into a lower state of attention. Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can’t, you need to sever the relationship. There is a certain drop of a type of kundalini when you have sex. If you are interested in developing some of the higher range occult powers, then I would suggest you not engage in sex too frequently. If you really want to channel all of your energy towards higher mysticism, you should realize that sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. Human beings are confused, deluded and generally un-awakened. So as a person who seeks to increase their energy, you have to be very careful about who you have intimate contact with.

The primary place where most people lose energy is in their relationships with others. That means you lose your energy in your interactions with the people you know best. People don’t necessarily take power from you for themselves. It just means they are operating at a lower attention level and you got pulled down by it. You are not sufficiently strong enough to be with someone and be unaffected. In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on. If, at the office or in different exchanges in daily living, you have to spend time with people who are at lower power levels, then you have to be aware of that and keep your awareness very much within.

Don’t be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren’t misers. They aren’t afraid. That is paranoid. When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level. When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.

People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it. Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them. Fears are just conditioning. They don’t exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to make us afraid. It is time to unload the baggage.

Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves. Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear. Don’t be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of anything else. Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.

Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don’t occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind. How to overcome fear? Be around people who are fearless. If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts. Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.

A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost. A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings. A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force If your power is decreasing then you have to do something about it right away. As your power level goes down, you will become physically ill. When our power level is down sufficiently, we die. You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind. Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained. The United States has an incredible debt. That is obviously not the way to live. You have to eliminate waste in your life as the United States has to eliminate waste in its spending. It takes many years to become proficient in energy conservation. But it is something that happens. You get continually stronger. You see your attention field is far different than it ever was before.”

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Earth-defying, therapeutic introspectors

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TM is pure Tantra – the practicum of the Sri Vidya, Absolute Knowledge. The yoga was obtained from the Western Transmission of the Nath tradition. Tantricism, that is, Mantravada, with mantra, yantra, mandala, puja, and dakshina, is of Tibetan origin and the Tantras are books of mantras composed by siddhas. The siddha alchemist cult was, as per its own tradition, introduced by a Bonpo from Tibet, Shenrap, who came over from Derge.

In contrast, sudroid Shaivism is of Mediteranian and African origin – the old Sudric ‘Black’ Shiva is of Dravidia; his affinities to the
Bantu have been noted. Indeed, one may find Dravidian ‘tantrics’ among the untouched Dravidians living in remote areas – the Banas and Nagas. However, one should not use the word ‘Tantrism’ for this set of beliefs, since Tantra means the 5th Veda from Tibet. ‘Sudra Religion’ or ‘Sudra Shaivism’ are better terms. These are independant of Tibetan Tantricism even if the practices may have been similar, dating back to the pre-Aryan Indus Valley.

It is important to distinguish the White Tibetic Mahadeva, from the Black Old Dravidian Shiva; and the Roman Hermes, Greek Priapus and Nordic Odin; they have no relation. These are similar gods in different religions, but in common usage. In India, the word tantra refers to any non-Vedic practice.

There is a popular tradition that the siddhas were a ‘bloc of earth-defying, therapeutic introspectors’, indebted in all respects to
Bhoga, an immigrant from Odantapur, who, in his methods of ridding the body of impure matter through ‘reverberation’ techniques, came to the point of pracitcally cancelling ultimate demise. It may be true that Mahesh, who merely sought to promulgate the lesser
athanasic precepts of Guru Dev, since the vital objective of the Ghanderved is the transfiguration of the immortalised ethereal body
‘Soam’, into a permanent world body mandala, a new world order, in order to fit it to associate to eternity with the Purush, the
Transcendental Person.

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Mysticism – Dreaming – Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

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Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz:

“You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God’s endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness. Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it’s a dream. These are
isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation. Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here lasts. That is how you know it’s the dream. How do you know you’re even here right now? Perhaps you’re not. Perhaps you’re far, far away and this is just a dream.

The idea is easy to understand.  All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you are aware of. You are asleep and have forgotten that you are dreaming. You mistakenly believe you are awake. You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity. You certainly do have strange dreams. You must first realize that you are in a dream.  Then you must realize that your current dream is a nightmare. You need to dream nicer dreams.  I come from a world that is a much nicer dream.

We are not really separate beings of light. That’s a dream we are having, the dream of multiplicity. Meditation takes us beyond the
moment to eternal awareness. We dream forever unless we awaken. We move from one dream to another, some beautiful, some we’re the hero or the heroine, some horrible, some nonsensical, some boring. All the lives we ever lead are only dreams, these walking moments, that look so solid to you when you consider yourself awake, are just dreams. We’ve decided what we are. That’s the dream. When the dream fades, it’s not that we don’t exist. How could we not exist since we never existed?

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. What you have known of this life so far is only a dream, a slim dream
at that. As one who has traveled greatly in the worlds, I can assure you there is much to see and much to become. There are other times. There are other adventures. There are other dreams . Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy. Pure ecstasy. Joy beyond
understanding. Bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind’s philosophical ranging. Light beyond any light in this world. The
substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light. The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the self.

The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real. When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings.  We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams. I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We’re in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn’t realized its nonexistence yet.

Seriously, I think that the world is always ending and always beginning at every moment. Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes. Dreams are not just functions of the cerebral cortex. Then you’re dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity. When we wake up in the morning and we make decisions, these decisions come from the night, the night of eternity, our other side.

The Indians in the Southwestern United States went to many places of power. They were able to have profound dream experiences where they could see into the future or know what do to and make proper decisions. Will something else. Have dreams and believe in them. They don’t have to come true. They are just as true as a dream is. Life itself is a dream. Dreams are just silly things that pass through your mind at night. “Dreaming” is out-of-the-body experiences where you are traveling through the different dimensions – most of which you don’t remember. Some astral dimensions are bright and filled with ecstasy. Advanced cosmic beings live in them. But there are also very dark astral dimensions, often inhabited by beings that are filled with hate and despair.

A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by
approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force. Entities can see a certain amount because they are outside of the physical dimensional plane. They might see that you are going to meet a beautiful woman or a beautiful man. They will come to you in dreams and tell you this is going to happen because of them.

Who do you think of first in the morning?  Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation increases the aura to ward of negative energy. Where you live is important. It is where you dream. You lose or gain a tremendous amount of energy there. In dream yoga we use the etheric double and go beyond the confines of the physical, it’s very ecstatic. You can move in and through the astral worlds once you have gained control of your subtle body.  The astral worlds are the back corridors of eternity!

The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together.”

 

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Mysticism – Wisdom – Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

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Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz:

“Wisdom isn’t to know these words. Wisdom isn’t to have ideas or philosophies. Those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect
consciousness. Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still. All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them all-inclusive. They are symbolic representations of something that lies beyond the world of thought and analysis.

The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things…things that are inexpressible. When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds – it just comes to you. Higher meditation is not taught through techniques or words. The real meditation experience is taught inwardly. You shift a person through different dimensional planes.

In order to pass into other dimensions you need to really understand what is out there. A teacher of mysticism is able to explain how to deal with these other worlds and universes. The way you learn is by sitting with the Master, as he moves into those states of attention, you feel that and follow him. He generates tremendous energy when he’s doing anything. You are taught inwardly. A teacher of knowledge and power gives you experiences in other dimensions. They show you that the universe is much bigger and more fascinating than you had ever imagined. They give you direct and immediate experiences in other realities.

What creates happiness, peace and balance is by not becoming simply powerful, but knowledgeable. Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind. If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be. You don’t live forever, at least in this life. Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you’ll see eternity.

Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that. Ever make a move until you find yourself making it, because it might be too soon. It’s always better to wait. Whenever you’re not sure, wait, and in time you’ll find yourself doing it. To act before then would be a mistake. If you wait till you’re very sure, then you’ll find yourself doing it,
and when you do there’ll be an ease. If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you’ll know it. It just won’t feel right. It is better to wait. It’s always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world.

When the answer doesn’t come, it’s not supposed to come yet. Don’t make eternity try and conform to what you want. That’s desire. Desire leads to frustration. Real wisdom does not occur here in this physical universe. Real wisdom is something that you have to move into the planes of the highest light to experience. To be wise doesn’t always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside. Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn’t last. Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.

The world is a grain of sand on the beach of Eternity. Eternity is a grain of sand on the beach of Infinity. The ocean of Nirvana connects
both Eternity and Infinity without connecting them. Know this and you will be free. All answers are only found in the super-conscious. It takes us to a point where we don’t ask questions anymore because that part of us which would ask goes away. Wisdom is seeing that there are templates in the universe that you can follow. They will show you what to do and what not to do. In order to see them you have to make your mind very quiet, very still. There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful
incongruities of existence aren’t incongruous at all, but rather perfect. The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana. Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi. Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven’t developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise. There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change. A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All
their battles are within. This world only brings things apart that come together, and brings things together that weren’t together. Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves – it’s the only thing that does. Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or
push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a mirror of infinity.
That is wisdom. The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things. Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that. The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away. Suffering follows the lack of wisdom. The universe is complicated and we’re not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.”

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Who Was Rama? – Rama the Person – Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

December 8, 2011 By

 

Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz:

“I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don’t trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and
follow my feelings.I think I’m on an angle. I’m on an oblique angle through all of existence. In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses. I was sitting outside in our backyard on a summer day, I was around six, and suddenly the whole world dissolved before my eyes and I found myself in a timeless world of light.

Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that
other children didn’t have on a regular basis. When I was quite young they sent me to Catholic school. The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work. Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life.I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I’d go through them. I would be beyond time and space. I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years.
Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light. I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where I could no longer distinguish between ordinary and non ordinary reality. For me it is all the same. I am in a state of continuous absorption in the Self. My travels to the Far East occurred primarily during the 1960′s. Naturally, I have returned many times since. Of course, there was concern from my family that I was traveling to far distant lands to accomplish snowboarding activities that no one had tried yet. Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.

From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age. Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is
considered an auspicious time to “reboot” your life. It’s a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting.One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.

Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I do not claim to have any past life connection with the historical Rama. It’s just a name I liked.I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy. I am the happiest person I’ve ever met.  This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me. My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, then I’m bound to be happy always.

I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I’ve never studied with teachers, to be honest. The only thing that’s ever
interested me in life is eternity. Nothing else makes any sense to me.I don’t believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost
everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the
Dharmapada which I read from every night.I like extreme athletics, extreme meditation and extremely beautiful women. Perhaps I’m an extreme person, or it’s simply my Karma. But I must tell you, as if you hadn’t read about me in a newspaper or seen me on a magazine format television show, there are extreme risks involved with all three. I am a certified PADI Divemaster and a technical scuba diver. That is to say, I am involved with decompression diving where we dive to depths of 300 plus feet. But I was also recently certified for the Atlantis I rebreather, where we dive to shallower depths ranging from about 60-130 feet.

I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places. When I dive, I dive into a different dimensional plane. I am not in this world anymore. Someone might see the body, but the spirit has left. It has gone everywhere or nowhere.I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of my own mind. I also
find that extreme athletics helps to clarify your mind.Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton’s brother.

Master Fwap, who told me that snowboarding, or any activity could be improved by the practice of meditation. Since I had had previously some training in Korean martial arts, I was somewhat open to the idea.Love can be the only answer. But snowboarding also works for me. Because I love snowboarding! When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth
between these tight spots. Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place.When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.

I like to shop. I don’t always buy things when I shop, but I think it’s fun to go out and look at the worlds of colors. I love to roam through supermarkets. I am a great lover of household products. I particularly like the packaging of cereal boxes. I do enjoy wearing Japanese and Italian clothing. I also enjoy my blue jeans or tennis shorts and running shoes. I like driving a Porsche because it is an elegant machine and it is a very beautiful experience to drive it. It’s magnificently made. I do have a staff of what some people would consider to be very attractive, chic women. They are not on the staff because they are attractive and chic but because they care about the welfare of others. Sexuality, I think, is a little bit different, for me, than it is for  most people, in that there’s almost no body awareness whatsoever. It’s just light, but that’s how everything is for me. I like to be weird, kinky, straight, in and out, up and down. I like to blow up people’s expectations, create them, destroy them, and dissolve them. It is fun.

I believe it should be the legal right of any woman who wants to have an abortion to have one. From the spiritual point of view, I don’t see a problem with abortion in that the soul doesn’t usually take incarnation until the last month before birth, sometimes not even until the moment of birth. I’m an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus, I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions. In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don’t seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.

I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs. If you’re interested in matching your mind with the most intelligent kind of beast I have ever encountered, get yourself a Scotty dog. He’ll get bored very fast, and it will require all of your personal power and intelligence to keep up with him. You might find a good friend. I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design. 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. I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy’s stage presence. The music is used as a backdrop. I take the kundalini and I play against the notes with it. I do a light show inwardly and outwardly with the energy, with the vortexes of energy as you sit there. It’s no big deal. It’s just what I do.

Zazen’s music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure. Miramar, my recording company has decided in March to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does. My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical
composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach. I go to the movies. I absolutely love film. Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting. I saw “Forrest Gump” several times. I personally thought it was Tom
Hanks’ greatest role and I think it was one of the most eloquent love stories of our time. There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented. There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate.

Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson – at least in the Road Warrior films – and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women. Meryl Streep is expert at only using the requisite amount of energy to express her character, not an ounce too little or too much.  She’s Zen and doesn’t know she’s Zen. That’s very Zen! I think that was E.T.’s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this
metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants to go home. Obviously, home must’ve been better!

I have found in the world of film many movies including Beyond Rangoon, The Crow, Gandhi, Doctor Zhivago, and The Big Blue, a French film, convey similar understandings. I’m sure the list is endless. These are just a few of my favorites. I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don’t want people to come up and ask for autographs. There have been times when I’ve made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I’ll continue to do so if the people are sincere. If they’re not sincere, then naturally I’ll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I’ll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.

Powerful people affect many others and if I can in some way contribute to their awareness, they will put out better energy to millions and millions of people. if I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I’m glad to help. That’s why I’m here. I’m only here for a while, so I’d like to do what I can.Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book “Rendezvous with Rama” for me. I am a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Aren’t we all? I teach meditation to many different types of people, you mentioned celebrities. I also teach meditation to many people who are not famous, but are, in my eyes, very important.

One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you’ll be there! In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure  story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques, spiritual knowledge, hope  and a brighter view of life. I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don’t know if
the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights.Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I’m also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs.

I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I  suppose you would call “New Age fiction.” While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the  Far East. I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and  several other best-selling new age authors. I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I  think that it is important as writers of
metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not  take ourselves too seriously.

In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce. In one particular chapter  in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that’s been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years – starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through  the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century. He managed to do this ‘tour de force’ of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is the most brilliant parody of writing styles that I have ever read.

Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers — not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education. Every person I’ve known has had an effect on me, as have people whom
I’ve not met in the physical in this life, but whom I’ve met inwardly, teachers from other eras – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna and Lao Tse. If you ever come to one of my seminars, you will notice I have volunteer workers. When I work with individuals like that, I expect a level of excellence displayed. Everything has to be done perfectly.

My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems. I design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems. I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will. Most of the software I sell runs on mainframes and supercomputers, and is used by multinational corporations and governments. You may not get
to see that, but if I have done it properly, hopefully it will make the events in your life transpire more smoothly.I am involved in the creation of software, and I’m also in the music business.

Whenever I work with anyone, it is an opportunity for them to become more professional and do something for someone else. My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a person couldn’t have a glass of wine or a drink. I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment. I only work with professionals. I don’t mean at seminars, but in my business. I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western  lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.

I don’t think people should be primarily concerned with money or material success. They should be concerned with doing that which is right and being in harmony with the way of life. It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with
intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly. I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations.

My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money. I can throw a great party, but I don’t know how to go to one. I can throw a party because when you throw a party you just work all the time. But I could never go to a party because I wouldn’t know what to do…I’d immediately find the kitchen and start to serve food. I am simply a human being who is fascinated by the life process.If I had my choice I’d hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn’t matter. It’s all God, it’s all the same. There’s only nirvana for the enlightened.”

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Who Was Rama? – Rama the Teacher – Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

December 8, 2011 By

Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz: “If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy life…I don’t think you should work with any teacher because you don’t know what it is all about yet. I’m a Zen Master. I’m an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect. 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. I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs. While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy. 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. 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. I don’t believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time. I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I’ve never met anybody as happy as I am. That, in itself, should make you unhappy. I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different ways because I don’t think there is a “way”.

I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I also teach Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist mediation, I have a very eclectic approach to the subject. One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power. I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of “suchness” or a new book by Stephen King. I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things. I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it’s usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens. 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. 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.

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. 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. I’ll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their is someone there who is waiting. Where they’ll show up or not, I don’t know. That depends upon many factors.. 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. I can take an individual and I can change their awareness. That’s easy. But how long will it last? Their whole life will begin to shift, from their first physical contact with you. Sometimes their immediate reaction is to want to run away because they realize inwardly that the transpositions their life will go through will be remarkable, change everything.

Part of them has grown very attached to a certain way of life. 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. 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. I no longer teach meditation, only software design. 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. When someone says to me “I want to be enlightened.” I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn’t serious. If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I’ll call it “Pissing In the Wind – Teaching Buddhism in America”. 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 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. Don Juan in the teachings of Carlos Castaneda makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowledge. People will not do it of their own volition. 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. I’ve never met anyone who’s serious about enlightenment. The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level. If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you’ve chosen freedom. You can do this. 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. 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. 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. 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 any more. 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. The kundalini comes in two primary forms when it comes forward from a spiritual teacher. The highest octave kundalini is the golden light which occurs in the supraconscious; it is the supraconscious. It’s what they call Sat Chit Ananda – existence, consciousness, bliss…full consciousness. The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make tremendous spiritual leaps in a short period of time. The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we’re on field trips, when we go to a place of power.

The mystical kundalini is aided by that place. For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you’re extremely sensitive. It’s more of a rush, a flash. There’s an electric quality to it, a burning heat. There’s lower mystical kundalini and higher mystical kundalini; there’s ranges within the range. The mystical kundalini energy has some, I don’t know if you’d call them limitations, but there are certain operational factors which you should understand about it. When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in which you can make tremendous changes within your self, in the structure of your being. This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically.

After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily. A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it won’t really make a difference. The higher octave light that comes from samadhi, the kundalini of samadhi, this you can absorb continuously. You can never overload. It can never hurt you. Neither is detrimental, but the mystical kundalini is a bit more raucous. Not all teachers utilize both forms of light. In certain circles, those teachers who can manifest the light of samadhi but not the mystical light have put down the mystical light. They have said this is a lower level. Ridiculous! They’re really both the same light, just two different forms. If you had to pick between one or the other, I can’t say which one is better, but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you. Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.

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Who Was Rama? – Rama the Buddha- Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

December 8, 2011 By

There are beings that descend from other cosmic cycles that drop by for a while. Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They’re all dreaming; they’re all asleep. Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly. There are different worlds, endless worlds, and different beings come from different worlds. In my particular case, I come from the stillness, that world. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. I know it quite well.

I am billions of years old. I don’t come from this earth. I come from another world far away. Some of you have been there also in one life or another. You see that star? The world I come from is just a little to the left and further up. I travel from world to world, teach as I go, fighting battles with the forces that prevent enlightenment. I’m part of an ancient tribe of guardian beings who have a particular
job in the universe. We keep the dimensional planes open. We guard the secret power places that exist between the dimensions. We send our beings out, and they incarnate in a world, some physically, some not physically.

The network of enlightenment is a group of beings who travel through time and space and dimensions together. It’s really one being, but it divides itself into countless forms and winds its way throughout the universes. I come from the plane of unity and the plane of enlightenment. And I’ve come into this world, into the world of diversity, to talk about unity. What world is this? They gave me a travel brochure. I’ll never use that travel agent again. What a place! What an incarnation! I don’t know about you but I am getting out of here soon.

God, Atlantis was only yesterday…let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles? To think I was on the Phil Donahue Show, talking about reincarnation. What a place to be born into! This is my last incarnation on Earth. I’m trying to get all my old students out with me. I’ve had it. That’s the score. Who am I? I am enlightenment. I come from a place far, far from here.
Far not so much in a geographical sense; it’s a sense of awareness. I live in a world where there is nothing but the miraculous. There is
nothing but continuous light. There is nothing but continuous perfection. That is the world of enlightenment.

I have been enlightened for a long time. In each incarnation, I come into the world to be of service to beings who seek knowledge,
empowerment, and enlightenment. The first time I experienced Tantric Buddhism in this lifetime was when I was a child. I was sitting outside in our backyard on a summer day and suddenly the whole world dissolved before my eyes and I found myself in a timeless world of light. It didn’t seem at all unusual or strange.

I know a lot of secrets. I think that is because I have been around a very, very, very long time, a lot longer than you! You learn a few
things in those tens of thousands of millions of lifetimes. I’d like to pass a few on to you. I can fulfill wishes you can’t even imagine, and do all the time. Most people don’t have very large wishes. They’re very mundane so they don’t tax me even, with the powers that I have. Because I am enlightened, I can directly see the essence of anything I choose. I can know its perfection with just a little bit of study.

People wonder sometimes why I can do certain things with energy and light and appearances. My answer is obviously I realize that this is a ridiculous dream I’m in.  Since I realize it, I can probably do just about anything I’m in the mood to do. All of the experiences that all beings throughout all universes have ever had or will ever have cannot possibly equal what I feel in limitless mind because they are all limited experiences and transient planes of awareness. Within milliseconds I shift through thousands of planes of reality.
Seeing and experiencing them? No, not really, being each one.  For a moment, I am that awareness.   Then I am another awareness and then another awareness.

I’ve lived in worlds where there are three or four suns. We had incredible sunsets, beautiful. But they weren’t more beautiful than
here, if my mind is more beautiful in each life. I live in worlds that you don’t understand. My mind is one with eternity. Where I come from there are no sunrises and sunsets, there are no todays and tomorrows and yesterdays. There’s none of this. There’s no duality. It’s a timeless, perfect, extant, non-bonding reality. I have gone through the process of enlightenment. Thousands and thousands of times I have been cast into the white light of eternity, dissolved, re-formed. I am that stateless state.

Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light.  There really is no primary self anymore. A few years ago the thought came that I was an incarnation of Vishnu. I treated that thought as I treat all thoughts; I pushed it away and continued to meditate, until this morning when Eternity gave me my new name. I am not the Rama who was alive many years ago. Rather I am an incarnation of that type of energy which in Hindu mythology is associated with Vishnu.

We’re at the end of a cycle. At this time, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person.  Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects
life. Rama is the last incarnation of Vishnu. I am Rama, the last incarnation of Vishnu. You people think that I am a person, but I am not.  Over the years I watched my various selves fade away. Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are
terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness. I want to make an important point now. It’s critical that you understand that I am not special and that what’s happening to me is not special. It just is. If you don’t understand this very important point, then you’ll be taken out by what I’ve told you and exaggerate its meaning all out of proportion.

The molecular structure of my body had changed and keeps changing. I’m not solid any more. Nirvikalpa samadhi, it just happened to me…and not to me. There are moments of mindlessness in meditation. There are feelings and scenes that cannot be described in words. The universe spills through me; it dances through me. Only about a tenth of the powers have returned. More come back every
day. Twice last week I walked on water. If I believed there was a physical, I could not do this. It’s like gliding. You walk just above the physical. Only walk or live this way if you have a terrific love for existence. Then you can walk on anything.

This is not because I am so great or so wonderful; it’s just the way it works. I’m not particularly great nor am I particularly wonderful, yet I’m capable of doing some very interesting things. I am no longer a single individual. Naturally we can do amazing things as we extend ourselves into the super-consciousness. We are not longer human in the sense that we can do impossible things, impossible from the eyes of those who still don’t know their own limitlessness. I have nothing against inter-dimensional travel, as a matter of fact, I do it frequently. But I learned to do it safely and correctly. Who am I? No one knows. I would never show anyone who I was or what I
am. I have been around the universe too long for that. Let’s just say that I am someone who has come into this world for a while, like we all have.

Only a part of me will go back to Los Angeles, a larger part of me will remain in the desert.  When you no longer have desires or attachments to this world, you should look for me out here in the desert. One day you will be like I am. You can’t tell yourself from God. There is no difference anymore. You become existence. You have merged back with the source. Yet you will still be a person with eternity expressing itself though you as a person. So this is Rama once again, out the door and into another state of mind, slipping and sliding between realities, stepping through those inter-dimensional vortex points, somehow coming out as someone else on
the other side.

I comprise multitudes, even though some days I can hardly add or subtract, and you think it’s all so great! You’re right; it’s all
great. Perfect attention, there is nothing else. All of these words are ridiculous. They don’t describe the fathomless wonder of what infinite mind is like. These are the secret teachings. Now you understand why they are kept
secret. No one would take them seriously!

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Iyengar Yoga

December 8, 2011 By

I know there are different types of yoga and I was wondering if anyone has a favorite or prefers to practice one over the others.
I have been doing yoga for over 30 years.  In the early 90′s I was hit by a car as a pedestrian.  As I was pursuing health I tried a number of different schools of yoga taught in Southern California.  Bikram, Power Yoga, Sivananda, Forester Method, Anasara, Pheonix Rising, Kundelini, as well as hybrids taught by experimenting teachers.

All of them owe a debt to BKS Iyengar.  They are all influenced by his method.  It has been my experience that learning from an Iyengar certified teacher will give you the tools you need to make an informed decision about other branches and schools of yoga. What do you suggest?

Iyengar Yoga, though its not called that officially.  According to Mr. Iyengar he prefers people refer to his method of teaching Hatha Yoga as Iyengar Method. Mr. Iyengar was one of a number of Yoga teachers that brought Yoga to the west in the 50′s and 60′s.  He has written numerous books on the practice of yoga.  His book “Light on Yoga” has become a “bible” to a number of schools of yoga.  His latest book “Yoga the Path to Holistic Health” is really a must read for the practicing yogi.

His students have set up institutes throughout the world and a system of rigourous training to insure that Iyengar taught teachers have a consistent method of teaching.

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