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 – 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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On the possible dangers of inversions

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It makes a lot of great points about the benefits of inversion poses, but also warns of possible dangers associated with them.  The issue
doesn’t seem to be so much one of overdoing it in a particular session, but of overdoing it in the long term. As somebody who has practiced meditation for quite awhile but is new to yoga, I am finding that inversion poses are great to precede meditation.  But I am wondering about some of the possible dangers now.

Right now I do a shoulder stand for about 5 breaths, (maybe 30 seconds) and a supported  headstand for the same amount of time.  This is at the end of my routine.  I usually follow each with a child pose, then spend a few minutes in corpse pose relaxing before I head over to the “sacred space” where I practice zazen (in half lotus) for 30 minutes. The first picture on this article is a guy doing a seriously amazing, unsupported handstand.  Not sure what exact pose that is.

Which led me to an interesting idea.  The problem with headstands and shoulder stands seem to be in the neck and shoulders which are being squished under the weight of the body.  So poses that don’t apply this pressure would probably have less risks, correct?

Several other questions then:

Would you advise against shoulder stands and headstands for a beginner, or just to go easy on them? If I keep doing them, is there a good pose that might counter the negative effects – say something that would strengthen the neck or shoulders? What about a supported handstand?  (Adho Mukha Vrksasana)  Since you are using a wall and not the neck or shoulders, this should be “healthier” I think, for a beginner, so long as you have sufficient arm strength.  (I can do it for possibly 30 seconds). Another issue seems to be spinal compression.  So I’d assume that anything that helps do decompress the spine is helpful.  If I get it aright, that includes many back bends, forward bends, and side bends as well as twisting positions, which are all part of my routine.  Also, I spend some time, (I try to do a few a day) hanging from a chin-up bar. It is an exercise I learned from a non-yoga book on stretching.  You tighten all the muscles of your body, and then release.  The release of tension causes the muscles to relax and the spine decompresses.  This is repeated with a reversed grip on the bar.

What is the “holy grail” of inversion poses?  I’m assuming it would be a completely unsupported handstand as I linked to above.  I wonder how realistic it is for somebody like me to begin working towards something like that.  (The sooner the better, so long as I am patient).  It seems that it wouldn’t have a lot of the dangers except maybe spinal compression.

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

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Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz:

 ”There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power. There are many different places of power around the world. They’re invisible openings to other worlds. We find a preponderance of these places in the Himalayas, in the western part of the United States; of course, in every country of the world there’s some. There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention. When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you. If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there, and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might help you, aid you in some way.

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. There are places of power where there is more power. Just as there is more power in the chakras, there is more power in certain places. We call them places of power. If you spend time in these places, it increases your vibratory power. Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated. An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot can change you forever. The earth is not the same everywhere. Certain powers are available in one part of the earth that are not available in another part. The rich realize this. They live in these places and they use that power to stay rich. Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power. Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives. You get a very different type of education if you go out to the desert, to the places of power, places where it is easy to cross over from one dimensional plane to another, where power hovers, so to speak.

 If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world. They pass through it, the place where dimensions touch, where there are many worlds present. The earth is alive. There are places on the earth that are very powerful. Meaning that on another dimensional level, there is an interfacing dimension where there is a crossover point between dimensions and a tremendous amount of energy is passing back and forth. At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly. There are thousands of worlds, thousands of dimensional planes, billions. Life is endless. Life is endless. It goes on forever. If you go to a lower crossover point, a negative place of power, then the beings there are very unevolved, very demonic, crazy, lower than the people of this world.

There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful at all. If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy you. Watch out for negative power places on the earth, if you can “see” they are reddish and they twist your feelings. They don’t vibrate at a rate conducive to humanity. If you must go to a negative place of power, go to them in a very conservative way. You must go to them when your power is up. It is like going to war. You have got to be ready if you are going to survive. Everything is amplified in the world of attention at night. People are more open to forces. That is why human beings cluster around each other in housing developments – a group force pervades and keeps the beings out. In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren’t malicious, but some will lure you to your death.

There are certain areas that you can move to on the earth that will empower you and there are certain areas that can drain you. If you are seeking power and knowledge, you need to go to places that are healthy and happy and radiant. Avoid places that aren’t. Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power places – interdimensional vortexes where it is very easy to shift from one plane of reality to another. The United States is filled with power places. The majority of them, however, are to be found either along the West Coast and in the southwestern United States or along the Eastern Seaboard. I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there. Two of the most powerful of these power places are located in the Boston and Los Angeles areas.

Highly evolved souls tend to be drawn to these areas because it’s easier for them to increase their awareness there. For most people this is not a conscious process, it’s an inner pull that takes place, that simply draws them there. There is a power in the land in Concord, in Lincoln, in the western Boston suburbs. There’s an inter-dimensional vortex that opens in a variety of places in this area, which leads one to a transcendental reality. There is a vortex of energy at the bottom of Walden Pond. That’s were the inter-dimensional opening is. As people swim in old Walden Pond, it renews them, it soothes them. Big Sur is a fascinating place. It is one of the true power places in America. The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter into other planes here. A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims. It’s good to visit Hawaii if you’re seeking power. You don’t really need to live here. Just to come over for a week is enough. Switzerland is another spot like this. It’s very similar. These are the two clearest spots, Switzerland and Hawaii.

For some reason, there is a purity to the Swiss Alps – a certain energy – that is very reminiscent of my snowboarding experiences in the Himalayas. There are spirits in Hawaii. They’re very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they’re not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they’re patient. They’ve been here for a long time, and they’ll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands. Maui is a beautiful island. It’s really the site of an ancient civilization that we’ve forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions of years ago. When their time came, they left this world and another race was born, the race of human beings.

A dreaming vortex is a place where it’s easy to change. You come to a dreaming vortex like Hawaii to step from one dream into another, from one world into another, to change, in other words. The forces are different up here at the continental divide. The magnetic lines of energy run in specific directions. The United States is divided into power zones. The Divide itself is the point where the energy meets. The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it’s neither dark nor light, and the sunrises are the moments of transition. I am at the Continental Divide with the astral beings. They’re most beautiful. They’re most luminous. They have many shapes and sometimes their shape changes constantly, All kinds of colors. I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet.”

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Taoism – Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

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Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz:

“There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following – the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego. In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers. We know we should be completely humble.  We should stop thinking that we’re very marvelous because we’re not.  We are interesting at best because we are a part of life. Allow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of
existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed. Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won’t be liberated.

The pageant of life is divided into yin and yang. They’re two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities. In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that’s linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They’re two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate. Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don’t have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.

Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching. Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of
experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed to and accept with equanimity, with balance, with poise,
whatever happens. Unconscious of the existence of Tao, beings live supposing themselves to be separate from the universal intelligence, supposing themselves to powerful or to be weak, thinking that they live their lives and die their deaths.

Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos. It means
more to us in English. Chaos is all things, wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force. You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don’t have a particular form. You contain everything or you are contained by all things. What we’re seeking to do is become transparent – a transparent window on reality. But that takes time to do. We’re starting with a very
solid, objectified view of ourselves and existence. If we’re distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we’re
in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux, a world appears, karmas appear, pasts,
futures, presents, time structures, yin and yang appear.

What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.The I Ching tells us that for every ending there is a new beginning. In other words, what appears like a transition isn’t really a
transition; it’s a continuum of existence. If you close your eyes for a moment the room will appear to go away. But does it really? Open your eyes again and the room will still be there. That’s all death is. Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there’s a hexagram that says, “Be like the sun at midday”. View all things as being equal.

Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things — To see the Tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your  teeth, being sick and hurting.”

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Refuting “commonsense” on love and experience

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I address two “common-sensical” falsehoods – first about experience, second about love – and show them to be wrong. First there is the “commonsensical” idea that loving oneself must precede being loved by another. This likewise falls apart under scrutiny. The person who has high standards for himself or herself finds it harder to love himself or herself than does someone whose standards for self are low; however it is by having such standards and meeting them at least part-way that makes one lovable to the next person. Thus, the same quality that makes it harder to love oneself – high standards – also makes one more lovable to the next person. And the “commonsense” on this subject stands refuted.

Second is the idea that one has to have one’s life in order before he can do anything good for anyone else. In fact, a person with the
highest variety of emotional states is going to find it hardest to have a stable existence (if he were even to want such a thing as a stable
existence) – but, because of the variety of emotional states that he experiences, he has the most wisdom to offer others. Because he or she experiences a wide range of emotional states, he or she has the most experience with different feelings that people may experience and with the resulting outcomes. Whereas a person with stable emotional makeup will find a stable life easier to come by, but will be far less knowledgeable of people’s feelings and will have little worthwhile ideas to offer. Furthermore, along with the experience of different emotional states, it is through experience of different ways of living that one also gains wisdom; and these likewise correlate negatively with stable existence. This refutes the commonsense on this subject. The same quality that leads to instability and hardship in one’s own life leads likewise to wisdom that one can impart others. Thus a Coleridge or a Byron or a Blake has more of wisdom to offer than does someone whose life is predictable; and the person who has much of value to say is frequently the person whose own life is disheveled. I love refuting “common sense” in all its manifestations. The monkey brain is both stupid and cruel, and in fighting it I stand up for all whom it destroys.

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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 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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Yajna means ‘oblation’, a magical sacrifice

December 8, 2011 By

According to the Upanishads there’s no higher knowledge than transcendental experience in which the sadhak performs the yajna of the sacrificing of mental thought. Shakya the Muni and Maharishi Patanjali agree with this. Yajna means ‘oblation’, a magical sacrifice – the devine sacrifice of the cosmic Purusha – the model for all sacrifices. The purpose of the sacrifice was to ensure fertility and the well-being of the individual, his family and domestic animals, and ultimately the whole community as enumerated in the Grhya-sutras. In fact, Sri Buddha blew to bits the presumed efficacy of the burnt offerings of the Vedic Brahmins! It is a fact, needing no further explanation, that magical sacrifices, including all cermonial performances and shows, tantric or Vedic, are totally ineffective and useless against birth and death and rebirth. The practice of deep meditation that is transcendental is the only means of aquiring merit in this life – sacrifice your own thoughts man!

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Mantras for sepcific situations?

December 8, 2011 By
Hey, some good ones that I learned for those sort of things are, “I like myself”, ” I feel terrific”, “I’m the best”, “I can do it”,
“I love my work”, “I’m unstoppable”

   First thing in the morning when you wake up, is to sit up staight and say the mantras with emotion, “I like myself” 10, 50 or even 100 times.   The more you like yourself the better you perform at whatever you do.  And the better you perform the more you like yourself.

   At first you might have to say it through gritted teeth – until your mind gives up and your subconscious mind accepts it. Then you
will become unstoppable at achieving your goals. Apparently we all have a self-image and lots of minor self-concepts.

   For example we have a self concept for how good we are at yoga, another one for how good we are at playing the guitar, and another one for how good we are our job, and another one for how good we are with money etc etc. Saying, I like myself is a really good mantra. The more you like yourself, your capacity for loving others expands too.

   And if you can maintain a happy, joyfull and cheerful attitude despite the ups and downs of life then that’s also non attachment and
self-disciplin or mind control.    Our true nature is happiness, love, joy, peace and gratitude etc. Sometimes going for our goals
helps reveal our true nature to ourselves.   Life here in a human body is a boon, like a rare precious gift- not to be wasted. It’s best to live life to the full, and practice things like gratitute, joy and happiness.

  Apparently the rules for spirituality change every 100 years, and majorly every 1000 or so years, and especially after the millenium- a lot of stuff is going out of date fast, especially old fashioned strict spritual regimes that are becoming totally unecesary in this new yuga.  The best thing about hatha yoga is that it compliments and facilitates ANY spiriutal practice that you do.

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