Rama Quotes - Page 10

• At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a very powerful occultist, but who I thought was, to some extent, limiting others in their spiritual growth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Powerful

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• So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teaching, Process

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Names, California

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Age, Return

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• From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perspective, Special, Age

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• I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .

  Ramakrishna

  Servant, Disciple

  "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna". Translated by Swami Nikhilananda, p. 742, 1942.

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• The source of their motivation ranges from what you might expect - from the seeking of money and publicity, to those who genuinely suffer from chronic personal problems and have fixated on me as the cause of their frustrations and failures.

  Frederick Lenz

  Motivation, Buddhism, Frustration

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• Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Buddhism, America

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• It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem strange or unusual - in the same way that Christianity and Judaism may seem strange and unusual to people from the Far East.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Teaching, Buddhism

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• Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Abuse, Important

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• It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Light, Age

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Purpose

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• Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mother, Father, Buddhism

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• All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias against Westerners who dare to embrace an Eastern belief-system.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Foundation, Stories

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• Variación / Variations El remanso de aire bajo la rama del eco. El remanso del agua bajo fronda de luceros. El remanso de tu boca bajo espesura de besos. * The still waters of the air under the bough of the echo. The still waters of the water under a frond of stars. The still waters of your mouth under a thicket of kisses. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Stars, Kissing, Echoes

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• I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Angle, Existence

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• Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Rip, Mean

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• It really doesn't matter to me whether a person has a lot of money or a little bit of money.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Littles, Matter

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• I go to the movies. I absolutely love film.

  Frederick Lenz

  Film, Love Films

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Water, Musical, Listening

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• Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Snowboarding, Doe

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Auras, Dimensions, Students

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• I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Jesus, Years

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3645, Manonmani Publishers

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• The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use.

  Dave Barry

  Apples, Age, Use

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