Rama Quotes - Page 12

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, School, Buddhism

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Buddhism, People

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• Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Juan

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• When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Reality, People

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• As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Light

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• Tonight I have inundated you with the mystical kundalini. Now, of course, I'm moving into the supra-conscious; it's kind of a doubleheader this evening.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Tonight

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• While I had many friends as a child I aslo kept a great deal to myself. I noticed that adults were drawn to me. They would talk to me for hours at my parents' parties. Strange to find yourself at seven, dressed in pagamas with feet, listening to adults tell you their deepest secrets.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Party, Feet

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• I never considered myself to be essentially different from anyone else. Although I knew I was.

  Frederick Lenz

  Different

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• At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Age, World

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Stories

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• They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Description

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• The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Levels, Next

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• Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Coal, World

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• The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Majority

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• I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Girlfriend, Hate

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• I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Enlightenment, Serious

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• I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Generations, Benefits, Exploration

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• I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Community, Definitions

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• As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had.

  Frederick Lenz

  Understanding, Wonderful, Grew

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• I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Uplifting, Levels, Good Times

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• Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Differences

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• My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Girlfriend, Reason

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• I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Opposites, People

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• I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, School, Careers

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• I was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Brother, Father, People

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