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Meditation Instruction - Advanced Meditation - Quotations by Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
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| Buddhist Monk 2005-11-17, 10:57 am |
| Organized Quotations on Meditation Instruction, Buddhism and Mysticism.
By Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
Main Page:
http://www.ramaquotes.com
Advanced Meditation:
http://www.ramaquotes.com/html/advanced_meditation.html
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In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego,
time, space, and dimensionality.
The other schools, introductory and intermediate meditation are easy
schools. But advanced meditation is like graduate school. It is much
more demanding.
Advanced practice is living your mediation 24 hours a day, doing more
for others, contributing with your love, with your effort, and
supporting the spread of the dharma.
Advanced meditation assumes certain things. You can meditate for an
hour and stop your thoughts completely at some point in the meditation.
You've worked out the basics in your life. You become a very nice
person.
Advanced meditation has to do with spreading the dharma. You need to
consider, actively, the welfare of others.
You can't meditate on the clear light of reality, you can't put your
mind into samadhi, and you can't experience ecstasy if you're all
caught up in the things of this world.
Advanced meditation means, all day long, all night long, keeping our
mind in a specific state or series of states of awareness that lead to
enlightenment.
Advanced meditation requires a level of complete dedication to
existence. Complete dedication is not forced. It is easy, you don't
think of it as dedication.
A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore.
You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.
Advanced meditation is not an obsession, although you are definitely
obsessed. It's just the way you feel. It's not right...it's not
wrong.
I've never found self-discovery difficult because I love it. I enjoy
stopping thought for sustained periods of time because it's really hard
and I just like that feeling. There's a normal, natural feeling when
you're practicing any discipline that you enjoy.
Higher meditation is not taught through techniques or words. The real
meditation experience is taught inwardly. You shift a person through
different dimensional planes.
Advanced meditation is the transmutation that is samadhi, the
super-conscious.
In advanced practice the association with the teacher becomes more
critical. It has to be handled properly with tremendous respect.
In the teaching of concentration and meditation, the focus is upon the
transfer of awareness. These lessons don't take place here. They take
place in advanced states of mind.
Advanced meditation is really the apprehension that we have not seen
the most beautiful sunset or the most beautiful sunrise or the most
beautiful life or death - It just goes on forever, in countless new
forms.
You've got to start over and be a perpetual beginner. That's the
safest, to be a perpetual beginner, to find yourself in newness, to
define yourself as newness, to run up the flag and walk away and leave
and let it be on its own.
One day you will stop using all the yantras and mantras. You will be
able to sit and instantly stop thought. As soon as you do, the curtain
of reality parts and you will be lost in the immortal rapture of
existence.
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.
Advanced meditators are children of light. They're ageless, timeless
and wonderful. We call them saints, sages, fools, different names.
Those who practice advanced meditation, they glow.
Advanced mediation is if you want a person-less life, one filled with
people and with love and with beauty, but without that fixation. You
are brave enough to stand alone, even when you're surrounded by others.
Do not allow yourself to be discouraged when it doesn't work out quite
as quickly as you thought it should or in the way that you suspected it
would. This is advanced practice.
Advanced meditation doesn't mean that you necessarily have to be this
or have to be that. You don't necessarily have to be celibate or
necessarily have to not be married. These are variables.
If someone becomes an advanced mediator, after they've had children,
they may choose to leave their family. God will take care of their
family as God would if they died. They may also chose to stay with
their families and see that it is the dharma to practice selfless
giving.
This is simple meditation: Nothingness and everythingness, the color
and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a
beginningless end with an endless beginning: Pretty clever if you ask
me.
When your mind becomes silent in meditation, the world stops, time
stops and life stops as we know it.
Advanced meditation is a feeling. It is beyond the body and the mind.
Samadhi is meditation without any thought, any focus.
- Zen Master Rama
http://www.ramaquotes.com
Thank you in advance for your religious tolerance.
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| cosmic foo 2005-11-18, 12:59 am |
| ya right
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