Yoga - The Third Noble Truth of Buddhism - Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

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The Third Noble Truth of Buddhism - Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

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2005-11-22, 1:01 am

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There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering.

Another condition can be attained, a condition of ecstasy. A condition
so far from what the people of planet Earth experience it's not even
discussible.

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth,
growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this
world, always spinning.

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a
Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is
indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the
aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of
attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is
nirvana.

Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just
means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body of
experience.

Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual
field.

Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed
into what we would call nirvana.

We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in
all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were
absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and
around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up.
Enlightenment is waking up.

We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have
bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To
awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.

Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate?
Well, you never did reincarnate.

The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You
can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.

Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun
house forever.

Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the
transient ups and downs of its own creations.

Everything that can be and everything that cannot be exists somewhere.
Beyond the far-flung infinities there is something else, nirvana

Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is
no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is
only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the
world of forever.

Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and
have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the
ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.

What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that
were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were
standing out and being separate from existence.

There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are
all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing exist
there.

All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will
ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption
into the stillness of nirvana.

When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is
happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you.

Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go,
nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not
predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this
world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from
their connection with the world of enlightenment.

When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer
a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can
enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above
them and remain unaffected.

The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you
from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every
day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joys all of the
time.

Nirvana and enlightenment exit just on the other side of your sensory
perceptions and your thoughts.

Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about
it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I
mention it as if it was.

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion
of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the
illusion of time and life.

The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe
provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana.

There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to
move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else.
It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.

Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an
ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea
for you, hold that idea in your mind.

Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception.
The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of
enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is
endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and
simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater
clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless
round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that
vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral realms through
the physical and so on.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness.
The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes
and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.

Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the
final, absolute resting place of the soul.

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.

Who is so brave and so noble that they could hurl themselves at
infinity without any question, with complete trust and complete
certainty that that infinity will destroy them forever?

Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that
faith and trust can be enlightened.

How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its
stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the
invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom?
How can that which has never been be extinguished?

There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not
consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my
friend, who go away.

Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond
time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We
have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage
point.

One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a
year; it won't be a time, a place or a condition. It will be
immortality reflecting through you. What will you do then?

- Zen Master Rama

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puma

2005-11-22, 5:58 pm

Wealthy Spiritual Guru Lenz Found Dead on Long Island

Tuesday, April 14, 1998, 8:16 a.m. PDT

OLD FIELD, N.Y. (AP) -- Frederick P. Lenz III, a best-selling author
who packaged Eastern philosophies for a '90s audience but was accused
of operating a cult, was found dead Monday in a bay adjoining his $2
million Long Island compound. He was 48. Police said Lenz may have died
of a drug overdose or accidental drowning. An autopsy was pending. "It
appears he fell into the water from a floating pier, but the
circumstances leading up to that are still unclear," Detective Lt. John
Gierasch of the Suffolk County homicide squad said. Lenz's novel
_Surfing the Himalayas,_ which related snowboarding adventures and
outlined Lenz's spiritual philosophy, reached No. 11 on the best-seller
lists in 1995. The self-proclaimed guru also gave high-priced computer
science seminars and founded a company called Advanced Systems Inc. He
was on _New York_ magazine's list of the "100 Smartest New Yorkers" in
1995. Zen Master Rama, drew criticism from cult-watch groups in the
1980s after he announced that he was the incarnation of a Hindu deity.
Parents and former students accused him of manipulation and sexual
exploitation of followers. He dismissed the criticism, saying some
women followers had consensual relationships with him and then grew
vindictive when he broke off the relationships.

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