| Buddhist Monk 2005-11-30, 1:02 am |
| The Eightfold Path of Buddhism - Right Concentration - Quotations by
Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
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There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of
liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world
of advanced meditation.
Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and
concepts of self.
Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing
up. T hat is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move
beyond this world.
Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are
using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from
darkness into light, from death to immortality.
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond
the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness
and a great deal of frustration.
All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the
teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point
in a direction, that is their only use.
To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect
person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.
To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your
attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.
As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness.
That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.
All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of
life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.
Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind.
Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole
lifetime.
In advanced meditation there are methods and formations of joining the
mind with the various aggregate aspects of the universe, fusing it,
dissolving it, sometimes thousands of times in a microsecond or outside
of time.
The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance
into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of
negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything
that is not enlightenment.
There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more
popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a
simplified form.
The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would
understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many.
In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the
awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory,
but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in
other lifetimes.
Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more
importantly, it will expand your consciousness today.
- Zen Master Rama
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