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| American Buddhist Monk 2005-12-27, 1:03 am |
| American Buddhism - Critique of Science - Quotations by Zen Master
Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
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Dr. Frederick Lenz:
"Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our
science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.
One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't
change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still
smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for
us.
A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is
really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of
looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are.
Everything is connected.
In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made
up of moving energy. All matter is energy.
Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all
things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.
The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to
understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little
compared to the enlightened.
There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see
things. We can perceive things. And we can wonder. We can just be in a
world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.
What are the beliefs today? To think that this is the only universe
that the physical creation is all there is - these are the dogmas of
our times.
Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source
reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale
to things. It makes us feel better.
The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the
soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.
Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain.
If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist
any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.
To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to
be rather shortsighted.
Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night
when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes.
Dreams are not just functions of the cerebral cortex.
All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly,
are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of
the physical universes are only part of the physical dimensional plane,
and there are thousands of dimensional planes.
The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the
mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind doesn't even
know time because it is deathless and birthless. It shines radiantly
forever. We don't see the shine because of the clutter.
The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a
straight line.
Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of
them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into
being for a while and then vanish.
There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way.
It strictly depends upon perception.
Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception
of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field.
Existence only occurs through the act of perception.
There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is
only awareness, awareness of these ideas.
Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to
segregate their experiences.
A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left.
He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no
birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of
those things ever were.
You create time by joining events together. But they don't join
together; there's no separativity.
Time is change. It's the separation of eternity from itself. When
eternity is separated from itself, we see it appear in different forms.
Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.
Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration
of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.
I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that
you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a
five-minute-ago time.
There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become
so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the
continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.
This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the
events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no
beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.
There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are
projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.
Perception defines everything.
Nothing is distinct and separate
Everything happens all at once forever. All incarnations are lived at
once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're
in the vortex of time and space when your consciousness is fixated in a
body.
How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps
you're far, far away and this is just a dream. Life is a series of
dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.
Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of
perception.
Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos
is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with
which the human mind has not yet become familiar.
Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be
trusted.
Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just
as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very
much depends upon the language we are thinking in.
Language is the medium of our thoughts.
Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the
qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns,
predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities,
shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.
We are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not
simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are
passed on.
Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling.
Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative
life in which all benefit.
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has
been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.
We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can
change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we
are considering changing the physiological structure of the body.
The universe is holding congress with itself.
Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can
affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The
reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to
understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.
Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of
seeing and knowing reality.
Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside
the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the
countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of
life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.
C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add,
including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate
order in life, which others perceive as chaos.
Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But
chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different
levels of order in the universe.
Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be
chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.
Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could
call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. Chaos is all things --
wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force.
Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be
enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.
Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen.
There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you
will evolve in this lifetime."
- Dr. Frederick Lenz
www.ramaquotes.com
Main Page:
www.ramaquotes.com
American Buddhism - Critique of Science:
www.ramaquotes.com/html/science.html
*******************************************************************
Dr. Frederick Lenz:
"Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our
science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.
One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't
change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still
smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for
us.
A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is
really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of
looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are.
Everything is connected.
In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made
up of moving energy. All matter is energy.
Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all
things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.
The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to
understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little
compared to the enlightened.
There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see
things. We can perceive things. And we can wonder. We can just be in a
world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.
What are the beliefs today? To think that this is the only universe
that the physical creation is all there is - these are the dogmas of
our times.
Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source
reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale
to things. It makes us feel better.
The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the
soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.
Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain.
If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist
any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.
To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to
be rather shortsighted.
Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night
when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes.
Dreams are not just functions of the cerebral cortex.
All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly,
are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of
the physical universes are only part of the physical dimensional plane,
and there are thousands of dimensional planes.
The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the
mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind doesn't even
know time because it is deathless and birthless. It shines radiantly
forever. We don't see the shine because of the clutter.
The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a
straight line.
Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of
them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into
being for a while and then vanish.
There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way.
It strictly depends upon perception.
Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception
of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field.
Existence only occurs through the act of perception.
There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is
only awareness, awareness of these ideas.
Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to
segregate their experiences.
A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left.
He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no
birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of
those things ever were.
You create time by joining events together. But they don't join
together; there's no separativity.
Time is change. It's the separation of eternity from itself. When
eternity is separated from itself, we see it appear in different forms.
Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.
Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration
of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.
I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that
you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a
five-minute-ago time.
There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become
so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the
continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.
This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the
events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no
beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.
There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are
projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.
Perception defines everything.
Nothing is distinct and separate
Everything happens all at once forever. All incarnations are lived at
once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're
in the vortex of time and space when your consciousness is fixated in a
body.
How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps
you're far, far away and this is just a dream. Life is a series of
dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.
Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of
perception.
Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos
is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with
which the human mind has not yet become familiar.
Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be
trusted.
Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just
as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very
much depends upon the language we are thinking in.
Language is the medium of our thoughts.
Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the
qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns,
predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities,
shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.
We are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not
simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are
passed on.
Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling.
Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative
life in which all benefit.
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has
been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.
We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can
change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we
are considering changing the physiological structure of the body.
The universe is holding congress with itself.
Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can
affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The
reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to
understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.
Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of
seeing and knowing reality.
Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside
the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the
countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of
life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.
C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add,
including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate
order in life, which others perceive as chaos.
Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But
chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different
levels of order in the universe.
Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be
chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.
Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could
call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. Chaos is all things --
wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force.
Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be
enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.
Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen.
There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you
will evolve in this lifetime."
- Dr. Frederick Lenz
www.ramaquotes.com
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