| Buddhist Monk 2006-01-05, 11:02 am |
| Mysticism - Other Worlds - Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick
Lenz
>From where the average man stands
sorcery is nonsense.
And he is right,
not because this is an absolute fact,
but because the average man lacks the energy
to deal with sorcery.
- Don Juan Matus
The Power of Silence
by Carlos Castaneda
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Dr. Frederick Lenz:
"Words are worthless. How can you describe the other worlds?
All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past,
present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined.
Everything that can be and everything that cannot be exists somewhere.
There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different
continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes.
Beyond this world are countless dimensions. They stretch on forever.
You can travel to them and have experiences in them.
To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is
all there is, these are the dogmas of our times.
Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of
thousands of dimensions of wonder.
It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what
we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing
else outside of our perception.
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.
Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on
endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes.
Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality.
Move beyond delusion. See that life is very, very complex. It is made
up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.
In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes,
let alone in different universes in the physical universe.
This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we
see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.
Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of
inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through
other cycles of existence. Beyond all beings is something that is
eternal.
There is the physical world that we live in, which we perceive through
the senses, but there are other worlds. Right in front of you there
are other worlds, right now. Those worlds are as real, if you will, as
the physical world.
The quality of time actually changes throughout the day and night.
Some dimensions are more time-specific, in that they only interact with
the physical dimension they touch during specific times of the night or
day.
During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific
dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular
dimension can be visualized as series of horizontally shaped geometric
planes that extent out into infinity.
Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of
existence that they call lokas, other dimensions...worlds within
worlds.
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.
There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of
earths, billions of universes. It is endless.
There are dimensions of power, there are dimensions of knowledge, and
there are dimensions of confusion. The universe is a very, very big
place. To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe
is to be rather shortsighted.
Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky
at night and they think that's eternity; it is just the senses having
contact in the sense world. There are other dimensions.
Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and
realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this
world.
There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless
mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and
neutrons, nuclei. They just go on forever. They're plasma, they're
fluid...they're alive.
There are many universes, countless universes. We call these astral
planes, but they are as real as this world is and are filled with
beings and forms that have life spans.
What you have known of this life so far is only a dream, a slim dream
at that. As one who has traveled greatly in the worlds, I can assure
you there is much to see and much to become.
Beyond this world, beyond other worlds, be they inter-dimensional
worlds or physical worlds, there is something else, which is the vast
unknown eternity.
You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you
can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house
with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets
and universes and creations
There are worlds beyond anything you can imagine; there are joys beyond
anything you have experienced. There are ecstasies that are undreamed
of, I assure you.
The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor
is it necessarily the best; there is no such thing in infinity.
Infinity does not label.
Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there
are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.
I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten
thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.
There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now
this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred
years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then
worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace.
All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our
perception. And our perception actually has colors; it has bands. We
call them bands of attention.
As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to
travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway
or road.
The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another,
from one reality into another.
You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that
other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone
line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become
aware of that, that's when magic begins.
We are transmuting the reality of our perceptual field. There are
endless, beautiful and perfect universes - or you can go beyond
universes to the dissolution, where there's no beginning.
For an advanced perceiver, the play of life is to assemble and
reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.
There are many universes, many dimensions. They are endless. Most of
them are not particularly relevant for us. They won't help us. They
won't make us happier.
Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you
go, there you are.
The experiences that you have in astral dimensions are not essentially
all that different from the experiences you have here in the physical
dimension. They are all transient.
Beyond this world, beyond other worlds, be they inter-dimensional
worlds or physical worlds, there is something else, which is the vast
unknown eternity.
There's a place this moment comes from, where it's made. Actually,
it's like a big factory where they make moments, where they make
realities, where they make infinities.
Open up to the other dimensional planes so you can penetrate the
mysteries of existence and enjoy the wonder of being, the wonder of
being you.
Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together."
Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz, Ph.D.
www.ramaquotes.com
Thank you in advance for your religious tolerance.
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