Introduction to Mysticism - Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr.
Frederick Lenz

"Remember, you are a Westerner.  If you want to practice Eastern
philosophy such as Tibetan Buddhism you should take the essence and try
to adapt it to your cultural background and conditions."

- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet


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Dr. Frederick Lenz:

"Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically
explained.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery
that's primarily experimental.

Mysticism is the hidden way.  It is the most difficult to discuss.
Because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are
difficult to describe in words.

The school of awareness is the school of mysticism.  Mysticism is the
experience of eternity, of that which lies beyond the physical
phenomenal experience.  Not that that is even what it appears to be.

In mysticism we deal with dreaming and the fields of perception.

A person is made up of awarenesses.  All the awarenesses that have ever
been our will every be exist like barges floating in the ocean.

At the time of birth an ordering takes place.  When the awarenesses
come together they become specific until a person dies.  At that point
all those awarenesses, all that you have ever been or will ever be, go
back again, into the great unknown.

In mysticism we reorder those awarenesses.  We combine and recombine
them endlessly.  We assemble them so we can experience aspects of the
universe that most people will never know.

Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse.  At every
moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker.  At every
moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.

Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the
experience.  Everything in your life is eventually set up so that your
life is a pragmatic energy flow into the light.

Most people are fragile.  They're afraid of the unknown so they cling
to each other.  They cling to families, traditions and ways of seeing
life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown.

Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them
beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let
alone be absorbed in it.

The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone
and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then
turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.

Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it.  It's
much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times.  It
involves more of the emotional body.

In mysticism, there's more of a sense of adventure, of camaraderie.

Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous.  Much
will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of
mind in which you begin.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery
that's primarily experiential.

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.

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 nonbeing.

The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes.  The way
human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing.
There are many ways to see life.  Life has many meanings, and self
realization is the understanding of all this.

Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers.
And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what
life really is.

Mysteries are not riddles.  Mysteries are places to go with your mind.
You go into mysteries.

Timeless awareness occurs to very few in this world, to step beyond the
circle of fear.  The body has created a magnificent arena of fear.  We
have developed ways of seeing life that exclude us from seeing life.

All physical and nonphysical things have another side, a side that is
not visible to the senses or accessible to the reasoning mind, a side
that can only be known and experienced intuitively by emptying one's
own mind of thoughts.

When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch.  You see the
couch as perceived by a state of mind.

Everything has nothingness.  On the other side of physical reality,
there is another world, and in that world, everything is something
else.

The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment.

You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you
choose, but the universe just is.  You can come to terms with it or
not.  If you don't come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.

There is no beginning and there is no end.  Nothing is final.  There is
no absolute.  There is no highest point, nor is there a lowest point.
These configurations are ideas.  Ideas are primitive constructs,
symbolic representations, reflections in a mirror.

This solidity is not true.  The apparent solidity is the delusion of
the senses and of the self.  Everything is made up of infinite,
intelligent light.

Taking a walk isn't really taking a walk, taking a shower isn't really
taking a shower, living isn't living, and dying isn't dying.  It only
appears to be.

No place is the same because everything is shifting always.

There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are.  We're a
multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence.  We're a feeling, an awareness
that has an ancient existence.

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally.
You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

Self-discovery is a very advanced art.  What we're doing basically is
screwing around with what you're made up of.  We're taking awarenesses,
feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.

Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of
seeing and knowing reality.

Chaos is everywhere and chaos is wonderful.  That's all there really
is.  There is no today.  There is no tomorrow.  There is only eternity,
perfection, consciousness, power, and light.

There is no future and there is no past.  There never has been.  There
never will be.  You just think there is.  It's not life that moves;
it's awareness.

We are going to alter the structure of our beings and also totally
change what we are.  This is the possibility and inevitability that
meditation offers us.

You can reshuffle yourself.  You can make yourself into anybody you
want to be.

Things that are impossible are everyday experiences when you live in
advanced states of mind.  You live in a world of constant miraculous
awareness.

One can become something other than human.  One can become limitless,
enlightened, aware, awakened, knowledgeable and powerful in ways that
human beings who traverse this earth cannot yet fathom.

The description of the world that most people have is very limited.
They are in the fog.  Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.

There are views.  And what we see in a view is not necessarily what is
in the view, all that is in the view.  We have to separate to some
extent the perceiver from that which is perceived or we have to lose
all distinction whatsoever.

The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited
states of mind.  They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody
doing something that they can't do.

Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation.  Dissolution
means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new
awareness

We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified
auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively
sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined
spiritual perceptions of existence.

Theoretically, everyone's inner being knows everything.  There is a
part of us that is aware of all things.  But that doesn't necessarily
do us a whole lot of good unless we are conscious of that.

The other side is beyond knowing.  You cannot know what you experience
on the other side, here.  Wisdom is beyond the grasp of the conscious
mind.

As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are
all part of the universe.  As individual spirits, we have existed for a
timeless time.

We are many, many selves.  We're not just a finite being.  The selves
don't necessarily speak in words.  But they are you.

We believe that we decide.  We do make decisions.  But the deeper
decisions come from another part of our being that we're not
particularly aware of yet.

Most people simply go through life.  They feel that they're making
choices in their lives that cause destiny to move in certain ways.  I
would suggest that they have no control of their lives, all their
choices are really made for them.

There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of
the universe.  Just like there's a system and a flow and an
organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on
multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

You're always looking for the ultimate.  It's kind of like journeying
to Ixtlan.  You're never going to get there, but that is no reason not
to try.

We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection.
We want to know its wonder.  We want to know the totality of ourselves.
That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.

There is only black light between the stars.  It may seem that it's
darkness, but it's really black light.  There is no such thing as
darkness.  Darkness is a human concept.  There's only black light
between the stars."

Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz, Ph.D.

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Thank you in advance for your religious tolerance.

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