 Mysticism - Awareness - Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
Mysticism - Awareness - 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:
"Existence is the awareness of awareness.
Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of
the universe.
Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of
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.
Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, so did Da
Vinci.
Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It
gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.
There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way.
It strictly depends upon perception.
There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created
anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid
but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so
reality comes into being.
Our very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself.
Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware,
you are someone else than when you are less aware.
Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain
reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.
You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one
singular self. You're a corporation.
Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple. We're told
that we're Ted or Sally or Willie or whatever and that we grow up and
have experiences. That has nothing to do with what life is. You are
eternity.
You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins.
You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself
into thinking that you are a particular state of being.
We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you
experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are
predicated upon your awareness field.
We are cognizant of time, the sense that there is mutability. 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.
You create time by joining events together. But they don't join
together; there's no separativity.
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being.
We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent
opposites.
We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of
reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of
life.
Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth,
people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are
isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no
separation.
Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their
existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to
bonding realities.
Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is
other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made
between who we are and what we perceive.
If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we
don't perceive.
Perception defines everything.
If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict
everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.
Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level
of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically,
then you can change your destiny.
Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become
it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to
occur.
The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that
continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.
Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed
into what we would call nirvana.
Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a
higher reality.
This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you
are having at the moment.
The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our
attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears
to be a solid material world.
We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to
be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a
reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.
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.
>From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite
awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a
being.
The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through
its substance.
The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an
endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in
particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive
themselves as being separate.
You are a little band of awareness and your awareness moves from one
state of mind to another.
You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light.
You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.
You are a being of light composed of cells of light joined together in
a matrix.
Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something
changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you
happen to perceive.
Each of us is endlessly generating waves with our actions. If you
could see the earth from a vibratory point of view, you would see
something like radio waves billions of them, cascading constantly into
very complex patterns all over the earth.
Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a
state of mind.
Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What
we perceive defines who we are.
Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no
perception of perception.
If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don't
think so, not in the world of magic. In the worlds of magic, there is
only one being, reflecting itself in countless forms.
Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and
you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through prior
experience.
You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body.
You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a
limited state of mind.
Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you
can't conceive of any other state of mind other than the state of mind
that you're in.
Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate.
It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be
anything else other than the attention field that you're in.
It's important to remember that there are countless views in infinity.
When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing
remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.
The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends
with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition
in attention.
There are many great bands of perception in the universe. There are
both organic and inorganic bands of perception.
It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants
perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.
Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way,
but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving
itself, for perceiving life.
Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to
be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our
vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.
When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an
idea that they have developed of what a tree is.
There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies
beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and
self-awareness as seen by the personality.
Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some
way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention
that we're in.
Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get.
I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness,
depression and alienation.
The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.
The bands of perception vary greatly. There is the human band of
perception. There are lots of different bands of perception. Simply
because we are in one band of perception, doesn't mean others are not
there.
Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each
one is a universe of perception. In the average person's lifetime,
they might just open up two or three, maybe four of those bands.
Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the
world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely
self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.
We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might
just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the
polarities of a certain state of mind.
The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought
or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that
stretch on into infinity.
Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's
the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its
formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new.
The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To
a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would be insane,
unless you have a very developed mind to deal with the endless
permutations of infinity simultaneously.
It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look
at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break.
But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or
someone much more conscious.
Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from
the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the
enlightened bands of perception.
There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in
different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and
orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.
All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of
awareness. Some have the ability to access more planes of awareness
then others because of past lives, because of practice in this life.
If your awareness was strong enough, you could change the fate of a
whole world without ever leaving your room.
Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of
the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate
another state of mind.
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily
because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us
to format a mental or intellectual program.
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.
A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints
us. Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the
collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us.
We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive?
Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We
cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.
One who studies the ways of power, seeks to end the imprinting process
because in imprinting we loser power, we lose attention; we are
formatted to do certain things.
The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not
completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life
against that imprinting.
If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be
strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you
detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the
same things because they imprinted you.
A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is
like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are
like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention
field.
Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter,
the child is imprinted.
The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first
four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.
Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and
higher imprinting that will lead you into the luminous spheres of
awareness.
We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of
freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So
classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.
A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show
you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the
doorway, you are on your own.
Power will take us beyond the gravity field of the imprint.
In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us
and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way.
Without it, we don't survive.
The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints
differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation
that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.
The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long
as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice
of higher magic is the stopping of thought.
The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving
infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's
when you see that the universe is ecstasy. That's when you experience
its ecstasy.
If you line everything up just right, you walk through a doorway where
the world as you know it collapses.
You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible,
so powerful, so perfect that it's overwhelming. You are so
overwhelmed..you no longer exist."
Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz, Ph.D.
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Thank you in advance for your religious tolerance.
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