Rama Quotes

Quotations by Buddhist Meditation Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz.

Most quotations under copyright by the Frederick P. Lenz Foundation.

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Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

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You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment -- hardcore meaning you just love it.

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It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

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Naturally you make millions of stupid mistakes. That's the learning process and that shouldn't bother you.

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No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

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An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

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If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

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As Buddhists, our only task is to keep our room clean.

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What matters is to aid others, to have a group dream.

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Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.

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There are lifetimes where one goes off into the Himalayas and meditates in a cave. But this is not really one of those lifetimes for most people. Our earth has changed.

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It is necessary to be occupied almost all the time, to have your mind focused -- otherwise, you get very spaced out.

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Do your best all day, try to think higher thoughts, try to be kind and compassionate, but don't let people take advantage of you.

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You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point ... you are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak.

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Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma.

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When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

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Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher.

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Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect.

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We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular.  We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular.

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Be concerned with the welfare of others, without any sense of self-importance, that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.