Insights: Talks on the Nature of Existence
by Dr. Frederick Lenz, RamaLove – The Fourth Level of Ecstasy
“Love is an unbending emotion that is a reflection of a higher truth. Love is the ability to extend yourself beyond yourself and become perfect. Love is light.”
Instant Enlightenment
“Enlightenment means the total dissolution of the self in the white light of eternity. It doesn’t simply mean that you can sit and go into samadhi and have a very high meditation.”
Seeing
“Seeing is the ability to tell what really is. There are many different forms of seeing. Some forms of seeing involve apprehending that which is occurring in the world.”
Storing Power
“Why is one person enlightened and another not? Why is one person able to see the lines of the world or see the different vortexes? Why does one person go into samadhi and another not?”
The Non-doing of Meditation
“I don’t think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact, I’m not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don’t know. That’s all that we can be absolutely certain of.”
Sophisticated Sexuality
“I believe that sexuality is essentially unimportant in the spiritual process. Yet people seem to make it awfully important. I believe that love is totally important in the spiritual process, in any form.”
Dress for Power
“The rule of thumb for the warrior is to be conservative in outer appearance, to find a very clean image and to use that image as a gateway into another world.”
The Truth
“Desires are neither good nor bad. What’s important is to do what’s right. If what you desire is in line with that which is right, which cannot be reasoned but felt, then follow what is right and what you desire.”
Tibetan Yoga and the Secret Doctrine
“When you’re sitting there in meditation someday and you’re just on the edge of moving into samadhi, that’s when most people lose it, if you get to that point to begin with…”
The Sorcerer’s Explanation
“The way we see life is there so that we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.”
Why Don’t More Women Attain Enlightenment
“It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or woman to attain enlightenment, what we call liberation or self-realization. Ultimately there is no sex.”
How to Make Friends with God
“The one thing that you can give God that will truly impress God is friendship. God is an eternal companion, who is always with us all the time – never judges, just is.”
Spiritual Crossroads
“The time you show your spiritual strength is in a crisis situation, if you’ve learned anything. A balance begins to develop, and that balance should increase every year. Those are the working years.”
All quotes are reprinted or included here with permission from The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism