Instant Enlightenment
by Dr. Frederick Lenz, RamaInsight
“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. It means that there is no longer a personal self.”
“Enlightenment has to do with the erasure of the samskaras, the past life tendencies, after you’ve gone into samadhi for hundreds and thousands of hours, many, many times over a period of years, as is described, let’s say, in the biography of Ramakrishna.”
Considerations
“What’s necessary is for you to aspire, to meditate, to rise to higher levels of attention, to cultivate humility and purity and integrity.”
“My advice to you is to become consciousness itself. To not be in a rush, to know that enlightenment is far, yet near. To not feel that it’s impossible for this lifetime at all, but that it doesn’t matter. What matters is to aid others, to have a group dream.”
“And it’s acceptance of the will of God — waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.”
These are direct quotes from the talk Instant Enlightenment by Rama Dr. Frederick Lenz.
All quotes are reprinted or included here with permission from The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism