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Frederick Lenz Biography

Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D., also known as Rama (Sanskrit: रामा) and Atmananda (Sanskrit: आत्मानदा; February 9, 1950 in San Diego, California – April 12, 1998), was a spiritual teacher who taught what he termed American Buddhism, including the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, Vedanta, and Mysticism. Lenz was also an author, software designer, businessman, and record producer.

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If you are seeking power and knowledge, you need to go to places that are healthy and happy and radiant. Avoid places that aren't.

Avoid, Buddhism, Healthy, Needs, Power, Radiant

This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.

Applauded, Buddhism, Darkness, Defines, Enlightenment, Humanity

The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change.

Giving, Karma, Mantrum, Selfless, Selfless Giving, Yoga

You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.

Buddhism, Changes, Continuously, Light, Patterns

The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.

Body, Disembodied, Doe, Mind, State, Unless

You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

Buddhism, Buddhist, Impossible, Sense, Teacher

Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

Ideas, Nothing, Perception, Ring, Spiritual

You see two people together. They're in a relationship. It's really power that holds those people together. And when the designs of power change, those people will separate and there's nothing they can do in the meantime about it.

Buddhism, Two, People, Change, See, Nothing

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.

Absolute, Degrees, One Day, Perfection, See, Totality

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.

Chaucer, Particular, Style, Writing, Years

Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.

Happiness, Letting Go, Powerful, Think

Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.

Brings, Inspirational, Mind, Nice, Philosophy, States

Most people lead their lives like they drive their cars.

Buddhism, Car, Drive, Lead, Lives, People

It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem strange or unusual - in the same way that Christianity and Judaism may seem strange and unusual to people from the Far East.

Asian, Buddhism, Country, Process, Same, Teaching

Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.

Buddhism, Mention, Physical, Place, Sometimes, Suffering

Since infinity is by its very nature infinite, then enlightenment by its very nature is infinite, and thus can be experienced in infinite ways, by itself or without itself

Enlightenment, Infinite, Infinity, Way, Ways

Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.

Buddhism, Good, Good Friend, Health, Several, Spent

Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there's no thought, we see the other shore.

Course, Fog, Meditation, See, Seeing, Stopping

Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.

Mean, Humility, Buddhism, Slice, Give

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

Done, Political, Repression, Social, Spiritual, Women

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