“Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once — to be in the world and of it, to enjoy it, to participate in it fully and successfully, and at the same time, to not be here at all — to be in realms of light, to be in samadhi, beyond all this. That’s…
“Spiritual balance is the ability to be happy in spite of circumstances — happiness in pleasure and in pain, in sickness and in health, in life and in death, in all circumstances. That’s balance. How do you do that? It’s a decision. It’s a decision that you make every day and that you renew, that…
“Power is the active force in life. It is the force of life that makes awareness. Power is the band that we perceive things on. In radio, we have AM stations, FM stations, short wave stations, and others. They’re frequencies. Frequencies vibrate at specific rates, and within those frequencies, we transmit information and receive information. …
“Buddhism is the enlightenment cycle — and there are different types of it. Principally there is short path and long path Buddhism. The long path is more of the religious aspect, that is to say, the church aspect: the practice of reading sutras, healthy ways of living, a certain amount of prayer, a little meditation….
Meditation is about making your mind calm and quiet. And if the earth was not so overpopulated and toxic, that would be an easy thing to do. It’s kind of tricky to meditate in this age. Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz figured out a way to make it easier – which is to meditate to…
“A person is made up of awarenesses. These awarenesses all exist in the unknown — now we’re moving into what don Juan calls “the sorcerer’s explanation”. It’s the explanation of life. All of the awareness that has ever been or will ever be, exist, he says, like barges floating in the ocean. It’s a…
“Self-discovery tries to take you beyond reason. A reason is a terrible trap—because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you’re satisfied with answers, you’ll never come to know what life really is. Life can only be known through direct experience—direct experience in meditation, where you’re tasting the water or feeling it, which is…
“The Tibetan Book of the Dead is thought by many to be a very archaic book that describes what happens to you after you die…” “That is the popular understanding of the book. The real use of the book though, the esoteric use of the book and the secret teachings, has nothing to do with…
“It seems to me that it’s essential to know about love. Love comes in many forms, and to not love is to not live. Many people talk about meditation and self-discovery and bringing themselves to higher levels of consciousness, yet they seem, for all their knowledge and ability, for all the various terminologies that they…
“The subject that I would like to discuss with you tonight is important. It’s important because it reflects our world and the understanding that our world has. We live in a world that is very, very out of balance. I don’t feel that any of us will necessarily correct that. I do believe, though, that…
“Meditation is not a doing. It just is. We think of meditation as something that we have to do, something that we have to accomplish. This is emblazoned on our consciousness by our lives. That’s why I think people have difficulty with meditation. They try and do it. You can’t. It’s not something that can…
“I think God is the least discussed subject. Less is known about God than anything else. People know about the world, they know about careers, they know about time, space. They know how to succeed, how to attract other people, how to raise children, build tall buildings, have advanced telecommunication networks, build bombs, pave roads,…