“So how can you possibly be happy? That’s why you’ve got to study Zen. Or something. I mean call it what you want to, but it has to be a way in which you can discover you, so you cannot distinguish yourself from anything or anyone else. Because you, as we both know, think you’re…
“We have lots of fears… We’re taught to fear. The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear — not love, fear. The student of enlightenment, the student of life who wishes to be happy, has to take on their fears one by one and overcome all…
“Next to meditation itself, next to the practice of zazen, I really can’t think of anything more important than the development of your career, because nothing has a greater effect on your awareness level. Whether your career is in the work force or your career is retirement and hobbies, looking after a family, a…
“In Nirvana, there’s no winning or losing, but as long as you’re in the relative worlds, there is winning and losing. Only the completely enlightened are beyond winning and losing, and they had to win to get to that point.” Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz What is winning in Rama’s view? Winning in Zen…
“Personal power is a feeling — a feeling that everybody wants called satisfaction. We can see it in someone who has a powerful life, someone who is able to get what they want to get or avoid what they want to avoid. That’s one level of personal power. Now naturally, there’s an entirely different level…