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“Humility means learning how to use your time to sit and look out the window forever, to go beyond time and to not be so concerned with you.” – Dr. Frederick Lenz – Rama
Meditation Classes
The best way to learn meditation is taking a class with a meditation teacher who practiced and perfected the foundations of meditation. The meditation centers below offer authentic teachings of American Buddhism founded by Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz.
SF Awakened Mind
Meditation Classes in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Dharma Center - San Diego
Meditation Classes in San Diego.
Meditate Santa Fe
Meditation Classes in Santa Fe.
Transmission of the lamp
“In Zen we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information – blocks of attention – are transferred to the student. But that transference can only take place with the student who spends hours and hours working on their daily life as their teacher suggests – on their meditation with a very enthusiastic, positive, hopeful, optimistic and fun attitude. Such students prepare themselves, and then you can transfer something to them.”
– Rama Dr. Frederick Lenz
Meditation Music
Music can be used as a point of focus during a meditation session, to assist one to quiet the mind and enter into a meditative state. Rama was working with his band, Zazen to create numerous musical albums of electronic music, capturing and conveying the energy of enlightenment through the music.
We are honored to make this music available for free download
For more Zazen music visit the Rama Meditation Society website.
Zazen - Samadhi
Samadhi is one of three meditation music albums designed by Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz. Samadhi can be used for morning or evening meditation.
Zazen - Ecstasy
You can choose to look at beauty, to look at hope, to look at ecstasy, and if you look at it long enough there’s nothing else. There’s nothing else.
— Rama – Dr. Frederick P. Lenz
Zazen - Samurai
Musical bliss! Samurai is the only CD in which Zazen’s always-exquisite music is interspersed with Rama speaking about Buddhist topics ranging from optimism to enlightenment.
Books
Frederick P. Lenz was a best-selling author of his time and he was invited to speak on many television shows and at universities. In the mid-nineties, he published his two best-selling novels, Surfing the Himalayas, and the sequel – Snowboarding to Nirvana. He said that these books contained the core of his teachings.
For more books from Rama please visit the Rama Meditation Society website.
Surfing the Himalayas by Frederick Lenz
Charged with energy, humor and insight, Surfing the Himalayas is the fast-paced story of a young American snowboarder who travels to the Himalayas seeking the ultimate high. While there he surfs into an experience more transcendent than he could have ever imagined.
Snowboarding to Nirvana by Frederick Lenz
The novel Snowboarding to Nirvana continues the epic adventures of a young snowboarder and an enlightened Himalayan teacher, Master Fwap. The book presents numerous techniques for focusing and meditation.
The Wheel of Dharma by Frederick Lenz
In the book, Rama engages the reader in a conversation on truth, perception, existence, life and death, love and light. This book is a microcosm of his teachings, with wonderful black and white illustrations.
“No-one ever masters a subject. That’s a strange concept. The subject masters you.” – Rama
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