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The Lakshmi Series
“The Lakshmi Series” is set of teachings that comprise a comprehensive foundation for self-discovery. To assist the spiritual progress of his students, Rama - Dr. Frederick Lenz created this series, which covers a wide variety of topics including meditation, the four principal Hindu yogas, the Buddhist paramitas of purity and humility, spiritual absorption, nirvana, the subtle physical body, spiritual teachers, dreaming, tantric mysticism, and others.
These teachings reflect Dr. Lenz's wide range of knowledge of spiritual traditions, and while he later began to focus on Buddhist teachings, particularly Zen Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism, he often referred to his early teachings as “the basics which everyone should know.”
Dr. Lenz saw how difficult it was for Westerners to learn meditation and self-discovery in the twenty-first century due to the breadth of knowledge available, and the fact that many, if not all, of the classical textbooks were written hundreds or thousands of years ago in Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, or Tibetan.
In The Lakshmi Series, Dr. Lenz touches upon all these teachings and restructures them, breathing life into the classics while bringing them into the here and now.
“My interest is the essence of these teachings,” he stated, “not so much what's happened with them historically or the books that have been written about them, detailing them, or the descriptions of people who have had experiences in the monasteries or experiences living a more secular life. Rather, my interest is the essence of the teaching – the Way, as it were.”
Thus, in “The Lakshmi Series,” Dr. Lenz brings forth these ancient teachings and aligns them with the modern world to succinctly present their essence – the path of modem self-discovery.
Table of Content
1.Introduction
2.Introductory and Intermediate Meditation
3.Purity and Humility
4.The Yoga of Love
5.The Yoga of Selfless Giving
6.The Yoga of Discrimination
7.The Yoga of Mysticism and Power
8.Spiritual Absorption and Nirvana
9.Death and Reincarnation
10.Samadhi and the Superconscious States
11.The Caretaker Personality
12.The Tibetan Rebirth Process
13.Living and Working in the World
14.Pleasure, Pain, and the Senses
15.How to Achieve Spiritual Balance
16.The Subtle Physical Body
17.Women, Men, and Self-Realization
18.Inaccessibility and Attachment
19.Spiritual Experiences, Dreams, and Visions
20.Zen, Taoism, and Buddhism
21.The Occult Body, the Auras, and the Chakras
22.Spiritual Teachers and the Enlightenment Process
23.Advanced Meditation
24.Dreaming
25.Gods, Goddesses, and Carrier Beings
26.Dharma and Karma
27.Tantra and the Left Handed Path
28.Liberation and Self-Realization
29.Tantric Mysticism
30.The Biography of Rama - Dr. Frederick Lenz
About the Author
For over 25 years, Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz taught Buddhist meditation and yoga to more than 100,000 people. Throughout his life, his goal was to transmit the essence of Buddhism so that Western practitioners could achieve the highest state of self-realization – enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz was an author, teacher of meditation and spirituality, a black belt in martial arts, music producer, and active participant in several advanced technology companies. A Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate of the University of Connecticut, he received a Ph.D. in English literature from Stony Brook University.
These teachings reflect Dr. Lenz's wide range of knowledge of spiritual traditions, and while he later began to focus on Buddhist teachings, particularly Zen Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism, he often referred to his early teachings as “the basics which everyone should know.”
Dr. Lenz saw how difficult it was for Westerners to learn meditation and self-discovery in the twenty-first century due to the breadth of knowledge available, and the fact that many, if not all, of the classical textbooks were written hundreds or thousands of years ago in Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, or Tibetan.
In The Lakshmi Series, Dr. Lenz touches upon all these teachings and restructures them, breathing life into the classics while bringing them into the here and now.
“My interest is the essence of these teachings,” he stated, “not so much what's happened with them historically or the books that have been written about them, detailing them, or the descriptions of people who have had experiences in the monasteries or experiences living a more secular life. Rather, my interest is the essence of the teaching – the Way, as it were.”
Thus, in “The Lakshmi Series,” Dr. Lenz brings forth these ancient teachings and aligns them with the modern world to succinctly present their essence – the path of modem self-discovery.
Table of Content
1.Introduction
2.Introductory and Intermediate Meditation
3.Purity and Humility
4.The Yoga of Love
5.The Yoga of Selfless Giving
6.The Yoga of Discrimination
7.The Yoga of Mysticism and Power
8.Spiritual Absorption and Nirvana
9.Death and Reincarnation
10.Samadhi and the Superconscious States
11.The Caretaker Personality
12.The Tibetan Rebirth Process
13.Living and Working in the World
14.Pleasure, Pain, and the Senses
15.How to Achieve Spiritual Balance
16.The Subtle Physical Body
17.Women, Men, and Self-Realization
18.Inaccessibility and Attachment
19.Spiritual Experiences, Dreams, and Visions
20.Zen, Taoism, and Buddhism
21.The Occult Body, the Auras, and the Chakras
22.Spiritual Teachers and the Enlightenment Process
23.Advanced Meditation
24.Dreaming
25.Gods, Goddesses, and Carrier Beings
26.Dharma and Karma
27.Tantra and the Left Handed Path
28.Liberation and Self-Realization
29.Tantric Mysticism
30.The Biography of Rama - Dr. Frederick Lenz
About the Author
For over 25 years, Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz taught Buddhist meditation and yoga to more than 100,000 people. Throughout his life, his goal was to transmit the essence of Buddhism so that Western practitioners could achieve the highest state of self-realization – enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz was an author, teacher of meditation and spirituality, a black belt in martial arts, music producer, and active participant in several advanced technology companies. A Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate of the University of Connecticut, he received a Ph.D. in English literature from Stony Brook University.
338 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2006
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