Tantric Buddhism
Tantric Buddhism

A set of 27 talks recorded by Rama from 1989 to 1990. In these diverse talks, Dr. Lenz draws from classical Tibetan Buddhism and numerous aspects of American culture to create a current version of Tantric Buddhism that is as solidly grounded in ancient practice as it is fully engaged in modern life.


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Tantric Buddhism - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 37 mins
We don’t believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer. Intelligence, yes, meaning we go beyond suffering personally or we assist others in that process.
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  Six Worlds - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 42 mins
There are six worlds. There are countless subdivisions of the six, but there are six.
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  The Mature Monk - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 31 mins
The eye of God is inside us. It’s looking through us and it sees whatever we look at. Sometimes I think we could give God better things to look at than the things we focus on, don’t you?
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The Natural State - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 46 mins
The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment.
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  Freedom - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 1 hr 17 mins
Our subject is freedom. It’s always the same. How do we become free, free from the limitations of dimensionality?
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  Enlightenment - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 27 mins
I’ve read a lot about enlightenment and thought about it quite a bit, and I find that it doesn’t have much to do with enlightenment.
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Self-Effort - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 24 mins
Divinity does not require humanity’s understanding. It exists because it exists because it exists.
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  Possibilities - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 26 mins
Astrology is the science of time and space. It is the science of karma.
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  The Nexus of All Pathways - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 55 mins
Being on the circle of yin or yang does not necessarily mean that you will ever go beyond the circle because the source of the circle is not necessarily connected to it.
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The Path of Affirmation - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 39 mins
Why do we meditate? Why do we engage in practices? Why bother?
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  Buddhism - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 31 mins
Buddhism is essentially the establishment of one’s mind in that which is ineffable.
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  Computer Science - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 19 mins
Some people are connoisseurs of states of mind, just as some people are connoisseurs of wine, food, countries, lovers.
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The Awareness of Meditation - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 33 mins
Meditation is the art of breathing—breathing out and breathing in.
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  Focus and Meditation - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 25 mins
The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it’s perfect meditation.
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  Professional Meditation - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 26 mins
When a person has become used to meditating on a regular basis and the practice has become a part of your life, we reach a kind of threshold that some people don’t cross.
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The Best Meditation I Ever Had - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 20 mins
The best meditation I ever had, I haven’t had yet.
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  Metaphysics - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 40 mins
The reason that you’re engaged in metaphysics is -- there’s no reason, you just don’t have any choice. You couldn’t stop, no matter what you did.
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  A Clean Room - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 25 mins
The way you keep your room clean, the way you keep your life clean, is by not letting a lot of clutter in. You keep it simple.
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The Bhagavad-Gita - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 44 mins
The Bhagavad Gita is a conversation between enlightenment and that which unknowingly seeks enlightenment.
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  Buddhist Enlightenment - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 19 mins
The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever, and that there are endless states of mind.
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  The Path of Negation - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 33 mins
But the path of negation, which is the esoteric or more advanced part of the enlightenment process, is the path of understanding. It’s the path of knowledge.
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Transience - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 20 mins
Everything is transient and it’s a good thing, as I said. I celebrate the transient constantly. I don’t find that sorrowful in any way.
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  Peak Experiences - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 32 mins
What I’m teaching you is how to experience the manifold realities of mind, how to go places that very few people ever go, and you come back from those places different.
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  Solstices and Equinoxes - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 1 hr 3 mins
There are four times of tremendous power that occur every year, and those are the solstices and the equinoxes.
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Tenacity - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 33 mins
An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.
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  Buddhist Yoga - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 38 mins
Nothing lasts. Consider everything that you’ve gone through and experienced thus far.
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  Light - Tantric Buddhism
Playing Time: 14 mins
There is only black light, between the stars. It may seem that it’s darkness, but it’s really black light.
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