"Tantric Buddhism"
-- from Rama's tapes

Source Tape: Tantric Buddhism
February 1990

Rama says: "Meditation is the art of breathing. Breathing out and breathing in. . . . Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling. We're taking all the thoughts, impressions, feelings, vibrations, understanding, all the self-importance, attitudes, desires, loves, hates, passions, dispassions, meanings, lack of meanings, confused states, illumined states, bored states, we're taking everything. The concept of everything. That which perceives everything. That which is beyond perceiving. Everything must go. We're exhaling existence. Taking it out of the mind, the mind out of the mind. After meditation, we inhale. We experience life. But we've changed."

Rama discusses complex cosmologies on this tape. When we meditate perfectly, it is perfect mind. That is mind without qualities. It is mind's natural state, and when we can experience that, it is the clear light. It is mind folding in on itself.

At the point that we sit in that perfect mind we will understand what Rama means when he says: "You don't have to go and meditate. That is mind. Mind is meditation. Meditation can never be a verb. Because meditation is qualityless. It is mind in its primordial state."

Mind in its natural, true state is meditation. It has no qualities. It is clear light. When we meditate, and really stop. Stop It All. When we exhale everything until there is only clear light, when mind has no quality, at that point we are in enlightened mind.

That is the entrance to Wonderland. Like Alice, we discover nothing is as it appears to be. That is part of the trick. Try as you might you will not be able to make sense of it. The experience of mind, the clear light, won't be able to packaged and understood like a college course.

"So then, if you perceive meditation as something that you don't have to do it's easier. It's breathing out. What you do is simply breath out everything in your mind. And when everything is gone, and there's only mind, that's meditation."

Drawn from Dr Frederick Lenz's Teachings

Rama presented thousands of techniques that were intended to help students along their own pathway to enlightenment. Techniques presented here may be useful for you. The teachings are meant to be used by students who are serious about their practice, and their own enlightenment.

A special thanks to
Lynne (Samadhi) for her writing, and the inspiration to begin this feature.

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