Quotes from Rama
“Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.”
“Things that are impossible – are everyday experiences when you live in advanced states of mind. You live in a world of constant miraculous awareness.”
“I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.”
“If you meditate, then the real miracle is the transformation of your awareness field beyond the body. Beyond the body there are oceans of light, continents of light, universes of light. Meditation frees you from this world.”
“As far as miracles are concerned, I’m not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am able to use the kundalini energy to alter other people’s awareness and aid them in their search for light and certainty.”
“Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.”
“I live in a world where there is nothing but the miraculous. There is nothing but continuous light. There is nothing but continuous perfection. That is the world of enlightenment.”
”A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the transmission of attention.”
“I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.”
”Meditation is a journey, a journey to the other side. The other side can’t be explained — the mystical worlds, the timeless, miraculous worlds of light. But they can be certainly, most certainly, experienced by you.”
“Sometimes the Zen master, or a teacher from another tradition, will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but specifically to raise their awareness as a way of grabbing their attention and showing them that this miraculous occurrence, which is not the point, indicates that there is something more.”
“There are beings who come into this world, from time to time, not simply with miraculous powers, which we call the siddhas, but with a miraculous awareness that is so strong yet so subtle that anyone or anything that touches that awareness is transformed forever.”
“As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.”
“Our purpose in life is to gain the view of ourselves. Otherwise, why live? We never know the miracle of existence.”
“The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.”
“The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.”
“What you focus on you become. If you spend and hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.”
“We are miracles. So don’t deny yourself the miracle of happiness.”
“The real miracle is mind itself. Your mind. And your mind is capable of incredible things. But it is through the practice of concentration and meditation — zazen — and mindfulness, that you are able to accomplish so much, to succeed at what you would choose to succeed at, to be what you would like to be, to become aware that there are things that you can be that you’re not even conscious of yet.”
“If you’re meditating, if you’re practicing every day, you don’t necessarily see the changes that are taking place in your life because you’re so close to them. You don’t remember how limited your awareness field was six months ago or a year ago, let alone yesterday, before this morning’s meditation. The real miracle, obviously, is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.”
“I like miracles. They inspire me. Miracles cause you to believe, to have faith in the unseen, to look further into things, deeper into things. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle – an enlightened teacher – and someone sees it, they’re astonished. Suddenly they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery and spirituality and enlightenment.”
“Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.”
“The magic of life is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.”
“Miracles are all around you. A spiritual teacher sees miracles in his students. A spiritual person sees miracles in everything. But where do these miracles come from? Where do they go to? This is perhaps the greatest of all miracles.”
“To see someone manifest all the astral lights, to be surrounded by light, to have light emanating from their body, pulsing waves of gold light – this is the miracle of enlightenment.”
“Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person’s chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles.”
“Siddha powers are a type of occult power, but occult powers come in many shapes and forms. The Siddha powers that you most commonly hear about are things like levitation, telepathy, and astral projection.”
“Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters, who have the power to perform miracles, with enlightened masters who can enter into samadhi.”
“Yes, there are siddha powers. Yes, you can heal people, transform attention. You can flood the sky with light at night so you can’t even see the stars. But the greatest miracle is the spirit — it is light.”
“Your understanding of the astral dimensions can help you alter structures in the physical dimensions. It is in and through the medium of the astral dimensions that all of the siddha powers function and work.”
“In order to practice magic, you need only one thing — awareness. We have other selves that are not of this world, of this time, of this cycle. We are ancient beings, evolving forward and backwards simultaneously; we are not structured in time. We are eternal travelers, eternal voyagers — appearing to be here when in fact we are somewhere else. And when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of an inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and your various selves, when you become aware of that, that’s when magic begins. You enter another world — a world of dreams.”
Reprinted or included here with permission from The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism