Frederick Lenz

The Lakshmi Series Frederick Lenz

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



Introduction



Introductory and Intermediate Meditation



Purity and Humility



The Yoga of Love



The Yoga of Selfless Giving



The Yoga of Discrimination



The Yoga of Mysticism and Power



Spiritual Absorption and Nirvana



Death and Reincarnation



Samadhi and the Superconscious States



The Caretaker Personality



The Tibetan Rebirth Process



Living and Working in the World



Pleasure, Pain, and the Senses



How to Achieve Spiritual Balance



The Subtle Physical Body



Women, Men, and Self-Realization



Inaccessibility and Attachment



Spiritual Experiences, Dreams, and Visions



Zen, Taoism, and Buddhism



The Occult Body, the Auras, and the Chakras



Spiritual Teachers and the Enlightenment Process



Advanced Meditation



Dreaming



Gods, Goddesses, and Carrier Beings



Dharma and Karma



Tantra and the Left Handed Path



Liberation and Self-Realization



Tantric Mysticism



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 the State University of Stony Brook. He lived in California and New York.