Rama Speaks

The complete roadmap to enlightenment most spiritual seekers have never been given until now. Millions of people have discovered meditation and mindfulness. Far fewer have found what lies beyond them: the direct path to spiritual awakening. That deeper path, what Dr. Frederick Lenz, known to his students as Rama, called self discovery is what this extraordinary book maps in full. For twenty years, Rama taught over a thousand direct students a precise synthesis of Zen Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Hindu Vedanta, yoga philosophy, and Native American mysticism. His singular aim: to guide sincere seekers all the way to complete, classical enlightenment, the kind the Buddha described, the kind most traditions say is nearly unreachable, through practices adapted for modern life. Rama Speaks is the first book to present this entire teaching in one place. Drawing on nearly 200 extended quotes from 120 private recordings Rama made for his students, it traces the full arc of the self discovery process from foundational meditation and mindfulness practice through progressively refined states of awareness, all the way to samadhi and nirvana. Think of your ego as an island, Rama taught. Surrounding it is an infinite ocean of consciousness. Meditation is learning to swim in that ocean. Enlightenment is becoming the ocean itself. These are precise, learnable teachings on nonduality, inner peace, consciousness, and the nature of the self. For readers drawn to the voices of Eckhart Tolle, Ram Dass, Thich Nhat Hanh, or Paramahansa Yogananda and who feel there is still a deeper current to find, Rama Speaks offers something rare: a teacher speaking directly, honestly, and completely about the full journey of spiritual awakening. "Enlightenment means the dissolution of the finite self into the infinite mind." If that resonates with something you have long suspected to be true, this book is for you. Half of the Audiobook edition feature his actual voice recordings. Listen for yourself!