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[edit] Biography

[edit] Childhood / Adolescence

Dr. Frederick Lenz, known to his students as Rama, was born February 9th, 1950, in San Diego, California. When he was three years old, he and his family moved to Stamford, Connecticut. He spent the rest of his childhood and teenage years there, attending schools in the Stamford area (Insights: Talks on the Nature of Existence, p. 299).

Dr. Lenz's father worked as a marketing executive and later went on to become the Mayor of Stamford. His mother was a housewife and an advanced student of astrology (Insights: Talks on the Nature of Existence, p. 299).

When describing his childhood, Dr. Lenz alludes to his future as a spiritual teacher of hundreds of thousands of Americans and Europeans, explaining, "When I was very young, three, four, five, I used to go into samadhi, a very high state of meditation... I would be outside in the backyard of my parents' home, and I'd look up at the sky and go away, dissolve, go beyond this world" (Insights: Talks on the Nature of Existence, p. 299).

Dr. Lenz became interested in buddhism at the age of 12. After graduating from high school, he traveled extensively where he learned the begginings of meditation and self-discovery. He later wrote a best seller based off of his travels (American Buddha, p. vi-vii).

[edit] Education

Dr. Lenz attended schools in the Stamford area. After graduating from high school, Dr. Lenz majored in English and minored in Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. He was inducted as a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society and graduated Magna Cum Laude (Insights: Talks on the Nature of Existence, p 299).

After college, Dr. Lenz won a highly competitive State of New York Graduate Council Fellowship enabling him to continue his studies. He earned a Masters of Arts (M.A.) and a Doctor of Philosophy from State University of New York at Stony Brook. His doctorate was directed by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Lewis Simpson, Ph.D. Dr. Lenz's dissertation, “The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke”, was on poet, Theodore Roethke (Insights: Talks on the Nature of Existence, p 299).

At age of 19, Dr. Lenz began formal meditation studies. Over a period of 11 years he studied in a spiritual community with strict meditative practices. It was during this period that Dr. Lenz wrote Lifetimes, True Accounts of Reincarnation (1979) and Total Relaxation: The Complete Program for Overcoming Worry, Stress, Tension and Fatigue (1980) based on his own research. Dr. Lenz taught meditation and yoga around the United States and the world representing his spiritual teachers. He also appeared on national television and radio programs to promote his books (Insights: Talks on the Nature of Existence, p. 58 and 300).

[edit] Spiritual Teacher

[edit] Early Teaching (Lakshmi Years)

[edit] Middle Teaching (Zen Years)

[edit] Later Teaching (Tantra Years)

[edit] Trivia

  • Dr. Lenz appeared for an hour on CNN with Larry King in 1988.
  • Dr. Lenz received a Ph.D in English Literature under the direction of the poet Lewis Simpson in 1978.
  • Frederick Lenz published a best-seller, Surfing the Himalayas in 1994.
  • Over the course of his teaching career, more than 100,000 people attended Rama's seminars (The Enlightenment Cycle, p. i).
  • Rama and his electronic/rock music band Zazen released over 21 albums in 13 years as well as several music videos music videos.

[edit] Quotes

  • "I come into the world to be of service to beings who seek knowledge, empowerment, enlightenment; who seek to grow, evolve, develop; who want to have more fun with their lives and experience the profundity of being; who want to become more conscious in their short time in an incarnate form. I am a teacher" (Zen Tapes, Dedication).
  • "The most beautiful day hasn't dawned, the most beautiful lifetime has not been experienced. The most beautiful meditation has not been had, even by the enlightened. I guess that's the good news - it doesn't end. It's just - there's no seperation between the quiescent perfect state and anything else, inside your mind. Everything's inside your mind. Enlightenment isn't out there; it's just inside your mind" (Tantric Buddhism, p. iii).
  • iMediate - Authors of iMediate all studied with Rama. iMeditate provides information about meditation and integrating the practice to a western lifestyle.
  • Dharmakaya Meditation Center - A non-profit charitable business, offering classes in Yoga and Meditation in New York City. Many of the teachers were students of Rama.
  • Manhattan Meditation Center - a place to learn about meditation and life. The teachers' primary teacher has been Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz.

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