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Lobsang Rampa Quotes

Cyril Henry Hoskin (8 April 1910 – 25 January 1981), more popularly known as Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, was a spiritual and occult writer who claimed to have been a lama in Tibet before spending the second part of his life in the body of a British man. Hoskin described himself as the "host" of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. The name Tuesday relates to a claim in The Third Eye that Tibetans are named after the day of the week on which they were born. Lobsang Rampa most famous book is 'The Third Eye '.

Selected Quotes of Lobsang Rampa are:

Love is unselfish. A person will do things for love which he
would not do for any money.
It is the aim of all sentient beings to reach liberation, to
reach freedom from the bonds of the Earth and the cloying
lusts of the flesh, and thus to attain that stage which, for want
of a better term, we will call ‘Buddhahood.
It is a pity that people talk so much, because to talk of one's
knowledge dissipates power and makes a student have various
difficulties. It is much like trying to drive a car which has got
a big hole in the petrol tank.
We can feed the spirit part of us by meditation, by contem-
plation, and by seeing the good which we have learnt through
the incarnate experiences.
A very big obstacle is excessive talkativeness. Too many
people talk too much too often while knowing too little. Talka-
tiveness is a sign of an empty brain. A person receives certain
information through the ears, and immediately it pours out of
the ever-open mouth without having any opportunity of lodging
in the memory cells of the brain. People talk too much because
they are (and not merely feel!) inferior.
A Lotus leaf rests upon the water, but it does not become
wet. The Lotus is not moistened at all by water, and that can
be taken as a symbol of non-attachment.
NON-ATTACHMENT: This means just what it says—non-
attachment to any material thing. The miser becomes earth-
bound because he is attached to his money; the drunkard is
earth-bound because he is attached to drink. If one has a strong
lust or desire, then when one leaves this Earth one is drawn
irresistibly back like a fish being reeled in by a fisherman, one
is brought back to visit those haunts which have most of what
one wants—money, drink, or what? One hangs around, a
disembodied ghost, caught inexorably by the magnet of that
desire which was not mastered during the physical existence.
Non-attachment means self-mastery, detachment from the lures
and lusts of living on Earth.
Non-attachment means release from the desires which afflict
mankind. A person who has reached this stage, who has secured
non-attachment, helps mankind and does not ignore their need
for assistance.
A person with harmony in the mind is one who has pure
love and compassion for others, and that person is able to
assist others without thought of self-gain.
To attain purity of mind one should associate with those
who are of even temperament, those who are sane and balanced,
those who know the truth of what they are saying.
The mind is like a sponge which soaks up knowledge. If it
be a good mind it knows how to use the knowledge which it
has soaked up. If it is a bad mind it just stuffs mentally un-
digested knowledge into the sub-conscious.
Animals also have spirits, souls.
One must have a clean body and a clean mind. One must
study one's own body in order that one may get purity of mind.
Progress can only be made when we eat to live and do
not live to eat.
Pleasure, pain, pleasure, pain. The cycle of pleasure alterna-
ting with pain teaches one that which can be and that which
cannot be. By having pleasure which turns to pain a human
learns to stop indulging excessively before the pleasure be sup-
planted by pain, and thus there is the start of a form of
intelligence. The Adept learns not to try for high pleasures or he will get low pains. He learns that he must maintain an equable temperament so that he is not assailed by pleasure or by pain.
Sex, properly channeled and of a pure type, can send great power for good through the spinal channel, and can energize the highest centres connected with the spirit.
In the Far East the martial arts so called were not for the purpose of disabling people nor were they for defence. They were, instead, designed as a mental, mystical, and spiritual discipline. After all, the more colourful you are the more your conscience tells you to be gentle, the more you have been trained about the body the more you can look after your own body.
A Guru is a Teacher, a spiritual Teacher, and he should be an illumined soul, one who has raised the Kundalini and knows how to raise it in others.
Look upon habit as upon a series of binding threads. Replace
bad habits with good habits. That will make it like replacing
each thread individually instead of trying to snap the whole.
You cannot take away a thing without replacing it with some-
thing more suitable.
If you are a pessimist, smile instead of scowl, it is easier to
smile. Make a habit of smiling, make a habit of being kind
to people, make a habit of being Honourable and keeping your
word. Soon you will be a different person, a person whom all
will admire and respect. Habit is one of the most important
things of life, and a good habit.
We have to develop love and good sense. We must develop
and practice understanding. We must avoid doing those things
which cause pain and distress to others, for although while on
this world it is easy to delude other people, to lead them astray,
and although possibly we are so clever that we are immune to
the laws of the Earth, yet when we once pass beyond the con-
fines of this Earth we find that we have to pay for all the
misery we have caused others, we have to pay for all the losses
which we have inflicted upon others. Thus it is, in common-
sense terms, cheaper for us to behave ourselves while on this
Earth, because this is just a blink of the eye compared to the
Greater Life beyond.