Indoor Plants

“It’s very important to have a good relationship with plants. Plants affect people more than they realize, on other levels. You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it’s a sign of a healthy situation. When they denigrate nature, it’s a sign of an unhealthy civilization that will soon perish.” – Dr Frederick Lenz

“In the inner world, plants can help you. They have a very strong vibrational force. If you’ve made friends with several of them, they will come and aid you… I’m not speaking metaphorically, I’m actually seriously saying that plants have very strong tonal beings and that the plants that you have in your house, or if you’ve ever made friends with a tree somewhere or whatever it may be that there is a moment that these beings can aid you, can assist you.” – Dr Frederick Lenz, Rama

 

 

“It’s very important to respect the plants that you have and to develop a relationship with them, to take care of them because as you assist them, they will assist you. In other words, what I’m suggesting is, we’ve lost touch with our lives. We’ve lost touch with what matters in this world, in this civilization. We’ve taken the mystery of life and tried to explain it away with reason. And in doing so, we have lost touch with our essential power, with our power as magical beings.” – Dr Frederick Lenz

Reprinted or included here with permission from The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism