by Michael Mamas | Monday, December 10, 2012 | Mount Soma, Spirituality |
I do not consider myself to be a big animal lover in the conventional sense. What I mean by that is that though I do like animals very much, I do not have my pets sit all over the furniture or be a pivotal part of my life. I recall when I was young a saint once said, “People are people and animals are animals and they should live separately.” My pets have their own world. I honor that. My relationship with them, I would describe as respectfully loving.
Our cat, Ollie, was with us for around 9 years. He was several years old when we got him. He became a great friend. When I would return home late at night from California classes, he seemed to be waiting for me… somehow knowing I would return when I did. He would escort me as I carried my bags into the house. It seemed natural enough at the time, but is now fond memories that somehow defined the nature of our friendship. I rarely called him Ollie… usually just ‘Boy’ or ‘Boy Cat.’
Over the past six months he aged rapidly… kidneys went as is typical of older cats. Toward the end he was skin and bones with a distended abdomen. Though he lived outside, the last weeks feeling he was not up to weathering the elements, I kept him in. He just sat on the bench in our foyer… all day and all night… staring off… seemed comfortable but only half there. We softly play a Ram chant in our foyer 24/7. It was good for him to hear it in those last days. I would carry him out to go to the bathroom and he would sit there for a while and then come back in the house [not his normal routine at all], get back on the bench, and sit until I took him out again. It was quite clear that he was dying with only a few days left. I know he felt like I was his old friend who spent those last weeks serving him. It was really quite touching. Finally, one day, he went outside and disappeared. I knew I would not see him again.
It is a wonder how animals seem to know when their time in the body is up. Or is that what they know? Maybe it is more just a sense of needing to go off and curl up in their secret hiding place and have a mahasleep… just as they instinctively know to eat, sleep, etc. At any rate, it was a most honorable and dignified way to go. He was like that.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, December 9, 2012 | Spirituality |
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.” – Napoleon
Just one more step and Napoleon would have been on to one of creations deepest principles… namely, mapping.
Just as there is a central source to our solar system, there is a central source to all existence… namely, the Unified Field.
This principle is seen everywhere; the center of a wheel, the seed that births the tree, etc. The Sun correlates to the Unified Field… one IS the other, just expressed on a different level.
Everything maps.
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, December 7, 2012 | Spirituality |
The unenlightened state is really just a state of denial. If you could just be completely honest with yourself, you would Know the Truth immediately. You only choose to be deceived to perpetuate your bogus desires and convictions.
Just as the wisp of cloud shrouds the magnificence of the sun, so too does that which you cling to overshadow the grandeur of your true nature.
“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, December 4, 2012 | Spirituality |
Some interpret the Mayan Calendar to say that humanity was created 5000 years ago and that Armageddon will occur this month. According to Vedic literature, 5000 years ago indeed marks a shift… from Dvapara Yuga to Kali Yuga. Also, Vedic literature says this current time marks the shift from Kali Yuga to an era of Sat Yuga (Enlightened Age) in the midst of Kali Yuga.
It is interesting to note that experts in the Mayan culture are not sure how to interpret the predictions about the upcoming shift. It is clear their interpretation of what was said to occur 5000 years ago did not occur. Some say the upcoming shift will be to a time of Armageddon; others say simply the shift to a new cycle. The Vedic literature is more clearly understood and is therefore a good place to look for a deeper understanding of the shift.
Interestingly enough, geologists have found evidence that a shift did in fact abruptly occur 5000 years ago. It has been said that such shifts are like a saw tooth graph. In other words, the shift is approached with gradual change. But at the point of the shift, the change is significant and rapid.
According to Vedic accounts, the upcoming shift is to an Enlightened Age… just around the corner. Objectively looking at our current world situation, it actually makes sense that a shift is coming, certainly economically to say the least.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 | Spirituality |
I had a conversation with my daughters (ages just 10 and almost 14) last night about what I do. I said, “In a nutshell, I help people with their inner worlds.”
Though we all live ‘in there’ very few tend to it well. For most, it is what it is and that is where and how they live. To evolve it is a subtle craft.
Your inner world is just that… a world that lies within you. It requires proper attention.
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, November 23, 2012 | Spirituality |
It always annoys me to hear theologians on television debate things like creationism. I just saw this again.
When will the world understand the notion of multiple realities?! There are an infinite number of equally valid slices through the same one pie. Each tells its own story. Western science, Yin/yang theory, 5 elements…. there is no end to it.
This is not to say that all perspectives are correct. It is possible to be just plain wrong. But the interconnected nature of existence affords an infinite number of angles of approach. You are you and I am me. We are separate. at the same time, we are both the same one thing, The Unified Field. We are One. Two valid realities. Newton, Einstein, on and on.
If people took a step back to understand the big picture first, they would stop fighting to defend their little picture.
We live in a reality continuum. Why is that so difficult to grasp?
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, November 22, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
Everyone has idealized notions. This is a good time to ask yourself what your notions of the ideal Thanksgiving look like. And then remember that it is different for everyone.
For some, it is family joining around the kitchen table, preparing the feast, with loved ones in the other room playing scrabble. For others, it is a day at the football game or watching television.
It is no wonder that it is a time when some feel melancholy. No one seems to have the exact same ideal notion as you. It seems everyone’s notion is that everyone else fits perfectly into his own personal ideal notion. Then they are disappointed.
Look deeper.
Thanksgiving is a time to let go and relax into the depth of your being… that which is pure satisfaction, and that which loves unconditionally. We all share the same one humanity. Your friends and loved ones join you on a level that transcends idealized notions. It is the level of universality. The power of Thanksgiving dwells there. With the attention of so many on that level, Thanksgiving becomes a profoundly healing and evolutionary time for all. Having your attention on that level assures a beautiful Thanksgiving.
Get the depth right, and all else takes care of itself.
This one day each year is set aside to be thankful for all the good that is. It is a day to count your blessings and release your cares. Do not underestimate the powerful blessing we all receive by joining in the national group consciousness of that gratitude.
Resting into that, you will most assuredly have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Let us all be thankful for our lives and for one and other.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, November 19, 2012 | Spirituality |
My daughter drew a picture of a dragon and asked me how I liked it. I told her I felt it was very good, but the proportions were not natural. I told her about the Golden Proportions in nature. I told her it is not necessary to know the math to draw it if she can feel it.
The following seems to be a pretty good website on the subject. Even if you do not want to get into the math details, surfing this site and looking at the pics for a few minutes will likely provide some feeling and insight.
http://www.goldennumber.net/category/phi-basics/
Attuning yourself to nature comes along many paths. Finding the one that is uniquely yours requires humility concurrent with inner knowing. It is the razors edge… the eye of the needle.
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, November 10, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
False dignity is pride
True dignity is humble integrity
True Integrity is alignment with the True Self
True Humility is rooted in abstraction… which lies beyond rules, codes, laws…
yet proper use of rules, codes, and laws can help light the way to True Integrity and True Humility.
Improper use of rules, codes, and laws clouds, inhibits, or even attacks The Way.
False integrity is alignment with dogma.
When the Master speaks, it immediately ceases to be what the Master said and, in time, becomes what dogma dictates.
Jesus was judged harshly by the ‘spiritual elders’ of His time.
Today is no different than then.
Reflect, learn and become great.
Truth lies within you as You.
Do not rely upon smallness. Who you are is great, grand, beyond smallness, beyond dogma, beyond simplistic… yet it is very simple.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, October 11, 2012 | Spirituality |
It seems a contradiction. Is God beyond you or within you? How do you find God? Though the answer comes rather easily in intellectual form, to live it, not as a philosophy but as a living physiological reality, is quite another.
The temple is an excellent place to worship the outer expression of Divinity, as it is readily accessible and lively there. There, too, is the invitation to find God within. However, much of that is dependent upon your relationship with the temple and with God. Do you hold God outside of yourself? If so, how does that ‘look’ and how does it feel? Are preconceived perspectives of God coloring your relationship with God. Does what you have come to believe from earlier life experiences interfere with a deepening understanding of God?
Reverence does not mandate subservience.
Through meditation, you awaken to deeper levels of your own being. Thereby your relationship with God deepens.
Ultimately, you find God within yourself while at the same time, you are enraptured by the most sublime reverence for God as just slightly afar… just enough so that God may be worshipped with limitless humility at an infinitesimal but exquisite distance.
Love is the Divine longing to merge. Such separation is sweet, profound, …exquisite.
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