Conscience

by | Tuesday, April 3, 2012 | Spirituality | 2 comments

flowersThe following quote is only true after the soul is free of conditioning.  Prior to that time, conscience is largely a product of distorted notions of God.
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“Conscience is God’s presence in man.”
– Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emancipation from limitation reveals your God to you.
Conditioned conscience is karma.
Emancipated conscience is God’s whispers of your dharma.
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Yet the latter is attained through the portal of the former…
Just as the swan filters the milk from the water.

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You must start where you are.
Life is all about having a healthy relationship with…
Evolution is the path of paradox.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Success

by | Monday, April 2, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality | 2 comments

 Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

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Relative existence is the field of imperfection.

Therefore, life is a series of failures.

Life is all about “relationship with…”

In the words of the poet, “There’s no success like failure, and failure is no success at all.”

Life is paradox.

Persistence reaps reward.

Just don’t stop.

What you long for lies beyond this world, yet can only be attained through this world.

 

There is no greater gift than the human physiology. It is the vehicle that you ride to the field of perfect.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Free Will or Predetermination?

by | Sunday, April 1, 2012 | Spirituality | 5 comments

houseThe problem with the question is that it assigns absolute truth to the notion of time. Even in modern physics time is understood to be a manifestation.  We would say an aspect of maya.  When time is understood, then one sees beyond sequentiality and the question then dissolves away.  The two are understood to be one and the same.

Within the illusion of time however, there is free will.  Also, within that paradigm, karma sets in motion the wheels of the predetermined.  With everything you’ve got, use your free will to follow your dharma and overcome your karma.

You are living within the dream.  Only the tools of the dream can free you.  A real tool is of no use within the dance of the dream.  The only way out is through. Attempts to push away the tar baby, only further entangle you.

You will master the dream.  It is only a matter of time.

 

note: you may like to look at the comments to the karma and dharma blog from a few days ago.

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Definitions

by | Wednesday, March 21, 2012 | Spirituality | 8 comments

old houseIf you feel that God is far away, it is only because your definition of God is inaccurate.  God is here, now, with you.  But ‘definition’ is more than a thought.  It is something you feel in your heart.  As you evolve your consciousness changes, thereby changing your definitions of everything.

Clinging to your old definitions is a drag on your evolution.  Emancipation means freedom, means moving beyond where you currently are.  Change does not happen without flexibility.  Boundaries will be broken as you evolve.  You must do what you think is right, but you must also think rightly.

Keeping a steady hand on the rudder, move forward.  That means move, but move wisely.  Think, ponder, reflect… cultivate discernment.  Infinite flexibility, yet with a steady hand.

The teachings of the ancients must be revered, but your understanding of those teachings must evolve.  Infinitely rigid, one pointed, committed, reverent, undeterred, yet at the same time, infinitely flexible… like the flowing branches of a tree anchored in the trunk of Eternal Truth.

Life is a paradox.  Redefine everything for yourself… for your Self.  The words may not change, but their meaning will.  Truth is subtle.  It cannot be grasped with words.

Do not let your definitions bind you.  Be reverent, free, respectful, strong, humble, and bold.  In the final analysis, obedience and independence are the same thing.

 

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A Regularly Asked Question

by | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 | Spirituality | 6 comments

morningFrom time to time someone asks how to help a soul that committed suicide.  The three suggestions are:

  1. Meditate.  As you evolve, your connection with the person will help them.  Of course, we are all connected so you help everyone when you meditate, but your more direct connection with that person will help them more directly.
  2. Ask Pandit at the temple what puja or ceremony he would recommend.  Have the person’s jyotish chart or birth information available if possible.
  3. Connect with the person.  It works.  It does not need to be a drama.  It can be simple, easy, clean, and beautiful.
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Karmic Sways and Cosmic Waves

by | Thursday, March 15, 2012 | Spirituality | 9 comments

birdKarma moves like a current in the sea… like the flow of the wind on a chaotic breezy day.  It carries you, families, and nations wherever it does.

Feeling into someone’s karma may prompt you to warn them or inform them of what you feel and see.  You may just think you could tell them, “Hey, look at this. Now that you see it, just snap out of it.”  But of course, it is not so simple.

Karma overtakes people by casting a spell, by putting them into a sort of trance state.  Once in that state, it seems they have no choice but to think, act, and believe in accord with the current of that trance, where ever it leads. At first it is a frightening thing to witness.  In time, you understand and act artfully in your dealings with the world of winds of karma.

Why are people so susceptible to the winds of karma?  Because we all long to fly. We long for frictionless flow in our lives. In fact, such natural flow is your birthright. Note there are karmic winds yet there is also the Cosmic Flow, the Cosmic Current that is one with the depth and breadth of all that is.  A frictionless Divine Current underlies all that is, just as the silent stillness at the depth of the ocean underlies all the chaotic waves on the surface.

Your physiology is designed to evolve.  It evolved into existence.  Evolution is its way, its nature, it’s sustenance in life.  Evolution culminates with a Being who has caught the Cosmic Wave, the natural flow of their Divine Essence.

The physiology evolves in that direction.  It longs for the Cosmic Wave.  Yet all along the way, karmic waves ensnare your life through that same mechanic of the physiology… the longing to catch The Wave.

Your affinity for your karma is really just misplaced trust.  You long for God.  As a result of that longing, you grasp at karmic waves, which then capture you and carry wherever they do, throughout the ages.

I implore you.  Do not stop until you find the Cosmic Wave and allow it to catch your sail.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

All Things Gravitate to the Center

by | Tuesday, March 6, 2012 | Spirituality

faceThe Absolute is perceived through the lens of the personality self, complete with the distortions of conditioned emotional responses, belief systems, and indoctrinations.

Before the Hubble telescope, the land telescopes we used looked toward the sun as if from the bottom of a 10 foot deep swimming pool.  The image was distorted. These parallel (map) nicely.

As you evolve, the window of perception clears, as if you are moving toward the surface of the swimming pool.  Yet be it from the bottom of the swimming pool or the top of the highest mountain, you are looking at the same sun, which maps on to the absolute. Even an earthworm, with relentless conviction, crawls through the soil reaching toward the sun.

Evolution means increasing clarity… less distortion.  Yet all remain fervent in their devotion to their conditioning, for though they see the rays of the sun and feel them touching the depth of their soul, they see and feel it through the lens of their conditioning.  They therefore ardently hold to their conditioned beliefs, thinking them to be the truth of the absolute.

Even the atheists (Those poor souls that were presented with such a distorted notion of God that they rejected the notion in total.) continue to feel the pull of Truth, though the very idea of capitalizing the word ‘truth’ may offend them.  Yet it is that light, that sun, that truth (that Truth) that all of life gravitates toward. Just as all water most assuredly returns to the ocean, all souls return to God.

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Response to a Lovely Question

by | Monday, March 5, 2012 | Spirituality | 2 comments

dollThe root is solid, unshaken by thoughts and emotions, while the branches sway and flutter with every breeze.  Yet they are connected.

Emotions are connected to the heart of your soul.  Yet the very heart of your soul remains untouched, unfettered, unshaken.

To what degree are your emotions in infinite harmony with the depth of your being?  Yes, that is the question.

The answer lies within the place that remains untouched.  Awaken to that. Only then will you have your answer.  Yet the answer will even then not be a quantifiable fact.  It will be a feeling.

Wisdom is a feeling.

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