Carpe Diem

by | Thursday, August 21, 2014 | World View | 3 comments

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There is no greater fortune than to have this knowledge and be in a human physical body. Seize the day!

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Fortune favors the bold.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

What is Enlightenment?

by | Monday, August 11, 2014 | Favorites, Spirituality | 11 comments

sunEveryone senses it within… people, animals, even insects… Some may simply call it the instinct for self preservation.

It has many names… the soul, the self, inner divinity, the unified field, Oneness, God… call it what you will.

Through evolution, the sense of it becomes clearer and clearer… Along the way, there are many awakenings… glimpses, hints, faint whispers of what is to come…

As water cools, it comes to know the nature of ice more and more fully… Yet, at one point it crystalizes… it becomes ice… and everything changes…

Everything in creation gravitates back to the Oneness out of which it came. It is that Oneness that you are sensing deep inside… that you are being drawn toward… like a moth around a candle flame… like a plant reaching to the Sun… like a mountain stream to the ocean… until that moment when it all comes together… it crystalizes… that moment is called enlightenment…

It is not that anything goes away…
The full range of thoughts and emotions remain… The you that was… remains… But the real YOU emerges in full splendor… like a backdrop to all of creation… And in that moment, your relationship with everything changes… forever… You realize that nothing is really happening… that relative existence is a beautiful, glorious, magnificent mirage… a virtual image… like a reflection in the mirror, lightly etched on the face of Being… your Being… the only thing that really IS… Shiva… You and God are One…

The Self that you sensed deep inside, overtakes the universe…

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The Key to Proper Behavior #2

by | Monday, July 28, 2014 | Personal Growth | 2 comments

flowerSeveral people asked that I post this as a separate blog instead of a comment to the previous blog:

What contributes to the challenge of life is that beliefs, be they based upon Divinity or samskaras within, are experienced as truth. Notions considered positive, constructive, wise, and laudable can still be the result of samskaras. People hold to them as Divine. They justify them with scripture and quotes from the Veda or other Holy books. Life experiences justify your world view, whatever that world view may be. That is why often the most ‘educated’ or ‘advanced’ people are the hardest to move forward… Because from their perspective, they already have the answers. Indoctrination is all too often mistaken for evolution. That is to say, samskaras are all too often mistaken for the Divine.

Only rarely, does one catch a glimpse of what lies beyond those world views. The Guru can help you with that, but only if you are open to it.

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On Negativity

by | Wednesday, July 16, 2014 | Personal Growth | 5 comments

leavesI entered the following as a comment to a previous blog, but was asked to post it as a separate blog:

 
Everyone has negative thoughts in one form or another. That is ok… That does not matter. View them as nothing more than gnats buzzing around as you go about your business… your purpose…
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As the stagecoach goes forward, it naturally stirs up some dust. Who cares? Our focus is on the goal, not the dust. Our focus remains on our purpose… steady hand on the rudder!
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