by Michael Mamas | Monday, April 16, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
With all that is going on in your life and in the world, it can feel like a challenge to remain positive. But positivity is not about the surface. It is about the depth.
What is life’s deepest purpose? What is your deepest relationship with God and how does that determine the course of your life? In fact, how does that determine the course of all of life?
Being positive simply means knowing and remembering the answers to such questions and remaining committed to those answers as the underlying theme and purpose of your life.
Yes, of course, you must tend to the surface. That includes the joy as well as the difficulties. But they must never overshadow your deepest purpose. You are here to evolve… not only yourself, but also all the world.
By holding that in your heart, and living with steadfast commitment to that, you are living a life of positivity. Forward, forward…. be it knee deep in mud, flood, or famine, or basking in the joy of the bright sunshine… do not be distracted.
Positivity means unyielding commitment to the Divinity within you.
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, April 14, 2012 | Mount Soma, Personal Growth |
As a thoughtful being, be more concerned about what you do not do than what you do.
Mount Vishnu at Mount Soma
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
Mojo is a term made popular from the southern blues music era. It means a charmed, almost magical, component to your life.
I am sure you have noticed how some people seem to lead a charmed life in one form or another. Some always seem to get a nice place to live, some always seem to have people around that help them out, others may have a knack at making money, or even winning the lotto.
You have a deep relationship with the Divine. It is unique to you. You do well to explore the nature of that relationship and do all you can to cultivate it, nurture it, evolve it. That is the art of cultivation of mojo.
In the west, it is called ‘luck’. In the Vedic Tradition, it is called ‘support of nature’.
By living in harmony with your own true nature, you live in harmony with all of nature, and thereby receive the support of all of Mother Nature. That is the ‘stuff’ mojo is made of.
Your mojo is unlike any other person’s mojo. Pursue it. Discover it. Live it. “How?” you ask. By meditating, coming to classes (i.e. reflecting deeply within in a manner that take you out of the confinement of your preconceived notions), visiting Mount Soma and Sri Somesvara Temple, and doing your best to live life in accord with what you learn from those experiences.
In the words of Will Rogers, “I would rather be lucky than good.” Translated into Vedic understanding, “By living in harmony with nature, you gain the support of all of Nature.”
In the words of the southern blues movement, “Get your mojo workin’ “.
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | Spirituality |
Winston Churchill said, “We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
If he were not correct, Sat Yuga would never end.
Of course, if that were so, time would not breath.
Of course if time did not breath, there would be no manifest universe.
Up creates down. Complexity is born of simplicity.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, April 8, 2012 | Spirituality |
“For Christ is Risen and all the earth’s at play”
The second coming of Christ is happening in the form of the rise of trancendental awareness throughout the world.
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, April 7, 2012 | Spirituality |
Sigmond Freud said, “The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.”
Adi Shankara called the spiritual path the path of discernment. As one discerns, ones understanding evolves. To evolve means to change. If one clings to old understandings, discernment ceases and evolution is obstructed. Dogma then prevails. If that is done, religion stagnates and is then rejected by those who discern.
Use knowledge to evolve your spiritual understanding. When done with wisdom, humility, and grace this process does not mark the decline of religion but the blossoming of it.
To discard the old all together is to throw out the baby with the bathwater, but to use knowledge to evolve ones understanding is to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, April 5, 2012 | Spirituality |
“People with opinions just go around bothering each other.” – Buddhist Quote
I like this quote. Life is paradox.
Enjoy the Cosmic Joke… It’s everywhere.
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, April 3, 2012 | Spirituality |
The 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.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, April 2, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
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.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, April 1, 2012 | Spirituality |
The 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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