by Michael Mamas | Friday, September 28, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
Certainly, there are aspects of life that are private. It is appropriate to keep them to yourself. However, it is important to know the difference between these things and what I will call humiliation secrets. Humiliation secrets involve aspects of your inner world that you have a charge or shame around. They include false prides, self-judgments, and fear of judgments from others if they knew. Such things create an inner world that you protect and, consciously or unconsciously, keep hidden from the view of others. If they were seen or known by others, you would feel humiliated.
Before I proceed, let me make it clear that I am not saying these aspects of yourself should be shared with the world as some sort of self improvement technique. Absolutely not. Some things are best kept to yourself, in the name of dignity if nothing else! These days, some are all too willing to compromise their dignity in the name of openness. That is not what I am talking about here.
What I am speaking of is your relationship with your inner world, your inner secrets about yourself. If your relationship with such things is not healthy, you create a contorted, tense, in the shadows, underworld within. That is not healthy. You can rationalize a justification to keep these things private. In fact, those justifications may well be valid. However, I say again, I am speaking here of your relationship with those hidden aspects of your inner world… the ‘charge’ you may have around them. Those inner tensions are self-damaging. With them, you turn much of your energy against yourself. It is exhausting and destructive. Such inner tensions preclude being at peace with yourself. Furthermore, others sense those tensions within you. That elicits feelings of dislike, mistrust, judgment, aversion, and fear toward you.
To heal those inner channels of the heart and mind you would do well to take a look at them… explore them within yourself. Inner peace means arriving at the point where you realize that you are fine. You are fine. In fact, you are better than fine. You are Divine. It is your relationship with self that can be a problem. The self is always fine.
If you find yourself tiptoeing through life for fear of your humiliation secrets being glimpsed by others (or faced by yourself), take heed of what I say here. Doing so does not necessarily mean sharing those things with others. Again, that may be inappropriate and undignified. However, you would do well to find within yourself the state of rest and inner peace… the place where you feel fine within yourself.
In the final analysis, you really have nothing to hide. Certainly not in the sense I am speaking here. You are fine. You are fine. Only your relationship with your inner world can create tensions within that inner world. They are like knots within. To be physically and mentally healthy, those knots need to unravel. That goes beyond self-acceptance of those knots, and requires moving past the humiliation secret that holds them tightly in place.
We all share the same one humanity. Really, there are no secrets. The Guru sees and is at peace with all of you because the Guru knows and is at peace with all of himself. To become wise, is to find that within yourself. It is called inner contentment.
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 | Personal Growth |
“The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.” – Benjamin Franklin
These days, most strive to be clever. Who outsmarts others? Who insists on hearing a different drum a-drummin’? Who shrewdly functions outside the box? Who defiantly paints outside the lines?
That sort of street mentality may get you a horse, but it won’t get you a happy and fulfilling life. Prosperity is far more than money. Deep inside, we all long for God. The cunning just don’t understand what they long for. The wise do.
Strive for the highest. The hare may get speedy results, but as in the old children’s story, the tortoise wins the race. Use what energy you have to attain true happiness. Leave the street behind.
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, August 25, 2012 | Favorites, Personal Growth, Spirituality |
Psychosis is a mental disorder characterized by a life of emotions, perceptions, and thoughts that are so distorted that the individual has severely impaired contact with reality. Neurosis is essentially everyone else. My dad used to say that ‘we’re all nuts.’ Now add to the mix the notion of subtle sight, hearing, etc. and we are in a delicate arena indeed. You can justify anything with the intellect and people certainly do!
How do you know if you perceptions are perception, psychosis, or neurosis? To my way of thinking psychosis is blatant, even to the ordinary observer. However, regarding neurosis verses subtle perception, I have seen many, New Agers in particular, who could use a lot more humility in the matter. It boils down to having ‘a healthy relationship with’ your perceptions.
No one really perceives. We all project. We perceive on to. Wisdom includes having a healthy relationship with that fact. The more fully integrated the surface of your being is with the depth, the healthier your relationship with these matters. But then, how do you know how integrated you are?
You must learn to discern. This includes learning how to use other people as a mirror. That too is subtle. You can find people to collude with easily enough. However, do keep in mind that everyone, at the depth of their being, is infinitely wise… one with the Unified Field… one with God. Therefore, on that level everyone can sense how healthy they and others are. Yet that knowing is masked by ones neurosis or psychosis, i.e. ones conditioning (samskaras).
It is a double bind, isn’t it? It seems like there is no way to know, doesn’t it? Well that’s life, isn’t it? Most look for a solid handle on life to cling to. However, the only absolute there is has no handle. It is like a soft cloud you rest upon. It is the Self. It is God… the place you are one with God. From a scientific perspective, it is the Unified Field. As you evolve you awaken to it more and more. Your physiology becomes more and more fully integrated with it. However, it does not come with a handle.
Introducing subtle perception to others must be done wisely. Otherwise, the introduction becomes an invitation to neurosis, if not psychosis. But to throw out the baby with the bathwater and reject the entire arena is unfortunate. You must learn to discern. I strive to help my students, as well as my kids, cultivate discernment. Only then can you well navigate the subtle arena of life.
I remember years ago I attended an expo where there was a room of people offering ‘psychic readings’. One glance at the group was enough to convince me I wanted nothing to do with it. If you are honest with yourself, and reflective, then you can develop insight enough to have a good sense of the person you are speaking to.
This may be disconcerting to many who want a simple cookbook approach to all of life. There are many out there that offer that and many cling to those offerings. I will not do that, because it is not the way life really is. On the other hand, the beauty of life lies in its subtlety… in its elusive nature… in knowing that the only true knowing is knowing that you know nothing.
After all, the unified field is beyond relativity. It is the field of ‘No Thing Ness’. How beautiful… God is beyond thingness, yet permeates all things.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, August 23, 2012 | Personal Growth |
I remember how amazing it was the first time I saw chakras on a Teddy Bear. My daughter wrote the following blog. Pretty good for nine years old. Proud father…
STUFFED FEELINGS
Everything has a feeling, or a type of energy. I just got a new stuffed animal named Pepper and when I first got her, it was just another cute stuffed animal. Now, she has energy. She feels nice and quirky.
I know it sounds weird but believe it or not, everything has feelings. If you were a stuffed animal, you would not be able to get hurt by anything a person does physically; you would only get hurt in emotions. Yes, they do have emotions and you do too, right? Just because they can’t talk, doesn’t mean you can’t put an energy into them or the place you got them.
Now I revealed the truth…
everything has feelings.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, August 16, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
Humanity is in love with its idealized notions. The concept of enlightenment and spirituality are permeated with such notions. Much of my work has been to separate the wheat of spirituality from the chaff of false notions. Needless to say, that meets with a great deal of resistance.
As the following quote suggests, idealized notions include much more of life than just spirituality.
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” – Thomas Sowell
I would only take issue with “of the Western world over the past three decades.” When humanity is without a clear sense of the transcendent, attempts to replace it with idealized notions run rampant in the hearts and minds of the people. No arena is left untouched… psychology, love, politics, philosophy, ethics, justice… even the hard sciences like physics. Such echoes of truth, perceived as truth, hold truth at bay for lifetimes.
That is world history in a nutshell.
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, August 7, 2012 | Personal Growth |
Laws do not create harmony and order. Alignment with Natural Law creates harmony and order.
When humanity finally aligns with Natural Law, harmony and order will reign and the lawmakers will claim it was their administration that finally created the right set of laws.
That is like looking out the windows of a train speeding through the forest and claiming that the trees are moving.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, August 1, 2012 | Mount Soma, Personal Growth |
Since you are reading the blogs, please be sure you read all the comments. They often open many excellent doors inspiring many lovely and valuable interactions.
I invite you to not only read them, but perhaps also break the ice and join in!
Of course, if you prefer to be a silent witness, you are also most welcome to do so. However, do know your input is missed.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, July 30, 2012 | Favorites, Personal Growth |
“He that can compose himself is wiser than he that composes books.” – Benjamin Franklin
The trick is not to stifle yourself, but to express yourself in a constructive manner. Your points are secondary to your ability to communicate those points. Communication requires communion.
Also, if one is not willing to listen, why speak? Your best chance of having someone listen, is to cultivate the art of self-composure. By virtue of of your self-composure they will more likely be on the edge of their seat, ready to listen.
What the world needs is more self-composure. Then all else is possible. The highest form of composure comes from the very depth of your being.
Proper meditation is the gateway.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, July 25, 2012 | Favorites, Personal Growth, Spirituality |
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein
When you consider a situation, when you look at a picture, when a notion comes to mind, use it as a portal, a catalyst, to all the possible scenarios it implies. The literal nature of it is confinement. The true nature of it is infinite and freeing.
Anything before you is a signpost pointing in all directions toward unbounded freedom and unlimited possibilities. It is only for you to connect the dots. The pathways are there if only you open yourself to seeing them. Confining yourself to the literal is a travesty. Every thing is a gateway to all that is.
Intelligence and knowing the literal meaning are often equated, but in truth they have almost nothing to do with each other. They are only tangentially related… barely touching at only a point. They might best be viewed as enemies. They become friends only when each is a springboard launching your heart and mind in the direction of the other.
Every point and particle in space and time is a possibility cloud that reaches to infinity. Clinging to the literal collapses unboundedness down to a tiny little point value. You have no limits other than those you impose upon yourself.
You are free.
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
Karma means action. A couple hundred years ago, Sir Isaac Newton came up with many laws of karma on the physical level of existence. Like everything else, those laws permeate creation on all levels. For example, let’s take his ‘for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.‘ On a more cosmic level we say it as ‘what goes around comes around.‘ Momentum (Newton’s Mass x Velocity) is expressed as ‘having a full head of steam’ or as being ‘on a roll.’ Newton’s laws of classic physics permeate all levels of life. Even Einstein’s laws of relativity are simply that with a bit of a twist as you move through existence from one level (one reality) to the next and to the next (i.e. move transgradiently).
Inertia is ‘the tendency for an object in motion to remain in motion and an object at rest to remain at rest.’ Interestingly enough, before Newton, everyone thought that an object in motion would naturally slow down. That is, of course, not true. The reason we may think it is true is because outside forces, like friction, are acting upon the object.
Inertia can be your best friend… good habits, healthy routines, ‘moving in the right direction’, etc. However, inertia often presents your greatest challenges… bad habits, routines, etc. You do very, very well to take a look at the inertia in your life. Having trouble getting up off the couch to go to the gym? That’s called inertia.
People tend to love inertia so much that ‘moving in another direction,’ even from a wrong to a right direction, is resisted. People aspire to inertia… getting their life ‘on cruise control’ so they can coast. That can be a good thing if the routine is a healthy (evolutionary) one. One wonderful aspect of ashram living is that everyone goes to meditation twice daily… that flow just carries you along.
Inertia (like all of life) gets really tricky. What you think and how you think are also subject to inertia. People avoid change in this regard. For example, what someone may think is ‘healthy’ usually has a great deal of inertia to it. How well I know that people’s relationship with spirituality has inertia to it. Your relationships with people have inertia to them also, don’t they?
At any rate, please take time to explore your relationship with inertia in any and all aspects of your life. Otherwise it can remain one of your greatest foes. To become a master of life, master your relationship with inertia. Then it becomes one of your greatest allies.
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