by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, March 6, 2012 | Spirituality
The 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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by Michael Mamas | Monday, March 5, 2012 | Spirituality |
The 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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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, March 4, 2012 | Spirituality |
This is not the same world as it use to be. People think quite differently than they did even just a few decades ago, not to mention a few hundred years ago.
Religion faces decline today for one simple reason. It no longer speaks in the language of the time.
The truth is that it cannot, because its leaders do not understand the scientific rationale of spirituality, and the language of this time is rationality.
By understanding the seamless interface between science and spirituality, we can express spiritual knowledge in a manner that not only makes sense to the people, but also purifies the knowledge of spirituality.
As Adi Shankara said, “The knowledge is easily lost and the understanding must be purified throughout time.” By doing so, we will change the world.
As Nelson Mandela said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
There are some incredible spiritual scholars in the world. I respect them greatly and love to listen to them speak. At the same time, discussions regarding the taste of a strawberry by those who have never tasted one are of limited value.
Spiritual education may start with the intellect but culminates in the heart. I do not here mean the emotional heart, I mean the heart of ones soul, ones being… the absolute.
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, March 3, 2012 | Spirituality |
Spirituality is simply another word for the depth of your being.
I have been savoring that notion. Spiritual evolution is simply seeing and living from that place within with greater and greater clarity.
Yet it is not a ‘clarity trip’. It is not simplistic. It is profound.
It is a physiological state, like the harmony of the branches tips flowing in the breezes of life while firmly rooting in the trunk of the tree. Like smoke from an incense stick. Like water tumbling over the rocks of a mountain stream.
It is unencumbered by conditioned beliefs or emotional upheavals. It is quiet. It is deep. Yet it is dynamic and can cut with uncompromised conviction, while also is balm on the wound of limited thoughts and emotions.
It sees beyond the horizon, yet flows with what is.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, March 1, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
What makes a flower beautiful? A healthy root.
What makes a person happy? A healthy essence.
Tend to the depth of your being first. Then the surface will be fed. Just as a healthy root is the source of a beautiful flower, a healthy essence is the source of a happy life.
By tending excessively to the surface of life without sufficient attention paid to the depth, life is starved of the very source of happiness.
Tend to the depth. If the soul is strong, life will prosper. It is in the depth that you find the strength, creativity, flexibility, wisdom, and intelligence to cultivate a happy life.
In this world today, the surface of life is the primary focus. That is upside down.
Spirituality is really just another word for the depth of life. It is not a philosophy or belief system. It is a state of physiology.
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, February 17, 2012 | Spirituality |
The Absolute is infinite, unbounded, and eternal. Through meditation you rest into that level every day. “Coming back” into relativity can feel quite confining. In relativity there are laws of nature to respect. There are limitations, rules, and regulations. However, by going back and forth between meditation and activity, over time, unboundedness and boundedness become seamlessly integrated. Unboundedness flows through relativity.
The inclination may be to feel negative toward the world and other people. You do not want to have to ‘paint within the lines’ or conform to policies or regulations. These can be experienced as that which is in your way – imposing limitation upon your otherwise exquisite life.
If allowed to do so, relativity is avoided to the point that rarification takes over. You may feel like you are right, above all else, and nearly enlightened. But enlightenment means integration. I have seen people who have gone that route. It is not a pretty sight. They are clearly disconnected from the world and reality. Their head is in the clouds.
The more you meditate, the more you need to engage in activity to integrate it. That is why we structure activity into the ashram program. You cannot meditate your way to enlightenment. You need to integrate existence within you. I do understand that there is a common tendency to sit around and rarify between meditations. But to go that direction would be most unwise.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, February 16, 2012 | Spirituality |
A visionary is not one who just sees the pure, clean, self-evident truth. A visionary is one who commits to that truth and follows wherever it leads.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “The time is always right to do the right thing.”
This is not complicated. The question is not whether you can see the horizon. The question is: Are you willing to steadfastly go where it leads?
Dr King also said, “If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
I would also suggest, “If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t alive.”
Furthermore I would suggest, “If a man hasn’t died, he isn’t alive.”
Death here is not the physical kind.
The only true life comes from the death of death… the death of the life of pettiness, of smallness, of pride, of fear, of what some refer to as the ego or small self. This is attained through commitment to following what you see in the horizon.
I implore you to live.
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, February 14, 2012 | Spirituality |
It has touched my heart through the years to see how beautifully children take to Valentines Day.
The one and only underfying force in all of nature is love… the force that brings separation to oneness.
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All else is illusion.
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In our busy lives it is wonderful that we take one day out of every year to proclaim one sweet and humble thing… purely and innocently… simply that
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We Love
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, February 12, 2012 | Spirituality |
The key to life is good orchestration. If you are not a good orchestrator, life will not work out so well for you.
All the pieces of the puzzle are right in front of you. Are you orchestrating them masterfully?
Imagine a world where all people are masterful orchestrators.
This is certainly valid on the surface of life, yet true orchestration happens at the depth of your being, not the surface. And it may not be how you think it should look, not only regarding others, but even for yourself.
Get the depth right, and the surface will take care of itself. Focus on the depth. No depth, no chance.
You cannot build a solid house with no foundation.
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, February 10, 2012 | Spirituality |
There is an ancient legend. God decided to create the universe. He made the galaxies and the Earth with its oceans, mountains, forests and streams. He created us, so we could enjoy his creation.
However, when we came here and took a look around we decided that we would rather just be back in Heaven with God and simply left this creation and returned to him.
Well, at first God was disappointed and thought: “What can I do to keep man away from Heaven so that he can explore all the wonders of my creation? If I make a ‘key to life’ they will find it. If I put it at the top of the highest mountain they will climb up there and get it. If I put the key at the bottom of the ocean, they will devise a way to get down there to get it.”
Then God had an idea that delighted him; he thought: “I will hide the ‘key to life’ in the very last place that anyone will look—in the depth of their own heart!” And do you know what?…. It worked.
We go all around the world looking for truth and fulfillment. We create great melodramas for ourselves. We get PhD’s. We build empires. We go on spiritual quests and crusades. We find other people that we look up to for the answers. The last place we look is inside ourselves!
The key to life is alive and well—inside of you. You can find it!
Introduction to Consciousness Unfolding, by Michael Mamas
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