I-get-it Syndrome

by | Sunday, September 19, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality

We live in an age where we can pick up a book of the teaching of some enlightened Master and, after an afternoon’s reading, decide we get all that he is saying. This is called the I-get-it Syndrome.  It keeps you stuck.

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We function from our conditioning.  Our life experiences condition our awareness and feelings to function a certain way.  What we think is mostly a function of how we have been conditioned to think.  What we feel is mostly a function of how we have been conditioned to feel.  So, when you read the teachings of a great enlightened Master, you perceive onto them and say, “Oh yeah, I get that.”  The teachings are viewed through your conditioning.

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Thereby, the Master’s words are heard on a superficial level.

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We decide that we understand something simply because we intellectually understand it.

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In that manner, Knowledge is lost.  True knowledge is found as one awakens to one’s inner essence.  Knowledge does not come from out to in.

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True Knowledge is attained from within and radiates out.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Tacking

by | Friday, September 17, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality

When sailing across a body of water,

you don’t make a straight line

from start to finish.

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You tack.

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First you set sail in the general direction.

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Then, you zig one way and zag another.

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This is the way of life…

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Once you have pondered, reflected, and considered various courses of action,

it is time to make a choice and act.

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Life’s path is unfathomable.

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Be prepared to alter your course.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Core Offering

by | Tuesday, September 14, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality | 2 comments

I recently came across something I wrote some time ago.  I can’t really remember when or even who the artist is that I was referring to.  I thought you might like to see it:

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A successful artist once advised: “Stick to your core offering.”

My ‘core offering’ follows:

• No compromising the message of true spirituality for any reason.

• No dogma

• No quick fix.

• No bubble gum

• No emotional hysteria

• No simplistic notions

• No magic tricks

• No hype

• No manipulation

• No compromise for fame or monetary or any other gain

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Only the pure, straight, honest, unadulterated truth. 
Tell it like it is with love, compassion and understanding; but without compromise of purity, honesty, integrity, and truth.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Koran Burning

by | Friday, September 10, 2010 | Spirituality, World View

I received the following question:

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I was wondering if Michael would be willing to comment on the proposed Koran burning by a Christian (anti-Islam) pastor in Florida (which most people find objectionable) and the right to free speech.  How do we reconcile respecting this man’s right to free speech and supporting religious tolerance?

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to which I respond:

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To have a Koran burning would be a juvenile lashing out that would only exacerbate tensions and trigger more juvenile acts in response… children fighting.  Where are the adults??  In a mature society such an act would not take place.  Furthermore, if it did take place, it would not receive the same attention.  People would simply shake their heads, roll their eyes, and walk away.  That response would give it no energy and it would then be of no significance.

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The alternative, attempting to limit freedom of speech, is a dangerous path.  Maybe our cause is moral and just.  However the next individual in power may not have the same moral stature and could then abuse the precedent already established and limit freedom of speech with a despicable intent.

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There then appears to be an irresolvable dilemma. Limiting freedom of speech or not… either way has undesirable consequences.  Life is riddled with an unlimited number of such dilemmas… each with no solution on its own level.

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But there is a solution.  We must look deeper.  We must evolve human consciousness.  This is done by removing the stresses, strains, and impurities from the physiologies of all people.  By so doing, people will behave maturely and responsibly.  Mutual respect, harmony, and maturity will reign.

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Such mature and desirable behavior cannot be delegated.  However, it can be cultivated.  That, quite simply, is the exact thing we are offering to the world.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Identity

by | Saturday, September 4, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality | 1 comment

We live in a time when people are enslaved by identity.  They are either clinging fervently to an identity or frantically searching for one, believing that somewhere out there an identity exists that will answer all their needs and fulfill all aspects of their life.  A healthy relationship with identity starts with knowing there is no such thing as a perfect identity.  The field of identity is the field of imperfection.

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Fulfillment is a state of physiology that lies beyond the grasp of identity.  Religions talk about it.  All of humanity longs for it.  But very few understand it.

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Essential to a healthy life is a healthy relationship with identity.  You function through identity, but are not lost to it.  As a great saint once said:

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The trick is to have the boat in the water, but not have the water in the boat.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Love

by | Friday, September 3, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality

Love is a feeling, not a rulebook.

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‘Conditional love’ is often thought of as terms you must live by in order to be loved by another.  However, we often impose terms upon our own feelings toward someone: “If I love them, then it should look this and that particular way.”

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There is no parameter by which we can judge our love for another.

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Love lies deeper than superficial regulations.  It is an abstraction.  It has no edge.

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Love reaches out beyond the furthest limits of the universe – beyond space and time- to a place where rules and terms cease to exist.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

A Quote

by | Thursday, September 2, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality

Someone sent in a Michael Douglas line from a movie:

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“If you don’t have the guts to love someone with all you’ve got, you don’t have the guts to live.”

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I liked it and responded that it also works reversed:

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If you don’t have the guts to LIVE, you don’t have the guts to love someone with all you’ve got.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Self Improvement

by | Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality

Self-improvement

generally focuses on manipulation of your personality.

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However, personality is superficial.

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True self-improvement

frees something deeper,

a central source of harmony that emanates,

transforming your personality,

your body,

and your soul.

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It is the natural process of

harmonizing with your true nature.

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read more in Look Deeper, Live Better

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.