by Michael Mamas | Sunday, May 29, 2011 | Spirituality
Function from feeling, not thought.
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You can justify anything with thoughts… with the intellect. Learn to feel deeply.
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Yet feeling deeply is often confused with feeling intensely. Deep feelings are refined feelings. They are the gateway to wisdom.
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At the foundation of your life is being. It emerges into relativity as the finest of feelings. Then, it blossoms into reason. Finally it emerges at thoughts. As the physiology purifies (as you evolve), this process becomes more integrated, less distorted.
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Einstein did not think up the unified field. He felt it. Through reflection, that feeling seemed reasonable. Only then did it emerge as a concrete thought. Genius is nothing more than integration.
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Concepts are the finest of thoughts. Facts are more superficial.
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Yet many think if they know all about spirituality, then they are wise. Not so. Too superficial.
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Wisdom is far more profound than the simple parroting of wise words and pantomiming of alleged ‘sagacious ‘acts.
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, May 27, 2011 | Personal Growth |
Some situations are simply difficult and would result in misery for most anyone.
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However, if you and your loved ones have reasonable health, sufficient food, and a place to sleep at night, and misery still seems to follow you around, it is likely that something else is going on.
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Think of a piece of folded, (creased) paper. Unfold that paper and then push on it. The paper will fold on that same crease every time.
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Your psycho-physiology is the same. Your psyche is primarily based upon the physiology of your nervous system. If there is a fatigue in some aspect of your nervous system that relates to your psyche, it will result in a recurring ‘fold in your paper,’ so to speak – causing a specific negative emotion to recur. It may be misery or anger or something else.
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This sort of fatigue is deeply trenched in the physiology. Sleep alone rarely heals it. Meditation is your best tool. The best meditation for this (as well as for evolution toward enlightenment) is taught for free.
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There is another very important tool you can use. Learn to not indulge the negative emotion. Find a way out! That can involve by simply choosing to think another way in the moment.
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For example, the other day I was running late for a ceremony and could not find the proper clothes to wear. Searching every drawer and closet, as soon as I felt myself getting frustrated, I decided to think another way. “It is okay.” I told myself. “I can just wear something else.” I did just that and all was fine. Remember: What you put your attention on grows stronger.
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There is an appropriate time to explore a negative emotion to attempt to free it up. You can feel the feeling and ask where it came from in childhood, etc. This can be of real value. However, people who get on to that approach often over do it.
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We have all seen balloons that inflate to become a cat or heart shape or any number of other shapes. When there is not sufficient air in the balloon, it is wrinkled and the shape is distorted. Your physiology is like a balloon. It must be filled with energy and consciousness for you to be happy. It is just that simple.
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I have just summarized the tools you need to do this. Now it is up to you.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, May 25, 2011 | Spirituality
How to pronounce the R in the mantra ‘Ram’?
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It is not a hard ‘R’ as in gr-r-r-r like the growl of a tiger
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It is not like the European rolled R.
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It is properly pronounced by forming your lips to make an R sound, but then saying Lam. The sound of the R is between R and L.
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If you cannot do this right now, then just say Lam. That is much better than saying Ram with a gr-r-r like R.
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Then, keeping the R/L combination sound in mind, in time, it will come to you naturally.
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It is important to use this sound while meditating. However, in conversation, for example when referring to Lord Rama, it is fine to speak it with the hard gr-r-r-r R sound. Even Indians often do that. This ‘R’ sound applies to many Sanksrit terms, such a Surya.
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REMEMBER: This is Sanskrit, which is cognized, which means the language of nature. By learning to make these sounds, you are aligning your being with your nature… Mother Nature.
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NOTE: When learning to meditate, it is best to begin with the Surya Ram Meditation which is taught for free. After a month or two, it is best to then switch to the Surya Ram Meditation with Advanced Technique. We offer a dvd with an instruction booklet for free. You just need to pay shipping and handling.
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, May 24, 2011 | Spirituality
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You are not your body. You are not your thoughts. You are not your emotions. Having said that once in a lecture, a woman raised her hand and bewilderedly asked, “Well, what else is there.”
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Shocked and saddened, I answered, “What lies beyond the body, thoughts, and emotions is the grandeur of your being… limitless, unbounded, and eternal.”
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To intellectually know that is a good beginning. To awaken to it is marvelous. Do not mistake the beginning for the goal.
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Reflecting upon this, I once asked a student with whom I was having lunch in a restaurant, “Tell me something. When you look at this salt shaker, do you not see it is God?”
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He responded by saying, “I have heard your lectures and know you say it is God. I believe you and try to see that. But honestly, when I look at it, all I see is a salt shaker.”
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I strive to understand what life like that is like. That makes me a better teacher. However, it would be better if you worked to see what I see.
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The best of what you are goes unnoticed by you. Relativity is lightly etched on the face of being, yet it is what this world is made of. It is truly the world of wanting. Relativity, duality, is the world of separation… the world of wanting.
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Strive to cultivate awareness so you can be in it, but not lost to it. That is not an attitude or philosophy. It is a state of consciousness.
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Knowledge, as it is said, is structured in consciousness. Facts only point in a direction. They are all too often confused with Truth.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, May 23, 2011 | Mount Soma
I have a favor to ask all of you.
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I am simply buried in emails – literally hundreds. I do not know if I can possibly respond to them all.
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Not only was I unable to respond to emails during the Kumbhabhisekam, but a wave of questions have been pouring in over the past few days. Many of them are asking the same few questions.
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Please be patient and understand that a blog will be coming out to address these questions.
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Also, if I do not respond to your recent email, please understand. If they are truly pressing, please resubmit in a couple of weeks.
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