I-get-it Syndrome

by Michael Mamas | 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.

Tacking

by Michael Mamas | 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.

Core Offering

by Michael Mamas | 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.