by Michael Mamas | Friday, September 9, 2016 | Vedic Technology |
I just published a new article on Medium.com:
“A New Paradigm for World Peace?”
It begins:
“We hear on the news every day about the current economic crisis, Syrian refugees, ISIS, killings within our country, and the list goes on. Sometimes it feels like nothing is working. However, it’s not just today. Even world history reads like a horror story: world wars, mass genocide, famine, drought, and disease. Yet we continue with the same old approaches to solve our problems: yet another new economic plan, more government control, less government control, new leadership, and the formation of still another department to address this issue or that. The truth of the matter is none of this is making things better. We all know the world is in turmoil and nobody knows what to do about it. But there is good news, if only we are willing to hear it”…
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, August 23, 2016 | Vedic Arts |
Saturn and Mars have been slowly getting closer and closer to one and other in Scorpio. Wednesday, August 24, Saturn and Mars will be right on top of each other in Scorpio making that difficult conjunction most severe.
After that, they begin to separate so things should then slowly get better.
Then, on September 18, Mars will transit to the next sign, ending the Saturn – Mars conjunction, which should be much better.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, August 14, 2016 | Spiritual Evolution |
The mind is a product of conditioning. As Maharishi Patanjali said, karma plus prana equals mind. How one’s mind is programmed to function is the product of one’s karma. Freedom from programming can be called the state of ‘no mind.’ The awareness then operates from a level free of conditioning. Though one in that state may not appear to be so different from others, in actuality they are profoundly different. In aspiring to that state, some strive to modify how they appear on the surface to prove they are making progress, but that is incorrect thinking.
When the mind is free, one could say it ceases to exist. Or one could say that their mind has been freed from karma and now is a ‘cosmic mind.’ Provided the underlying principle is understood, the rest is a matter of semantics or definition of the term ‘mind.’ However you define it, the reality is that one now can see beyond the limitations of programming or indoctrination.
This simple two-boxes-or-three diagram illustrates how the same thing can be seen in different ways. Is the structure a diagram of two boxes or three? It can be viewed either way, as the highlighting illustrates. Similarly, the structure of our world can be viewed not just in two different, but in an unlimited number of ways. Through conditioning however, we are programmed to see things according to the paradigm of our identities. This limits one’s awareness, and limits the possibilities available to life.
Freedom is an internal state of awareness. When the mind is limited, we are not free. We then feel constrained and may strive to break loose by escaping or changing our worldly circumstances. We look for freedom where it does not exist. The constraint of mind then follows us wherever we go until the time comes when the mind is freed from within.
When the mind is free, life is a field of infinite possibilities. That is why it is called spiritual liberation… emancipation. It is an internal state of being, not an external set of circumstances. Some call it enlightenment. It is the state of true freedom.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, August 11, 2016 | Spiritual Evolution |
“People aren’t afraid of change, they’re afraid of being changed.”
I saw this quote on the Internet but the source was not provided. I like it. It is sort of like something I believe Winston Churchill said: “I like learning, I just don’t like being taught.” It also offers a perspective on: “You can’t take it with you.”
We tend to be quite identified with how we see ourselves. We do not like that messed with. We want to improve, but feel threatened by the idea that we need to change in order to do so! In the expression “I want to get enlightened”, we want the ‘I’ to go through that portal intact. The very expression: “I want to get enlightened” carries that contradiction with it. The “I” in that quote must cease to exist in its current form to pass through that portal.
Life is funny… It’s all a paradox.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, August 8, 2016 | The Veda, Vedic Technology |
HuffingtonPost.com just published another one of my articles. It begins:
“An ancient Seer sits in his cave atop a mountain. From deep within his being where he is one with everything, the subtle impulses underlying all of life flow through him and out his vocal cords.
“The ancient Seers awoke to that one Transcendental thing that is the source of everything, the source of their souls, which then allowed the song that it sings to emerge pure and unfettered from within them. The ancients called this “cognition”—the highest, yet most elusive, form of knowing”…
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"Another Way of Knowing"
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