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The Center The Maya Center (click for pictures) is located on 25-Wooded acres in Metamora, Michigan and is owned and operated by Nicole Gabriel. It was organized in June 2008. Find me on Facebook.
 The Maya Center provides the following services: - Energy Healing Training
- Kundalini
Yoga
- Shamanic & Energy Healing
- Various Special Events or Speakers
It is our goal to
provide a comfortable environment for everyone - more of a community, or a home away from home. It is always our goal
to empower and enlighten each person in everything we do and in essence, everything they do. This comes without judgement
and (hopefully) without ego.
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- To help you find your path to empowerment and enlightenment.
- To always provide a comfortable and safe environment.
- To create a
loving community of like-minded people.
- To spread joy - peace, love, and light!
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Please contact me if you would like to rent space in our location for various community
events. nicole_case_99@yahoo.com
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Where Does The Word Maya Come From?
Personal
Connection:
With the below connections the logo was inspired. Lakshmi sits atop a Mayan pyramid. For me
it also bridges the yogic traditions of Kundalini Yoga with the Shamanic of Latin America.
In General:
Maya (Sanskrit), in Indian religions, has multiple meanings. Maya represents a fundamental reality or Truth. Each
person, each physical object, from the perspective of eternity is like a brief, disturbed drop of water from an unbounded
ocean. The goal of enlightenment is to understand this - more precisely, to experience this: to see intuitively that the distinction
between the self and the Universe is a false dichotomy. The distinction between consciousness and physical matter, between
mind and body is the result of an unenlightened perspective.
In Mexico:
The Maya were builders
of great pyramids and cities, a civilization that is know for astronomy and mathematics as advanced as ours. Many associations
have been made between the Maya and other civilizations and times.From speculation of being the roots of Masonry to the newly
reveled roots between Hopi and the Maya, phonic correlations and ancient symbols all suggest the existence of an original
"one language" and the root peoples of what has been referred to as the original "motherland". In
various cultures the ancestors were called Maya: in Africa the Mayax; in Hindi, the Naga Maya; and in Greek, the Cara Maya.
A traditional story tells the the original Maya came from the sky, over the land, accross the sea, and from within the Earth,
and these people have been correlated with the Egyptian, Atlantean, and Lemurian peoples as well as witht Asians, Europeans,
and Africans. Were they star people or just an advanced civilization?
In Hinduism:
Maya is to be seen through, like an epiphany, in order to achieve moksha (liberation of the soul from the cycle of samsara
- reincarnation). Ahamkar (ego-consciousness) and karma are seen as part of the binding forces of Maya.
In Hinduism, Maya is also seen as a form of Laksmi (the logo), a Divine Goddess. Her most famous explication is seen in
the Devi Mahatmyam, where she is known as Mahamaya.
Maya in Hindu Philosophy:
Maya
is the limited, purely physical and mental reality in which our everyday consciousness has become entangled. Maya is held
to be an illusion, a veiling of the true, unitary Self - the Cosmic Spirit also known as Brahman. Many philosophies or religions
seek to "pierce the veil" of Maya in order to glimpse the transcendent truth, from which the illusion of a physical
reality springs.
Maya is said to be neither true nor untrue. Since Brahman is the only truth, Maya cannot be true.
Since Maya causes the material world to be seen, it cannot be untrue. Hence, Maya is described as indescribable. She
has two principle functions: 1.) to veil Brahman and obscure and conceal it from our consciousness. 2.) to present and promulgate
the material world and the veil of duality instead of Brahman. The veil of Maya is piercable and with dilligence and grace,
may be permanently rent.
Consider an illusion of a rope being confused as a snake in the darkness. Just as
this illusion gets destroyed when true knowledge of the rope is perceived, similarly, Maya gets destroyed for a person when
they perceive Brahman with transendental knowledge.
A metaphor is also given - when the reflection of Brahman
falls on Maya, Brahman appears as God (the Supreme Lord). Pragmatically, where the duality of the world is regarded as true,
Maya becomes the divine magical power of the Supreme Lord. Maya is the veritable fabric of duality and she performs this role
at the behest of the Supreme Lord. God is not bound by Maya, just as a magician is not illusioned and deluded by their own
magic.
Maya in Buddhism
There is a range of beliefs in Buddhist thought regarding the
question of the reality of the world. Some schools in the Tibetan tradition espousing the doctrine of Dzogchen posit that
the world is illusory, as a dream:
"The
real sky is (knowing) that samsara and nirvana are merely an illusory display."
-Mipham Rinpoche, Quintessential
Instructions of Mind, p. 117
(Mipham Rinpoche was a prominent Tibetan Buddhist monk and teacher.)
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