"He who knows is silent; he who does not,
speaks."
well that sure nails it as far as you are concerned, meaning that you yap so
much because you don't know shit from Shine-ola.
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From: "'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Day in the Life (of A TM'er)
On 8/19/2014 10:51 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
>Richard, this reminds me of something David Deida talks about on youtube. I'm
>gonna paraphrase: that we're like the light coming in through a broken, dirty,
>stained glass window. Successful therapy leads to fixing the broken glass;
>successful yoga leads to cleaning the dirty glass; but successful spiritual
>practice leads one to experience that they are the light. Thus endeth fixing
>and cleaning!
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We do not really gain enlightenment; enlightenment is always present, but it is
obscured by a kind of veil, as it were, called "maya" in Sanskrit. That is, we
see through a glass darkly. In order to remove that veil, we must transcend to
a state of pure awareness and dwell there until the enlightened mind becomes
our ordinary state of mind. It is impossible to tell if another person is
enlightened or not - all that is important is if your teacher has enlightened
you.
An old Zen maxim states: "He who knows is silent; he who does not,
speaks."
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>On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:42 AM, "'Richard J. Williams'
>pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>On 8/19/2014 9:39 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
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>>Richard, your comment here about being either bound or free is pretty
>>profound. Can we not be both? A favorite book title I've shared before:
>>Freedom Doesn't Mind Its Chains.
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>We are either free or we are bound.
According to ancient Indian sages,
Kapila, Gotama, and Patanjali, human
existence is bound by suffering. Why?
Because, there is birth, which is
painful; disease, lamentation and grief
in human life, which is painful; and old
age and death, which are all painful.
And, because of reincarnation, the
realization that suffering is endless
and cyclic, never-ending rounds of
rebirth and pain. We are all bound by
our actions of the past (karma), the
natural law of cause and effect. At
first reading this sounds very
depressing and negative, which would
cause the reflective reader to ask
themselves "If we are bound, by what
means can we free ourselves?" If free,
would there be any need for a yoga
practice?
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>What you need to need do is try to "burn
up" the latent effects (samskaras) of
your past actions through yoga practices
(tapas) and go around doing good (karma
yoga), dedicating all your actions to
your family and for the good of all. You
are only going to get as much freedom as
you are going to get.
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>>On Monday, August 18, 2014 3:15 PM, "'Richard J. Williams'
>>pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>>On 8/18/2014 12:51 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
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>>>Much to think about as always. I like the idea that everyone thinks they see
>>>the truth, letting go of that is an essential first step. I think I have a
>>>well functioning bullshit detector, but is that the case? We need some sort
>>>of framework to stay sane but hopefully one that doesn't dismiss the
>>>potentially useful.
>>>=
>>>It works!
>>>=
>>>Learning TM changed my life, but not in the advertised way. Life has always
>>>been good and I've always been thrilled just to be alive and feel the rain.
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>>We are all
either bound
or free. If
bound, by what
means can we
free
ourselves? If
we are already
free, why
would we need
a yoga or a
meditation
technique?
>>>
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>>Where does it go from here? Finding that out is the best bit.
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>>Here is the
framework for
your
non-functioning
bullshit
detector. I
hope it is
useful - it
works for me:
>>
>>"What I'm
talking about
is slowly
lifting up off
the sofa and
sitting
>>in midair for
two to three
minutes. Or
stepping up
off the ground
in
>>the desert and
then flying
around several
feet above the
ground for a
>>while." -
TurquoiseB
>>
>>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/143231
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>>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote :
>>>I think it is rather difficult to parse out the 'Biggest Most Meaningful
>>>Event in your entire lives!!!'=
>>>For me learning TM was a significant event in light of subsequent events.
>>>But several years before, an event occurred that eventually led to TM, and I
>>>think that prior event was more significant. As every event is
>>>interconnected to other events, it is somewhat arbitrary to say exactly
>>>which one might have been the linchpin of the whole thing.
>>>=If one wants to trace events, the Big Bang could be said to have started it
>>>all, assuming that idea is true. Awakening could be considered a big event,
>>>but it is not meaningful because it is beyond the ability of thought to
>>>parse, and it is just a passing experience that illuminates life, but its
>>>implications turn out to be more useful over time than the actual
>>>experience, grand as it might have been — a blip of insight, but a blip
>>>nonetheless. To lift your finger requires the entire history of the universe
>>>behind it if one thinks in terms of time and space and significance. So how
>>>would you choose? Satire and humour show us things that our conditioning
>>>would otherwise blind us from seeing.
>>>=
>>>By the way if you are chagrined that means you are 'distressed or
>>>embarrassed at having failed or been humiliated'. I think of the TMO as an
>>>intellectually challenged organisation and it has a lot of behavioural
>>>faults, in my opinion, and it acts with a cult mentality born of its
>>>religious roots. TM served me well for many many years, but its utility has
>>>reached the end of the road for the most part.
>>>=
>>>Yesterday I took a hike through the nearby forest. The result of mine
>>>however, is classified. It was a nice description you made though, of the
>>>hike you made yesterday. Why is it that everyone seems to think that what
>>>they think is true? If the world is illusion, why not play in the sands of
>>>time, what is so significant about that? If you have reality surely what
>>>others say cannot bother you that much.
>>>=
>>>I put an equal sign between paragraphs in case Neo is continuing its removal
>>>of paragraph spacing.
>>>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote :
>>>I am chagrined for the three or four of you, who are into this.
>>>Dim dreams and fantasies of old geezers. Do you guys really care about all
>>>of this, still? I thought the big thing around here was to demonstrate
>>>"mindfulness" and "being in the now" and "not being a cult member", and here
>>>you all are delighting in this detailed satire of what appears to be the
>>>Biggest Most Meaningful Event in your entire lives!!! TM and the TMO.
>>>Seriously? Making fun of all the tired, spider-webby crap? Haven't moved on,
>>>one bit, biggest damned thing that happened to any of you -
>>>What do you people do the rest of the time, watch the grass grow, or work
>>>crossword puzzles? You guys live in three different countries, with all the
>>>creativity and adventure that conjures up, and instead, you sit and drool
>>>over long ago memories, of the TMO, and tilting at absent windmills.
>>>Enjoy that nursing home in your head, MJ, Sal, Anytax, and Barry - It looks
>>>like they have early check-in...
>>>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote :
>>>This is priceless, up there with Barry's best productions.
>>>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote :
>>>A Day in the Life (of a TM'er)
>>>Governor wakes up, but in fact he has not been asleep having witnessed his
>>>sleep all <snip>
>>>
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