Upcoming Nationwide TM Group Meditation Sunday, February 24, 4:30 pm CST
Please join us for our next Nationwide Group Meditation on February 24 Group Meditation at 5:05 pm CST New for those meditating at the same time on their own For those who cannot make it to a Center, we’d still love you to join us by meditating at the same time [5:05 pm CST], wherever you are. Also, record your “remote” participation by clicking here https://mum.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0baef123e6d28ab4b21c9087a&id=f6f8b52083&e=919bd5d8cb : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7DBKq03QIF3yBKMIiWZqdgMtFP-osumn-g-uyNyfK-DI04g/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7DBKq03QIF3yBKMIiWZqdgMtFP-osumn-g-uyNyfK-DI04g/viewform We look forward to seeing you at our Nationwide TM Group Meditation on February 24, and then again on the March 24 Global Group Meditation. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : ..based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program, As strange as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit down on a daily basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field effect" of coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the surrounding population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The outcomes, confirmed repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent and measurable decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader: Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew? The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are cobbled and wordsmithed. Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs, now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper. Get it down to simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in the group programs for superradiance. This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on ‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause in the membership application guideline. There is no sense now to having the office staff there investigating that one on people anymore. The pundit program had been a long endured suction of resource out of the Fairfield community. That clause about people spending monies on ‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya along with the couple of other clauses that are left there as some kind of fealty test within the membership guidelines is just needlessly inflammatory to succeeding with the Dome attendance numbers and superradiance in Fairfield now. Sincerely, Doug Hamilton. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : A morality, Q: I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral character” in the air when we first came here from Amherst. A: Meditation in groups, Maharishi was consistent the whole way about the utility of group meditating influencing a wellbeing of good for others at a distance. This remarkable idea in practice is a simple disruptor to a lot of people’s material paradigm but after so many decades of inquiry in to this observation the science has well borne out the hypothesis. And, Guru Dev too in his spiritual construct on moral order could have easily agreed now given what all we know from the inquiry of science, that people who do not go to group meditations when they could join with them are being amoral in their selfishness. That someone sitting out in a coffee house whether in Leiden watching videos on their laptop or those meditators idle downtown around the Fairfield, iowa town square at Paradiso, the Cider House, the Sushi bar, or in Revelations during the communal group meditation is near to worthless and worse morally in their contribution to the general good and communal welfare, a drag, amoral. So this, the virtue of group meditation is now in the reach of this spiritual but not religious time of science and spirituality that we do live in. Yet, people who would stay home by themselves, be it some Raja hold up somewhere out there by themselves, or an editor working overtime somewhere and may be would meditate later, but also an administration and its defenders with a religious-like adherence to ill-serving guidelines that should keep people away who could otherwise be meditating with the group evidently are all worst than sad but pretty bad morally. Jai Guru Dev. Thread 437705 Re: What did ‘Guru Dev’ say on Spiritual Morality and its Moral Compass https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437705 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437705 .< Interesting to see how the principles of higher moral character that were the communal experiment started at Amherst in ‘78 have been eroded and hurt in the administration of it. For outsiders or people from away looking in on the experiment I recommend their reading "Greetings From Utopia Park" and listening to the NPR 'Fresh Air' interview of Claire Hoffman for insight to how it went. I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral character” in the air when we first came here from Amherst. Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. Times vary. A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM group, not turning out for what was superradiance of the group. The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now. # ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. -The Buddha ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Meditate and Act Meditation with activity has always been the TM teaching (B.Gita II v 48). This teaching was one of the things also used to convince a change in the administration policy at a point to modify the ‘long’ IAAssembly morning program rounds to get it all shortened down more to what it is now with the idea according to the teaching to get them out of there and in to the world and community before the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do things’ of life and be in the community. That was important to have happen at the time for people’s health and general wellbeing. The long program the way it was enforced was turning folks in to pale renunciates in front of us here in the community. Then it is just a matter of how people may use their time between meditations. Turning compost for health is not a bad use of time. Meditate and perform action. Communicating this by FFL was an effective element at the time in turning this around for the better. . Jai Guru Dev ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <r...@searchsummit.com> wrote : I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc. Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings. Rick Archer Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation The Authorities? Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants. It is their job to gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives. Yes, with potentially long interrogation. One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you promote with BATGAP. The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in detail over applicants. The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating community. The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its effective place in communications. But, the people who investigate Dome membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process. May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal Dome meditation attendance numbers. Jai Guru Dev ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <r...@searchsummit.com mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote : So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and exclude them if they feel inclined? Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty in his department sometimes. Rick Archer Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com https://batgap.com From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. Times vary. A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM group, not turning out for what was superradiance of the group. The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now. A radical transcendentalist's response to excuses, like the.. This Insulting Frenchman's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : banned from the Domes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg It is time to start with the membership guidelines anew with a clean sheet of paper. (Message over 64 KB, truncated)
