[FairfieldLife] Spirituality Ghetto style

[Ravi Yogi]

>From my FB note - wanted to summarize all the yogi talk spread over
several posts. Thank you FFL for making this happen - love ya.

I spend quite a bit of time on a list which is full of intellectuals
thoroughly fascinated with their intellects. All through my life I have
loved to shock and to shock these intellectuals I used some ghetto talk
along with spiritual Indian terms. Why ghetto talk - when I first came
to the United States I spent some time around housing projects and I
developed lot of empathy for the suffering of African Americans.
Needless to say I was exposed to all things good and bad from the
ghetto.



Intellect is a very valuable tool in spirituality - I recommend the 3
V's - Vaairaagya (dispassion from world pleasures),Viveekaa
(discrimination, to discrimate between the real and the unreal)
andVichaara (inquiry - what is the truth). The 3V's is the proper way to
indulge the intellect, not dry polemics or circular logic. And then
there are the 3 S's of spirituality - Satsang (company of the wise),
Seva (service to the Guru/Society, charitable activities) and Sadhana
(spiritual practices, mantra,tantra, yoga and the like).



So the intellect should have a "use-by date" for spiritual progress.
Intellect is a great utility in the outer ("material") world but has
limitation in the inner ("spiritual") world. No wonder the graha that
represents the intellect is Budha (or Mercury), Budha is a young man (or
woman) in the Indian mythology.



Here's what I had to say to these intellectuals.



Pun and metaphors ahead - not meant to be taken literally. Any offense
taken is your responsibility..:-)



Lot of people suffer from "Intellectile Dysfunction Disorder" -
Intellectile dsyfunction disorder is the inability to shake off the
erection caused by fascination to intellectual discussions. You would
think naturally that if you indulge in a few times you can get rid of
the erection but no, the more you indulge the more worse it gets. We are
desperately in need of an anti-Viagra for this - my research has shown
Vaairagyaa (dispassion) helps, in fact the 3V's and the 3S's are of
great help for all psychological disorders caused by fascination with
the intellect.



I'm the gangster yogi of the divine mother doing drive-by's on the pimps
(egoistics) of this list. Thepimp (ego) needs to know that there is  a
possibility of breaking the co-dependence on the whore (intellect) and
life outside the hood (small self).



The whore (intellect) is very consistent and has its own agenda, to be a
pimp (ego) in co-dependent relationship requires no intelligence, no
effort and zero maturity. The end result is a tremendous
disssatisfaction and of being used. Whereas the relationship with the
beloved (Self) is like a roller coaster ride. There are up's and down's,
to be in love with a beloved is like a conscious death, the relationship
with the beloved is deep and intense, in a real love affair with the
beloved you completely expose yourself. You are completely vulnerable,
there are no secrets and there is a great chance of being maniupulated
and being hurt.  However a beloved would never deceive and once you
learn the trick of making her happy you can be in a blissful orgasm
(awakening). So the relationship with the beloved needs commitment, but
it ends with great sensitivity and maturity. A real yogi is like a true
lover, one who is drunk (bliss) on the divine vodka (amrita) and in a
loving orgasm with the beloved (Self).



(*Self - as in higher self, god, existence, soul or whatever else you
want to call it)



Peace out.



Your Friendly Divine Mother's Gangsta - Ravi Yogi.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Government Shutdown Looms

[John]

Judy,

Thanks for the update.  At least, the government folks are happy they'll get 
paid for a few more days.

JR

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> Looks like there's a deal. Details haven't been released
> officially, but it seems the Democrats agreed to an
> additional billion dollars in cuts in exchange for the
> GOP backing off the demand to defend Planned Parenthood.
> 
> The deal includes a six-day stopgap measure to fund the
> government until the bill can be written and voted on.
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
> > >
> > > If this happens, a lot of people will be very upset.  This is
> > > another example of our politicians at work in Washington DC.
> > 
> > Mostly the Republicans. After major concessions from
> > the Democrats, the GOP is now holding an agreement
> > hostage to their demand to defund Planned Parenthood.
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Government Shutdown Looms

[authfriend]

Looks like there's a deal. Details haven't been released
officially, but it seems the Democrats agreed to an
additional billion dollars in cuts in exchange for the
GOP backing off the demand to defend Planned Parenthood.

The deal includes a six-day stopgap measure to fund the
government until the bill can be written and voted on.


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
> >
> > If this happens, a lot of people will be very upset.  This is
> > another example of our politicians at work in Washington DC.
> 
> Mostly the Republicans. After major concessions from
> the Democrats, the GOP is now holding an agreement
> hostage to their demand to defund Planned Parenthood.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Analyzing the TMO using the "economic psychology" model

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>

> I honestly don't hate them, Curtis, no more than I think
> you do. I *understand* them, having Been There, Done That.
> *Having* been there, done that, unlike many of the "TM
> hater" promoters on this forum,

The term "hater," in fact, has been used *far* more
often by TM critics (primarily Barry) in reference
to TM supporters than TM supporters have used it in
reference to TM critics.

Isn't that interesting?

Actually, the only folks here to have used the term
"TM-hater" are Doug/Buck and Nabby, and feste (once,
over four years ago).

 I have pretty much infinite
> compassion for those who are still there, still doing that.
> Those that who have never either been there nor done that
> have no fuckin' place in the discussions in my opinion.

Moreover, both Doug/Buck and Nabby have "been there
and done that"; Doug/Buck is still there and doing
that; feste as well.

And boy-howdy, can you just *imagine* the roars and
howls of outrage if any of those whom Barry 
characterizes as "haters" ever even hinted that they
thought *anyone* on FFL "had no place" in *any* of
the discussions here?


> That said, I have an enduring fascination with those
> who feel otherwise after all these years. The next 
> thought after "What can I have been thinking?" should
> probably be "What can they be thinking?" You don't
> look down on people like that; you commiserate with
> them.

Except that, of course, Barry doesn't "commiserate"
with them; he *demonizes* them, viciously and
repeatedly (and more often than not, dishonestly).


[Curtis wrote:]
> > S I guess you must mean the camp that believes that TM 
> > has hurt them or people they treat like John Knapp. Perhaps 
> > he is an actual TM hater.  
> 
> I don't know John, but I suspect that given the fact that he
> has bowed out of TM-free and concentrated his attention on
> helping people, he's not one you or anyone else should include 
> in this category.

Actually he bowed out of TM-Free because he didn't have
time to run it and his new "Center for Healing Spiritual
and Cultic Abuse." I suspect this doesn't represent much
of a change in his attitude toward TM. On the center's
site, he describes himself as "a 23-year veteran of a
toxic group" and "offers thanks everyday to those who
helped him heal from spiritual trauma."

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba may croak

[WillyTex]

> > Not all people who grow 'Afros' have dark skin, Curtis.
> >
curtisdeltablues:
> Nice try.
>
Fred Lenz, Zen Master Rama, lived in upstate New York
near Pound Lake. LoL!!!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba may croak

[Joe]

Not for Willy, Curtis. Any post is cause for Willy to trot out his tired 
routines. It never seems to bother him that 99% of the time he ends up pissing 
in the wind with no takers on his trolling.

He just runs the same tired schtick over and over and over...

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"  
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex"  wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > > > > I seriously think he should grow an afro, have his 
> > > > > skin darkened...
> > > > >
> > > > Have his skin darkened? This is another joke, right?
> > > >
> > curtisdeltablues:
> > > Got your Offend-O-Meter set a tad low don't ya Richard?  
> > > 
> > Not all people who grow 'Afros' have dark skin, Curtis.
> 
> Nice try.  We were talking about Sai specifically.  Aren't there enough 
> legitimate things to be outraged about in this world that you
> don't have to contrive a perspective?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Government Shutdown Looms

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
>
> If this happens, a lot of people will be very upset.  This is
> another example of our politicians at work in Washington DC.

Mostly the Republicans. After major concessions from
the Democrats, the GOP is now holding an agreement
hostage to their demand to defund Planned Parenthood.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Government Shutdown Looms

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> On 04/07/2011 11:49 AM, WillyTex wrote:

> > "Obama's stimulus, passed in his first month in office,
> > will cost more than the entire Iraq War -- more than
> > $100 billion (15%) more..."
> >
> > Read more:
> >
> > 'Little-known fact: Obama's failed stimulus program
> > cost more than the Iraq war'
> > By Mark Tapscott
> > Examiner, August 23, 2010
> > http://tinyurl.com/33xhefz
> 
> We know that, it is not a "little known fact."  It was
> misused by the banksters who should be in prison rather
> than in an executive suite. BTW, it was a program that
> Dubya's goons set up and Obama didn't have the balls to
> say "fuck that!"

BTW, that was TARP, not the stimulus. The stimulus was
all Obama's.


> As for government shutdown, it's happened before.  Seem
> to remember there was a shutdown or the promise of one 
> back in 1980 when Carter was in office and I was a temp
> at EDS. Got to watch the G levels do things for the
> shutdown (which may not have happened).

But you don't remember the actual shutdowns under Clinton
(five days in 1995, three weeks in 1996)?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Assault of the Monastery of Santa Engracia

[WillyTex]

Yifu:
> Assault of the Monastery of Santa Engracia
>
Don't you just hate those Spaniards!

"The war began when French armies crossed 
Spain and invaded Portugal in 1807 and then 
in 1808 turned on its ally, Spain..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why Glenn Beck lost it

[Yifu]

Richard, get a grip on yourself...no Chernobyl meltdowns!
http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-today-a-creepy-story-told-in-pictures/


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> > > > As for anti-semitism that is a term that right
> > > > wing Israeli factions use to derail criticism
> > > > of their apartheid...
> > > >
> > > So, you're thinking that anti-semitism is a myth
> > > and there was no holocaust - it was all made up
> > > by right wing Israelis to derail criticism of the
> > > Israeli state's right to exist? But most of the
> > > Gaza residents hate Jews. You are not making any
> > > sense.
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
> Bhairitu:
> > And I'm not surprised the way they're treated that 
> > the Gaza residents hate the right wing government.
> >
> Get some smarts, Barry2, almost 99.9% of of all the 
> people living in Gaza hate Jews for ethnic reasons.
> 
> They use anti-semitism to deny the right of Israel to 
> exist. Antisemitism has nothing to do with the Israeli 
> 'right wing government'.
> 
> "Antisemitism is prejudice against or hostility 
> towards Jews often rooted in hatred of their ethnic 
> background, culture, and/or religion..."
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why Glenn Beck lost it

[WillyTex]

> > > As for anti-semitism that is a term that right
> > > wing Israeli factions use to derail criticism
> > > of their apartheid...
> > >
> > So, you're thinking that anti-semitism is a myth
> > and there was no holocaust - it was all made up
> > by right wing Israelis to derail criticism of the
> > Israeli state's right to exist? But most of the
> > Gaza residents hate Jews. You are not making any
> > sense.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
Bhairitu:
> And I'm not surprised the way they're treated that 
> the Gaza residents hate the right wing government.
>
Get some smarts, Barry2, almost 99.9% of of all the 
people living in Gaza hate Jews for ethnic reasons.

They use anti-semitism to deny the right of Israel to 
exist. Antisemitism has nothing to do with the Israeli 
'right wing government'.

"Antisemitism is prejudice against or hostility 
towards Jews often rooted in hatred of their ethnic 
background, culture, and/or religion..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

[FairfieldLife] Re: Texas prairie dogs - unusually slender

[Yifu]

http://donquijote.cc/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/DQWindmill.gif

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> Yifu:
> > Texas chili with beans:
> > 
> You fu*kin ignorant fart-blossom bigot, 
> Texas-style chili contains no beans!!!
> 
> "Chili was first invented by the Spanish 
> Canary Islanders, in the city of San 
> Antonio, Texas, which they founded"
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_con_carne
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Texas prairie dogs - unusually slender

[WillyTex]

Yifu:
> Texas chili with beans:
> 
You fu*kin ignorant fart-blossom bigot, 
Texas-style chili contains no beans!!!

"Chili was first invented by the Spanish 
Canary Islanders, in the city of San 
Antonio, Texas, which they founded"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_con_carne

[FairfieldLife] Re: Capt. Lazaros Apostolides with Greek fighters

[WillyTex]

Yifu:
> Capt. Lazaros Apostolides with Greek fighters
>
Don't you just hate those fu*kin Macedonians!

[FairfieldLife] Assault of the Monastery of Santa Engracia

[Yifu]

by Louis-Francois Lejeune, Napoleonic Wars
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/51313.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: new product: - multicultural crayons

[WillyTex]

Yifu:
> For every skin color. What about aliens?
> 
Why do you keep talking about skin color
and aliens when you don't even have an 
immigration reform plan? 

Maybe you should just keep your pie hole 
shut about ethnicity. Are you from outer 
space or what?

'We now see the real Obama on immigration'
By Ruben Navarrette
San Antonio Express-News, April 8, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/6g69g49

[FairfieldLife] Capt. Lazaros Apostolides with Greek fighters

[Yifu]

1908
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/48523.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Analyzing the TMO using the "economic psychology" model

[Buck]

Sorry you guys dis-like the term.  But it is part of the TM spectrum;
within the 'range', if you will.
I'm not talking about FairfieldLife.  Mostly on yahoo's FFL the extremes are
under-represented or seldom surface directly from the sources.  
Mostly what we hear here is more of the 'in between'.  On FFL we're not really 
hearing so directly from
the ultra- TM-TB's or the more fanatic TM-Haters directly.  They tend to be on 
their own lists or places on the internet.  But they are certainly out in the 
world and here in FF also as part of TM.  

I'm looking at the whole curve including
three standard deviations out to either side.  You're missing the gradation
if you are hung up like this over the haters.  You don't live here evidently.  
There is lots
of gradation in between.  

I think Turq's original observation in this thread about his 'short-selling' 
friend is useful towards fathoming the
situation here with TM.  It's a good way of looking at the situation  and 
breaking it out.

With Fond Regards,
-Buck in FF


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"  
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
> > 
> > > The TM tru-believers on one end, some practitioners in 
> > > the middle, and the TM-haters on the other end.
> > 
> > I would like to challenge the Glenn Beckiness of this idea 
> > of TM haters. 
> 
> And about bloody fuckin' time. Hear, hear.
> 
> > Who are you talking about?  Let's go down the list on this 
> > board.
> > 
> > Vaj seems to believe that TM is for dilettantes, spiritual 
> > babies who are not ready for the real deal. He does however 
> > seem to believe in the basic structure of humans gaining 
> > higher states through spiritual practices. He doesn't seem 
> > to think TM can get you there.
> > 
> > So does he hate TM?  I think he has shown contempt for it 
> > as a spiritual practice and doesn't seem to give Maharishi 
> > credit for being the most important man in human history 
> > as he presents himself. But all of this is motivated by 
> > a certain earnestness in the ideal of the whole project 
> > of spiritual practice. He has contempt for TM because he 
> > doesn't believe it is true to its advertising. Can you 
> > really fault the guy for that since it is what he truly 
> > believes and it is important to him? His goals seem so 
> > similar to your own.  
> 
> I can confess to never having thought of it this way,
> since I've never been tempted to think of Vaj in a
> "him vs. us" configuration, but Curtis' assesssment
> mirrors my own. I luv the guy for some of the things
> he posts here, but I'm just not in that place. 
> 
> > Barry also seems to see TM as a starter practice and 
> > prefers other versions, but values meditation itself. He 
> > has even given TM some credit for beginners. He has shown 
> > some contempt for the pompous posturings of Maharishi 
> > about his status and seems to hate all the things in the 
> > current movement that you do.
> 
> I honestly don't hate them, Curtis, no more than I think
> you do. I *understand* them, having Been There, Done That.
> *Having* been there, done that, unlike many of the "TM
> hater" promoters on this forum, I have pretty much infinite
> compassion for those who are still there, still doing that.
> Those that who have never either been there nor done that
> have no fuckin' place in the discussions in my opinion.
> 
> > Me. Well for all my Maharishi goofing I am quite nostalgic 
> > about my time with the old guy.  
> 
> To differentiate myself from da Blues Guy, I am not.
> Haven't been in decades. There is no sum of money that
> could possibly entice me to be "part of" the TMO again.
> 
> That said, I have an enduring fascination with those
> who feel otherwise after all these years. The next 
> thought after "What can I have been thinking?" should
> probably be "What can they be thinking?" You don't
> look down on people like that; you commiserate with
> them.
> 
> > I do think he was mostly full of shit but...drum roll...I 
> > dig his TM. Not having any lofty spiritual aspirations, I 
> > don't care if it has training wheels or not. And all the 
> > puja/bija mantra namahs add to the cultural charm. I couldn't 
> > care less if my practice is giving some Hindu god the prison 
> > courtesy of a reach-around, I enjoy TM and have become quite 
> > addicted to practicing it before shows. And when I sit there 
> > in the 5 minutes of silence after I stop sticking my tongue 
> > in the ear of my favorite multi-armed Hindu goddess, I feel 
> > positively beatific. It is one of the peak experiences that 
> > I look forward to in my day.
> 
> I'm down with absolutely everything Curtis says here, 
> except for the ear thang. I think he's aiming too high. :-)
> 
> > S I guess you must mean the camp that believes that TM 
> > has hurt them or people they treat like John Knapp. Perhaps 
> > he is an actual TM ha

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[FairfieldLife] new product: - multicultural crayons

[Yifu]

For every skin color. What about aliens?

http://www.dickblick.com/products/crayola-multicultural-crayons/#photos

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Playboy Sixth Dalai Lama

[emptybill]

"Guru" or spiritual mentor is a function, not just a person. It
is extolled in the Puranas and Tantras as a transmission from a person
to a person.

However, many argue it cannot rightly be a function of only a human
being. It is also considered a function of nature.

"Guru" in Indian traditions is a title describing anyone who
validly teaches a learnable process, whether that is painting, martial
arts, meditation or eroticism.

The sixth Dalai Lama obviously did not want a monastic lifestyle or any
societal chains on his life.





--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 
wrote:

> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote:
>
>
> Emtybill, what makes you think these Buddhists are gurus ?
>
>
> > Gurus with scandalous lives are not new and are not the product of
our
> > "degenerate" times.
> >
> > What most people rarely realize is that the "worshipful" Dalai Lamas
> > have a variegated past with their purges of doctrines they disagree
with
> > and in their purported past lives as incarnations of
Avalokiteshvara.
> > Here is one that the Tibetans don't like to discuss too much.
> >
> > The Sixth Dalai Lama – the playboy Dalai
> >
> > As a Dalai Lama, Tsangyang had composed excellent works of songs and
> > poems, but often went against the principles of the Gelug
> >  School of Tibetan Buddhism
> >  . For example, he
> > decided to give his Getsul vow to the Panchen Lama
> >  Lobsang Yeshi Palsangpo
> >  at eighteen,
> > instead of taking the usual Gelong

> > .
> >
> > The Panchen Lama, who was the abbot of Tashilhupo monastery, and
Prince
> > Lhazang, the younger brother of the Po Gyalpo Wangyal
> >
 > &redlink=1> , persuaded him not to do so.
> >
> > Tsangyang Gyatso, enjoyed a lifestyle that included drinking, the
> > company of women and men (read homo-erotic relationships), and
writing
> > love songs. He visited Lobsang Yeshe
> >  , the Fifth Panchen
Lama,
> > in Shigatse  and requesting
his
> > forgiveness, renounced the vows of a novice monk. He ordered the
> > building of the Tromzikhang

> > palace in Barkhor  , Lhasa.
> >
> > Tsangyang Gyatso had always rejected life as a monk, although this
did
> > not mean the abdication of his position as the Dalai Lama
> >  . Wearing the clothes of a
> > normal layman and preferring to walk than to ride a horse or use the
> > state palanquin  , Tsangyang
> > only kept the temporal prerogatives of the Dalai Lama. He also
visited
> > the parks and spent nights in the streets of Lhasa
> >  , drinking wine, singing songs
and
> > having amorous relations with girls. Tsangyang retreated to live in
a
> > tent in the park near the northern escarpment of Potala
> >  . Tsangyang finally gave up
his
> > discourses in public parks and places in 1702, which he was required
to
> > do so as part of his training.
> > Capture and disappearance
> > Using the Dalai Lama's behaviour as an excuse, Lhazang Khan
> >  , the king of the
> > Qośot or Khoshut  Mongols
> >  , and an ally of the Qing
Emperor
> >  of China, killed the
> > regent, and kidnapped the Sixth Dalai Lama who was killed or died
> > (and/or achieved nirvana and some believe can still be met as if
alive),
> > soon after on the way to China.
> >
> > On the 28 June 1706, Lhazang Khan deposed Tsangyang, and installed a
> > 25-year-old lama, Ngawang Yeshey Gyatso
> >
 > edit&redlink=1> , as the 6th Dalai Lama in 1707, claiming that he
was
> > the true rebirth of Lobsang Gyatso. The Gelukpa
> >  dignitaries and the Tibetan
> > people rejected Lhazang Khan's installation of Ngawang Yeshey
Gyatso,
> > and recognised Tsangyang as the true reincarnation. However, Ngawang
> > Yeshey Gyatso is considered by Tibetans to have been an incarnation
of
> > Avalokitesvara.
> >
> > While being taken out of the country, Tsangyang composed a poem
which
> > some say foretold of his next birth. "White crane lend me your
wings. I
> > will not fly far. From Lithang I shall return." Tsangyang died
> > mysteriously near Kokonor  ,
on 15
> > 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Playboy Sixth Dalai Lama

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill"  wrote:


Emtybill, what makes you think these Buddhists are gurus ?


> Gurus with scandalous lives are not new and are not the product of our
> "degenerate" times.
> 
> What most people rarely realize is that the "worshipful" Dalai Lamas
> have a variegated past with their purges of doctrines they disagree with
> and in their purported past lives as incarnations of Avalokiteshvara.
> Here is one that the Tibetans don't like to discuss too much.
> 
> The Sixth Dalai Lama – the playboy Dalai
> 
> As a Dalai Lama, Tsangyang had composed excellent works of songs and
> poems, but often went against the principles of the Gelug
>   School of Tibetan Buddhism
>  . For example, he
> decided to give his Getsul vow to the Panchen Lama
>   Lobsang Yeshi Palsangpo
>   at eighteen,
> instead of taking the usual Gelong 
> .
> 
> The Panchen Lama, who was the abbot of Tashilhupo monastery, and Prince
> Lhazang, the younger brother of the Po Gyalpo Wangyal
>  &redlink=1> , persuaded him not to do so.
> 
> Tsangyang Gyatso, enjoyed a lifestyle that included drinking, the
> company of women and men (read homo-erotic relationships), and writing
> love songs. He visited Lobsang Yeshe
>  , the Fifth Panchen Lama,
> in Shigatse   and requesting his
> forgiveness, renounced the vows of a novice monk. He ordered the
> building of the Tromzikhang  
> palace in Barkhor  , Lhasa.
> 
> Tsangyang Gyatso had always rejected life as a monk, although this did
> not mean the abdication of his position as the Dalai Lama
>  . Wearing the clothes of a
> normal layman and preferring to walk than to ride a horse or use the
> state palanquin  , Tsangyang
> only kept the temporal prerogatives of the Dalai Lama. He also visited
> the parks and spent nights in the streets of Lhasa
>  , drinking wine, singing songs and
> having amorous relations with girls. Tsangyang retreated to live in a
> tent in the park near the northern escarpment of Potala
>  . Tsangyang finally gave up his
> discourses in public parks and places in 1702, which he was required to
> do so as part of his training.
> Capture and disappearance
> Using the Dalai Lama's behaviour as an excuse, Lhazang Khan
>  , the king of the
> Qośot or Khoshut   Mongols
>  , and an ally of the Qing Emperor
>   of China, killed the
> regent, and kidnapped the Sixth Dalai Lama who was killed or died
> (and/or achieved nirvana and some believe can still be met as if alive),
> soon after on the way to China.
> 
> On the 28 June 1706, Lhazang Khan deposed Tsangyang, and installed a
> 25-year-old lama, Ngawang Yeshey Gyatso
>  edit&redlink=1> , as the 6th Dalai Lama in 1707, claiming that he was
> the true rebirth of Lobsang Gyatso. The Gelukpa
>   dignitaries and the Tibetan
> people rejected Lhazang Khan's installation of Ngawang Yeshey Gyatso,
> and recognised Tsangyang as the true reincarnation. However, Ngawang
> Yeshey Gyatso is considered by Tibetans to have been an incarnation of
> Avalokitesvara.
> 
> While being taken out of the country, Tsangyang composed a poem which
> some say foretold of his next birth. "White crane lend me your wings. I
> will not fly far. From Lithang I shall return." Tsangyang died
> mysteriously near Kokonor  , on 15
> November 1706, which is why there is no tomb for him in the Potala
>  . Rumours persisted he had escaped
> and lived in secrecy somewhere between China
>   and Mongolia
>  .
> ***
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Texas prairie dogs - unusually slender

[Yifu]

Texas chili with beans:
http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/IMAGES/Texas/Texas-chili-beans.jpg 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> Yifu Xero:
> > Subject: Texas prairie dogs - unusually slender
> > 
> So, you have a very strong prejudice against people 
> due to their birth circumstances. You sound like a
> racist. And because I live in Texas you think I eat 
> prarie dogs; all Mexicans eat tacos; and all Chinese 
> eat dogs? Is that right?
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why Glenn Beck lost it

[Bhairitu]

On 04/08/2011 02:43 PM, WillyTex wrote:
>
> Bhairitu:
>> As for anti-semitism that is a term that right
>> wing Israeli factions use to derail criticism
>> of their apartheid...
>>
> So, you're thinking that anti-semitism is a myth
> and there was no holocaust - it was all made up
> by right wing Israelis to derail criticism of the
> Israeli state's right to exist? But most of the
> Gaza residents hate Jews. You are not making any
> sense.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

Never said there was no holocaust so you're putting words in my mouth.  
And I'm not surprised the way they're treated that the Gaza residents 
hate the right wing government.   But then this right wing Willy 
behaving like a hypocrite.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Texas prairie dogs - unusually slender

[WillyTex]

Yifu Xero:
> Subject: Texas prairie dogs - unusually slender
> 
So, you have a very strong prejudice against people 
due to their birth circumstances. You sound like a
racist. And because I live in Texas you think I eat 
prarie dogs; all Mexicans eat tacos; and all Chinese 
eat dogs? Is that right?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why Glenn Beck lost it

[WillyTex]

Bhairitu:
> As for anti-semitism that is a term that right 
> wing Israeli factions use to derail criticism 
> of their apartheid...
>
So, you're thinking that anti-semitism is a myth
and there was no holocaust - it was all made up
by right wing Israelis to derail criticism of the
Israeli state's right to exist? But most of the
Gaza residents hate Jews. You are not making any 
sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

[FairfieldLife] Re: Analyzing the TMO using the "economic psychology" model

[WillyTex]

> > I guess what I am saying is that TM-haters as a term is 
> > unnecessary drama as a term for people who don't think 
> > about TM exactly as you do.  
> >
turquoiseb:
> Let's say that again, a little louder this time, because
> a lot of TM addicts on this forum are a little hard of 
> hearing:
> 
Oh, so now Curtis is a 'TM addict' because he likes to 
meditate for five minutes before shows? 

[FairfieldLife] Place to eat in Des Moines

[Rick Archer]

Anyone know of a nice place to eat in Des Moines? By "nice" I don't mean
fancy or expensive, but healthy, interesting, tasty, etc. Any good Indian
restaurants?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba may croak

[WillyTex]

curtisdeltablues:
>
> I appreciate Steve having my back but I didn't 
> take Rick's post to have anything to do with 
> Sai's personal life, just his professional 
> charlatan life.  I didn't think he was implying 
> more than that.
> 
You mean that you don't think Rick was implying
that you were a professional charlatan in your 
day? You sold the snake oil for what, thirteen 
years? So, I guess he meant you could still be
a good snake oil salesman, right?

> It says a lot about the guy that his name is 
> synonymous here with criminally sick behavior. 
> so I guess I am not the only one who is skeptical 
> about some self proclaimed God men!
> 
So, why would Rick imply that you'd be the perfect
candidate to replace Sai Baba as a 'God Man' if the
Sai's name was  'synonymous with criminally sick 
behavior'? It doesn't even make any sense to make
your skin darker! Sai Baba was Caucasian with an 
'Afro'! 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba may croak

[WillyTex]

> > Not all people who grow 'Afros' have dark skin, 
> > Curtis.
> >
curtisdeltablues:
> Nice try.  We were talking about Sai specifically.  
> Aren't there enough legitimate things to be outraged 
> about in this world that you don't have to contrive 
> a perspective?
> 
When you snake oil salespeople start talking about 
other people and their skin color, I try to figure out 
where they're comming from, but Rick said he was 
serious. What would a person's skin color have to do 
with anything? 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Analyzing the TMO using the "economic psychology" model

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"  
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
> 
> > The TM tru-believers on one end, some practitioners in 
> > the middle, and the TM-haters on the other end.
> 
> I would like to challenge the Glenn Beckiness of this idea 
> of TM haters. 

And about bloody fuckin' time. Hear, hear.

> Who are you talking about?  Let's go down the list on this 
> board.
> 
> Vaj seems to believe that TM is for dilettantes, spiritual 
> babies who are not ready for the real deal. He does however 
> seem to believe in the basic structure of humans gaining 
> higher states through spiritual practices. He doesn't seem 
> to think TM can get you there.
> 
> So does he hate TM?  I think he has shown contempt for it 
> as a spiritual practice and doesn't seem to give Maharishi 
> credit for being the most important man in human history 
> as he presents himself. But all of this is motivated by 
> a certain earnestness in the ideal of the whole project 
> of spiritual practice. He has contempt for TM because he 
> doesn't believe it is true to its advertising. Can you 
> really fault the guy for that since it is what he truly 
> believes and it is important to him? His goals seem so 
> similar to your own.  

I can confess to never having thought of it this way,
since I've never been tempted to think of Vaj in a
"him vs. us" configuration, but Curtis' assesssment
mirrors my own. I luv the guy for some of the things
he posts here, but I'm just not in that place. 

> Barry also seems to see TM as a starter practice and 
> prefers other versions, but values meditation itself. He 
> has even given TM some credit for beginners. He has shown 
> some contempt for the pompous posturings of Maharishi 
> about his status and seems to hate all the things in the 
> current movement that you do.

I honestly don't hate them, Curtis, no more than I think
you do. I *understand* them, having Been There, Done That.
*Having* been there, done that, unlike many of the "TM
hater" promoters on this forum, I have pretty much infinite
compassion for those who are still there, still doing that.
Those that who have never either been there nor done that
have no fuckin' place in the discussions in my opinion.

> Me. Well for all my Maharishi goofing I am quite nostalgic 
> about my time with the old guy.  

To differentiate myself from da Blues Guy, I am not.
Haven't been in decades. There is no sum of money that
could possibly entice me to be "part of" the TMO again.

That said, I have an enduring fascination with those
who feel otherwise after all these years. The next 
thought after "What can I have been thinking?" should
probably be "What can they be thinking?" You don't
look down on people like that; you commiserate with
them.

> I do think he was mostly full of shit but...drum roll...I 
> dig his TM. Not having any lofty spiritual aspirations, I 
> don't care if it has training wheels or not. And all the 
> puja/bija mantra namahs add to the cultural charm. I couldn't 
> care less if my practice is giving some Hindu god the prison 
> courtesy of a reach-around, I enjoy TM and have become quite 
> addicted to practicing it before shows. And when I sit there 
> in the 5 minutes of silence after I stop sticking my tongue 
> in the ear of my favorite multi-armed Hindu goddess, I feel 
> positively beatific. It is one of the peak experiences that 
> I look forward to in my day.

I'm down with absolutely everything Curtis says here, 
except for the ear thang. I think he's aiming too high. :-)

> S I guess you must mean the camp that believes that TM 
> has hurt them or people they treat like John Knapp. Perhaps 
> he is an actual TM hater.  

I don't know John, but I suspect that given the fact that he
has bowed out of TM-free and concentrated his attention on
helping people, he's not one you or anyone else should include 
in this category.

> I guess what I am saying is that TM-haters as a term is 
> unnecessary drama as a term for people who don't think 
> about TM exactly as you do.  

Let's say that again, a little louder this time, because
a lot of TM addicts on this forum are a little hard of 
hearing:

I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT TM-HATERS AS A
TERM IS UNNECESSARY DRAMA FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T
THINK ABOUT TM EXACTLY AS YOU DO.

> Most people are TM-don't-give-a-shits. You should feel 
> lucky if any of us think about it at all to even write.  

What he said. Especially those of you who live
for what we write so that you can "rebut" it.

> It may prolong the inevitable death of this fascinating 
> micro-cultural movement for a minute or two longer.

But not much longer IMO.

> (Sorry for any misrepresentations of Barry and Vaj's 
> position but I missed the last TM-haters meeting and 
> don't have the latest talking points.)

No loss, dude. My informants tell me they didn't even
serve booze. Chamomile tea and stale oatmeal cookies.
No boinkable women. My buds left after

[FairfieldLife] Texas prairie dogs - unusually slender

[Yifu Xero]

Subject: Texas prairie dogs - unusually slender


http://wild-facts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/meerkats1.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Chupacabra Goat suckers killed in Texas

[Yifu Xero]

Subject: Goat suckers killed in Texas


http://www.zimbio.com/Photos/articles/53/Real+Chupacabra+Pictures

 




from Helium.com, re: CHUPACABRAS:
by Lynette Alice 
*  
July 14, 2010
What is being reported as a chupacabra has been killed in Texas by animal 
control officer Frank Hackett. Hackett has not said that he believes whatever 
it 
is he killed in the barn southwest of Fort Hood was necessarily a chupacabra, 
but he did say “All I know is, it wasn’t normal.” He further commented “It was 
ugly, real ugly. I’m not going to lie about that.”

[FairfieldLife] Re: Texas prairie dog

[WillyTex]

Yifu:
> http://www.armadillos.info/pic2.jpg
>
Another example of racial prejudice
against Hispanics that live in Texas?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba may croak

[curtisdeltablues]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> > > > I seriously think he should grow an afro, have his 
> > > > skin darkened...
> > > >
> > > Have his skin darkened? This is another joke, right?
> > >
> curtisdeltablues:
> > Got your Offend-O-Meter set a tad low don't ya Richard?  
> > 
> Not all people who grow 'Afros' have dark skin, Curtis.

Nice try.  We were talking about Sai specifically.  Aren't there enough 
legitimate things to be outraged about in this world that you
don't have to contrive a perspective?






>

[FairfieldLife] Brain structure differs in liberals, conservatives: study

[do.rflex]

Study: Liberal brains bigger in areas dealing with complexity, conservative 
brains bigger in area of fear


WASHINGTON (AFP) – Everyone knows that liberals and conservatives
butt heads when it comes to world views, but scientists have now
shown that their brains are actually built differently.

Liberals have more gray matter in a part of the brain associated
with understanding complexity, while the conservative brain is
bigger in the section related to processing fear, said the study
on Thursday in Current Biology.

"We found that greater liberalism was associated with increased
gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex, whereas
greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the
right amygdala," the study said.

Other research has shown greater brain activity in those
areas, according to which political views a person holds, but this
is the first study to show a physical difference in size in the
same regions.

"Previously, some psychological traits were known to be predictive
of an individual's political orientation," said Ryota Kanai of
the University College London, where the research took place.

"Our study now links such personality traits with specific
brain structure."

The study was based on 90 "healthy young adults" who reported
their political views on a scale of one to five from very liberal
to very conservative, then agreed to have their brains scanned.

People with a large amygdala are "more sensitive to disgust" and
tend to "respond to threatening situations with more aggression than
do liberals and are more sensitive to threatening facial
expressions," the study said.

Liberals are linked to larger anterior cingulate cortexes, a
region that "monitor(s) uncertainty and conflicts," it said.

"Thus, it is conceivable that individuals with a larger ACC have
a higher capacity to tolerate uncertainty and conflicts, allowing
them to accept more liberal views."

It remains unclear whether the structural differences cause
the divergence in political views, or are the effect of them.

But the central issue in determining political views appears to
revolve around fear and how it affects a person.

"Our findings are consistent with the proposal that
political orientation is associated with psychological processes
for managing fear and uncertainty," the study said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/healthpoliticsusbritain 

[FairfieldLife] Texas prairie dog

[Yifu]

http://www.armadillos.info/pic2.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba may croak

[WillyTex]

> > > I seriously think he should grow an afro, have his 
> > > skin darkened...
> > >
> > Have his skin darkened? This is another joke, right?
> >
curtisdeltablues:
> Got your Offend-O-Meter set a tad low don't ya Richard?  
> 
Not all people who grow 'Afros' have dark skin, Curtis.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Kill Team

[WillyTex]

> > > Yeah, well, that's what you said about 
> > > prairie dogs and look at the trouble they 
> > > got into around you... 
> > > 
> > There are no 'prairie dogs' in San Antonio
> > or Austin, you fu*in idiot. 
> >
azgrey:
> You import them?
> Oh dear lord!
> this is even worse than I thought!!
> You are a monster!!!
> 
You seem to be racial profiling again;
not all people that live in Texas import
prairie dogs from Mexico to eat. Some
Hispanics like to eat tacos with cow meat
in them. You seem to be trying to enforce 
a caste and class system based on birth
circumstances. You don't seem to like
Hispanics very much - why not? You seem
to be very prejudiced against some groups.

[FairfieldLife] The non-dental New Age Expo

[Bhairitu]

Recently I posted a rant about "The Exchange".  It is a quarterly new 
age magazine and my rant was about the ads practitioners place where 
they seem to be showing off their teeth.  Oddly enough when the program 
for the upcoming New Living Expo in San Francisco arrived I noted that 
many of the practitioners got the message and posed with just pleasant 
grins.  In some cases, like Dary Hannah, they even posed with a serious 
look.  It always seemed to me that posing flashing your gums wasn't a 
good way to inspire the public to your practice.

On a similar tract, being that it is tax season, we have a Liberty Tax 
franchise open down the street.  They regularly have someone outside 
with waving a sign dressed in a Statue of Liberty outfit.  A friend of 
mine and I quipped as we passed "would you take your taxes to anyone 
dressed up like that?"  The other dumb thing is they rented a location 
that has virtually no parking. ROTFL!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Analyzing the TMO using the "economic psychology" model

[Joe]

Well put as always Curtis. I would say the same about the term "MMY Bashers". 
Anything less than abject fawning over M becomes "bashing". Lazy terms used by 
lazy minds.

Hey, speaking of Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart was at his best last night with his 
dead on version of Beck:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/08/jon-stewart-glenn-beck_n_846540.html

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"  
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
> 
> > The TM tru-believers on one end, some practitioners in the middle, and the 
> > TM-haters on the other end.>
> 
> 
> 
> I would like to challenge the Glenn Beckiness of this idea of TM haters. Who 
> are you talking about?  Let's go down the list on this board.
> 
> Vaj seems to believe that TM is for dilettantes, spiritual babies who are not 
> ready for the real deal.  He does however seem to believe in the basic 
> structure of humans gaining higher states through spiritual practices.  He 
> doesn't seem to think TM can get you there.
> 
> So does he hate TM?  I think he has shown contempt for it as a spiritual 
> practice and doesn't seem to give Maharishi credit for being the most 
> important man in human history as he presents himself.  But all of this is 
> motivated by a certain earnestness in the ideal of the whole project of 
> spiritual practice.  He has contempt for TM because he doesn't believe it is 
> true to its advertising.  Can you really fault the guy for that since it is 
> what he truly believes and it is important to him?  His goals seem so similar 
> to your own.  
> 
> Barry also seems to see TM as a starter practice and prefers other versions, 
> but values meditation itself.  He has even given TM some credit for 
> beginners.  He has shown some contempt for the pompous posturings of 
> Maharishi about his status and seems to hate all the things in the current 
> movement that you do.
> 
> Me.  Well for all my Maharishi goofing I am quite nostalgic about my time 
> with the old guy.  I do think he was mostly full of shit but...drum roll...I 
> dig his TM.  Not having any lofty spiritual aspirations, I don't care if it 
> has training wheels or not.  And all the puja/bija mantra namahs add to the 
> cultural charm. I couldn't care less if my practice is giving some Hindu god 
> the prison courtesy of reach-around, I enjoy TM and have become quite 
> addicted to practicing it before shows.  And when I sit there in the 5 
> minutes of silence after I stop sticking my tongue in the ear of my favorite 
> multi-armed Hindu goddess, I feel positively beatific.  It is one of the peak 
> experiences that I look forward to in my day.
> 
> S I guess you must mean the camp that believes that TM has hurt them or 
> people they treat like John Knapp.  Perhaps he is an actual TM hater.  
> 
> I guess what I am saying is that TM-haters as a term is unnecessary drama as 
> a term for people who don't think about TM exactly as you do.  Most people 
> are TM-don't-give-a-shits.  You should feel lucky if any of us think about it 
> at all to even write.  It may prolong the inevitable death of this 
> fascinating micro-cultural movement for a minute or two longer.
> 
> (Sorry for any misrepresentations of Barry and Vaj's position but I missed 
> the last TM-haters meeting and don't have the latest talking points.)
> 
> 
> 
>   
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > >
> > > > > 
> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yea, I like the analysis but I'll stick with hope.  'Faith' is too 
> > > > > > loaded a word to graph in this.  Hope, like hope that Bobby could 
> > > > > > pull it off vs. hope that he won't pull it off.  And at that, what 
> > > > > > someone is going to do about it in either direction.  Buy long, 
> > > > > > hold, sell, sell short.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > There is a complexion of hope.  Throw a shaped curve across 
> > > > > > long-buyers to holders to short-sellers in spiritual groups.  It 
> > > > > > might be skewed right or left depending on the group.  TB's on one 
> > > > > > side, attenders to the middle, and short-selling on the other.  
> > > > > > Scale of:  hopeful, with hope, with little hope, without hope, 
> > > > > > hopeless, against all hope.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > With TM as it is now, you got TM-TB share holders "long" on one 
> > > > > > extreme and TM-haters on the other end working at "shorting" and 
> > > > > > some  in the middle somewhere along the scale.  I would hazard that 
> > > > > > the nuts are three standard deviations to either extreme.  Such is 
> > > > > > the TM community.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The cultists in either extreme are likely not that much different 
> > > > > > from each other in that the people in the middle between proly 
> > > > > > don't much trust either end.  And shouldn't?
> > > > > >
> > > 
> > > Relative hope, faith, and tr

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why Glenn Beck lost it

[Bhairitu]

On 04/08/2011 11:20 AM, Yifu wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2011/04/06/AFNEgnqC_story.html

I consider Beck trying to cash in on the "conspiracy theory crowd" but 
steering them instead to supporting the status quo.  That's what I got 
from watching just 15 minutes of one of his shows.   As for 
anti-semitism that is a term that right wing Israeli factions use to 
derail criticism of their apartheid.  They game the guilt of the 
Holocaust to let them commit murder.  There are criminals in all 
religions and we shouldn't give them a pass just because they claim to 
be from some religion.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A new Force of Nature

[Xenophaneros Anartaxius]

"John"  wrote:

This is a great find for the Fermi Lab scientists.  The Lab appears to
have scored a coup against the much bigger LHC before it closed shop for
good.  With this discovery, the LHC would have to discover more
particles or forces of nature to justify its existence and reputation. 
Discovering the Higgs Boson will not be enough, as some scientists have
stated.





"Buck" dhamiltony2k5@ wrote:
It could also signal a new fundamental force of nature, and the most
radical change in physics for decades...



The find has a level of statistical significance that it will interest
other parties, but it will take several more months of tests before the
results could be announced as a discovery. There is barely enough time
before the Tevatron is shut down later this year. It costs about US
$100,000,000 to keep it running for another three years. About the same
amount as to continue the war in Afghanistan for about one half of a
day.


If this is evidence of a new force, it will blow the Standard Model of
quantum mechanics out of the water.

Regarding the TMO linking spiritual principles by equating them to
physical discoveries has a certain disadvantage, because if the physical
theory is falsified, you have also falsified the reality of the
spiritual principle that you have equated with it. Any new theory has to
explain what the previous one did, only better and with more parameters
included. Any unified field theory must explain what the current
Standard Model also explains. Spiritual traditions do not seem to have
been particularly successful at making any discoveries about physics
before the physicists have already done so.

Re: [FairfieldLife] the C A R that runs on nothing but water

[Sal Sunshine]

Ah, but does it walk on water?

On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:10 PM, merlin wrote:

the w car,
the water car,
that runs on nothing but water...
 

RE: [FairfieldLife] the C A R that runs on nothing but water

[Rick Archer]

Someone said the Genepax website was shut down. For what it’s worth, I just 
bought an electric lawnmower.

 

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On 
Behalf Of merlin
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:10 PM
To: undisclosed recipients:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] the C A R that runs on nothing but water

 

  




the w car, 

the water car, 

that runs on nothing but water...

 

April 7, 2011 

Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but 
water. The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that 
is poured into the car's tank. The generator then releases electrons that 
produce electric power to run the car. The electric powered car can run on any 
type of water (you can even use tea and soda…etc). The car can run for an hour 
at about 50 miles per hour on just a liter of water; about 2 cans of soda 
worth. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate 
with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it.

Unlike other electric cars, the Genepax car does not require that batteries be 
recharged and has no emission. The water electrical generator is located in the 
back of the car and when water is poured it is then broken down in order to 
create electricity to power the car. Imagine what such a generator could do to 
the oil industry, the nuclear plants and the electrical grid.

That story broke in 2008. Today Japan is producing hydrogen fueled cars – the 
Honda FCX Clarity. Combine the technology of Genepax with the technology of the 
Honda FCX Clarity and you have a full production vehicle that uses no gasoline. 
No gasoline combustion means zero emissions.

In 2010, it is reported that there are a total of 50 FCX Clarity available for 
lease in the U.S with a target to have 200 available world-wide.

The Honda FCX Clarity fuel cell-electric vehicle has been chosen to be the pace 
car for the opening race of the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series, from 25-27 March 
2011. This is the first-time a hydrogen-powered vehicle will pace an IZOD 
IndyCar Series race in the United States.

Propelled by an electric motor that runs on electricity generated in a fuel 
cell, the FCX Clarity's only emission is water and its fuel efficiency is three 
times that of a similar-sized petrol-powered automobile. The FCX Clarity's 
performance and acceleration are comparable to a 2.4-litre, 4-cylinder engine 
with an EPA certified range of 240 miles. The compact and powerful Honda V Flow 
Fuel Cell Stack allows for unprecedented spaciousness and a futuristically 
stylish, low-slung design and spacious interior.

Since the vehicle's unveiling there were nearly 80,000 people around the world 
who expressed interest in owning a FCX Calrity. 80,000 people who won't be 
buying any more gasoline once they take possession. 

  

  http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=1910 

  

[FairfieldLife] Why Glenn Beck lost it

[Yifu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2011/04/06/AFNEgnqC_story.html

[FairfieldLife] the C A R that runs on nothing but water

[merlin]

the w car, 
the water car, 
that runs on nothing but water...
 




April 7, 2011 
Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but 
water. The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that 
is poured into the car's tank. The generator then releases electrons that 
produce electric power to run the car. The electric powered car can run on any 
type of water (you can even use tea and soda…etc). The car can run for an hour 
at about 50 miles per hour on just a liter of water; about 2 cans of soda 
worth. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate 
with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it.

Unlike other electric cars, the Genepax car does not require that batteries be 
recharged and has no emission. The water electrical generator is located in the 
back of the car and when water is poured it is then broken down in order to 
create electricity to power the car. Imagine what such a generator could do to 
the oil industry, the nuclear plants and the electrical grid.

That story broke in 2008. Today Japan is producing hydrogen fueled cars – the 
Honda FCX Clarity. Combine the technology of Genepax with the technology of the 
Honda FCX Clarity and you have a full production vehicle that uses no gasoline. 
No gasoline combustion means zero emissions.

In 2010, it is reported that there are a total of 50 FCX Clarity available for 
lease in the U.S with a target to have 200 available world-wide.

The Honda FCX Clarity fuel cell-electric vehicle has been chosen to be the pace 
car for the opening race of the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series, from 25-27 March 
2011. This is the first-time a hydrogen-powered vehicle will pace an IZOD 
IndyCar Series race in the United States.

Propelled by an electric motor that runs on electricity generated in a fuel 
cell, the FCX Clarity's only emission is water and its fuel efficiency is three 
times that of a similar-sized petrol-powered automobile. The FCX Clarity's 
performance and acceleration are comparable to a 2.4-litre, 4-cylinder engine 
with an EPA certified range of 240 miles. The compact and powerful Honda V Flow 
Fuel Cell Stack allows for unprecedented spaciousness and a futuristically 
stylish, low-slung design and spacious interior.

Since the vehicle's unveiling there were nearly 80,000 people around the world 
who expressed interest in owning a FCX Calrity. 80,000 people who won't be 
buying any more gasoline once they take possession. 


  

http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=1910 
  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Analyzing the TMO using the "economic psychology" model

[curtisdeltablues]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:

> The TM tru-believers on one end, some practitioners in the middle, and the 
> TM-haters on the other end.>



I would like to challenge the Glenn Beckiness of this idea of TM haters. Who 
are you talking about?  Let's go down the list on this board.

Vaj seems to believe that TM is for dilettantes, spiritual babies who are not 
ready for the real deal.  He does however seem to believe in the basic 
structure of humans gaining higher states through spiritual practices.  He 
doesn't seem to think TM can get you there.

So does he hate TM?  I think he has shown contempt for it as a spiritual 
practice and doesn't seem to give Maharishi credit for being the most important 
man in human history as he presents himself.  But all of this is motivated by a 
certain earnestness in the ideal of the whole project of spiritual practice.  
He has contempt for TM because he doesn't believe it is true to its 
advertising.  Can you really fault the guy for that since it is what he truly 
believes and it is important to him?  His goals seem so similar to your own.  

Barry also seems to see TM as a starter practice and prefers other versions, 
but values meditation itself.  He has even given TM some credit for beginners.  
He has shown some contempt for the pompous posturings of Maharishi about his 
status and seems to hate all the things in the current movement that you do.

Me.  Well for all my Maharishi goofing I am quite nostalgic about my time with 
the old guy.  I do think he was mostly full of shit but...drum roll...I dig his 
TM.  Not having any lofty spiritual aspirations, I don't care if it has 
training wheels or not.  And all the puja/bija mantra namahs add to the 
cultural charm. I couldn't care less if my practice is giving some Hindu god 
the prison courtesy of reach-around, I enjoy TM and have become quite addicted 
to practicing it before shows.  And when I sit there in the 5 minutes of 
silence after I stop sticking my tongue in the ear of my favorite multi-armed 
Hindu goddess, I feel positively beatific.  It is one of the peak experiences 
that I look forward to in my day.

S I guess you must mean the camp that believes that TM has hurt them or 
people they treat like John Knapp.  Perhaps he is an actual TM hater.  

I guess what I am saying is that TM-haters as a term is unnecessary drama as a 
term for people who don't think about TM exactly as you do.  Most people are 
TM-don't-give-a-shits.  You should feel lucky if any of us think about it at 
all to even write.  It may prolong the inevitable death of this fascinating 
micro-cultural movement for a minute or two longer.

(Sorry for any misrepresentations of Barry and Vaj's position but I missed the 
last TM-haters meeting and don't have the latest talking points.)



  






>
> 
> 
> >
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Yea, I like the analysis but I'll stick with hope.  'Faith' is too 
> > > > > loaded a word to graph in this.  Hope, like hope that Bobby could 
> > > > > pull it off vs. hope that he won't pull it off.  And at that, what 
> > > > > someone is going to do about it in either direction.  Buy long, hold, 
> > > > > sell, sell short.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > There is a complexion of hope.  Throw a shaped curve across 
> > > > > long-buyers to holders to short-sellers in spiritual groups.  It 
> > > > > might be skewed right or left depending on the group.  TB's on one 
> > > > > side, attenders to the middle, and short-selling on the other.  Scale 
> > > > > of:  hopeful, with hope, with little hope, without hope, hopeless, 
> > > > > against all hope.
> > > > > 
> > > > > With TM as it is now, you got TM-TB share holders "long" on one 
> > > > > extreme and TM-haters on the other end working at "shorting" and some 
> > > > >  in the middle somewhere along the scale.  I would hazard that the 
> > > > > nuts are three standard deviations to either extreme.  Such is the TM 
> > > > > community.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The cultists in either extreme are likely not that much different 
> > > > > from each other in that the people in the middle between proly don't 
> > > > > much trust either end.  And shouldn't?
> > > > >
> > 
> > Relative hope, faith, and trust.
> > 
> > Yep, this works good.  This kind of analysis works great at helping people 
> > looking in from the outside wanting to understand what is going on here 
> > with TM on the inside.  It breaks out the nuance between folks in a way 
> > that is quite helpful for looking in.  I've run it by a couple of different 
> > outsiders wanting to know and it works quite quick and well.  It gives a 
> > good perspective to something that often looks monolithic from the outside 
> > to the un-trained eye.
> > 
> > -Buck
> > 
> >
> 
> Relative hope, faith, and trust.
> 
> Yup, now then let's layer in 'trust' to this analys

[FairfieldLife] Re: A new Force of Nature

[John]

This is a great find for the Fermi Lab scientists.  The Lab appears to have 
scored a coup against the much bigger LHC before it closed shop for good.  With 
this discovery, the LHC would have to discover more particles or forces of 
nature to justify its existence and reputation.  Discovering the Higgs Boson 
will not be enough, as some scientists have stated.



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
>
> It could also signal a new fundamental force of nature, and the most radical 
> change in physics for decades...
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13000253
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Windose Phone vs. eyePhone?

[Alex Stanley]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister  wrote:
>
> 
> http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/07/windows-phone-beat-iphon/
> 
> Imagine a world where Windows Phone is more popular than Apple's
> iPhone.
> 
> That may just sound like Steve Ballmer's fantasy, but a recent
> Gartner report claims that it may very well happen by 2015,
> thanks to a boost from Nokia as Microsoft's mobile partner.

Yawn. Nokia and Microsoft are both has-been companies.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Analyzing the TMO using the "economic psychology" model

[Buck]

>
> 
> 
> >
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > 
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Yea, I like the analysis but I'll stick with hope.  'Faith' is too 
> > > > loaded a word to graph in this.  Hope, like hope that Bobby could pull 
> > > > it off vs. hope that he won't pull it off.  And at that, what someone 
> > > > is going to do about it in either direction.  Buy long, hold, sell, 
> > > > sell short.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > There is a complexion of hope.  Throw a shaped curve across long-buyers 
> > > > to holders to short-sellers in spiritual groups.  It might be skewed 
> > > > right or left depending on the group.  TB's on one side, attenders to 
> > > > the middle, and short-selling on the other.  Scale of:  hopeful, with 
> > > > hope, with little hope, without hope, hopeless, against all hope.
> > > > 
> > > > With TM as it is now, you got TM-TB share holders "long" on one extreme 
> > > > and TM-haters on the other end working at "shorting" and some  in the 
> > > > middle somewhere along the scale.  I would hazard that the nuts are 
> > > > three standard deviations to either extreme.  Such is the TM community.
> > > > 
> > > > The cultists in either extreme are likely not that much different from 
> > > > each other in that the people in the middle between proly don't much 
> > > > trust either end.  And shouldn't?
> > > >
> 
> Relative hope, faith, and trust.
> 
> Yep, this works good.  This kind of analysis works great at helping people 
> looking in from the outside wanting to understand what is going on here with 
> TM on the inside.  It breaks out the nuance between folks in a way that is 
> quite helpful for looking in.  I've run it by a couple of different outsiders 
> wanting to know and it works quite quick and well.  It gives a good 
> perspective to something that often looks monolithic from the outside to the 
> un-trained eye.
> 
> -Buck
> 
>

Relative hope, faith, and trust.

Yup, now then let's layer in 'trust' to this analysis.  For instance, 
both of the outsiders recently who were looking in that I spoke with were 
astute and quickly asked the follow-up,  ".. what does the future hold for TM?" 
  Looking at 'trust' now becomes key to that.

Once people looking in on TM grok the status quo of 'faith' and 'hope' then 
layering how the larger TM community might 'trust' each other helps sort out 
possible futures for TM.  

We got TB'ers going 'long' on hope or faith, people in the middle, and those 
'selling short'.
The TM tru-believers on one end, some practitioners in the middle, and the 
TM-haters on the other end.

It's like 'a Mexican stand-off' when you take in to account 'trust'.  The 
TM-taliban on one end, the haters on the other and some people in between.  
Neither end trust the other.  The people in between don't much trust either of 
the ends at this point.  

This is the pure Mexican stand-off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXldafIl5DQ 


The future?
Has it come too late a time for a mediator to help the TM stand-off?  A Desmond 
Tutu inside TM?  Even just someone from outside specializing in conflict 
resolution to come along and broker a peace and reconciliation?  

It would seem TM is already hopelessly in crossfire with the extremes dug in.  
In community, TM seems at civil war with the TM-Rajas from last summer and fall 
asserting "Why should we change?", the hopeful TM-progressives moving forward, 
some practitioners are of different shades in the middle, the TM-haters lob and 
snipe from their blogs with some effect.   

This is fighting civil war where all trust between folks had broke down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iioXCs0KWrM 

I am always hopeful.  "Can't we just get along?" 

Journalist embedded on the ground,
-Buck in FF

  
> > > > & Bobby is trying to appear to move to the middle?
> > > > 
> > > > I think it is an interesting way of seeing what's going on.
> > > > 
> > > > -Buck
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Wait, I am liking that word "faith" now in this analysis of yours about 
> > > the TM community.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Let's scale 'faith' on an axis from:
> > > 
> > > "Long" on faith, holding with faith, 'holding', holding with lesser 
> > > faith, leaving faithless, selling "short" on Faith, against all faith.
> > > 
> > > Throw a bell-shaped curve across that.  TB's "long" on faith, meditators 
> > > or simple practitioners in the middle, and the haters working on the 
> > > other extreme.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > That " 'Faith and Belief' in Maharishi" is a strong root in the current 
> > > TM-movement's fealty testing.  It's very hard to have a conversation with 
> > > a real TM-TB'er about that.  They can't really see it.  However, that 
> > > testing has through time propelled the Fairfield dome numbers towards 
> > > insolvency dating back at least to Bevan and Maharishi, Gurupurnima 1994. 
> > >  Particularly,  "… the movement is for those who have faith and belief in 
> > > Maharishi.  Everyone else should

[FairfieldLife] The Playboy Sixth Dalai Lama

[emptybill]

Gurus with scandalous lives are not new and are not the product of our
"degenerate" times.

What most people rarely realize is that the "worshipful" Dalai Lamas
have a variegated past with their purges of doctrines they disagree with
and in their purported past lives as incarnations of Avalokiteshvara.
Here is one that the Tibetans don't like to discuss too much.

The Sixth Dalai Lama – the playboy Dalai

As a Dalai Lama, Tsangyang had composed excellent works of songs and
poems, but often went against the principles of the Gelug
  School of Tibetan Buddhism
 . For example, he
decided to give his Getsul vow to the Panchen Lama
  Lobsang Yeshi Palsangpo
  at eighteen,
instead of taking the usual Gelong 
.

The Panchen Lama, who was the abbot of Tashilhupo monastery, and Prince
Lhazang, the younger brother of the Po Gyalpo Wangyal
 , persuaded him not to do so.

Tsangyang Gyatso, enjoyed a lifestyle that included drinking, the
company of women and men (read homo-erotic relationships), and writing
love songs. He visited Lobsang Yeshe
 , the Fifth Panchen Lama,
in Shigatse   and requesting his
forgiveness, renounced the vows of a novice monk. He ordered the
building of the Tromzikhang  
palace in Barkhor  , Lhasa.

Tsangyang Gyatso had always rejected life as a monk, although this did
not mean the abdication of his position as the Dalai Lama
 . Wearing the clothes of a
normal layman and preferring to walk than to ride a horse or use the
state palanquin  , Tsangyang
only kept the temporal prerogatives of the Dalai Lama. He also visited
the parks and spent nights in the streets of Lhasa
 , drinking wine, singing songs and
having amorous relations with girls. Tsangyang retreated to live in a
tent in the park near the northern escarpment of Potala
 . Tsangyang finally gave up his
discourses in public parks and places in 1702, which he was required to
do so as part of his training.
Capture and disappearance
Using the Dalai Lama's behaviour as an excuse, Lhazang Khan
 , the king of the
Qośot or Khoshut   Mongols
 , and an ally of the Qing Emperor
  of China, killed the
regent, and kidnapped the Sixth Dalai Lama who was killed or died
(and/or achieved nirvana and some believe can still be met as if alive),
soon after on the way to China.

On the 28 June 1706, Lhazang Khan deposed Tsangyang, and installed a
25-year-old lama, Ngawang Yeshey Gyatso
 , as the 6th Dalai Lama in 1707, claiming that he was
the true rebirth of Lobsang Gyatso. The Gelukpa
  dignitaries and the Tibetan
people rejected Lhazang Khan's installation of Ngawang Yeshey Gyatso,
and recognised Tsangyang as the true reincarnation. However, Ngawang
Yeshey Gyatso is considered by Tibetans to have been an incarnation of
Avalokitesvara.

While being taken out of the country, Tsangyang composed a poem which
some say foretold of his next birth. "White crane lend me your wings. I
will not fly far. From Lithang I shall return." Tsangyang died
mysteriously near Kokonor  , on 15
November 1706, which is why there is no tomb for him in the Potala
 . Rumours persisted he had escaped
and lived in secrecy somewhere between China
  and Mongolia
 .
***

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba may croak

[curtisdeltablues]

I've been back on FFL for a minute and a half and I am already being made over 
as Queen Latifa.




--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
> >
> > My point about Curtis wasn't a joke. I seriously think he should grow
> an
> > afro, have his skin darkened, have any necessary plastic surgery
> performed,
> > learn Hindi, then go to India, and when Sai Baba dies, arrange to have
> the
> > death covered up, then emerge from the hospital looking like a
> > 30-years-younger Sai Baba. The devotees will be ecstatic! Curtis is
> probably
> > better than Sai Baba at sleight of hand, so the vibhuti and cheap
> trinkets
> > will continue to manifest, and the critics will be relieved to
> discover that
> > the new, improved Sai Baba has changed his preference from young boys
> to
> > mature women.
> 
> I think this would be a good "look" for Curtis in this new incarnation.
> 
>   
> [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V0wNLJYX0JU/TANZL4p9MrI/AAU/Nyomn_MR4\
> _E/S660/barbarian3.jpg]
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba may croak

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> My point about Curtis wasn't a joke. I seriously think he should grow
an
> afro, have his skin darkened, have any necessary plastic surgery
performed,
> learn Hindi, then go to India, and when Sai Baba dies, arrange to have
the
> death covered up, then emerge from the hospital looking like a
> 30-years-younger Sai Baba. The devotees will be ecstatic! Curtis is
probably
> better than Sai Baba at sleight of hand, so the vibhuti and cheap
trinkets
> will continue to manifest, and the critics will be relieved to
discover that
> the new, improved Sai Baba has changed his preference from young boys
to
> mature women.

I think this would be a good "look" for Curtis in this new incarnation.

  
[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V0wNLJYX0JU/TANZL4p9MrI/AAU/Nyomn_MR4\
_E/S660/barbarian3.jpg]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Windose Phone vs. eyePhone?

[Bhairitu]

On 04/08/2011 09:07 AM, cardemaister wrote:
> http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/07/windows-phone-beat-iphon/
>
> Imagine a world where Windows Phone is more popular than Apple's iPhone.
>
> That may just sound like Steve Ballmer's fantasy, but a recent Gartner report 
> claims that it may very well happen by 2015, thanks to a boost from Nokia as 
> Microsoft's mobile partner.

Microsoft was caught the other day of accusing Google of being unfair in 
competition.  Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A new Force of Nature-just in time

[merudanda]

In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
  Speaking of the Jedi, have you ever noticed a slight...uh...similarity
> between the Facebook icons and...uh...something else? Maybe all those
> people who think FB is evil are right: Yes lol.So obscure yet so
brilliant (something for Dan Brown [:))] )
>
have you been in Prague lately?

> Prague's legendary Golem
speaking of FB:
How The Social Network Should Have Ended  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnl-yQjGYBs
(How to Survive an Alien Attack  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrRCR0iOMr0&list=SL   How The Matrix
Should Have Ended  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQyuIQmVelA&list=SL)

> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" dhamiltony2k5@ wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It could also signal a new fundamental force of nature, and
> > > > the most radical change in physics for decades...
> > >
> > > Radical? Yup, I can see myself changing pretty much
> > > everything about my life based on this.  :-)
> > >
> > > "The team was analysing data from collisions between
> > > protons and their anti-matter counterparts antiprotons.
> > > In these collisions, particles known as W bosons are
> > > produced, along with a pair of "jets" of other particles."
> >
> > > The thing is, these supposedly "new" particles are
> > > not new at all. They've been around since at least
> > > 1957, and in fact had their own musical on Broadway:
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGJsv6ZNlo
>

[FairfieldLife] Windose Phone vs. eyePhone?

[cardemaister]

http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/07/windows-phone-beat-iphon/

Imagine a world where Windows Phone is more popular than Apple's iPhone.

That may just sound like Steve Ballmer's fantasy, but a recent Gartner report 
claims that it may very well happen by 2015, thanks to a boost from Nokia as 
Microsoft's mobile partner.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: News about John Cowhig

[Rick Archer]

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 10:22 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: News about John Cowhig

 

  

I don't know, Joe. Just all this anecdotal 
stuff about his health. I guess I don't get
why someone would feel it necessary to share
all that with a bunch of strangers, in less there
was at some point going to be a plea for 
funds. It just feels tacky.
I'm glad to hear he's a good guy, though.

He his friends have created a Facebook page. I just posted the info here
because many may know him and not be aware of the Facebook page.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: News about John Cowhig

[Rick Archer]

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Joe
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 9:57 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: News about John Cowhig

 

  

John was one of M's main assistants/skin boys in the 70s. I haven't seen him
in ages but my memories of him are of a very good guy.

Mine too. I spent quite a bit of time with him, driving around Switzerland.
He could entertain for hours with fascinating spiritual stories. Always kind
and good-natured, which one could not usually say about most of the
higher-ups in those days.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: News about John Cowhig

[Sal Sunshine]

I don't know, Joe.  Just all this anecdotal 
stuff about his health.  I guess I don't get
why someone would feel it necessary to share
all that with a bunch of strangers, in less there
was at some point going to be a plea for 
funds. It just feels tacky.
 I'm glad to hear he's a good guy, though.

On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Joe wrote:
John was one of M's main assistants/skin boys in the 70s. I haven't seen him in 
ages but my memories of him are of a very good guy.

Sal, what strikes you as "manipulative" about the passing of this info? A good 
guy is in need of help.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine  wrote:
> 
> Rick,
> I don't know this guy, and all this may be
> totally legit, but something about it just
> feels tacky (manipulative) to me.  
> Anyway, whoever he is I hope he gets better.
> 
> On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Rick Archer wrote:
> I just received the message below. I am forwarding it in case you are not a 
> member of the Facebook group "Friends of John Cowhig". Pardon any duplication 
> if you've received this message directly.
> 

[FairfieldLife] Re: . Buddhism To Be Subject of New Continuing Ed Course

[WillyTex]

Robert:
> Yeah, I met the Dalai Lama once 14 
> lifetimes ago, and once in this 
> lifetime, so?
>
So, you met "the Dalai Lama" BEFORE 
there was even a Dalai Lama?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: News about John Cowhig

[Vaj]

On Apr 8, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Joe wrote:

John was one of M's main assistants/skin boys in the 70s. I haven't  
seen him in ages but my memories of him are of a very good guy.


Sal, what strikes you as "manipulative" about the passing of this  
info? A good guy is in need of help.



His sister, Gemma Cowhig, was also married to Robin Carlsen.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A new Force of Nature-just in time

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda  wrote:
>
> Turque Bernstein great , best, funny and only possible response to
> Buck's "Force"post --here another one:



Speaking of the Jedi, have you ever noticed a slight...uh...similarity
between the Facebook icons and...uh...something else? Maybe all those
people who think FB is evil are right:

 
[http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2011/1/19/14/enhance\
d-buzz-15786-1295466733-34.jpg]

> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" dhamiltony2k5@ wrote:
> > >
> > > It could also signal a new fundamental force of nature, and
> > > the most radical change in physics for decades...
> >
> > Radical? Yup, I can see myself changing pretty much
> > everything about my life based on this.  :-)
> >
> > "The team was analysing data from collisions between
> > protons and their anti-matter counterparts antiprotons.
> > In these collisions, particles known as W bosons are
> > produced, along with a pair of "jets" of other particles."
>
> > The thing is, these supposedly "new" particles are
> > not new at all. They've been around since at least
> > 1957, and in fact had their own musical on Broadway:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGJsv6ZNlo

[FairfieldLife] Re: News about John Cowhig

[Joe]

John was one of M's main assistants/skin boys in the 70s. I haven't seen him in 
ages but my memories of him are of a very good guy.

Sal, what strikes you as "manipulative" about the passing of this info? A good 
guy is in need of help.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine  wrote:
>
> Rick,
> I don't know this guy, and all this may be
> totally legit, but something about it just
> feels tacky (manipulative) to me.  
> Anyway, whoever he is I hope he gets better.
> 
> On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Rick Archer wrote:
> I just received the message below. I am forwarding it in case you are not a 
> member of the Facebook group "Friends of John Cowhig". Pardon any duplication 
> if you've received this message directly.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: A new Force of Nature-just in time

[merudanda]

Turque Bernstein great , best, funny and only possible response to
Buck's "Force"post --here another one:

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" dhamiltony2k5@ wrote:
> >
> > It could also signal a new fundamental force of nature, and
> > the most radical change in physics for decades...
Dear Buck, can happen to everybody,  you're mixing it up with Higgs
boson, the so called "God's particle"
The Higgs Boson - A one page explanation! Simulated Higgs particle decay
in the ATLAS   detector.  For the latest on
the Higgs race, there's a nice summary on the Cosmic Variance blog.
http://tinyurl.com/b6oqre
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13000253
>
> Radical? Yup, I can see myself changing pretty much
> everything about my life based on this.  :-)
>
> "The team was analysing data from collisions between
> protons and their anti-matter counterparts antiprotons.
> In these collisions, particles known as W bosons are
> produced, along with a pair of "jets" of other particles."how about
that: Simpson: Tiger away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdBn5G7Y2RA
> The thing is, these supposedly "new" particles are
> not new at all. They've been around since at least
> 1957, and in fact had their own musical on Broadway:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGJsv6ZNlo
nothing can beat Leonard Bernstein [:x]
  but I hope you'll not close your eyes to this beauty..
Viviana Cavaliere of the Tevatron's CDF collaboration explains her
group's new result in a talk April 6 at Fermilab.lol what a PR scheme
> :-)
>Btw
"Bashing clocks together at nearly the speed of light, and from the
broken parts that fall out,"Feynman about accelerator physics"
trying to understand what a clock is and how it works.'
The Tevatron, which is slated to shut down for good in the fall

http://tinyurl.com/3kefjha
U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) had decided against a proposed
three-year extension of the collider. How lucky this find should come...
just thinking load [:D] Fermilab would have needed an extra $35m per
year to operate the Tevatron into 2014.
see  No extra time for US particle laborig.paper
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12156998

publ.paper
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1102.3374v1
video lecture (see photo)
http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/Lectures/WC/110406Cavaliere/main.htm?layout\
=default&type=ms&archived=visible&bandwidth=high&audioonly=no
http://tinyurl.com/3d2lhmk

Re: [FairfieldLife] News about John Cowhig

[Sal Sunshine]

Rick,
I don't know this guy, and all this may be
totally legit, but something about it just
feels tacky (manipulative) to me.  
Anyway, whoever he is I hope he gets better.

On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Rick Archer wrote:
I just received the message below. I am forwarding it in case you are not a 
member of the Facebook group "Friends of John Cowhig". Pardon any duplication 
if you've received this message directly.
 

[FairfieldLife] News about John Cowhig

[Rick Archer]

I just received the message below. I am forwarding it in case you are not a
member of the Facebook group "Friends of John Cowhig". Pardon any
duplication if you've received this message directly.

 

The link for that Facebook group is:

https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133367703343417

 

You can leave messages for John at that page, or, as he indicates below, you
can e-mail him directly.

 



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 John Cowhig12:09am Apr 8th

Subject: Update on John

My dear Friends,

Things have taken a turn for me. As per my posting on the "Friends of John
Cowhig" Facebook site last summer I had a tumor successfully treated.
However, a couple of months ago the Doctors found that two new tumors had
developed. These were also treated about five weeks ago. 

However, results of a follow-up CATscan revealed that while one of the two
tumors has gone, there is still a malignant 0.4 inch node in there. 

Next Monday I have comprehensive meetings with the doctors of the transplant
clinic in Vancouver, which will include one of the three surgeons who do the
transplants. The Vancouver Transplant team is one of the best in the world. 

>From indications I've already gotten, and probably reinforced by the
recurring tumors, there's a strong chance that I'll be put on the 'active'
list of those needing a transplant. This will come from a deceased donor,
the usual way (like Steve Jobs). 

If I qualify for the list I'll quickly move over to Vancouver so I'm ready
when the call comes - it can be anytime, 24/7. 

I'm now closing down my business activities so I can focus just on this.
I've arranged my affairs so that I have about six months where I don't have
to think about any responsibilities, because after the operation they'll
keep me in the hospital for several weeks, and when released I have to be
nearby for another couple of months. At first I'd have to go in every day,
then every three days, etc. depending on how the recovery plays out. 

Financially, some friends have stepped forward to provide me with funds
every month so that I can meet my minimum expenses. I may need more help in
this, but we'll see how it goes. 

Well, life is a funny business isn't it? I should know by next Thursday
(14th) if I'm put on the list or not. After all I've gone through these last
four years, and after trying everything natural, ayurvedic and allopathic, I
realize that this is the only way out.

My body no longer produces protein, one of the liver's many tasks, so I've
become as thin as an umbrella stand. No protein means no energy - I can
hardly make it up a flight of stairs.

Thanks so very much for your support. I'll post again in a week or so when I
know where I'm headed. Any thoughts for me are welcome, either though this
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[FairfieldLife] Re: A new Force of Nature

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
>
> It could also signal a new fundamental force of nature, and 
> the most radical change in physics for decades...
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13000253

Radical? Yup, I can see myself changing pretty much 
everything about my life based on this.  :-)

"The team was analysing data from collisions between 
protons and their anti-matter counterparts antiprotons. 
In these collisions, particles known as W bosons are 
produced, along with a pair of "jets" of other particles."

The thing is, these supposedly "new" particles are 
not new at all. They've been around since at least 
1957, and in fact had their own musical on Broadway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGJsv6ZNlo

:-)

[FairfieldLife] A new Force of Nature

[Buck]

It could also signal a new fundamental force of nature, and the most radical 
change in physics for decades...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13000253

[FairfieldLife] Gay Cavemen

[turquoiseb]

Czech this out. :-) What I find interesting is that shamans in this
society were buried the same way, but with more honors. It has often
been postulated by religious sociologists that the shaman, priest, and
priestess class was often a refuge for gays who would not have found a
place in tradition society at large. Maybe this guy just couldn't pass
his "board exams" and become a full-fledged shaman.

  [http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/gmc0066l.jpg]
'Gay Caveman' Found By Archaeologists Near Prague  A team of
Czech archaeologists claim to have unearthed the remains of  an early
gay man from around 2900-2500 B.C. outside Prague.

According
  to the Telegraph, the "gay caveman" was
found  buried in a way normally reserved only for women during the
Copper Age.  The man had been interred on his left side with his head
facing east,  with no weapons and household jugs -- almost always
reserved for women  in the region during that time -- placed at his
feet. Traditionally, men  were buried with weapons, hammers and flint
knives, and their bodies  were positioned on their right side with their
heads facing west.

"From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period  took
funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely that this 
positioning was a mistake," lead researcher Kamila Remisova Vesinova 
said. "Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual 
orientation, homosexual or transvestite. What we see here does not add 
up to traditional Corded Ware cultural norms."

Archaeologist Katerina Semradova told reporters that the "third  gender"
discovery mirrored an earlier case, in which a female warrior  dating
from the Mesolithic period was found to have been buried as a  man. In
addition, she noted Siberian shamans, or latter-day witch  doctors, were
buried in a similar fashion to the "gay caveman," but  usually with
richer funeral accessories to depict a higher social  status, the Daily
Mail is reporting
 .

"But this later discovery was neither of those, leading us to believe 
the man was probably homosexual or transsexual," Semeradova is also 
quoted by the Telegraph as saying.

[FairfieldLife] Stages of samprajñaata-samaadhi and black keys?

[cardemaister]

(Disclaimer: we are not absolutely sure about the
English translations of the siddhi-suutras...)

Why is it important to "do" saMyama (dhaaraNaa-dhyaana- 
 samaadhaya ekatra) associated with
several different kinds of desha_s[1] ("places"), like
for instance friendliness (maitrii /my tree/), strength of an
elephant (hasti-balaadiini), relation between body
and aakaasha (kaayaakaashayoH saMbandhaH)?

It seems like it's important to experience the stages of
samaadhi (vitarka, vicaara, aananda, asmitaa)[2] with 
various types of concrete and abstract "objects".

As an analogy, it's prolly important for, say, a keyboard player
to be able to play in many different keys. If one tried to
play for instance the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight
Sonata in A minor (to be able to use mainly [only?] the white
keys) instead of the original C# minor, it
would, we believe, sound quite different from the original! :o



1. desha-bandhash cittasya dhaaraNaa (III 1)

2. vitarka-vicaaraanandaasmitaanugamaat saMprajñaataH (scil.
samaadhiH).