[FairfieldLife] OM: atirudra mahaayajña 1981!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BL18TZBHD4
[FairfieldLife] Re: OM: atirudra mahaayajña 1981!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BL18TZBHD4 Another 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsHWG4zI2VE
[FairfieldLife] iPhone app and stuff!
The Review, Vol. 27, #9, February 15, 2012 Copyright 2012, Maharishi University of Management http://www.mum.edu/TheReview/ 1. Rec Center Renovations Include New Aerobics/Dance Floor 2. New Distance Ed Course: The Individual Is Cosmic 3. New Alumni Website to Benefit Graduates 4. Eco-Tourism Class to Head to South Africa in April 5. MUM App Now in iPhone App Store 6. Library Offers New Resource for Job Seekers 7. MUM Chess Club Hosts Tournament 1. Rec Center Renovations Include New Aerobics/Dance Floor The most extensive renovation and expansion of the Recreation Center since its opening has recently been completed, with the south end of the building now home to a new aerobics/dance space that has a special floating floor that helps reduce the impact on one's body.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Barry, Let us guess who will be teaching this course. Would his initials be BW and who would be using a handle name that refers to a blue shade of stone? John, since you seem SINOAC (Seriously In Need Of A Clue), here are a few for you, free of charge. Your PayPal account will not be debited if you read this post. :-) First, the post you are replying to is what we call in the business a JOKE. You probably were never around when I used to write these TOREM, Inc. posts on alt.meditation.transcendental and possibly here in the past. There's One Reborn Every Minute, Inc. is my play on P.T. Barnum's famous quote, There's a sucker born every minute. It was my fictitious version of the kind of sleazy company that forms to sell beads, balms, techniques, and healings to TMers and other New Age types who are suckers for those sorts of things. Past TOREM, Inc. product offerings have included things like the Rudraksha Bra and Rudraksha Jockstrap, among other services, such as: http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/msg215757.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/msg215757.htm\ l http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/msg89725.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/msg89725.html\ Second, Barry/Turq/Uncle Tantra don't teach shit, much less charge for it, via PayPal or any other method. I leave that to people or orgs like the TMO. Third, as I explained in a followup, the basis of this particular JOKE was my and hundreds of other people's real experience with the Rama guy. For a few years we actively studied Tibetan Dream Yoga (also sometimes referred to as Lucid Dreaming) with him. We practiced waking up in the dream to the point where we had control over what we dreamed about and in what locale, and then we'd meet as a group in the dream plane and have adventures. It was fun. If we got tired of the first astral location we'd popped into, we'd just agree to go somewhere else, like, Hey guys...why don't we go to the crater of Haleakala for a while. Everyone would say, Sure, why not, and then Pop! we'd all be on top of Haleakala. Or in another of the fancy hotels we'd met with Rama in the physical, or somewhere else. The fascinating thing about all of this was that often several of us who had interacted in the dream plane the night before would get together the next day and compare dreams, to see if we remembered the same events and locations. More often than not, we did. Go figure. Lucid dreaming is not all that difficult; in my experience almost any- one who wants to learn it can, without the aid of any teacher. All it requires is intent (going to sleep with the will to wake up in the dream) and then enough practice with lucid dreaming to control the dreams thereafter. Whether this practice has any lasting value spiritually I leave to others; I feel it had some. On one level, I feel it's practice for the Bardo, that stage between physical death and physical rebirth. Learning to control one's astral environment in dreaming is IMO very similar to learning to control one's passage through the Bardo and direct one's progress towards the Clear Light. On another level, I feel that learning to wake up in the dream was good practice for waking up in the waking state. Other people's mileage with regard to all this may vary. I no longer practice lucid dreaming willfully. That is, I don't think before going to sleep, I should hook up with some friends from the old Rama trip in the dream plane tonight. Instead, I just go to sleep and see what happens. IF something interesting happens, however, I still seem to retain enough of my lucid dreaming skills to wake up in the dream and exert to some extent some control over it. I still run into folks from the Rama trip all the time in my dreams, and interestingly (since I lurk on a forum where they chat), I sometimes hear them talking about their latest group dream from time to time, and my memory of its location and content are in synch with theirs, even though I haven't seen these folks phys- ically in years. Again, go figure. Finally, don't assume that everyone is selling hokum just because you do, in the form of Jyotish readings. Some of us think these things are just mechanisms for just Having A Little Fun Along The Way, not a way of either making a living or gaining attention. https://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/browse_thr\ ead/thread/c288b1f450020f1b/2f6bd24ec247205a?lnk=gstq=%22There%27s+one+\ reborn+every+minute%22#2f6bd24ec247205a https://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/browse_th\ read/thread/c288b1f450020f1b/2f6bd24ec247205a?lnk=gstq=%22There%27s+one\ +reborn+every+minute%22#2f6bd24ec247205a https://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/browse_thr\ ead/thread/f1c03099aa10d78c/3d80b6452e5d0b17?lnk=gstq=%22There%27s+one+\
[FairfieldLife] Levitating dog?
0:35 - levitating dog? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb92wQpPG-s
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Just to follow up, my little ad below, with the exception of paying by PayPal :-) is pretty much what I experienced several nights a week for many years while studying with Rama. We'd meet as a group in the dream plane and have fun. Here's a sample dream from that period, for those interested in Tibetan Dream Yoga: http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm21.html http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm21.html Very nice, Barry. Whatever else Rama was up to, he definitely had a powerful and good effect on some people. An amazing experience, a treasure. What a puzzle he was. Truly a master of cognitive dissonance and the flexibility that promotes. Also known as a real mindfuck. :-) Yeah. Actually TOREM is a clever idea. And actually, if put out there, I would bet your would have some people signing up, and a percentage of them getting good results as they dream. We humans are hopeful to the end! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Responding to consumer demand, There's One Reborn Every Minute, Inc. is proud to announce its latest offering to the TM and former-TM community: Astral Residence Courses. The moment you beam us your PayPal payment, we start streaming to you our live, on-demand Dream Study selection of courses. To access these courses, all you have to do is fall asleep with the intent to log in to a course environment, and zap! there you'll be. Course facilities will be as sumptuous as many of the TM residence course facilities were spartan. None of that rotten fruit and crumbling buildings of Poland Spring...no. Instead, we promise you 5-star accommodations in astral hotels more like the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur or the Muana Lani Bay Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii. Class accommodations, class food. Both vegetarians and carnivores catered to. TOREM, Inc. also promises to provide a wide variety of dream plane adepts and enlightened teachers for you to run into and/or take darshan/instruction from as you wander through the course facility. Your individual experience may vary, of course, but many participants of our courses have reported things like I awoke refreshed and awakened after a few hours in the astral version of the Hotel Maurice in Paris. My satsang session with Swami Beyondananda has changed me forever, and the pate de fois gras was excellent, too. WHY stay stuck in your same old same old dreams every night? Sign up today for TOREM, Inc's Astral Residence Courses today and awaken with a new awakening every morning. Plus, you can meet and get to know new astral friends and fellow spiritual seekers along the Way**. ** TOREM, Inc. is not responsible for the outcome of any romantic relationships formed in the dream plane while on one of our Astral Residence Courses. As with real life, you're on your own.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Just to follow up, my little ad below, with the exception of paying by PayPal is pretty much what I experienced several nights a week for many years while studying with Rama. We'd meet as a group in the dream plane and have fun. Here's a sample dream from that period, for those interested in Tibetan Dream Yoga: http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm21.html Very nice, Barry. Whatever else Rama was up to, he definitely had a powerful and good effect on some people. An amazing experience, a treasure. What a puzzle he was. Truly a master of cognitive dissonance and the flexibility that promotes. Also known as a real mindfuck. :-) Yeah. Please bear in mind that the story at the link above was written many, many years ago, while I was still a Rama True Believer. I included such older stories in my book as is, with the idea that preserving some of the flavor of how I was thinking *at the time* would be more valuable than rewriting them to reflect how I was thinking years later, when I finally put the book online for free. Actually TOREM is a clever idea. And actually, if put out there, I would bet your would have some people signing up, and a percentage of them getting good results as they dream. We humans are hopeful to the end! Absolutely. Some here may remember the story of a practical joke I played at one of the early Humboldt courses. Noticing that many were running around wearing coral beads and/or rudraksha beads, based on nothing more than *having heard through the grapevine* that such things were good for you, a friend of mine and I decided to create our own spiritual technology du jour. There were any number of fir trees on the campus, each bear- ing hundreds of tiny pine cones, about half an inch in size. We picked them and strung necklaces of them and started wearing them visibly during the course. Any time someone came up to us and asked us what they were and why we were wearing them, we'd blush shyly and speak the one-liner we had agreed upon: We're not supposed to say. By the end of the course we counted at least a dozen people who were also wearing the Holy Pine Cone Necklaces. :-) :-) :-) Besides, if I really were to implement such an idea as the Astral Residence Courses, I think there would be a ready market for them among TMers. First, we at TOREM, Inc. are *not* spiritofascists when it comes to our courses. You don't have to show us no steenkin' badges. The way we figure it is that if you manage to find one of our gather- ings in the dream plane and show up, you were supposed to be there, whether you had paid for it via PayPal or not. :-) Second, if an On The Program TMer were to attend our astral seminars and meet with one or more Off The Program spiritual teachers, darshan-givers or healers, the TM Inquisition is never going to hear about it. Our astral lips are sealed, so your official Dome Pass is secure. :-) As for customers reporting good results, I firmly suspect that this would depend almost entirely on how much we charged for the Astral Residence Courses. The more they paid, the higher the likelihood that they'd report good experiences. In other words, JUST like TM Yagyas and Advanced Techniques. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Responding to consumer demand, There's One Reborn Every Minute, Inc. is proud to announce its latest offering to the TM and former-TM community: Astral Residence Courses. The moment you beam us your PayPal payment, we start streaming to you our live, on-demand Dream Study selection of courses. To access these courses, all you have to do is fall asleep with the intent to log in to a course environment, and zap! there you'll be. Course facilities will be as sumptuous as many of the TM residence course facilities were spartan. None of that rotten fruit and crumbling buildings of Poland Spring...no. Instead, we promise you 5-star accommodations in astral hotels more like the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur or the Muana Lani Bay Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii. Class accommodations, class food. Both vegetarians and carnivores catered to. TOREM, Inc. also promises to provide a wide variety of dream plane adepts and enlightened teachers for you to run into and/or take darshan/instruction from as you wander through the course facility. Your individual experience may vary, of course, but many participants of our courses have reported things like I awoke refreshed and awakened after a few hours in the astral version of the
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
However, I recently stumbled upon an example of secular intransigence that may give readers a sense of how spiritual people feel when their methods as technologies are criticized. As you will see but for the rigorous research conducted it suggests that it is worth thinking about. We can call the phenomenon of non-meditation the delusion. Buck, what was the example of spiritual intransigence you refer to? Did you mean to include a link or a quote or something? authfriend: I'm sorry, Buck, I miswrote. The example you referred to was one of *secular*, not spiritual, intransigence. And you seemed to be speaking of something very specific that you'd just encountered recently, so I was intrigued. Guess Buck is still busy meditating. Buck didn't define 'meditation', so we don't even know what he is talking about. It has already been established that meditation means to 'think things over', but does Buck practice TM or does he practice a secular type of meditation? Meditation has been defined as 'a conscious mental process that induces a set of integrated physiological changes termed the relaxation response'. Work Cited: 'Meditation: An Introduction' Uses of Meditation for Health in the United States. NCCAM (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Barry, Let us guess who will be teaching this course. Would his initials be BW and who would be using a handle name that refers to a blue shade of stone? John, since you seem SINOAC (Seriously In Need Of A Clue), here are a few for you, free of charge. Your PayPal account will not be debited if you read this post. :-) First, the post you are replying to is what we call in the business a JOKE. Er, Barry, I'm pretty sure John is aware it's a JOKE and is just, you know, playing along. Which would mean it's you who is SINOAC.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
However, I recently stumbled upon an example of secular intransigence... Buck, what was the example of spiritual intransigence you refer to? Did you mean to include a link or a quote or something? Buck: Dear Authfriend, I shan't give pleasure repeating the anti-meditators here who pollute the pages of FFL with their non-meditaton rhetoric. You know what I mean an who they are. It was the usual ones... Fer chrissaskes, Buck, why didn't you pipe up when they posted that rumor about MMY murdering his master, SBS? It looks to me like a lot of informants here can't even defend their own guru, much less dialog about deep meditation! Where I come from, silence usually indicates agreement. 294401 294401 , 264027 264027 , etc, etc, etc
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
Non meditation as a term means 'no thought' which is almost exactly what the term transcendental... meditation means, 'beyond thought'. Vaj: In the context of these quotes, that is not what is meant by non-meditation. In TM-speak, the closest thing I can think of is nitya-samadhi, CC, where samadhi allegedly is permanent and no meditation necessary. In the context of Dzogchen atiyoga or Mahamudra, non-meditation is a state of dissolving any object meditated on nor any subject who meditates... It looks like somebody put the cart before the horse. You've got to define first what meditation is, before you can define non-meditation. You've been using circular logic (regressus ad infinitum). Go figure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmenides_(dialogue) The historical Buddha himself was said to have achieved enlightenment while meditating under a banyan tree. Most forms of Buddhism distinguish between two classes of meditation practices: shamatha and vipassana, both of which are necessary for attaining enlightenment. The former consists of practices aimed at developing the ability to focus the attention single-pointedly; the latter includes practices aimed at developing insight and wisdom through seeing the true nature of reality. It also refers to the fourth stage of Mahamudra in which nothing further needs to be 'meditated upon' or 'cultivated.' This might be somewhat similar to meditation on brahman, which really is not a conventional object. Also the state of non-meditation doesn't complain about thoughts or no thoughts, either is perfectly fine. According to Feuerstein, the word meditation originally comes from the Indo-European root 'med' -, meaning 'to measure'. From the root med are also derived the English words mete, medicine, modest, and moderate. It entered English as 'meditation' through the Latin 'meditatio', which originally indicated every type of physical or intellectual exercise, then later evolved into the more specific meaning 'contemplation'. Work cited: 'Yoga and Meditation (Dhyana)' by Georg Feuerstein Moksha Journal, Issue 1. 2006 ISSN 1051-127X, OCLC 21878732
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
Rigpa Awareness is very similar to 'witnessing sleep' in TM, which helps the individual understand the unreality of waking consciousness as phenomena. Vaj: Rigpa Awareness is not the same thing as 'witnessing sleep' in TM. 'Semde' is Tibetan for the Sanskrit 'cittavarga': meditation on one's innate awareness, which is it's natural state of pure consciousness (citta) - that's why they called it the 'Mind School' in Tibet. In Tibetan Dzogchen practice, it is just 'being aware of being aware'. As a meditation technique, it's similar to TM and Soto Zen practice - that is, a direct introduction to the natural state of mind where all thoughts and perceptions are realized to be just mental projections having no absolute own-Being. Stop making sh*t up Willy. You better stop the fibbing, Vaj. Witnessing sleep is just like the Rigpa Awareness in Dzogchen. Maybe you just haven't had the training, so you often sound really inexperienced in TM and Tibetan techniques. Go figure. As a meditation technique, 'Rigpa Awareness' is similar to 'TM' and 'Soto Zen' practice - that is, a direct introduction to the natural state of mind where all thoughts and perceptions are realized to be just mental projections having no absolute own-Being. According Sogyal Rinpoche, meditation is simply 'resting', undistracted, in the 'View', once it has been introduced. His teacher Dudjom Rinpoche, once described meditation as being attentive to a state of 'Rigpa', or 'Open Awareness', experiencing free from all mental constructions, whilst remaining fully relaxed, without any distraction or grasping. Meditation states Rinpoche, is not striving, but naturally becoming assimilated into it (Sogyal 163). Work cited: 'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying' By Sogyal Rinpoche HarperCollins, 2002
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Rigpa Awareness is very similar to 'witnessing sleep' in TM, which helps the individual understand the unreality of waking consciousness as phenomena. Vaj: Rigpa Awareness is not the same thing as 'witnessing sleep' in TM. 'Semde' is Tibetan for the Sanskrit 'cittavarga': meditation on one's innate awareness, which is it's natural state of pure consciousness (citta) - that's why they called it the 'Mind School' in Tibet. In Tibetan Dzogchen practice, it is just 'being aware of being aware'. This one little paragraph is filled with fallacies. Semde or cittavarga is one of the three series of Dzogchen. The so-called mind only school is from the Yogacara school, not Mahasandi/Dzogchen. You're confusing cittavarga with cittamatra. As a meditation technique, it's similar to TM and Soto Zen practice - that is, a direct introduction to the natural state of mind where all thoughts and perceptions are realized to be just mental projections having no absolute own-Being. It bears no similarity whatsoever. And there is no direct introduction or pointing out involved in TM, TM instruction, the TM advanced techniques or the TMSP. Stop making sh*t up Willy. Ditto.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
Although we are big on asking for objective proof of subjective claims here on FFL, I for one wish to say that I hope neither of your spiritual paths requires you to take the dump truck silence test anytime soon... Vaj: Of course the ultimate silence test has to be the one they tested Buddhist yogis with: a blast of very loud sound at the upper threshold of human tolerance. According to Alexandra David-Neel, they used to do this with a human thigh-trumpet. http://tinyurl.com/7ed4u8g In the U.S. we have other sounds to deal with, like amplified sirens on ambulances. One of the reasons that TM studies are more relevant is because unlike most meditation techniques, TM doesn't rely on 'focused concentration' or attention. There is a single-object, the bija mantra, but it is not an object of concentration and it does not get focused attention. The bija is experienced just like any other thought. The problem with 'deity' visualizations is that these types of concentrative meditation tend to keep one on the ordinary conscious thinking level - transcending is much slower in deity worship, if at all, than with TM. A lot of Tibetan meditation is based on mood-making, obviously. It's much easier to meditate with just an abstract bija, used just like a non-semantic mnemonic device. A person has to go through years of training in Tibet in order to learn how to visualize tantric dieties! It's not at all practical for ordinary people. Excerpts: One of the methods chosen, one-pointednessa fully focused concentration on a single object of attention may be the most basic and universal of all practices, found in one form or another in every spiritual tradition that employs meditation. The final meditation technique, visualization, entailed constructing in the mind's eye an image of the elaborately intricate details of a Tibetan Buddhist deity. Shambhala Sun: http://tinyurl.com/nnx2vs http://tinyurl.com/nnx2vs 'Magic and Mystery in Tibet' BY Alexandra David-Neel Penguin, 1971 http://tinyurl.com/7ed4u8g http://tinyurl.com/7ed4u8g
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Just to follow up, my little ad below, with the exception of paying by PayPal is pretty much what I experienced several nights a week for many years while studying with Rama. We'd meet as a group in the dream plane and have fun. Here's a sample dream from that period, for those interested in Tibetan Dream Yoga: http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rt21.html Very nice, Barry. Whatever else Rama was up to, he definitely had a powerful and good effect on some people. An amazing experience, a treasure. What a puzzle he was. Truly a master of cognitive dissonance and the flexibility that promotes. Also known as a real mindfuck. :-) Yeah. Please bear in mind that the story at the link above was written many, many years ago, while I was still a Rama True Believer. I included such older stories in my book as is, with the idea that preserving some of the flavor of how I was thinking *at the time* would be more valuable than rewriting them to reflect how I was thinking years later, when I finally put the book online for free. Actually TOREM is a clever idea. And actually, if put out there, I would bet your would have some people signing up, and a percentage of them getting good results as they dream. We humans are hopeful to the end! Absolutely. Some here may remember the story of a practical joke I played at one of the early Humboldt courses. Noticing that many were running around wearing coral beads and/or rudraksha beads, based on nothing more than *having heard through the grapevine* that such things were good for you, a friend of mine and I decided to create our own spiritual technology du jour. There were any number of fir trees on the campus, each bear- ing hundreds of tiny pine cones, about half an inch in size. We picked them and strung necklaces of them and started wearing them visibly during the course. Any time someone came up to us and asked us what they were and why we were wearing them, we'd blush shyly and speak the one-liner we had agreed upon: We're not supposed to say. By the end of the course we counted at least a dozen people who were also wearing the Holy Pine Cone Necklaces. :-) :-) :-) Besides, if I really were to implement such an idea as the Astral Residence Courses, I think there would be a ready market for them among TMers. First, we at TOREM, Inc. are *not* spiritofascists when it comes to our courses. You don't have to show us no steenkin' badges. The way we figure it is that if you manage to find one of our gather- ings in the dream plane and show up, you were supposed to be there, whether you had paid for it via PayPal or not. :-) Second, if an On The Program TMer were to attend our astral seminars and meet with one or more Off The Program spiritual teachers, darshan-givers or healers, the TM Inquisition is never going to hear about it. Our astral lips are sealed, so your official Dome Pass is secure. :-) As for customers reporting good results, I firmly suspect that this would depend almost entirely on how much we charged for the Astral Residence Courses. The more they paid, the higher the likelihood that they'd report good experiences. In other words, JUST like TM Yagyas and Advanced Techniques. :-) I always found Holland to be rather interesting. Whenever I went to Amsterdam there was so much fun to do ! But the Turqo is bored, resorting to fantacies and the same old, same old denouncing of the only Master he ever met and the only effective spiritual organization he ever stumbled upon. He should get out more, or is his old legs getting tired ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ballad of SOPA and PIPA
Bhairitu: The Ballad of SOPA and PIPA.. The administration faces the challenge of trying to push back against an issue that enjoys broad bipartisan support on account of the sweeping bribery... Daily Tech: http://tinyurl.com/7vt6t6o
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Ballad of SOPA and PIPA
On 02/16/2012 08:59 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Bhairitu: The Ballad of SOPA and PIPA.. The administration faces the challenge of trying to push back against an issue that enjoys broad bipartisan support on account of the sweeping bribery... Daily Tech: http://tinyurl.com/7vt6t6o With this video I added Closed Captions so folks can sign along if they want. Just click on the CC button. Issa and Wyden are sponsoring OPEN which is supposed to be toned down but I think most of congress feels bruised after the public outrage and there may be no such bills passed this year. The penalties for music and movie piracy are ridiculous because they equate it rape or murder. Just shows you how crazy Hollywood execs are.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams richard@... wrote: Non meditation as a term means 'no thought' which is almost exactly what the term transcendental... meditation means, 'beyond thought'. Vaj: In the context of these quotes, that is not what is meant by non-meditation. In TM-speak, the closest thing I can think of is nitya-samadhi, CC, where samadhi allegedly is permanent and no meditation necessary. In the context of Dzogchen atiyoga or Mahamudra, non-meditation is a state of dissolving any object meditated on nor any subject who meditates... It looks like somebody put the cart before the horse. You've got to define first what meditation is, before you can define non-meditation. You've been using circular logic (regressus ad infinitum). Go figure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmenides_(dialogue) The historical Buddha himself was said to have achieved enlightenment while meditating under a banyan tree. Most forms of Buddhism distinguish between two classes of meditation practices: shamatha and vipassana, both of which are necessary for attaining enlightenment. The former consists of practices aimed at developing the ability to focus the attention single-pointedly; the latter includes practices aimed at developing insight and wisdom through seeing the true nature of reality. It also refers to the fourth stage of Mahamudra in which nothing further needs to be 'meditated upon' or 'cultivated.' This might be somewhat similar to meditation on brahman, which really is not a conventional object. Also the state of non-meditation doesn't complain about thoughts or no thoughts, either is perfectly fine. According to Feuerstein, the word meditation originally comes from the Indo-European root 'med' -, meaning 'to measure'. From the root med are also derived the English words mete, medicine, modest, and moderate. It entered English as 'meditation' through the Latin 'meditatio', which originally indicated every type of physical or intellectual exercise, then later evolved into the more specific meaning 'contemplation'. Work cited: 'Yoga and Meditation (Dhyana)' by Georg Feuerstein Moksha Journal, Issue 1. 2006 ISSN 1051-127X, OCLC 21878732 Those of us who responded to the initial post by Buck were just riffing off of it, each of us interpreting 'non meditation' as we saw fit. I think Buck may have meant 'non meditation' to refer to those who do not meditate, or those that did and stopped, and possibly those who meditate but do not practice TM. It seemed to me he was referring to non meditation as a kind of social disease that by virtue of those who do not meditate those who do are somehow infected by a less than stellar existence by virtue of their influence. Meditation as a specific kind of practice does not seem to naturally to occur to almost everybody, it is a behaviour learned from a very few that discovered these processes. So blaming the non meditators for not doing what oneself is doing seems kind of pointless. Interesting that you brought up Parmenides. My given name is a derivative of the name of the man who is thought to be Parmenides teacher, something I only discovered by following the link to in the wikipedia article to one about Xenophanes. I never knew that. I always rather liked Parmenides.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
On Feb 16, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: Those of us who responded to the initial post by Buck were just riffing off of it, each of us interpreting 'non meditation' as we saw fit. I think Buck may have meant 'non meditation' to refer to those who do not meditate, or those that did and stopped, and possibly those who meditate but do not practice TM. It seemed to me he was referring to non meditation as a kind of social disease that by virtue of those who do not meditate those who do are somehow infected by a less than stellar existence by virtue of their influence. Exactly. Maybe he should just start calling them outward strokers. 'Amnesty for the outward strokers' is too long for a bumper sticker though...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Barry, Let us guess who will be teaching this course. Would his initials be BW and who would be using a handle name that refers to a blue shade of stone? John, since you seem SINOAC (Seriously In Need Of A Clue), here are a few for you, free of charge. Your PayPal account will not be debited if you read this post. :-) First, the post you are replying to is what we call in the business a JOKE. Er, Barry, I'm pretty sure John is aware it's a JOKE and is just, you know, playing along. Which would mean it's you who is SINOAC. Judy, You're right again. Barry needs to stop dreaming if that's possible. :) JR
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
Rigpa Awareness is very similar to 'witnessing sleep' in TM, which helps the individual understand the unreality of waking consciousness as phenomena. Rigpa Awareness is not the same thing as 'witnessing sleep' in TM. 'Semde' is Tibetan for the Sanskrit 'cittavarga': meditation on one's innate awareness, which is it's natural state of pure consciousness (citta) - that's why they called it the 'Mind School' in Tibet. In Tibetan Dzogchen practice, it is just 'being aware of being aware'. Vaj: This one little paragraph is filled with fallacies. No, I don't think so. According to Anne Klien, Semde emphasizes the clarity or the innate awareness (rigpa) aspect of the Natural State. Semde or cittavarga is one of the three series of Dzogchen. 'Semde' is Tibetan for the Sanskrit 'cittavarga', meditation on one's innate awareness. The goal is the perfection of mankind (siddhi) through yoga training. The so-called mind only school is from the Yogacara school, not Mahasandi/Dzogchen. The Tibetan 'Mind School' is attributed to Sri Singha and Vairotsana's lineage. The Yogacaqra is the 'Consciousness Only' school, founded by Asanga in India. Germano says the earliest revelations of the Great Perfection are those said to have been disseminated in Tibet in the eighth century and retroactively classified as the 'Mind Series' to distinguish them from later developments. You're confusing cittavarga with cittamatra. No, I don't think so. The four yogas of Semde are 'shinay' (shamatha), 'vipasyana', (clear seeing), 'advaya', (nonduality), and 'nirabogha', (spontaneous presence). As a meditation technique, it's similar to TM and Soto Zen practice - that is, a direct introduction to the natural state of mind where all thoughts and perceptions are realized to be just mental projections having no absolute own-Being. It bears no similarity whatsoever. Says who? And there is no direct introduction or pointing out involved in TM, TM instruction, the TM advanced techniques or the TMSP. Trancscending is the direct pointing, Vaj. It's basic TM instruction. Not talking about TMSP - you made that part of the conversation up. Stop making sh*t up Willy. Stop fibbing about TM practice. You should already be aware of the sameness of Hindu and Buddhist yoga by now. Works cited: 'The Funerary Transformation of the Great Perfection' by David Germano JIATS, no. 1, October 2005 p.12 'The Supreme Source: The Fundamental Tantra of the Dzogchen Semde' By Kunjed Gyalpo', Namkhai Norbu and Adriano Clemente Snow Lion Publications, 1999
[FairfieldLife] Feb 20-th, Shivaratri
http://www.karunamayi.org/News/2012MahaSivaratiGreetingandArticle.html
[FairfieldLife] Talks with the Taliban
This is a positive development towards ending the war. Then, the troops can come home. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/talks-between-taliban-u-afghanistan-started-says-afghan-182629992.html
[FairfieldLife] Snow Circle in Holland looking like a fingerprint
01- Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, 05-02-2012 In de nacht van 3 op 4 februari is er een sneeuwcirkel ontstaan op een vijver in regio Schijndel. De eigenaar ter plaatse staat voor een raadsel. Zaterdag om 15:00 uur werd de formatie ontdekt en is zo'n 30 meter doorsnee. Zoals bijgevoegde foto's laten zien lijkt de sneeuw binnen de lijnen spontaan verdwenen te zijn, volgens getuige is er geen sprake van sneeuwophoping en waren er geen voetsporen te bekennen. De voetsporen op de foto's zijn van de kleinkinderen, die het spektakel van dichtbij wilden aanschouwen. De vijver, één van de twee op deze lokatie, zijn overigens niet bereikbaar voor buitenstaanders, het betreft een privédomein. 5 februari heeft de eigenaar contact gezocht met de DCCA en we hebben Sjaak bereid gevonden om contact te nemen met desbetreffende mensen. Sjaak dacht in eerste instantie van een door mensenhanden gemaakt figuur maar moest, net als ondergetekende, deze conclusie intrekken bij het zien van de foto's. De beelden zijn gemaakt door Jos Schouten, de overbuurman van het perceel en fotograaf van beroep. Verschillende mensen hebben bij het zien van de foto's een soort van euforisch gevoel De eigenaar is overigens geen voorstander van publiciteit en verdere gegevens van de lokatie zullen ook niet prijs worden gegeven. Mochten er meer details zijun dan hoort u dat van ons. Bovenstaande betreft overigens de tweede sneeuw-melding binnen een week, voorheen hebben we uitgebreid het nieuws vanuit het openlucht museum in Arnhem kunnen vernemen, waar ook al cirkels zijn ontstaan in sneeuw op een vijver. Peter Vanlaerhoven - DCCA Like I said earlier; the Turq should get out more ! :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Snow Circle in Holland looking like a fingerprint
Like I said earlier; the Turq should get out more ! :-) 01- Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, 05-02-2012 A circle in snow with a diameter of 30 meters appeared in the night of februari 3-4 at a pond. The owner of the pond said there were no foot steps, the one at the picture are from his grand children who wanted to have a better look at the circle. Sjaak Damen of the DDCA was allowed to do some research but the owner don't want any publicity. Robert Boerman - DCCA
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
On 02/16/2012 10:03 AM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williamsrichard@... wrote: Non meditation as a term means 'no thought' which is almost exactly what the term transcendental... meditation means, 'beyond thought'. Vaj: In the context of these quotes, that is not what is meant by non-meditation. In TM-speak, the closest thing I can think of is nitya-samadhi, CC, where samadhi allegedly is permanent and no meditation necessary. In the context of Dzogchen atiyoga or Mahamudra, non-meditation is a state of dissolving any object meditated on nor any subject who meditates... It looks like somebody put the cart before the horse. You've got to define first what meditation is, before you can define non-meditation. You've been using circular logic (regressus ad infinitum). Go figure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmenides_(dialogue) The historical Buddha himself was said to have achieved enlightenment while meditating under a banyan tree. Most forms of Buddhism distinguish between two classes of meditation practices: shamatha and vipassana, both of which are necessary for attaining enlightenment. The former consists of practices aimed at developing the ability to focus the attention single-pointedly; the latter includes practices aimed at developing insight and wisdom through seeing the true nature of reality. It also refers to the fourth stage of Mahamudra in which nothing further needs to be 'meditated upon' or 'cultivated.' This might be somewhat similar to meditation on brahman, which really is not a conventional object. Also the state of non-meditation doesn't complain about thoughts or no thoughts, either is perfectly fine. According to Feuerstein, the word meditation originally comes from the Indo-European root 'med' -, meaning 'to measure'. From the root med are also derived the English words mete, medicine, modest, and moderate. It entered English as 'meditation' through the Latin 'meditatio', which originally indicated every type of physical or intellectual exercise, then later evolved into the more specific meaning 'contemplation'. Work cited: 'Yoga and Meditation (Dhyana)' by Georg Feuerstein Moksha Journal, Issue 1. 2006 ISSN 1051-127X, OCLC 21878732 Those of us who responded to the initial post by Buck were just riffing off of it, each of us interpreting 'non meditation' as we saw fit. I think Buck may have meant 'non meditation' to refer to those who do not meditate, or those that did and stopped, and possibly those who meditate but do not practice TM. It seemed to me he was referring to non meditation as a kind of social disease that by virtue of those who do not meditate those who do are somehow infected by a less than stellar existence by virtue of their influence. Meditation as a specific kind of practice does not seem to naturally to occur to almost everybody, it is a behaviour learned from a very few that discovered these processes. So blaming the non meditators for not doing what oneself is doing seems kind of pointless. Interesting that you brought up Parmenides. My given name is a derivative of the name of the man who is thought to be Parmenides teacher, something I only discovered by following the link to in the wikipedia article to one about Xenophanes. I never knew that. I always rather liked Parmenides. The reason that I asked Buck what he meant by non-meditator was to be sure he wasn't referring to only to people who don't practice TM. That, of course, would be a very narrow definition. However, I think Buck has mentioned he has seen saints so may also have tried other meditation. TM is a meditation for what yogis refer to as meditation for the general public. Advanced techniques given by most gurus usually include an initiation into a guru or key mantra. That mantra is very powerful and something you would not give to the general public but to initiates you feel can handle such a meditation. That said, I feel most here could handle it. One Indian astrologer who did a reading for me saw that I had become a TM teacher and thought that was good. When I told him I had doubts about the technique he said doesn't matter, once initiated you can use any mantra you want. That is somewhat true and why we should discount any former TM'er who has left the movement and taught meditation to other people successfully without using a puja and doesn't feel it is needed. We just don't know how much their prior practice has allowed them to charge any mantra without doing any puja to charge up. Most gurus would determine when you are charged enough to teach meditation and then allow you to do so and there is no need to perform a puja. I have also heard that Maharishi when told of teachers who had moved on to more advanced paths commented that he thought that was good.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Just to follow up, my little ad below, with the exception of paying by PayPal is pretty much what I experienced several nights a week for many years while studying with Rama. We'd meet as a group in the dream plane and have fun. Here's a sample dream from that period, for those interested in Tibetan Dream Yoga: http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm21.html Very nice, Barry. Whatever else Rama was up to, he definitely had a powerful and good effect on some people. An amazing experience, a treasure. What a puzzle he was. Truly a master of cognitive dissonance and the flexibility that promotes. Also known as a real mindfuck. :-) Yeah. Please bear in mind that the story at the link above was written many, many years ago, while I was still a Rama True Believer. I included such older stories in my book as is, with the idea that preserving some of the flavor of how I was thinking *at the time* would be more valuable than rewriting them to reflect how I was thinking years later, when I finally put the book online for free. Actually TOREM is a clever idea. And actually, if put out there, I would bet your would have some people signing up, and a percentage of them getting good results as they dream. We humans are hopeful to the end! Absolutely. Some here may remember the story of a practical joke I played at one of the early Humboldt courses. Noticing that many were running around wearing coral beads and/or rudraksha beads, based on nothing more than *having heard through the grapevine* that such things were good for you, a friend of mine and I decided to create our own spiritual technology du jour. There were any number of fir trees on the campus, each bear- ing hundreds of tiny pine cones, about half an inch in size. We picked them and strung necklaces of them and started wearing them visibly during the course. Any time someone came up to us and asked us what they were and why we were wearing them, we'd blush shyly and speak the one-liner we had agreed upon: We're not supposed to say. By the end of the course we counted at least a dozen people who were also wearing the Holy Pine Cone Necklaces. :-) :-) :-) I was at Humboldt twice, I think. Summer of 1971 and then for an ATR a year later. Anyway, one of those summers I do recall a guy selling the rudraksha beads - they always looked too rough and uncomfortable and I never got into them, plus it seemed a scam. I must have missed your mini pine cone knock-offs. I did see the movie Paper Moon with Tatum 'Neal one of those Humboldt summers - very OTP, but fun to go with a group for a field trip of sorts. I also skinny dipped one evening in a pond there. It was man made and a large rectangle set way back behind the field house in the woods. I walked by and felt this urge to go swimming - I love to swim. I remember watching tadpoles swim around me as I swam laps. Felt wonderful to look up at the stars, too. Got out, put my clothes back on, and went back to the dorm. Besides, if I really were to implement such an idea as the Astral Residence Courses, I think there would be a ready market for them among TMers. First, we at TOREM, Inc. are *not* spiritofascists when it comes to our courses. You don't have to show us no steenkin' badges. The way we figure it is that if you manage to find one of our gather- ings in the dream plane and show up, you were supposed to be there, whether you had paid for it via PayPal or not. :-) Second, if an On The Program TMer were to attend our astral seminars and meet with one or more Off The Program spiritual teachers, darshan-givers or healers, the TM Inquisition is never going to hear about it. Our astral lips are sealed, so your official Dome Pass is secure. :-) As for customers reporting good results, I firmly suspect that this would depend almost entirely on how much we charged for the Astral Residence Courses. The more they paid, the higher the likelihood that they'd report good experiences. In other words, JUST like TM Yagyas and Advanced Techniques. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Responding to consumer demand, There's One Reborn Every Minute, Inc. is proud to announce its latest offering to the TM and former-TM community: Astral Residence Courses. The moment you beam us your PayPal payment, we start streaming to you our live, on-demand Dream Study selection of courses. To access these courses,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: Those of us who responded to the initial post by Buck were just riffing off of it, each of us interpreting 'non meditation' as we saw fit. I think Buck may have meant 'non meditation' to refer to those who do not meditate, or those that did and stopped, and possibly those who meditate but do not practice TM. It seemed to me he was referring to non meditation as a kind of social disease that by virtue of those who do not meditate those who do are somehow infected by a less than stellar existence by virtue of their influence. Exactly. Maybe he should just start calling them outward strokers. 'Amnesty for the outward strokers' is too long for a bumper sticker though... Exactly too. Absolutely, it is about field effect of different classes. Meditator, quitter, non. The Science is prescient and the public policy implication is evidently clear. I shoud urge you all to meditation and to support the important work of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy. http://istpp.org/ It is time for real meditators to rally, not run away. In the Field, -Buck, Ph 7 p.s., Of course the problem with non meditation is that it is such a poor field with bad effect. If you'd could see how bad it is then you'd know. For everyone's benefit this all needs to be changed for the better. With more effective meditation. Meditators to the front!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: I have also heard that Maharishi when told of teachers who had moved on to more advanced paths commented that he thought that was good. I also heard that in the Great Pyramid in Egypt Sidhas are living who were initiated 5000 years ago by Vyasa :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warm Up Solo...
On 02/15/2012 11:55 PM, cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: On 02/15/2012 12:57 PM, cardemaister wrote: Never heard of this chap before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CZYhO7vZlofeature=related IMO, shows that one doesn't need a monster drum set to play some impressive stuff. YMMV, of course! Good player, not a very musical solo however. People are easily impressed with technique when it comes to drummers. I don't think it is primarily his technical skills that impressed me. There's something in his playing that reminded me of the moment when I fell in love with Jimi Hendrix. But that was really the first time I heard this guy play. Perhaps the feeling fades away if I listen to him some more... For instance Buddy Rich doesn't impress me as a musician but merely as a technician, and with his speed. Here's another Finnish drummer (L.A. Musicians Institute, P.I.T., top of his class 1992): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLPOg907vY IMO, he's way boring... BTW, can you mention some of your favorite drummers? That's a tough one as I don't have any favorite drummer. That's because so many have been influential to my career and each bringing their own contribution to the table. You've probably never heard of Jack Sperling but he was an early influence and fine studio drummer that appeared on some of Pete Fountain's albums. Joe Morello was a big influence for me at the time (as for many drummers) and I once helped him pack his equipment after a concert. Of course I was influenced by many jazz drummers such as Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Ed Thigpen, Chico Hamilton and a host of others. They all brought something extra to the table. Road and Blakey particularly were melodic players. Much later Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette and others. For rock there were the Motown folks and people like Bernard Purdie all bringing something special to the table. I also liked the funk drumming of Steve Gadd who was a big favorite among drummers of the 70s. I even used Rick Latham's Advanced Funk Studies to teach my students once they could read a little bit. It was a book that started out simply and by the time they finished it they could about play anything on a set. There is my high school drum teacher, Del Blake, who was the 1962 Archer-Epler rudimental champion who was in college when I studied with him and went on to play with Ray Brown's orchestra that played behind Sammy Davis Junior and the studio orchestra for Merv Griffin. He taught me to analyze a lot of players, what motivated people to become musicians and to develop skills way beyond what you may ever need in performance. My last teacher was Chick Dante, a New York drummer who had migrated to Seattle in the 1970s. His dad was Peter Duchin's drummer. He helped me take all the training I had from the rudimental to serious classical I had learned in college and package them as all useful techniques. He was also a show drummer and we looked at many show drummers including Buddy Rich and Carmine Appice (Young Rascals and Vanilla Fudge). He taught from Mickey Sheen's book who was a master of show drumming. But the drummer who influenced me the most was my late brother, a professional and 13 years older who insisted that my folks be sure I got good instruction and provided my first drum set. He even gave me a summer job when I was in high school during the Seattle World's Fair so I could take lessons with one of the top teachers in Seattle, Dave Coleman (who had returned from a stint with Les Brown) as well as jazz keyboard lessons. Coleman, BTW, was probably responsible for the Seattle beat which was the application of coordinated independence taught using Jim Chapin's book (Harry Chapin's father) to rock. He also taught me to play double time swing instead of straight eights for rock which got me in trouble with some of the high school rock bands I played in because I wasn't playing like the record. Of course a few years later Mitch Mitchell was doing the same thing with Jimmy Hendrix and I'm been told that was because Mitch was also a student of Coleman.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
That website will rot your brain, for sure. Hagelin has no demonstrable Sidhis. He's promoting demon-infected programs. ... Here's a better website: http://www.optoutprescreen.com --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: Those of us who responded to the initial post by Buck were just riffing off of it, each of us interpreting 'non meditation' as we saw fit. I think Buck may have meant 'non meditation' to refer to those who do not meditate, or those that did and stopped, and possibly those who meditate but do not practice TM. It seemed to me he was referring to non meditation as a kind of social disease that by virtue of those who do not meditate those who do are somehow infected by a less than stellar existence by virtue of their influence. Exactly. Maybe he should just start calling them outward strokers. 'Amnesty for the outward strokers' is too long for a bumper sticker though... Exactly too. Absolutely, it is about field effect of different classes. Meditator, quitter, non. The Science is prescient and the public policy implication is evidently clear. I shoud urge you all to meditation and to support the important work of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy. http://istpp.org/ It is time for real meditators to rally, not run away. In the Field, -Buck, Ph 7 p.s., Of course the problem with non meditation is that it is such a poor field with bad effect. If you'd could see how bad it is then you'd know. For everyone's benefit this all needs to be changed for the better. With more effective meditation. Meditators to the front!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
http://www.vibrani.com/Venus.htm --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Just to follow up, my little ad below, with the exception of paying by PayPal is pretty much what I experienced several nights a week for many years while studying with Rama. We'd meet as a group in the dream plane and have fun. Here's a sample dream from that period, for those interested in Tibetan Dream Yoga: http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm21.html Very nice, Barry. Whatever else Rama was up to, he definitely had a powerful and good effect on some people. An amazing experience, a treasure. What a puzzle he was. Truly a master of cognitive dissonance and the flexibility that promotes. Also known as a real mindfuck. :-) Yeah. Please bear in mind that the story at the link above was written many, many years ago, while I was still a Rama True Believer. I included such older stories in my book as is, with the idea that preserving some of the flavor of how I was thinking *at the time* would be more valuable than rewriting them to reflect how I was thinking years later, when I finally put the book online for free. Actually TOREM is a clever idea. And actually, if put out there, I would bet your would have some people signing up, and a percentage of them getting good results as they dream. We humans are hopeful to the end! Absolutely. Some here may remember the story of a practical joke I played at one of the early Humboldt courses. Noticing that many were running around wearing coral beads and/or rudraksha beads, based on nothing more than *having heard through the grapevine* that such things were good for you, a friend of mine and I decided to create our own spiritual technology du jour. There were any number of fir trees on the campus, each bear- ing hundreds of tiny pine cones, about half an inch in size. We picked them and strung necklaces of them and started wearing them visibly during the course. Any time someone came up to us and asked us what they were and why we were wearing them, we'd blush shyly and speak the one-liner we had agreed upon: We're not supposed to say. By the end of the course we counted at least a dozen people who were also wearing the Holy Pine Cone Necklaces. :-) :-) :-) I was at Humboldt twice, I think. Summer of 1971 and then for an ATR a year later. Anyway, one of those summers I do recall a guy selling the rudraksha beads - they always looked too rough and uncomfortable and I never got into them, plus it seemed a scam. I must have missed your mini pine cone knock-offs. I did see the movie Paper Moon with Tatum 'Neal one of those Humboldt summers - very OTP, but fun to go with a group for a field trip of sorts. I also skinny dipped one evening in a pond there. It was man made and a large rectangle set way back behind the field house in the woods. I walked by and felt this urge to go swimming - I love to swim. I remember watching tadpoles swim around me as I swam laps. Felt wonderful to look up at the stars, too. Got out, put my clothes back on, and went back to the dorm. Besides, if I really were to implement such an idea as the Astral Residence Courses, I think there would be a ready market for them among TMers. First, we at TOREM, Inc. are *not* spiritofascists when it comes to our courses. You don't have to show us no steenkin' badges. The way we figure it is that if you manage to find one of our gather- ings in the dream plane and show up, you were supposed to be there, whether you had paid for it via PayPal or not. :-) Second, if an On The Program TMer were to attend our astral seminars and meet with one or more Off The Program spiritual teachers, darshan-givers or healers, the TM Inquisition is never going to hear about it. Our astral lips are sealed, so your official Dome Pass is secure. :-) As for customers reporting good results, I firmly suspect that this would depend almost entirely on how much we charged for the Astral Residence Courses. The more they paid, the higher the likelihood that they'd report good experiences. In other words, JUST like TM Yagyas and Advanced Techniques. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Responding to consumer demand, There's One Reborn Every Minute, Inc. is proud to announce its latest offering to the TM and former-TM community:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@... wrote: I was at Humboldt twice, I think. Summer of 1971 and then for an ATR a year later. Anyway, one of those summers I do recall a guy selling the rudraksha beads - they always looked too rough and uncomfortable and I never got into them, plus it seemed a scam. It was. Then, and now. IMO, of course. I must have missed your mini pine cone knock-offs. I did see the movie Paper Moon with Tatum 'Neal one of those Humboldt summers - very OTP, but fun to go with a group for a field trip of sorts. I also skinny dipped one evening in a pond there. It was man made and a large rectangle set way back behind the field house in the woods. I walked by and felt this urge to go swimming - I love to swim. I remember watching tadpoles swim around me as I swam laps. Felt wonderful to look up at the stars, too. Got out, put my clothes back on, and went back to the dorm. Ah, the days when TM courses could be fun. Remember fun? Any leftover True Believers probably don't. One reason the Rama trip was such a relief after years in the TMO is that fun, and the having thereof, was seen not as an impediment to enlightenment, but as an actual necessity in realizing it. We went to movies together, we went to Disney- land and to power places in the desert, we went to plays and museums and discos. We even had (gasp) parties. In the early days, there were even margaritas served at the parties. (In the latter days, Rama found that so many of his new young students had already so indulged in the alcohol thing and were in recovery that he stopped the practice so as not to put temp- tation in their path.) In his view, the ability to have fun was key to spiritual progress. One of his favorite sayings was, If you're not having fun, the energy of enlightenment can't flow through you. My experience led me to believe then, and leads me to believe now, that this is true.
[FairfieldLife] Heavy armor exhausted knights
Heavey armor exhausted knights - p 16, March/April Science Illustrated. . The weight of the armor of medieval knights may have influenced history [then goes on to subjects tested wearing replicated medieval armor worn by the French] The wearer also experiencs an extreme load on his legs, which considerably reduces his mobility. Researchers think that the heavy armor caused the larger and better-equipped French army to lose to the English in the Battle of Agincourt on Oct 25, 1415. The French forces had to struggle through med en route to the battleground, which exhausted them, and the English overcame them easily.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: In his view, the ability to have fun was key to spiritual progress. One of his favorite sayings was, If you're not having fun, the energy of enlightenment can't flow through you. My experience led me to believe then, and leads me to believe now, that this is true. Before anyone complains, in my view the having of fun has nothing to do with the circumstances one finds oneself in. It has to do with the state of mind you bring to those circumstances. [BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476306729522944866] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8j1lpT2f4hc/S_-_9K5L22I/AS4/5sNpeK_dk\ go/s1600/209678_f520.jpg [BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476306729522944866] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8j1lpT2f4hc/S_-_9K5L22I/AS4/5sNpeK_dk\ go/s1600/209678_f520.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Monica Lewinsky Is Still in the News
She's now 44 years old and still single. We wonder why. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2034697/Lonely-Monica-Lewinsky-trying-play-Bill-Clinton-affair.html
[FairfieldLife] Giant Catfish eaten by villagers
The Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) is one of the world's largest freshwater fish. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/photogalleries/giantcatfish/index.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Warm Up Solo...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 02/15/2012 11:55 PM, cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: On 02/15/2012 12:57 PM, cardemaister wrote: Never heard of this chap before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CZYhO7vZlofeature=related IMO, shows that one doesn't need a monster drum set to play some impressive stuff. YMMV, of course! Good player, not a very musical solo however. People are easily impressed with technique when it comes to drummers. I don't think it is primarily his technical skills that impressed me. There's something in his playing that reminded me of the moment when I fell in love with Jimi Hendrix. But that was really the first time I heard this guy play. Perhaps the feeling fades away if I listen to him some more... For instance Buddy Rich doesn't impress me as a musician but merely as a technician, and with his speed. Here's another Finnish drummer (L.A. Musicians Institute, P.I.T., top of his class 1992): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLPOg907vY IMO, he's way boring... BTW, can you mention some of your favorite drummers? That's a tough one as I don't have any favorite drummer. That's because so many have been influential to my career and each bringing their own contribution to the table. You've probably never heard of Jack Sperling but he was an early influence and fine studio drummer that appeared on some of Pete Fountain's albums. Joe Morello was a big influence for me at the time (as for many drummers) and I once helped him pack his equipment after a concert. Of course I was influenced by many jazz drummers such as Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Ed Thigpen, Chico Hamilton and a host of others. They all brought something extra to the table. Road and Blakey particularly were melodic players. Much later Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette and others. For rock there were the Motown folks and people like Bernard Purdie all bringing something special to the table. I also liked the funk drumming of Steve Gadd who was a big favorite among drummers of the 70s. I even used Rick Latham's Advanced Funk Studies to teach my students once they could read a little bit. It was a book that started out simply and by the time they finished it they could about play anything on a set. There is my high school drum teacher, Del Blake, who was the 1962 Archer-Epler rudimental champion who was in college when I studied with him and went on to play with Ray Brown's orchestra that played behind Sammy Davis Junior and the studio orchestra for Merv Griffin. He taught me to analyze a lot of players, what motivated people to become musicians and to develop skills way beyond what you may ever need in performance. My last teacher was Chick Dante, a New York drummer who had migrated to Seattle in the 1970s. His dad was Peter Duchin's drummer. He helped me take all the training I had from the rudimental to serious classical I had learned in college and package them as all useful techniques. He was also a show drummer and we looked at many show drummers including Buddy Rich and Carmine Appice (Young Rascals and Vanilla Fudge). He taught from Mickey Sheen's book who was a master of show drumming. But the drummer who influenced me the most was my late brother, a professional and 13 years older who insisted that my folks be sure I got good instruction and provided my first drum set. He even gave me a summer job when I was in high school during the Seattle World's Fair so I could take lessons with one of the top teachers in Seattle, Dave Coleman (who had returned from a stint with Les Brown) as well as jazz keyboard lessons. Coleman, BTW, was probably responsible for the Seattle beat which was the application of coordinated independence taught using Jim Chapin's book (Harry Chapin's father) to rock. He also taught me to play double time swing instead of straight eights for rock which got me in trouble with some of the high school rock bands I played in because I wasn't playing like the record. Of course a few years later Mitch Mitchell was doing the same thing with Jimmy Hendrix and I'm been told that was because Mitch was also a student of Coleman. Thanks! Lots of interesting stuff. Whilst trying to find something on e.g. Jack Sperling and Mitch Mitchell, found this re-incarnation of Jimi Hendrix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYGVUFEBqDkfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Giant ants make audible noises when angry
from Science Illustrated, March/April 2012, p, 26.: The South American ant Dinoponera gigantea is the giant of the ant world. Specimens can be up to 1.6 inches long, and they make audible noises when angry. These South American ants do not have a queen, so they look for food individually. .. Featured - another (related) species, the dinosaur ant. http://www.sasionline.org/antsfiles/pages/dino/dinobio.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
On 02/16/2012 12:25 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: I have also heard that Maharishi when told of teachers who had moved on to more advanced paths commented that he thought that was good. I also heard that in the Great Pyramid in Egypt Sidhas are living who were initiated 5000 years ago by Vyasa :-) And some people believe in major super men who will save the world. ;-) However, I highly suspect that Maharishi knew his product was meditation for the general public and pleased as any teacher would be that his former students were interested in learning more and beyond the scope of the TM movement. Similarly when I taught beginning keyboards I was pleased when I had a student or two who was ready to move on to a more serious classical teacher.
[FairfieldLife] Bulldog adopts wild boar piglets in Germany
http://news.yahoo.com/bulldog-adopts-6-wild-boar-piglets-germany-152926726.html
[FairfieldLife] why Portland is top dog
http://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/1places/topdog.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 02/16/2012 12:25 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: I have also heard that Maharishi when told of teachers who had moved on to more advanced paths commented that he thought that was good. I also heard that in the Great Pyramid in Egypt Sidhas are living who were initiated 5000 years ago by Vyasa :-) And some people believe in major super men who will save the world. ;-) Who are they ?
[FairfieldLife] New Maharishi Center for Eight-Limbed Yoga
In honor of Patanjali http://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/1places/octopus.html
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Feb 11 00:00:00 2012 End Date (UTC): Sat Feb 18 00:00:00 2012 396 messages as of (UTC) Thu Feb 16 23:16:51 2012 46 Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 38 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 38 authfriend jst...@panix.com 28 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 24 Richard J. Williams rich...@rwilliams.us 22 wgm4u anitaoak...@att.net 20 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 18 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 17 awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com 15 marekreavis reavisma...@sbcglobal.net 15 Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net 13 merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com 13 curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com 12 Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com 12 John jr_...@yahoo.com 11 wle...@aol.com 10 Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com 10 Susan waybac...@yahoo.com 8 raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com 3 shanti2218411 shanti2218...@yahoo.com 3 obbajeeba no_re...@yahoogroups.com 3 azgrey no_re...@yahoogroups.com 3 Robert babajii...@yahoo.com 3 Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com 2 seventhray1 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net 2 Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com 1 richardatrwilliamsdotus rich...@rwilliams.us 1 merlin vedamer...@yahoo.de 1 jpgillam jpgil...@yahoo.com 1 hermandan0 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 feste37 fest...@yahoo.com 1 emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com 1 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com Posters: 33 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote: I was at Humboldt twice, I think. Summer of 1971 and then for an ATR a year later. Anyway, one of those summers I do recall a guy selling the rudraksha beads - they always looked too rough and uncomfortable and I never got into them, plus it seemed a scam. It was. Then, and now. IMO, of course. I must have missed your mini pine cone knock-offs. I did see the movie Paper Moon with Tatum 'Neal one of those Humboldt summers - very OTP, but fun to go with a group for a field trip of sorts. I also skinny dipped one evening in a pond there. It was man made and a large rectangle set way back behind the field house in the woods. I walked by and felt this urge to go swimming - I love to swim. I remember watching tadpoles swim around me as I swam laps. Felt wonderful to look up at the stars, too. Got out, put my clothes back on, and went back to the dorm. Ah, the days when TM courses could be fun. Remember fun? Any leftover True Believers probably don't. One reason the Rama trip was such a relief after years in the TMO is that fun, and the having thereof, was seen not as an impediment to enlightenment, but as an actual necessity in realizing it. We went to movies together, we went to Disney- land and to power places in the desert, we went to plays and museums and discos. We even had (gasp) parties. In the early days, there were even margaritas served at the parties. (In the latter days, Rama found that so many of his new young students had already so indulged in the alcohol thing and were in recovery that he stopped the practice so as not to put temp- tation in their path.) In his view, the ability to have fun was key to spiritual progress. One of his favorite sayings was, If you're not having fun, the energy of enlightenment can't flow through you. My experience led me to believe then, and leads me to believe now, that this is true. Yes to fun. To be fair to Maharishi, he seemed to have a lot of fun, laughing often during many of his talks to us all. And we laughed a good deal on courses with him - at least in the 70's. There were some real characters around - including probably the guys trying to sell rudraksha beads outside the dining hall at Humboldt (was his name something like Ken Schwartz?). It was just lots and lots of fun.Then about 1976 it started to change. Not so much fun anymore, and a lot more grim measuring up to the should's. But I had some great times in the TMO in those days - really great - and found people who liked to joke around on every course. And I do believe that Maharishi was a proponent of lightening up, if only to avoid stress. Rama apparently took it to a different level, or took a different angle on the whole process. But I wonder if he too got serious as time passed (before the drug problems) and lost the playfulness of your early years with him.
[FairfieldLife] Yow! I am having fun...
Zippy says http://www.dougsworld.com/zippy/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
Willy, unless you actually practice this stuff, you end up sounding like a nerd who just read about it, secondhand. Some say you can learn a lot from books - Thrill ride to second hand living -R. Thompson On Feb 16, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Rigpa Awareness is very similar to 'witnessing sleep' in TM, which helps the individual understand the unreality of waking consciousness as phenomena. Rigpa Awareness is not the same thing as 'witnessing sleep' in TM. 'Semde' is Tibetan for the Sanskrit 'cittavarga': meditation on one's innate awareness, which is it's natural state of pure consciousness (citta) - that's why they called it the 'Mind School' in Tibet. In Tibetan Dzogchen practice, it is just 'being aware of being aware'. Vaj: This one little paragraph is filled with fallacies. No, I don't think so. According to Anne Klien, Semde emphasizes the clarity or the innate awareness (rigpa) aspect of the Natural State. Semde or cittavarga is one of the three series of Dzogchen. 'Semde' is Tibetan for the Sanskrit 'cittavarga', meditation on one's innate awareness. The goal is the perfection of mankind (siddhi) through yoga training. The so-called mind only school is from the Yogacara school, not Mahasandi/Dzogchen. The Tibetan 'Mind School' is attributed to Sri Singha and Vairotsana's lineage. The Yogacaqra is the 'Consciousness Only' school, founded by Asanga in India. Germano says the earliest revelations of the Great Perfection are those said to have been disseminated in Tibet in the eighth century and retroactively classified as the 'Mind Series' to distinguish them from later developments. You're confusing cittavarga with cittamatra. No, I don't think so. The four yogas of Semde are 'shinay' (shamatha), 'vipasyana', (clear seeing), 'advaya', (nonduality), and 'nirabogha', (spontaneous presence). As a meditation technique, it's similar to TM and Soto Zen practice - that is, a direct introduction to the natural state of mind where all thoughts and perceptions are realized to be just mental projections having no absolute own-Being. It bears no similarity whatsoever. Says who? And there is no direct introduction or pointing out involved in TM, TM instruction, the TM advanced techniques or the TMSP. Trancscending is the direct pointing, Vaj. It's basic TM instruction. Not talking about TMSP - you made that part of the conversation up. Stop making sh*t up Willy. Stop fibbing about TM practice. You should already be aware of the sameness of Hindu and Buddhist yoga by now. Works cited: 'The Funerary Transformation of the Great Perfection' by David Germano JIATS, no. 1, October 2005 p.12 'The Supreme Source: The Fundamental Tantra of the Dzogchen Semde' By Kunjed Gyalpo', Namkhai Norbu and Adriano Clemente Snow Lion Publications, 1999
[FairfieldLife] Original cast of Star Wars
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/59288.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Jobs and Gates
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/59285.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Gestapo informer recognized by Belgian woman
Dessau, Germany transit camp; 1945 http://museumsyndicate.com/images/6/55927.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Hitler having fun
with Eva Braun and dog Blondi: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F051673-0059%2C_Adolf_Hitler_und_Eva_Braun_auf_dem_Berghof.jpg
[FairfieldLife] German soldier with dead rats
1918...yummie! http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/59266.jpg
[FairfieldLife] George Harrison and Bob Marley
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/59265.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Lewis, Perkins, Presley, Cash
Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/59271.jpg
[FairfieldLife] The Ascension
by Benjamin West http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/59249.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Nichikan Shonin Gohonzon
Inscribed by the 26-th High Priest of the Fuji School, 1720: http://nichirenscoffeehouse.net/Gohonzon/CampRoss-ji-19.html
[FairfieldLife] Diagram of the Gohonzon inscribed by High Priest Nichikan
http://nichiren.info/Gohonzon/meaning.htm
Re: [FairfieldLife] Monica Lewinsky -human design
Why do *you* think John? Societal judgment? Enquiring minds want to know. Perhaps she should check out her human design. This is interesting - are you familiar with this? http://humandesignamerica.com/ From: John jr_...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:03 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Monica Lewinsky Is Still in the News She's now 44 years old and still single. We wonder why. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2034697/Lonely-Monica-Lewinsky-trying-play-Bill-Clinton-affair.html
[FairfieldLife] Civil Wars - Poison and Wine
The best group of the Grammy bunch - Civil Wars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfzRlcnq_c0
[FairfieldLife] Soba with mushrooms
http://rasamalaysia.com/soba-recipe-japanese-buckwheat-noodle/
[FairfieldLife] Barton Hollow - Civil Wars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSgfeature=relmfu
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dreams beyond meditation or non-meditation
emptybill: ... you can fill in the rest. In Zen terms, having a pure mind simply means realizing one's true nature. The source is the pure Mind before it gets stirred up or begins to vibrate in the form of a thought. The Zennist: February 28, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/77d24tu
[FairfieldLife] Featuring the Civil War
TJ and Dave, Civil War Reenactors: http://www.robertszabo.com/gallery/livinghistory/index.html
[FairfieldLife] William Tecumseh Sherman and Staff
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/56672.jpg
Re: [FairfieldLife] Featuring the Civil War
Ahhh...No. 19...h From: Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 6:02 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Featuring the Civil War TJ and Dave, Civil War Reenactors: http://www.robertszabo.com/gallery/livinghistory/index.html
[FairfieldLife] Newman and Eastwood
Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood (as in Newman's salad dressing and Eastwood's Sphagetti Westerns; nice match.) http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/59280.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Harpo Marx deplaning
1935 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/56071.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Herbalist on York Street
Toronto, 1910: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/55932.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Gold painted entertainer
1950, New York http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/56910.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Hitler meets Admiral Donitz in the Fuhrerbunker
(changing of the guard - out with the old, in with the new;...only the new one didn't last long). ... Now I'm wondering if they have a secret Fuhrerbunker underneath the Domes. Wouldn't doubt it... http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/47912.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Natalie Wood and James Dean
in Rebel Without a Cause http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/54206.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral Residence Courses
Willy, Vaj is correct. Dzogchen direct introduction is a unique method/non-method. TM instruction and checking is similar to the pointing out methods found in Mahamudra upadesha. TM shows directly how the natural mind (prakriti manas) functions and uses that natural effortless of the senses and mind to transcend the field of experience. Mahamudra, however, actually investigates this natural mind to reveal the innate essence. Semde uses various techniques from the Tantric path to show how the mind function but that is preliminary work. Dzogchen, direct introduction does not use the mind or point to the mind and could care less the mind's functioning. Chan presents various methods to investigate the mind, including the method of great faith found in Silent Illumination (Mo Zhao zazen). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Rigpa Awareness is very similar to 'witnessing sleep' in TM, which helps the individual understand the unreality of waking consciousness as phenomena. Vaj: Rigpa Awareness is not the same thing as 'witnessing sleep' in TM. 'Semde' is Tibetan for the Sanskrit 'cittavarga': meditation on one's innate awareness, which is it's natural state of pure consciousness (citta) - that's why they called it the 'Mind School' in Tibet. In Tibetan Dzogchen practice, it is just 'being aware of being aware'. This one little paragraph is filled with fallacies. Semde or cittavarga is one of the three series of Dzogchen. The so-called mind only school is from the Yogacara school, not Mahasandi/Dzogchen. You're confusing cittavarga with cittamatra. As a meditation technique, it's similar to TM and Soto Zen practice - that is, a direct introduction to the natural state of mind where all thoughts and perceptions are realized to be just mental projections having no absolute own-Being. It bears no similarity whatsoever. And there is no direct introduction or pointing out involved in TM, TM instruction, the TM advanced techniques or the TMSP. Stop making sh*t up Willy. Ditto.
[FairfieldLife] Jewish service in Goebbels' house
Interesting karmic return,only the history hasn't played itself out with a new threat: Iran. A supposed window of opportunity presents itself in Spring for an Israeli pre-emptive attack. (John Bolton probably supports this) I predict a no-go since (a) some of the facilities are deep underground covered by cement. ... Only the US has the technology to penetrate 120 ft of concrete with the latest bunker buster. ... and (b) there would be a crippling rise in oil prices. http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/57765.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Diana the Huntress
by Pierre-Auguste Renoir http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/59161.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
The world could be a better place. Look, the need is great for transcending meditators now to do their practice. For disciplined transcending meditators within the power and light of the Unified Field in their practice. Gather friends who are meditators. A group of 100 makes a company. Ten companies makes a regiment. Rajas hoot in hell, you should be a regimental Colonel. Recruit a regiment of practicing transcending meditators and you could have a colonelcy and also your regiment named after you! Colonel Bhairitu's regiment from the Golden State! We need some action here getting people to come meditate out of this very group. I'm desperately low on posts here this week now. Bhairitu, I'm going to leave the raising of 10 West Coast regiments of meditators to you . I've got other fronts to attend to in this campaign against nonmeditators. I'm in the saddle on this like ol' Sheridan in the Valley. Bhairitu, the Unified Field's speed to you! Ride! In the service of the Unified Field, -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 02/16/2012 12:25 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: I have also heard that Maharishi when told of teachers who had moved on to more advanced paths commented that he thought that was good. I also heard that in the Great Pyramid in Egypt Sidhas are living who were initiated 5000 years ago by Vyasa :-) And some people believe in major super men who will save the world. ;-) Who are they ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-meditation
2-nd Dragoon Regiment General: (by Mikael Aguirre)... http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/40331.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: The world could be a better place. Look, the need is great for transcending meditators now to do their practice. For disciplined transcending meditators within the power and light of the Unified Field in their practice. Gather friends who are meditators. A group of 100 makes a company. Ten companies makes a regiment. Rajas hoot in hell, you should be a regimental Colonel. Recruit a regiment of practicing transcending meditators and you could have a colonelcy and also your regiment named after you! Colonel Bhairitu's regiment from the Golden State! We need some action here getting people to come meditate out of this very group. I'm desperately low on posts here this week now. Bhairitu, I'm going to leave the raising of 10 West Coast regiments of meditators to you . I've got other fronts to attend to in this campaign against nonmeditators. I'm in the saddle on this like ol' Sheridan in the Valley. Bhairitu, the Unified Field's speed to you! Ride! In the service of the Unified Field, -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 02/16/2012 12:25 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: I have also heard that Maharishi when told of teachers who had moved on to more advanced paths commented that he thought that was good. I also heard that in the Great Pyramid in Egypt Sidhas are living who were initiated 5000 years ago by Vyasa :-) And some people believe in major super men who will save the world. ;-) Who are they ?
[FairfieldLife] Nixon and Elvis
at the Whitehouse, 1970: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/55813.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Eisenhower Met With ETs Says Ex-Government Consultant
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/eisenhower-met-aliens-says-timothy- good_n_1277133.html?1329262945 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/eisenhower-met-aliens-says-timothy -good_n_1277133.html?1329262945icid=maing-grid7 icid=maing-grid7
[FairfieldLife] Re: Eisenhower Met With ETs Says Ex-Government Consultant
http://www.dennislarkins.com/?p=571 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/eisenhower-met-aliens-says-timothy- good_n_1277133.html?1329262945 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/eisenhower-met-aliens-says-timothy -good_n_1277133.html?1329262945icid=maing-grid7 icid=maing-grid7
