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[FairfieldLife] Good TM News
Forwarded from a friend: In Curacao Father Mejia gave a talk about his experiences implementing TM. 1500 people showed up (1% of the island's population). He then met with the education authorities including the bishop. They decided to introduce TM and the TM-Sidhis for all their 20,000 students (15% of total island population) and all the support and financing needed to do it. The project will begin right away. On the Margarita Island, Venezuala, a business man who gave TM and the TM-Sidhis to all his employees now wants to employ a group (1800 people) to do full program twice a day every day.
[FairfieldLife] Re: " You are the master of Your own destiny."
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Mike, This is a great quote from MMY. We need to be reminded of what he meant in his commentaries to the Gita. Thanks. " You are the master of Your own destiny." ** Free will is more important than destiny... "We give more importance to action --free will. Destiny has no independent place. Effort--free will gives birth to destiny. Free will of yesterday gives rise to destiny of today. We accept the destiny of yesterday--we go for the endeavor--the free will of today--even though accepting destiny of yesterday. Free will of today can rectify the destiny of the past. Just by the effort of sitting and meditating we cultivate the blissful influence of life. The Upanishads say: Even if there is a mountain of sin extending for miles, it can be brought to ashes by the yoga of action which takes our mind to the transcendent. We sit and transcend, and the mountains of sin are washed away. Free will which belongs only to man is more important than destiny. No free will to the extent that man has, belongs to any other species. The formula for producing maximum results is to disregard the obstacles and negative influences which off resistance to the performance of action. The doer should engage in action and continue until the desired results are achieved. When the standard of consciousness is raised through the process of meditation, the action performed at that higher level of life energy and intelligence will have an overriding influence on karma from the past and will produce maximum results. This is how, by the regular practice of Transcendental Meditation supplemented by the power of charity and virtuous deeds, the negative influence of past karma can counteracted and the path of present karma smoothed. Then the action will be performed without resistance of obstacle, yielding maximum results. This is how, by the power of present action or karma, destiny is controlled. Herein lies the full meaning of the saying that man is a master of his own destiny." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi https://www.paperlesspost.com/cards/card/8989?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo_birdlogo&utm_campaign=birdlogo&utm_term=8989&pp_channel=yahoo&lang=en-US Yahoo Mail Stationery https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/features/stationery
[FairfieldLife] Re: FF Meditating Community, Life in the Body..
The other morning in the entry area to the Dome there was a table set nicely laid out with flowers and note cards that could be written as greetings and support to Ira Goldberg, Julie Anne, and Emo Baer, some older members of the meditating community. It was noted that some of our dedicated and well loved people were at home unwell and these notes and cards would be taken to these folks as support. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A story that was related earlier in a Fairfield Coffee Haus satsang, an older guy in the meditating community passed away here sometime ago was a German national who by way had come to be part of the meditating community in Fairfield. As a boy he was an orphaned civilian war refugee in Germany and remembered his village being bombed by allied bombers in the war. As he declined with age he was in one of the nursing facilities in Fairfield and cared for by friends who stepped up to attending to him there. As it happens one of the friends who was looking in on him had a dad who was a bomber pilot in the war who, as it turns out, had been in on the bombing of the old meditator’s boyhood village. Towards the end of the old meditator’s life his friends reached out to find his distant family and let them know his whereabouts and circumstance. Turns out he had an adult granddaughter who lives in Sweden. She is professional and has a family of her own in Sweden. On learning of her grandfather she traveled to Fairfield. She arrived too late to meet him but arrived in time for his vedic-like cremation service and memorial locally. She then stayed on longer in Fairfield for some time to learn better from his friends here about his life. As a meditator in his life in Fairfield he was also an active attender with the Mother Divine Church. Sometime after his granddaughter returns home to Sweden she has become engaged to marry her longtime partner. Common law/unmarried parents of families apparently are not uncommon in Sweden and coming to be married can be a big deal in Sweden. In celebration she has invited a couple of her granddad’s caregivers to come expenses paid to Sweden for the wedding to be included as a kind of family representative of her grandfather. Nice story. One of those FF stories. Some folks certainly have come a long ways to be part of this larger meditationist project here in Fairfield, Iowa. # ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Amalia Bright passed away this morning, 31 Dec. 2016 Hi Friends There will be a LCC Memorial service, life celebration and community potluck Monday (a holiday) January 2nd starting promptly at 1pm for Amalia Spescha Bright. The family of Amalia is very much looking forward to your memories, stories and impressions of Amalia among us as we knew her, her family of choice! Please bring a potluck (sweet or savory) to share for a fellowship time after the service. As there will be no time for getting this to press, please pass it on to folks who you know that know and love Amalia. All blessings, Jennifer Hamilton and Carolyn Duszynski ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “The trouble is you think you have time…” -Jack Kornfield The Zen Calendar 31 December 2016 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : James had a beautiful amulet he wore on his chest, of mother divine James had these supportive business women come out in the end, capable powerful mothers divine, his team, who came forward looking out for him. And Meera. He was an early TM teacher in New England. He loved teaching ™, Maharishi and the teaching . and he was good and enthusiastic at it. I am running into people here in FF remembering James, folks who took SCI courses from James saying what a great teacher he was. He apparently taught SCI courses back to back at Livingston Manor for a time and taught some lot of people. Some number of meditators who also went on to become TM teachers in those days. At a point he evidently had rubbed some people a wrong way and he was told he could not teach at all anymore. With something hurt like a PTSD wound it seems he spent the rest of his mortal life in some recovery contextualizing that for himself. That all must have been around the same time frame as Buffy moonie was a numbered enemy of the movement and Charlie Lutes was also left out of things. And some notable others. That time frame when Maharishi went through and squeezed narcissism down in the movement, it was like a wheel of fortune that Maharishi gave it a good spin that threw a bunch of people off, out and away. James stayed always around but was never let in after that. He left Fairfield a few years ago saying he was done with FF around the time of TM ‘ re-certification’ and the badge exclusiveness of the IA assembly. In the end he returned coming to finish with his ‘family of choice’. ---In FairfieldLife@yaho
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield, Iowa's Buddhas at the Gas Pump
https://batgap.com/connie-huebner/ https://batgap.com/connie-huebner/ Free Webcast: Deep Energy Healing with Divine Mother March 1st, at 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Dear Friends: You are warmly invited to attend this free webcast on Wednesday, March 1st, at 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. central (USA) time. A free healing session with Divine Mother is a rich, peaceful, and enlivening experience. You will be immersed in the great abundance of Divine Mother’s guidance, healing, and love. Register for this event so that you receive a link to the recording - in case you missed the live session or just want to listen again. To register, see below. This Deep Energy Healing session with Divine Mother is free and open to everyone. Love and Light! Connie Huebner This is a free event. Please register! http://divinemotheronline.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ddc313f69987bafb51f5c2bc5&id=12e3cc1e07&e=457f5fa3ff http://divinemotheronline.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ddc313f69987bafb51f5c2bc5&id=1628fb2b43&e=457f5fa3ff Date: Wednesday, March 1st Time: 7:00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. central (USA) time Where: via webcast, Skype or teleconference. Fairfield, Iowa residents may attend in person at the Divine Mother Church, 51 N. Court. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 063. Thomas Gates - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/thomas-gates-2/ https://batgap.com/thomas-gates-2/ 063. Thomas Gates - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/thomas-gates-2/ From http://thomasgates.com/blog/bio: Thomas was born in Texas in 1950 and grew up in the rural countryside not far from Dallas. He spent much of his childhood... View on batgap.com https://batgap.com/thomas-gates-2/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 045. Janet Sussman - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/janet-sussman/ https://batgap.com/janet-sussman/ 045. Janet Sussman - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/janet-sussman/ Janet Sussman is a transformational musician, seminar leader, intuitive counselor, and published author. She has given concerts throughout the United S... View on batgap.com https://batgap.com/janet-sussman/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 023. Rick Archer interviewed by Richard Miller - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/rick-archer-richard-miller/ https://batgap.com/rick-archer-richard-miller/ 023. Rick Archer interviewed by Richard Miller - Buddha ... https://batgap.com/rick-archer-richard-miller/ I’m the Chief Cook and Bottle Washer at Buddha at the Gas Pump. Richard Miller hosts a similar interview show called Never Not Here. Somehow we connect... View on batgap.com https://batgap.com/rick-archer-richard-miller/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 016. John Speer - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/john-speer/ https://batgap.com/john-speer/ 016. John Speer - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/john-speer/ Interview recorded 3/31/2010. Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB)Subscribe: iTunes | ... View on batgap.com https://batgap.com/john-speer/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 017. Mary Foster - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/mary-foster/ https://batgap.com/mary-foster/ 017. Mary Foster - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/mary-foster/ Interview recorded 4/7/2010. Interview with George and Mary Foster Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast. Podcast: Play in new window... View on batgap.com https://batgap.com/mary-foster/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 015. Andy Schulman - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/andy-schulman/ https://batgap.com/andy-schulman/ 015. Andy Schulman - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/andy-schulman/ I remember having the thought at age 26, “what am I going to do, I will never make it through the second year of graduate school”? Having just completed my firs... View on batgap.com https://batgap.com/andy-schulman/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 011. Brad & Pam Keene - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/brad-pam-keene/ https://batgap.com/brad-pam-keene/ 011. Brad & Pam Keene - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/brad-pam-keene/ Pam Keene currently resides in Fairfield, Iowa with her husband Brad. A conscious seeker since the age of nineteen, she has been influenced by a variety of spiritua... View on batgap.com https://batgap.com/brad-pam-keene/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 008. Hilary Jordan - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/hilary-jordan/ https://batgap.com/hilary-jordan/ 008. Hilary Jordan - Buddha at the Ga
[FairfieldLife] " You are the master of Your own destiny."
| | || | | | " You are the master of Your own destiny." ** Free will is more important than destiny... "We give more importance to action --free will. Destiny has no independent place. Effort--free will gives birth to destiny. Free will of yesterday gives rise to destiny of today. We accept the destiny of yesterday--we go for the endeavor--the free will of today--even though accepting destiny of yesterday. Free will of today can rectify the destiny of the past. Just by the effort of sitting and meditating we cultivate the blissful influence of life. The Upanishads say: Even if there is a mountain of sin extending for miles, it can be brought to ashes by the yoga of action which takes our mind to the transcendent. We sit and transcend, and the mountains of sin are washed away. Free will which belongs only to man is more important than destiny. No free will to the extent that man has, belongs to any other species. The formula for producing maximum results is to disregard the obstacles and negative influences which off resistance to the performance of action. The doer should engage in action and continue until the desired results are achieved. When the standard of consciousness is raised through the process of meditation, the action performed at that higher level of life energy and intelligence will have an overriding influence on karma from the past and will produce maximum results. This is how, by the regular practice of Transcendental Meditation supplemented by the power of charity and virtuous deeds, the negative influence of past karma can counteracted and the path of present karma smoothed. Then the action will be performed without resistance of obstacle, yielding maximum results. This is how, by the power of present action or karma, destiny is controlled. Herein lies the full meaning of the saying that man is a master of his own destiny." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | | | || | | | || Yahoo Mail Stationery | |
[FairfieldLife] Re: Advice to New Meditators
Reply: True, effort can creep into TM and a checking can resolve that. But my sense about why some quit the practice, particularly those who left with an inordinately negative view of TM, is that many who begin TM as a panacea, or even just to gain deeper rest, aren't prepared for what 'stress release' means, and how it works. A: Make a discipline initially to be regular in the practice for some period. Then you’ll see better. It is something you have to do, with some intent. New Meditators ask: Q: What can be done to more quickly develop this state of wakefulness, consciousness or presence? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : FF Coffee Haus meditator satsang response: A: In the yoga of the subtle energy the ‘system’ has to be addressed. Stellar experience gets stabilized because the condition of the subtle system comes to be grounded. Sidhis can expand consciousness but pull it up out of the hardware into the mental fields. Have to clear the capacity of the computer to handle the software. ..Feel the implication of the system to remain more grounded and not go ephemeral to navigate in healthy productive ways. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : More input from FF Satsang.. In these modern times it (spiritual progress) is arduous to attend to. One meditation could open you up but that is not normal. Spiritual progress requires a perseverance, that has to become a value that is taught. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : input: Develop a ‘spiritual kit’. Develop a kit with things in it that help your clarity. Tools of exercise, food, schedule, healthy activities and relationships. Tools that work for you might be adjunct spiritual modalities that are helpful, breathing, Qi gong, yoga, etc.. Use your discernment as to what is helpful. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A: Make time for it and do it. Ditto the comment on clarity mentioned below. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Sharing this question around to meditators (FF Coffee Haus satsang..) who are more veteran with practice.. A: And meditate more, longer. Sit with it regularly and longer more. As you get better at it, as you get familiar with it, increase the time you meditate. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : And, Clarity is power, protect your clarity with things that preserve clarity and avoid the things which do not.
[FairfieldLife] Lindsay Lohan
| | || | | | http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/celebrities/lindsay-lohan-appears-on-the-view-1.13150265 - ‘Mean Girls’ star says she wants to bring awareness to Syrian refugee crisis - Says meditation helped her find a new path in life Saying she’s found peace through transcendental meditation, the “Mean Girls” star, who was raised in Cold Spring Harbor and Merrick, “made a mind map when I turned 30 . . . of what I wanted in the next 10 years spiritually — what feeds me, what keeps me humble here, who do I want to help, what do I want to do with that help. And how can I stay continuously doing those things. I want to make my own movies, I don’t want to have to answer to anyone. So just focus, stay focused and really surround yourself with good people.” | | | || | | | || Yahoo Mail Stationery | |
[FairfieldLife] Outstanding Russian Rgveda pages!
From Russian Aurobindo site: http://www.aurobindo.ru/workings/matherials/rigveda/01/01-164.htm http://www.aurobindo.ru/workings/matherials/rigveda/01/01-164.htm richo akshare at about 9:10 in the lower audio; the South Indian recitation "sucks"...
