[FairfieldLife] Re: In Satsanga Fairfield, Iowa
In FF satsang: ..Don’t get hung up on Matt Kahn’s goofy shirts that he wears. or his delivery. But Matt Kahn is cheering on those of us who are so interested in and have been dedicated to spiritual development, the Big “S” Spiritual development, upliftment. That it is not for nothing. That because as one has been engaged in it that it is not useless in this world or it is frivolous or inconsequential to what needs to happen here. That actually it holds the vibration and holds the criminal element back. He says that it is all part of one light, even the ones who are asleep. They are all still of the light. It is very uplifting. He has quite a construct of understanding, as a teacher at another level, as a native adept, like Janet Sussman. He is both very practical and advaitin-like in a way he strips down to the essentials, stripping the constructs, the excess to get to the essentials, the essential value of nonduality, which Cynthia very astutely gets to. . ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The FF Satsang continuing, over coffee: “..They are meant to be together (head and heart) . You don’t abdicate the head, the brain, the mind or the heart, they are together, the ‘masculine and feminine’..” Q: it sets up a duality talking about this, identifying it. A: What Matt Kahn points out is that there are people on various tracks, we are all on ascension tracks, we are all in tracks, this is not a better than the other. The first track is the one is where the people are standing in light where the people are light bearers. Where people are light holders. The people who are in consciousness where they are standing there in the light and that is their main job. Being light holders. Then you have the second track, which is people who are becoming activated by what they see as problems in the world and they are going to look for social justice solutions, constructs, and so they are activated, and then a third track of people asleep. The third track is people who are always up to technology, on their phones, who their reference is always the phone, IT, technology. Light holders, social construct, and then the asleep who are willing and wanting to wed themselves to technology. Matt Kahn is saying we all have our place in this, we are all in to this together. In his view this is going to become very clear in the next two years, unambiguous. These Three general tracks is how people are going to be moving forward. He says there are people just waiting to have apps in their heads, for there to be apps, downloaded and become wedded to their technology, some kind of artificial intelligence. FF Coffee haus Satsang: “You have to love this, I love this that there she was at SAND. Wow! Thank god that someone is finally speaking to this.” Q: The TM neuroscience people would be studying this if he had an apparatus to do it, the heart-mind? A: “They do but they are brain-centric. “..In this discussion of spirituality Matt Kahn has a good description, embedded in the discussion of the expression of spirituality he says, and this makes sense, that we are moving from a third dimensional reality to a 5th dimensional reality. The third dimensional reality is dominated by the mind and the fifth dimensional reality is dominated by the heart. So you have the head and the heart, 3rd and 5th, and how to get there is through here, the connecting of the head and heart. The connectivity is what Janet Sussman identifies as the ‘articulation’ between the two, the communication between the two where you are moving from the third dimension of the mind and its constructs to the non-linear value of the fifth. It does make sense that we are moving from a third dimensional reality to a fifth. The third dimensional reality, it is that we are dominated by the mind. The fifth dimensional reality is dominated by the heart. How do you get between the two? The fourth dimension is time. We are moving through that, the throat area , expression. The connectedness, the ‘articulation’, as Janet says it. What you see in the advaitins and the TM people is that it is all about the brain, the head and the mind. Some Buddhists too, some of the Buddhist practices are very head centered. The The third eye is insight and the throat area, the 4th, is poetry, speaking, the expression between the two, the fourth dimension. The vehicle, this part, the fourth dimension is time. So you are moving from the concrete three dimensional world of the mind and its constructs to the non-linear value of the fifth. So this is what you see in spiritual development, this makes so much sense. This is where the advaitins are, this is where the TM people are, in the head, the mind, all in the head. Brain, Brain, Brain. It is all in the head. Very head centric. Some of the Buddhist practices can be very head centric, You have
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. -The Buddha ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Meditate and Act Meditation with activity has always been the TM teaching (B.Gita II v 48). This teaching was one of the things also used to convince a change in the administration policy at a point to modify the ‘long’ IAAssembly morning program rounds to get it all shortened down more to what it is now with the idea according to the teaching to get them out of there and in to the world and community before the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do things’ of life and be in the community. That was important to have happen at the time for people’s health and general wellbeing. The long program the way it was enforced was turning folks in to pale renunciates in front of us here in the community. Then it is just a matter of how people may use their time between meditations. Turning compost for health is not a bad use of time. Meditate and perform action. Communicating this by FFL was an effective element at the time in turning this around for the better. . Jai Guru Dev ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc. Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings. Rick Archer Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation The Authorities? Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants. It is their job to gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives. Yes, with potentially long interrogation. One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you promote with BATGAP. The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in detail over applicants. The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating community. The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its effective place in communications. But, the people who investigate Dome membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process. May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal Dome meditation attendance numbers. Jai Guru Dev ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote : So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and exclude them if they feel inclined? Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty in his department sometimes. Rick Archer Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com https://batgap.com From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Radical' 'Revolutionary' Transcendental Meditationists
The 40th Anniversary, of the 1979 Amherst course. Taking from current history, a paraphrasing of a NYTimes article: as something like our own TM movement’s annual January 12th meetings of the essential group.. Paraphrasing..: “Facing deepening tensions abroad and anxieties inside, ..using a key anniversary to argue that the recipe of guided growth under strong movement control must not waver. he said, The first lesson from these 40 years of spiritual regeneration was the need to maintain party (Movement) leadership “over all tasks.” “It was precisely because we’ve adhered to the centralized and united leadership of the movement that we were able to achieve this great historic transition, said” .. at a pivotal, potentially fraught moment in the movement when all the contradictions in its governance appeared in stark relief. ..as great as that of any leadership in decades, yet the movement’s tightening of controls over the organization and ever more aspects of its society suggest a deep-seated insecurity at the highest levels. “Today many policy goals in the Movement are in tension with one another. Which ones take precedence? This is what officials will need to know to carry out their work on a practical level.” Some had been hoping for signals that the leadership would take further steps to liberalize the movement or ease tensions with its membership.” Jai Guru Dev https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/world/asia/xi-jinping-speech-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/world/asia/xi-jinping-speech-china.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A Spiritual Regenerative Movement (SRM) in the TM.org? Is the TM movement currently transformational as regenerative, reform, or revolution? A Consideration, TM as Revolutionary Millenarian: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/1di3VYUG13U https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/1di3VYUG13U Revolution does not have to be violent to be revolutionary. Different than fomenting violent revolution Maharishi was about peace and he worked in a long career on improving people’s lives on earth.. What Mao, (as paraphrased) could have said to meditators in transcendentalist revolution.. To meditators: "The force at the core leading our cause forward is the Transcendental Meditation Movement. The theoretical basis guiding our spiritual experience and thinking is the Meissner Effect, the ME, found in Natural Law and our manifestly Self-evident experience meditating. If there is to be revolution, there must be a revolutionary meditating movement. Without a revolutionary meditating movement, without a movement built on the scientific and revolutionary theory of the ME and group meditation and in the style of science and spiritual experience of the Unified Field, it is impossible to lead the practicing meditator and the broad groupings of the meditators everywhere against the entrenched forces of reductionist materialism, of deconstructionism and their running-dogs.: Revolutionaries, where it has happened and where revolution has brought change in broader status quo for humanity it is interesting in study to look at and hear how they said it, how they said it, led it, and acted it out such that they compelled and led broader societal change. Like looking back at Mao’s quotations, the little red book, to seeing what/how he said that resonated a people then. While Mao (or Castro either) is not in the tradition of transcendentalists, A Study of what Mao could have said to meditators in his Maoist way.. Link to a leadership mash-up of Mao’s quotations and transcendental meditationist revolution.. A mash-up of, Mao and Maharishi: Now folded in to one millenarian-ist revolutionary's quotation book, See -isms Paraphrased in to TM: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/communal-studies-forum/qAs9ROcD8Ro https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/communal-studies-forum/qAs9ROcD8Ro .. Castro, Another of 20th Century’s large revolutionaries drops the body.. Castro and Cuban revolution have been in the background of my whole life. It is interesting to read the obits today for Castro and recall the decades. NPR has sound clip samplings of Castro speeches over the years to hear along with their NPR webpage obit. Again, though not an overt transcendentalist like in is this thread, one can kind of ‘hear’ his leadership charisma in the clips. No doubt you had to be there, like being there with Maharishi. Sound clips, scroll further down the NPR piece http://www.npr.org/2016/11/26/6631562/former-cuban-leader-fidel-castro-dies-at-age-90 http://www.npr.org/2016/11/26/6631562/former-cuban-leader-fidel-castro-dies-at-age-90 . "I’m at peace with myself and the universe. One can’t but come closer to God or Heaven than to merge oneself with the universal o
