[FairfieldLife] Re: Ganapati Sthapati dead
We will be approaching the anniversary of the death of my teacher of Vaastu Shastras next month- Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati. Each January I would visit Sthapati in Chennai and study with him. Without fail later in the month I would walk into his office and he would be speaking on the phone with Maharishi who had just called Sthapati the moment before I walked in. It was uncanny. Even nearing the last year of his life Maharishi would call him. It was really wonderful to listen to these two men speak together. They both had the same goal: the well being of humanity. Sthapati's family is one of the oldest living families who have passed down Vaastu Shastras in its purity for several thousand years. I miss Sthapati and Maharishi. Two of the greatest beings of our times. Thanks for making the below post last year. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote: On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 8:51 PM, shukra69 shukra69@... wrote: He was given the highest honor from Maharishi as the greatest living authority but they did not work together much and their systems of Vaastu differ in some respects. Here is an interview in which he credits Vaastu with prolonging his life beyond what was predicted by Jyotish. http://www.sify.com/news/i-escaped-death-because-of-vaastu-ganapati-sthapati-news-features-jixmfkhcdae.html Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. Sophie Loren What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate. A pound a day often. Katharine Hepburn
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-dual meditation!
It is always interesting to me when individuals hijack someone elses work and then don't give them credit. This so called non-dual meditation is a hijacked form of Jacobsons Relaxation Technique. We used it in 1970's at the Institue for Living in Hartford when we compared TM with other methods - I worked on that project (you old timers might remember Dr. Bernard Gluck's NIMH grant). So, the individual with the Indian voice (if you have an indian accent surely you are special and spiritual) has simply taken Jacobson progressive muscle relaxation technique and added a little OM to it and labled it as being Non dual meditation. When will it stop? When will people stop hijacking knowledge (like the vaastu shastras for example, ayurveda, ghandarva music), putting their own spin on it and claiming it as their own? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--VkE4KK68I Whoa! That's way cool! :D Yes, interesting exercise creating a secular unattached meditation instructional video. It was fine until all that non-dual talk 'who is this who is that...' in-the-head posing questions stuff in the middle. TMI at that point being too wordy once there whilst just getting to sitting with it. Too much of that talk engaging a mind could be dangerous for beginners giving them headaches in jump-starting and then straining their underlying chakras. It could be dangerous. -Buck in FF
