[FairfieldLife] Re: Pointing-out instruction for everyone
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey B, I noticed this notice about the Big Mind DVD: The Production of the Big Mind DVD was made possible by a grant from the Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism. That's interesting. Yup, the guy left his money to a foundation that was supposed to disperse it to support spiritual projects around the world. The two lawyers who wound up with total control over his estate futzed around for several years without actutally doing anything, but in recent years they've been giving grants to a number of worthy organizations, including Shambala in Boulder, CO and several Tibetan Buddhist groups. I'm not really in touch with any remnants of his organization except via the Internet, so I don't know any details, but I know a few of the people who wound up on the Board of Directors of this foundation, and they're good guys and gals, very inspired, so I expect that some of the money is being put to good use. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Pointing-out instruction for everyone
On Feb 24, 2006, at 12:37 AM, jim_flanegin wrote:Exactly, and that is the other side so to speak of the experience of Brahman, the non-dual Reality infusing Everything, and on the other side, literally *Everything*. The *Everything* is now found in the context of the non-dual Reality. So a perfect choice now exists: on the one hand, enjoy the non-dual state while engaging in infinitely diverse activity, OR enjoy primarily one of an infinite set of activities, infused with the non-dual state. No contradiction, whether focused on the One shining on the Many, or the Many infused with the One. The Key is mastering the perfect coordination between the One and the Many, so that a greater coordinated, infinitely random Reality is achieved, always changing, yet always Perfection. Experientially, this leads to a more self-sufficient existence, allowing us to, as you said, push wheelbarrows in Hell, while whistling. Every experience, every action is perfectly carried out, due to the seamless coordination between the One and the Many. Love and laughter are the great lubricants of life and the great catalysts for Union and Unity. 'If you see Hitler or Saddam or Bin Laden or Buddha in your awareness-by-the side-of the-road, blow out his brains with a smile.' To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pointing-out instruction for everyone
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pointing-out instruction for everyone: Genpo Roshi's Big Mind process: http://www.bigmind.org/ http://in.integralinstitute.org/live/view_bigmind.aspx#big_mind http://in.integralinstitute.org/contributor.aspx?id=26 Big Mindyour Original FaceNondual AwarenessSpirit itself, is not other than who you are at this very moment. To get us to realize this, many spiritual paths and techniques call us to go beyond the ego, into its source or ground. And rightly so. However, what an integral approach would suggestand what we find wonderfully exemplified in Genpo Roshi's Big Mind Processis that in order to transcend the ego, we must include it as well. In order to go beyond in order to taste the spaceless, timeless Realitywe must integrate what is with us here and now, in space and time. The Big Mind Process befriends the many voices within usthe dualistic voices with which we narrowly identify at one time or anotherin order to gently lead us into a recognition of our nondual self. Because the enlightened state is ever-present, we can access it any time. And while a permanent realization of Big Mind requires growth through stages of development, this process is one of the quickest and most reliable ways to give us a taste of this stateless state right now. Thanks- I really enjoy all of these different perspectives on Brahman. I appreciate the emphasis here to integrate what we are here and now, that we won't somehow be someone else when we permanently realize Big Mind, as the author calls it. This is the process as I experience it; to over time integrate every experience of ours, rid ourselves of all experiential awkwardness with our Selves, until all experience and all states of mind are experienced without losing our natural non-dual stateThen, and only then, the FUN begins! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pointing-out instruction for everyone
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks [to Vaj] - I really enjoy all of these different perspectives on Brahman. I appreciate the emphasis here to integrate what we are here and now, that we won't somehow be someone else when we permanently realize Big Mind, as the author calls it. And in fact, we probably can't ever realize Big Mind *without* being ourselves, and being comfortable with that. This is the process as I experience it; to over time integrate every experience of ours, rid ourselves of all experiential awkwardness with our Selves, until all experience and all states of mind are experienced without losing our natural non-dual stateThen, and only then, the FUN begins! OR, losing our natural non-dual state, and being comfortable with *that*, too. The universe is not necessarily as hierarchical as the Hindu system likes to portray it. There are all these states of consciousness, or the 10,000 states of mind in Buddhism, but they're *all* possibly *just* states of mind, all coexisting peacefully, *all* perfect from some point of view, none of them higher than another. And *all* of them are potentially FUN, if you're just weird enough. One of my favorite cartoons shows a guy in Hell, pushing a wheelbarrow full of rocks, eternally. There are flames and devils everywhere. The heat is palpable; the guy pushing the wheelbarrow is sweating buckets. But he's also smiling, and has this enormous shit-eating grin on his face, and he's whistling. Two of the devils in the back- ground are talking, one of them saying to the other, We've got to watch this guy...he's got a bad attitude. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pointing-out instruction for everyone
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Thanks [to Vaj] - I really enjoy all of these different perspectives on Brahman. I appreciate the emphasis here to integrate what we are here and now, that we won't somehow be someone else when we permanently realize Big Mind, as the author calls it. And in fact, we probably can't ever realize Big Mind *without* being ourselves, and being comfortable with that. This is the process as I experience it; to over time integrate every experience of ours, rid ourselves of all experiential awkwardness with our Selves, until all experience and all states of mind are experienced without losing our natural non-dual stateThen, and only then, the FUN begins! OR, losing our natural non-dual state, and being comfortable with *that*, too. The universe is not necessarily as hierarchical as the Hindu system likes to portray it. There are all these states of consciousness, or the 10,000 states of mind in Buddhism, but they're *all* possibly *just* states of mind, all coexisting peacefully, *all* perfect from some point of view, none of them higher than another. And *all* of them are potentially FUN, if you're just weird enough. One of my favorite cartoons shows a guy in Hell, pushing a wheelbarrow full of rocks, eternally. There are flames and devils everywhere. The heat is palpable; the guy pushing the wheelbarrow is sweating buckets. But he's also smiling, and has this enormous shit-eating grin on his face, and he's whistling. Two of the devils in the back- ground are talking, one of them saying to the other, We've got to watch this guy...he's got a bad attitude. Hey B, I noticed this notice about the Big Mind DVD: The Production of the Big Mind DVD was made possible by a grant from the Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism. ;-) JohnY Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pointing-out instruction for everyone
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Thanks [to Vaj] - I really enjoy all of these different perspectives on Brahman. I appreciate the emphasis here to integrate what we are here and now, that we won't somehow be someone else when we permanently realize Big Mind, as the author calls it. And in fact, we probably can't ever realize Big Mind *without* being ourselves, and being comfortable with that. This is the process as I experience it; to over time integrate every experience of ours, rid ourselves of all experiential awkwardness with our Selves, until all experience and all states of mind are experienced without losing our natural non-dual stateThen, and only then, the FUN begins! OR, losing our natural non-dual state, and being comfortable with *that*, too. The universe is not necessarily as hierarchical as the Hindu system likes to portray it. There are all these states of consciousness, or the 10,000 states of mind in Buddhism, but they're *all* possibly *just* states of mind, all coexisting peacefully, *all* perfect from some point of view, none of them higher than another. And *all* of them are potentially FUN, if you're just weird enough. One of my favorite cartoons shows a guy in Hell, pushing a wheelbarrow full of rocks, eternally. There are flames and devils everywhere. The heat is palpable; the guy pushing the wheelbarrow is sweating buckets. But he's also smiling, and has this enormous shit-eating grin on his face, and he's whistling. Two of the devils in the back- ground are talking, one of them saying to the other, We've got to watch this guy...he's got a bad attitude. Exactly, and that is the other side so to speak of the experience of Brahman, the non-dual Reality infusing Everything, and on the other side, literally *Everything*. The *Everything* is now found in the context of the non-dual Reality. So a perfect choice now exists: on the one hand, enjoy the non-dual state while engaging in infinitely diverse activity, OR enjoy primarily one of an infinite set of activities, infused with the non-dual state. No contradiction, whether focused on the One shining on the Many, or the Many infused with the One. The Key is mastering the perfect coordination between the One and the Many, so that a greater coordinated, infinitely random Reality is achieved, always changing, yet always Perfection. Experientially, this leads to a more self-sufficient existence, allowing us to, as you said, push wheelbarrows in Hell, while whistling. Every experience, every action is perfectly carried out, due to the seamless coordination between the One and the Many. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
