[FairfieldLife] MUM security flaws typical pattern in campus slayings

2007-06-13 Thread bob_brigante
USA Today: •In March 2004, Shuvender Sem, who has a history of mental illness, stabbed to death a fellow student at Maharishi University of Management in Iowa just hours after attacking another student in a classroom. Joel Wysong, the university's dean of men, had taken Sem to his apartment

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just forwarded 10 posts from this group to Swami G, I did the best I could to be sensible in leaving out a few posts, why ? With all due respect, I strongly suggest she answers directly to all the questions that

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Judy deals with life

2007-06-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Agreed. Judy has a bigger dick than any of her detractors on this board. its a hoot!:-) You don't say! That along with her horse laughs make

Re: [FairfieldLife] MUM security flaws typical pattern in campus slayings

2007-06-13 Thread Louis McKenzie
WOw I have never heard this one before. MUM is surley different from MIU. In the old days if someone gave someelse a blackeye this was frowned upon. It is totally hard to imagine someone stabbing another student. WOW! - Original Message From: bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Confused aboiut Swami-G (was Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi)

2007-06-13 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what is that tall orange thingy she's holding? Is it like one of those telemetric ankle bracelets that authorities use to track people out of detention? Kinda cool looking. So I'm wondering … how can I get one

Re: [FairfieldLife] Confused aboiut Swami-G (was Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi)

2007-06-13 Thread billy jim
But if I can somehow find a danda-thingy will it be a pranic tracking device? Maybe I should be worried. I might inadvertently say something unbecoming about the franchising swami-g-spot. What if I claimed that the little she-coil (kundalini) was the fundamental ignorance at the root of this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread boo_lives
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I will forward this suggestion but in all fairness, if you see what I just said in the previous post, there are already 15 yahoo groups Swami G is monoriting. It just took me a lot of time in just this one group to go

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
Hello, This is the original post and the forwarded response from Swami G: Hi thanks for the quick response. Still I feel that she is tiptoeing around the points. These points or rather my main point is, that within the Saraswati Order, as well as two others within the Dasanami System,

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Judy deals with life

2007-06-13 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seclorum Disputed ---- was/How Judy...

2007-06-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you are saying that Wikipedia is not a reliable source. All those interested please note: Rory is correct here, Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Many thanks for several things, Offworld! Thank you for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Stanley
So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to be a guru lashing out at another guru because he isn't qualified to be a guru. Indian spiritual politics... gotta love it! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, This is the original post and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
Hello, Going through the posts is not like normal letter, I am cutting out the redundency or what I think is either blatently ignorant or without sincerity or someone playing around. There was a post like that in the other thread. I did post a response which covers all the posts. If there are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to be a guru lashing out at another guru because he isn't qualified to be a guru. Indian spiritual politics... gotta love it! LOL! [snip]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to be a guru lashing out at another guru because he isn't qualified to be a guru. Indian spiritual politics... gotta love it! *lol* I love YOU, Alex; Your

[FairfieldLife] Can atheists just be nice?

2007-06-13 Thread curtisdeltablues
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19140641/site/newsweek/ This topic interests me. It is a dilemma for non believers. The challenge of staying in rapport while being true to your own position, which is by definition, a negation of someone else's POV. Right now there are a few books out that aren't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
Come find the Beauty life has to Offer Be a Great Existence - #2 What I was getting from Ron and Swami G's comments was that since Mahesh could not be initiated as a swami--as Sw. G sees it from her direct experience being in that living tradition--he would not be able to be initiated

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to be a guru lashing out at another guru because he isn't qualified to be a guru. Indian spiritual politics... gotta love it! Are we about to step into

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to be a guru lashing out at another guru because he isn't qualified to be a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thief: the death of the self as freedom

2007-06-13 Thread Duveyoung
Turq, Busy with moving here -- can't do my usual hyperbabble. Thanks for the movie suggestion, and I think you're spot on about freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose. Not exactly enlightenment but a psychological enlightenment maybe -- I think that Byron Katie mixes this kind of

[FairfieldLife] Judy asks a hard question ( was: Re: What Does The self Fear Most?)

2007-06-13 Thread Duveyoung
Judy, I'm in the middle of moving. Your reply deserves my fuller attention, but let me at least say that I have no problem with Nagarjuna's Four Negations. The Absolute that I try to talk about simply cannot be talked about, and hey, didn't I just now talk about it despite not being able to?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Confused aboiut Swami-G (was Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi)

2007-06-13 Thread Bhairitu
t3rinity wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what is that tall orange thingy she's holding? Is it like one of those telemetric ankle bracelets that authorities use to track people out of detention? Kinda cool looking. So I'm wondering

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can atheists just be nice?

2007-06-13 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19140641/site/newsweek/ This topic interests me. It is a dilemma for non believers. The challenge of staying in rapport while being true to your own position,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Bhairitu
Ron wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to be a guru lashing out at another guru because he isn't qualified to be a guru. Indian spiritual politics... gotta love it! Are we

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to be a guru lashing out at another guru because he isn't qualified to be a guru.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
I have forwarded both the post here and in the other thread to Swami G and will post a response. I know there were 4 Gurus along the way in Swami G's path- you can see some info about Tantra, mantra - how Swami G even defines it in www.abide-in-self.com Tanmay People here tend to judge

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Judy deals with life

2007-06-13 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can atheists just be nice?

2007-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19140641/site/newsweek/ This topic interests me. Me, too, and I think we might more of a handle on the phenomenon -- having watched similar stuff go down on FFL and other Internet

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thief: the death of the self as freedom

2007-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turq, Busy with moving here -- can't do my usual hyperbabble. I understand. I'm still in the pre-packing phase, but boy! do I understand. Thanks for the movie suggestion, and I think you're spot on about freedom

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Judy deals with life

2007-06-13 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron sidha7001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to be a

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Judy deals with life

2007-06-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Judy celebrates truth in her posts, and it shows in its effectiveness and success. She goes by truth. That apparently greatly disturbs those

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to be a guru lashing out at another guru because he isn't qualified to be a guru. Indian spiritual politics... gotta love it! Could we happily devolve this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
Come find the Beauty life has to Offer Be a Great Existence - Namaste GuruJi, Namaste My Tantric Master was not from Rishiskesh but another part of india - what was learned wasn't what the west terms a left hand path - it was this Sat Guru that also commissioned me to go forward as a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
Come find the Beauty life has to Offer Be a Great Existence - #5 Namaste mantra diksha is a far cry from becoming a sannyasi - Yes a transmission occurs around an authorised Guru - and it is known here having spoken with one of Mahesh Yogis Sadhakas who WAS in direct proximity

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your guru comes off to me like any other common person who has their own opinions. Maharishi, whether he has certain initiations or not, has a much greater energy presence than your guru. Agreed- felt, or didn't feel,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron sidha7001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: So,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to be a guru lashing out at another guru because he isn't qualified to be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
I looked at the picture, and it certainly is Swami G with, as you righly say a pujari. Please go also to http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Swami+Gsearch=Search and you can see that it Swami G is an American woman who has taken sannyas vows. About the stick I am also puzzled, by I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread t3rinity
Thanks again for the quick response. My comments follow: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip G Now if you want to go on what is being promoted about Guru Dev saying that only Brahmins may be sannyas then STILL Mahesh Yogi can have no claim to being a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
Come find the Beauty life has to Offer Be a Great Existence - Om Namo Narayana G my training is within both Shivaite and Kali traditions as well as esoteric christianity - as stated before i am Fully authorised by my Tantric Guru as a Sat Guru which is beyond the state of an achraya to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
I would have expected Ron's 'swami' guru to rise above the polarity with something meaningful to at least present some dignity. Guru Dev [SBS] seems to have united people and done this without any apparent effort. Instead, Ron's guru appears to be part of the conflict. Hello, Lets try

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
Hello t3rinity, Can you post that Judy post you are talking about here in this thread? I think this is called a thread - right? I am following emails from 15 yahoo groups, so I am only reading the mails in this thread and really busy. Swami G is not in FFL at all. Tanmay Tanmay

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I experience the presence of Guru Dev almost daily. I'd really like to hear the details of that if you care to share it. If not openly, then an email would work.:-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have expected Ron's 'swami' guru to rise above the polarity with something meaningful to at least present some dignity. Guru Dev [SBS] seems to have united people and done this without any apparent effort.

[FairfieldLife] Confused aboiut Swami-G (was Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi)

2007-06-13 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if I can somehow find a danda-thingy will it be a pranic tracking device? No, she says its just a symbol, unlike the shiva and shakti in the duni (fire), thats a miracle Maybe I should be worried. No, don't be

[FairfieldLife] Judy asks a hard question ( was: Re: What Does The self Fear Most?)

2007-06-13 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy, I'm in the middle of moving. Your reply deserves my fuller attention, but let me at least say that I have no problem with Nagarjuna's Four Negations. I guess N's negations are originally in Sanskrit. Anyone

[FairfieldLife] Re: Unconditional Love and Samskaras -- was/Seclorum Disputed

2007-06-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thank you too for bringing up yet more particles of self-righteous fundamentalist fervor within me who think we absolutely *know* the truth, despite our vast ignorance, and who apparently just cannot be reached

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel babajii_99@ wrote: (snip) The dynamite never bothered me at all, and many others. Really. It bothered a few people, and I guess they're the ones who

[FairfieldLife] Amazing Microsoft technology!

2007-06-13 Thread Rick Archer
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But he didn't do it because GD was his master, and he was completely dedicated to him, served him for 13 years etc. So you think GD just dumped him, saying: you are not a Brahmin, you are only a Brahmachari? I find

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello t3rinity, Can you post that Judy post you are talking about here in this thread? I think this is called a thread - right? I am following emails from 15 yahoo groups, so I am only reading the mails in this thread

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: I experience the presence of Guru Dev almost daily. I'd really like to hear the details of that if you care to share it. If not openly, then an email

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread boo_lives
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_lives@ wrote: But he didn't do it because GD was his master, and he was completely dedicated to him, served him for 13 years etc. So you think GD just dumped

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello t3rinity, Can you post that Judy post you are talking about here in this thread? I think this is called a thread - right? I am following emails from 15 yahoo groups, so I am only reading the mails in this thread and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Swami-nonsense

2007-06-13 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron sidha7001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron sidha7001@ wrote: --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Amazing Microsoft technology!

2007-06-13 Thread Bhairitu
$5000-$10,000 devices. Quite a toy for overpaid yuppies. Wonder how many service packs it will take for it to work right? Rick Archer wrote: Microsoft Surface: Hands-on First Look_ HYPERLINK http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid932579976?bclid=932553050b

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Bhairitu
Thanks for the correction but I could swear she said in one of the videos she at least met her master near Rishikesh. I also got the impression from the video that she didn't spend that much time with him (and he has passed on). It took me 5 years to get commissioned to Swami and I can only

[FairfieldLife] Re: Unconditional Love and Samskaras -- was/Seclorum Disputed

2007-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: snip Thank you too for bringing up yet more particles of self-righteous fundamentalist fervor within me who think we absolutely *know* the truth,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize trin. for going off on the word. I agree completely with most of what you say, and I personally don't care much for the conservative formalisms of hinduism or any other religion. In general I feel devotion

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Ron
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron sidha7001@ wrote: Hello t3rinity, Can you post that Judy post you are talking about here in this thread? I think this is called a thread - right? I am following

[FairfieldLife] Re: Unconditional Love and Samskaras -- was/Seclorum Disputed

2007-06-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory, it sounds to me as if you would really enjoy the TV series Dexter. For me it's one of the best essays on *compassion* I've ever encountered, and for me that term means a lot of what you seem to mean when you use