Adam Sandler apparently (not-alltogether-jokingly?) missing his
praeputium on Conan inspired this question:
What percentage of (male) FFL'ers, in your estimate, has lost a
sensitive part (IMO, almost as sensitive as lips) of there lingam? :/
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sinhlnx" wrote:
> >
> > ---Consider an apartment as a type of cage. Could a person
> > only "think" the apartment is real, but really be living inside
> > Mae West's head?
> >
--Right - a Chinese box! In the movie "1408" the character nears the
end of his horror story 1 hour in an apartment that becomes alive but
a living Hell; and on several occasions, he thinks he's out of the
apt, but it's only another delusion.
Finally, he "really" comes out of the Hellish apt t
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB
wrote:
> > > The question is, "How is doing 'the work,' Byron Katie-
> > > style, *not* fraught with
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sinhlnx" wrote:
> >
> > ---Consider an apartment as a type of cage. Could a person
> > only "think" the apartment is real, but really be living inside Mae
> > West's head?
>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity wrote:
> I feel pity for those who haven't experienced this, but
> > I can't look down on them, nor do I think that Rory indicated
this in
> > any way. I see him as a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sinhlnx" wrote:
> > >
> > > ---Consider an apartment as a type of cage. Could a person
> > > only "think"
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" wrote:
> > I am recommending that one be aware of where the criticism is
coming
> > from -- that one place attention on the core expectations behind
the
> > criticisms, and thereby to discover the illusory and projective
> > nature of one's
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sinhlnx" wrote:
> >
> > ---Consider an apartment as a type of cage. Could a person
> > only "think" the apartment is real, but really be living inside
Mae
> > West's head?
>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin"
wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning
wrote:
> > "Do you feel all perception and cognition (in
> > > the mundane sense) are projecti
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sinhlnx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ---Consider an apartment as a type of cage. Could a person
> only "think" the apartment is real, but really be living inside Mae
> West's head?
>
> http://www.planetperplex.com/en/item203
>
> Or, Jim, you were fortun
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I feel pity for those who haven't experienced this, but
> I can't look down on them, nor do I think that Rory indicated this in
> any way. I see him as a completely humble spiritual practitionar, who
> is far beyond me.
Jes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:38 PM, yifuxero wrote:
>
> > ---Below: Rory says suffering has no objective reality. True, but
> > irrelevant in terms of the actions that may be required to offset
the
> > suffering. The proposed re
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sinhlnx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ---Consider an apartment as a type of cage. Could a person
> only "think" the apartment is real, but really be living inside Mae
> West's head?
>
> http://www.planetperplex.com/en/item203
>
> Or, Jim, you were fortun
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote:
> "Do you feel all perception and cognition (in
> > the mundane sense) are projection?"
>
> Now, try expressing all that you have pondered and answered as
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sinhlnx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ---Consider an apartment as a type of cage. Could a person
> only "think" the apartment is real, but really be living inside Mae
> West's head?
Some time ago, and periodically, I "consider" that we are all living
in K
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Me: I have been enjoying lurking I have been thinking something
about
> how you write that I would like to run by you Rory. I think you are
> using language that very carefully does separate you from the per
In a message dated 7/24/07 9:28:26 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What I am saying as an example that the Iraq war billions could have
> provided education or better highways or housing for the homeless.
> Instead we just blow stuff up with it so that the defense co
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> OTOH my current understanding of moodmaking is in no way
> condemnatory, as all the states of consciousness look much like moods
> to me. From where I stand, we have a choice as to our primary "mood"
> or "frequenc
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
> > The question is, "How is doing 'the work,' Byron Katie-
> > style, *not* fraught with addictive pain?" It seems to
> > me that what Rory describes above is
---Consider an apartment as a type of cage. Could a person
only "think" the apartment is real, but really be living inside Mae
West's head?
http://www.planetperplex.com/en/item203
Or, Jim, you were fortunate in realizing you were in a cage. So I
guess the people living in the cage but don't k
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin"
wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin"
> > wrote:
> > >
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "qntmpkt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Whether an asshole actually exists or not is impossible for me to
> say.
Actually a nice analogy (for satsang on the south side). Like a donut
(from Krispy Creme), is there a donut hole?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ---the people you mention - living in cages. They should practice
TM
> regularly and buy all the CD's & DVD's relating to Ramana Maharshi
> from http://www.arunachala.org
> What do you suggestsome type of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin"
> wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > Its funny to see some here twisting themselves this way and
> th
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but I do have a certain
> confidence that everyone else is just like me, doing the best they can
> with the weird mix of genetics and circumstances that brought us to
> where we are in our lives.
Yes. I find tha
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Do you feel all perception and cognition (in
> the mundane sense) are projection?"
Now, try expressing all that you have pondered and answered as if
everyone else is truly YOU, not projected from you but actually
YOU.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So thanks for not seeing it as Rory bashing.
A bashed Rory is as Perfect as an unabashed Rory.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin"
wrote:
> >
>
> > Its funny to see some here twisting themselves this way and
that,
> > with elaborate explanations and such strident voices that keep
them
>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:38 PM, yifuxero wrote:
>
> > ---Below: Rory says suffering has no objective reality. True, but
> > irrelevant in terms of the actions that may be required to offset the
> > suffering. The proposed rem
---
http://www.godchecker.com/offerings/index.php?article-numbers
I'm assuming godchecker.com is already on your list of indispensable
sites. Especially if you're looking for some new to pray to.
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/24/07 6:30:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Do you think we had quality public education before the war in
>
>> Iraq...after all, we were spending 100s of billions of dollars on
>> public education...
>>
>>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Its funny to see some here twisting themselves this way and that,
> with elaborate explanations and such strident voices that keep them
> from being free. Holding on to the bars of their cages as one poster
> sa
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In my life the people who I give the credit for be the most actualized
> in their personalities are the people who draw out the best from
> everyone around them. They don't radiate that they are "higher" but
>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I think the point is that when you've lost your
> attachment to your ego, you don't go around
> setting standards and comparing yourself to others,
> nor do you care if someone thinks you're lower on
> the totem po
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Jesus (addressing the Samarian woman at the well) answered and said
> unto her, "Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again,
>
> ...but, whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall
never
> thirs
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "> I suspect he'd be willing to rewrite it as:
> >
> > If you lose your attachment to/identification with
> > your own personality, you can afford to be non-equal.
> >
> > I think he makes a good point that i
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
> > The question is, "How is doing 'the work,' Byron Katie-
> > style, *not* fraught with addictive pain?" It seems to
> > me that what Rory describes above is
---the people you mention - living in cages. They should practice TM
regularly and buy all the CD's & DVD's relating to Ramana Maharshi
from http://www.arunachala.org
What do you suggestsome type of mood-making to grok "I'm out of
the cage, out of the cage, out of the cage."? i.e. a
r
"> I suspect he'd be willing to rewrite it as:
>
> If you lose your attachment to/identification with
> your own personality, you can afford to be non-equal.
>
> I think he makes a good point that insistence on
> equality can mean not just humble unwillingness
> to give oneself a higher status, b
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> wrote:
>
> > I don't view the ego in the way you seem to be using it and
> > losing my personality is not a goal for me.
>
> As I understand it, enlighte
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I don't view the ego in the way you seem to be using it and
>
In a message dated 7/24/07 6:30:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you think we had quality public education before the war in
> Iraq...after all, we were spending 100s of billions of dollars on
> public education...
>
>
What I am saying as an example that the Ir
shempmcgurk wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> shempmcgurk wrote:
>>
>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
>>>
>>>
Where Shemp "dreams" to live.
"America's super-rich have returned to the days
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> wrote:
>
> > I don't view the ego in the way you seem to be using it and
> > losing my personality is not a goal for me.
>
> As I understand it, enlighten
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (BTW nuts are actually very hard to kick so their use in
> fights is really overrated!)
Tell that to Bobby Hill!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gp1JPPFVWIw
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't view the ego in the way you seem to be using it and
> losing my personality is not a goal for me.
As I understand it, enlightenment doesn't mean
"losing" one's personality, only the attachment
to and id
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> shempmcgurk wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
> >
> >> Where Shemp "dreams" to live.
> >>
> >> "America's super-rich have returned to the days of the Roaring
> >>
> > Twenties.
>
Thanks for taking the time to respond in detail. I think you have
brought out some very good points about our different world views. I
do agree with your point about people's differences concerning
talents, intelligence and skills. You have correctly noted that I do
not recognize the same meanin
On Jul 24, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Vaj wrote:
the "two truths"
I'm sorry (someone nudged me offlist).
The "two truths" are the relative (truth) and the absolute (truth).
Thanks Kala. :-)
In a message dated 7/22/07 10:47:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
She didn't vote "for the war." She voted to authorize
Bush to use force only if diplomacy was unsuccessful.
Bush, of course, never had any intention of using
diplomacy. The war was a done deal long bef
Jesus (addressing the Samarian woman at the well) answered and said
unto her, "Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again,
...but, whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never
thirst, the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of
water (bliss,anandam) spri
In a message dated 7/24/07 2:47:16 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Quality public education even for college should be
free. We could easily have that and money left over if we didn't waste
money on that stupid war in Iraq which is only done to profit Bush's
buddie
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Are you willing to actually see me as an equal? Completely equal?
Not in some cosmic perspective way that you unequally comprehend, but
brother to brother? "
Here my opinion:
We are not equal. I think what you
On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:38 PM, yifuxero wrote:
---Below: Rory says suffering has no objective reality. True, but
irrelevant in terms of the actions that may be required to offset the
suffering. The proposed remedies - whatever they are - also have no
objective reality, so we are back to square on
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have actually written, on this forum and on others,
> several times now, of one of the things I do almost
> religiously with my posts. Once a month or so, I go
> through all of them and reread them as if the person
> I
TurquoiseB wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
>>
>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
>>>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wr
shempmcgurk wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Where Shemp "dreams" to live.
>>
>> "America's super-rich have returned to the days of the Roaring
>>
> Twenties.
>
>> As the rest of the country struggles to get by,
>>
> "struggle
---Below: Rory says suffering has no objective reality. True, but
irrelevant in terms of the actions that may be required to offset the
suffering. The proposed remedies - whatever they are - also have no
objective reality, so we are back to square one. Thus, if some home
invaders are attacki
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for responding Turq. Pinning it all on Rory isn't
> completely fair since it is a quality in many posts as you
> mention. I had a nice little self-reflection on whether
> or not I was using my own se
Thanks for responding Turq. Pinning it all on Rory isn't completely
fair since it is a quality in many posts as you mention. I had a nice
little self-reflection on whether or not I was using my own self
admitted "commonness" in the same way! It is an imposition of my own
values onto someone else
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 24, 2007, at 12:09 PM, t3rinity wrote:
>
> > I suggest to investigate terms from spiritual path within their own
> > respective philosophies and not a hotchpotch of new age ideas.
>
>
> I couldn't agree more, but
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What you say about Rory's use of language as a ranking
> device certainly strikes a resonance with me, but now
> that you've brought it up, I can see it in many others
> as well. And yes, occasionally in myself. Rarely i
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
> >> In the above example, Rory is embracing absolute POV 'criticizing
> is
> > projecting our own inner pain on others' and therefore taking an
> > extreme POV, r
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
> >> In the above example, Rory is embracing absolute POV 'criticizing
> is
> > projecting our own inner pain on others' and therefore taking an
> > extreme POV, r
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Oh, wait. Did I say "slaumer?"
>
> I meant "apple."
>
> Why didn't you know I was describing an apple until now?
>
> Okay, next subject: I had a spiritual experience this morning,
> and I want to describe it fo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> wrote:
> >
> > Rory:
> > > "Right, you didn't offer me that marvelous image to play with
> > > -- but you *did* (in my reality anyhow) offer me your pain,
>
This morning I had a tasty treat -- I ate a slaumer.
It was surprisingly juicy, had a yellow and rose colored thin outer
skin, quite sweet but not overwhelmingly sweet like some fruits can
be, crispy and crunchy flesh. I've seen this fruit before in other
colors too -- all yellow, all green, all
Are you sure you are talking about *Judy* here? because what I am
hearing is you talking to yourself Barry, all the way down. Has
nothing to do with Judy, except as a device for your own
distraction.:-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Your *stories
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Rory:
> > "Right, you didn't offer me that marvelous image to play with
> > -- but you *did* (in my reality anyhow) offer me your pain,
> > which was all I really wanted. To whatever degree You and I
> > are
Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Powell shown lying to the American people
and to the world
Watch them lie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3slsCBqrQfk&mode=related&search=
On Jul 24, 2007, at 12:09 PM, t3rinity wrote:
I suggest to investigate terms from spiritual path within their own
respective philosophies and not a hotchpotch of new age ideas.
I couldn't agree more, but then of course I get called a
"traditionalist".
Not just advaita vedanta uses mahav
Rory:
"Right, you didn't offer me that marvelous image to play with -- but
you *did* (in my reality anyhow) offer me your pain, which was all I
really wanted. To whatever degree You and I are separate, my
heartfelt thanks to You :-)"
Me: I have been enjoying lurking I have been thinking something
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 24, 2007, at 9:23 AM, t3rinity wrote:
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
> > > If you want to use paradox as a vehicle,
> > > try running through a couple hundred mahavakyas you don't already
>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "uns_tressor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote:
> >
> > HEY AMERICANS - ARE YOU WATCHING WHAT'S HAPPENING TO YOUR COUNTRY ???
> >
> > Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in
>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 7/24/07 8:39:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Are you just
> > hoping nobody here reads the newspapers?
> >
> > No, just one or two that don't spin left.
>
> "Spin left" be
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
> > I'm chuckling, remembering when you suggested the
> > Byron Katie approach to me some time back, and I
> > rejected it on similar grounds to what Barry's
>
In a message dated 7/24/07 8:39:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you just
> hoping nobody here reads the newspapers?
>
> No, just one or two that don't spin left.
"Spin left" being defined as anything that doesn't
follow the hard right-wing line.
Unfortunatel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff"
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
>
> > > Question, short form: Is Katie's "the work," whether
> > > valuable or not, just
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 7/22/07 11:29:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Are you just
> hoping nobody here reads the newspapers?
>
> No, just one or two that don't spin left.
"Spin left" being define
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB
wrote:
>
> > > Question, short form: Is Katie's "the work," whether
> > > valuable or not, just another form of moodmaking?
"Rory Goff" wrote:
> > Answer, short form: No.
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB
wrote:
> > >
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> HEY AMERICANS - ARE YOU WATCHING WHAT'S HAPPENING TO YOUR COUNTRY ???
>
> Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in
> Emergency
> Matthew Rothschild
> The Progressive, May 18, 2007
> http:/
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
> > Question, short form: Is Katie's "the work," whether
> > valuable or not, just another form of moodmaking?
>
> Answer, short form: No.
>
> > I don't kno
TurquoiseB wrote:
> The desire in this case is to have no expectations
> of others in terms of their behavior, and to see
> them as other aspects of one's Self,
>
> We Buddhists...
>
"We" Buddhists? Do Buddhists believe in a "Self"?
> ...might have compassion for the poor, drugged-
> out guy,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In the above example, Rory is embracing absolute POV 'criticizing
is
> projecting our own inner pain on others' and therefore taking an
> extreme POV, rather than embracing the paradox: all is one and
> assholes still ex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ron, I'm really not trying to argue with you or "accuse"
> you of anything -- that's how you're reacting. I merely
> presented a different way of looking at your experience.
>
> That you respond to that different way o
On Jul 24, 2007, at 9:23 AM, t3rinity wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to use paradox as a vehicle,
> try running through a couple hundred mahavakyas you don't already
> know an answer to or have discursive ideas about.
Sorry Vaj, there
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The question is, "How is doing 'the work,' Byron Katie-
> style, *not* fraught with addictive pain?" It seems to
> me that what Rory describes above is very much a form
> of moodmaking -- starting with the assumption tha
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to use paradox as a vehicle,
> try running through a couple hundred mahavakyas you don't already
> know an answer to or have discursive ideas about.
Sorry Vaj, there are only 4 mahavakyas, all else are just vak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" wrote:
> a position that is fraught with
> > addictive pain.
> >
> Hi Rory, so are you using the expression "addictive pain" because we
> find it easier to rec
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --Right, but Byron Katie is a Neo-Advaitin, and if we go too far into
> that realm, there's no karma, no people, no suffering (in fact,
> nothing!).
Has that been your experience with her Inquiry? It certainl
In a message dated 7/22/07 11:29:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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hoping nobody here reads the newspapers?
No, just one or two that don't spin left.
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On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:01 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> > FWIW I still support my original premise: If we criticise another
> > (particularly if the other isn't even present, and we're
> > criticising them to a 3rd party), we generally *are* coming from
> > a place of pain (hurt/anger), whether or not
We buddhists? What is this about?
empty
TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --Right, but Byron Katie is a Neo-Advaitin, and if we go too
> far into that realm, there's no karma, no people, no s
Ron, I'm really not trying to argue with you or "accuse"
you of anything -- that's how you're reacting. I merely
presented a different way of looking at your experience.
That you respond to that different way of seeing things
as an accusation says more, IMO, than the experiences.
More below, *aga
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "george_deforest"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> i wonder if it is fair or accurate to translate
> the language of Sri Chinmoy using Maharishi's language of
> his Seven States of Consciousness?
>
> could it be, that "savikalpa samadhi" is TC (transcendental
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Tanmay: How much time do I get before I turn into a pumkin?
If and when you get a proper job and focus instead of fooling around on
the internet you will be ok. Fear no pumpkin :-)
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ron" wrote:
> >
> > Note I am not being a parakeet when I tell you that my
> > experience is it is moving me faster to enlightenment.
> > Let me put it this way, I feel this ver
> TurquoiseB wrote:
>
> I'm interested in hearing the fans of advaita (neo- or not)
> or Byron Katie explain to me why what seems like a
> contradiction to me isn't one.
>
> The desire in this case is to have no expectations of
> others in terms of their behavior, and to see them as
> other asp
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