[FairfieldLife] Re: Ghirardelli's - Single source of chocolightenment?

2011-04-18 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > > LOL..yeah he needs to spice up his trips around the City, he can learn a > thing or two from Barry. He really needs to work on the skill of > projecting his fears, insecurities, pain, suffering and sadness on to > every situation. >

[FairfieldLife] Ghirardelli's - Single source of chocolightenment?

2011-04-18 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" jr_esq@ wrote: > > > > > > After having lunch at an Indian restaurant at Geary and > > > 25th Ave.,You didn't tell us what time I decided to take the scenic > drive starting at > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Afternoon at the Ghirardelli Square

2011-04-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > > > > > After having lunch at an Indian restau

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Afternoon at the Ghirardelli Square

2011-04-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 18, 2011, at 10:13 PM, seventhray1 wrote: Seems like you left out a lot of details here. lol... Sal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Afternoon at the Ghirardelli Square

2011-04-18 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > All of those scenes have a connection to FFL. For example, we are very familiar with Indian foods and what they mean in physical and spiritual sense. > > The golf course represents the need for recreation to enjoy life and experience bliss whic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Afternoon at the Ghirardelli Square

2011-04-18 Thread seventhray1
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" jr_esq@ wrote: > > > > After having lunch at an Indian restaurant at Geary and > > 25th Ave.,You didn't tell us what time I decided to take the scenic drive starting at > > Lincoln Park golf course. I ended up parking my car on > > Hyde Street wher

[FairfieldLife] Re: JfF: significance of word order? Part 1I cannot the mere Word so highly priz

2011-04-18 Thread emptybill
Logos is utterance or "calling forth" ... "vocalizing"" rather than logic. Similar idea to Vak/Vac in Veda - from whence comes shruti …. the self revealing utterances or speaking forth of Brahman about Brahman in Brahman. Thus "originally" or "principally" (arche) there was the calling/the sound

[FairfieldLife] Re: ATT: Joe and Curtis

2011-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
What a find Judy! Big thanks, that was fascinating. This is why I love to play my own rhythm as a one man band. Altering the timing during a song is one of the most important ways I feel music. I was reminded of how my vocal teacher used to listen to how I was playing at such a higher level

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-04-18 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Apr 16 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat Apr 23 00:00:00 2011 165 messages as of (UTC) Mon Apr 18 23:51:34 2011 19 authfriend 15 turquoiseb 15 Yifu 14 WillyTex 11 cardemaister 10 Joe 8 curtisdeltablues 7 merudan

[FairfieldLife] Horrible Gelatinous Blob

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
An antidote to BB (Blazing Brahman)? http://theinfosphere.org/File:H_G_Blob.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's your guNa-vRtti-virodha? ; )

2011-04-18 Thread azgrey
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > You are either free or you are bound. If free, > > > then you have no need for a yoga; if bound, by > > > what means can you free yourself? > > > > azgrey: > > So you are back from hunting prairie-dogs in > > Wyoming but still feel

[FairfieldLife] ATT: Joe and Curtis

2011-04-18 Thread authfriend
I think you might both find this NYTimes article of interest, from different perspectives. It's about new research that aims to "understand and quantify what makes music expressive." It won't be revelatory--seems to me the research only barely skims the surface--but there are some intriguing findin

[FairfieldLife] Robot Devil

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
Holiday home in Hell's Kitchen, NY; entrance to Hell is in NJ. http://theinfosphere.org/Robot_Devil

[FairfieldLife] A brief history of Hell

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2065275_2265761,00.html

[FairfieldLife] "What if there's no Hell?"

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
cover article, TIME Magazine. Christian evangelical adopts the "dangerous" [for his career as an Evangelical] position that there's no Hell. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2065080,00.html

[FairfieldLife] Government is broken. These guys can fix it.

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
Newsweek article, April 18, 2011. "(team of 20 leaders and experts suggests small, common-sense ideas that can get America moving forward right now)" ... in 20 parts, here's part 1, excerpts...: 1. >From Bill Bradley: Introduce health courts. "The medicalmalpractice justice system has a 25 percen

[FairfieldLife] Re: Afternoon at the Ghirardelli Square

2011-04-18 Thread Ravi Yogi
I did commute to the city for six years, so have travelled quite a bit around the city. My favorite Indian place is Pakwan in Mission. As soon as my Saturn dasha started I quit my work and now moved away from the West to the East Bay, funny how things work out. My brother-in-law wanted me to mo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba prediction on his death

2011-04-18 Thread Joe
What you see is what you get. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Yifu" wrote: > > I doubt that such persons can be called "Avatars"; although evil people can > apparently get Enlightened (and still continue with evil (a-Dharmic) acts.) > Some people still maintain that all acts by Enlighte

[FairfieldLife] Sai Baba prediction on his death

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
I doubt that such persons can be called "Avatars"; although evil people can apparently get Enlightened (and still continue with evil (a-Dharmic) acts.) Some people still maintain that all acts by Enlightened people are "right" or Dharmic. I disagree with that position, but either assertion is sp

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it > > all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its > > original subject, Patanjali, and a quote of his from

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba Dead?

2011-04-18 Thread Joe
Could he be both a pedophile fraud AND a "planetary Avatar" Nabby? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" wrote: > > > > Any word on whether the death was long and painful? > > > He was a planetary Avatar and beyond pain

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
curtisdeltablues: > You may be overstating that since Samkhya > came a lot later than many of the > principles in Hinduism... > Samkhya came long before 'Hinduism'; before the historical Buddha (563BCE), and before Buddhism. That's why historians think the Buddha may have been influenced by Sam

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba Dead?

2011-04-18 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" wrote: > > Any word on whether the death was long and painful? He was a planetary Avatar and beyond pain.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
There's a deep message there. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > You seem bound to post off-topic photos, so I guess > to that extend you are not free. Or, you feel free > to take up internet band-space for no good reason. > > Yifu: > > fish market, 1935 > > http:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba Dead?

2011-04-18 Thread Joe
Any word on whether the death was long and painful? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > Rumor has it he is, but it's being covered up in the hospital while attempts > are made to get hold of the funds that the Sai org has hidden. >

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
You seem bound to post off-topic photos, so I guess to that extend you are not free. Or, you feel free to take up internet band-space for no good reason. Yifu: > fish market, 1935 > http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/32470.jpg > > > I just think he was full of it and that > > > his prem

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's your guNa-vRtti-virodha? ; )

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
an open ended question with the truth probably somewhere in between http://www.abcgallery.com/G/grosz/grosz13.JPG --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > You are either free or you are bound. If free, > > > then you have no need for a yoga; if bound, by > > > what mea

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's your guNa-vRtti-virodha? ; )

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
> > You are either free or you are bound. If free, > > then you have no need for a yoga; if bound, by > > what means can you free yourself? > > azgrey: > So you are back from hunting prairie-dogs in > Wyoming but still feel the torment of unnatural > urges. > You are not making any sense - are y

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > curtisdeltablues: > > I just think he was full of it and that > > his premises about reality are bogus... > > > But, for some reason you practiced yoga for > fourteen years and majored in philosophy at > MUM? It just doesn't ma

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's your guNa-vRtti-virodha? ; )

2011-04-18 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote: > > > Curtis, as always, I think there is lots of wisdom in your posts. I too > > think of the early years in TM - it took me a few year to figure out that > > non-med

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
fish market, 1935 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/32470.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > curtisdeltablues: > > I just think he was full of it and that > > his premises about reality are bogus... > > > But, for some reason you practiced yoga for > f

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's your guNa-vRtti-virodha? ; )

2011-04-18 Thread azgrey
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > You are either free or you are bound. If free, > then you have no need for a yoga; if bound, by > what means can you free yourself? > So you are back from hunting prairie-dogs in Wyoming but still feel the torment of unnatural urges. G

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
curtisdeltablues: > I just think he was full of it and that > his premises about reality are bogus... > But, for some reason you practiced yoga for fourteen years and majored in philosophy at MUM? It just doesn't make any sense! Samkhya is the philosophical foundation of all Indian culture

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
turquoiseb: > > Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it > > all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its > > original subject, Patanjali... > > Samadhi, dukkha, suffering, nirodha (cessation) are crucial terms in Buddhist vocabulary. The doctrine of suffering is the core o

[FairfieldLife] Tips for Mark Zuckerberg

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1528.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's your guNa-vRtti-virodha? ; )

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
turquoiseb: > See what happens when you stop considering > these guys "holy" or "wise?" > It has nothing to do with being holy or wise. The point is, if your life is satisfactory and without any suffering or pain, then why would you be practicing a yoga to gain release? You are either free or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Single-source reality: The problem with "enlightenment

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
authfriend: > Life is so much simpler when we have Barry to tell > us what to think... > Turq got mixed up again - nihilism means that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Turq seems to be the nihilist when he asserts that morality, norms, rules, or laws do not in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Single-source reality: The problem with "enlightenment

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
> > I don't need no "single source" of OPINIONS > > about the nature of reality and of life itself... > > Bhairitu: > So is the purpose of "enlightenment" to sit around > and think about how we think? I would think the > purpose of enlightenment is to enjoy it... > So, that's what you think.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Afternoon at the Ghirardelli Square

2011-04-18 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > > > After having lunch at an Indian restaurant at Geary and > > > 25th Ave., I decided to take the scenic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Single-source reality: The problem with "enlightenment

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
turquoiseB: > Take Patanjali's statement that "all experience > is painful." *Most* people, no matter how much > they buy into Hindu nihilism, would not describe > *every experience they've had in life other than > transcendence* as "painful." > Apparently you've totally misunderstood Hinduism

[FairfieldLife] Re: Afternoon at the Ghirardelli Square

2011-04-18 Thread John
You should visit the City more often. Have lunch at the Indian restaurant. The price is reasonable and it's all you can eat. Then, take the scenic drive as I did. JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > Love that place, haven't been to the city in a long time though.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sai Baba Dead?

2011-04-18 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > Rumor has it he is, but it's being covered up in the hospital while attempts > are made to get hold of the funds that the Sai org has hidden. Miracles of a 'God-Man'? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9QqaPbFE78&feature=related Tric

[FairfieldLife] Uncanny valley (was Re: "Warhorse")

2011-04-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jpgillam" wrote: > > Thanks for the follow-up. A few responses interleaved below. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > So that would seem to be the answer where sex robots are > > concerned: make them *so* realistic they climb

[FairfieldLife] Pandit-Projekt/ update.

2011-04-18 Thread merlin
Pandit-Projekt Eine aktuelle Nachricht Dirk und Ingeborg Hostmann   Quelle: vedicpandits.org   Liebe  TM-Lehrerinnen, liebe TM-Lehrer, es macht große Freude zu erleben, wie jeder Einzelne von Euch den Impuls aus der Telefonkonferenz umsetzt.   Durch die Zusagen von 20 Spendern innerhalb

[FairfieldLife] Re: Afternoon at the Ghirardelli Square

2011-04-18 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > After having lunch at an Indian restaurant at Geary and > > 25th Ave., I decided to take the scenic drive starting at > > Lincoln Park golf course. I ended up parking my ca

[FairfieldLife] Sai Baba Dead?

2011-04-18 Thread Rick Archer
Rumor has it he is, but it's being covered up in the hospital while attempts are made to get hold of the funds that the Sai org has hidden.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Single-source reality: The problem with "enlightenment

2011-04-18 Thread Bhairitu
On 04/18/2011 12:18 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > Just to clarify, my raps about Patanjali this week > have all been pursuant to a certain theme. That is, > that there is a certain down side to considering > someone "enlightened," given the definition of that > "state" that has been presented to us as "k

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > O what a bunch of evil sophistry. > > > > > > This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. > > > The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Afternoon at the Ghirardelli Square

2011-04-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > After having lunch at an Indian restaurant at Geary and > 25th Ave., I decided to take the scenic drive starting at > Lincoln Park golf course. I ended up parking my car on > Hyde Street where the cable cars pass to get to the > Square. I w

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > O what a bunch of evil sophistry. > > This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. > The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. > > Nice writing but it still smells like the sophistry > of limited epistemology. However, if you just h

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > O what a bunch of evil sophistry. > > > > > > This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. > > > The bea

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's your guNa-vRtti-virodha? ; )

2011-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote: > Curtis, as always, I think there is lots of wisdom in your posts. I too think > of the early years in TM - it took me a few year to figure out that > non-meditators had a lot to offer in the way of living life, too, and could > teach me

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Hindu nihilism. Some of us do not desire to be free > from rebirth. Some of the enlightened do not believe > that being enlightened means that there is no rebirth. > And most important, if the enlightened are so affronted > by an IDEA

[FairfieldLife] Re: Single-source reality: The problem with "enlightenment

2011-04-18 Thread authfriend
You all need to understand that *only Barry's conclusions* can be considered the result of critical examination, of Patanjali or anything else. If your conclusions differ from Barry's, you just have to face the fact that you haven't been examining critically, because if you had been examining

[FairfieldLife] Re: JfF: significance of word order? Part 1I cannot the mere Word so highly priz

2011-04-18 Thread merudanda
"I cannot the mere Word so highly prize"J.W.G. heia "emptybill" a good link a very extensive overview with it " sordid past and a myriad of interpretations"...with no magical shortcut [;)] so full of love for Cardmaster may be too much to digest for him [:D] but may be "With honest purpose to ex

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > O what a bunch of evil sophistry. > > > > This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. > > The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. > > One guy, having fun with an im

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it > > all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its > > original subject, Patanjali, and a quote of his from > > the

[FairfieldLife] Looking for french speaking yoga students and teachers

2011-04-18 Thread profildaniam
Hello, My name is Daniel. I've been subscribed to this group for quite a while and never really posted any requests in the past. Here is: I'm launching this french yoga site this coming week and need user experience feedbacks. Could someone who speaks french be willing to go through registr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bible statistics - who killed more, God or Satan?

2011-04-18 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Seems to me that Satan is not the guy we need to be worried about. :-) > > [http://i.imgur.com/w67JK.jpg] Chuckle.God IS Satan. "The force the works for GOOD, though scheming ILL". Faust

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it > all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its > original subject, Patanjali, and a quote of his from > the Yoga Sutras. > > > "However, the wise (though their own mind is t

[FairfieldLife] Re: JfF: significance of word order? Part 1

2011-04-18 Thread emptybill
For some context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_1:1 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > John 1:1, the original Greek: > > en arkhe en ho logos, kai ho logos en pros ton theon, > kai *theos en ho logos*. > > Most modern translations (at least the Indo-European ones,

[FairfieldLife] Atomic Mom

2011-04-18 Thread obbajeeba
http://www.atomicmom.org/

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > O what a bunch of evil sophistry. > > This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. > The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. One guy, having fun with an imaginary conversation with a possibly imaginary guy, is a *mob*? And you dare

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Buck
O what a bunch of evil sophistry. This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. Nice writing but it still smells like the sophistry of limited epistemology. However, if you just had more experience then you'd see. Nice writing though, it's a beauti

[FairfieldLife] 7 answers to questions film fans have debated for years

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
Courtesy of Cracked, gleaned from original scripts, people who read them, lip reading, and other sources. Thought you'd want to know for your next Trivia Party. :-) #7. Pulp Fiction -- What's in the Briefcase? #6. The Sopranos Finale -- Did Tony Soprano Die? #5. Cast Away -- What Was in the FedEx

[FairfieldLife] Bible statistics - who killed more, God or Satan?

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
Seems to me that Satan is not the guy we need to be worried about. :-) [http://i.imgur.com/w67JK.jpg]

[FairfieldLife] Funny article about the Midwest

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
Although I've never lived there ( Chicago doesn't really count as the Midwest :-), I consulted for many years in the Midwest, flying there and working in places like Minneapolis or Madison four days a week, before returning to Santa Fe. It was a surreal experience in many ways, some of which this w

[FairfieldLife] Re: Single-source reality: The problem with "enlightenment

2011-04-18 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > Take Patanjali's statement that "all experience > is painful." *Most* people, no matter how much > they buy into Hindu nihilism, would not describe > *every experience they've had in life other than > transcendence* as "painful." Ther

[FairfieldLife] JfF: significance of word order? Part 1

2011-04-18 Thread cardemaister
John 1:1, the original Greek: en arkhe en ho logos, kai ho logos en pros ton theon, kai *theos en ho logos*. Most modern translations (at least the Indo-European ones, and Finnish) change the word order of the last clause(?) as if it'd been 'ho logos en [article here?] theos'. For instance, prob

[FairfieldLife] Re: Single-source reality: The problem with "enlightenment

2011-04-18 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > I, for one, am not convinced that imbuing the supposedly- > enlightened with this much "authority" -- the > state of their words being considered "Truth," > and thus immune to critical examination -- is > a good thing. Agreed - you shoul

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's your guNa-vRtti-virodha? ; )

2011-04-18 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb > > > that any experience is 'painful' if it overshadows ones > > 'Presence or Being'... > > > > Without Pure Consciousness or Being established in one's > > awareness, then all experience will be found to be lacking, > > due to the transi

[FairfieldLife] Single-source reality: The problem with "enlightenment

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
Just to clarify, my raps about Patanjali this week have all been pursuant to a certain theme. That is, that there is a certain down side to considering someone "enlightened," given the definition of that "state" that has been presented to us as "knowers of Truth." What seems to happen IMO is the