[FairfieldLife] Re: One's Own Ishta-Devataa

2011-06-17 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > Can we take our own future enlightenment as our ishta-devataa > (meditation deity) in this lifetime? > > > > One of the definitions of final enlightenment (samyak.sam.bodhi) is > omniscience (sarva-jñana) and supremacy over all s

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hal Jordan's Latern Oath

2011-06-17 Thread yifuxero
http://vbonnaire.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/tara.gif --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu Xero wrote: > > http://www.majorspoilers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10a/hal_greenlantern.jpg > > Subject: Hal Jordan's Latern Oath: > > In Brightest Day, In Darkest Night > No evil shall escape my

[FairfieldLife] Hal Jordan's Latern Oath

2011-06-17 Thread Yifu Xero
http://www.majorspoilers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10a/hal_greenlantern.jpg Subject: Hal Jordan's Latern Oath: In Brightest Day, In Darkest Night No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil's might Beware my power - Green Lantern's light

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jun 17, 2011, at 10:31 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: >> >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" >> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for finding this Alex, I mistakenly thought this was >>> from the Dick Cavett interview so

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for finding this Alex, I mistakenly thought this was > > > from the Dic

[FairfieldLife] Re: The longest television programme on the planet

2011-06-17 Thread sittingduck165203
So cool! Thx. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > This is nice. They should put it on a DVD. Very restful. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > > > A german fri

[FairfieldLife] Speculating about CC instead of doing the work[was Re:Two...questions from Turq]

2011-06-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > > [Rick wrote:]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > Thanks for finding this Alex, I mistakenly thought this was > > from the Dick Cavett interview so I was chasing my own google > > tail looking for this quote! >

[FairfieldLife] Las Vegas, after

2011-06-17 Thread Yifu
1979, by Frank Frazetta http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/3/25057.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Las Vegas, before and after

2011-06-17 Thread Yifu
Before...(1895) http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/50155.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Orient Saloon, Bisbee, Arizona

2011-06-17 Thread Yifu
1900 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/36992.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Butch Cassidy

2011-06-17 Thread Yifu
Mugshot, 1894 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/49295.jpg

[FairfieldLife] The Sundance Kid and Etta Place

2011-06-17 Thread Yifu
Sundance Kid (Harry Longabough) with Etta Place http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/49301.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Thanks for finding this Alex, I mistakenly thought this was > from the Dick Cavett interview so I was chasing my own google > tail looking for this quote! Should have checked Advanced Search. This has been posted here six times

[FairfieldLife] Speculating about CC instead of doing the work[was Re:Two...questions from Turq]

2011-06-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > [Rick wrote:] > > > > There were numerous witnesses, in the person of > > > > multiple women. Ea

[FairfieldLife] Re: My thanks to Paligap...

2011-06-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > ...for turning me on to the UK television series > "The Shadow Line." Magnificent television, which > proves my thesis that a great movie is the counter- > part of a great short story. But a great TV series? > The counterpart of a great

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Now *this* is the quality of "call and response" I > miss on Fairfield Life. Good, now you have an example of how to do it. > Rick had every opportunity to overreact to this > post, and to get all defensive or even abrasive > in his re

[FairfieldLife] Re: The longest television programme on the planet

2011-06-17 Thread sittingduck165203
So cool! Thx. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > This is nice. They should put it on a DVD. Very restful. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > > > A german fri

[FairfieldLife] Re: A few Good Books

2011-06-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote: > Thanks for the ideas - will start with Sugara Akitada series The first one is "The Dragon Scroll." The order is a little confusing on Amazon because her second publisher issued them out of order. Here's her Web site: http://www.ijparke

[FairfieldLife] Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-17 Thread whynotnow7
Funny that the anti-Maharishi, anti-TMO, anti-"enlightenmentudeness" clique here continuously claims that those who make positive claims about Maharishi, the TMO and enlightenment are doing so to garner attention and feel special and elevated above others. The same could easily be said about th

[FairfieldLife] Re: The longest television programme on the planet

2011-06-17 Thread authfriend
This is nice. They should put it on a DVD. Very restful. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > A german friend tipped me of this one, live now for 5 days, 24 hours a day; > > http://www.nrk.no/hurtigrut

[FairfieldLife] Re: One's Own Ishta-Devataa

2011-06-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > Someday, John, you should really consider doing a > little reading about spiritual history, so that you > don't come off as such an ignoramus sometimes. > Buddha was as much a Hindu or a part of the Vedic > tradition as Jesus was a Jew a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread Ravi Yogi
Denise - and as they say you have to pass though hell to get to heaven, so nothing is going to change around Amma because it's a perfect contrast, a metaphor or pun of the play of the opposites, the play of the outer and the inner. There's many who are stuck in the outer, spend their entire lives a

[FairfieldLife] Speculating about CC instead of doing the work[was Re:Two...questions from Turq]

2011-06-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > [Rick wrote:] > > > There were numerous witnesses, in the person of > > > multiple women. Each had their own "events". > > > Only one has had the guts to write a book.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread Ravi Yogi
Steve - regardless of how my messages come across, I am not reacting. I really don't care for praise or criticism, for me the content doesn't matter, the consciousness that the other and I bring to it. Though my messages definitely reflect my samskaras and vasanas (mental tendencies and inclination

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-06-17 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jun 11 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat Jun 18 00:00:00 2011 502 messages as of (UTC) Fri Jun 17 23:01:37 2011 50 authfriend 46 turquoiseb 46 nablusoss1008 35 Rick Archer 33 Yifu 30 seventhray1 24 curtisdeltablues

RE: [FairfieldLife] Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread Denise Evans
I like the point about the caliber of followers - I did meet many interesting and intelligent and kind folks.  And, given the size of her following, all personalities will be represented.  Overall, my main and only problem was with the message to pray to Amma as God, but that is also possibly a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Now *this* is the quality of "call and response" I miss on Fairfield > Life. > > Rick had every opportunity to overreact to this post, and to get all > defensive or even abrasive in his response. But Rick never does. It's other partie

[FairfieldLife] The longest TV production ever

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.nrk.no/hurtigruten/

[FairfieldLife] TM & Laxity, was: For Vaj Re:Pitta-aggravating mantras

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen wrote: > > What in the hell is all this distorted TM "teaching"? > Are you guys that are spouting this TM teachers? > Because MMY never, ever mentioned this stuff in the > context of explaining experiences during meditation. OK, take a look

[FairfieldLife] My thanks to Paligap...

2011-06-17 Thread turquoiseb
...for turning me on to the UK television series "The Shadow Line." Magnificent television, which proves my thesis that a great movie is the counter- part of a great short story. But a great TV series? The counterpart of a great novel. You who live in the US will have to wait until it appears on

[FairfieldLife] Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLk

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > > > > P.S. I find it hard to accept accusations of Amma serving her ego or > > > b

[FairfieldLife] A ship towards the North in real time

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.nrk.no/hurtigruten/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > Rick, could you post the links for both the Free Speech Zone > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ammachi_free_speech_zone > > > as well as the ex-Amma group? > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/examma/ Thanks! Sal

[FairfieldLife] The Hurtigrute heading towards Trollfjord

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.nrk.no/hurtigruten/

[FairfieldLife] Towards the North !

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OczRpuGKTfY

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate

2011-06-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > Oh geee, I'm sorry. Just thinking of Martin Luther King and the other King, > Rodney. I knew you were. Didn't they look scary on the TV 20 years ago? They are a racial powder keg. So I can see why it is impossible to bring out the t

[FairfieldLife] 'Brahman Consciousness Integration of Inner & Outer'

2011-06-17 Thread Robert
I would like to discuss what Brahman Consciousness is and what it is not... Brahman Consciousness is the experience of the Self, as pure consciousness... This is experienced from the very beginning of Tm, as the experience of 'no mantra, no thoughts'... So, as this witnessing Self, is more and mor

[FairfieldLife] 'Brahman Consciousness...Integration of Inner & Outer'

2011-06-17 Thread Robert
I would like to discuss what Brahman Consciousness is and what it is not... Brahman Consciousness is the experience of the Self, as pure consciousness... This is experienced from the very beginning of Tm, as the experience of 'no mantra, no thoughts'... So, as this witnessing Self, is more and m

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Yifu" wrote: > > > > Monk: > > http://www.command-post.org/desk/archives/emperor.bmp > > > [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Fzq94YVbHHM/SIkG7ygswfI/LU4/3YSIEEYrq\ > x4/s400/pope-benedict.jpg]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread turquoiseb
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Yifu" wrote: > > Monk: > http://www.command-post.org/desk/archives/emperor.bmp [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Fzq94YVbHHM/SIkG7ygswfI/LU4/3YSIEEYrq\ x4/s400/pope-benedict.jpg] > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > > P.S. I find it hard to accept accusations of Amma serving her ego or being > > in it for the money. For decades now, she’s been on a routine that would > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Dixon
so Robert, what percentage of people that oppose the Obama administration do so on the basis that Obama is a black man? From: Robert To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 1:10:14 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > P.S. I find it hard to accept accusations of Amma serving her ego or being in > it for the money. For decades now, she’s been on a routine that would kill > most people in a month. What she does is grueling, and she suffers a lot

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Dixon
Oh geee, I'm sorry. Just thinking of Martin Luther King and the other King, Rodney. From: curtisdeltablues To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 12:29:16 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birt

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate

2011-06-17 Thread Robert
(snip) There is no way, that Barack Obama, when he was running for President, would not have revealed anything fishy was going on... When anyone applies for any classified position in government, the F.B.I. investigates to the max... It is hard for some to take for the 'Glasses of Racism', that

RE: [FairfieldLife] Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 2:59 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Visit with Amma Rick, could you post the links for both the Free Speech Zone http://gro

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
Thanks for finding this Alex, I mistakenly thought this was from the Dick Cavett interview so I was chasing my own google tail looking for this quote! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread Yifu
Monk: http://www.command-post.org/desk/archives/emperor.bmp --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" > wrote: > > > MAHARISHI: I am a single person. I'm a Purusha. I'm a -- what do you call > > it -- Sanyasi, if

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" wrote: > MAHARISHI: I am a single person. I'm a Purusha. I'm a -- what do you call it > -- Sanyasi, if you understand the word. I'm a monk, if you understand it... > > KING: You're a bachelor. > > MAHARISHI: ... monk. Correct; monk. A m

Re: [FairfieldLife] Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Rick Archer wrote: .S. I’m a moderator of the Amma Free Speech Zone, as well as this group. I believe that free speech is a healthy thing, and should apply to Amma as well as TM and all other things. I don’t believe the ex-amma group reflects that attitude. If you’r

[FairfieldLife] Music at Molde Jazz festival

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
Do turn the volume up ! Khmer by Nils Petter Molvaer; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1a-gLsjViQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXVYxpD-5Y0&feature=related The ship, live with 9 cameras is about to leave Molde: http://www.nrk.no/hurtigruten/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Although Maharishi didn't go around calling himself Bal > Brahmachari Maharishi Mahesh Fredrico, Jesus Fernando Yogi, he > did refer to himself as being a monk, or a renunciate many many > times, sometimes in my presence person

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate

2011-06-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > >  when we wear the glasses of racism, all we see is RACISM. We can't prosecute a felony and a treasonous act because Obama is black and urban black people will do something worse than the act of treason or a felony. Black backlash! I

RE: [FairfieldLife] Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread Rick Archer
P.S. I find it hard to accept accusations of Amma serving her ego or being in it for the money. For decades now, she’s been on a routine that would kill most people in a month. What she does is grueling, and she suffers a lot of physical pain. Her humanitarian projects are substantial, despite t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > Great response, thanks for an excellent read of thoughtful points! > > Says curtis, who missed the fact that Maharishi left the title "Bal > Brahmachary

[FairfieldLife] 24/5 - the longest TV programme on earth

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
Now in Molde ! Nils Petter Molvaer, trumpet at Molde ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoMq4HJhuy0&feature=related Miles Davies, trumphet at Molde: http://tinyurl.com/5up9kv6 Jan Garbarek, my favorite scandinavian composer plays at Molde; http://tinyurl.com/6f933qx http://www.nrk.no/hurtigruten/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Dixon
 when we wear the glasses of racism, all we see is RACISM. From: curtisdeltablues To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 7:36:41 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate   --- In Fa

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Dixon
I would think if he really was unqualified to be pres and lied about his qualifications, anything he signed into law would be null and void. From: seekliberation To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 7:31:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > Great response, thanks for an excellent read of thoughtful points! > > Says curtis, who missed the fact that Maharishi left the title "Bal > Brahmach

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 1:45 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

RE: [FairfieldLife] Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread Rick Archer
P.S. I’m a moderator of the Amma Free Speech Zone, as well as this group. I believe that free speech is a healthy thing, and should apply to Amma as well as TM and all other things. I don’t believe the ex-amma group reflects that attitude. If you’re in the least bit objective – i.e., willing to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread turquoiseb
Now *this* is the quality of "call and response" I miss on Fairfield Life. Rick had every opportunity to overreact to this post, and to get all defensive or even abrasive in his response. And yet that didn't happen. The fact that it didn't speaks IMO to the concept of "spiritual maturity" on both

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Great response, thanks for an excellent read of thoughtful points! Says curtis, who missed the fact that Maharishi left the title "Bal Brahmachary" already in the '50s. Yet curtis goes on and on about sex. Deep in his heart

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One's Own Ishta-Devataa

2011-06-17 Thread Bhairitu
Flowery words there empty, but the important part is the effect. And using the proper mantra to balance yourself can also produce enlightenment. If you just did a little search you would have found the most common mantras used for the doshas are: hoong for kapha, shring for pitta and ram for va

RE: [FairfieldLife] Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread Rick Archer
Can’t argue with you. your perspective is well-thought-out and well-written. Mine is that I know folks who see Amma or even live in her ashram who span a wide range of personal and spiritual maturity. Some are quite cultish in their thinking and behavior, some quite independent. On the whole tho

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > RESPONSE: Anyone who claims "to have gotten there some other way than TM" is > just as deceived as the person who (like me) seemed to have all the empirical > proof that I was enlightened through TM. Would you like to elaborat

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
Great response, thanks for an excellent read of thoughtful points! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > > e: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge > MIU anti-saint? WTF! CDB > > CDB:Let's recap the "teaching". All humans have an innate capacity to reach > the > ground of all

RE: [FairfieldLife] Visit with Amma

2011-06-17 Thread Denise Evans
I respect the idea of "taking what works for you and leaving the rest."  That can work if one, as an adult, doesn't give up one's ability to assess critically by embracing "blind faith."  For me, however, while I enjoyed the food, music, service, meditation, group faith and even the opportunity

[FairfieldLife] Re: One's Own Ishta-Devataa

2011-06-17 Thread emptybill
You must mean svasamvedana or self-reflectivity, not to be confused with a so called mental state of"self reflection. I don't have a clue about ayurveda mantras. Who has info (with explanations) about them? How does this relate to one's own sarva-jñana as the complete and final actualization? -

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread maskedzebra
e: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge MIU anti-saint? WTF! CDB CDB:Let's recap the "teaching". All humans have an innate capacity to reach the ground of all being, the home of all the laws of nature, the source of thought, the Self in a simple natural, innocent way. Through repeated exposure to thi

[FairfieldLife] Re: The longest television programme on the planet

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > A german friend tipped me of this one, live now for 5 days, 24 hours a day; http://www.nrk.no/hurtigruten/ It's an interesting project. The sound you hear is the waves hitting the front of the ship, I fell asleep to this sound yes

[FairfieldLife] The longest television programme on the planet

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
A german friend tipped me of this one, live now for 5 days, 24 hours a day; http://www.nrk.no/hurtigruten/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Think of the TMO as a vendor of products, as...uh... > it is. Compare it to a vendor of automotive products, > like, say, Toyota. Now translate the 'tude. What I > think you'

[FairfieldLife] Benny Blanco (was Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge)

2011-06-17 Thread jpgillam
Thanks! Jeremy was cool toward documentaries before he realized making one would give him an excuse to hang out with someone he admired. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > Gilster, > > BTW, awesome interview by Jeremy of "Benny Blanco" > > http://jeremygillam.co

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: Snip > While all of this is true, there is another paradigm > in place now. "Not only is what Maharishi taught during > his lifetime the best, highest, whateverest teaching > ever, *it's all you ever need to learn*." > > There will never be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > While all of this is true, there is another paradigm > in place now. "Not only is what Maharishi taught during > his lifetime the best, highest, whateverest teaching > ever, *it's all you ever need to learn*." > > There will never be any

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > Being terrified to enter a building from the "wrong" > direction makes perfect sense within their world view. :-) The Turqo hates Maharishi, loves Buddha, part XVIII, today

[FairfieldLife] Re: One's Own Ishta-Devataa

2011-06-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > In this case as in so many others, settling for "what > Maharishi said" is really "settling." MMJY, like you, > clearly settled for what he had been told. The > thought of opening a book about the Buddha, his life, > and his actual

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: O-Bama in 2012

2011-06-17 Thread Bhairitu
Too many liberals still support Obama because they fear a more right wing Supreme Court if a Republican gets elected. But day by day we're slipping into a police state anyway. On 06/17/2011 07:23 AM, seekliberation wrote: > Yeah, I wasn't too happy with Clinton either. After all the research I

Re: [FairfieldLife] One's Own Ishta-Devataa

2011-06-17 Thread Bhairitu
On 06/16/2011 08:18 PM, emptybill wrote: > Can we take our own future enlightenment as our ishta-devataa > (meditation deity) in this lifetime? > > > > One of the definitions of final enlightenment (samyak.sam.bodhi) is > omniscience (sarva-jñana) and supremacy over all states of existence. > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate

2011-06-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WLeed3@... wrote: > > _Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate_ > (http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=311433#ixzz1PUWxbhic) If Vally is going to claim something idiotic, why not just throw in some racism while you are at it! From the article refere

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate

2011-06-17 Thread seekliberation
so what if Obama isn't really American??? It's too late now, he's already Pres. Let him serve his term. If he does well, then who cares, let him stay in and finish doing a good job. If he does a poor job, he won't get re-elected unless the GOP fails to find a decent candidate (Like John Kerr

[FairfieldLife] Speculating about CC instead of doing the work[was Re:Two...questions from Turq]

2011-06-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > There were numerous witnesses, in the person of multiple women. Each had > > their own "events". Only one has had the guts to write a book. > > > > Well, so you now have several people claiming that several different events > happened,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > Being terrified to enter a building from the "wrong" > direction makes perfect sense within their world view. :-) Many years ago, about the time Sthapatya Veda was starting to show its face at MIU, I had come into town and was on the camp

[FairfieldLife] Re: O-Bama in 2012

2011-06-17 Thread seekliberation
Yeah, I wasn't too happy with Clinton either. After all the research I did regarding Vietnam and Korea, I was convinced that neither Dems or Reps were pro/anti war. America is its own entity and whoever is in office becomes a slave to that entity. That is why some of Obama's desires have been

[FairfieldLife] Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate

2011-06-17 Thread WLeed3
_Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate_ (http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=311433#ixzz1PUWxbhic)

[FairfieldLife] Check out Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate

2011-06-17 Thread WLeed3
_Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate_ (http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=311433#ixzz1PUWxbhic)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Two Approaches To Spiritual Teaching - Theory vs. Practice

2011-06-17 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > Not true. Different states of consciousness exist; I have > experienced many of the ones Maharishi talked about. What > I am not sold on is that any of them were "higher." I am > content to interpret my experiences as merely different >

[FairfieldLife] Picnic in the Park. Tuesday, June 21. Potluck

2011-06-17 Thread Dick Mays
Delivered-To: dickm...@lisco.com From: MUM Development Office To: dickm...@lisco.com Subject: Picnic in the Park. Tuesday, June 21. Potluck Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:33:48 -0500 X-Bounce-Tracking-Info: X-MagicMail-UUID: d9424318-9881-11e0-b7a4-00065bf16b23 Tuesday Evening Picnic You are c

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > On Jun 15, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > > Eh, so, make a choice: help a saint and don't go to the dome, > > > or, don't help a saint and go to the dome. > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Speculating about CC instead of doing the work[was Re:Two...questions from Turq]

2011-06-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of sparaig > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:02 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Speculating about CC instead of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Jun 15, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > Eh, so, make a choice: help a saint and don't go to the dome, or, > > don't help a saint and go to the dome. > > > > Which is more important and why? > > > > [the question of shou

[FairfieldLife] Re: One's Own Ishta-Devataa

2011-06-17 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > There's method in jyotish for determining your ishta devata. > You cannot make yourself your own devata. To do so would be a form of spiritual masturbation, and thus is frowned upon. Don't diddle your devata. :-) > Also, MMY said that the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Two Approaches To Spiritual Teaching - Theory vs. Practice

2011-06-17 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > > The / a lesson from witnessing this huge Q&A parade was that: > > > > 1) experiences were natural, they were not something to make a big > > fuss about, no special status