[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > "I feel so ineffectually effing effeminate." > > I feel mostly like skin with hair on top and some stuff inside the skin. Its > alive.:-) * * Yes, I was just entertaining another of my I-particles for awhile. NOW it's alive! Unc

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread whynotnow7
"I feel so ineffectually effing effeminate." I feel mostly like skin with hair on top and some stuff inside the skin. Its alive.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > > > Yeah, I'm trying to emulat

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > > > Yeah, I'm trying to emulate Tom's unconditional hatred, it's tough but > > I'll learn - I wish I was born with it like him, he makes it look so > > easy, effaci

[FairfieldLife] Warren's "dirty" secret?

2011-08-01 Thread cardemaister
He invests like a girl?? http://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffett-Invests-Like-Girl/dp/0061567558

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > Yeah, I'm trying to emulate Tom's unconditional hatred, it's tough but > I'll learn - I wish I was born with it like him, he makes it look so > easy, effacing, effervescent, effortless. * * Yeah, by contrast I feel so ineffectually

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread seventhray1
Mark is so certain of some things. No room any other interpretation about some things, as subjective as they may seem. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > Jim, love it. But seriously Mark was a lucky guy to have been in > immediate proximity to M and I'm sure M enjoy

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" raviyogi@ wrote: > rumor has it that Tom, bless his heart err.. hatred, called > > the nurse who delivered him as a whore as soon as he was born. > > > Now this is insulting in h

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: rumor has it that Tom, bless his heart err.. hatred, called > the nurse who delivered him as a whore as soon as he was born. Now this is insulting in high style. Old school insulting the way it ought to be. Tom Pall insulting even. K

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread seventhray1
Hang in there Robin. We love you. You have spawned some of the best dialogue we've had here in ages. You've brought out really good stuff in Curtis and Mark, among others. I admit I usually can't get past more than a few lines of your posts, but I often pick the main points on the reply. But

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
* * Yes, I suppose it's worth a shot, though I suppose if it actually worked some bigots might make fun of one for being a little light in the loafers, or at least a friend of Dorothy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > I say give it a shot - how can you resist such a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread whynotnow7
Free airfare! Too bad Dorothy didn't come from Maui! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > > In the interests of clarity, I should probably have used the revised > > transliteration, lengthening the pe

[FairfieldLife] white

2011-08-01 Thread Yifu
http://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/nature/files//home/wnetwp/webroot/wnet/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2009/03/3-kushi.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread whynotnow7
I say give it a shot - how can you resist such a thing? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > > In the interests of clarity, I should probably have used the revised > > transliteration, lengthening the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread whynotnow7
Well, even giving Vaj every benefit of the doubt, using the analogy for him of a fine sports car, say the Lamborghini Countach (V12, tops out at 214 mph), slamming that puppy into reverse (the aforementioned retardation) at that speed is going to cause issues, to say the least. Then forget about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > In the interests of clarity, I should probably have used the revised > transliteration, lengthening the penultimate "a" and dropping the antiquated > final "a" of "thahara", thus: > "OM Iswara thahaar tis, > OM Iswara thahaar tis

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread whynotnow7
Ha Ha! Must be about keeping the sandals. I am really glad you are doing that. Seriously that was a gutsy move, under the circumstances. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau wrote: > > Gee, that *would* be spectacular. Do I really want to go through that again? > > On Aug 1, 201

Re: [FairfieldLife] Video: Max Keiser "America will lose it's sovereignty"

2011-08-01 Thread Denise Evans
Mine voted for itI tried to contact once...but my topic at the time wasn't in the approved list of topics on the website.  I received an automatic reply that had nothing to do with my topic, as I remember.  I kind of gave up.  Yes, our electives are supposed to represent us...and some of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:58 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > !Found! The missing ethics in TM! > > >

[FairfieldLife] New batteries for your I-phone

2011-08-01 Thread Yifu
Silent Night, by Banksy: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/3/29516.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Charles Manson as hitchhiker

2011-08-01 Thread Yifu
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=29497

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread whynotnow7
scratches arm, builds scale 747 out of toothpicks, you're welcome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau wrote: > > smiles and laughs, thanks > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 2:23 AM, whynotnow7 wrote: > > > [Maharishi] turned to me [on the flight] and said, "This is hell." > > > > To which y

Re: [FairfieldLife] Video: Max Keiser "America will lose it's sovereignty"

2011-08-01 Thread Bhairitu
We elect representatives so we can go about out lives and not have to spend time babysitting them to make them represent us. My representative, George Miller, voted against. How did yours do? http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/house/1/690 I sent him and my two senators email asking

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread Ravi Yogi
Well regardless of his motivations Vaj is a much maligned person and I plan to correct this misperception. His excellence at retardedness is unmatched, really his record here speaks for himself. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > Ravi, > > > Forget all this. His is a ca

[FairfieldLife] Nooria

2011-08-01 Thread Yifu
http://image.trustedopinion.com/arian-nooria_photo-picture-gallery-1_400x400.jpeg

[FairfieldLife] Re: MEDITATION : A WAY TO APPROACH GOD.

2011-08-01 Thread Ravi Yogi
Hey - all I can say is Noor's a really hot chick, mind sharing your experiences with her rather than all these idiotic copy and paste. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tariq Aziz wrote: > > > > > > > > GOD IS LOVE AND LOVE IS PRECIOUS > Different Religions - Different Methodologies - Destinat

Re: [FairfieldLife] Video: Max Keiser "America will lose it's sovereignty"

2011-08-01 Thread Denise Evans
This was really interestingit's nice to have one's ego validated...in the sense that my opinion always was that, as a country, we should never have let the financial industry off the hook. I think Kaiser makes some excellent points.  Remember listening to the bank CEO's testify in front of C

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Raise your hands and step away from the conversation"

2011-08-01 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
turquoiseb: > Things Curtis said earlier left me pondering > (a good thing) my reluctance to get involved > in long, philosophical conversations... > 1064 words is short? LoL!!! > ...I've been on forums like this one for > some years. Not sure if deserves to be called a discussion forum!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardwillytexwilliams" wrote: > > RoryGoff: > > I was once given the mantra > > "OM Iswara thahara tis,"... > > > Mariska Hargitay! > * * Ha! In the interests of clarity, I should probably have used the revised transliteration, lengthening the penul

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, Judy, come on, play the game,

2011-08-01 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
Duveyoung: > Hey, Judy, come on, play the game... > So, how do you know her name is "Judy"?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > "OM Iswara thahara tis" > > emptybill: > This sounds Indonesian... > Pak Subud.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
RoryGoff: > I was once given the mantra > "OM Iswara thahara tis,"... > Mariska Hargitay!

[FairfieldLife] Iguazu Falls, Brazil

2011-08-01 Thread Yifu
http://www-math.mit.edu/~dav/brazil.dir/IM000209.JPG

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread Mark Landau
Thank you, noah, for these kind words. On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:37 PM, noah wrote: > > What an experience. How wonderful!! I know you are not in book-writing mode, > but I hope you keep these posts and make some notes about your life > experiences with MMY and on your own. They feel natural to you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread Mark Landau
Thank you, Ravi, yes, I'm hardening again, more loth to part with them, especially for a pittance. On Aug 1, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Ravi Yogi wrote: > Beautiful post Mark, love the reference to Ramayana's story on Bharata ruling > the kingdom with Rama's sandals. May be there is a significance in yo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread Mark Landau
Gee, that *would* be spectacular. Do I really want to go through that again? On Aug 1, 2011, at 2:57 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: > Good stuff Mark - Now you just have to wait for your crown chakra to explode > like a fountain, splattering bliss and light in every direction, blinding you > with love,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > > Unless of course old Monks molesting young western > > > babes is one of the missing "behaviorial rasayanas"... > > > > > Maybe so - your guru Trungpa, didn't have a problem with > > it, but the Sakyong Mipham is married to a Tibetan lady. > Vaq: > I am an admirer though. Go figure, huh?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread shukra69
unless you are a Brahmin, thats absolute not Maharishi's teaching. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shukra69" wrote: > > not for women or householders > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > > > > MMY advised against using "om" alone as a single mantra. > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread shukra69
not for women or householders --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > MMY advised against using "om" alone as a single mantra. > > > > A former MIU Sankkya-Yoga scholar pointed out to me that it was safe to > use if combined as part of a larger mantra string of phonemes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantra Meditation

2011-08-01 Thread shukra69
Sahaj" uses just one mantra, which if you feel you are in a quiet mind you can stop using, even if you realize it is not there. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > The Power of Mantra > > > > > > Contrary to > > public misinformation, techniques like Transcen

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread emptybill
Ravi, " … because it provides a convenient excuse to project their pain, shame, guilt and self loathing with sex" Forget all this. His is a case of ordinary jealousy and envy. No anguish there … just resentment. .. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Rowing to Doha-Scene 11-(was conflict in fiction)

2011-08-01 Thread Bob Price
The VW pulls up to the front of "Deja Moo-Internet Cafe" and our travellers pile out of the gas filled van. Inside the cafe our three Trekkie's head to the toilet with a duffie while T. Paul  orders an espresso and a hubbly bubbly pipe. Terry and the Zebra pull up a chair in front of a computer sc

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:58 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > !Found! The missing ethics in TM! > > > > Other than "practice the religion you learned at your mother's knee," you > > mea

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread Mark Landau
all of the below to Jim, hence my love of transparency, though I liked it before M, too to Ravi, if you only knew... to Rory, yes, indeed, but do you mind running that infra-red/ultra-violet thing by me again? I really didn't get it the first time. On Aug 1, 2011, at 1:08 PM, RoryGoff wrote: >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:10 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > Of course, the only research on TM they cite in that book is from 25 years > > ago, so one assumes that they are also quoting the descriptions of pure > > consciousness in the research don

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > (Alex, if you count each of my punning posts as two, I seriously > > will only be able to post 25 a week! I ask you homey, where is > > the heart in THAT?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:10 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > Of course, the only research on TM they cite in that book is from 25 years > > ago, so one assumes that they are also quoting the descriptions of pure > > consciousness in the research don

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread Mark Landau
Yes, I like this better (this more coincides with my experience) On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:34 AM, RoryGoff wrote: > Giving this "soul-engendered" idea a little more thought, Mark, perhaps it > would be more accurate to say "soul-revealed" -- as in, when Spirit and > Matter separate to form a gap at

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-08-01 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jul 30 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat Aug 06 00:00:00 2011 355 messages as of (UTC) Tue Aug 02 00:04:36 2011 34 authfriend 33 Buck 25 RoryGoff 23 Alex Stanley 19 whynotnow7 19 turquoiseb 19 Mark Landau 15 Tom P

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread Mark Landau
smiles and laughs, thanks On Aug 1, 2011, at 2:23 AM, whynotnow7 wrote: > [Maharishi] turned to me [on the flight] and said, "This is hell." > > To which you replied (in the spirit of the Letterman Countdown): > > #7: "Well, its no picnic sitting next to *you* either..." > > #6: "But I thought

[FairfieldLife] Kesey Rides Again

2011-08-01 Thread authfriend
This sounds like fun: Film Hitches a Weird Ride on Kesey's Bus By CHARLES McGRATH "Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place," a film by Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood that opens on Friday, is an exercise in what they call "archival vérité." It's a documentary that uses old footage to re

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread Bhairitu
Om by itself is useful to pacify vata (probably why it is added in the first place. By itself it would be an adjunct mantra that you would only use when vata is deranged though you can also use Ram for the same purpose. On 08/01/2011 02:48 PM, emptybill wrote: > MMY advised against using "om" al

[FairfieldLife] E8 Lie group chakra

2011-08-01 Thread Yifu
http://www.aimath.org/E8/images/e8.pdf

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantra Meditation

2011-08-01 Thread Buck
> > The Power of Mantra > > > Contrary to > public misinformation, techniques like Transcendental Meditation or Sahaj > Samadhi are not based on repetition. They utilize a much subtler science. > Om, so are Transcendental Meditation and Sahaj Samadhi effectively the same? The similar prac

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread emptybill
"OM Iswara thahara tis" This sounds Indonesian. I thought they were all Muslims. Except for the East Timors where they are Christians. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > Right. I was once given the mantra "OM Iswara thahara tis," and it works beautifully for me as a h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > (Alex, if you count each of my punning posts as two, I seriously > will only be able to post 25 a week! I ask you homey, where is > the heart in THAT?) Heart? I'm sitting here in my SS uniform, butching it up, and throwing my weight

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread emptybill
Willy Trungpa wasn't his guru because he doesn't have a guru. Freemasonry/Golden Dawn/Aleister Crowley - take your pick. He just reads this stuff and makes up the rest. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardwillytexwilliams" wrote: > > > Other than "practice the religion you learn

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rowing to Doha-Scene 10-(was conflict in fiction)

2011-08-01 Thread obbajeeba
Have to get caught up here. Been busy a few days. The VW got my attention. Our people are gonna talk, right? How ya doin? Mindless plug: Doti, the doti comes to mind. White fruit of the loom T's... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price wrote: > > The VW van speeds down the Abu Dhabi t

[FairfieldLife] DMT Experience

2011-08-01 Thread John
A psychiatrist explains: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-Dob80v7Y&feature=related

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread noah
What an experience. How wonderful!! I know you are not in book-writing mode, but I hope you keep these posts and make some notes about your life experiences with MMY and on your own. They feel natural to you, but really could inspire others. And you write about them with an ease and simplici

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Ravi Yogi wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:58 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ray Dolby - a TMer??

2011-08-01 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
Yes, he was in India. Wondered how he could reduce that residual tape hiss. His first product was called Dolby Signal-to-Noise Stretcher, later called Dolby A. He broke the audio spectrum of human hearing range into four bands. In each band if the signal fell below a certain level, its amplifica

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
Right. I was once given the mantra "OM Iswara thahara tis," and it works beautifully for me as a householder. (I find it really hits home if you sound it out in your heart a number of times quickly.) (Alex, if you count each of my punning posts as two, I seriously will only be able to post 25 a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau wrote: > [...] > > I had a more than interesting meditation this morning. I thought I'd share > > it. Instead of being the no-thing, I found myself being the crown > > chakra/love source/God being of my universe/all that is and isn't. [...]

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
Beautiful, beautiful, Mark! Many thanks for sharing this. As to being able to give everything whatever it needed, of course you can. In fact I would suggest that your're constantly doing it, whether or not you choose consciously to appreciate that in any given moment. I am so glad that you hav

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread Vaj
On Aug 1, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Ravi Yogi wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:58 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > !Found! The missing ethics in TM! > > > > > > Other than "pract

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread Vaj
On Aug 1, 2011, at 5:35 PM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: > > > Other than "practice the religion you learned at > > > your mother's knee," you mean? > > > > Vaj: > > Unless of course old Monks molesting young western > > babes is one of the missing "behaviorial rasayanas"... > > > Maybe so -

[FairfieldLife] Rowing to Doha-Scene 10-(was conflict in fiction)

2011-08-01 Thread Bob Price
The VW van speeds down the Abu Dhabi to Doha freeway.  It passes through one after another roundabout big enough to park a 747. The eight lanes of the freeway appear to  be divided into a super fast lane -for Arabs in high model number  Mercs with very low number license plates and seven other lan

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread emptybill
MMY advised against using "om" alone as a single mantra. A former MIU Sankkya-Yoga scholar pointed out to me that it was safe to use if combined as part of a larger mantra string of phonemes. When I received a meditation mantra from SSRS it included "om" as part of the phoneme set. BTW, i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:58 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > !Found! The missing ethics in TM! > > > > Other than "practice the religion you learned at your mother's knee," you >

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
turquoiseb: > Unlike you, I never claim that what I say is "true," > much less "truth." > So, is that the "truth", that you never say what you say is true? > It's just what I say. > That's what I say.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread Ravi Yogi
Beautiful post Mark, love the reference to Ramayana's story on Bharata ruling the kingdom with Rama's sandals. May be there is a significance in you having those sandals for all these years and all this drama with you trying to sell it. Existence works in mysterious ways. --- In FairfieldLife@y

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > Other than "practice the religion you learned at > > your mother's knee," you mean? > > Vaj: > Unless of course old Monks molesting young western > babes is one of the missing "behaviorial rasayanas"... > Maybe so - your guru Trungpa, didn't have a problem with it, but the Sakyong Mipham i

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Both posters overposted. There is no question of that. > > Both know it. One claims to have done it unknowingly. > > The other did it on purpose, IMO to make a point abou

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread Vaj
On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:58 PM, sparaig wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > !Found! The missing ethics in TM! > > Other than "practice the religion you learned at your mother's knee," you > mean? Hey how come Mahesh didn't follow his won advice would be my questi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread Vaj
On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:10 PM, sparaig wrote: > Of course, the only research on TM they cite in that book is from 25 years > ago, so one assumes that they are also quoting the descriptions of pure > consciousness in the research done 25 years ago. Not true Lawson, they used research up to 2004!

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Raise your hands and step away from the conversation"

2011-08-01 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > > > And how are your posts any less self-important than Robin's? My interest is > not God, not soccer, not movies, but people, their inner experiences. So I > enjoy your posts, Robin's and everyone else's. To clarify I'm a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > I admire your powers of self-expression in the service of > controversy, but I cannot follow you there,—this, after > discharging all of my irony. Robin, your irony discharge was definitive. If I'd been able to read it before I made my p

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
turquoiseb: > Don't really hope for any more such replies... > All you have to do is 're-mindfullness' yourself of a happier thought you once had, maybe about fifty years ago, then come out of your rut with more positive thoughts. LoL!!!

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau wrote: [...] > I had a more than interesting meditation this morning. I thought I'd share > it. Instead of being the no-thing, I found myself being the crown > chakra/love source/God being of my universe/all that is and isn't. [...] I think,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > !Found! The missing ethics in TM! Other than "practice the religion you learned at your mother's knee," you mean? L.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread whynotnow7
Good stuff Mark - Now you just have to wait for your crown chakra to explode like a fountain, splattering bliss and light in every direction, blinding you with love, binding your head and heart in warm bliss, and taking over your mind, your identity.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ma

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Raise your hands and step away from the conversation"

2011-08-01 Thread Ravi Yogi
And how are your posts any less self-important than Robin's? My interest is not God, not soccer, not movies, but people, their inner experiences. So I enjoy your posts, Robin's and everyone else's. I think being "self" important is awesome, because the other is just a myth, which becomes very

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread Mark Landau
On Jul 31, 2011, at 8:56 PM, RoryGoff wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau wrote: > > > > RG: In other words, we always start out in Ignorance, fully identified > > > with a given particle, believing the program, and then by remembering > > > it's only a story being run s

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Robin-- > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > > But if I have got this all wrong, turquoiseb, and this > > criticism of me came from hatred or jealousy or mischief > > or envy or just plain f***king aroun

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread Bhairitu
On 08/01/2011 12:30 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > Ok, that's it. As soon as Bhairitu can add pun detection to the post count > script, I'm going to have the script count pun posts as two posts. > Don't know about pun detection but I've been playing around with some Python scripts that read my FFL ma

[FairfieldLife] Ray Dolby - a TMer??

2011-08-01 Thread cardemaister
Motley Fool: Shh... hEaR that? Ray Dolby conceived the idea for a noise reduction system while meditating on an ashram in India. He was then a precocious graduate from Stanford with a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge University, working for the Peace Corps. Little did he know that by the mid-1

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread sparaig
Of course, the only research on TM they cite in that book is from 25 years ago, so one assumes that they are also quoting the descriptions of pure consciousness in the research done 25 years ago. L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Xenophaner

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > > I would ask all readers who disagree with turquiseb—and think of > me in very positive terms—to write in protest of this assessment > of me. I'll be honest, Robin, your writing style is not my cuppa tea. I find it excessively verbose

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > > > From what I heard, M told the Mother D

[FairfieldLife] Rowing to Doha-Scene 9-(was conflict in fiction)

2011-08-01 Thread Bob Price
The dinghy hits the beach and jolts Wally awake. Our enlightened Trekkie's jump out of the dinghy and  pull it out of the water. On the road above them with its motor running, covered in flowers and paisley patterns, is a 60's VW van. Out of the van jumps a big  man in desert camouflage looking no

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread Alex Stanley
Ok, that's it. As soon as Bhairitu can add pun detection to the post count script, I'm going to have the script count pun posts as two posts. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > And infraredi-whipped. The full range of existence. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Everything that's wrong with Hollywood

2011-08-01 Thread Bhairitu
Fun article in the NY Post about what's wrong with Hollywood and the new book by the creators of "Reno 911". Says what I've been saying about the Hollywood films for some time. http://nyp.st/qewURy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantra Meditation

2011-08-01 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > There are so many techniques. Generally they confuse people. That's why you are posting the list of all the different meditation-techniques going on in Fairfield from time to time, to point out how confused they have all become over th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: > > Seems to be a never ending discussion... Indeed ! This is what Maharishi wrote about " OM", take it or leave it. "Om" is the Mantra for the Sanyasi. The Sanyasi repeats "Om" "Om" > "Om". It is given to him at the time of 'Sanyas - Di

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Post Count Follies :-)

2011-08-01 Thread Ravi Yogi
Someone really does :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Aw, someone needs a hug - widdle beywee needs a hug. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > > R

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
And infraredi-whipped. The full range of existence. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > Based on Mark's posts it seems more like ultra-violated. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > I suspect after any close proximity to Maharishi for

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Three Gunas as Vedic Gods

2011-08-01 Thread Ravi Yogi
Based on Mark's posts it seems more like ultra-violated. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > I suspect after any close proximity to Maharishi for a number of hours, one > would feel as if x-rayed.:-) > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread merudanda
Seems to be a never ending discussion... thanks "wgm4u" for the reminder [:">] and MMY continues in accordance with Guru Dev's teaching : Do not live in a fool's paradise. "Select a path which will make you happier in your material life also. Do not live in a fool's paradise. Do not think that you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Mindfulness

2011-08-01 Thread Vaj
On Aug 1, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: > Show me the research on pure consciousness found during mindfulness. First of all you need to define the signature of pure consciousness. Scientists in the TMO think this is a real state, but I am not sure other researchers agre

[FairfieldLife] Do not live in a fool's paradise. was Re: Maharishi stopped using OM ...

2011-08-01 Thread merudanda
Seems to be a never ending discussion... thanks "wgm4u" for the reminder and MMY continues in accordance with Guru Dev's teaching : Do not live in a fool's paradise. "Select a path which will make you happier in your material life also. Do not live in a fool's paradise. Do not think that your suff

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