[FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

2013-10-11 Thread turquoiseb
So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver, wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat, which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the bus with me. T

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Another Of My Usual

2013-10-11 Thread emilymaenot
Ann - yes, I've got a lot going on but sometimes I need a little comedic relief. Thanks for posting that equestrian video also; I enjoyed that perspective. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: I sent the elephant/dog video to my

[FairfieldLife] RE: Another Of My Usual

2013-10-11 Thread awoelflebater
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: I sent the elephant/dog video to my older daughter. She loved it. She'll love this one too. Hey Em, you're still close by. I see it takes the love of animals to bring you out in the open. I'll remember that. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoo

RE: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread emilymaenot
O.K. It works. Emily may not post often. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Second try. What I found most amusing about this conversation was that the article Share only apparently read the title of was by Daniel Goleman. LOL. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wr

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread emilymaenot
Second try. What I found most amusing about this conversation was that the article Share only apparently read the title of was by Daniel Goleman. LOL. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Share feebles: > Judy, if I were you, > with your various imbalances and delusions, I

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread emilymaenot
What cracked me up about all this was that the article Share apparently only read the title of was by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence she considers a "classic." LOL. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Share feebles: > Judy, if I were you, > with your various

[FairfieldLife] RE: Another Of My Usual

2013-10-11 Thread emilymaenot
I sent the elephant/dog video to my older daughter. She loved it. She'll love this one too. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: For I ran a tea house: Now this is an example of the joy and exuberance of activity. That orangutan is CRAZY!! https://www.facebook.com/photo.ph

[FairfieldLife] Another Of My Usual

2013-10-11 Thread Ann Woelfle Bater
For I ran a tea house: Now this is an example of the joy and exuberance of activity. That orangutan is CRAZY!! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201359076552535&set=vb.1042328132&type=2&theater

[FairfieldLife] ATT: Bharitu

2013-10-11 Thread judy stein
Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult (Reuters) - Switzerland will hold a vote on whether to introduce a basic income for all adults, in a further sign of growing public activism over pay inequality since the financial crisis. A grassroots committee is calling for all adults

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Sat 12-Oct-13 00:15:04 UTC

2013-10-11 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 10/05/13 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 10/12/13 00:00:00 564 messages as of (UTC) 10/11/13 16:14:25 59 Richard J. Williams 56 Share Long 53 Bhairitu 50 s3raphita 38 awoelflebater 36 turquoiseb 31 doctordumbass 31 Mich

[FairfieldLife] RE: Shamans and Don Juan Matus

2013-10-11 Thread s3raphita
I don't wish to be the bearer of bad news but if Carlos Castaneda is a hero of yours you might want to watch this BBC documentary "What happens when anthropology goes bad? The last in this series of great yarns from the world of anthropology is a story of sex, drugs and a long-lost body in the

[FairfieldLife] Nazi science

2013-10-11 Thread s3raphita
Nazi Germany led the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history. The Nazi anti-tobacco campaign included banning smoking in trams, buses and city trains, and raising the tobacco tax. The National Socialists also imposed restrictions on tobacco advertising and smoking in public spaces,

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Correction on the Confederacy

2013-10-11 Thread Michael Jackson
so a hypocrite much like Marshy - and by the way - read the articles of secession - On Fri, 10/11/13, Mike Dixon wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Correction on the Confederacy To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Date: Friday, October 11, 2

Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread judy stein
Share feebles: > Judy, if I were you, > with your various imbalances and delusions, I'm sure I > wouldn't want to last even as long as 10 > minutes! LOL.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Correction on the Confederacy

2013-10-11 Thread Mike Dixon
BTW , Thomas Jefferson, the author of those famous words, was a slave owner. From: Mike Dixon To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Correction on the Confederacy   Bingo! From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com" To: FairfieldLife@ya

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Correction on the Confederacy

2013-10-11 Thread Mike Dixon
Bingo! From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 8:02 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Correction on the Confederacy   On the slavery issue I've always wondered how one could say: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are cre

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Siddha Tradtions

2013-10-11 Thread Richard J. Williams
According to MMY in Beacon Light of the Himalayas' "For our practice, we select only the suitable mantras of personal Gods. Such mantras fetch to us the grace of personal Gods and make us happier in every walk of life." This statement was confirmed by Satyanand at a CCP I once attended in Berke

Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread Share Long
Judy, if I were you, with your various imbalances and delusions, I'm sure I wouldn't want to last even as long as 10 minutes! On Friday, October 11, 2013 4:30 PM, judy stein wrote:   Share bleated: > Judy, airhead or not, > I'm grateful to be me with all my strengths and flaws > rather t

Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread judy stein
Share bleated: > Judy, airhead or not, > I'm grateful to be me with all my strengths and flaws > rather than you with all your strengths and flaws. Well, of course you are. You'd last about ten minutes if you were me, because I don't hide from reality.

[FairfieldLife] Technology

2013-10-11 Thread Richard J. Williams
So, the Obamacare web site isn't working too well - what else is new? Sometimes it's hell working in IT - for years I tried to get the enrollment systems right at a major community college. When I first got there, they were enrolling students using paper and pen and long lines standing out in

[FairfieldLife] Why Republicans Should Be Very Afraid

2013-10-11 Thread jr_esq
Most Americans believe that the Republicans are to blame for the fiscal debacle we are having right now. This anger can carry to losses of the Republican encumbents in the next election. http://news.yahoo.com/why-republicans-should-be-very--very-afraid-192943188.html http://news.yahoo.co

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yaqui Vastu

2013-10-11 Thread Richard Williams
We are thinking about a modest home - one with an interior courtyard garden for the Zone of Tranquility. Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door: http://www.cococozy.com/ [image: Inline image 2] Spanish style hous

Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread Share Long
Judy, airhead or not, I'm grateful to be me with all my strengths and flaws rather than you with all your strengths and flaws. On Friday, October 11, 2013 1:10 PM, judy stein wrote:   Share wrote: > To me a headline Rich > People Could Care Less implies all rich people. It's > kind of sn

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count, was Post Count

2013-10-11 Thread Bhairitu
FYI, this is what the Python script uses: X-Yahoo-Profile: punditster That stays the same regardless of what email account, web mail or if you use the web site. I haven't had time to see if there was a way to parse that in PHP which is what the script Alex runs uses and if I did Alex probably

[FairfieldLife] Post Count, was Post Count

2013-10-11 Thread Richard J. Williams
What a refreshing reply - I thought I was trying to converse with just lurkers for awhile. Go figure. But, you'll have to excuse me for not getting around to replying to each and every posted comment here - with four grand kids running around, we keep pretty busy these days! About the Post C

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Pay As You Go Health Insurance

2013-10-11 Thread Bhairitu
On 10/11/2013 08:21 AM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Re "So, the first thing I would do if elected would be to create jobs that pay good money.": And just how do you intend pulling off that magic trick? It can't be done by fiat. Isn't it an inevitable consequence of globalisation that wage ra

Re: [FairfieldLife] Pay As You Go Health Insurance

2013-10-11 Thread Richard J. Williams
The key words in my message are "jobs" and "bring down the high cost of medical care". If people had jobs making good money, they could pay for their own healthcare. And, if the high cost of healthcare came down, people could afford health care. It's that simple. So, I am not totally against c

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Important Request

2013-10-11 Thread Dick Mays
Forwarded from: "Dr. John Hagelin" Dear Friend, For the first time in many years, our community is facing a CAFO threat west of Maharishi Vedic City. A 1200-head confinement is proposed 1.75 miles from the city’s border. But we are not facing this alone. Jefferson County Farmers &

[FairfieldLife] Shamans and Don Juan Matus

2013-10-11 Thread Richard Williams
They don't call Native Americans "Indians" for nothing, since they all came from Asia in the first place. Go figure. According to what I've read, a recent study of a 40,000 year old skeleton from China "showed that early modern humans present in the Beijing area 40,000 y ago were related to the a

Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread judy stein
Share wrote: > To me a headline Rich > People Could Care Less implies all rich people. It's > kind of sneaky spin, creating a harmful meme. Only to airheads like you, Share. Seriously, you've lived on this earth for 65 years and never noticed that you have to read at least some of an article or e

[FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Carlos Castaneda on self-importance and petty tyrants

2013-10-11 Thread punditster
There is only one problem with your claim: shamanism came to America from Asia, China, Mongolia, Siberia, and Alaska. There are numerous influences reflected in the New World shamanism of Don Juan Matus. Just like there is a strong shamanistic influence in the Bön religion in Central Asian, and

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread rajawilliamsmith
The Rajas mostly are just educational Rajas. One of my plans was the coupon concept which Maharishi liked so much, which I first thought of when I was about 12-13 years old. Maybe if I got my weight in gold , it would workout better. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: A yea

Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread Bhairitu
To free non-TM meditation workshops which take place over a weekend. The TM method of teaching is retro 1970s when people did things in the evenings. On 10/11/2013 10:44 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: *A year ago the only sector in the economy that was adding jobs was retail. Average fo

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread dhamiltony2k5
A year ago the only sector in the economy that was adding jobs was retail. Average for those jobs was $8.81 per hour for their average working day of six hours. Most working people work and live at or around poverty. Where do you send people to learn to meditate? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogr

[FairfieldLife] Smartwatch May be the Next Fad

2013-10-11 Thread jr_esq
I'm not sure if I'd buy one right away. But I'll be watching what the companies will be offering. This trend reminds me of Dick Tracy or the Predator--whichever suits your fancy. http://news.yahoo.com/galaxy-gear-review-what-it-does-well-174954150.html http://news.yahoo.com/galaxy-gear-re

[FairfieldLife] RE: New Pope uses old meditation practice..

2013-10-11 Thread jr_esq
I read this yesterday too. I was wondering what meditation technique the Pope was using. He might have started something new here. It may be a form of anapanasati meditation technique which I'm familiar with. It's simple and does not require a mantra. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.co

Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread Share Long
To me a headline Rich People Could Care Less implies all rich people. It's kind of sneaky spin, creating a harmful meme. Are the rich people on FFL uncaring and lacking in empathy? I don't think so. On Friday, October 11, 2013 11:25 AM, judy stein wrote:   Share wrote: > Buck, I'm object

Re: [FairfieldLife] Pay As You Go Health Insurance

2013-10-11 Thread Bhairitu
The problem is that health insurance companies, which were once non-profit, became for profit. I only carried "catastrophic" health care insurance with a high deductible before I went on Medicare which I also have set up that way. We pay a lot in federal taxes, why can't that pay for everyone

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Rent is Too Damn High!

2013-10-11 Thread Bhairitu
Okay, I have a Google Nexus phone, but it wasn't free but I didn't pay what the telcos say it costs when they offered it as a contract phone. I bought it direct from Google Play and they update the phone OS when the latest OS comes out (eat your heart out Alex). But I don't chatter much on ph

Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread judy stein
Share wrote: > Buck, I'm objecting to the word ALL because > I've known rich people who do care and poor people who > don't. LOL. You're the only person who used the word you're objecting to, Share. > And yes, I've read this article and recognize > that there are the tendencies. Which are, of co

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread dhamiltony2k5
They need to make it much easier to working people who look to start meditation. Like, pricing Transcendental Meditation to teach [More] meditators, -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Look, the bottom 20 percent of people live under poverty. The next 20 percent of workers

RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 11-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC

2013-10-11 Thread s3raphita
Re "I just hope you haven't been absorbed by the FFL Borg": "I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member " - Groucho ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Ok, Seraphita, I just hope you haven't been absorbed by the FFL Borg! --

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: World Wealth Levels

2013-10-11 Thread Bhairitu
Most people confuse communism with authoritarianism. Communism is just collectivism and can exist in various forms. For instance gangs are often collectives. That is kinda demonstrated in the US TV series "Sons of Anarchy" where the motorcycle gang is very democratic (they vote on things) an

Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread judy stein
Share wrote: > Buck, it's not my experience that ALL rich > people care less, nor that all poor people care more. I suspect you're the only person here who thought this is what Buck was saying. > I think such generalizations cause more polarizing which is > not IMO what is needed! You didn't b

Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread Share Long
Buck, I'm objecting to the word ALL because I've known rich people who do care and poor people who don't. And yes, I've read this article and recognize that there are the tendencies. On Friday, October 11, 2013 11:07 AM, "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com" wrote:    Jeez, did you read the article?

RE: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Jeez, did you read the article? The science shows rich people to enclave and thereby they tend to lack empathy for other groups while others live and work in community and consequently tend to live with more empathy towards others. That simply is the elements of the TM movement community also.

RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 11-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC

2013-10-11 Thread Share Long
Ok, Seraphita, I just hope you haven't been absorbed by the FFL Borg! On Fri, 10/11/13, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 11-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, October 11,

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 11-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC

2013-10-11 Thread Bhairitu
The Post Count doesn't track by member account names. That's because it previously wasn't available from the header and I'm not sure that it can be parsed with PHP. But Python can parse those and I modified the Python script which runs locally and parses the FFL mbox files on Thunderbird. He

RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 11-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC

2013-10-11 Thread s3raphita
Not the first - but the first I'd noticed as I only glanced at the list. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: But Seraphita, my duplication is NOT the first on the list, Richard's is! Ok, I admit it: MY knicks are in a twist! BTW, I don't remember that people snitched on others.

Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread Share Long
yes, but I was talking about my own experience rather than research. Also Mark Twain comes to mind: all generalizations are false, including this one. On Friday, October 11, 2013 10:48 AM, "s3raph...@yahoo.com" wrote:   Re "It's not my experience that ALL rich people care less, nor that

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 11-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC

2013-10-11 Thread Share Long
But Seraphita, my duplication is NOT the first on the list, Richard's is! Ok, I admit it: MY knicks are in a twist!BTW, I don't remember that people snitched on others. On Friday, October 11, 2013 10:44 AM, "s3raph...@yahoo.com" wrote:   If you mean your query: "So I'm wondering why only

RE: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread s3raphita
Re "It's not my experience that ALL rich people care less, nor that all poor people care more.": Yes, there's evidence showing that poor people are actually more generous with their money (proportionately) than the wealthy. In fact, one of the degrading aspects of poverty isn't so much that you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yaqui Vastu

2013-10-11 Thread Share Long
Thanks, Richard, nice topic. You may remember that some of the FF vastu homes are made of straw bales; some off the grid; some just eco friendly. I love this idea of building in harmony with the surrounding land. On Friday, October 11, 2013 10:40 AM, Richard Williams wrote:   Years ago

[FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 11-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC

2013-10-11 Thread s3raphita
If you mean your query: "So I'm wondering why only sharelong got your knickers in such a twist since both Richard's and Ann's names also appear twice on the post count list", the answer is the trivial one that as I haven't been religiously reading through those post count messages your duplicati

[FairfieldLife] Yaqui Vastu

2013-10-11 Thread Richard Williams
Years ago I was very impressed with the home designs of Buckminiter Fuller. I once visited Colorado to see solar, self sufficient homes. http://www.livingearthconstruction.com/ There's a nice house in San Antonio designed by the famous architect O'neil Ford: [image: Inline image 1] http://www.m

[FairfieldLife] RE: Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread s3raphita
Re "Of course M's decision to *withhold* TM from more possible initiates could have been a tactic to motivate those already Initiated to push harder for enlightenment since there would obviously be no more to come and the burden to achieve the Age of Enlightenment would then depend on the few

Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread Share Long
Buck, it's not my experience that ALL rich people care less, nor that all poor people care more. I think such generalizations cause more polarizing which is not IMO what is needed! On Friday, October 11, 2013 8:47 AM, "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com" wrote:    You know, Maharishi was very able

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The power nap: an alternative to TM?

2013-10-11 Thread Ann Woelfle Bater
This is totally the wrong video. That one sucks. This is the one I wanted to link to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVI4fyXo9cY&list=TLEr2mTnD_hFczwf7HOR6ut8p0FNSGtcaM On Friday, October 11, 2013 7:12:41 AM, "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com" wrote:   I ran a tea house wrote: Thanks Ann for yo

RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread Michael Jackson
and that was the kind of mentality they got from Marshy - ignore it if you like On Fri, 10/11/13, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Da

RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 11-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC

2013-10-11 Thread sharelong60
Seraphita asks a trollish question and then trollishly doesn't reply to a reasonable follow up. Go figure! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Re "There are a few posters who appear on the count list more than once . . . I replied once from the website because yahoo suddenly became

[FairfieldLife] Swami Khecaranatha: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 10/11/2013

2013-10-11 Thread Rick Archer
blog updates from Buddha at the Gas Pump published 10/11/2013 196. Swami Khecaranatha Oct 10, 2013 08:52

[FairfieldLife] RE: Pay As You Go Health Insurance

2013-10-11 Thread s3raphita
Re "So, the first thing I would do if elected would be to create jobs that pay good money.": And just how do you intend pulling off that magic trick? It can't be done by fiat. Isn't it an inevitable consequence of globalisation that wage rates in the developed and developing worlds will approach

RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Look, the bottom 20 percent of people live under poverty. The next 20 percent of workers live just at or above poverty. The next third of workers live just above that. These all are of the working poor. At 60 percent of the work force we are only yet at the shrinking middle class, at people who

[FairfieldLife] RE: Correction on the Confederacy

2013-10-11 Thread s3raphita
On the slavery issue I've always wondered how one could say: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" and then not automatical

[FairfieldLife] Pay As You Go Health Insurance

2013-10-11 Thread Richard J. Williams
Health care insurance is supposed to pay for your health care minus a reasonable deductible amount. Most people are on a group health care insurance policy where they work - they pay part and the employer pays part. Others are paying for health care insurance out of their own pocket. Sometimes

RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread dhamiltony2k5
A day's wage for a working retail worker, about $55. TM charges $1,500 to learn meditation. Kind of embarrassing. We're talking working people. A living wage: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/12/221741963/d-c-mayor-vetos-living-wage-law-targeting-large-retailers http://www.npr.or

RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Changes certainly can be made and it is time for the TM-Rajas in charge of the well-being of TM to make certain changes such that meditation should be much more widely taught. I just spoke with someone teaching at a Peace Palace in Chicago. Ditto elsewhere. They just are not teaching enough to

Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread Mike Dixon
Of course M's decision to *withhold* TM from more possible  initiates could have been a tactic to motivate those already Initiated  to push harder for enlightenment since there would obviously be no more to come and the burden to achieve the Age of Enlightenment would then depend on the few he h

[FairfieldLife] RE: The power nap: an alternative to TM?

2013-10-11 Thread awoelflebater
I ran a tea house wrote: Thanks Ann for your answer. My fist thought was, that I was a bit too snarky, sarcastic, so whatever I wrote - don't take it personal - but I think you already got that. Of course I have nothing against horses, they are beautiful animals, and even though I don't r

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rent is Too Damn High!

2013-10-11 Thread Richard J. Williams
There's an old guy I know who lives up in Austin - he has a Virgin Mobile 'pay as you go' cell phone. It's a Samsung flip phone - simple operation and it was free. Now that's better! When he needs to talk he can buy some minutes at the store - he can buy a $10 or $20 top-up card. The old guy i

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Correction on the Confederacy

2013-10-11 Thread Mike Dixon
Ahem Michael, slavery was a *states right* issue. It was written into the constitution that there would be certain states that would allow slavery, the *slave states*. Georgia was the one slave state that didn't want the issue in the constitution but Massachusetts would not ratify it without

RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread dhamiltony2k5
You know, Maharishi was very able to adapt course to circumstances as he went along. It is certainly time for the TM-Rajas to adapt course so the movement can teach once again. I am reminded of the time that Maharishi was in Fairfield as the Domes were being built. One morning he came in to the

[FairfieldLife] More fun for Dick and Jane

2013-10-11 Thread emptybill
Panchadasi III 32. It is for this that the Shruti in the passage “That Atman is ‘not this, not this’” negates all objects (having names and forms), but keeps the ‘that’ (i.e. Atman) intact. 33. The entire world (severally and collectively) that can be referred to as ‘this’ can be negat

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Bottom Line

2013-10-11 Thread awoelflebater
I saw this on Facebook also where I'm pretty sure you grabbed it from and it's a good one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/q71/1395310_693734637317680_1375673023_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-fr

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: New Pope uses old meditation practice..

2013-10-11 Thread Mike Dixon
It's called *Waiting on the Lord* From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 8:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: New Pope uses old meditation practice..   Filled with light. Sounds like a Quaker to me.   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.

[FairfieldLife] RE: MMY and Siddha Tradtions

2013-10-11 Thread emptybill
Both of these Sanskrit works mean "dark, black, blue". That means there is no intrinsic association of these sounds with Krishna or Kali. They are titles of these devas because that is how they are narrated in the Puranas. The associated meaning of these Sanskrit words relate to Krishna/Kali

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: The power nap: an alternative to TM?

2013-10-11 Thread judy stein
Iranitea wrote: > And to Judy: she doesn't know me at all, the life that I > am leading, she just tries to take an easy shot at me. And Ann is smarter than you are too. If you were as intelligent as Ann, it would have occurred to you that you, Ann, and I know each other only from what we write.

[FairfieldLife] Rick

2013-10-11 Thread Michael Jackson
Have a grand Birthday Rick, hope you have a great big cake! (But not a vegan one)

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: New Pope uses old meditation practice..

2013-10-11 Thread Michael Jackson
Excellent! Thanks Bucky! This means one doesn't need any kind of a mantra to not only get to the place of no thought, but to the place of great light too! On Thursday, October 10, 2013 11:24 PM, "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com" wrote:   Filled with light. Sounds like a Quaker to me.   ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-11 Thread Michael Jackson
And who made that decision to "create" the Rajas? Your much vaunted Marshy - says a lot don't it? On Friday, October 11, 2013 12:15 AM, "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com" wrote:   “Rich people just care less,” Well then, pretty obviously the TM-Rajas being pre-select for wealth are too remote to

RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 11-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC

2013-10-11 Thread j_alexander_stanley
No, when people showed up in the post count with multiple handles, it was their responsibility to add up the numbers and keep track of their total count. As a courtesy, I would often point out totals that were approaching 50. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Re "There are a few

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: So You Can All Relax Now

2013-10-11 Thread Share Long
Jason, my guess is that some psychiatrists speak about brain chemistry imbalances so that a prescription drug can be presented as the best solution. I actually think brain chemistry is an underpinning of mental illness. But I also think there are natural solutions that can be effective and witho

Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 11-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC

2013-10-11 Thread Share Long
Seraphita, the Moderator kept track of such details and the posting limit was duly enforced. What's curiouser, etc. IMHO is Neo vs Basic. 1) There are emails on my Basic list that are NOT on my Neo list! 2) Neo is way better for replying except it doesn't allow me to snip! 3) It seems that if 2

Re: [FairfieldLife] Drummerworld: top 15 drummers of all time

2013-10-11 Thread Peter Sutphen
Ringo? I think not! On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 2:46 AM, "cardemais...@yahoo.com" wrote:   in alphabetical order: Louie Bellson John Bonham Dennis Chambers Billy Cobham Vinnie Colaiuta Steve Gadd Roy Haynes Elvin Jones Gene Krupa Joe Morello Buddy Rich Max Roach Ringo Starr Dave Weckl Tony

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: The power nap: an alternative to TM?

2013-10-11 Thread iranitea
Thanks Ann for your answer. My fist thought was, that I was a bit too snarky, sarcastic, so whatever I wrote - don't take it personal - but I think you already got that. Of course I have nothing against horses, they are beautiful animals, and even though I don't really ride horses, I still meet

[FairfieldLife] Re: So You Can All Relax Now

2013-10-11 Thread Jason
> ---"awoelflebater" , wrote: > > Typical, I add a link and it clicks but takes you nowhere. > You'll have to just do it the hard way: > > http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Dozens+mental+disorders > +exist/

[FairfieldLife] The Bottom Line

2013-10-11 Thread turquoiseb
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