[FairfieldLife] Re: Radha Ma RIP

2011-03-08 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > A friend who is usually in the know of all things Thiru, just > > emailed me that Radha Ma http://www.gurusfeet.com/guru/radha-ma > > comm

[FairfieldLife] Re: Radha Ma RIP

2011-03-08 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > > > Turq, do you have a web site for the previous cutting > > and burning reports? Also, I wouldn't call it sociopathy, > > but more psychopathology. > > You're the expert on t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Radha Ma RIP

2011-03-08 Thread blusc0ut
as a very unique character, who didn't fit in any box, didn't pose as a guru, at least officially, yet seems to have been quite manipuative. I also have friends whom she really helped, she took personal care of an english friend, when he was sick, went to him to the pha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Radha Ma RIP

2011-03-07 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > A friend who is usually in the know of all things Thiru, just emailed me that > Radha Ma http://www.gurusfeet.com/guru/radha-ma commited self-immolation > http://richardarunachala.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/radha-ma-a

[FairfieldLife] Re: #5# Live With Christ

2011-03-07 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2011, at 4:52 AM, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > Now this is clearly the inward stroke of transcendence > > > >> futiles > >> and deceitful, and we proceed living abundantly > &

[FairfieldLife] Re: No Thoughts No Mantra No Transcendence

2011-03-07 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > blusc0ut: > > The soul is the Self is the Atman. And I can > > certainly assure you that the soul exists > > and can be awakened... > > > Maybe that should be 'Soul', n

[FairfieldLife] Re: No Thoughts No Mantra No Transcendence

2011-03-07 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > Bliss is an experience, it is not the "soul". What is the soul? There is no > soul in pure consciousness. You can't even say, "you" are pure consciousness. > Let's hear what your experiences are in this regard, not your concepts. See, t

[FairfieldLife] Re: No Thoughts No Mantra No Transcendence

2011-03-07 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > Judy, to make a distinction here between being the witness, > > or the natural state of being an observer and witnessING > > (I first thought you were making a joke about your mantra > > by capitalizING), is like hair-splittING, esp

[FairfieldLife] Re: No Thoughts No Mantra No Transcendence

2011-03-07 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: No Thoughts No Mantra No Transcendence

2011-03-07 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > Because the Self is NOT a state. Transcendence is a state. > > I don't believe I said the Self was a state. ??? No, you didn't say that, but you equated final transcendence with self-realization, and transcendence with 'No though

[FairfieldLife] Re: No Thoughts No Mantra No Transcendence

2011-03-07 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > This state of Being we call the 'Witness

[FairfieldLife] Re: #5# Live With Christ

2011-03-07 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paulo Barbosa" wrote: > > "Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also > live with him" (Romans 6:8). > > We, with Christ, die for the things of this world, Now this is clearly the inward stroke of transcendence > futiles > and deceitful

[FairfieldLife] Re: No Thoughts No Mantra No Transcendence

2011-03-07 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > > This state of Being we call the 'Witness'... >

[FairfieldLife] Flatuscendental Meditation

2011-03-06 Thread blusc0ut
Raja Harris and Raja Hagelin are happy to announce the long awaited re-vamping of the TMO: Flatuscendental Meditation * garanteed Chakra-free * now with an extra-dose of three gunas * be on auto-pilot 24/7 The new slogan of the TMO is: don't make~don't believe The David Lynch Foundation

[FairfieldLife] Re: No Thoughts No Mantra No Transcendence

2011-03-06 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > This state of Being we call the 'Witness'... Now tell that to Lawson, who thinks I am already out of transcendence if I witness.

[FairfieldLife] Re: No Thoughts No Mantra No Transcendence

2011-03-06 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > > The Self is not seen or realized by transcending - which is > > the activity of thinking diminishing into silence/stillness. > > Check. (But it is "the temporal perio

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-05 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > > If you think its not OK, then you have missed the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-05 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-05 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > Chakras, Soul, are not mentioned in the argumentation of > > Lawson and Judy. If you mention them, they ignore it as > > if you hav

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-05 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Mar 5, 2011, at 5:11 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > >> > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > >> > >>> On the face of it, it isn't at all impossible

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-05 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > If you think its not OK, then you have missed the point. As MMY points out, > at least according to HIS theory, you can fail to "transcend" (no thoughts no > mantra) every time you meditate until your last meditation before > enlighte

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-05 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > I am not speaking of noisiness. In TM it was embedded > > in a cycle. and it was much shorter. I also did not > > call it PC pe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-04 Thread blusc0ut
kras? > > How do you discriminate at all if you are in PC? > > SIghs and shakes head. > > > L. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrot

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-04 Thread blusc0ut
flatuscendence , Lol you nailed it --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > Yep, while the wiki rishi-s have the highest state and know everything, > the "almost" highest rishi-s can see but cannot describe. > That's because they still have the remainders of flatuscendence

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-04 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Mar 4, 2011, at 2:53 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > For heaven's sake. How do you know that they are chakkras? > > > > How do you discriminate at all if you are in PC? > > > > SIghs and shakes head. > > > I believe that's why he's asking i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-04 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > I am sorry that this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-03 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > blusc0ut: > > We don't want to give Judy a shock, just in > > case her mantra is on here, but we know it > > is not right? > > > So, if you're a Sanskrit reader, why is it t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-03 Thread blusc0ut
Willy, this is all the same syllable Om in different Indian language scripts. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > blusc0ut: > > We don't want to give Judy a shock, just in > > case her mantra is on here, but we know it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-03 Thread blusc0ut
We don't want to give Judy a shock, just in case her mantra is on here, but we know it is not right? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > OM sweet OM :-) [The significance of Aum or Om - Page 4 - IndusLadies]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-03 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Mar 2, 2011, at 7:56 PM, blusc0ut wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > >> > > > >> Dyeing the cloth comes from Shankara. > > > > Y

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-03 Thread blusc0ut
son they don't use OM. Yet it's clear he meant all Bija mantras. > > >> Yes? Where exactly and in which context? I read a lot of Shankara >> > but never encountered it. He said that no mantra can make you free. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoog

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-03 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:56 PM, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > Yes? Where exactly and in which context? I read a lot of Shankara but never > > encountered it. He said that no mantra can make you free. > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-03 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:30 AM, blusc0ut wrote: > > > As we know, Maharishi called the transcendence occuring in TM 'hazy' or > > relative himself, as they are quick dips inside, certainly pleasant and >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-03 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Yes, it is. You're suggesting I'm all mixed up about > transcending and am not experiencing what I think I'm > experiencing. You certainly experience what you experience, and the value it has for you only you can ascertain. But abo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-03 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: I am sorry that this is your impression. But you should consider that I said this to Lawson, and that he jumped on the thread as they were in the end of the message view, without really having the whole context of our discussion. > I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-02 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > When I close my eyes bef

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-02 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > Dyeing the cloth comes from Shankara. Yes? Where exactly and in which context? I read a lot of Shankara but never encountered it. He said that no mantra can make you free. > And the drawing back the bow metaphor isn't MMY's either as

[FairfieldLife] Re: A checklist of psychological traits (was: ...if Maharishi was just a guy)

2011-03-02 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > > authfriend: > > I think effortlessness is *the* key to TM, the absolute > > bottom line, what makes the difference between TM > > working and not working. I say this because it makes > > perfect sense to me intellectually, but much

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-02 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > But that's just an analogy. You didn't even get to *real* > > transcendence, so how can you make it permanent? There is > > no way you can *do* anything about it. This would be like > > aiming an arrow at a goal, you don't even kno

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-03-02 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > When I close my eyes before starting to meditate, I > immediately begin to transcend, in the sense that thoughts > become more subtle ("Do you feel some quietness, some > silence?"). And then I pick up my mantra at the level my > thoug

[FairfieldLife] Re: Double Attention and Two Minds

2011-03-02 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > I mentioned this before. Maharishi devoted an entire evening expounding on > Gurdieff/Ouspensky. His talk was condensed into a tape I saw on a > residence course and during an advanced lecture. Maharishi said that he was > listening t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Double Attention and Two Minds

2011-03-02 Thread blusc0ut
d musical value and specific human > verbal sound). Very good describtion. > > Japa is a process to maintain continuity of the surface level of mental > perception with the sound-form of a mantra. Japa can also arouse > attention to the "referent" of the mantra just like

[FairfieldLife] Re: Double Attention and Two Minds

2011-03-01 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > Since we are having this discussion here about splitting > > the mind, and the topic of Gurdjieff came up, as an example > > of pra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Double Attention and Two Minds

2011-03-01 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Mar 1, 2011, at 6:41 AM, blusc0ut wrote: > > > Since we are having this discussion here about splitting the mind, > > and the topic of Gurdjieff came up, as an example of practises > > *not* to do in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Srikanta Bharati Swami's write-up on early days w/MMY, first ever TTC, meeting w/ Guru Dev

2011-03-01 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > innumerable times He would simply not get in the car, on the boat or on the > plane, not because the bodygyards told him not to but because the timing > wasn't right or perhaps it was unsafe to do so. Very convincing argument: th

[FairfieldLife] Double Attention and Two Minds

2011-03-01 Thread blusc0ut
Since we are having this discussion here about splitting the mind, and the topic of Gurdjieff came up, as an example of practises *not* to do in TM theory/dogma, I think it's worth having a second look on it, what it actually means from a proponent of Gurdjeffs teaching. It is easy to misinterpr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-28 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > As I said, I don't know whether the description was > accurate. > > But in this context, it makes no difference. Well, giving an example, like this of the Gurdjieff disciples stopping in midst activity, to remember the self, is obv

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Strange Power of the Placebo Effect

2011-02-28 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Strange Power of the Placebo Effect

2011-02-28 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > I cannot speak for Judy here... > > > > Au contra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-28 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > No, I'm asking what it means to be "in" a chakra. I've > never heard that terminology before. Is it the same as > having a chakra open? I hesitate using words like chakra open, as I don't know if it's fully open. It's my way of relat

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Strange Power of the Placebo Effect

2011-02-28 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Good overview. My only complaint is that in "Professor > Funk's" list of the different types of placebos (pills, > creams, injections, surgeries, drinks, and even buttons), > he leaves out meditation and other common self-improvement > t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-28 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > Would you say one could do TM, as it's supposed

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2011-02-27 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool wrote: > > > > > The movement continues to fascinate, though I left it all in 2002 for > > VortexHealing. > > So you know Ric Weinman? If yo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2011-02-27 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > > > The movement continues to fascinate, though I left it > > > all in 2002 for VortexHealing... > > > > blusc0ut: > > So you know Ric Weinman? If you meet him, greet hi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2011-02-27 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool wrote: > > The movement continues to fascinate, though I left it all in 2002 for > VortexHealing. So you know Ric Weinman? If you meet him, greet him from me, he is an old friend of mine. He told me about the vortex once in a restaurant, wh

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it be so bad if Maharishi was just a guy?

2011-02-26 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Walking my dogs this morning, I think I found a new way > to look at this seemingly eternal, " Now, if Barry just would have done japa, while walking his dogs, instead pondering about things TMO or FFL, he couldn't have enriched our li

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-25 Thread blusc0ut
7;s what it is all about. > Hmmm … it is just so obvious, is it not? > > ** > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" empt

[FairfieldLife] Re: The 24 hours of Bliss Program

2011-02-24 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of blusc0ut > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 5:44 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLif

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-24 Thread blusc0ut
not for anyone > > > > to practise, but it is certainly possible. Maybe Vaj knows > > > > what I am talking about, I am sure Rory would. > > > > > > Can't comment on this at all. > > > > blusc0ut: > > Judy, you ask all kind of que

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-24 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > FYI ... > > Sahasra + ara = sahasrāra or sahasraara > > sahasra = 1000 > > ara = a radii or a wheel spoke > > > Therefore ... sahasrāra or sahasraara literally means a thousand > radii or spokes, which was why it was chosen fo

[FairfieldLife] Re: The 24 hours of Bliss Program

2011-02-24 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of blusc0ut > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:26 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [Fairfiel

[FairfieldLife] The 24 hours of Bliss Program

2011-02-24 Thread blusc0ut
During this discussion on japa memories get revived. At a time in the mid 80ies Maharishi spoke a lot about a 24 hrs bliss program, at the course in Noida, in India. Speaking to the course participants, all long term and advanced meditators, he would tell them that they are now on the 24 hrs bli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-24 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > G*M*AB. Breathing and heartbeat are contr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-24 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > blusc0ut, I didn't fully make my point in what I quote > below, so I'd like to elaborate a bit. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > &

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-24 Thread blusc0ut
ction and you attach them to whatever experience/practise you may have had. I think one could also see this clear with the whole scientology tschick. It's hard to get it out of the head. As one teacher of mine said once: the more you learn, the more you have to unlearn. > --- In Fairf

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-24 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > > > I may be in the S

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-24 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > And speaking of the tres gunas, here is rare video > footage of them "doing" in action: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJmesqycoQU Barry, you don't have a clue! These are of course not the tres gunas, this is only what amateur sp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-23 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > I may be in the Sahasrada chakra as well, which, I found > > gives me an added attention span, actually a higher > > ability to concentrate. I just mention it, not for anyone > > to practise, but it is certainly possible. Maybe V

[FairfieldLife] Re: Belief required?

2011-02-21 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Among the Wikileaks TM documents is one titled "Intro > Lecture new points, April 2005." The Wikileaks page is > here: > > http://www.wikileaks.ch/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation_confidential_Intro_Lecture_new_points,_April_2005 > > h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-21 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > G*M*AB. Breathing and heartbeat are controlled by the > autonomic nervous system, not the thinking mind. Many routine activities are also controlled automatically, without the involvement of the thinking mind. Take walking as an exa

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-20 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Feb 20, 2011, at 3:21 PM, cardemaister wrote: > > >> I prefer the earlier Natha word, sama (sama), sameness of experience, as > >> it does not necessarily mean retracting into oneself, but includes an > >> open-eyed unity of integrated

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-20 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Vaj wrote: > > > I've often felt the same thing. I thought there could be great promise in > > marrying "Maharishi Vedic Science", which is a college level expansion, with > > practices of yoga and Vedant

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-20 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > > > The South Asian practice of "Japa Yoga" is a form of > > > concentration, the rationale being to divide the mind > > > into a duality, to *isolate* the Purusha. > &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-20 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > There may be good reasons why "dividing the mind" is > OK with these practices. GMAB, it's NOT 'dividing the mind'. For example routine procedures do not require attention, or very little attention. If that wasn't so, even breathin

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-20 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Feb 20, 2011, at 9:54 AM, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:13 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-20 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:13 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > When I learned mantra-yoga from others after TM, they taught that > > ajapa-japa: effortless constant "non-repetition" mantr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-20 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > > > Yes, I know, but the mechanics is that pure awarenes is > > > there along with focus and activity. That shows that they > > > can co-exist. And remember what i wrote on a previous post > > > today, that MMY taught the puja as a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice of TM

2011-02-20 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@ya

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-20 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > That said, it was just a rough analogy. The diffe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-19 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, &qu

[FairfieldLife] Re: NAMAH OR NAMAHA

2011-02-19 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > > > The most important secret: don't say this stuff out loud > > > if you plan on using it in TM practice

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-19 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:34 PM, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > > > > Talking to a cell phone or to another passenger is not really the problem, > > but handling a phone, effectively looking away from the traff

[FairfieldLife] Re: Belief required?

2011-02-19 Thread blusc0ut
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > Otherwise he is not respecting the knowledge and what it > > can do. To say he will only start if it is free is like > > saying he does not believe it. > > > > Does this mean you have to believe for it to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-19 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > > How about some Truth in Definition: > > > > How do you "divide the mind"? > > Another word for it is "multitasking." Humans > aren't always good at it, depending on th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eyes Wide Open Mantra Practice

2011-02-19 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Feb 19, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > > > It doesn't divide the mind. It is part of a lot of other traditions and > > helps for developing nirvikalpha samadhi (known elsewhere as UC). We > > teach this in my tradition even with

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pentagon Meditation Technique (PMC)

2011-02-19 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2011-02-19 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > It almost seems as if the three gunas are telling them > to STFU. :-) Well, I think the gunas don't like to be exposed. They want to keep the show running. If you make a movie, you don't remind the audience that it's just a movie,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Belief required?

2011-02-19 Thread blusc0ut
Great find Carde. So belief isn't really a bad thing, they just forgot to tell us. Probably a result of the over-scientification - like a few other things. Wasn't this one of the axioms, that its either belief or science, like belief means you don't know, and know is here experience. But actuall

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pentagon Meditation Technique (PMC)

2011-02-19 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jpgillam" wrote: > > > > I wonder what prompted them to use the word "eugenic"? > > It doesn't apply, and its connotations are horrific. > > That puzzled me as well. The PeaceMakers Institute, o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Belief required?

2011-02-18 Thread blusc0ut
so we are at square one. > How the TMO thinks they are attracting people and all that is not of any > interest to me. If it was I 'd still be in contact with them.:-) It just caught my eye. There is nothing that needs upset you about it. But I can call a spade a spade. > ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: NAMAH OR NAMAHA

2011-02-18 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > The most important secret: don't say this stuff out loud if you plan on using > it in TM practice. The Rajas might hear and not approve of it!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Learn To Meditate Without Joining A Cult

2011-02-18 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > I "mix and match," using a variety of techniques I have > learned over the years. Some are effortless (and in fact > more effortless than TM in that there is no mantra or > meditation object to start with or "come back to"), and > some

[FairfieldLife] Re: Belief required?

2011-02-18 Thread blusc0ut
Y that, NOTHING else. Otherwise a good experience is just a good experience. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > Otherwise he is not respecting the knowledge and what it can do. To say > > he will only start if it is free is like saying he does not bel

[FairfieldLife] Re: Belief required?

2011-02-18 Thread blusc0ut
20 mins sutras, The rest of the time. > Are they doing two rounds or extending meditation and sutras? Nope. > --- On Fri, 2/18/11, blusc0ut no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: > > From: blusc0ut no_re...@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Belief required? > To: FairfieldLife@y

[FairfieldLife] Intro lecture, anyone?

2011-02-18 Thread blusc0ut
hat I loved to do intro lectures, right after I was initiated, and played around with the Fuiggi points quite a bit, so it's an old passion. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > Otherwise he is not respecting the knowledge and what it can do. T

[FairfieldLife] Belief required?

2011-02-18 Thread blusc0ut
Otherwise he is not respecting the knowledge and what it can do. To say he will only start if it is free is like saying he does not believe it. Does this mean you have to believe for it to work? Is this the reason, why the intro lecture sounds like an ad? >From Governor Recertification Course Overv

[FairfieldLife] Re: Learn To Meditate Without Joining A Cult

2011-02-18 Thread blusc0ut
counterproductive. But of course the disciples can have experience of shaktipath, and you can observe of seeing signs of this in them. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Blame this one on blusc0ut. He made a very sincere post recently in > which he asked what I

[FairfieldLife] Re: In memoriam: JOYCE COLLIN-SMITH

2011-02-17 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > Is Joyce suggesting that MMY kept the skin in > his room and did something to a female while > sitting ON the skin in front of a picture of > Guru Dev? What I'd suggest is to make a DNA probe of the skin.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The TM Learning Process, or The Road To Fundamentalism

2011-02-16 Thread blusc0ut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > From what I've read, Barry was in the TMO for two years > before he got kicked out by Jerry Jarvis for promising > students "enlightenment" in 5-7 years. That's not fair. They should have given him at least 3- 5 years more, to see if

[FairfieldLife] Pentagon Meditation Club

2011-02-16 Thread blusc0ut
Lorton Transformation Project This project was an exercise in collective consciousness to simulate an end to hostilities in the Middle East. Cellblocks in a maximum security facility represented different Middle Eastern countries. One senior official claimed that no assaults occurred in the maxi

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