[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy Shadow

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, arhatafreespe...@... wrote: -- What a curious little story, reminds me of a German folktale. Can't remember the original title. I believe it was eventually turned into a folk play – perhaps something by Sachs. Said to be the sour

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proof MMY taught *Yoga-lite* for modernity!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The above is actually half right because it continues to assume there is an > experience or a "thing" called "me" that becomes something different than what it was before. The ego does "blank out," but it is not then re

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino : Astrological Interpretation

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > > Dear Friends of Astrological Varieties, > > > > Read the new forecast for August by visiting my website > > Astrological Varieties . > > Senator Obama may be avoiding Hillary Clinton but the st

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ring clarification.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Michael James Flatley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This gentleman is a Swami. An American born in India, who returned > at 16. Met MMY at 17, in '67. In '67, he lived in a cave with his > Hindu Guru in Rishikesh. His Guru introduced him to MMY before

[FairfieldLife] Re: GC, CC, XTC ... WOO!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Sunyata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since I just arrived, how would I know what you've heard before? How > does this justify your social rudeness? Answer: It doesn't. > > I've pointed directly at your behaviors sans Advaita and there have > been no intell

[FairfieldLife] Re: GC, CC, XTC ... WOO!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Sunyata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matrix ~ You've zero awareness of anything but your own ego which is > overshadowing this entire group, so it's safe to say that you're > projecting again. Why be so hard on yourself? > - This is clearly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intelligent Life in Fairfield?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Sunyata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I gave him an Angel who carries compassion karma. Let's see what > unfolds. ;) > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > > > Somebody needs some more dolphin-heart-crystal-love in > > his earth walking

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intelligent Life in Fairfield?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Sunyata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True indeed. GRACE (which is not a "state") doesn't give a flying fig > about spelling. You, MrFish-e-y, can be our dictionary, grammar check > and all other publishing 'errors' that you can conjure. No need to > bothe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Trancenet Alert!

> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mrfishey2001" > wrote: > > > > Perhaps at the > > moment we can do no better than "freely" and "willingly" – I think > further reflection would > > prove otherwise. --- In FairfieldLife@yah

[FairfieldLife] Re: Trancenet Alert!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kenny H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A very very big "so what" It was Maharishi's TM Movement, we > participate freely and willingly for whatever our reasons were and > still are for some. Some moved on, some found ways to make their peace > with the confl

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *** > > Beyond what we see usually as "sin" (and Iowa's economy is certainly > substantially based on cruel exploitation of animals -- even the corn > grown there is for animals who will be slaughtered) is th

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kenny H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I've been involved with the TM org. since 1969 in a variety of > fashions and decided, for once and for all, to 'get out" back in 1990. > This does not mean I've broken all contact, just outer contact.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bliss is Stupid

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > More seriously, the reason bliss is stupid is that it > an object of experience. When you experience bliss you > are in complete and total bondage to it. Bliss is just > an object of experience. Bliss is not liberation. > Bl

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's a more considered response: > > What is this "me" you talk about? Seriously, what is > it? Not conceptually, but phenomenologically; your > actual experience of it. > -- Your description stands. S

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sandiego108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mrfishey2001" > wrote: > > Yes, of course. But from what I understand Mr. Sandiego enjoys > discussing his experiences

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes, of course. But from what I understand Mr. > > Sandiego enjoys discussing his experiences > > of enlightenment. I was hoping that, in addition to > > the good fortune of commonsense and > > medical coverage, his

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- mrfishey2001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sandiego108" > > wrote: > > > > > > > no, but you can ki

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sandiego108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > no, but you can kill yourself as dead as any dead person, and remain > alive-- that's magical. As for all the other, materially based stuff > like shape shifting and flying, it looks like a complete waste of > t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 8, 2008, at 3:23 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > > >> > >> Yep the ego will always find such an experience alarming. And if the > >> person it is occuring to has this experience poorly integrated, it > >> leads t

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sandiego108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll answer this generally, so as to spare both of us numerous > examples. I was always an introvert, and still am by some > definitions (the definition I think suits my nature best is that an > introvert enjoys

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sandiego108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mrfishey2001" > wrote: > > - > > > > Appealing perhaps, but hardly unique. I may need more hatha yoga

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sandiego108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mrfishey2001" > wrote: > > -- > > Thank you. It would seem that enlightenment then, while lacking a >

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tertonzeno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ---Right-on! Neo-Advaitins make a big thing about not being attached > to (say, Kundalini signs); but neither are ignorant people attached > to those phenomena. The point is, one has to go THROUGH the signs. > Ho

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sandiego108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -- > Thanks for your response-- I'll give this another try: > > what is enlightenment, and more importantly, why should I want it? > > In a nutshell, enlightenment is lasting freedom, experienced

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sandiego108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mrfishey2001" > wrote: > > - > > > > "I enjoy discussing it with those who are interested in it.&q

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sandiego108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can rail and beat your chest and toss your insults around like a > chimpanzee, Barry. I'll just say that I have been consistent from > the beginning of my awakening, that I began talking about achievable > perm

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This thread reminded me of a recent email > exchange I had with a friend whose spiritual > group was visited by Jan Frazier, who has > written a book called "When Fear Falls Away." > In it, Frazier describes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shaken

> --- Roses Derise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Dear Fairfieldlifers, > > > > For the last couple of years I have been stunned > > again and again as I have, > > (in doing research what I thought was a book > > unrelated to government) > > discovered horrific things that are going on in t

[FairfieldLife] Peace dear Rauschenberg

"Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died on Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14rauschenberg.html? partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[FairfieldLife] Re: Metering Shakti, Tony Nadir

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does the poster have even a remote clue as to how ridiculous this is? What a complete little puppy-dog he must be. We should hire some zen master to beat him with one of those sticks to within an inch of his life! --- dhamil

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's perspective [was Re: making the rounds: another view of Deepak]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I watch the Raj Ram and the ruling council of the Global COuntry of WOrld > Peace, I wonder what happened. It brings me to one question I have had since my days as an MIU student. It seems that the Age of E

[FairfieldLife] Re: Realizing Brahma

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Samuel Gravina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I started reading your fine discussion list after Maharishi died. > I've never been one for gossip and now that I'm learning all these new > details I realize that I'm still not into it. Not because it isn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bevan's call to the dome & Satyanand quote...

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk" wrote: > > > > FW: Bevan's call to the dome & Satyanand quote... > > Bevan has transcended any sort of realism. > > Quite seriously, I've never heard anyone > in my life qu

[FairfieldLife] Re: New to the group

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "bwaytheatrediva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I only feel completely fulfilled and at home when I'm onstage. As > for my spiritual path, I do have some "psychic" abilities. I'm able > to communicate with cats and with people I knew who have passed on. >

[FairfieldLife] Re: New to the group

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "bwaytheatrediva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone. I'm 23 years old and I've lived in FF my whole life. I > have a huge amount of bitterness/hatred toward the TMO. It was shoved > down my throat from literally the moment I was born. MSAE was a kin

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi rape rumours

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.mirror.co.uk/showbiz/frontpageshowbiz/2008/02/07/maharishi-inspired- beatles-but-died-leaving-2b-and-rape-rumours-89520-20311413/ > Linda Pierce makes the Papers again... > Did anyone hear NPR this morn? They recoun

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi drops the body, reflections

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FW: > < > In remembering Maharishi, I think of the knowledge he has brought out > into the world, and I'm very grateful to him and I honor him. > > I don't personally feel like Maharishi's passing is an event to

[FairfieldLife] Re: My Experience with Creativity

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ben Gilberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I spent all last night trying to write something that would clarify what > creativity was. But I ended up deleting the whole thing. It was completely worthless. I made the mistake of figuring it out

[FairfieldLife] Betty Erickson's.... eats cake

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edg: '...you're policing society religiously. Wasting a virgin was symbolic that we give our very best to the god, but gimme a breakthis is the same concept of not eating the first piece of cake cuz it's Guru De

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kucinich a meditator

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mr. Fishey, > was your experience related to this incident? > http://online. wsj.com/article/ SB11992387208146 1417.html > - I've promised complete confidentiality. I do remember someone pouring a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kucinich a meditator

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From a friend: When Dennis was in Houston to give a speech at the Tx Democractic convention in 2004, I found myself in an elevator with him. I mentioned I was with the TM organization and I was glad to hear John

[FairfieldLife] Re: Question to Turq abt Judy

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mrfishey2001" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander > > wrote: > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Question to Turq abt Judy

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Well, Turq, maybe I shouldn't have been so polite about her gross misreading of Hamlet as a "family drama." Family drama is a modern TV genre, and far from Shakespeare, but it does say a lot about Judy to have

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lurk: Okay. I like Angela. I enjoy her posts. But is there any experience she hasn't trumped. Is there any subject matter where she has not had a deep inside connection. I really could stand some fact c

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since subtlety of meditation and the length or depth of meditation are measurable, presumably we can have some physical measurement. But can physical instruments capture the full breadth of what a person can experience? I th

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MMY's take on rishi, devata, and chhandas may be his original contribution to Vedic studies--I'm not qualified to judge that, but it does go a long way to explain the processes of the mind, and, by the way, it

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was merely reporting my experience. This experience leads me to suspect that consciousness is layered, but there is nothing in the experience itself that tells me that I'm experiencing the deepest layer. Consc

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My take on it may be philosophically puerile, but it seems to me that consciousness must be fundamental to creation, simply because if there were no consciousness, anywhere, of any sort whatsoever, there would effectivel

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm wondering whether OffWorld may be unaware that > "Have you stopped beating your wife?" - He beats his wife?!! What on earth --

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi-A Bal Brahmacharya.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote: > I was talking about Curtis via Mr. Fishey, Curtis is cool man!, he can > take it! > --- Ah yes, sweet Ffld. Life… I remember you fondly; lik

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi-A Bal Brahmacharya.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brahmacharya-A state of the individual where the life-force is always found directed upwards. MMY Gita appendix. Bal Brahmacharya-One who has practiced celibacy from childhood. Why is that significant? The prana (life-f

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mulholland Drive

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But the subject matter per se is hardly ever the issue. .. The artist is the subject matter, always. It is the only issue. .

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mulholland Drive

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just spent 2 hours watching David Lynch's > "Mulholland Drive". ... I don't believe many critic's know where to place Lynch's formula of obscurity = meaning. So open are the number of possible of interpretations

[FairfieldLife] Re: American Poverty in the News again

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is no shortage of atrocity in any country of our world. In view of the pissing contest between Curtis and Off about that, I guess I'd have to say that Edg has a point when he says "It's all about men."

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March Attachment Test :-)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lovely reflections anon. I confess to reading authfriend's post, albeit irregularly. Although thoughtful, they tend toward this unfortunate obsession with intellectual cleanliness. What insight they contain is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March Attachment Test :-)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "I have seen him behave online in ways I found quite repellent. "But if you can look past the goody-goody tone of his long dissertations, he has a real genius for explaining MMY's teaching, I think." "Huh, I guess we

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March Attachment Test :-)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh, hmm, you haven't read it yet, I gather. "My definition of poly is a little bigger than what a number of people think it is. Poly means 'many.' Amory means 'love.' We don't say polysexuality. We don't call our

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March Attachment Test :-)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Dean Goodman I've never met him, so I have no idea what he's like in person. I have seen him behave online in ways I found quite repellent. But if you can look past the goody-goody tone of his long diss

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mass. not ready for Kingsley's house?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, you wanted to bring up a lot of issues besides criticizing someone SIMPLY because they were wealthy/powerful. I never attempted to justify cupidity and neither did my friend nor his Sikh guru: Ah yes, error not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mass. not ready for Kingsley's house?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "YOu sure bounce around a lot. The point was about criticizing people because they are wealthy/powerful, period." Apologies - I thought my response direct and straightforward. To my mind we seem to be talking about t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mass. not ready for Kingsley's house?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Seriously, as one of the Sikhs once told a friend of mine: people are born into power and affluence by virtue of their past lives. Criticizing them for having such power and affluence serves no good purpose and only

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notice the swastika

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "India is the only country which can assume a parental role for every country of the world with this knowledge of the Veda, with this total knowledge of Natural Law, the Will of God. And everything is possible under the pr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notice the swastika

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Dharma Mitra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "There's more to a swastika, more generally a yantra, than it being a "symbol", icon or associative representation. Sadgurus come from time to time to refresh the siddha of yantras, including the swastika. It is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notice the swastika

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mostly in the West, and mostly out of ignorance of its significance as a positive spiritual symbol in many Eastern (as well as Native American) cultures. I'm in favor of reclaiming it from Hitler and restore it to i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notice the swastika

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Just because some idiot used it for twelve years in his "thousand year reich" doesn't mean that the cultures of Asia and America who have used it for years have to discard this symbol. The Klan uses a type of cross in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Iowa complaint -- Butler case

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Intelligent doesn't necessarily mean in touch with reality. The Bush admin is filled with PhDs. Many evangelicals who think they're floating up to heaven in the rapture any day now hold down jobs requiring g

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Art?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I believe he in in India now but I could ask for an update. He comes into my shop now and then for some help on some of his art projects. We don't agree on what art is as I would call a shiny new Kenworth truck art but we stil

[FairfieldLife] RE: What is art?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The operative phrase, of course, being "more often than not." Obviously there are exceptions. Moreover, liking "Velvet Elvis" paintings doesn't necessarily preclude being wowed by a Rambrandt. Individual tastes may

[FairfieldLife] What is Art?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "So are Charles Shultz comic strips art?" When asked once about a useful, workable definition for art Michael Peter Cain offered the following: "Art is that thing in human consciousness that resists explanation. Whe

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Spirituality?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Amen. I've observed two extremes in art; one you might call the "pure beauty" school and one you might call the "cathartic" school. The Pure Beauty school is like Monet's water lilies -- very pretty. The Ca

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Course Fees and The Real Goals of the Movement

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "1. Men and women are also smart. Stupid and smart coexist in human beings. 2. *Some* of the stupidity is gender-specific; other aspects of both stupidity and smartness is universal. 3. A woman's stupidity is *different

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Course Fees and The Real Goals of the Movement

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "I think it assumes only that men and women are stupid in different ways. The ways in which women tend to be stupid are proabaly no *less* stupid than the ways in which men tend to be stupid, but women's ways of being st

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Course Fees and The Real Goals of the Movement

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "I think it assumes only that men and women are stupid in different ways. The ways in which women tend to be stupid are proabaly no *less* stupid than the ways in which men tend to be stupid, but women's ways of bein

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Course Fees and The Real Goals of the Movement

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "The biggest drug problem facing the world today is not cocaine or heroin, but testosterone." A confession of stark honesty; particularly if the author is male. To have internalized such a belief exposes oneÕs obedience

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Sutras

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "May I take a stab at integrating your insights/realizations/ knowledge -- which btw, relate beyond point 3.3 -- into the perenial DRAFT FFL Sutras, v1.1?" An old story (and just a story) told many wa

[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO sues unrecertified governor

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "bmorry2000" wrote: I thought that TMO issues had priority here, sorry... Guess that I was mistaken... Uh, bmorry, I'm pretty sure the comment by mrfishey was sarcastic. Appar

[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO sues unrecertified governor

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "bmorry2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: scozzari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Recipient List Suppressed:; Subject: Lawsuit - TMO vs Scozzari Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:16:03 -0500 Mike Scozzari 2241 SW 15 St., Deerfield Beach 33442 561-392-5418 Home R

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Rid of Negativity -- Unburdening Yourself ... Counseling

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh go f*ck yourself you mood-making twit! Counsel this () Peter L. Sutphen, Psy.D. Licensed Clinical Psychologist Impulse Control Disorder Raja of Coconut Creek, Florida Kudos Peter. Post of the month.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yet another article- G harrison/Maharsihi

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "... but you can't reason someone out of something they weren't reasoned into.." Insightful phrasing Ð spot on. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Greetings from the disillusioned of the UK

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "MUM's chief lawyer, Goldman, thought things would be OK because he got some kind of assurances from higher-ups in the State Dept. that the pundits would get visas: In your case, evidently a number of lifetimes in sub-h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Greetings from the disillusioned of the UK

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Never attribute to malice what mere stupidity can explain. The TMO's strategy in seeking to build the pundit complex was faulty, not fraudulent. MUM's chief lawyer, Goldman, thought things would be OK because he got

[FairfieldLife] Re: Greetings from the disillusioned of the UK

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Ahh, another blast of uninformed (or possibly this is another lie, since the amount of money raised was made public) bullshit from the Archer bullshit factory. $2 million and change was raised for the pundit project, a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chopra's Books, was: Beatles "angels on earth"

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Chopra's writings were so popular that he is the one and only guy who has ever been on both the fiction and non-fiction best-seller lists at the same time (1995)." Yet another episode in BriganteÕs Orgy of the Incong

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can the enlightened make mistakes? was: Mon

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob Brigante writes: The centerpiece of Vedic culture is total awareness -- if you seek that, the ugliness you refer to goes away: i.e., stay tuned for the Sat Yuga. Tom T: Once one wakes up

[FairfieldLife] Re: Laughing With, At and At/With

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "...Just as you assumed that it was Ok to trash a book you've never read because of its pop-culture title. Elitists tend to think alike." My heavens we have struck a nerve. How youÕve divined from the pixels before

[FairfieldLife] Re: Laughing With, At and At/With

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Any idiot who had only read "Buddhism For Dummies" (and yes, there is such a book, and strangely enough it's actually pretty good) could come up with a dozen things in Bevan's talk that indicate he has neve

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ego in Enlightenment and Enlightened Ironie

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "To recap, I find it odd that you were taking exception to someone who made the observation that descriptions of life are less than the experience of life, itself. "As I said, this same observation is shared b

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ego in Enlightenment and Enlightened Ironie

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Again, what an odd, fishey thing to say..." IÕm sorry, I canÕt quite tell by your post what it is you find odd. - Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ego in Enlightenment and Enlightened Ironie

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "But experiencing in any state of consciousness is always greater than the narrative/model/theories/stories/words/formulas/etc. used to articulate/express that experiencing. There is a world outside of narrative (the postm

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ego in Enlightenment and Enlightened Ironies

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Howewer I find no reason to assume as a priori true that Peter is a gifted psychotherapist or that this is his stategy. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, double talk is just double talk, a hoax is just a hoax

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ego in Enlightenment and Enlightened Ironies

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "HAHAHAHA. Peter, the ever extending audacity of your doublespeak, and that of your pals, never ceases to amaze me. "There absolutely is no ego in E., but there is an ego in E. ... la de dah". Also the mark

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ego in Enlightenment and Enlightened Ironies

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, Anon, the only solution is to "get" enlightened and join the fun. But in all seriousness, the difference in expressions and attitudes regarding enlightenment are just the impact of That on different "mind-streams (if I

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM costs $3.30 a day for 2 years.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Is $2500 too much? It is, from any rational human point-of-view, but..." I havenÕt laughed this hard since joining... Whatever Fairfield Life is paying this guy it isnÕt enough. Priceless!! --

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoo Ray!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "For some reason I have an image of Tom P. looking like the wicked witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz saying, "Curses, spolied again! But just wait, my pretty, I'll be back!" Sad for such a delightful spirit as our wi

[FairfieldLife] Re: question about Maharishi's brothers, for Paul Mason or others

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand Paul Mason" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "So, as ever, a topic is derailed. MMY can disparage whosoever he pleases, cos he gets the slack. His lectures, his tapes, his videos can get edited to make him sound more balanced, but woe betide it if t

[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO threatens South Florida teacher and magazine

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "OTOH I feel MMY has a right to destroy his mov't or at least the TM part of it if he wants, and a copyright is a copyright" True, provided he was solely responsible for its development. This is the case, pr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Its Here -- Sort of.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "F**k Canada!" Always ironic, and rarely interesting, is this urgent need for the advanced mind to appear pedestrian. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fas

[FairfieldLife] Re: Peer Reviewed Journals -- the Good, Bad and the Ugly

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "To the TM enthusiast or the neurophysiologist, perhaps. However, the complexity and subtlety of these findings substantially mutes their impact on the public mind." Doubtful that, even with the foreknowledge of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is one of the clearest responses articulating the > condition of "I" after realization. It's brilliant. > Wondering what happens to the "I" in enlightenment is > like asking what happens to the knot after it's > unt

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi/Krishnamurti Food Fight

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IÕm not sure which scene I find more farcical, the enlightened master pouring soup over a rivals head, or the film director bemoaning a working world filled with negativity, after defecating the national stage with

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