[FairfieldLife] Road Trip

2006-08-01 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes: snipped Road Trip time. I'm taking August off from reading and posting to *all* of the Internet forums I have been participating in, not just FFL. With any luck I will not return to any of them. Thanks to all here for being one of the catalysts to make me realize that I need

[FairfieldLife] Re: Burbling Globules of Bliss

2006-08-01 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Rick Archer writes: Snipped So you either have to compromise your principles, or lie, which should compromise your principles, which I suppose is an appropriate requirement from an organization that doesn¹t have any principles. Tom T: Patanjali (Alistair Shearer version) Chapter 2 vs 36: When we

[FairfieldLife] Re: Road Trip

2006-08-01 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
heshiepothead writes: (snipped)commenting on Judy It's a stream of constant criticism and rebuttals and invalidating comments and you seem to have a need to always be right. Tom T: Judy would rather be right than be loved. You can't have it both ways. Choose one or the other. To subscribe

[FairfieldLife] Ho'oponopono

2006-07-27 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Dr Pete writes: Yes, and the flying sutra allows us to gently lift-off and fly through the air with the secondary effect of purifying world consciousness. Tom T: And you still believe there is an other? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/gr

[FairfieldLife] Martyrs (was Re: Voodoo TM or TM Program)

2006-07-18 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes; snipped > Well said, Jim. This is something that people who > live in our time and were raised in the affluent > West really don't understand. I've often thought > that the best thing that could ever happen to > America and Americans is to have some kind of > "compassion draft," i

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi said....."

2006-07-11 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquoiseB wrties (snipped) I'm a bit of a hard case on this subject :-), but I think that trusting *anyone* more than you trust yourself is the culprit here. The problem is not in trusting Maharishi and what he says more than you trust your own perceptions, it's trusting *anyone* -- any authority

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paranoia as cult bonding mechanism

2006-07-10 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquoiseB writes (snipped big time) Since many of these well meaning students have bought into "the enlightened can do no wrong" Kool-Aid, and because they consider their teacher enlightened, Tom T: >From todays 7/10/06 funnies Mother Goose and Grimmy on Kool Aid http://www.grimmy.com/comics.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paranoia as cult bonding mechanism

2006-07-10 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Jim Flanegin writes snipped >From personal experience, I can say that what Maharishi provides is the complete package for Self-Realization. Is there more after that? Of course. However, let us first get out of prison, and then after that we can explore everything else the world has to offer. T

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-19 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
To Be Free will only cost you every concept and belief you hold to be true. Will. It will happen just wait. Tom T Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Hik1AB/bOaOAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Wars

2006-06-13 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes snipped: Life is *full* of contradictions. So, as far as I can tell, is enlightenment. Before enlightenment, Chop Suey and contradictions; after enlightenment, Chop Suey and contradictions. And occasionally a side order of General Tsao's Chicken, just to spice things up. Tom T:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-12 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Jim Flanegin writes: Contrasting premonitions with intuitions, premonitions feel as if they are sensed from the inside out, whereas intuitions come from the outside in. At least that is the way I experience them. Tom T: It is like that statment you may have heard said here. When one wakes up wha

[FairfieldLife] Quandary

2006-06-01 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes snipped: So that's the quandary. Do I send him some money, in honor of his enduring faith and the fact that he still has faith in a faithless world? Or do I not, knowing that from another point of view he's a spiritual teacher addict, and I'm essentially one of the people enabl

[FairfieldLife] Beliefs

2006-05-24 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
>From the alistair shearer translation of the yoga sutras of Patanjali Chapter 2 vs 37. When we are firmly established in integrity, all riches present themselves freely. In a conversation with a friend going through a difficult time it became clear to me that holding any belief as valid or true

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorguiseB writes snipped: Diggin' in the dirt looking for the cause of darkness is fine if that's your predilection in life, but I've had remarkable success with just turning on the light, and I'm not going to write that experience off just because others haven't. Tom T: I guess I have not mad

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes: snipped One could, if one swung that way, claim that beliefs are addictions. However, given that claim, to claim that 98% of the US population is 'addicted' means, statistically, that everyone over the age of three is "addicted." The theory itself might be interesting if you sw

[FairfieldLife] quiseB writes:

2006-05-23 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-23 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes snipped: Just following up because I think it's an interesting subject, I think that the key to the above point of view is in the last sentence. That is, one tends to view the world in terms of one's own experience. The author in question had problems with addiction; there- fo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fundamentalist or reconstructionist med

2006-05-22 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
blissbunn1 writes snipped: Whoever  asked about how many meditators, siddha's, teachers yadda yadda had abusive childhoods is on to a very illuminating thesis. Do you think a study like that could be included in the collected research on TM? Tom T: >From my 12 year experience in Alanon 12 step

[FairfieldLife] Re: My Pain, My Brain

2006-05-16 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
New morning blanket et all snipped I am curious about your comment. It implies  that you see some great rudeness, nastiness or sin in my comment below. I don't see it. Indeed it was a bit imitative of Barry's style -- a quick smirk of a comment -- (perhaps deserving of a smiley face) building on

[FairfieldLife] Re: My Pain, My Brain

2006-05-16 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB Snipped Dude, I took your new screen name at face value, and took you out of the Pissant Bin long enough for one test reply to see if you really had turned over a new leaf. Won't make that mistake again...back in the bin you go. :-) Tom T Ed Zaktely. Some things never change. We cha

[FairfieldLife] Re: My Pain, My Brain

2006-05-16 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Jim Flanegin writes snipped My attempts to describe IT, the Self, always feel like making love, Yoga, Union. Rather than pushing IT away, attempts to describe IT, whether verbally, or through art, or movement, are like mini-vacations from the dedicated tasks of everyday life, where I can focu

[FairfieldLife] Re: My Pain, My Brain

2006-05-16 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Jim Flanegin writes Snipped: IT is the simultaneous phenomenon, and all the causitive correlates are IT also. In the second case, IT causes itself. Again, we are fooled into thinking we are the cause of IT, when in fact, IT is the cause of IT. We just don't realize IT when we are fooled in

[FairfieldLife] Re: My Pain, My Brain

2006-05-16 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes snipped I honestly think that what you're *hoping* is that the description of enlightenment can be internally consis- tent and logical, so that you can "understand" it using the rational mind. And you hope that despite the fact that most of the enlightened throughout history ha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Advanced Tehniques...

2006-05-16 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquoiseB writes: sniped I'm being honest here, not contrary. I never subject- ively perceived any value whatsoever in any of the "advanced techniques" I received while part of the TM organization. I think they are and always were an mechanism to charge people more money, Tom T; Yes agree on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Democracy Has Failed

2006-05-10 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes: snipped I guess it's fun, if you get off on that sort of thing, but another kind of dialogue consists of each person presenting his or her view, followed by others who present *their* point of view, but without trying to rip the first poster a new asshole. Those who compulsiv

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes

2006-05-02 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes snipped final para I'm not going to pursue this whole subject here any more, though. There is just too much resistance on this forum to presenting the taking-an-active-role- in-your-own-realization approach. It's just a waste of time to talk about it, because the decades of i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes

2006-05-02 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Jim Flanegin writes: snipped Those who experience liberation also know that as significant as the state is, there is always further knowledge, further experience, further integration occurring. I like to refer to the state of liberation as one of finding vs. seeking, a description that impli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes

2006-05-01 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy Stein writes: snipped My very strong suspicion is that the "Yes" can never be intentional--contrary to what the above suggests-- but is arrived at via the *cessation* of intention (which cessation can't be intentional either, by definition). It's something that *happens to you*, not someth

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes

2006-05-01 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorguoiseB writes: snipped I sat there trying to not have as much fun with the day as I knew I was capable of having, and then I caught myself doing it.  The moment I did, I was able to laugh at myself. And through my laughter, I found my body saying "Yes."  Out loud.  Weirdest damned thing.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ancient Flying Machines - Vimanas

2006-04-26 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
T3rinity writes: It will be hard for any outsider to know. This text, I just found on the net is instructive: "The nondual state of Nirbija-samadhi is often upheld as the ultimate state. However, nonduality is the polar opposite of duality. it is therefore also a function of duality. Liberation

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ancient Flying Machines - Vimanas

2006-04-25 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Jim Flanegin writes: snipped It is at that time, that our desires are transformed from the machinery necessary for us to permanently awaken unto our Selves, into the machinery for us to expand our awake Selves further and further into its Self, however that is concieved of. Desires become th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ancient Flying Machines - Vimanas

2006-04-25 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Jim Flanegin writes: Hey Tom, I am curious about the relationship your levitation experience you shared here, and having slipped onto a different stage as you mention above. Did the levitation serve  (1) as that last boundary to break, and right onto Brahman, or was it instead (2) a very pow

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ancient Flying Machines - Vimanas

2006-04-24 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes: snipped > I never understood why people go to such lengths > to believe that their spiritual teachers or the > people they look up to are "extraordinary." It > seems to me that it makes more sense to think > of them as ordinary. Jim Flanegin writes: Its the same old quest to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ancient Flying Machines - Vimanas

2006-04-24 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
A week or two after coming home from the 1993 course in Washington DC I gradually woke up one beautiful morning at our boat. It had been perfect weather for sleeping and I had slept with just a sheet over me. As I woke up there was an unusual feeling of freedom and serenity. Since I woke up grad

[FairfieldLife] Gays at MIU (was Re: Lynch Day)

2006-03-27 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes: snipped Whatever the specifics were, the bottom line was always the same -- pretense. Pretending that the actuality of the life of a TMer conformed to Maharishi's claims of what the life of a TMer should be. And woe be unto him who pulls back the curtain on that pretense and re

[FairfieldLife] The Value of Striving and Seeking

2006-03-20 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Since my copy of Jean Kleins "I AM" is out on loan I will paraphrase. Awakening is instantaneous. Clarity takes place in Space Time. The bottom line is that we have a real glimpse of what Awakening is about and afterwards become seekers. You can not seek what you do not know is out there. The act o

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'How Does the Intellect to Settle - During

2006-03-15 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Robert Gimbel writes: snipped Does the intellect cease to discriminate at all, in Samadhi? How exactly does the the intellect become more settled, and then completely settled during TM ? Tom T: >From Alistair Schearer version of Patanjali Sutras sutra 52 From Sanyama on moments and their success

[FairfieldLife] PVTM = ananta-samaapatti??

2006-03-10 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Cardmeister writes: What do youse think of the idea that plain vanilla TM is actually "ananta-samaapatti"* mentioned in YS II 47? *) becoming endless (boundless, infinite, eternal) Taimni's translation for "ananta-samaapatti" is 'meditation on the Endless". Tom T: >From Alistair Shearer YS II 46

[FairfieldLife] Power of Thought

2006-03-05 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
from James Brahas book Living Reality about Sailor Bobs visit to the US pages 291 and 292. Bob was a Nisargadatta guy who was a former merchant marine. When he joined AA there were many bobs so he became sailor bob. You can find him at www.nonduality.com Bob: What you are doing now is what everone

[FairfieldLife] Re: Greetings from the dream fields :)

2006-03-04 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
judy writes; It's like she's feeling both at once, or each in turn as she looks first outside and then inside herself. I'd guess she's never had this experience before, or never so starkly, and doesn't know what the hell to do with it. On some level she *wants* to be depressed, and has good reason

[FairfieldLife] Re: Demonic Name Generator

2006-03-04 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
> > > I got "Mihnywy Ajyt, Dark God of Entropy". > > > Plug in your name and birthday to see what your > demonic name is! > > > http://www.kiamagic.com/kia/gnosis/demonname.php > > > > I'm Jusxjy Qxoj, Sucubus of Trickery > > Zumi, Boggart of Disruption! Peter Seducer of Chaos! Tom T: Vezayvs ,

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Sutras

2006-03-04 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Vaj writes: snipped Correct View leads to gaining confidence in the View but this should not be mistaken as Enlightenment. Incorrect View can be ascertained and tested. Tom T: Correct and Incorrect imply judgement. Sounds pretty relative to me. Do you feel like expounding on how this happens a

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-04 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Anonyff writes: snipped I have had the experience, over the long years, of becoming very unboounded and, as it says in the 9th mandala, "liquid, loveable, and wise." It never lasted more than maybe five minutes. During those moments I experienced what I can only describe as an infinite flow, a know

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Anonyff writes: snipped Personally, I think there are as many forms of enlightenment as there are people, I think that people still get angry, hungrly, lonely, tired, irritable, sick, and that they act just as spontaneously as anyone/everyone else and that all this constant intellectualizing is a f

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
judy writes: snipped And if he didn't, was it because the state of enlightenment makes everything seem easy and simple *when it really isn't*? Is it possible that the "easy and simple" sense applies on some level other than the practical one of achieving a goal, but that the person who is enlight

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-03 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Vaj writes: In the 80's, I was invited by three close friends--an old TM teacher, an MIU grad and a Sidha, to confront Robin Woodsworth Carlsen who was then living in an apartment in Washington DC. It was actually my first time at debunking a claim of enlightenment, but when it was all over

[FairfieldLife] Re: 6 months to the big E - not life times

2006-03-02 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Anonff writes: > Here it is almost 37 years later, HA! Peter: HA! Is that the expression of the final discrimination into That? Tom T: It is my experience that when I hear someone who knows express it that unique way that only they can, there is an involuntary HA! that pops up and gets expressed.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-02 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Jim Flanegin: > 1. determination of awakening, or not, of another is something > sensed on a feeling level. Proclamations do no good, unless the > person is walking the walk so to speak. Unfortunately it seems that > the ones best able to see another's awakening are those who are > awake themselves

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-01 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Peter writes: And sad. A collective cheer should go up for realization, not a hiss. The kiss of Mara. Vaj writes: I'm guessing this would be a bad time to bring up the possibility that the mutual complicity inherent in satsang culture is actually Spiritual Codependence? Never mind then! Tom

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-02-28 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes: snipped Those who say that they have experienced the goal that is shared by pretty much the entire group (for example, enlightenment) are regularly dissed by those in the group who have not had such an experience. One would think they'd be happy that someone is actually getting

[FairfieldLife] Is it a sin to question whether or not MMY

2006-02-28 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Tag line from an email I recieved from my son today that seems to answer this question quite nicely. Tom T "Where does 'insanity' go?""It goes under 'strengths' as 'we see things from different angles', and under 'weaknesses' as 'we wear chickens on our heads'." bekj and morgan

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-02-28 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
In a conversation I had with a priest in a Tamil temple he suggested that dong the Sidhis can burn off 7 lifetimes of Karma in one liftime. Go figure. Makes some sense to me. Tom T Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disf

[FairfieldLife] Re: Unusual laws

2006-02-26 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy writes: I have to say, though, I'm not as interested in Shakespeare's identity, incarnational or historical, as I am in the physical entity who put the words on paper, if you see the distinction I'm making. Whoever he was, he was one hell of an incarnation. I'm inclined to think of him as th

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-22 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
For some lifestreams the saying Brahman is the charioteer goes down as Brahman is the chauffer of a Lincoln Navigator Super stretch limo that includes computer controlled dish antenna TV on a 30 inch lcd screen with wet bar, refrigator, microwave and lovely attendants to make all life smooth and ea

[FairfieldLife] Re: So what do you all think of THESE experienc

2006-02-20 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Anon astute: snipped Your sincerity sounds about as deep as your profundity. You appear to hold that as consciousness unfolds, that "identification" and thus an identity -- an "I", an individuality claiming doership and ownership remains. If so, tell us more. Possibilities are infinite. Maybe th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation techniques

2006-02-20 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy writes: FWIW, I had that problem too at one time, just as you describe it. I ultimately found that what I had thought of as "subtle" was still too concrete. The mantra wasn't unavailable at all; it was there, but it was just *so* faint I hadn't recognized it as such. Once I realized this, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquoiseB: snipped Bingo. You're on a roll today. Some are convinced that their subjective experience of Brahman *is* Brahman, or that "they" are Brahman while that experience is going on. My view is that there is a state of attention from which one can experience Brahman, but it's still Just Anot

[FairfieldLife] Update

2006-02-19 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Vaj writes: Incidentally, the helpful sequence for reading the primary Trika/ Kashmir Shaivite texts is: Pratyabhijnahridayam --the Secret Heart of Recognition Then the Shiva Sutras After that the Spanda Karikas Lastly, the Vijnanabhairava Tom T: A friend who is taking his PHD at MUM was taki

[FairfieldLife] Re: So what do you all think of THESE experienc

2006-02-19 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Akashanongabbymooserichard writes: snipped Thats why those that "identify with Brahman" are so hilarious. Identitification requires an identity. An "I" that identifies with something. "I identify with Brahaman" means there is an "I". There are no "I"s in Brahman. Tom T; How do you know that to be

[FairfieldLife] Re: So what do you all think of THESE experienc

2006-02-19 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Woops screwed up again. Wrong attribution! my apologies Jim. TOm T Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-18 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Freewill: re TorquiseB and T3rinity exchange Break freewill into two words; Free: It will only cost you every concept you have about it, but it is absolutely free. Will: It will happen, bend over. Tom T Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern da

[FairfieldLife] Re: Papji Quote

2006-02-17 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Patrick Gilliam writes: About 20 years ago, after doing a rigorous physical purification, I started having the loud and persistent thought, "I love you." I've been perplexed ever since as to who's loving whom. Is it my small self loving the large Self? The large Self loving the small self? Is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-17 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquoiseB writes:snipped *On the other hand*, from another point of view, there may be some value in hearing the vibe "behind" the words that a person uses to describe an exper- ience that they know is indescribable. The words themselves mean nothing, but perhaps the vibe behind the words can p

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-16 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquoiseB writes; snipped I wouldn't say that AnonAkaskaMoose was *really* comparing you to the TM "holy tradition," Jim. What he was doing was using "tradition" the way it's *always* been used through- out history. "Tradition" is that thing that people who have been practicing a set of spiritual

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can the enlightened make mistakes?

2006-02-07 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Tom T writes snipped: In practice it is no different than the martial artist who knows that without constant attention and practice he too will be mincemeat. On the one hand he is the best, on the other hand he could be dead in a moment if he doesn't stay focused and practiced. Thanks TOm T Tor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can the enlightened make mistakes?

2006-02-06 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Torquise B writes: snipped "Everything is perfect just as it is" is a nice realization to have from time to time and leave behind, the same way you'd leave behind a nice acid trip. As a practical way of living, it sucks. :-) Tom T: Actually Unc it revolves around that sticky point called the Par

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

2006-02-06 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Jim Flanegin writes: On the other hand, the perfection of the Universe is incomprehensibly dynamic, a closed Divine system, where as it changes, Perfection remains. Tom T: Since it is my experience that it is a never ending and constantly growing and deepening, I can not agree that it is a clos

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was:

2006-02-06 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy writes:snipped With one of my clients, every once in a while as I'm editing his work, I'll come upon a really rough patch and find myself effortlessly rewriting it, even adding stuff that should have been there but isn't. He's always thrilled when I do that. I kid him by telling him that for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment, was:

2006-02-05 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Patrick Giliam writes: > You have an impulse to speak, and you don't know what > you're going to say, really -- you just start talking and > voila, a complete and occasionally correct thought comes out > in words, one after another. The impulse to speak was vague, > amporphous, but the sentence

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spontaneous behavior in Enlightenment,

2006-02-05 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Patrick Gillam wrote: > What do people think of this? Does it jibe with your experience? > > If so, it speaks to the influence of collective consciousness > on the individual. Vaj writes: I would add that they are simply non-local--that is they aren't exclusive to you. Therefore when a thought a

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

2006-02-05 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
> Tom T: > Once one wakes up one realizes that it has always been Sat Yuga and > always will be for the awake. Never has been anything else but Sat > Yuga. Tom T > Kevin shanti2218411 writes: No doubt for the one who is awake it has always been Sat Yuga.However in the absence of a compassionat

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

2006-02-05 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
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 one realizes that it has always been Sat Yuga and always will be for the awake. Never has been anything e

[FairfieldLife] Re: Finding True East - Finally, the last word

2006-02-01 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
With all of the traffic on the above topic caused by a simple concept that was misunderstood I thought the following quote seemed appropriate. Tom T Awakening reveals that there is no personal self, and that everything is myself. It appears to be a paradox. We find we are nothing and absolutely

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM bonds -- too good to be true?

2006-01-27 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Sparegg: Either way, they'd never had experience with a violent nutcase on the MUM student body, or at least not THAT violent. Tom T When my son was a student here in the early 90's one of the students walked down 4th street and waited for one of the fast freights to go by. When it was almost upo

[FairfieldLife] Quantum Consciousness / was "The great lie of

2006-01-22 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Offworld : "Roger Penrose (1989; 1994; 1996) has proposed that isolated quantum systems which avoid environmental decoherence will eventually reduce nonetheless due to an objective threshold ("objective reduction" - OR) related to an intrinsic feature of fundamental spacetime geometry (see belo

[FairfieldLife] Re: royal decree #21

2006-01-19 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes: It's back to the olde "ends justify the means" issue. You think they do; I think that the means *are* the end, and that if one attempts to do something ethical by acting unethically, then one deserves the karmas one gets. Since this seems to be your chosen path in life, I wish

[FairfieldLife] Non-Dual Coffee Enemas, the New Satsang?

2006-01-18 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Vaj writes:snipped his image of Neo-advaitins doin' it en masse at a Satsang just has me still bubbling bliss bubbles. Tom T: That image gives new meaning to the term "Daisy Chain". Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern day disciples reach the

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

2006-01-16 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
anonff write to Peter: The experiece was very confusing to have and moreso to describe. If I were the one doing the witnessing, I would experience myself as separate from Being. This was not that. I would be, say, standing and talking to someone, see them, see their mouth moving, hear the words

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment University

2006-01-13 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Vaj writes;snipped Yuganaddha, two-in-one, is a paradox that's difficult to describe in linear words. There will automatically be a disconnect between written descriptions and the experience itself. It cannot be adequately described by words in written or spoken speech. Tom T: Is this the same as

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

2006-01-13 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Jim Flanegin: So, the same with akashanon. The more he challenges what we who have Awakened express, the stronger it gets. I don't know whether it helps him or not, though... Tom T: Darn Jim you weren't supposed to tell him. He is such a perfect mirror of how it used to be that is not hard to r

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

2006-01-13 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Akashanon writes: I have said, 'hey guys, lets focus on substance.' TorquiseB writes: Dude, why don't you try being honest with yourself for once. What you *meant* by "Let's focus on substance" was "Let's all talk about what *I* want to talk about, in the pseudointellectual way I like to talk ab

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

2006-01-13 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes: snipped It's ALL very funny, in a weird sort of way. The laughter is going to win. The clinging to self is going to lose. That's just the way the world works. Tom T: Of course and that is the real joke. No laughing at them, laughing at the clinging to the idea that can not b

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

2006-01-13 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Spare egg writes: Of course, Barry has never denied his intent to laugh AT people. Rather he has embraced and defended it. Seems a not very difficult job of mind-reading to assume something, comment on that assumption, and get CONFIRMATION of that assumption and therefore to continue to assume

[FairfieldLife] This explains so much (was Re: Ego in Enlighten

2006-01-12 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Akashanon writes: snipped And Tom still feels a need to vent out at people who disagree with him, in more courteous tones than "laughing at him", by calling them "pissing skunks" and to, paraphrasing, "eat shit and die". Tom T: Continuing to repeat a lie does not make it so. The last 4 lines of t

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

2006-01-12 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy writes: Sure. But it would be more accurate to say (of the ant and Barry), "That isn't the kind of attack that can do you any damage." What makes it an attack is the intention of the attacker, not the effect on the attackee. Tom T: The thought stopper for me in this was who and how is the i

[FairfieldLife] This explains so much (was Re: Ego in Enlighten

2006-01-12 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquioseB writes: > 1. Do you think that a person who is enlightened > would perceive being laughed at as an attack? Judy responds: Yes. Tom T: As Neil DOnald Walsh once wrote, "there is only one of US". Once awakening occurs that is one of the basic understandings that is unadvoidable. Given t

[FairfieldLife] Re: 20 POINTS - EXPERIENTIAL CRITERIA OF C.C.

2006-01-07 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Anon writes: snipped This inner-revelation effect seems consistant with what a Maharishi pundit told me in a jyotish reading. Ironic as it sounds, I asked the pundit about how and when I could / would find a "teacher" / guru for personal guidance. He said that for my chart, that was not necessary

[FairfieldLife] Ego in Enlightenment and Enlightened Ironies

2006-01-07 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Skunk button pushing comments snipped for brevity. Comment below Alex writes: > Is it your belief that an enlightened person no longer has an ego or > conditioned mind? Akasha/Anon writes: I think the term "enlightenment" is a label, that serves little positive purpose -- and its use has many down

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

2006-01-06 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes: Big snip The show went on to say that the only sane thing to do with skunks is avoid them, because pretty much everything scares them, and thus if you approach them in any way, you're gonna get all stunk up. Sounded like good advice to me... Tom T: An old politician who had been

[FairfieldLife] Seriously now folks

2005-12-21 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
I would like to propose that we only have ONE award. We could call it the Brahman award and we would of course give it to everyone on FFlife. We would even give it to those who are desperately trying to avoid the reality that there is "Only ONE of US". We can be so bold to do this because we are be

[FairfieldLife] Thoughts on the "You're angry" / "No, I'm not"

2005-12-19 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Dr Pete writes: Tom, in all seriousness, have you tried SSRS's Sudarshan Kriya? It blows out some pretty deep impressions in the ol' chitta. Tom T: Not my issue but a friends. I have been his conduit to work through much of his stuff. I did not know the details until recently when he shared the st

[FairfieldLife] Thoughts on the "You're angry" / "No, I'm n

2005-12-19 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy Stein writes:snipped Typically, when they were young, these people were routinely punished for expressing anger, and they internalized the notion that anger was a Bad Thing-- not just Bad, but Dangerous to their very survival. Tom T comments: When anger is shamed the only option is to turn it

[FairfieldLife] Thoughts on the "You're angry" / "No, I'm not"

2005-12-19 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Selling Water By the River Selections from the Talks of Adyashanti URL: http://www.zen-satsang.org/WritingSellingWaterByTheRiver.htm Spiritual people can be some of the most violent people you will ever meet. Mostly, they are violent to themselves. They violently try to control their minds, their

[FairfieldLife] Thoughts on the "You're angry" / "No, I'm not"

2005-12-19 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes: snipped a lot I would say that MOST (and by "MOST" I mean 80-90% of the people I interacted with during my week in America were ANGRY. The *first* thing that hits you, if you've been away for a while is the level of F E A R in the air. Almost everyone is afraid, all the time.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy writes snipped: I'm not sure that was what Tom was saying anyway. I *think* what he meant--Tom, please correct me if I'm wrong--was simply that he has realized experientially that Brahman is all he sees and all he says (and all any of us see or say, "wrong" or "right," "bad" or "good," the on

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Brahaman Tom psyche unfolding

2005-12-18 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Anonyff posts: Peter and Tom, IF you can keep this going another few rounds, you can be the Barry and Judy of the gay couples! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, braaahmaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tom T: Nice try at mo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
It would appear IMHO that we have a person on this list who has defined his behavior as Satire. THose on the recieving end feel and know it as sarcasm with a nasty bite, one might even call it rage. Asking the Fox to tell you the opinions of the chickens in the chicken house seems inappropriate. I

[FairfieldLife] Enlightenment Parable

2005-12-18 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
My son has tag line quotes that automatically add themselves randomaly to every email. THe following is from Wednesday. "A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game. "Excuse me", he said, "may I examine it?"

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy and TorquiseB

2005-12-18 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Unc Writes: Ah, I see. 'braaahmaan' is really either Tom Pall afraid to use his real name again or a person from a.m.t., here to cyberstalk, and equally afraid to admit to who he is. I should've figured it out when he arrived and tried as his first action to completely remake FFL. :-) I will gra

[FairfieldLife] The Akasha psyche behind Braaahmaan's posting

2005-12-17 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Since a certain unnamed individual abused the anon log in a lurker friend who is not a member and can no longer post asked me to post this as his obversation/opinion cognition. --- braaahmaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: An new folder in the FILES section (see uper left portion of FFL Home Page) h

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