[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-12 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 1:35 PM, cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:14 AM, cardemaister wrote: Maybe I read a bad translation! Well, as a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-12 Thread Vaj
On Dec 12, 2005, at 3:02 AM, Robert Gimbel wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 1:35 PM, cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:14 AM, cardemaister wrote: Maybe I

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-10 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I read a bad translation! Well, as a semi-devoted TMer, I like to read Sanskrit texts from TM POV. Here's yet another tranlation for lokaanandaH samaadhi-sukham: 18. Translation - Enjoying Samadhi is like enjoying

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-10 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-10 Thread Vaj
On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:14 AM, cardemaister wrote: Maybe I read a bad translation! Well, as a semi-devoted TMer, I like to read  Sanskrit texts from TM POV. Here's yet another tranlation for "lokaanandaH samaadhi-sukham": 18.  Translation - Enjoying Samadhi is like enjoying the world. Exposition

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-10 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:14 AM, cardemaister wrote: Maybe I read a bad translation! Well, as a semi-devoted TMer, I like to read Sanskrit texts from TM POV. Here's yet another tranlation for lokaanandaH

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:14 AM, cardemaister wrote: Maybe I read a bad translation! Well, as a semi-devoted TMer, I like to read

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-10 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:14 AM, cardemaister wrote: Maybe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-10 Thread Vaj
On Dec 10, 2005, at 1:35 PM, cardemaister wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:14 AM, cardemaister wrote: Maybe I read a bad translation! Well, as a semi-devoted TMer, I like to read Sanskrit texts from TM POV. Here's yet another

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-10 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
cardemaister writes snipped: Here's yet another translation, from sanskrit.gde.to -site, that seems to be erroneous: 1.18 The bliss of the sight is the joy of samadhi. It's true that the root for 'loka', namely 'lok', means 'to see, behold', but despite that the noun 'loka' doesn't seem to have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-10 Thread Vaj
On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:49 PM, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis wrote:Tom T; Shiva Sutras Translated by Sage Vasugupta 1.18. His being in the ecstatic state of samadhi bestows bliss and happiness to the whole humanity or the totality of enjoyment in the universe constitutes (or comprises) his

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has *anyone* suggested Tom get a wrathful mantra/ishta rather than a peaceful one? Peaceful deity mantras are just peachy for your average Joe or Judy wanting to *transcend*, but special mentations require special

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has *anyone* suggested Tom get a wrathful mantra/ishta rather than a peaceful one? Peaceful deity mantras are just peachy for your

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 Imagine the day in the life of a cetain 5 year old boy. snip Sorry to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Vaj
On Dec 9, 2005, at 4:09 AM, anonymousff wrote:You're assuming that Tom is just wrath. No, not at all. Just that he had possible anger issues. In any event, it helpful for *anyone* to be able to integrate the movement of thought with the calm, transcendent state irregardless of what individual

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damning Tom once again. He's not a survivor who's getting over. He's forever damned because his emotional development was arrested at the time of abuse.. snip Yes, you're

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Peter
--- lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damning Tom once again. He's not a survivor who's getting over. He's forever damned because his emotional development was arrested at the time of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Peter
--- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's our work to do as individuals--you can't really outsource your own sadhana to India. Very wise words. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's our work to do as individuals--you can't really outsource your own sadhana to India. Very wise words. I noticed that, too. Nor, IMO, can you outsource them to a guru or

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Peter
--- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's our work to do as individuals--you can't really outsource your own sadhana to India. Very wise words. I noticed

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damning Tom once again. He's not a survivor who's getting over. He's

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **SNIP** Tom has arranged for a $50,000 legal retainer to sue Ben the lier. If Ben posts a fully apologitic statement in which he admits in every line that he, and not Tom was wrong and he apologizes

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comment below: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **SNIP** Tom has arranged for a $50,000 legal retainer to sue Ben the lier. If Ben posts a fully apologitic

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's our work to do as individuals--you can't

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
What do you guys think is the connection between the individual and collective consciousness? I've often felt that my individual evolution is in thrall to the collective, just as my income usually depends on the larger economy. Your remarks below consider only individual power, independent

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you guys think is the connection between the individual and collective consciousness? Here we go with another paradox. Once the illusion of seperation is largely dispelled as a result of identification

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically states that you become realized only through your own effort, nothing else. Another

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] However, instead of then taking a breath of fresh air and getting on with life, he squanders his equity by trashing others. Aside from finding it annoying and disruptive, it doesn't help Tom in the slightest.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] However, instead of then taking a breath of fresh air and getting on with life, he squanders his equity by trashing others. Aside

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The Shiva Sutras Just happened to find a PDFile of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Peter
Maybe I read a bad translation! --- cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The attributes of a survivor and what makes Anon exceedingly successful in his profession. Which is? lurk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Dying to be thin? Anorexia.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Dr Pete: writes The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically states that you become realized only through your own effort, nothing else. Tom T: from the shiva sutras as posted here two years ago by Michael Goodman Shiva Sutras Translated by Sage Vasugupta First Awakening 1. Universal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-08 Thread Vaj
On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:20 AM, anonymousff wrote:Had he been a foster child, his ability to attach, ability to love and intellect would not have made him a horror but a joy to have, love and hold.I don't know that that would be the case. My one child, we were his 12th home by the age of 5 and he

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-08 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:20 AM, anonymousff wrote: Had he been a foster child, his ability to attach, ability to love and intellect would not have made him a horror but a joy to have, love and hold. I don't know that

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-08 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sincerity is in the eye of the beholder, as you well know. Now run along and accuse someone else, if it makes you feel any better... Yes. Thank you Dr. Lechter. I get it. With fava beans and a good chianti. Thank

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-08 Thread Vaj
On Dec 8, 2005, at 8:33 AM, anonymousff wrote:You're obsessed with this foster home thing, aren't you?No, not particularly. I am concerned that in some instances it can foster attachment disorders. It's a known entity, it's not like something I have to point out. Therefore there should be

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-08 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sincerity is in the eye of the beholder, as you well know. Now run along and accuse someone else, if it makes you feel any better...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-08 Thread Peter
--- anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sincerity is in the eye of the beholder, as you well know. Now run along and accuse someone else, if it makes you feel any better... Yes. Thank you Dr. Lechter.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-08 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imagine the day in the life of a cetain 5 year old boy. snip Sorry to come in late on this thread, but is this Tom Pall's story, and if so, is this a reposting, or is this new information? Thanks.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-08 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 Imagine the day in the life of a cetain 5 year old boy. snip Sorry to come in late on this thread, but is this Tom Pall's story, and if so, is this a reposting, or is this new information? Thanks. lurk

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-08 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has *anyone* suggested Tom get a wrathful mantra/ishta rather than a peaceful one? Peaceful deity mantras are just peachy for your average Joe or Judy wanting to *transcend*, but special mentations require special

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-08 Thread Peter
--- anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 Imagine the day in the life of a cetain 5 year old boy. snip Sorry to come in late on this thread, but is this Tom Pall's story, and if so, is this a

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-07 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reading some of the recent posts, and the feeling, That the TMO avoids discussing emotional healing. I have had some experience with emotional healing. Feeling what is at the root of what is blocking emotions.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reading some of the recent posts, and the feeling, That the TMO avoids discussing emotional healing. I have had some experience

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-07 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **SNIP** Imagine the day in the life of a cetain 5 year old boy. An only child, so no siblings to confide in or get help from. The boy comes home from school. It's freezing cold, blizzard

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-07 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reading some of the recent posts, and the feeling,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-07 Thread Vaj
On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:41 PM, anonymousff wrote:Imagine the day in the life of a cetain 5 year old boy.  An only child, so no siblings to confide in or get help from. The boy comes home from school.  It's freezing cold, blizzard conditions outside.  The boy is as usual made to strip completely

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel