[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" raviyogi@ wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-23 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > > > > > From Bhojadeva's comment on YS II 15 > > > > > > > > As (yathaa) an eyeball (akSi-

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > Continues like this (in "Sanskrit Documents", > > Transliterated & transcribed from a manuscript by : Dr. Suryanshu Ray > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > > From Bhojadeva's comment on YS II 15 > > > > > As (yathaa) an eyeball (akSi-paatram?) experiences (anubhavati) > > great (mahatiim) pain (piiDaam) by mere (maatr

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-23 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > >From Bhojadeva's comment on YS II 15 > > As (yathaa) an eyeball (akSi-paatram?) experiences (anubhavati) > great (mahatiim) pain (piiDaam) by mere (maatreNa) touch (sparsha) > of a fiber (tantu) of wool (uurNaa), so (tathaa) a viveki

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread emptybill
It's not yer eyeballs. It's old age - the opposite of the new age. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: > > > > As (yathaa) an eyeball (akSi-paatram?) experiences (anubhavati) > > great (mahatiim) pai

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread WillyTex
Ravi Yogi: > Anyway I think Bhoga Saadhana could > indeed mean "contemplating on worldly > pleasures or indulgences"... > "Samsara is described as mundane existence, full of suffering and misery and hence is considered undesirable and worth renunciation. The Samsara is without any beginning

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > As (yathaa) an eyeball (akSi-paatram?) experiences (anubhavati) > great (mahatiim) pain (piiDaam) by mere (maatreNa) touch (sparsha) > of a fiber (tantu) of wool (uurNaa), so (tathaa) a viveki "udvij-s" > (see footnote 3 above) in con

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" raviyogi@ wrote: > > > > > > > Are you translating Bhoga-saadhana as "experiences"? > > No, just 'bhoga'... > > > Bhoga means - > > worldly, materialistic; saadhana - here would be in

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > Continues like this (in "Sanskrit Documents", > Transliterated & transcribed from a manuscript by : Dr. Suryanshu Ray > > suryansuray

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-21 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > > I am not sure if this applies or not. But I tend to eshew things like > > beautiful sunsets, or "beautiful" days. Or at least I don't get emotional > > about th

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-20 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > If you have a pitta constitution, you'll understand that it's a pain to have itches on your chest and arms. That's not the itch I typically deal with, but thanks for the advice. (-: But the meditation practice tones down the itches at a m

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-20 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > Are you translating Bhoga-saadhana as "experiences"? No, just 'bhoga'... Bhoga means - > worldly, materialistic; saadhana - here would be indulgence. So just > translating it as experiences doesn't seem to do justice to this wor

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-20 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ wrote: > > > > I am not sure if this applies or not. But I tend to eshew things like beautiful sunsets, or "beautiful" days. Or at least I don't get emotional about

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-19 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > I am not sure if this applies or not. But I tend to eshew things like > beautiful sunsets, or "beautiful" days. Or at least I don't get emotional > about them. They are what they are. I neither delight in them, nor ignore > them

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-19 Thread John
If you have a pitta constitution, you'll understand that it's a pain to have itches on your chest and arms. But the meditation practice tones down the itches at a milder or manageable level. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > I am not sure if this applies or not.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-19 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > I am not sure if this applies or not. But I tend to eshew things like beautiful sunsets, or "beautiful" days. Or at least I don't get emotional about them. They are what they are. I neither delight in them, nor ignore them. But my

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-19 Thread authfriend
It occurs to me that in these two paragraphs intended to diss Patanjali, there are two sentences, one in each paragraph, that inadvertently exemplify what he meant by "experience is painful." Can anybody identify them? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > This was 1960. Glo

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it > > all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its > > original subject, Patanjali, and a quote of his from

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
curtisdeltablues: > You may be overstating that since Samkhya > came a lot later than many of the > principles in Hinduism... > Samkhya came long before 'Hinduism'; before the historical Buddha (563BCE), and before Buddhism. That's why historians think the Buddha may have been influenced by Sam

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
There's a deep message there. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > You seem bound to post off-topic photos, so I guess > to that extend you are not free. Or, you feel free > to take up internet band-space for no good reason. > > Yifu: > > fish market, 1935 > > http:

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
You seem bound to post off-topic photos, so I guess to that extend you are not free. Or, you feel free to take up internet band-space for no good reason. Yifu: > fish market, 1935 > http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/32470.jpg > > > I just think he was full of it and that > > > his prem

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > curtisdeltablues: > > I just think he was full of it and that > > his premises about reality are bogus... > > > But, for some reason you practiced yoga for > fourteen years and majored in philosophy at > MUM? It just doesn't ma

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
fish market, 1935 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/32470.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > curtisdeltablues: > > I just think he was full of it and that > > his premises about reality are bogus... > > > But, for some reason you practiced yoga for > f

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
curtisdeltablues: > I just think he was full of it and that > his premises about reality are bogus... > But, for some reason you practiced yoga for fourteen years and majored in philosophy at MUM? It just doesn't make any sense! Samkhya is the philosophical foundation of all Indian culture

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
turquoiseb: > > Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it > > all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its > > original subject, Patanjali... > > Samadhi, dukkha, suffering, nirodha (cessation) are crucial terms in Buddhist vocabulary. The doctrine of suffering is the core o

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > O what a bunch of evil sophistry. > > > > > > This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. > > > The

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > O what a bunch of evil sophistry. > > This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. > The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. > > Nice writing but it still smells like the sophistry > of limited epistemology. However, if you just h

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > O what a bunch of evil sophistry. > > > > > > This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. > > > The bea

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Hindu nihilism. Some of us do not desire to be free > from rebirth. Some of the enlightened do not believe > that being enlightened means that there is no rebirth. > And most important, if the enlightened are so affronted > by an IDEA

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > O what a bunch of evil sophistry. > > > > This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. > > The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. > > One guy, having fun with an im

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it > > all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its > > original subject, Patanjali, and a quote of his from > > the

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it > all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its > original subject, Patanjali, and a quote of his from > the Yoga Sutras. > > > "However, the wise (though their own mind is t

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > O what a bunch of evil sophistry. > > This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. > The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. One guy, having fun with an imaginary conversation with a possibly imaginary guy, is a *mob*? And you dare

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Buck
O what a bunch of evil sophistry. This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. Nice writing but it still smells like the sophistry of limited epistemology. However, if you just had more experience then you'd see. Nice writing though, it's a beauti

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it > all about Buddhism, If experience of reality *isn't* painful to him, why does Barry have to start his rant against Patanjali with a lie? Compulsive denial and distortion of reality a