[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-12 Thread whynotnow7
@... Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 3:01 PM   On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Tom Pall thomas.pall

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-12 Thread maskedzebra
Imagine presenting this idea to the doctors at The Harvard Medical School—or to Socrates—or to Wittgenstein...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-12 Thread curtisdeltablues
Within this great rap on what I would sum up as the oversold experience of the Transcendent by Maharishi and followers (Gets the stains out AND gives you eternal consciousness!) is a point about one of my heroes. Robin: RESPONSE: Yes. This was an extraordinary insight that Socrates got: *That

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-12 Thread Denise Evans
Nice.   --- On Fri, 8/12/11, whynotnow7 whynotn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: whynotnow7 whynotn...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, August 12, 2011, 6:17 AM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-12 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: Robin, As always, thank you for taking the time. In my world you're definitely the top of the muffin. For your viewing pleasure the only thing the movement needed more of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WCcKIkMp8Y

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: snip The Oracle at Delphi (I choose to interpret this symbolically, even though I am sure the O at D was really tuned in) was saying that Socrates occupies a particular and privileged

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: snip The Oracle at Delphi (I choose to interpret this symbolically, even though I am sure the O at D was really tuned in) was saying that Socrates occupies a particular and privileged

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-11 Thread Tom Pall
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com wrote: When I die I want to come back as one of Yifu's posts, they are the closest thing to fairy dust we have on FFL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YmxY7V-3Qs

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-11 Thread Tom Pall
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Tom Pall thomas.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com wrote: When I die I want to come back as one of Yifu's posts, they are the closest thing to fairy dust we have on FFL.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-11 Thread Bob Price
:01:38 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Tom Pall thomas.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com wrote: When I die I want to come back as one of Yifu's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-11 Thread Denise Evans
thomas.p...@gmail.com wrote: From: Tom Pall thomas.p...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 3:01 PM   On Thu, Aug 11

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-11 Thread obbajeeba
and of course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXDm5x7tVjg From: Tom Pall thomas.pall@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 3:01:38 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-06 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: I'm sorry this post had to end. It says trunkated at the bottom. Absorbing. FWIW, it's not truncated on the FFL Web site. Took me a good minute to delete it from this post.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-05 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Whoa hold on there Robin, in your hurry to attack M you don't seem to have paid much attention - I didn't hear anyone or Hinduism say that that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-05 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@ wrote: Masked Zebra responds to seventhray1: When I skimmed the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-05 Thread nablusoss1008
birthchart. Perhaps some of our astrologers here would have an opinion on this ? --- On Thu, 8/4/11, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened To: FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-05 Thread emptybill
Nabs Nothing to know. It is called derealization and is a well documented mental/psychological change. Get it? It is an uncontrolled reversal of mental fixations. It often goes together with depersonalization. Wiki if you need to get a start on a definition. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: A few hours of dying, having the senses removed and all that, especially if you are habituated to loosing everything during real meditations anyway is nothing compared to having to spend 9 months in a dark and damp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread noah
In a nutshell, what Maharishi said is that it is the transition after death that is rougher for someone whose nervous system has not been practiced at transcending. Once that transition (supposedly about 3 days) from having a body to not having a body is over, the soul does whatever it does.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: A few hours of dying, having the senses removed and all that, especially if you are habituated to loosing everything during real meditations

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: Masked Zebra responds to seventhray1: When I skimmed the post regarding Maharishi's talk about dying, it rekindled the feeling I had that drew me into this knowledge. BlahBlah, snip, BlahBlah, more snip. Robin,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@ wrote: Masked Zebra responds to seventhray1: When I skimmed the post regarding Maharishi's talk about dying, it rekindled the feeling I had that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: snip If, as Maharishi says, one can dispense with the agony of death through getting identified with transcendental consciousness, why should it not be conceivable in principle to do the same thing when one is getting

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread Denise Evans
Doesn't sound like you are a candidate for being born again :) --- On Thu, 8/4/11, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@ wrote: snip Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: snip If, as Maharishi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noah wayback71@... wrote: In a nutshell, what Maharishi said is that it is the transition after death that is rougher for someone whose nervous system has not been practiced at transcending. Once that transition (supposedly about 3 days) from having

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans dmevans365@... wrote: Doesn't sound like you are a candidate for being born again :) Did you read my post ? Thougt so !

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread Tom Pall
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:20 PM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.comwrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: The different experience of dying by the ignorant and the enlightened by Maharishi Another opinion: BlahBlahBlah Why use so many

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread Yifu
thx, I believe (as a speculative hypothesis based on my limited psychic abilities...pending further corroboration); that MMY has been torn to countless pieces by Kali, and unlike some of the pieces coming back together (as in the Terminator movie), they are permanently torn asunder and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread Denise Evans
Thank you for the explanationNOWwith regard to these three dayshere is Dave Matthews take - solo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J8aAt4PaDk --- On Thu, 8/4/11, noah waybac...@yahoo.com wrote: From: noah waybac...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread Denise Evans
Or...with the full band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lS4EoTY1nQ --- On Thu, 8/4/11, Denise Evans dmevans...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Denise Evans dmevans...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread seventhray1
Thank you for your reply. I read it all, slowly. First of all, one point you bring up makes sense. Or at least makes sense in helping to understand your perspective. Many people view the birth and life of Christ as THE BIG EVENT, apart from the different Saviors who are said to have came

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread Ravi Yogi
as a speculative hypothesis based on my limited psychic abilities...pending further corroboration Just stick to your copy and pasting links from Google Images. Anything beyond that seems to be too disconcerting for you. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: thx, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread Yifu
disconcerting? no. Ravi, I like your essays; but a times you remind me of a stop light flashing non-authorized colors besides the usual red, green, and amber. Seems you make up your own colors at times, but I like it! Keep it up... http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/sci9.jpg --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-04 Thread seventhray1
Very nice post Bob. You've articulated many of the things I have sensed and wanted to voice as well. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: Robin, Thank you for your response. I'm always impressed with the care you put into your posts. Whether this will be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread maskedzebra
The different experience of dying by the ignorant and the enlightened by Maharishi Another opinion: MMY: When an ordinary man leaves his body it's a very great pain. When a realized man leaves the body it's the experience of greatest happiness-bliss. RESPONSE: Wrong. Maharishi has no

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: The different experience of dying by the ignorant and the enlightened by Maharishi Another opinion: MMY: When an ordinary man leaves his body it's a very great pain. When a realized man leaves the body it's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: The different experience of dying by the ignorant and the enlightened by Maharishi Another opinion: MMY: When an ordinary man leaves his body it's a very great pain. When a realized man leaves the body it's the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: Imagine presenting this idea to the doctors at The Harvard Medical School—or to Socrates—or to Wittgenstein... Here you go again RC - coercing those Western big guns into your hockey team. (Why do you try to do that?).

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread whynotnow7
MMY: When an ordinary man leaves his body it's a very great pain. When a realized man leaves the body it's the experience of greatest happiness-bliss. maskedzebra: Wrong. Maharishi has no direct or verifiable knowledge of this. Yet another opinion: Hi maskedzebra (I am assuming Grevy's...),

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread emptybill
MZ, You have not offered a differing explanation. You have only provided a commentary from a competing theology. Above all, you seem unaware of the theological history behind your selected theology. What's next … the Sin-Guilt-Redemption dialectic of Western Christianity? Or … Our Ransom was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: RESPONSE: Transcending in TM, does it mean the actual individual flesh and bones human being stops existing? What possible relevance does transcending in TM have to do with dying Transcending is 'conscious' dying,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread do.rflex
...when you die the anguish can be greater than the stings of thousands of scorpions. ~~ Guru Dev [MMY's teacher, Shankaracharya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati] This teaching [extended below] from Guru Dev is likely where Maharishi got the idea that death [separation from the body upon its

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: The different experience of dying by the ignorant and the enlightened by Maharishi Another opinion: BlahBlahBlah Why use so many words ? All you had to say is Maharishi was an ignorant clown and I know much

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: Whoa hold on there Robin, in your hurry to attack M you don't seem to have paid much attention - I didn't hear anyone or Hinduism say that that the Self dies, it is the body that dies anywhere :-). And yes what they were

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@ wrote: Imagine presenting this idea to the doctors at The Harvard Medical School—or to Socrates—or to Wittgenstein... Here you go again RC - coercing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: MMY: When an ordinary man leaves his body it's a very great pain. When a realized man leaves the body it's the experience of greatest happiness-bliss. maskedzebra: Wrong. Maharishi has no direct or verifiable knowledge

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread whynotnow7
Everyone leaves here, even Maharishi, but he left so much behind that it can occupy you for a long time if you like. Also, if you want a relationship with him, talk to him. After all, if you can miss him, you know where he is. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread seventhray1
Well this is kind of interesting. When I skimmed the post regarding Maharishi's talk about dying, it rekindled the feeling I had that drew me into this knowledge. When you say that we get wowed by these tidbits, I can relate to that. I was wowed by Maharishi for just this sort of thing for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-03 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@ wrote: The different experience of dying by the ignorant and the enlightened by Maharishi Another opinion: MMY: When an ordinary man

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-02 Thread wgm4u
Nice reminder, that alone is worth $35.00 :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: The different experience of dying by the ignorant and the enlightened. Maharishi: When an ordinary man leaves his body it's a very great pain. When a realized man leaves the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Different experience of dying ignorant or enlightened

2011-08-02 Thread whynotnow7
...he's always ready to die. Doesn't matter what. Always ready to die means: he is not ready to DIE, but he doesn't mind dying anytime. This is a helpful distinction. I don't fear death, actually see it more accurately as passing on, and yet I haven't understood the distinction before of being