[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana, ParaNirvana and MahapParaNirvana.

2009-06-09 Thread yifuxero
--Let me understand this: by merging do people mean no further relative bodies? Why would that be an asset? How does having (being, in the relative sense) no body increase one's awareness of the Absolute? Put another way, people spend millions of years evoloving from amoebas only to have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana, ParaNirvana and MahapParaNirvana.

2009-06-09 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: --Let me understand this: by merging do people mean no further relative bodies? Why would that be an asset? How does having (being, in the relative sense) no body increase one's awareness of the Absolute? Put another

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana, ParaNirvana and MahapParaNirvana.

2009-06-09 Thread Duveyoung
Yifuxero, By any chance, have you followed my posts about Ramana Maharshi's POV about the difference between identification and attachment? Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: --Let me understand this: by merging do people mean no further relative

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana, ParaNirvana and MahapParaNirvana.

2009-06-08 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wg...@... wrote: Nirvana is Cosmic Consciousness or Self-Realization, ParaNirvana is realization of Brahman or Unity and the MahaParaNirvana is the great point of NO return where the Sadhaka (practitioner) drops the mortal coil and merges into

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana, ParaNirvana and MahapParaNirvana.

2009-06-08 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: Nirvana is Cosmic Consciousness or Self-Realization, ParaNirvana is realization of Brahman or Unity and the MahaParaNirvana is the great point of NO return

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 5, 2007, at 5:22 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: I was going to write tonight from Nirvana, but I've decided against it. I was there earlier and lemme tell you...no matter what you've heard in all of those spiritual

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-06 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html Many thanks for this, Bob. Such a funny, well- written

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-06 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: The best bar I've ever had the privilege of sitting and writing in is no more. It was Windows On The World, in the World Trade Center. *Magnif-

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-06 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: The best bar I've ever had the privilege of sitting and writing in is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-06 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Man, how prejudiced you are. Around about 1978 (+-) there was this rare Yogi who visited Seelisberg. Almost every night Maharishi let him lecture in the Main Assembly Hall. All he would talk about was unity in all

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-06 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html The reality of drinking... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgiZp3LDRNg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-06 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html The reality of drinking...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-06 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html The reality of drinking...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-06 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: the joy of drinking...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-05 Thread bob_brigante
the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to write tonight from Nirvana, but I've decided against it. I was there earlier and lemme tell you...no matter what you've

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-05 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html Many thanks for this, Bob. Such a funny, well- written review makes me want to order the book. The Bar is certainly a source of

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-05 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TurquoiseB Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 5:39 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , bob_brigante [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2007-05-05 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html Many thanks for this, Bob. Such a funny, well- written

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2005-10-24 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One time in a meeting with SSRS someone asked him if a dip in the Ganges during Kumbha Mela would bring enlightenment. He gave the person a bemused look and said,How? Then he laughed and said that we needed to use our

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2005-10-24 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One time in a meeting with SSRS someone asked him if a dip in the Ganges during Kumbha Mela would bring enlightenment. He gave the person a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana

2005-10-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One time in a meeting with SSRS someone asked him if a dip in the Ganges during Kumbha Mela would bring enlightenment. He gave the person a bemused look and said,How? Then he laughed and said that we needed to use our