[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > I hadn't but did catch an article of his on the Web. He seems to express a > position of absolute skepticism about outer knowledge that I do not share. > It would never be a goal of mine to destroy all my beliefs. I am int

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > > wrote: >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread whynotnow7
Just out of curiosity, did you ever read Jed McKenna's books? He elucidates the Via Negativa "autolysis" process of mercilessly destroying all of one's beliefs, perhaps better than anyone else I have ever met. I bet you'd enjoy him; he has a wicked eye for "spiritual" self-delusion :-) Loved his b

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > > Rory, > > > > > > I gotta keep up with these threads I guess. How ex

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > How about his actual experiences, did you share them too ? If not you are > just making baseless claims exposing your ignorance. > > Not that there is anything wrong with that :-) > I lack your confidence in knowing what his actual e

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > > Rory, > > > > > > I gotta keep up with these threads I guess. How ex

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > Rory, > > > > I gotta keep up with these threads I guess. How exactly have I ended up > > characterized as being fascinated with your man boobs? > > * *

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > The silent part of my mind is not the interesting > > part, to me or to others... > > sparaig: > How could it be "interesting?" > > It simply is. > > The point of enlightenment isn't to ignore the interesting > stuff, but to simply not lose sight of the simplicity > behind the diversi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Rory, > > I gotta keep up with these threads I guess. How exactly have I ended up > characterized as being fascinated with your man boobs? * * In your sweetly funny treatment of TWB, you appeared to me to exhibit a somewha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > "What is the aim of all the beings? It is the > > attainment of infinite happiness. A life free > > from suffering, and the attainment of eternal > > happiness is what we want... > > curtisdeltablues: > No, no and no. This is the dream of an idiot or > a young person who has not lived eno

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread curtisdeltablues
Rory, I gotta keep up with these threads I guess. How exactly have I ended up characterized as being fascinated with your man boobs? I've been so deep in brushing up on ID that I missed the trail that lead to this odd, odd place. I was caught last year on the boardwalk where women sometimes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread RoryGoff
* * Yes, Robin, I totally agree! As She says, if someone who can't take his gaze off my tits actually looks fully into my eyes for a single heart-stopping moment, he will experience a horrific loss as he dies utterly into them, and this death of one's boyhood appears to be a fearful and lamentab

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread RoryGoff
* * "Yes, we do!" :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Like we used to say as kids playing cops and robbers, "Ah, you got me!" :-) > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-14 Thread whynotnow7
Like we used to say as kids playing cops and robbers, "Ah, you got me!" :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > "I put this in quotes because I have attained absolutely nothing -- > > consists only i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-13 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > Rory, > > Well one truth I have to get over is this: that there is someone out there (you) who is espousing a philosophy—and self-mediated experience—which still makes you come off as a loving, intelligent, positive, and generous human

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-13 Thread maskedzebra
Dear Robin, RG: It is always -- and I mean *always* -- a pleasure to commune with you, RC, and I wholeheartedly appreciate your living presence here as fully (as far as I can tell) as you do mine. I agree with you that to a certain (pretty farflung) extent, the universe will happily support whate

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-13 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > "I put this in quotes because I have attained absolutely nothing -- consists > only in stripping away all of my beliefs and stories, deconstructing them > all..." > > I don't even believe that for one quadrillionth of a second, Ror

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-13 Thread RoryGoff
* * Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, Nablusoss! Thank you for sharing your thrice-blessed, hair-raising experiences of love, light and bliss here with us! Yes, as the Self meets the Self in recognition, remembrance and homecoming, we sometimes like to celebrate with fireworks and an electric

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-13 Thread RoryGoff
Dear Robin, It is always -- and I mean *always* -- a pleasure to commune with you, RC, and I wholeheartedly appreciate your living presence here as fully (as far as I can tell) as you do mine. I agree with you that to a certain (pretty farflung) extent, the universe will happily support whateve

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-13 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > > > * * All kulturkampf and kidding aside, TWB shows me that he understands, > > > appreciates, makes love to, IS the unspeakable and unthinkable core of > > > who

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-13 Thread RoryGoff
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > * * All kulturkampf and kidding aside, TWB shows me that he understands, > > appreciates, makes love to, IS the unspeakable and unthinkable core of who > > I AM in a radically fundamental way that you and Curtis at this moment,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-13 Thread maskedzebra
Rory, Well one truth I have to get over is this: that there is someone out there (you) who is espousing a philosophy—and self-mediated experience—which still makes you come off as a loving, intelligent, positive, and generous human being. This definitely does not add up for me, since I would ha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-13 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > * * All kulturkampf and kidding aside, TWB shows me that he understands, > appreciates, makes love to, IS the unspeakable and unthinkable core of who I > AM in a radically fundamental way that you and Curtis at this moment, as > lova

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-13 Thread RoryGoff
* * All kulturkampf and kidding aside, TWB shows me that he understands, appreciates, makes love to, IS the unspeakable and unthinkable core of who I AM in a radically fundamental way that you and Curtis at this moment, as lovable and charming and delightful and sincere and appreciative and psyc

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-13 Thread maskedzebra
My opinion? Tat Wale Baba now knows you were right, Curtis. No one—anywhere—can refute the essential argument you have made here. All FFL readers who read your post and wish to discover where the flaw is in your critique of TWB (because of their feeling of loyalty to the Hindu metaphysic), will

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-12 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > There are so many assumptive concepts here. Know your self is not a simple > instruction. It presupposes so many perspectives of what our "self" means. > I no longer share the view proposed my Maharishi's Hinduism. Any des

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-12 Thread curtisdeltablues
No he diii ent! Curtis didn't try to pick apart the holy wisdom of the Tater Tat and reduce it to his own limited and shrieklingly unenlightened perspective, as if he and Tat were sharing a stage with Maury Povich. And he starts it all off with the classic line "you don't know me, you don't kno

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > When Tat Wale Baba visited the Rishikesh TTC, a woman proclaimed > that he should visit London. "Madame, I am London" was his > response. That must be the origin of Tom T's "I am the dome."

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-12 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 4:53 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-12 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > > Can this be condensed to "Madame, I am London" What has Madam's in London to do with Tat Wala Babas last inspiration: > > "Having gained this beautiful, perfect human nervous system, if we > have > > known that element of th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-11 Thread merudanda
An attempt at honesty without the facade of objectivity?. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > Very nice. Now I can go to bed, rest, and maybe not bother with this forum for some days. Thanks for posting this, a special way to end the day. > > --- In Fairfie

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-11 Thread merudanda
"seventhray1" wrote: Can this be condensed to "Madame, I am London"or whatever your Hindu village is called snip A zen master was walking down a path, with two students, and they came upon an elephant sitting in the path. The zen master poked it with a stick and it did not move. The master asked

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-11 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
Very nice. Now I can go to bed, rest, and maybe not bother with this forum for some days. Thanks for posting this, a special way to end the day. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > "What is the aim of all the beings? It is the attainment of infinite > happiness. A life

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tat Wale Baba/Discourse on Self-Realization

2011-09-11 Thread seventhray1
Can this be condensed to "Madame, I am London" --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > "What is the aim of all the beings? It is the attainment of infinite > happiness. A life free from suffering, and the attainment of eternal > happiness is what we want. Now, we should d