Mission:
“This is what happens in the Domes: A wave of infinity spreads from one end of
the Dome to the other end. But the wave is not constrained by the walls. It
permeates the whole collective consciousness -the whole field of unmanifest
infinity… This is what you are here for. And as the
but maybe it is the reverse, we lose . . . everything.
Yep, brilliant! It's called death.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote:
Suppose it is illusion? And if the journey has an end, what would that be? On
such a journey I suspect most of us imagine we are
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote:
Seraphita wrote:
Everything is hunky-dory exactly as it is. We (which includes
me) don't see that as we judge everything from our own
limited perspective.
Which is hunky-dory exactly as it is.
:-)
Aufklärung –Clearing Up.
There is no thing as “enlightenment” - as that term is used here o FFL. There
has never been “enlightenment” - whether discovered, realized or attained. That
includes immediate insights or gradual understandings. There was only
Aufklärung – Clearing Up.
Seraphita, I think it's even possible that our future, way more evolved selves
can, if needed, help our present day selves. I think Now contains past and
future and it's just a matter of sufficient brain development for us to be able
to live that reality. For example, finding old photos of
This is a very weak defense of your beliefs. As a Buddhist you should
already know that the Buddha's rationale for teaching hinged on the fact
that he became enlightened - and the nature of his enlightenment.
According to the Buddha himself, at the moment he became enlightened he
saw all his
I think it's even possible that our future, way more evolved selves can, if
needed, help our present day selves. :
Yes, I like that idea. It crops up in occult circles where it is held that our
personal Holy Guardian Angel is actually our future wise(r) self.
---In
Re According to the Buddha himself, at the moment he became enlightened he saw
all his previous lives and all his future lives:
Hang about! At his death didn't the Buddha choose to enter parinirvana and so
release himself from the wheel of life and death? So he couldn't have any
future
That's a great question, Richard: for whom is one seeking enlightenment? And I
think it changes over time. Hopefully!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:
This is a very weak defense of your beliefs. As a Buddhist you should already
know that the Buddha's rationale
There's really no past, present or future in the Field. In a parallel
universe events are occurring simultaneously. So, a person doesn't go
'back into the past' or 'into the future' because the Field is a unity
where history is not divided by concepts of time.
On 11/13/2013 9:55 PM,
What you are saying anartaxius is what I've been trying to say in my own
inarticulate and fumbling way.
Re If the Self of the universe is considered to be Absolute Being, does it
really evolve or grow?:
That's my problem with the idea of a Kali Yuga (or any other yuga). Everything
is
That's a great question, Richard: for whom is one seeking enlightenment?
I never met anyone who wasn't seeking enlightenment for him/herself. That's
the absurdity that the Zen people tried to expose.
Nisargadatta Maharaj - a genuine realised master - always said that those who
came to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Re [empty's statement that]: The residual effect was that I taught
myself how to conduct my conscious mind to see into past lives.:
Look - if you and others could really access past-life information
you could tell the rest of us stuff that
Except that in my experiences of past life info coming, in each case the info
helped me to understand what was going on in a current relationship. That was
useful.
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 3:11 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
: [FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendental Meditation Revolutionary Mission:
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 9:10 AM
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Re [empty's statement
.
On Wed, 11/13/13, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendental Meditation Revolutionary Mission:
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2013
We have the sworn testimony of the TurquoiseB that reincarnation is
possible because the Turq said he remembered a past life. Also, his
teacher, the Zen Master Rama, related to the Turq all Rama's past lives:
Zen Master, Kyoto, Japan 1531-1575
Head of Zen Order, Kyoto, Japan 1602-1671
Master
Indeed, among New Agers there are some who believe they were xyz
o'-so-important person. This is often cited as proof it is all phantasy.
Tell that to Buddha and Patanjali, who musta been deluded by the Old Agers. If
fact there are Westerners who see that as proof that Buddha and Patanjali
All very interesting but what I want to know is who was that military guy in
the b and w picture you posted?
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote:
Indeed, among New Agers there are some who believe they were xyz
o'-so-important person. This is often cited as proof it is
Thanks for your reply, Empty. For the record, that's exactly how my
flashbacks have occurred as well. One moment I'm in the present,
anticipating nothing out of the ordinary and expecting nothing, and the
next moment I'm in the moment of another time and place, as a first
person participant, able
Re Barry's As for the Jack The Ripper thang, how could anyone's past- life
recollection shed any light on that unless they happened to be there, and in a
position to have witnessed the events?:
They could indeed have been the perpetrator or one of his victims.
I was going to say this:
Thanks for the fascinating story, empty. My first experience was just words.
Later I realized that the words were the result of a previous life event. All
experiences have come during ordinary life, unbidden but welcome for their
usefulness. Once a long term dear friend and I had a bad
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita wrote:
I was going to say this: If I was to find myself suddenly in a
past-life - let's say in Elizabethan London - I'd take careful note of
what clothes the people around me wore, what food they ate, what the
houses looked like, etc. and then
Sounds like a dream while being awake. Any slippage into another time dimension
makes it seem probable these dimensions exist simultaneously with the present.
I wonder what it is in our brains or in the frequency of the dimensions called
time that causes a momentary ability to be able to see
Van and I had lots of experiences about our previous lives together. Usually we
had different ones except one from primitive times he had and shared, then I
saw it too, quite easily. The bad one was when suddenly I saw us in a medieval
dungeon. He was dressed in a long, black robe, a judge of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Sounds like a dream while being awake. Any slippage into another time
dimension makes it seem probable these dimensions exist simultaneously
with the present.
Personally, I suspect this is the case. That is, that all of these
events are happening
fwiw, I figured we had all been in a previous life together and then a healer
mentioned that out of the blue about a month ago. My intuition says Atlantis
but I've not had any experiences to confirm. Hope we get it right this time
around (-:
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 10:47 AM,
If you had a flashback that convinced you you were Jack the Ripper in a
previous life should you hand yourself in to the police? Could you count on
the statute of limitations getting you off the hook?
Could you claim in mitigation that you weren't yourself when you committed the
murders?
All very interesting but what I want to know is who was that military guy in
the b and w picture you posted?:
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf (14 October 1896 – 15 August 1944) was a
German police official and politician, who served as a Member of the Prussian
Parliament during the Weimar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
If you had a flashback that convinced you you were Jack the Ripper in
a previous life should you hand yourself in to the police?
Could you count on the statute of limitations getting you off the
hook?
Could you claim in mitigation that you weren't
Re I'm in the same room of a castle, or in the courtyard of a large city like
Carcassonne . . and
Papal Palace in Avignon, realizing that I had not only been there before but
been tortured (probably to death) there.:
Aha! So you are claiming you were a Cathar in a previous life. As in The
Re It is something I would like to experience as long as it didn't freak me
out too much.:
Ay, there's the rub.
Perhaps you and I can't recall any past lives because:
1) Our previous lives were as bland and insipid as a cold cup of tea.
2) On the contrary, our lives were traumatic
Did any of those who recall previous lives ever read the cult classic Winged
Pharaoh (1937) by Joan Grant? She claimed to have recalled the events in
Winged Pharaoh while in a trance-like state. Interesting character.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re It is
Re my query Ann - can you guess how I found out?:
Ann is obviously away with the fairies. But the answer, as I'm sure everyone
realised, is that I noted Alex and Richard's comments on the hole thread.
They mentioned you could either drag an image - or right-click on an image - to
Google
Re and thank God, it is from the past. Or as you said, to paraphrase, a
parallel slipstream, of space-time, easily engaged if one is open to whatever
comes:
There's a interesting possibility raised by this line of reasoning, isn't
there? If one's present self can recall a past-life
Now that is cool and useful. I will have to experiment with that. And good
detective work on Herr Graf von Helldorf.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re my query Ann - can you guess how I found out?:
Ann is obviously away with the fairies. But the answer, as I'm
Judy
You quoted a famous statement from the Udana. It doesn't fit well into the
early Buddhist sutta-s because it appears to go counter to the momentariness
doctrine (ksanika-vada). However, scholars consider that to be an actual point
of authentication. The statement was considered too well
It didn't take this thread long to go to shit. This must be the point in
the conversation when it gets personal. Go figure.
On 11/11/2013 9:31 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Richard J. is such a literalist. If he was (God forbid) a Moslem or a
Christian he'd be a fruitcake fundamentalist.
Re: The residual effect was that I taught myself how to conduct my conscious
mind to see into past lives.:
Look - if you and others could really access past-life information you could
tell the rest of us stuff that wouldn't otherwise be explicable. The fact that
you can't demonstrate such
Seraphita, my experience of knowledge of previous lives has nothing to do with
my accessing it. It comes of its own accord, usually in the context of a
current day relationship. Each time it has helped me understand the dynamics of
that relationship.
Knowledge of previous lives is one of the
There's a highly sceptical account of past-life regression on Wiki. (I wonder
how some of these Wiki entries aren't challenged by those who beg to differ.)
The conclusion is: scientific consensus is that the memories are the result of
cryptomnesia, narratives created by the subconscious mind
How do you know they weren't challenged, but the challenges were overruled? Do
you ever click the Talk tab at the top of a Wikipedia page to read the
discussions among the editors?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
There's a highly sceptical account of past-life
Re How do you know they weren't challenged, but the challenges were overruled?
Do you ever click the Talk tab at the top of a Wikipedia page to read the
discussions among the editors?:
No - I hadn't noticed the Talk tab before! I've learned something new.
Having clicked on said tab I see
Seraph
A very funny reply.
Nothing so good as It can't happen here! or God didn't say that in the
Bible. Go have another hot toddy - it'll prove everything false except the hot
toddy.
Just think I'm the Big Self and I don't need such bullshit. You'll be
feelin' high and mighty
Seraphita, I'm not sure Empty liked your funny reply - I did.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote:
Seraph
A very funny reply.
Nothing so good as It can't happen here! or God didn't say that in the
Bible. Go have another hot toddy - it'll prove everything false
I learned something new also; that's pretty interesting and it is right in
front of our noses. I just read the Talk on the Mata Amritanandamayi Wiki
article. Pretty humorous (just the creepy aspect of my humor showing itself).
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:
Re: Seraphita, I'm not sure Empty liked your funny reply - I did.:
Yes, and I was genuinely curious about the uniform. Anyone recognise its
nationality? Looks eastern European to me - so probably a New York fireman!
Re emptybill's: Just think I'm the Big Self and I don't need such
On 11/10/2013 8:53 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
*Do people really talk in those terms? I say he was a selfish bastard!*
Is that the way people over there talk about the Buddha, that he was a
selfish bastard? LoL!
I said; Do people really talk in those terms? I say he was a selfish bastard!
(for not taking the Bodhisattva vow).
Richard said: Is that the way people over there talk about the Buddha, that
he was a selfish bastard? LoL!
People over there?! I always speak for myself alone.
What's
This thread brought out some interesting comments, thanks.
I see that when I challenged emptybill on his saying: It's a job for
numberless kalpas - not just one life, and I said, That depends on whether
you really believe you'll be reincarnated. Do you really believe that? If so,
on what
He probably had to go to work, but all Hindus and Buddhists believe in
samsara, karma, and reincarnation.
On 11/11/2013 6:02 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
This thread brought out some interesting comments, thanks.
I see that when I challenged emptybill on his saying: It's a job
for
The 'Bodhisattva' is mentioned in the Pali scriptures. The Bodhisattva
vow is the vow taken by Mahayana Buddhists to attain complete
enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. Both the Theravada
and the Mahayana unanimously accept the Bodhisattva ideal as the highest.
On 11/11/2013
Neuroplasticity and the jyotish pitta-laced gulab jamuns at work, no doubt.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, emilymaenot@... wrote:
I sent this at 10:30 this morning. It was posted at 4:18 pm. It must be a
sign.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emilymaenot@... wrote:
Richard J. is such a literalist. If he was (God forbid) a Moslem or a Christian
he'd be a fruitcake fundamentalist.
Re his comment that all Hindus and Buddhists believe in samsara, karma, and
reincarnation:
Yes they *believe* in that bullshit but on what possible justification? How
many
Richard J. is such a literalist. If he was (God forbid) a Moslem or a Christian
he'd be a fruitcake fundamentalist.
Re his comment that all Hindus and Buddhists believe in samsara, karma, and
reincarnation: Yes they *believe* in that bullshit but on what possible
justification? How many
Yep, I actually have a job and have other responsibilities too.
But I'm with you ... I don't believe in past lives. That's because belief
is for those who cannot see directly.
In the '80's I trained with a group of people in various subtle
perception techniques. One facet was conducting
Talk about Oracular ...
Buddhadharma asserts anatmam/nairatmya (not-self) rather than ekâtman (one
self). Why talk to yourself when you already know what you are saying?
Especially since there is no other' to listen.
Oh yeah, all is one and one is none ... yada yada.
---In
Re Why talk to yourself when you already know what you are saying? Especially
since there is no other' to listen.:
Because *I* didn't know what *you* were going to post in response to my
message until it popped up on my laptop screen. That's the way the game of life
has been set up. But the
I prefer to parallel Shankara's Advaita with Buddhism to get a clearer picture
because Advaita professes the insights of the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and
the Gita. Buddhism diverges from this on the following points.
Both say that the world is “unreal”, but Buddhists mean that it is only
Alert! Alert! Now it can be told.
What I think is hard-wired into the human psyche is
ego, and hubris, and that's what I think is at the root of
such goals, noble as they may seem.
However, such a post is NOT the result of ego and hubris
but is an oracular advent naturally appearing in
Re Take the so-called Bodhisattva Vow. Essentially, it is declaring to
oneself and to the world one's intention to not allow oneself to become
enlightened oneself until all sentient beings are enlightened.:
There is only the One Self - so there are no others! To become enlightened
is to
Re Take the so-called Bodhisattva Vow. Essentially, it is declaring to
oneself and to the world one's intention to not allow oneself to become
enlightened oneself until all sentient beings are enlightened.:
There is only the One Self - so there are no others! To become enlightened
is to
just hard-wired into the con artists who claim to be able to do it.
On Fri, 11/8/13, anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Meditation Revolutionary Mission:
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote:
just hard-wired into the con artists who claim to be able to do it.
I am less harsh than you are, Michael, in that I suspect
a lot of people who have such laudable goals mean well,
at least at the beginning.
What I think is
You are not even making any sense - the Bodhisattva vow is the vow taken
by Mahayana Buddhists to attain complete enlightenment for the sake of
all sentient beings, not to forsake enlightenment until everyone else
is enlightened. How do you get things so mixed up? Go figure.
Bodhisattva vow:
So far, on the mat and counted out. This is pretty much the goal of every
organisation that wants to better the world. Interesting that the dire
situation at hand never seems to get resolved. I suspect most religions began
with such laudable goals in mind. Could it be that this inability to
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