[FairfieldLife] What's a meta for, anyway?

2013-12-11 Thread TurquoiseB
To *convince* you of something, dummy. That's why spiritual teachers and other con men use them. Why do you think Jesus talked in parables? Duh. Why did Maharishi try to link the mechanics of TM to watering the root and drawing the arrow back in the bow? Because they intuitively knew that your

Re: [FairfieldLife] What's a meta for, anyway?

2013-12-11 Thread Share Long
turq, and then there's *way too meta* as defined by Rick Castle played by Nathan Fillion. Fun clip... On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 4:13 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:   To *convince* you of something, dummy. That's why spiritual teachers and other con men use them. Why do

Re: [FairfieldLife] What's a meta for, anyway?

2013-12-11 Thread Share Long
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-mE1ScD64Q On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:46 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:   turq, and then there's *way too meta* as defined by Rick Castle played by Nathan Fillion. Fun clip... On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 4:13 AM, TurquoiseB

Re: [FairfieldLife] What's a meta for, anyway?

2013-12-11 Thread Richard J. Williams
MMY and other teachers use metaphors because they parallel the actual mechanics of nature - all human excrement always flows downstream. And, because the transcendental field can't be described in words. Maybe your mind is too stupid to understand that the world of relativity works because of

Re: [FairfieldLife] What's a meta for, anyway?

2013-12-11 Thread Share Long
But Richard, we see a snake in the backyard because our brain, especially the primitive area, is hardwired to see danger and thus protect us from that. Waking up from the dream may only be a case of the activity of our brain shifts mainly to the front area. thanks, turq, good article. On

Re: [FairfieldLife] What's a meta for, anyway?

2013-12-11 Thread Richard J. Williams
It's like another zen koan: You follow a path to the gate. When you follow the path you go through the gate. Once you pass through, you find that there's no path, and the there's no gate. So, they call it the Gateless Gate. - A collection of zen koans by Wumen. On 12/11/2013 10:28 AM, Share