RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why Yogis Don't Meditate

2011-03-10 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:39 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why Yogis Don't Meditate This "guy" is Phil Goldberg who used to be o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why Yogis Don't Meditate

2011-03-10 Thread Vaj
On Mar 9, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Michael Flatley wrote: This guy's reference to "Yogis" is those who teach or practice various forms of popular hatha yoga, such as Bikrim's, Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, Ayengar, etc. This guy appears to be a former TM teacher who bought the whole MMY BS that TM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why Yogis Don't Meditate

2011-03-09 Thread Peter
This "guy" is Phil Goldberg who used to be on FFL, longtime TMer, taught at MIU back in the day. good guy. Had lunch with him several years back. --- On Wed, 3/9/11, Michael Flatley wrote: > From: Michael Flatley > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why Yogis Don't Meditate > To: FairfieldLife@yaho

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why Yogis Don't Meditate

2011-03-09 Thread Bhairitu
Yup, and yoga means "union." The asanas are the limbering up for sitting in meditation where the real yoga takes place. On 03/09/2011 08:01 PM, Michael Flatley wrote: > This guy's reference to "Yogis" is those who teach or practice various forms > of popular hatha yoga, such as Bikrim's, Ashtan

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why Yogis Don't Meditate

2011-03-08 Thread Vaj
On Mar 8, 2011, at 8:05 PM, WillyTex wrote: > > >>> Why do you suppose the Buddha and the Zen Masters >>> like Dogen continued to meditate years after they >>> supposedly attained enlightenment? >>> > Vaj: >> I assumed they weren't merely meditating Willy... >> > All enlightened masters med

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why Yogis Don't Meditate

2011-03-08 Thread Vaj
On Mar 8, 2011, at 5:42 PM, WillyTex wrote: > Vaj: >> I always thought it was funny to think that >> people who though they were enlightened would >> even imagine that they still needed to meditate. >> > Why do you suppose the Buddha and the Zen Masters > like Dogen continued to meditate year