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[FairfieldLife] Can Buddhist Practices Help Us Overcome The Biological Pull Of Dissatisfaction?

[eustace10679]

NPR - Fresh Air

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/07/541610511/can-buddhist-practices-help-us-overcome-the-biological-pull-of-dissatisfaction
 
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/07/541610511/can-buddhist-practices-help-us-overcome-the-biological-pull-of-dissatisfaction
 

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https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2017/08/20170807_atc_as_venice_housing_prices_rise_squatters_fight_to_stay_in_italian_hometown.mp3?orgId=1=1124=235=2=542086995=progseg=541985440=7=true
 
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2017/08/20170807_atc_as_venice_housing_prices_rise_squatters_fight_to_stay_in_italian_hometown.mp3?orgId=1=1124=235=2=542086995=progseg=541985440=7=true

 

[FairfieldLife] Hans Laurentius - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

[Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]]

Laurentius Trained in the 90’s as a teacher in spiritual therapy. The search 
stopped, among other ‘things’, mainly through the confrontation


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Hans 
Laurentius


[Hans 
Laurentius]
Hans Laurentius


Trained in the 90’s as a teacher in spiritual therapy. The search stopped, 
among other ‘things’, mainly through the confrontation with Nisargadatta’s I am 
That, and Ramana Maharshi’s glare and words and the spontaneous recognition of 
Awareness (Consciousness) as reality. ‘After’ that awakening the ‘I 
Am/Consciousness’ was recognised to be the first identification.

Since ’98 Hans has led hundreds of satsangs, retreats and private sessions. He 
published eight books and a booklet, many many articles and columns, youtube 
satsang video’s (one in English) and seven homemade music cd’s. Hans is 
sometimes judged as being too confrontational or direct, or, more kindly, as 
very clear. On the other hand people credit him for his creativity and 
patience. Funny, right?

The following points and others reflecting Hans' perspective were discussed in 
the interview:
▪ When spirituality is not alarming, it’s not worth mentioning.
▪  Burn-out is never about work. It’s a spiritual crisis. Not feeling and 
listening leads to inauthenticity which at a certain point makes the ‘soul’ 
scream for change.
▪  Self-inquiry is for internal use only. Not for beating others down, or to be 
used as an excuse for lousy behavior.
▪  Becoming aware isn’t necessarily pleasant. It will always bring clarity 
though.
▪  Reality is never a problem until we start to project our beliefs, fears, 
expectations and judgements onto it.
▪  You are far too much interested in solutions, and in the meantime it is your 
mind (what you believe) who is creating the trouble in the first place.
▪  Ego-mind has only two modes: trying to get something and trying to get rid 
of something. Sprituality based on this doesn’t deserve the name.
▪  Unresolved issues keep you from being truly present and real. Avoidance is 
one of the most weakening tributes of identification with the mind.
▪  A lot of (your) spirituality is insincere. It’s mostly based on trying to 
get rid of something, avoiding authenticity, masking what is really there, 
taking on a new persona.
▪  Not feeling things fully. Not facing facts. Trying to force an outcome. 
Overreacting and looking for approval. All sings of immaturity. Sub-human 
attitudes.
▪  What you truly are has never been hurt or treated badly, it’s not lacking 
anything. It’s completely free, whole and shining. NOW. ALREADY. It’s fearless!
▪

When spirituality is not alarming, it’s not worth mentioning.


▪

Burn-out is never about work. It’s a spiritual crisis. Not feeling and 
listening leads to inauthenticity which at a certain point makes the ‘soul’ 
scream for change.


▪

Self-inquiry is for internal use only. Not for beating others down, or to be 
used as an excuse for lousy behavior.


▪

Becoming aware isn’t necessarily pleasant. It will always bring clarity though.


▪

Reality is never a problem until we start to project our beliefs, fears, 
expectations and judgements onto it.


▪

You are far too much interested in solutions, and in the meantime it is your 
mind (what you believe) who is creating the trouble in the first place.


▪

Ego-mind has only two modes: trying to get something and trying to get rid of 
something. Sprituality based on this doesn’t deserve the name.


▪

Unresolved issues keep you from being truly present and real. Avoidance is one 
of the most weakening tributes of identification with the mind.


▪

A lot of (your) spirituality is insincere. It’s mostly based on trying to get 
rid of something, avoiding authenticity, masking what is really there, taking 
on a new persona.


▪

Not feeling things fully. Not facing facts. Trying to force an outcome. 
Overreacting and looking for approval. All sings of immaturity. Sub-human 
attitudes.


▪

What you truly are has never been hurt or treated badly, it’s not lacking 
anything. It’s completely free, whole and shining. NOW. ALREADY. It’s fearless!



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[FairfieldLife] Re: FF meditator memoriam

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 Dave Randall
 Tim Hunter
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Flowering of Spiritual Movements
  
 Through generational attrition when spiritual practice communal movements 
recede, like happened in the 19th and early 20th Century with the Quakers or 
the Shaker movement, evidently “it ain’t over until it is over”. 
 The TM movement today is undergoing a generational transition and, like within 
storylines of these other movements, that which does remain of the TM movement 
is seeking a place of renewed relevance to a greater world. 
  
 The story of the Shakers is well told as a collapse popularly (mis-)construed 
to their practice of celibacy, the Society of Friends broadsided by 
evangelicalism and social and generational change went through a recession in 
their numbers in the same time frame. Though both groups were founded by 
mystics as spiritual practice groups both continue even now in a vestige of 
their former selves.  
  
 The generational recession of numbers in the old ‘un-programmed’ practice of 
the Society of Friends Quaker Meetings is shown in an appendix published at the 
very beginning of the 20th Century. 
 Evidently in the scope of attrition of transcendent meditationist numbers 
attending group meditations of the TM  movement a similar generational collapse 
is being witnessed as happened with the Quakers, Shakers and also at Amana 
Colony. 
  
 As a founding energy (shakti) of a mystic and spiritual practice of a 
formation era came to be supplanted by monotony of maintaining institutional 
states and causes built up from founding eras then succeeding generations 
evidently becoming, routinized and tired went their own ways on into the 
material world of their day. ..all work and no ‘shakti’ make Jack and Betty 
dull worker ants. 
  
 TM ‘s actuarial march of time:
 

 Meditationist Fairfield, Iowa and TM Movement Memoriam
  
 Ellen Lashmutt
 Finn Bousquet..
 Gurdy Leete
 Nathan Zenack
 Christina Revolinski
 Nancy Glassco Ellie Ditzel
 Vaidya Mishra
 Paul Handelman
 Carl Wonneman
 Tim Hildebrandt
 John Ong
 Rod Magoon
 David George
 Gary Malmgren
 Amalia Bright
 William James Duke
 Florence Davis
 George Gallagher
 Andrew Sheehan
 Sally Peden
 Tom Torpy
 John Herbert Prechtel
 Nancy Van Blaricum
 Harvey Lubar
 Louisa Magee
 Marc Travis
 Gillian Pierce
 Frank Ramsey
 Gert MacQueen
 Evelyn Normandin
 Petra Stanley
 Cindy Korn
 Jan Overholt
 James R. French
 Jan Wixon
 Robert Vaughn Abrams • April 13, 1949 • Seattle, WA • August 12, 1997 • North 
Carolina
 Roy Adams • February 16, 1949 • August, 1980 • California
 Jefferson Aikens • December, 2015 • Fairfield, Iowa
 Antoinette F. Alazraki • November 20, 1947 • July 25, 2013
 Farrokh K. Anklesaria • May 29, 1946 • Mumbai, India • June 27, 2012 • St. 
Louis, MO
 Gwenn Anderson • September 20, 1944 • February 9, 2016 • Ogden, UT
 Jean Archer • August 13, 1924 • May 30, 1989 • Ottumwa, IA
 Margaret Rose Ardussi • June 1, 1941 • Toledo, OH • December 7, 2004 • 
Belcamp, MD • Estes Park TTC
 Margaret Ashelman • December 18, 1916 • November 28, 2015 • Fairfield, Iowa
 Chris Blanchard Ayres • June 26, 1949 • August 21, 2010 • Truckee, CA
 Geoffrey Baker • June 1, 1926 • April 12, 2011 • Iowa City, Iowa
 Bruce Murray Beal • October 29, 1954 • February 9, 2010 • Massachusetts
 Robert L. Bollinger • May 22, 1950 • June 22, 2014 • Fairfield, Iowa
 Rob Buck • October 3, 1950 • October 8, 2009 • Rochester, MN
 Laura Ann Calvert • August 24, 1949 • December 12, 2005 • Purcell, OK
 Edmond A. Chouinard • July 19, 1936 • North Adams, MA • December 2, 2004 • 
Providence, RI
 Henry Ogden Clark • December 29, 1944 • December 22, 2004 • Iowa City, IA
 Joe Clark • June, 1972 • North Carolina
 Lyman Hathaway Clark • December 29, 1944 • December 15, 1998 • Traverse City, 
MI
 Joan Clemenzi • August 7, 1957 • April 22, 1999 • Newburyport, MA 
 Seth A. Cohen • December 27, 1954 • July 19, 2008 • Philadelphia, PA
 Morris Cohn • October 24, 1940 • Denver, CO • August 31, 2010 • Boulder, CO • 
Rishikesh TTC
 Marie Annette Connors • November 6, 1935 • October 3, 2011 • Seattle, WA
 Nancy Eleanor Cook • September 4, 1947 • December 28, 2010 • Clearlake Oaks, CA
 Ellen Corby • June 3, 1911 • April 14, 1999 • Los Angeles, CA
 William E. Crist • October 14, 1946 • February 11, 2007 • California
 Michael Culver • June 21, 1956 • August 15, 2014 • Joplin, MO
 Ron Dean • October 22, 1944 • January 13, 2016 • Fairfield, Iowa
 Robert King Dee, Jr. • April 28, 1953 • January 13, 2007 • Warwick, RI
 Emma Estrada • January 3, 1925 • March 2, 2011 • Lawrence, KS • brunnen 1975 
YYC
 Jeri Mae Felix • December 3, 1945 • Norwalk, CT • January 27, 2016 • Iowa 
City, Iowa
 Charles Darden Ficke • May 1, 1947 • March 18, 2007 • Newport, RI
 Nancy Cooke de Herrera • April 12, 1922 • February 28, 2013 • Beverly Hills, CA
 Mary Drew • June 20, 1945 • April 30, 2003 • Iowa City, Iowa
 Francillo Durfey • June 27, 1947 • March 3, 2013 • Ogden,