--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Merry Christmas!
On Dec. 19th B. Alan Wallace gave a lecture on the Shamatha
Project
along with some preliminary findings in Santa Barbara, CA. It
sounds
like it was a great success. A number of retreat members were
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:
Merry Christmas!
On Dec. 19th B. Alan Wallace gave a lecture on the Shamatha
Project along with some preliminary findings in Santa Barbara,
CA.
The Full Moon Pooja on Channel 5 (mou.org) was prolly
by far the nicest TM pooja I've ever seen or heard.
The sync was quite good, and most of them poojarins(?) looked
quite good. The one in the right end on the first row
looked even somewhat errotic!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@
wrote:
On Dec 24, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
Hey Rick, I think there actually is a lingam in Fairfield in
Vedic City. I promised
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:
Merry Christmas!
On Dec. 19th B. Alan Wallace gave a lecture on the
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bkwx-9kYRMfeature=related
Riu, riu, chiu
La guarda ribera
Dios guarde el lobo
De nuestra cordera
El lobo rabioso
La quiso morder
Mas Dios poderoso
La supo defender
Quizole hazer que
No pudiesse pecar
Ni aun original
Esta uirgen no tuuiera
In a language even more obscure than Sanskrit, Huron,
written in 1643. For those interested, there is an
article about the language, the carol, and the sole
speaker of the language at the end of this post.
Merry Christmas to all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6IG6F6E5Ac
Ehstehn yayau deh
On Dec 25, 2007, at 4:01 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Merry Christmas!
On Dec. 19th B. Alan Wallace gave a lecture on the Shamatha
Project
along with some preliminary findings in Santa Barbara, CA. It
sounds
like it was a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 25, 2007, at 4:01 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:
Merry Christmas!
On Dec. 19th B. Alan Wallace gave a lecture on the Shamatha
Project
along with
Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
there were no rootless Christmas trees
hung with candycanes and breakable stars
Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
there were no gilded Christmas trees
and no tinsel Christmas trees
and
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@
wrote:
On Dec 24, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
Hey Rick, I think
On Dec 25, 2007, at 8:43 AM, authfriend wrote:
Why is it OK here on FFL to be intolerant of
the religious impulses of others?
Because we're mostly a bunch of phony hypocrites, Judy, and you, with
your amazing perception and ability to see through all the crapola,
have once again ferreted
Judy,
Good points about this issue, but still, I mean, come on, everyone
gets ice formations on their downspouts, but, awhoa, the rich folks
gotta have them worshipped or feel like they've snubbed
Shiva-r-sumptin'? (I am all for lingam worship as legitimate
spirituality for Hindus BTWdon't
Did you write this? The ideas expressed in this poem are precisely why it
doesn't matter whether or not there ever lived a man named Jesus. The truth
expressed in the myth is not diminished if he didn't since he does live in all
of us.
- Original Message
From: do.rflex [EMAIL
On Dec 25, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Angela Mailander wrote:
Did you write this?
~~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, famous for running the City Lights
bookstore in San Francisco, wrote this poem in the 1950s
The ideas expressed in this poem are precisely why it doesn't
matter whether or not there ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhjDGqtLN3sfeature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wdw5e4igDUfeature=related
Amen, brother, amen
--- do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
there were no rootless Christmas trees
hung with candycanes and breakable stars
Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to
--- boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
they're not going to see it, they're being paid to
worship it. 2 ice
lingams were found in vedic city, one by an
average couple and one
by a rich couple. the average guy couldn't afford
to pay to have the
pundits come chant so he was told by
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Dec 25, 2007, at 8:43 AM, authfriend wrote:
Why is it OK here on FFL to be intolerant of
the religious impulses of others?
Because we're mostly a bunch of phony hypocrites, Judy, and
you, with your amazing
On Dec 25, 2007, at 10:17 AM, authfriend wrote:
I just think we don't always realize that
weird stuff like ice lingams can actually be a
focus of sincere religious feeling.
It was a joke, Judy. And if it's so sincere, why do they make people
pay to see it?
I've been influenced by an
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 12/25/07 9:55:35 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Amen, brother, amen
[snip]
And some people just can't stand witnessing other peoples joy and
happiness.
Ignorance
http://www.b3ta.com/links/I_wanna_be_a_pop_star
Does ya wanna be a Pop Star? Here's your to-do list.
This guy's video nails the genre and with a broad enough brush that
all of us who give any awareness to these manufactured humans should
feel just a bit unmasked about our part in the whole
On Dec 25, 2007, at 11:01 AM, authfriend wrote:
I said can be, not always is!
I think we gotta give the payers, at least, the
benefit of the doubt. And charging isn't
necessarily mutually exclusive with sincerity,
although it sure do give one pause.
snip
Huckabee denies the cross was
As a Christmas gift to all FairfieldLife participants,
I've purchased an offset for one ton of carbon dioxide
emissions (sounds like a lot, but it's really just a
token!) from CarbonFootprint.com.
The CarbonFootprint folks are supposed to send me a
personalized certificate by email, but they're a
Authfriend (Judy?) does some mighty fine parsing in calling Huckabee a
liar and calling him to be drummed out of Christianity and politics
for the vague moving cross in his ad, but calling for respect of the
ice chanters and only feeling some pause over charges for viewing
the ice. I know, not
Huckabeesterism has got to be the most brilliant term of the week.
- Original Message
From: Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 11:17:56 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF
On Dec
Thanks, Nablus., Anandamayi has always been a great draw for me ever since I
first
read Autobiography of a Yogi.
Jai Guru Dev
Marek
**
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wdw5e4igDUfeature=related
The Pop-Up Altar Multidemnsional Meditation
The pop-up gallery of traditional wisdom is a Fairfield top seller this
X-mas season.
Goodwill and Peace in the world to all humankind,
The future belongs to research published in
peer-reviewed respected scientific journals.
Get used to it.
-Doug
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Authfriend (Judy?) does some mighty fine parsing in calling
Huckabee a
liar and calling him to be drummed out of Christianity and politics
for the vague moving cross in his ad, but calling for respect of the
ice
In a message dated 12/25/07 10:48:50 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And some people just can't stand witnessing other peoples joy and
happiness.
Ignorance is bliss? Santa Claus in lieu of Jesus?
Rendering Christ's message unto Caesar, Dixon loves to celebrate the
In a message dated 12/25/07 11:29:48 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As a Christmas gift to all FairfieldLife participants,
I've purchased an offset for one ton of carbon dioxide
emissions (sounds like a lot, but it's really just a
token!) from
All the Amma clips from the CBS special edited into one 7-minutet video:
HYPERLINK
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KMIzCe64Vt0http://youtube.com/watch?v=KMIzCe64V
t0
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Vaj wrote:
On Dec 24, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
No it should say compliments of Shemp McGurk and probably would unless
you told them to say anonymous. This isn't paid by your tax dollars
but by individuals buying the machine. Interesting though count me in
the dubious crowd who
The component of 'loving kindness' in the Shamantha meditation and the ongoing
research on it that Vaj has recently posted got me thinking about kindness.
I know the feeling of kindness and in one of those mini revelations that we all
have
from time to time, it came together for me that the
Recently, I read somebody's recommendation, on FFL, not to see Charlie
Wilson's War, so I decided to go see it today and was impressed by it. I'm not
sure why they didn't like it but I found it very informative and interesting.
**See AOL's top rated
AFAIK, Buddhism and Saankhya are marginal doctrines (or whatever)
in India nowadays. Seems like Bharata people don't appreciate very
much atheist stuff...
In a message dated 12/25/07 3:24:43 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seems like Bharata people don't appreciate very
much atheist stuff...
No they don't. Vedic literature warns people against associating with
atheists.
**See
Your point is well-taken, but with computers it's not just another thing like
sports, is it? It is a new medium in the same sense that reading/writing a new
technology and then printing. A friend once said, You can't have the major
leagues without the sandlots. That goes for spirituality as
Whaachoo mean I ain't no angel and you ain't no clown?
No, I don't know the origin of your online handle.
- Original Message
From: feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 4:04:52 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas thanks for
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 12/25/07 10:48:50 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And some people just can't stand witnessing other peoples joy and
happiness.
Ignorance is bliss? Santa Claus in lieu of
I enjoyed the film. I thought Mike Nichols did a really good job of
making serious political issues entertaining. Phillip Seymour Hoffman
was amazing as usual. The story goes a long way in telling how politics
works in America.
I don't think it would be possible to make a historical type of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All the Amma clips from the CBS special edited into one 7-minutet video:
HYPERLINK
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KMIzCe64Vt0
Beautiful! a wonderful Christmas gift! Thanks Rick.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
A semicolon would help Feste's and my interpretation (henceforth
the Angelic/Festian interpretation) of the ghost's advice to
Hamlet, but, after thinking about it, I don't think it's
necessary. The word nor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 12/25/07 3:24:43 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seems like Bharata people don't appreciate very
much atheist stuff...
No they don't. Vedic literature warns people against
Feste is the fool in Twelfth Night, but of course he's really the wise
one who sees everything and stands apart from it all, belonging
nowhere but equally at home anywhere. My favorite Shakespearean clown.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whaachoo
Al Gore, who was criticized for high electric bills at his Tennessee mansion,
has completed a host of improvements to make the home more energy efficient,
and a building-industry group has praised the house as one of the nation's most
environmentally friendly.
Just a small comment on your paragraph that I have snipped below. I
agree with you completely. It has always struck me how in the last
Act, Hamlet, although he is resolved to complete his task, has no
particular plan in mind. Whereas earlier in the play he was
continually scheming, it is now a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a Christmas gift to all FairfieldLife participants,
I've purchased an offset for one ton of carbon dioxide
emissions (sounds like a lot, but it's really just a
token!) from CarbonFootprint.com.
Cool!
Within an enormous vacuum, an enormous space, enormous outer space,
you begin to experience the dawn of enlightenment - just the dawn. You
get the message that the sun is going to shine, purely because there is
a little glow in the east. The dawn of enlightenment in the Buddhist
tradition
In a message dated 12/25/07 3:58:30 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It was an article with review I had linked to that said the film had
been whitewashed so it differs from the book. The first draft of the
script stayed true to the book but Wilson and the woman also
In a message dated 12/25/07 4:12:52 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It was your ugly comment in response to the poem which exposed the
crass, cynical underlying profit motivation of wingnut corporatocracy
to turn Christmas into a crass, Madison Avenue driven
In a message dated 12/25/07 4:43:28 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The fact is Saudi Arabia was matching any funding we were giving to
Osama Bin Laden to fight the Ruskies in Afghanistan. Just because the
film didn't go into this does not make it less of a film.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you write this? The ideas expressed in this poem are precisely
why it doesn't matter whether or not there ever lived a man named
Jesus. The truth expressed in the myth is not diminished if he
didn't since
Yes, those sentences are my Christmas present to this group.
I don't know what the future of mankind will be. But I believe that no matter
what, we'll be just fine, though of course, I also know that this doesn't
preclude unspeakable horrors in the short run. All manifest things must die,
No doubt it will never get through to Ron Paul himself, but, for what
it is worth, this is the message that I recently sent to his campaign
office:
I love Ron Paul, but...if Ron Paul clarifies what he means by being
against science and the scientific understanding of evolution, in a
YouTube
Brilliant.
What can I say?...just brilliant.
OffWorld
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
there were no rootless Christmas trees
hung with candycanes and breakable stars
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and impossibly
Immaculate Reconception
the very craziest of
Second Comings
~~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, famous for running the
City Lights
bookstore in San Francisco
And some people just can't stand
Yes, i think your comment below deserves to be acknowledged.
Yes, FairfieldLife has been for its existance an important place for
the FFmeditating community over the years. A lot has gone through
the TMmill here FFL has been an important place for the TMcommunity
where there is not much of
Please spread the word:
Ron Paul TV special for Iowa. Part 1:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uQNWHmiGj-k
OffWorld
Ron Paul TV Special for Iowa - Part 2
Please spread the word in Iowa:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wekzQrQfacgfeature=user
OffWorld
Ron Paul TV Special for Iowa - Part 2
Please spread the word in Iowa:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wekzQrQfacgfeature=user
OffWorld
Ooops...WTF...it posted 3 times RICK.. perhaps that is why I was
getting charged by the fundies on FFL for having posted 65 times last
month, which is not true. I think that is what happened. Somebody
needs to fix this shit.
OffWorld
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote:
In a message dated 12/25/07 3:24:43 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seems like Bharata people don't appreciate very
much
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Within an enormous vacuum, an enormous space, enormous outer space,
you begin to experience the dawn of enlightenment - just the dawn.
You
get the message that the sun is going to shine, purely because there
is
a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 12/25/07 3:24:43 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seems like Bharata people don't appreciate very
much atheist stuff...
No they don't. Vedic literature warns people against
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
Within an enormous vacuum, an enormous space, enormous outer
space,
you begin to experience the dawn of enlightenment - just the
dawn.
You
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