[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread turquoiseb
The purpose of the fag hag is to protect her gay followers. The purpose of the followers is to do whatever the fag hag wants. It's good to know one's purpose in life. [http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq209/pinklatexblog2/joancrawford.jp\ g] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend

[FairfieldLife] Are these the best pictures taken on a mobile ever?

2011-03-29 Thread cardemaister
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370701/Photographer-Jason-Hawkes-takes-aerial-shots-Britain-using-Nokia-N8-smartphone.html For those of us whose holiday pictures are typified by blurry images or heads cut off, these images will come as something of a shock. Photographer Jason Hawkes

[FairfieldLife] An iPhone app made especially for the Three Goons

2011-03-29 Thread turquoiseb
Feeling a little chagrined that you got caught making 90 Gotta get the TM critics posts in the first 30 hours of the FFL posting week? Wish you could roll them back and pretend that you (depending on gender) weren't so fag hag-whipped or such a compulsive fag hag? Worry no more. The Apple App

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday Raja Emmanuel

2011-03-29 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Joe geezerfreak@... wrote: Maharishi's Global Family Chat Summary March 23, 2011 Raja Emanuel birthday Extraordinary signs of rising invincibility in Germany were

[FairfieldLife] Film stuff: The Scott Connection

2011-03-29 Thread turquoiseb
Sunday just felt like a movie day, so I took advantage of it to watch two recent acquisitions. The first was a film I'd liked the look of when I saw the trailer, and thus decided to look for, called London Boulevard. I put it on my Look For list purely because of the cast: Colin Farrell, Keira

[FairfieldLife] Film review: Lie With Me

2011-03-29 Thread turquoiseb
This review comes entirely from a WTF moment experienced while watching a made-for-the-Internet film called Girl Walks Into A Bar. In one scene of that film I caught a glimpse of a woman playing what can be genuinely considered a bit part, but the sight of her for some reason made me go WTF. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM QA session on David Wants to Fly on YouTube

2011-03-29 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: Would it make any difference to you, if I could quote someone, who used to teach the 'ATR' , back in the day? There is a person I could name that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread Vaj
On Mar 28, 2011, at 9:49 PM, emptybill wrote: You are superimposing the language of Trika upon a yogic-vedanta question. Shifting to another tradition is a way to not focus upon the issue. It is not a way of shifting anything, except to point out your confusion of the different

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM QA session on David Wants to Fly on YouTube

2011-03-29 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote: I'm not sure if she would want her name posted here... I'll have to ask her before I would do that... The point is, that she told me the inner workings of how things went iin the movement and how it became more of a money

[FairfieldLife] Clueless (was Re: not much for unsolicited private messages)

2011-03-29 Thread turquoiseb
I'll take this one on, because it relates to why I'm doing the Three Goons number lately. I am trying to make the point that there is a concerted team effort going on on Fairfield Life to try to marginalize TM critics or call their credibility into question. It's the *same* tactic used by Bobby

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday Raja Emmanuel

2011-03-29 Thread wayback71
thank you! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfreak@... wrote: Let me finish that for you. shit. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: Oh. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfreak@ wrote: Maharishi's Global

[FairfieldLife] Clueless (was Re: not much for unsolicited private messages)

2011-03-29 Thread whynotnow7
You sound unhinged dude. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I'll take this one on, because it relates to why I'm doing the Three Goons number lately. I am trying to make the point that there is a concerted team effort going on on Fairfield Life to try to

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM QA session on David Wants to Fly on YouTube

2011-03-29 Thread seventhray1
Oh, one other thing, and I don't know if you can comprehend this Bob, but the burden of proof is on you, not me. You are the one making an accusation, not me. So, perhaps you don't realize that you are doing what you seem to rail against so often-trying to make the person asking for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM QA session on David Wants to Fly on YouTube

2011-03-29 Thread Vaj
On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:17 AM, seventhray1 wrote: Bob, you are just too predictable. Her story may or may not be true. For all I know it is. But what a weak basis on which to make an acccusation. And of course you are following the script. Throw out an accusation and then disavow all

Re: [FairfieldLife] Clueless (was Re: not much for unsolicited private messages)

2011-03-29 Thread Vaj
On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:29 AM, turquoiseb wrote: She has been running this Gotta get the TM critics number for *over 16 years*. It's really an interesting Sociological phenomenon. I remember in Sociology studying the behavior of end of the world fanatics and how, even after the world

Re: [FairfieldLife] Clueless (was Re: not much for unsolicited private messages)

2011-03-29 Thread Vaj
On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:29 AM, turquoiseb wrote: In his earlier incarnations on this forum, several of us tried repeatedly to get Jim to address the *inconsistencies* in on the one hand claiming to be enlightened and on the other hand displaying anger and, yes, downright meanness towards anyone

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM QA session on David Wants to Fly on YouTube

2011-03-29 Thread Vaj
On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:43 AM, seventhray1 wrote: Oh, one other thing, and I don't know if you can comprehend this Bob, but the burden of proof is on you, not me. Not if Bob (or whoever) has already answered these questions to his or her satisfaction. Once they've gone through the denial

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread tartbrain
Maybe we (you and others) are saying a similar thing, maybe not. My use of the term thoughtless might be misinterpreted from the state I am referring to. I thought thoughtless was a bit of a delicious and ironic term -- with the second or third nunanced background wave of meaning reflecting

[FairfieldLife] Re: The lives of TM critics - a research article by Dr. Ravi Yogi.

2011-03-29 Thread WillyTex
Alex Stanley: I don't know because I don't really grok determinism... Turq and Vaj seem to be confused. In their zeal to discredit Judy, they seem to have taken the idealist position and opposed the scientific reasoning. Wasn't it just a few months ago that Turq made fun of his own

[FairfieldLife] Homa to Cricket

2011-03-29 Thread Buck
To change the course of events, sports fans do vedic homa for victory: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12891093 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12891093 [Fans in Jammu attend a special prayer ceremony for the victory of the Indian cricket team ahead of the ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final match

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@... wrote: My use of the term thoughtless might be misinterpreted from the state I am referring to. I thought thoughtless was a bit of a delicious and ironic term -- with the second or third nunanced background wave of meaning

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: My use of the term thoughtless might be misinterpreted from the state I am referring to. I thought thoughtless was a bit of a delicious and ironic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread tartbrain
Those are great. Thanks. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: My use of the term thoughtless might be misinterpreted from the state I am referring to. I thought thoughtless was a bit of a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The lives of TM critics - a research article by Dr. Ravi Yogi.

2011-03-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Can you say more about your realization that choices and their outcome are always exactly what they should be? I mean, what did it feel

[FairfieldLife] Snake on the town

2011-03-29 Thread authfriend
Some of you may have read or heard about the cobra that has escaped from the Bronx Zoo in NYC: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/nyregion/28snakes.html?_r=1scp=1sq=cobrast=cse http://tinyurl.com/4zflm39 What you may not yet know is that the cobra has opened a Twitter account and is giving

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread tartbrain
A characteristic of the Thoughtless Mind is being more nested in the present. Though Now is a bit of a cliche, there is a fundamental truth about it. And its not an imperative like Be here now. One can't, or it is hard to, will to be here now. Its not a practice so much, but a condition one

[FairfieldLife] Re: Look Who's Meditating Now

2011-03-29 Thread pranamoocher
Please yellow highlight your comments since they can't easily be seen. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ditzyklanmail carc108@... wrote: Thanks for posting this. I was not aware of that article. I wish everyone who has flaws could still be able to represent that which brings peace to

[FairfieldLife] no charges in Fairfield hate crime case

2011-03-29 Thread feste37
March 29, 2011 County rejects hate crime charges Jefferson Co. Attorney says no hate crime took place MATT MILNER Courier Staff Writer The Ottumwa Courier Tue Mar 29, 2011, 04:38 AM CDT FAIRFIELD — The Jefferson County Attorney decided an alleged hate crime earlier this month wasn't a crime

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Look Who's Meditating Now

2011-03-29 Thread ditzyklanmail
Hahaha. Sorry. Had the blueblockers on. : ) From: pranamoocher no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, 29 March, 2011 11:42:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Look Who's Meditating Now Please yellow highlight your comments

[FairfieldLife] In the Mind of

2011-03-29 Thread rwr
In the Mind of I have often thought it to be more pragmatic to come to know the deep mysteries of our own Mind and Consciousness, and our emanation, before worrying too much as to what the Mind of another is like and what is going on in there. And of course the Relationship between our own

[FairfieldLife] New file uploaded to FairfieldLife

2011-03-29 Thread FairfieldLife
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the FairfieldLife group. File: /Members' Writings and Suggestions/The SELF and the self.pdf Uploaded by : dick.richard...@ymail.com dick.richard...@ymail.com

[FairfieldLife] The Tree of Life

2011-03-29 Thread Rick Archer
One of the most anticipated movies of the Summer. http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thetreeoflife/

[FairfieldLife] Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread rwr
Actually this is NOT a theory at all, it is a fact of experience - for those who have known it. Knowledge, Innate Understanding, and Vision, yet no possibility to think. Thinking requires Time, but in the domain of the SELF time and change do not exist there. One can of course think when one comes

[FairfieldLife] Re: The lives of TM critics - a research article by Dr. Ravi Yogi.

2011-03-29 Thread WillyTex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Can you say more about your realization that choices and their

[FairfieldLife] The Leaf on the Tree.

2011-03-29 Thread rwr
The Leaf on the Tree. (Original date of writing this is now forgotten in the mists of time) Given that science believes, and teaches their belief to the young as facts, that we are an accidental epiphenomenon of an unexpected outcrop of chaotic creation; and given that the spiritually inclined

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread whynotnow7
I get it - thanks for writing more about it. No more what I call ego maintenance thoughts. I see the distinction as one of non-attachment, to anything. This state of mind can't be consciously cultivated, but occurs naturally as a result of sadhana. If non-attachment is here, then as you say,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The lives of TM critics - a research article by Dr. Ravi Yogi.

2011-03-29 Thread Yifu
no. Free will hypothesis states that new chains of causation can be initiated not having absolutely determined causes. However, this is not to say that through will/volution, the new chains of causation are not influenced by prior events Richard, I would be hesitant to say that any hypothesis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread Yifu
contradicts MMY. You're saying no possibility, but MMY's dogma is infinite possibility, or the field of all possibilities. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@... wrote: Actually this is NOT a theory at all, it is a fact of experience - for those who have known it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread rwr
IT HAPPENS. QED. rwr --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: contradicts MMY. You're saying no possibility, but MMY's dogma is infinite possibility, or the field of all possibilities. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: Actually this

[FairfieldLife] Links

2011-03-29 Thread rwr
Links Not many of you I doubt, but if anyone here is interested in small groups which stick more to the point and with far less email traffic then feel free to join these Take part, lurk, whatever… http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mysteries_of_the_Occult/

[FairfieldLife] Kucinich: Obama believes war is an executive privilege

2011-03-29 Thread Bhairitu
Kucinich on Barack's bid to join the list of infamous presidents: http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=14430

Re: [FairfieldLife] Looking ahead in movies: Thor and Sucker Punch

2011-03-29 Thread Bhairitu
On 03/27/2011 08:23 AM, turquoiseb wrote: The other one I'm curious about is Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. It's being touted as a bimbo action fest that is like what would happen if Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan (Memento, Inception) and Snyder (300, Watchmen) got together, dropped a lot

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread Yifu
what happens...no thoughts? That's only temporary. But it's likely rocks have no thoughts. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@... wrote: IT HAPPENS. QED. rwr --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: contradicts MMY. You're saying no

[FairfieldLife] Re: Looking ahead in movies: Thor and Sucker Punch

2011-03-29 Thread jpgillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: The tagline is, Reality is a prison. Your mind can set you free. Mind is the prison, accepting reality can set you free. Where's the Like button?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread rwr
No doubt. But it is also unlikely that rocks can KNOW and UNDERSTAND their Primordial and Arcane existence, and also unlikely that they love like the I AM part of me in Eternity loves. It is also unlikely that rocks can see. I AM can see. And it is also unlikely that rocks have that Perennial

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread Yifu
thx, interesting and inspirational! Too many unanswered questions. For example, if somebody becomes Self-Realized then drops the body. According to Jerry Jarvis and others, that being the case, one's primary goal of existence has been fulfilled and no subtle bodies would be needed after

[FairfieldLife] Re: The lives of TM critics - a research article by Dr. Ravi Yogi.

2011-03-29 Thread WillyTex
Yifu: Free will hypothesis states that new chains of causation can be initiated not having absolutely determined causes. Determinism should not be confused with self-determination of human actions by reasons, motives, and desires, nor with predestination, which specifically factors the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The lives of TM critics - a research article by Dr. Ravi Yogi.

2011-03-29 Thread Yifu
excellent, well done. For once we agree on something. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: Yifu: Free will hypothesis states that new chains of causation can be initiated not having absolutely determined causes. Determinism should not be confused with

[FairfieldLife] Re: The lives of TM critics - a research article by Dr. Ravi Yogi.

2011-03-29 Thread WillyTex
Yifu: excellent, well done. For once we agree on something. Apparently Turq thought that 'Determinism' was the same thing as 'Predestination'. In so doing, Turq went over to defend the Idealist view, which only months before, he made fun of! Maybe the Turq wants to make some moral choices

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread rwr
If you have any questions of me than feel free to ask away. But I am not going to speak via other people or for them - only myself and my experience of it. I am not a teacher or a guru I just write about what I found over the last seventy years. They can all do the same. I have nothing to sell. I

[FairfieldLife] Determined Destiny or Not

2011-03-29 Thread rwr
Determined Destiny or Not Lord Phoenix The part of your experience regarding the baby, from your description of it, certainly sounds like it can be categorised as an OBE. However, there is far more to all the things which you say there than just that isn't there. Personally I do not feel that

[FairfieldLife] Re: The lives of TM critics - a research article by Dr. Ravi Yogi.

2011-03-29 Thread Yifu
Again, you're confusing will with what's possible. The former does not imply the latter. Obviously, many things are willed but don't come to fruition soon, or ever.. ... Example: Newton willed to engage in experiments designed to turn base metals into gold. It was his will to perform the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Determined Destiny or Not

2011-03-29 Thread Yifu
interesting! ...but doesn't resolve questions pertaining to suffering. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@... wrote: Determined Destiny or Not Lord Phoenix The part of your experience regarding the baby, from your description of it, certainly sounds like it can

[FairfieldLife] Re: Determined Destiny or Not

2011-03-29 Thread rwr
Suffering? How can one exist in a physical form without a little suffering and pain at times. But it is not there all the time is it. And all the time, with learning and technology, we get a little better each decade at helping to ease pain and the associated suffering it can bring. But most

[FairfieldLife] Re: Determined Destiny or Not

2011-03-29 Thread Yifu
So, you're saying learning and technology are the solutions to suffering. What does the I AM have to do with it...the question of suffering? Thx. And how about intermediate non-physical agents, and the possible role of Shakti, pointing to traditional Yagyas. Do or can such agents alleviate

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread emptybill
You're wasting my time with such b.s. No citations or reasoned argument ... nothing but polemic. There is nothing you have to say that is not merely unsupported personal opinion - sheer gossip. This fits in quite well with one interpretation of Dzogchen – everything is my rolpa/personal display

[FairfieldLife] Re: Determined Destiny or Not

2011-03-29 Thread rwr
Learning has assisted in helping suffering - not eliminating it altogether. It can go a long way yet. What has suffering got to to with I AM ? NOTHING. It was you who brought the suffering bit up. What has this got to do with MMY teaching? I am interested in what life teaches us by living it and

[FairfieldLife] SERENDIPITY

2011-03-29 Thread rwr
SERENDIPITY (Dedicated to William A. Taylor-Fraser) When the insubstantial pageant fades and leaves not a rack behind of things that come and go in time, other than my mind; then maybe it can come to pass that I'll return to see such quintessential essence in form as the river

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread Ravi Yogi
Vaj certainly chews a lot of parroted stuff but hasn't learnt how to digest it, so he frequently chokes on his parroted vomit. He doesn't need any citations, he is the proponent of Parama Vakra Gita, which has been critically acclaimed by experts on polemic shastras. --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread Vaj
On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:38 PM, emptybill wrote: You're wasting my time with such b.s. No citations or reasoned argument ... nothing but polemic. I'm sorry I can't waste my time or such reasoned eye-brow knitten emails. It's just not where I'm at. You either get what I'm talking about, or

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Grace of God

2011-03-29 Thread Buck
The Unified Field. Yep, this is interesting. Looks like Maharishi was an old Baptist. Different from modern Southern Baptist doctrine this is what the Primitive Baptists think.1964, that's fabulous. That 'Free Grace', it's there. Everyone is saved already, it is only a matter of

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-03-29 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Mar 26 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat Apr 02 00:00:00 2011 495 messages as of (UTC) Wed Mar 30 00:07:45 2011 48 whynotnow7 whynotn...@yahoo.com 46 Ravi Yogi raviy...@att.net 45 authfriend jst...@panix.com 34 Vaj

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread Yifu
thx, Vaj. IOW, you're saying MMY didn't reach CC or Unity; but you've not provided any evidence as to this. In the face of the vast amount of evidence that he has, it's up to you to disprove the assertion. Also, it might help if you quoted somebody else, say Norbu Rinpoche or HHDL. Find out

Re: [FairfieldLife] no charges in Fairfield hate crime case

2011-03-29 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:45 AM, feste37 wrote: He just as likely was unable to find the door in the dark and was only able to get out when he was shoved out, Dille wrote. This guy is definitely a candidate for the Darwin Awards. Sal

[FairfieldLife] 'Vegans Charged in Baby's Death'

2011-03-29 Thread Robert
GA_googleFillSlot(news_story_left_sidebar);   Two vegans who fed their 11-month-old daughter only mother's milk went on trial in northern France on Tuesday charged with neglect after their baby died suffering from vitamin

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM QA session on David Wants to Fly on YouTube

2011-03-29 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: I'm not sure if she would want her name posted here... I'll have to ask her before I would do that... The point is, that she told me the inner

[FairfieldLife] How's everyone? Great Yoga Video

2011-03-29 Thread s2ness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQz0CmYQG9Efeature=player_embedded Just checking in. See most of the regulars are still at it. I thought of this group when I saw this yoga video. The state of the current cultural yoga meme. s.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread Vaj
On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:52 PM, Yifu wrote: thx, Vaj. IOW, you're saying MMY didn't reach CC or Unity; but you've not provided any evidence as to this. No, that was not the topic of any recent post, let alone the one you're supposedly responding to. In the face of the vast amount of evidence

Re: [FairfieldLife] no charges in Fairfield hate crime case

2011-03-29 Thread Sal Sunshine
Here is the final report from the county attorney: March 28, 2011 Final Report Regarding the Assault reported During the Early Morning Hours of March 6, 2011 During the weekend of March 5 and 6, 2011 Fairfield resident, Usama Alshaibi, sustained some injury following a night out with a friend.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread whynotnow7
My take on Vajradoodoo is that he was exposed regularly and unceasingly to a particular religion early in life in a religious family, much like the son of a Baptist preacher, and it has been his cross to bear his entire life. The poor bastard never had a chance to find his own spiritual path.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: My take on Vajradoodoo is that he was exposed regularly and unceasingly to a particular religion early in life in a religious family, much like the son of a Baptist preacher, and it has been his cross to bear his entire

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread Ravi Yogi
Dear tartbrain, This is an excellent articulation of the mechanics of thoughts. Jim has used the term ego maintenance to explain his take and I have a different of putting the same thing. I tell some of my close friends I have thoughts, the same thoughts as before but I can't creating any pain or

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM QA session on David Wants to Fly on YouTube

2011-03-29 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: Thus the burden falls on each new person to process it on their own. No one's going to go thru your denial for you or process your anger for you, and no one's going to lead you to resignation unless you're looking for a

[FairfieldLife] In memoriam: Jim Bennetti

2011-03-29 Thread Bill Coop
JAMES BENETTI James C. Jim Benetti, 67, a resident of Henderson for 19 years, passed away March 3, 2011, at Nathan Adelson Hospice in Las Vegas. He was born in Detroit, and grew up on a beautiful little farm in rural Michigan. He pursued math and physics, earning his undergraduate degree from

[FairfieldLife] Re: In the Mind of

2011-03-29 Thread seventhray1
Dick, this is so profound. This is most profound thing I have read since Hugh Prather's Notes to Myself when I was in high school. Really you should compile these thoughts into a book. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@... wrote: In the Mind of I have often

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@... wrote: (x) The Encircled Saltire Cross symbolises this. NOT that it needs symbolising. But it is a quick sign. And as is found on the ancient Culbone Stone. They knew what they were on about too. Dick, you are awesome. And too

[FairfieldLife] Nuclear situation

2011-03-29 Thread obbajeeba
Does Dr. John Hagelin have any advice or a direction to take with this massive nuclear situation occurring in Japan? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Vegans Charged in Baby's Death'

2011-03-29 Thread m 13
.but rice is vegan, and an easily digestible food...wonder why some things of their food were not blended up and fed in addition to mother's milk? I don't know the whole story. Very interesting. Sad.-M

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread emptybill
If you are trying to assert the so-called seven types of turya from Abhinavagupta's Trika then it still gets no sikara – especially a kuban one. It's still a different tradition and a different way to slice the pie. It's like saying that Buddhist bhumi-s show a deeper degree of enlightenment

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newer Theory: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless

2011-03-29 Thread emptybill
This is disrespectful. And inaccurate anyway. The name is not vajradoodoo but Vajra-voodoo or, if you like, vajra-vudun (only hyphenated for clarity). Clarity is everything at a time like this. More importantly, it's an extra-special, secret nama-mantra, which I just told 'cause I can. That's