[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-05-28 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Try TM, you'll go Insane! Scientific evidence shows that no technique has made more people go insane than the Transcendental Meditation technique. So

[FairfieldLife] Satsang (was Re: Rising Insanity)

2008-05-29 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You *must* know? You do not have the right to must anything, dude. But since you want to play games instead of continue your Intro Lecture and sales pitch, I'll play along a little. snip I think we are done. You

[FairfieldLife] Satsang (was Re: Rising Insanity)

2008-05-29 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---(below - in my view). No. By all means, attain the Self, the non- dual state described by the Neo-Advaitins; but don't regard that as the ultimate goal, or even being close to Enlightenment, unless one has made

[FairfieldLife] Satsang (was Re: Rising Insanity)

2008-05-29 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: ---(below - in my view). No. By all means, attain the Self, the non

[FairfieldLife] Satsang (was Re: Rising Insanity)

2008-05-29 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip You *must* know? You do not have the right to must anything, dude

[FairfieldLife] Satsang (was Re: Rising Insanity)

2008-05-29 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 29, 2008, at 12:08 PM, sandiego108 wrote: You are talking apples and oranges here John. Claiming authorship of action is false attachment borne of ego. Creation of the world is as a result of the three

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Buddhists attack?

2008-05-30 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: It also has attracted some of the best scientists out there, all non-Buddhist. Who wouldn't want to research meditators who are able to transcend for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti Shanti - the Sanskrit Rock Group - Incredible - Wonderful TM family

2008-05-31 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, artkonrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Fairfield Life: I was surprised to see that no one here has ever posted anything about the TM group Shanti Shanti, the world's only Sanskrit Rock band. snip Art, thanks for the tip off-- some of their stuff

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-05-31 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: snip This a fallacy that I think MMY perpetuated that somehow if you are enlightened you would know everything. That is

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-05-31 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Do you think it's possible that when you know things the way they do, your seeing becomes so Vedic that you can perceive that it's against the laws of nature to explain how or why you know things? :-) The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama resigns from Trinity (the church)

2008-05-31 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, amarnath anatol_zinc@ wrote: [snip] look to the man's deeds, not his church His deeds? He hasn't DONE anything. Oh, he has written two autobiographies. He's 46

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-01 Thread sandiego108
, as he probably would anyway because they were tough questions, and Jim has a tendency to run away when faced with tough questions. :-) I will start over. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-01 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So, a few followup questions: 1. What do you perceive the value of enlight- enment to BE if it makes you perceive this badly and (by your own standards) incorrectly? From my perspective, everything is fine, until

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-01 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Now you're musting. Seems to me that you've kinda lost perspective on what your place is in the universe, dude. You do not have the intelligence, personal power, charisma, or state of consciousness to must a DOG

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-01 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Now you're musting. Seems to me that you've kinda lost perspective

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-01 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Three simple questions. You'll either deal with them or you won't

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread reminded me of a recent email exchange I had with a friend whose spiritual group was visited by Jan Frazier, who has written a book called When Fear Falls Away. In it, Frazier describes her sudden

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The people you're trying to impress with comic book language and explanations read actual *books*, dude. They heard -- and in many cases outgrew -- bullshit like the stuff you are peddling decades ago. You keep

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: You can rail and beat your chest and toss your insults around like a chimpanzee, Barry. I'll just say that I have been consistent from

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 2, 2008, at 4:53 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Jim, I'll try to say it another way. You write and/or deliver training, right? Well, so do I. If you had been a trainer in a corporation that had hired you to talk to some

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Jim, I was going to leave you alone, Either way is fine... but you keep on so *completely* missing the point that I cannot. Whose point? Oh, right, *your* point... Your whole approach to letting people know

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 mrfishey2001@ wrote: - I enjoy discussing it with those who

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not *about* the way one talks the talk, Jim. It's about how they walk the walk. This is why I consider the concepts of enlightenment or awakening or any internal state with a special name pretty

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: -- Thanks for your response-- I'll give this another try: what is enlightenment, and more importantly, why should I

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tertonzeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Right-on! Neo-Advaitins make a big thing about not being attached to (say, Kundalini signs); but neither are ignorant people attached to those phenomena. The point is, one has to go THROUGH the signs. How

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 mrfishey2001@ wrote: -- Thank you. It would seem

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 mrfishey2001@ wrote: - Appealing perhaps, but hardly unique. I

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---The notion of experiencing actions as fully as possible seems to indicate something relative. So, you're saying that E. people are incapable of experiencing half-baked undertakings? How about MMY? Oh no-- I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Satsang Fairfield

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
Excellent! Perfect! This is it- Thanks for posting this. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Making the rounds of discussion: Subject: relief from the perception of time This is dense, but gorgeous.. With incorporation into daily life, a

[FairfieldLife] Look at me, I'm important! I know the Truth! (was Re: Shaken)

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: I'll answer this generally, so as to spare both of us numerous examples. I was always an introvert, and still am by some definitions

[FairfieldLife] Re: Satsang Fairfield

2008-06-02 Thread sandiego108
. Thus, the lectures are a great investment! - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: Excellent! Perfect! This is it- Thanks for posting this. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Making the rounds of discussion

[FairfieldLife] Re: Satsang Fairfield = Hawkins Hearsay?

2008-06-03 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, amarnath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hearsay? have you done your homework? snip I just liked the original quote. I had no idea the guy was an industry unto himself. my bad.

[FairfieldLife] The other shoe has dropped: Obama in 2009

2008-06-04 Thread sandiego108
Very pleased that Obama is the expected nominee for the presidential race. His speech last night was inspiring as usual. At this point it is his election to lose. I didn't have much against Hillary, except for the RFK comment and the entitlement issue, but mostly that her approach to change

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama's first test: Handling Hillary

2008-06-04 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find this an odd judgment, Judy. I saw nothing ungracious in Obama, and I thought his tribute to Clinton was excellent (far more gracious, and detailed, than her brief acknowledgement of him). You write that last night

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama's first test: Handling Hillary

2008-06-04 Thread sandiego108
Listening to Obama I get the sense of someone who is consumately aware of what he is facing as President, and how to handle it, something the current administration has proven woefully inept at, both in scope and execution. I look forward to Obama handling his detractors with assurance and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama's first test: Handling Hillary

2008-06-04 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim wrote: Listening to Obama I get the sense of someone who is consumately aware of what he is facing as President, and how to handle it... Actually he sounds pretty confused to me. He just left

[FairfieldLife] Re: Local paper article on my show

2008-06-04 Thread sandiego108
You da man! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://tinyurl.com/4mze55 My face will be getting thrown in driveways in the Fairfax Times all over Virginia tomorrow! Very nice writer.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking: Hillary Clinton To Suspend Campaign on Friday

2008-06-04 Thread sandiego108
Awesome-- big bonus points for Hillary. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MSNBC is reporting that Senator Hillary Clinton will be suspending her campaign and plans to endorse the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, Senator Barack Obama, on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Local paper article on my show

2008-06-04 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: You da man! Thanks Jim! Lightnin' Hopkins, Yo! Party on!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti Shanti - the Sanskrit Rock Group - Incredible - Wonderful TM family

2008-06-05 Thread sandiego108
who's Patricia? (I'm Jim) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, artkonrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you SanDiego108: Thank you Patricia, I neglected to mention you can see several great videos of Shanti Shanti at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUF81hGPPLA Also

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can anyone offer a cogent rebuttal to this?

2008-06-05 Thread sandiego108
Yep, its in the past...and also a masterful piece of reverse engineering. In other words, if Hillary had won, the piece would've never been written. Just someone trying to paint a picture of reality to fit their emotional reaction. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Promises and Ethics

2008-06-05 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Spiritual techniques are free for all humans. They've been published long, long ago and are all in the public domain. If there's one reason it should be known, it should be to show how megalomaniacal bhogis distort

[FairfieldLife] Re: ADVANCED TECNIQUES NUNBER 6

2008-06-06 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bigoted. You guys sold water down by the river for years! You lied your heads off in the employ of the Marshy. You don't know what you're talking about. I was never a TM teacher. to this forum by Sal or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Obama an enlightened being? / Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain't no ordinary politician. You buying it?

2008-06-06 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? f=/g/a/2008/06/06/notes060608.DTL http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? f=/g/a/2008/06/06/notes060608.DTL nl=fix nl=fix I don't know asbout that, but he carries a silence

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Obama an enlightened being? / Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain't no ordinary politician. You buying it?

2008-06-06 Thread sandiego108
As Byron Nelson (PGA golfer 1912-2006) might have said of Obama, he's a different breed of cat. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sandiego108 Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:04

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Obama an enlightened being? / Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain't no ordinary politician. You buying it?

2008-06-06 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sandiego108 Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:04

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-07 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:55 PM, ruthsimplicity wrote: Interesting comments. My impression was that the tics generally just disappeared in time, especially if the meditator was not practicing group meditation. Most did

[FairfieldLife] Re: ADVANCED TECNIQUES NUNBER 6

2008-06-07 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Occasionally other spiritual trips, too. But yeah, politics and religion seem to be the big ones. I find it fascinating that on FFL often the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-07 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 7, 2008, at 10:42 AM, sandiego108 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:55 PM, ruthsimplicity wrote: Interesting comments. My impression was that the tics

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cooking With Cellphones

2008-06-07 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's good to know that they couldn't possibly have any negative effect on the brains of people using them, though...(hold on I've got to take this call)... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-07 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 7, 2008, at 12:48 PM, sandiego108 wrote: I don't know of any that do-- all of the Buddhist techniques are so weak there is no chance of it, and there's no evidence that TM and TMSP do. However, when offering

[FairfieldLife] Re: ADVANCED TECNIQUES NUNBER 6

2008-06-07 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-07 Thread sandiego108
I find it interesting that people continue even after his death to try to pigeonhole Maharishi, to figure him out, to wrap up the whole of his amazing and incomprehensible life and motives with a neat bow. Or at least minimize his breathtaking accomplishments in the hopes of showcasing his

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-07 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-07 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, let me speak for myself here when I tell you that I'm not trying to pigeonhole Maharishi, nor put him down. Rather, I've come to terms, and after a very long time, with his humanity and I feel that I'm the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-07 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: gold and crystal brickabrack What an excellent phrase Marek. Having spend some time in his pimped out crib in Seelisberg, it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: snip As to his empathy or not, I'd say its a pretty overwhelming show of empathy to begin a world

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By suffering in the way I am using it, I mean eliminates the possibility of near endless birth and death on earth, the wheel of unfulfilled desires. I like it here-- don't get me wrong, though I am also

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 8, 2008, at 1:02 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Could the reason for this possibly that you are *just like him*? I can't think of more than once or twice in over 15 years of interaction on these TM-related

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Jun 8, 2008, at 1:02 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Could

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: Just a couple of posts ago, Jim claimed to be intimately familiar with the way that heaven is decorated. Perhaps he is equally familiar

[FairfieldLife] Seven reasons Barry is most likely gay

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
1. He recently moved to Sitges, living on the gayest street in the gayest town in Spain. 2. He often uses imagery here to paint himself as super macho, mentioning more than once all of his supposed conquests of women in the heavily homosexual TM Movement (his characterization), and a 19 year

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 8, 2008, at 9:38 AM, sandiego108 wrote: That's because when you're in the exalted state Jim is, Barry, empathy is for suckers, you know? It stirs the emotions and whispers to your conscience, and before

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seven reasons Barry is most likely gay

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that could just be me. After all, I'm not enlightened. or heterosexual apparently...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seven reasons Barry is most likely gay

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how DO you know for sure what heaven looks like, Mr. Enlightened Guy? Seems to me that you *really* don't want to answer that question, now that you have claimed to know. It also seems to me that you've

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seven reasons Barry is most likely gay

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being such an insulting obnoxious odious asshole sure isn't a very good example to set for 'enlightenment' through TM. [snip] Which is precisely why you are not, Mr. Know-It-All.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seven reasons Barry is most likely gay

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: But that could just be me. After all, I'm not enlightened

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this glorification of the experience of depersonalization is really misguided. There is a lot of information about this state in modern psychology that needs to be integrated into more traditional

[FairfieldLife] [was Re: It's a great day for finding dumb stuff on the Internet] Barry's gay

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that Jim's I know how heaven is decorated comment and the demonstration of Enlightened Gay- Baiting are hard to top, but here are a couple more: Abstinence pants from K-mart, because chastity belts are so

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seven reasons Barry is most likely gay

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Jun 8, 2008, at 1:15 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: Do you get the concept of how to ask questions now, Jim? I hope so, because here

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I think this glorification of the experience

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I think this glorification of the experience of depersonalization is really misguided. There is a lot of information about

[FairfieldLife] Over the limit? (was Re: What Voters Saw Tuesday Night)

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Jun 8, 2008, at 1:39 PM, authfriend wrote: snipped by Sal: the

[FairfieldLife] Over the limit? (was Re: What Voters Saw Tuesday Night)

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] [was Re: It's a great day for finding dumb stuff on the Internet] Barry's gay

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 8, 2008, at 3:45 PM, sandiego108 wrote: You still haven't admitted that you are gay, Barry. Why should he admit something that's clearly not the case? Medication time, Jim. Sal thought you already

[FairfieldLife] Re: I am gay and I frequent prostitutes

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent dismantling of a particularly obnoxious thread award goes to Shemp and Peter. And big up for Turq viewing the whole schoolyard Turq is a fag taunting routine with equanimity and humor. Hey, what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, I'm sorry but I don't understand what you're saying here (below) or how it relates to the Byron Katie post. As you read her account of awakening, does it read like what you experience internally? This is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-08 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: The state of enlightenment that Maharishi was pitching included magical powers. Calling the ability to fly normal is a misuse of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: --- mrfishey2001 mrfishey2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: no, but you can

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rising Insanity of the Age of Enlightment

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip One of my teachers once said (and should have listened to his own advice IMO): Listen to what people say, but watch what they DO. Some teacher. you have some knack for picking them, huh? first it was the Maharishi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: As for all the other, materially based stuff like shape shifting and flying, it looks like a complete waste of time. Compared

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: So, why would I want to save my dying son from cancer through some mystical mumbo-jumbo? What's the point? So I assume that you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment, Narcissism, and the Abuser Personality

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Springboarding off of an earlier discussion: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip One of my teachers once said (and should have listened to his own advice IMO): Listen to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The killing yourself and still being alive baffles me completely, can you enlarge on this? I remember believing this. My reasoning was based on the experience of witnessing sleep. I decided that if my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment, Narcissism, and the Abuser Personality

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's apparent that you are incapable of acknowledging your *own* continuously repulsive behavior, Jim. Rather, you appear to try blaming others for seeing it and pointing it out. I am blaming no one here, for anything.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment, Narcissism, and the Abuser Personality

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: It's apparent that you are incapable of acknowledging your *own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best to just focus on your own path, if you have one, and forget about all of the speculation. Yeah Ruth, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. This statement is a serious red flag to thoughtful

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment, Narcissism, and the Abuser Personality

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: It's apparent that you are incapable of acknowledging your *own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willytex@ wrote: Ruth wrote: Sandiego can say anything to any of us because we are his creation. You may have misunderstood Jim, Ruth. Jim

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-09 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, for example, if I go outside and it is cold, my body gets cold and I come inside and say, its cold outside. Then my body warms up because it is warmer inside and then I don't know any longer whether

[FairfieldLife] Re: Byron Katie's Awakening

2008-06-10 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not a meat and potatoes THEME, is it? Coffee tables that look like steaks, poofy beanbag chairs that look like dollops of mashed potatoes, that sorta thing? I don't remember any of that in Seelisberg.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Techno Zen Master

2008-06-10 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As yifuxero mentioned yesterday about his surprising experience with mindfulness meditation, it is *not* what you might have been told by the TMO and Maharishi. Music holds one on the surface level of thought no more

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment,.....

2008-06-11 Thread sandiego108
Well said Peter. Yes, Awakening is Awakening is Awakening, whether in India, Tibet, Dublin, or Kansas (well, maybe not in Kansas...just kidding). The most important thing you have said here, imo, is that Awakening/Enlightenment is lived as an experience. it is not some mental gymnastics, or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-16 Thread sandiego108
The way this looks to me, is once again Maharishi, by approving the ME theory when he was running the Movement, tricks all of those who wish to bring it about, into meditating and continuing with their programs. It sharpens their devotion and focuses their intention, and clarifies the gulf

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-16 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: The way this looks to me, is once again Maharishi, by approving the ME theory when he was running the Movement, tricks all of those who

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-16 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bliss

2008-06-16 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure most people do, but as we know, most people do not frequent message boards. Oh great news Ruth...so my precious words are NOT reaching millions? I may have to change my strategy for promoting my

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