From: Bob Brigante
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 6:54
PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: I
would like to try an experiment in compassion
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In [email protected],
"easyone200" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Bob
Brigante"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >
> >
--- In [email protected],
"rudra_joe"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
wrote:
> >
> I come off as a loose cannon. I have been trying to give up
drugs
> >
for a long time. I could use your help in the form of prayers. I
> >
can't really be the person I want to be until I stop but it's
really
> >
really hard for me to give up smoking, and pot, and booze. So
could
> >
you people place me in your prayers for giving up drugs and
gaining
> >
more self control? I would really appreciate whatever help I
might
> >
get. I dedicate all such efforts to the liberation of all beings.
> >
> >
*********
> >
> >
You have to give TM (the highest form of prayer) a chance, which
you
> >
are not doing by smoking dope and excessive alcohol intake.
> >
> > I
know you are not looking for advice (if you actually wanted to
> >
change, you would do so without any input from anybody), but here
it
> > is
anyway:
> >
> > 1.
Stop smoking pot (why do you think the TMO asks people to stop
> >
illegal drug use prior to starting TM?).
> >
> > 2.
Pick a limit on your alcohol consumption, and stick to it.
That
> >
lardass moron Rush Limbaugh lost 100 lbs by hiring a chef who
> >
instituted portion control into his diet (no seconds!).
> >
> > 3.
Don't worry about the cigarettes, they'll go away somewhere
down
> >
the line if you are regular in your TM (and not overwhelming the
> >
benefits with psychotropic drugs).
>
> Bob
> Think
you can come off the mountain and stop preaching your narrow
minded TM
crap for
> a
millisecond?
*******
If you could
transcend for a millisecond, it would do your hysterical
personality
a world of good. The well-documented tendency of folks
who are
fortunate enough to be able to T-meditate (not you) is to
reduce drug
use:
http://www.noetic.org/research/medbiblio/ch3_3.htm
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Bob,
It seems your only advice for RJ is to do
TM and don’t do drugs. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but didn’t he
say that he had already tried TM and it didn’t work for his addiction(s)?
-Mark
PS: IBOGAINE
