I'm not sure you'd call me a meditator if you applied some strict definition. How would you sort out the following list into meditators and non-meditators?
1. Child staring into space -- lost in thought. 2. Adult staring into space -- lost in thought. 3. A person suddenly embarrassed and acutely aware of the flushing etc.? 4. A person reading a sentence from Ramana's "Talks" and rerunning it in the mind to see what sorts of other thoughts are triggered thereby. 5. A Jewish person trying to make words out of the letters that come up from Dreidle spins. 6. A person who takes come particular memory that is known to cause an emotional response and rerunning that memory until the triggering no longer occurs. 7. A person who starts crying when they see their guru after a long hiatus. 8. An OCD person who is obsessed and absolutely must count objects in sets. 9. A person who wonders what Jesus would do. 10. When Maharishi closed his eyes to rest them for a few seconds. 11. Someone who meditated a few minutes ago but has taken a vow to never do so again. 12. A TM TB who meditates while under the influence of a drug (caffeine, booze, weed, opium.) 13. Nab when he is writing up his posts. 14. Bevan when he sticks it repeatedly into a married woman. 15. Larry Domesh looking at his spring bouncing up and down and thinking about yin and yang. 16. A group of people who just heard several quick bangs that sound like gunshots to them. 17. A person who's fallen down in the path of an oncoming truck that cannot stop in time. 18. Bungie jumper a. on way down, b. on way back up c. if the rope breaks. 19. Trikking for miles with a steady rhythm of carving "mantras." 20. Edg thinking about some "He'd hit." 21. A person counting backwards as fast as she can. 22. Holding the breath until a swoon is experienced.g 23. Spinning until one is dizzy. 24. Doing a good deed without being caught in the act. 25. Yelling "God help me" as one falls down an elevator shaft. 26. Yelling a mantra aloud at a barking dog. 27. Watching Larry Moe and Curly smacking each other around and realizing it is a metaphor for American Business. 28. A person on his knees and waiting for the initiator to say his mantra for the first time. 29. A person who uses the TM technique but got it for free from a friend who taught it perfectly -- but only by chance....not as a trained initiator. 30. A person who heart has stopped and breathing has stopped and will dies in a few seconds but who manages to have the last thought of taking the mantra once... and then losing consciousness. There that'll keep you busy. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <dhamiltony...@...> wrote: > > > > > Hi, writing as a meditator, > > > > Is working real good. The FFL spam filter. Only the most insightful posts > > are coming through the spam filter this way. Non-meditator writers would > > proly do better to come back to practicing meditation. > > > > < 'yes' = meditator > > > Yes, writing as a meditator, > > Non-meditators, proly it is some kind o' hell on some the more prolific > `professional' writers here to find their posts over in the FFL spam > auto-delete file. I feel for them. > > "Better is death" than to live trapped in a spam filter file only. Says > something like that in the Gita somewhere. The ole publish or perish and > must be really ignoble death, to write professionally and then have your > stuff only end up in the spam filter for lack of meditation. > > Is pitiable indeed but oh so easily remedied. > > JGD, -Doug in FF > > > > > > > > `Yes' = meditators > > > > > > > > > > > > Fairfield Life Post Counter, Meditator Status: > > > > > > > > > > > > 50 authfriend <jstein@> > > > > > > `Yes' 50 TurquoiseB <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > `Yes' 45 Vaj <vajradhatu@> > > > > > > 44 nablusoss1008 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > 32 "grate.swan" <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > Yes 31 Bhairitu <noozguru@> > > > > > > 29 sparaig <LEnglish5@> > > > > > > 27 ruthsimplicity <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > 27 "Richard J. Williams" <willytex@> > > > > > > `yes' 24 Robert <babajii_99@> > > > > > > 22 off_world_beings <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > `Yes' 22 dhamiltony2k5 <dhamiltony2k5@> > > > > > > 21 enlightened_dawn11 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > `Yes' 20 Rick Archer <rick@> > > > > > > `Yes' 20 Duveyoung <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > 18 "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> > > > > > > 17 bob_brigante <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > 16 Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> > > > > > > `Yes' 15 "BillyG." <wgm4u@> > > > > > > 13 Richard M <compost1uk@> > > > > > > 12 shempmcgurk <shempmcgurk@> > > > > > >'yes' 10 satvadude108 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > `Yes' 10 raunchydog <raunchydog@> > > > > > > 10 lurkernomore20002000 <steve.sundur@> > > > > > > 9 cardemaister <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > 8 WLeed3@ > > > > > > 8 Nelson <nelsonriddle2001@> > > > > > > 7 geezerfreak <geezerfreak@> > > > > > > 3 drpetersutphen <drpetersutphen@> > > > > > > 3 William108 <william108wm@> > > > > > > 3 Dick Richardson <somerset_2@> > > > > > > 3 Dick Mays <dickmays@> > > > > > > 3 Alex Stanley <j_alexander_stanley@> > > > > > > 2 sgrayatlarge <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > 2 scienceofabundance <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > 2 beno beno <mynameisbeno@> > > > > > > 2 Tom <azgrey@> > > > > > > 2 Marek Reavis <reavismarek@> > > > > > > 2 Hugo <richardhughes103@> > > > > > > 1 uns_tressor <uns_tressor@> > > > > > > > > > > Hi, I come as a meditator to FFL. > > > > > > > > > Dear Rick, would make for a better discussion here with a new change to > > > the FFL guidelines: > > > > > > Let's have posts to FFL start with concise declaratorys, like either one > > > that starts: "Hi, I come to FFL as a meditator." Or a second one that > > > starts: "Hi, I come to FFL as a non-meditator." > > > > > > Would just be more honest about what folks are and where they are writing > > > from. I'd like to see our FFL guidelines require that folks who are > > > writing here start either by declaring that they are meditators or start > > > their posts admitting that they are non-meditators. > > > > > > Transparency seems is a progressive theme of these times. Let's be more > > > transparent here too. > > > > > > Jai Guru Dev, > > > -Doug in FF > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] > > > > On Behalf Of raunchydog > > > > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 12:38 AM > > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count & Meditator Status > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "dhamiltony2k5" > > > > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , satvadude108 <no_reply@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Are you planning retributive action towards > > > > > > > > those insufferable non-meditators? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > yeah, i'd like to reset my spam filters accordingly. > > > > > > > > > > Like, what spiritual perspective could non-meditators possibly provide > > > > other than their ignorance. The science on meditation and spiritual > > > > practice > > > > is pretty clear on that. Would save precious time to just have their > > > > posts > > > > sent direct to a delete file. > > > > > > > > > > Yours in Jai Guru Dev, > > > > > -Doug in FF > > > > > > > > > > > > > Non-meditators are a waste of your time? Sheesh! How elitist can you > > > > get? I > > > > suspect very few who post here have NEVER meditated. Why would > > > > non-meditators bother anyway? No one has exactly thrown out the welcome > > > > mat > > > > and it's obviously a subject they are not attracted to. > > > > > > > > Delete files are for sissies. You are missing out on the big picture. A > > > > quick scan of the posts on the internet will tell you instantly if > > > > someone > > > > has something interesting to say. Doug, my friend, now that we have > > > > elected > > > > an African American president and gays can marry in Iowa, isn't it time > > > > you > > > > put your prejudices against non-meditators to rest? After all > > > > non-meditators > > > > are lovable too. :-) > > > > I have a feeling Doug is pulling everyone's leg. He's actually a very > > > > open-minded guy. > > > > > > > > > om > > ., >
