[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
Our thoughts and our prayers remain with the people of Japan. -The President of the United States Push back from a unified field. Help in a creation of a tsunami of love with an Infusion of well-being in grace for all these beings. Come to meditation. Meditate and pray infused for relief of suffering of Libya, Japan, and the TM-Rajas. Nature given, anyone who can think can meditate. Now. We are created for Transcendence as fish are created for swimming and birds for flight. Waste not. Birthright. Meditate. -Buck FF
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Even if you can't get in to the domes Fairfield is a powerful place to Be. Come be with it and experience it at least for a visit: http://www.mainstayfairfield.com/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote: Prime Minister Bevan will be returning from Europe soon, and is looking for an RV, to travel around the United States, in an effort to boost the number of souls in the Dome... So, that's the news... Good night, and good luck! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote: From: Raja John Hagelin development@ Light at the End of the Tunnel A Message to our National Sidha Community From Raja John Hagelin These are certainly turbulent times. The Middle East is consumed by popular revolt and violent confrontation; extreme partisanship and political turmoil fill the US news, with rumblings of class warfare-and incidents of violence in our own back yard caution us to be extremely vigilant. Underlying these events, on a deep level, is the rising tide of collective consciousness. Sleeping elephants-smoldering, sub-surface tensions-are starting to arise and work themselves out-in the Middle East and at home. On the positive side, the overall trends are heartening: crime is down-way down. Optimism and confidence about the future is the highest in years. Experiences in the Domes are utterly sublime-celestial. And this, above all, tells us that something good is happening. Negativity and darkness cannot survive the presence of so much light. But our experience also tells us that if the coherence is insufficient to push us quickly through this phase transition, as we hover at the boiling point, things can stay rough for a long time. And it is hard to know where these violent swings will take us. Today we woke up to the news of a historically powerful earthquake that killed hundreds in Japan, the effects of which are being felt halfway across the world. The good news: there is light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks in large part to the overwhelming generosity of Drs. Howard and Mickey Settle, to the great organizing power of Dr. Girish Varma in India, and the tremendous persistence of Raja and Maureen Wynne, with the highly competent assistance of Bill Goldstein and others, our Vedic Pandit numbers here in Maharishi Vedic City are rising. Forty-one Vedic Pandits arrived last night, to be followed by a continuing stream that will take us to 1,250 within the next 10 weeks. This will put us in the vicinity of 2,000 Yogic Flyers-enough, according to experience and Maharishi's very clear vision, to accelerate and lubricate the phase transition to a very positive, progressive, harmonious and prosperous nation. And give a huge uplift to our own Fairfield / MVC community-always the first beneficiary. But we aren't there yet, and we need your help-now. We need everyone blessed with a human nervous system and the divine knowledge and techniques to transcend and shake the unbounded ocean of Being to come and exercise that unique and powerful capability. We need all those who are within driving distance of the Domes and flying halls to dive deep and enjoy those incredibly blissful programs with the group. You are the core of our Invincible America community, and we especially need you now. And we need all those at a distance to schedule time in Fairfield / MVC this spring and this summer, when our students are away. Come and stay as long as you can. Take a moment to plan your trip now. Our new, wonderful Welcome Committee will help you with all the details of your stay. Call (641) 472-1230, or email mailto:welcome@welcome@ We owe this to ourselves. We were born on Earth at this time of revival, and given this precious knowledge, to achieve the supreme goal of life-the culmination of a thousand lifetimes. We owe this to the great Howard and Mickey Settle, who donated their company and are giving their all so that as many as possible can be in the Domes. We owe this to Maharishi, who dedicated his extraordinary, blessed life to us. And it is so easy! Spring has finally sprung and the weather is nice. It's time to shake ourselves out of hibernation and start the day with that deep, pure, exhilarating silence, and to carry that bliss and support of nature with us throughout the day. And thereby effortlessly accomplish everything-for ourselves, for our country, and for the destiny of our planet and the human race. If each of you will simply take responsibility for yourselves, we will easily fulfill this joyous, blissful destiny-and bring tremendous good fortune to ourselves and the world. Let's do it! Wishing all of you vibrant health, happiness, and fulfilling success in all your endeavors, Jai Guru Dev, Raja
[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: snip Spiritual development, call it what you will, seems directed to allowing a person to have a single irrefutable experience that settles the matter of the mystery of existence on the basis of their own direct experience. Or to have their experience change permanently. Yeah - its great to have an aha! once in awhile, but the most practical value is one of permanent, ongoing change. :-) This seems to have practical value, at least for the curious. I'm not sure settling the matter of the mystery of existence is all there is to it (or even necessarily part of it), especially in terms of practical value, but close enough for now. Seems like the only mystery ever solved is that the mystery is never solved.:-) The story, the mythology, spun around this singularity seems without end. Are we missing something? When a person has any kind of unusual experience, even just an unusual sensory experience, they frequently want to talk about it, to share it with others, sometimes on a comparative basis if there's a possibility others have had similar experiences. Isn't that pretty much a feature of human nature? In any case, I'd guess that's how the stories and mythologies get started and then expanded and perpetuated. Exactly.:-) What do you think we're missing? Speaking of material facts, the Japan earthquake moved the main island about 2.4 metres, or about 8 feet, and shortened the length of Earth's day by 1.8 microseconds (we're spinning a bit faster now - is this somehow related to discussions on this forum?). I heard that too - I can't imagine the entire island of Japan shifting eight feet. That, and the immensity of this catastrophe is incomprehensible. Heh. That's all we need here, faster spinning!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola and Rong-Tong Willy
It is just b.s. Willy. Well, I guess emptybill is just empty - no self, no soul-monad, nobody. emptybill: But then who needs a god when there's Wrong-tong Willy? Very impressive, emptybill - how did you get so full of your self? You're professing like a rong-tong. No wonder that you assert that you don't exist. No wonder that you assert that nothing exists. It is just b.s. Willy. Go study shen-tong/zhentong maadhyama. Yer just a wrong-tong at this point. Well, I guess emptybill is just empty - no self, no soul-monad, nobody. But, you'd think that someone studying under a high Tibetan lama would have something more to say about the Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism. Go figure. All truth is relative is an absolutist statement. Neither from itself nor from another, Nor from both, Nor without a cause, Does anything whatever, anywhere arise. emptybill: So how can you live with yourself knowing you're just a lie? Because there is no 'self' and no 'truth' to arise? Can you figure that out, Bill? It's so simple that I thought you'd get it, since you're studying Mahayana Buddhism under a high lama. So, let's take it from the top: Change is impossible; things do not move hither and yon; one thing does not become another thing. Suffering, actions, bodies, doers, and results are all unreal. The Seven States of Conciousness are also unreal. There is neither suffering nor its causation nor a path to its cessation. The three gunas are unreal and there is neither the Movement, nor the Technique, nor the Maharishi. Excerpt from mahAyAna sutra lAnkarA: Pure conciousness is the only Reality. By its nature, it is Self-luminous. (XIII, 13). Thus shaking off duality, he directly percieves the Absolute which is the unity underlying phenomena (dharmadAtu). (VI, 7) Sharma, p. 112-113 Read more: Subject: vijnApti matratA siddhi by vasAabAndhu Author: Willytex Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: February 8, 2005 http://tinyurl.com/4z6r939
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola and Rong-Tong Willy
Go wiki the shen-tong/rong-tong difference for Tibetan madhyamaka-s. You'll see similarities between brahman-atman and buddha-jñana/buddha-gunas even among the bauddha-s that you love to quote. However, you represent yourself here as a rong-tong-pa even when you don't know the difference between empty-of-self versus empty-of-other. As you like to say ... go fig-ur. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: It is just b.s. Willy. Well, I guess emptybill is just empty - no self, no soul-monad, nobody. emptybill: But then who needs a god when there's Wrong-tong Willy? Very impressive, emptybill - how did you get so full of your self? You're professing like a rong-tong. No wonder that you assert that you don't exist. No wonder that you assert that nothing exists. It is just b.s. Willy. Go study shen-tong/zhentong maadhyama. Yer just a wrong-tong at this point.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
Got potassium iodide? And BTW how earthquake tolerant are the domes? On 03/14/2011 02:36 AM, Buck wrote: Our thoughts and our prayers remain with the people of Japan. -The President of the United States Push back from a unified field. Help in a creation of a tsunami of love with an Infusion of well-being in grace for all these beings. Come to meditation. Meditate and pray infused for relief of suffering of Libya, Japan, and the TM-Rajas. Nature given, anyone who can think can meditate. Now. We are created for Transcendence as fish are created for swimming and birds for flight. Waste not. Birthright. Meditate. -Buck FF
Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy DST USA!
I'd like to have DST year-round. Where I live, because it's the northeast and close to the eastern edge of the time zone, the sun sets before 4:10 PM in the first week of December. The direction has been to make DST end later in the year and standard time begin early in the year ... why not just get rid of it altogether? Under the influence of maya, Brahman appears as Ishvara, the personal God, who exists on the celestial level of life, in the subtlest field of creation. In a similar manner, under the influence of avidya, atman appears as jiva, or individual soul. - MMY --- On Sun, 3/13/11, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [FairfieldLife] Happy DST USA! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 3:23 PM Except for Arizona and Hawaii residents. Arizona because they voted against it and Hawaii because in the tropics the sun rise and set at widely varying times throughout the year so it is rather superfluous (India for the same reason doesn't observe it). I live pretty much by light time or standard time. It flummoxes people who want to go to lunch at noon during the summer because I feel more like going to lunch at 1 PM. Anyhoo, the local Bay Area comic who has the morning show on KGO radio on Sundays raised the question if we still want DST or not. Actually in the Internet age we need to move to one time zone: GMT (or UTC) and keep it year round. But try to explain THAT to the sleepwalkers around you. BTW, that was one thing Scientology (or L Ron) got right: most of the public is sleepwalking (or ign'ant as we used to say in TM). To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Got potassium iodide? And BTW how earthquake tolerant are the domes? No need for either. Woo Woo protects everyone, doncha know? :-) [Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket] http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e159/mizrahishopper/May515copy.jpg [Woo Woo Cocktail - Logo]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Got potassium iodide? Right, we should all be taking potassium iodide to protect our thyroids against the radiation from Japan. Just as we did after Chernobyl, right? Because what's happening in Japan is far worse than Chernobyl. Right?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy DST USA!
This morning though I usually listen to Thom Hartmann the car radio was on KGO instead and Ronn Owen's had Michael Downing, a Tufts university professor who has written a book on the subject of Daylight Saving Time called Spring Forward. Guess who is the biggest supporter of DST? The Chamber of Commerce because their studies show that given the extra daylight hour people are inclined to shop rather than that go straight home after work. Who would have thunk it in the land of money worshiping? http://michaeldowningbooks.com/downing-books-spring.htm http://michaeldowningbooks.com/blog/2010/03/rachel_maddow_loves_daylight_s.html Does save any energy either, in fact it increases energy consumption. On 03/14/2011 10:02 AM, gullible fool wrote: I'd like to have DST year-round. Where I live, because it's the northeast and close to the eastern edge of the time zone, the sun sets before 4:10 PM in the first week of December. The direction has been to make DST end later in the year and standard time begin early in the year ... why not just get rid of it altogether? Under the influence of maya, Brahman appears as Ishvara, the personal God, who exists on the celestial level of life, in the subtlest field of creation. In a similar manner, under the influence of avidya, atman appears as jiva, or individual soul. - MMY --- On Sun, 3/13/11, Bhairitunoozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitunoozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [FairfieldLife] Happy DST USA! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 3:23 PM Except for Arizona and Hawaii residents. Arizona because they voted against it and Hawaii because in the tropics the sun rise and set at widely varying times throughout the year so it is rather superfluous (India for the same reason doesn't observe it). I live pretty much by light time or standard time. It flummoxes people who want to go to lunch at noon during the summer because I feel more like going to lunch at 1 PM. Anyhoo, the local Bay Area comic who has the morning show on KGO radio on Sundays raised the question if we still want DST or not. Actually in the Internet age we need to move to one time zone: GMT (or UTC) and keep it year round. But try to explain THAT to the sleepwalkers around you. BTW, that was one thing Scientology (or L Ron) got right: most of the public is sleepwalking (or ign'ant as we used to say in TM). To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
On 03/14/2011 10:21 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: Got potassium iodide? Right, we should all be taking potassium iodide to protect our thyroids against the radiation from Japan. If you're in the path of the jet stream. Might as well be safe than sorry. Just as we did after Chernobyl, right? You did? I didn't because I live on the west coast (and actually south of the jet stream). The prevailing winds from Chernobyl hit Europe not the US. Because what's happening in Japan is far worse than Chernobyl. Right? Oh great swami Judy, what do you see in your crystal ball?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
On Mar 14, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Oh great swami Judy, what do you see in your crystal ball? Could we get a review of the next Coen Bros. movie while you're at it? :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola and Rong-Tong Willy
emptybill: However, you represent yourself here as a rong-tong-pa even when you don't know the difference between empty-of-self versus empty-of-other... There is no rong-tong-pa or shin-tong-pa; those are just points-of-view. You're not an emptybill with your mind so full of ideas. All the buddhas have said that emptiness Definitely eliminates all viewpoints. Those who have the view of emptiness Are said to be incurable. - Nagarjuna Mulamadhyamakakarika 13.8
[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy DST USA!
Bhairitu: Does save any energy either, in fact it increases energy consumption... Daylight Savings Time (DST) means that we temporarily move our clock's hands forward during the summer and back in the winter. That's because we want afternoons to have more daylight and the mornings to have less. That way, we save energy because residential lighting use is less. By setting back the time of sunset and sunrise we can use less energy from light bulbs in the evenning. It's that simple.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Mar 14, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Oh great swami Judy, what do you see in your crystal ball? Could we get a review of the next Coen Bros. movie while you're at it? :-) Ya know, Vaj, repeating what was a blatant lie to start with doesn't somehow make it more true. And it shows something of a deficiency in creative thinking. Surely you can come up with a *new* lie.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
Never mind, Bhairitu. Your response was good for a giggle. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 03/14/2011 10:21 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: Got potassium iodide? Right, we should all be taking potassium iodide to protect our thyroids against the radiation from Japan. If you're in the path of the jet stream. Might as well be safe than sorry. Just as we did after Chernobyl, right? You did? I didn't because I live on the west coast (and actually south of the jet stream). The prevailing winds from Chernobyl hit Europe not the US. Because what's happening in Japan is far worse than Chernobyl. Right? Oh great swami Judy, what do you see in your crystal ball?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy DST USA!
On 03/14/2011 01:46 PM, WillyTex wrote: Bhairitu: Does save any energy either, in fact it increases energy consumption... Daylight Savings Time (DST) means that we temporarily move our clock's hands forward during the summer and back in the winter. That's because we want afternoons to have more daylight and the mornings to have less. That way, we save energy because residential lighting use is less. By setting back the time of sunset and sunrise we can use less energy from light bulbs in the evenning. It's that simple. And because people are home earlier air conditioning, which consumes more electricity than lighting, is run an extra hour. So much for your myth.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment
My experiment was to see how long it would take them to prove my descriptions prescient, and accurate. So far it's only taken five hours to produce seven proof posts... authfriend: Nonono, wrong. Those seven posts were proof only that you haven't stopped attacking yet, as is this one... Give Barry some slack, can't you see that he is having problems? Obviously he is blind to reason at this point; burned out totally, apparently. He doesn't even understand what he is doing. You really waxed him good this time! Good work. In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet) Nor have you stopped being dishonest; you're going to be criticized for dishonesty no matter what you're talking about. Remember that the biggest complaint against you is about *you* as a particular individual, not about your criticisms of TM or anything else. Naturally, you resist acknowledging this. But you analyzed the dynamic very well not long ago: This is the 'They aren't really criticizing me, they are criticizing my beliefs...what they really hate is what I believe in' argument that True Believers trot out over and over. Please note that this is a typical and well- documented cult tactic used to make a criticism of a *particular individual* seem as if it's 'really' a criticism of the group the cultist is attempting to appeal to and gain sympathy from. You were demonizing True Believers, but in fact it applies to you more than it does to them. Even if you never made another post about TM/the TMO/MMY/ TMers and instead posted on other topics, but used the same style and obnoxious tactics, you'd still come in for criticism, which would demonstrate that the criticism is about *you personally*, not your TM-related beliefs. And I'll make the point once again that if you don't read the posts of the people you're targeting, you are obviously not in a position to claim they lack creativity or have nothing else to say.
[FairfieldLife] 7 Mindfulness Habits of Highly Effective Brains - workshop
I received today at work a brochure offering an all day seminar by Jonathan Jordan, MSW on Mindfulness, brain research on its effects, basics on brain functioning, and specific habits that help the brain work optimally: diet, focus (don't multi-task), activity and exercise, sleep, etc. I am attending. This is the first such presentation I have seen that offers this type of mindfulness and brain research information to educators and people working in schools (psychologists, guidance, social workers). I don't know the presenter, Jordan, but hope he does a good job of it all. www.health-ed.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] 7 Mindfulness Habits of Highly Effective Brains - workshop
On Mar 14, 2011, at 4:58 PM, wayback71 wrote: I received today at work a brochure offering an all day seminar by Jonathan Jordan, MSW on Mindfulness, brain research on its effects, basics on brain functioning, and specific habits that help the brain work optimally: diet, focus (don't multi-task), activity and exercise, sleep, etc. I am attending. This is the first such presentation I have seen that offers this type of mindfulness and brain research information to educators and people working in schools (psychologists, guidance, social workers). I don't know the presenter, Jordan, but hope he does a good job of it all. I'd be interested to hear how it goes. Like TM, not all Mindfulness research is robust, but it has steadily improved.
[FairfieldLife] An homage to Clint
A couple of my housemates are watching Hereafter on the big-screen TV downstairs. I've seen it a couple of times already, so I bowed out after the tsunami scene and decided to come upstairs and write for a while instead. And so what do I feel myself drawn to writing about? Clint Eastwood. Go figure. Consider this an exercise in, if nothing else, Barry doesn't hate *all* things or people associated in some way with the TM movement. :-) I really *like* Clint Eastwood. I've only had one real opportunity to meet and interact with him (and I've told that story a few times here already so I won't tell it again), but I've been an admirer of his work for many years, as both an actor and a director, and I think he's just the bees' knees. Clint rocks. One of the reasons I think this is that I had a TM friend who grew up with Clint, and attended his first wedding. She's known him since before Rawhide. And she describes Clint as the ultimate self-made man. He realized very early that the career lifespan of a pretty-boy TV cowboy was...uh...limited. So he set about educating himself. Every minute he wasn't on camera on the set of Rawhide he was behind it, get- ting to know all of the people on the set, finding out what made them good at their jobs. He used being on TV and movie sets to provide himself a hands on education in the science of making TV and movies. And boy! does it show. Industry gossip says that there is simply nothing more bankable than a Clint Eastwood production. He never goes a day over schedule or a dollar over budget. He staffs his films with master craftsmen and craftswomen from each cinema guild, and he knows that they *are* master craftsmen and crafts- women because he's done his homework. And as for his relationship with these craftspeople and actors? Clint has a reputation of never forgetting anyone's name. He can rattle off the names of crew personnel from any of his early movies, much less his latest ones. That says a lot, in my opinion. When Clint made the jump from pretty-boy actor to director, his first effort was a making of feature for the riskiest (as an actor) film he had made at that point, The Beguiled. It was a tremendous film, and Clint delivered some of his best acting ever in it, but it tanked at the box office. Clint wasn't the all-conquering hero. The movie-going public didn't *like* Clint as anything other than the all-conquering hero. But that featurette, and his reputation, got him the director's slot for another great film, Play Misty For Me. As good a first film as I can think of any director making. He followed it up with a dozen or more money-making but at the same time interesting and well-done films as a director. Then came Bird. As fine a film as any director in history has ever made period, a true labor of love. Next there came Unforgiven, arguably the best Western ever made, and made by someone who was once relegated by his peers to being a pretty-boy TV cowboy. Other great films followed. A Perfect World, Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby ferchrissakes, Gran Torino, Invictus, and most recently, Hereafter. Hereafter is a very good film. And it's a very good film about a very difficult subject, the...uh... hereafter. WTF happens when you die? I thought that Clint did a masterful job of walking the philosophical and politically-correct landmine of such a subject, and doing it with some artistry. It's a very different kind of movie for Clint. He refers to it as a very European film, in which several seemingly unrelated plotlines overlap and become completely related. It sure worked for me. And he's a TMer. Go figure. :-) If it ain't broke, Clint, don't fix it. It's done ya good, obviously, and I for one admire what it's done for you. You're the coolest 80-year-old guy I know on this planet. I hope you keep making films until you're at least 100, and that I'm still around to watch them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 Mindfulness Habits of Highly Effective Brains - workshop
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Mar 14, 2011, at 4:58 PM, wayback71 wrote: I received today at work a brochure offering an all day seminar by Jonathan Jordan, MSW on Mindfulness, brain research on its effects, basics on brain functioning, and specific habits that help the brain work optimally: diet, focus (don't multi-task), activity and exercise, sleep, etc. I am attending. This is the first such presentation I have seen that offers this type of mindfulness and brain research information to educators and people working in schools (psychologists, guidance, social workers). I don't know the presenter, Jordan, but hope he does a good job of it all. I'd be interested to hear how it goes. Like TM, not all Mindfulness research is robust, but it has steadily improved. I'll let you know in early May. The workshop is April 29.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 Mindfulness Habits of Highly Effective Brains - workshop
On Mar 14, 2011, at 5:18 PM, wayback71 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Mar 14, 2011, at 4:58 PM, wayback71 wrote: I received today at work a brochure offering an all day seminar by Jonathan Jordan, MSW on Mindfulness, brain research on its effects, basics on brain functioning, and specific habits that help the brain work optimally: diet, focus (don't multi-task), activity and exercise, sleep, etc. I am attending. This is the first such presentation I have seen that offers this type of mindfulness and brain research information to educators and people working in schools (psychologists, guidance, social workers). I don't know the presenter, Jordan, but hope he does a good job of it all. I'd be interested to hear how it goes. Like TM, not all Mindfulness research is robust, but it has steadily improved. I'll let you know in early May. The workshop is April 29. It's good to keep a critical eye on how these things develop. One of the latest Buddhisto-meditation fads is the change your mind (or consciousness), change your brain genre. I say authors because some of these people are not specialists in the areas they're writing books on. They just have a sense of what's right, at the right time. But they hit a nerve and they sell. There's always a samsaric side to these things, even if it has a glowing logo of the beaming Dalai Lama on it (esp. if it has a glowing likeness of the beaming Dalai Lama on it), be mindful. Anything can devolve to a type of spiritual materialism. Anything.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 Mindfulness Habits of Highly Effective Brains - workshop
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Mar 14, 2011, at 5:18 PM, wayback71 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Mar 14, 2011, at 4:58 PM, wayback71 wrote: I received today at work a brochure offering an all day seminar by Jonathan Jordan, MSW on Mindfulness, brain research on its effects, basics on brain functioning, and specific habits that help the brain work optimally: diet, focus (don't multi-task), activity and exercise, sleep, etc. I am attending. This is the first such presentation I have seen that offers this type of mindfulness and brain research information to educators and people working in schools (psychologists, guidance, social workers). I don't know the presenter, Jordan, but hope he does a good job of it all. I'd be interested to hear how it goes. Like TM, not all Mindfulness research is robust, but it has steadily improved. I'll let you know in early May. The workshop is April 29. It's good to keep a critical eye on how these things develop. One of the latest Buddhisto-meditation fads is the change your mind (or consciousness), change your brain genre. I say authors because some of these people are not specialists in the areas they're writing books on. They just have a sense of what's right, at the right time. But they hit a nerve and they sell. There's always a samsaric side to these things, even if it has a glowing logo of the beaming Dalai Lama on it (esp. if it has a glowing likeness of the beaming Dalai Lama on it), be mindful. Anything can devolve to a type of spiritual materialism. Anything. I will keep this in mind. The presenter has been doing some meditation he learned back in Nepal about 40 years ago. But I know that often the people least qualified to do so end up writing and selling the books on a topic - because hey are good at sensing the right time, or got lucky, and they have no qualms about an expert after a few lessons. I am guessing this presentation is geared to how the brain works in general, how mindfulness practices change it in a way that helps with ADHD, depression and anxiety in school age children, and then presenting other lifestyle practices taht enhance a healthy brain and learning. So this might be change your brain and you change your mind and behavior and capacity to learn.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
Sure - its called Vaj the great - Not as well done as their others. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Mar 14, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Oh great swami Judy, what do you see in your crystal ball? Could we get a review of the next Coen Bros. movie while you're at it? :-)
[FairfieldLife] Media Reaction to Palin
Reports like this one are just examples why it will be difficult for Palin to win a presidential election, if she has any plan of doing so. http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/post_leadership/2011/02/palin-breastfeeding-joke-gos-sour.html
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Mar 12 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat Mar 19 00:00:00 2011 190 messages as of (UTC) Tue Mar 15 00:14:21 2011 29 authfriend jst...@panix.com 22 seventhray1 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net 18 WillyTex willy...@yahoo.com 16 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 15 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 10 Ravi Yogi raviy...@att.net 9 whynotnow7 whynotn...@yahoo.com 9 Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net 8 yifuxero yifux...@yahoo.com 7 Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 6 emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com 6 Robert babajii...@yahoo.com 5 Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@lisco.com 4 feste37 fest...@yahoo.com 4 Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com 4 John jr_...@yahoo.com 3 wayback71 waybac...@yahoo.com 3 seekliberation seekliberat...@yahoo.com 2 shanti2218411 kc...@epix.net 2 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 Peter drpetersutp...@yahoo.com 1 raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com 1 gullible fool ffl...@yahoo.com 1 Yifu Xero yifux...@yahoo.com 1 Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com 1 Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com 1 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com Posters: 27 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Got potassium iodide? And BTW how earthquake tolerant are the domes? Well, our New Orleans chief, May God Bless and Keep Him, far away from this group, used to f*ck in the Dome during meetings. I suspect the Mens Dome is at least The Earth Shook proof.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Media Reaction to Palin
On Mar 14, 2011, at 8:14 PM, John wrote: Reports like this one are just examples why it will be difficult for Palin to win a presidential election, if she has any plan of doing so. http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/post_leadership/2011/02/palin-breastfeeding-joke-gos-sour.html We can only hope she does get the nomination. Besides, I didn't get photos of her in her boots last time. I'm feeling more photo-journalistically savvy this time. :-) It would be worth it to see our Kenyan President out run an Alaskan transplant across a Tea Party minefield, wouldn't it? Of course even though I don't hunt, I'd love to be a shooter in the Huckabee family hippo hunt. I mean sometimes game is just game. Department store manikins worry me even less. Even carrying the terma of Cumorah.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Media Reaction to Palin
On Mar 14, 2011, at 8:14 PM, John wrote: Reports like this one are just examples why it will be difficult for Palin to win a presidential election, if she has any plan of doing so. http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/post_leadership/2011/02/palin-breastfeeding-joke-gos-sour.html We can only hope she does get the nomination. Besides, I didn't get photos of her in her boots last time. I'm feeling more photo-journalistically savvy this time around. :-) It would be worth it to see our Kenyan President out run an Alaskan transplant across a Tea Party minefield, wouldn't it? Of course even though I don't hunt, I'd love to be a shooter in the Huckabee family hippo hunt. I mean sometimes game is just game. Department store manikins worry me even less. Even carrying the terma of Cumorah.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola and Rong-Tong Willy
There is no rong-tong-pa or shin-tong-pa; those are just points-of-view. Yep, now it can be told. Ain't no rongtong, ain't no shentong, it's jus' Willy preachin' to the Lamas `bout his buddy-jñana. Well WikiWilly, I'm afraid we've exceeded your capacity to discuss this. You are just repeating the same POV over and over. To use a North Texas expression You can lead a horse to the tank but you can't make him sing Donizetti Belle Canto. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: emptybill: However, you represent yourself here as a rong-tong-pa even when you don't know the difference between empty-of-self versus empty-of-other... There is no rong-tong-pa or shin-tong-pa; those are just points-of-view. You're not an emptybill with your mind so full of ideas. All the buddhas have said that emptiness Definitely eliminates all viewpoints. Those who have the view of emptiness Are said to be incurable. - Nagarjuna Mulamadhyamakakarika 13.8
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment
True TB's would only be concerned with the light and not the lamp. And most of the TB's I have seen on FFL seem to be more focussed on what MMY was pointing to than the man himself and most seem to have peacefully rehabilitated since their focus was in the light. But blind skeptics like Barry are obsessed with lamps containers. MMY has passed on but these retards just go on blasting the lamp. They have missed the pointers, they can't feel the light - they forgot to get the fuel and the lighter, now they spend their entire lifetimes blasting the lamps. What a pity --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: My experiment was to see how long it would take them to prove my descriptions prescient, and accurate. So far it's only taken five hours to produce seven proof posts... authfriend: Nonono, wrong. Those seven posts were proof only that you haven't stopped attacking yet, as is this one... Give Barry some slack, can't you see that he is having problems? Obviously he is blind to reason at this point; burned out totally, apparently. He doesn't even understand what he is doing. You really waxed him good this time! Good work. In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet) Nor have you stopped being dishonest; you're going to be criticized for dishonesty no matter what you're talking about. Remember that the biggest complaint against you is about *you* as a particular individual, not about your criticisms of TM or anything else. Naturally, you resist acknowledging this. But you analyzed the dynamic very well not long ago: This is the 'They aren't really criticizing me, they are criticizing my beliefs...what they really hate is what I believe in' argument that True Believers trot out over and over. Please note that this is a typical and well- documented cult tactic used to make a criticism of a *particular individual* seem as if it's 'really' a criticism of the group the cultist is attempting to appeal to and gain sympathy from. You were demonizing True Believers, but in fact it applies to you more than it does to them. Even if you never made another post about TM/the TMO/MMY/ TMers and instead posted on other topics, but used the same style and obnoxious tactics, you'd still come in for criticism, which would demonstrate that the criticism is about *you personally*, not your TM-related beliefs. And I'll make the point once again that if you don't read the posts of the people you're targeting, you are obviously not in a position to claim they lack creativity or have nothing else to say.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: Never mind, Bhairitu. Your response was good for a giggle. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 03/14/2011 10:21 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: Got potassium iodide? Right, we should all be taking potassium iodide to protect our thyroids against the radiation from Japan. If you're in the path of the jet stream. Might as well be safe than sorry. Just as we did after Chernobyl, right? You did? I didn't because I live on the west coast (and actually south of the jet stream). The prevailing winds from Chernobyl hit Europe not the US. Potassium iodide? What's the protocol? I have a son who is a commercial airline pilot and flies the jet streams all the time everyday. The airlines are not unknown for sacrificing their crews. What would you do? The US apparently has pulled our US fleet back away from Japan now. Have they distributed potassium iodide on board ships yet? Just wondering. I'm getting a supply for my horses just in case. -Buck in FF http://www.endtimesreport.com/jet.html Because what's happening in Japan is far worse than Chernobyl. Right? Potasium Oh great swami Judy, what do you see in your crystal ball?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Even if you can't get in to the domes Fairfield is a powerful place to Be. Come be with it and experience it at least for a visit: http://www.mainstayfairfield.com/ Folks visiting Fairfield like staying in these too: http://www.jeffersoncountyconservation.com/camping.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: Prime Minister Bevan will be returning from Europe soon, and is looking for an RV, to travel around the United States, in an effort to boost the number of souls in the Dome... So, that's the news... Good night, and good luck! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote: From: Raja John Hagelin development@ Light at the End of the Tunnel A Message to our National Sidha Community From Raja John Hagelin These are certainly turbulent times. The Middle East is consumed by popular revolt and violent confrontation; extreme partisanship and political turmoil fill the US news, with rumblings of class warfare-and incidents of violence in our own back yard caution us to be extremely vigilant. Underlying these events, on a deep level, is the rising tide of collective consciousness. Sleeping elephants-smoldering, sub-surface tensions-are starting to arise and work themselves out-in the Middle East and at home. On the positive side, the overall trends are heartening: crime is down-way down. Optimism and confidence about the future is the highest in years. Experiences in the Domes are utterly sublime-celestial. And this, above all, tells us that something good is happening. Negativity and darkness cannot survive the presence of so much light. But our experience also tells us that if the coherence is insufficient to push us quickly through this phase transition, as we hover at the boiling point, things can stay rough for a long time. And it is hard to know where these violent swings will take us. Today we woke up to the news of a historically powerful earthquake that killed hundreds in Japan, the effects of which are being felt halfway across the world. The good news: there is light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks in large part to the overwhelming generosity of Drs. Howard and Mickey Settle, to the great organizing power of Dr. Girish Varma in India, and the tremendous persistence of Raja and Maureen Wynne, with the highly competent assistance of Bill Goldstein and others, our Vedic Pandit numbers here in Maharishi Vedic City are rising. Forty-one Vedic Pandits arrived last night, to be followed by a continuing stream that will take us to 1,250 within the next 10 weeks. This will put us in the vicinity of 2,000 Yogic Flyers-enough, according to experience and Maharishi's very clear vision, to accelerate and lubricate the phase transition to a very positive, progressive, harmonious and prosperous nation. And give a huge uplift to our own Fairfield / MVC community-always the first beneficiary. But we aren't there yet, and we need your help-now. We need everyone blessed with a human nervous system and the divine knowledge and techniques to transcend and shake the unbounded ocean of Being to come and exercise that unique and powerful capability. We need all those who are within driving distance of the Domes and flying halls to dive deep and enjoy those incredibly blissful programs with the group. You are the core of our Invincible America community, and we especially need you now. And we need all those at a distance to schedule time in Fairfield / MVC this spring and this summer, when our students are away. Come and stay as long as you can. Take a moment to plan your trip now. Our new, wonderful Welcome Committee will help you with all the details of your stay. Call (641) 472-1230, or email mailto:welcome@welcome@ We owe this to ourselves. We were born on Earth at this time of revival, and given this precious knowledge, to achieve the supreme goal of life-the culmination of a thousand lifetimes. We owe this to the great Howard and Mickey Settle, who donated their company and are giving their all so that as many as possible can be in the Domes. We owe this to Maharishi, who dedicated his extraordinary, blessed life to us. And it is so easy! Spring has finally sprung and the weather is nice. It's time to shake ourselves out of hibernation and start the day with that deep, pure, exhilarating silence, and to carry that bliss and support of nature with us throughout the day. And thereby effortlessly accomplish everything-for ourselves, for our country, and for the destiny of our planet and the human race. If each of you will simply take responsibility for yourselves, we will easily fulfill this joyous, blissful
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
Buck, there's no point. The world's going to end in 2012 well before thyroid cancer can kill you and your son and your horses. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Never mind, Bhairitu. Your response was good for a giggle. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 03/14/2011 10:21 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: Got potassium iodide? Right, we should all be taking potassium iodide to protect our thyroids against the radiation from Japan. If you're in the path of the jet stream. Might as well be safe than sorry. Just as we did after Chernobyl, right? You did? I didn't because I live on the west coast (and actually south of the jet stream). The prevailing winds from Chernobyl hit Europe not the US. Potassium iodide? What's the protocol? I have a son who is a commercial airline pilot and flies the jet streams all the time everyday. The airlines are not unknown for sacrificing their crews. What would you do? The US apparently has pulled our US fleet back away from Japan now. Have they distributed potassium iodide on board ships yet? Just wondering. I'm getting a supply for my horses just in case. -Buck in FF http://www.endtimesreport.com/jet.html Because what's happening in Japan is far worse than Chernobyl. Right? Potasium Oh great swami Judy, what do you see in your crystal ball?
[FairfieldLife] Clint Eastwood movie pulled from Japanese theaters
Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:55pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Warner Bros. film studio on Monday said it has taken afterlife movie Hereafter out of Japanese theaters and postponed the release of The Rite in that country following last week's devastating earthquake. In deference to the tragic unfolding events in Japan, we have pulled 'Hereafter' from the theaters and will postpone the Japanese release of 'The Rite' (which was scheduled to open this coming weekend) to a later date, Warner Bros. said in a statement. Read more (but not much): http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/us-hereafter-idUSTRE72D7P620110314 http://tinyurl.com/4jhw96l (Hereafter includes scenes of a tsunami.)
[FairfieldLife] Re: An homage to Clint
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: A couple of my housemates are watching Hereafter on the big-screen TV downstairs. I've seen it a couple of times already, so I bowed out after the tsunami scene and decided to come upstairs and write for a while instead. And so what do I feel myself drawn to writing about? Clint Eastwood. Go figure. Consider this an exercise in, if nothing else, Barry doesn't hate *all* things or people associated in some way with the TM movement. :-) I really *like* Clint Eastwood. I've only had one real opportunity to meet and interact with him (and I've told that story a few times here already so I won't tell it again), but I've been an admirer of his work for many years, as both an actor and a director, and I think he's just the bees' knees. Clint rocks. One of the reasons I think this is that I had a TM friend who grew up with Clint, and attended his first wedding. She's known him since before Rawhide. And she describes Clint as the ultimate self-made man. He realized very early that the career lifespan of a pretty-boy TV cowboy was...uh...limited. So he set about educating himself. Every minute he wasn't on camera on the set of Rawhide he was behind it, get- ting to know all of the people on the set, finding out what made them good at their jobs. He used being on TV and movie sets to provide himself a hands on education in the science of making TV and movies. And boy! does it show. Industry gossip says that there is simply nothing more bankable than a Clint Eastwood production. He never goes a day over schedule or a dollar over budget. He staffs his films with master craftsmen and craftswomen from each cinema guild, and he knows that they *are* master craftsmen and crafts- women because he's done his homework. And as for his relationship with these craftspeople and actors? Clint has a reputation of never forgetting anyone's name. He can rattle off the names of crew personnel from any of his early movies, much less his latest ones. That says a lot, in my opinion. When Clint made the jump from pretty-boy actor to director, his first effort was a making of feature for the riskiest (as an actor) film he had made at that point, The Beguiled. It was a tremendous film, and Clint delivered some of his best acting ever in it, but it tanked at the box office. Clint wasn't the all-conquering hero. The movie-going public didn't *like* Clint as anything other than the all-conquering hero. But that featurette, and his reputation, got him the director's slot for another great film, Play Misty For Me. As good a first film as I can think of any director making. He followed it up with a dozen or more money-making but at the same time interesting and well-done films as a director. Then came Bird. As fine a film as any director in history has ever made period, a true labor of love. Next there came Unforgiven, arguably the best Western ever made, and made by someone who was once relegated by his peers to being a pretty-boy TV cowboy. Other great films followed. A Perfect World, Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby ferchrissakes, Gran Torino, Invictus, and most recently, Hereafter. Hereafter is a very good film. And it's a very good film about a very difficult subject, the...uh... hereafter. WTF happens when you die? I thought that Clint did a masterful job of walking the philosophical and politically-correct landmine of such a subject, and doing it with some artistry. It's a very different kind of movie for Clint. He refers to it as a very European film, in which several seemingly unrelated plotlines overlap and become completely related. It sure worked for me. And he's a TMer. Go figure. :-) If it ain't broke, Clint, don't fix it. It's done ya good, obviously, and I for one admire what it's done for you. You're the coolest 80-year-old guy I know on this planet. I hope you keep making films until you're at least 100, and that I'm still around to watch them. The sanest post I've ever read from the Turq-fellow. He even ackowledes that his hero is a TM'er ! Credo to you Turq for writing this. Perhaps the world have gone mad, in a funny sort of way :-) The next thing I look forward to is the Turq doing a positive film-review of another TM'er, David Lynch. Stranger things have hapenned.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
On 03/14/2011 07:05 PM, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriendjstein@... wrote: Never mind, Bhairitu. Your response was good for a giggle. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: On 03/14/2011 10:21 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: Got potassium iodide? Right, we should all be taking potassium iodide to protect our thyroids against the radiation from Japan. If you're in the path of the jet stream. Might as well be safe than sorry. Just as we did after Chernobyl, right? You did? I didn't because I live on the west coast (and actually south of the jet stream). The prevailing winds from Chernobyl hit Europe not the US. Potassium iodide? What's the protocol? I have a son who is a commercial airline pilot and flies the jet streams all the time everyday. The airlines are not unknown for sacrificing their crews. What would you do? The US apparently has pulled our US fleet back away from Japan now. Have they distributed potassium iodide on board ships yet? Just wondering. I'm getting a supply for my horses just in case. -Buck in FF http://www.endtimesreport.com/jet.html I grew up in the shadow of Hanford and your friendly government released radioactivity over me and everyone else for an experiment. Thing is I didn't like milk as a kid so that might have saved my life: http://downwinders.com/ Your government loves ya! Speaking of Chernobyl, I was living back in the area in the 1980s and Hanford sent some scientists over there. One them was a member of the computer club I was in and gave us a detailed talk and slideshow when he returned. It was very horrifying.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: Buck, there's no point. The world's going to end in 2012 well before thyroid cancer can kill you and your son and your horses. Haha, that is funny. I'm madly in love with a girl 30 years younger than me. I will take her to Paris next month, and then to the Four Seasons hotel in Bora Bora, and we will be happy forever. The other lady I deeply love is 90 this year. She's a TM-teacher, a dear friend of Maharishi, and has decided she will not drop the body until Maitreya is seen for all to see. Her plan is to become 115 years old, and she will succeed. The world goes on. All is well.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!
I really shouldn't be flip about it because it's just a horrible catastrophe in Japan; they have genuine cause to be terrified of the radiation those plants are letting loose now. At this point, we in the U.S. do not. Best wishes for your romantic life, in any case. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Buck, there's no point. The world's going to end in 2012 well before thyroid cancer can kill you and your son and your horses. Haha, that is funny. I'm madly in love with a girl 30 years younger than me. I will take her to Paris next month, and then to the Four Seasons hotel in Bora Bora, and we will be happy forever. The other lady I deeply love is 90 this year. She's a TM-teacher, a dear friend of Maharishi, and has decided she will not drop the body until Maitreya is seen for all to see. Her plan is to become 115 years old, and she will succeed. The world goes on. All is well.
