[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread authfriend
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  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  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!

2011-03-14 Thread nablusoss1008


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  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.



Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread Bhairitu
On 03/14/2011 07:05 PM, Buck wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>> Never mind, Bhairitu. Your response was good for a giggle.
>>
>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>>> On 03/14/2011 10:21 AM, authfriend wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu   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: An homage to Clint

2011-03-14 Thread nablusoss1008


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  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.



[FairfieldLife] Clint Eastwood movie pulled from Japanese theaters

2011-03-14 Thread authfriend
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: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread authfriend
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"  wrote:
>
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >
> > Never mind, Bhairitu. Your response was good for a giggle.
> > 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
> > >
> > > On 03/14/2011 10:21 AM, authfriend wrote:
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  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

2011-03-14 Thread Buck


>
> 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"  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  wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Raja John Hagelin 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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 
> > > 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 
> > > effortl

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread Buck

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> Never mind, Bhairitu. Your response was good for a giggle.
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
> >
> > On 03/14/2011 10:21 AM, authfriend wrote:
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  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: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-14 Thread Ravi Yogi
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"  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: Shit, shinola and Rong-Tong Willy

2011-03-14 Thread emptybill

> 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"  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
>





Re: [FairfieldLife] Media Reaction to Palin

2011-03-14 Thread Vaj

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.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Media Reaction to Palin

2011-03-14 Thread Vaj

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] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread Tom Pall
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Bhairitu  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.


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2011-03-14 Thread FFL PostCount
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[FairfieldLife] Media Reaction to Palin

2011-03-14 Thread John
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] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread whynotnow7
Sure - its called "Vaj the great" - Not as well done as their others. :-)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  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] Re: 7 Mindfulness Habits of Highly Effective Brains - workshop

2011-03-14 Thread wayback71


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  wrote:
>
> 
> On Mar 14, 2011, at 5:18 PM, wayback71 wrote:
> 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  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."




Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 Mindfulness Habits of Highly Effective Brains - workshop

2011-03-14 Thread Vaj

On Mar 14, 2011, at 5:18 PM, wayback71 wrote:

> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  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

2011-03-14 Thread wayback71


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  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.




[FairfieldLife] An homage to Clint

2011-03-14 Thread turquoiseb
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. 




Re: [FairfieldLife] 7 Mindfulness Habits of Highly Effective Brains - workshop

2011-03-14 Thread Vaj

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] 7 Mindfulness Habits of Highly Effective Brains - workshop

2011-03-14 Thread wayback71
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



[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-14 Thread WillyTex


> 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.
>




Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy DST USA!

2011-03-14 Thread Bhairitu
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: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread authfriend
Never mind, Bhairitu. Your response was good for a giggle.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> On 03/14/2011 10:21 AM, authfriend wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  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?
>




[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  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: Happy DST USA!

2011-03-14 Thread WillyTex


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: Shit, shinola and Rong-Tong Willy

2011-03-14 Thread WillyTex


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



Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread Vaj


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? :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread Bhairitu
On 03/14/2011 10:21 AM, authfriend wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  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] Happy DST USA!

2011-03-14 Thread Bhairitu
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, Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> From: Bhairitu
> 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).
>
>
>
> 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  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?




[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> Got potassium iodide?
>
> And BTW how earthquake tolerant are the domes?

No need for either. Woo Woo protects everyone, doncha know?  :-)

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy DST USA!

2011-03-14 Thread gullible fool

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  wrote:

From: Bhairitu 
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).





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread Bhairitu
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
>>
>
>



[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola and Rong-Tong Willy

2011-03-14 Thread emptybill
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"  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.




[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola and Rong-Tong Willy

2011-03-14 Thread WillyTex


> > > 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: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-14 Thread whynotnow7


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius  
> wrote:
> 
> > 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: Fwd: Light at the End of the Tunnel

2011-03-14 Thread Buck
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"  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  wrote:
> >
> > From: Raja John Hagelin 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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 
> > 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 worl

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shanti, Shanti, Om Shanti!

2011-03-14 Thread Buck
"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
>