[FairfieldLife] Collective consciousness and appearence (looks)?
Seem to recall Maharishi wrote in SBAL something like this (paraphrasing): With rising coherence in the collective consciousness, people shall start looking more beautiful. If that's the case, it most certainly is based on epigenetic changes in a more coherent environment, or stuff? Helsinki, the capital of Finland, is at the moment prolly the only place in Finland where e.g. YF in groups is performed quite regularly. Here is a somewhat drastic example of the above mentioned effect: The Second Runner-up in Miss Helsinki contest, Miss Alisa Ranta-aho when she still lived in her birth town, called Kouvola, generally considered one of the ass-holes (pers-läpi_s) in Finland: http://insider.kyamk.fi/issues/v1013/Alisa-Ranta-Aho.jpg The same chick after living a couple of years in Helsinki: http://www.iltalehti.fi/viihde/2012043015516930_vi.shtml
[FairfieldLife] Review: The Avengers
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: So where's your review of The Avengers? Are you starting to slip up as Whedonite? Well...OK. You have to remember that I am not a big fan of comic books and superheroes. Comic books tend to have...uh... comic book plots and writing, and superpowers have always left me going kinda Ho hum. So it would take pretty much the best movie ever made of a comic book to get my attention. It got my attention. There is really no need to describe it, because pretty much everyone on the planet is going to see it, and well they should. It's an *enormous* entertainment, on all levels. Best CGI ever, best stunts ever, best fight and action scenes ever, and (the part I was hoping for) quite a few funny lines penned by that master of the funny line, Joss Whedon. Because he's gained a rep as a smartass in the previous Marvel movies, Iron Man gets many of the funniest lines. Some of them are overt and everybody in the theater laughs, such as when he first meets Bruce Banner (The Hulk): Tony Stark: It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a big fan of how you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster. Others are more subtle, so only a few of us get the in joke and crack up, such as him referring to Thor as Point Break. But even Thor (gods are SO serious, doncha know) gets an occasional line that cracks up the whole theater, such as: Bruce Banner: I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him. Thor: Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard. And he is my brother. Black Widow: He killed 80 people in two days. Thor: He's adopted. Interestingly enough, The Hulk gets some of the funniest moments in the film. The scene where he finally takes on Loki (the villain) is so hilarious that I cannot even hint at it for fear of providing spoilers. It's a big, expensive action movie, and every penny they spent to create it is up onscreen. I am NOT joking about not being a comic book fan. I've never been one, and I'm not one now. But did I enjoy The Avengers? You betcha.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Collective consciousness and appearence (looks)?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Seem to recall Maharishi wrote in SBAL something like this (paraphrasing): With rising coherence in the collective consciousness, people shall start looking more beautiful. If that's the case, it most certainly is based on epigenetic changes in a more coherent environment, or stuff? Helsinki, the capital of Finland, is at the moment prolly the only place in Finland where e.g. YF in groups is performed quite regularly. Here is a somewhat drastic example of the above mentioned effect: The Second Runner-up in Miss Helsinki contest, Miss Alisa Ranta-aho when she still lived in her birth town, called Kouvola, generally considered one of the ass-holes (pers-läpi_s) in Finland: http://insider.kyamk.fi/issues/v1013/Alisa-Ranta-Aho.jpg The same chick after living a couple of years in Helsinki: http://www.iltalehti.fi/viihde/2012043015516930_vi.shtml I much prefer the first picture. Can't see the MD going much for the look in the second pic
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation
Come, all ye morning meditators dear Who're bound for Canaan's land, Take courage and fight valiantly, Stand fast with sword in hand, Our Captain's gone before us, Our Father's gone before, Then, pilgrims dear, pray do not fear, But let us follow on. Om, Let me respectfully remind you, Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed: Do not squander your life. -Buck, in the Dome
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness
On May 1, 2012, at 1:26 AM, emptybill wrote: The presence or the absence of thinking is incidental to vidya/rigpa. Rigpa is always free of thought and always free of clinging. By definition, thoughts are concepts and thus the conceptual attitude of forming thoughts is redundant rhetoric. Perhaps, in his case, it serves as pedagogy, but in yours mere rhetoric. I didn't write the article William, it was written by Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, the son of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. It made perfect sense to me, I'm not sure why you're so confused. Perhaps you should repeat your ngondro?
[FairfieldLife] Awakening, in Canaan''s Land
To Canaan's land I'm on my way, Where the soul of man never dies; My darkest night will turn to day, Where the soul of man never dies;
[FairfieldLife] Re: Awakening, in Canaan''s Land
To Canaan's land I'm on my way, Where the soul of man never dies; My darkest night will turn to day, Where the soul of man never dies; Chorus: Dear Friends, there'll be no sad farewells, There'll be no tear-dimmed eyes, Where all is peace and joy and love, And the soul of man never dies.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Awakening, in Canaan''s Land
To Canaan's land I'm on my way, Where the soul of man never dies; My darkest night will turn to day, Where the soul of man never dies; Chorus: Dear Friends, there'll be no sad farewells, There'll be no tear-dimmed eyes, Where all is peace and joy and love, And the soul of man never dies. etc., http://ingeb.org/spiritua/tocanaan.html
[FairfieldLife] Mother Divine Retreats from Heavenly Mountain
Subject: Heavenly Mountain campus in North Carolina is too costly Dearest Donors to the Home of Maharishi University of Enlightenment and Mother Divine at Heavenly Mountain in North Carolina, We wish to inform you of the decision we have had to make very recently with respect to the renovations of our Heavenly Mountain East Campus property. After deep consideration and taking advice from experts as well as wise leaders of our Movement, we have concluded that we must stop the renovations on the Heavenly Mountain property and try to sell it. This decision was not made lightly, and not before careful thought and thorough assessment of our situation. Since the purchase of the property last May, renovations have been in full swing, headed by a skilled and dedicated team. Everything was moving along well. However, in the past two months as we started a thorough survey and detailed investigation of the suites and common areas of the large building and the dining hall, aided by a team of expert subcontractors, we began to uncover more and more work that needed to be done in order for the buildings to meet the basic requirements for occupancy. Even though we had performed thorough due diligence on all the buildings prior to purchase, additional and more extensive damage came to light once the renovations were in process. At first we thought we would be able to overcome these challenges, but last week we received a comprehensive summary report from our project manager and renovations team outlining the scope of work and related costs necessary to achieve partial occupancy of the campus. The report indicated a timeline of one year or more with costs exceeding our budget by many millions. In addition, we considered once again the very high operating costs and ongoing maintenance of an older facility such as this and the pressure that would inevitably be put on our future financial requirements. Even though this was factored into our original fundraising goal, we had not counted on the renovations taking so long or being so extensive and costly. We feel that new construction with recent energy saving designs could significantly lower ongoing operating costs and be more sustainable for us in the future. We know this news of our intention to sell the property may come as a surprise. We fully appreciate that all of you have given to us from the depths of your hearts in whatever way you could, and many have really stretched to make this possibility of Mother Divine returning to their beautiful former home on Heavenly Mountain a reality. We are tremendously grateful to all of you. There is still a great need and desire to create a permanent and comfortable home for Mother Divine in North America, a place where we can all be together, expand our numbers, and welcome ladies from all over the world to join us for courses and special programs. The Heavenly Mountain property remains very valuable and for the right person with plentiful resources could be a great investment. We are all very optimistic that the sale of this property will yield a nice profit that can be the seed money for the permanent home of Mother Divine. We continue to view your donation as an investment in our future home. We have the sense that Nature is organizing for us in the best possible way and guiding us in a very positive direction. We have already started to explore some promising options, and look forward to sharing with you our future plans for a new home for Mother Divine and Maharishi University of Enlightenment that will be sustainable and ideal in every way. We deeply appreciate your goodwill and support, and once again thank you with all our hearts for your unbounded generosity. Jai Guru Dev With all our love and gratitude, The Raj Rajeshwaris and members of the Mother Divine Program http://www.motherdivine.org/
[FairfieldLife] How did the Lord do it?
How did the Lord eventually visit the Israelites' sin upon them? The Torah The Worship of the Golden Calf by Filippino Lippi (14571504) When Moses went up onto Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments (Exodus 19:20), he left the Israelites for forty days and forty nights (Exodus 24:18). The Israelites feared that he would not return and asked Aaron to make for them an image of the God of Israel (Exodus 32:1). However, Aaron refused to build a representation of the God of Israel. The Israelites had complained enough to overwhelm Aaron, so he complied and gathered up the Israelites' golden earrings. He melted them and constructed a statue of a young bull, made of gold. Aaron also built an altar before the calf and declared Israel, these are your gods, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. And the next day, the Israelites made offerings to the Golden Calf and celebrated. Moses saw what they were doing and became angry with them, shattering the Tablets of Stone God had written His laws for the Israelites upon. Later, the Lord told Moses that his people had corrupted themselves, and he planned to eliminate them and start a new people from Moses himself. However, Moses argued and pleaded that they should be spared (Exodus 32:11), and the Lord relented. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he told Moses. Moses went down from the mountain, but upon seeing the calf, he too became angry. He threw down the tablets upon which God's law had been written, breaking them. Moses burnt the golden calf in a fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on water, and forced the Israelites to drink it. Aaron admitted collecting the gold, and throwing it into the fire along with cutting wood, and said it came out as a calf. Moses then called everyone who was willing to follow the Torah to himself. Most of Israel came to Moses, including every member of the tribe of Levi. Moses sent the Levites to slay a large number of people (3000) who had rejected Moses' call. A plague struck the Israelites. **Nevertheless, the Lord stated that he would one day visit the Israelites' sin upon them.** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_calf
[FairfieldLife] Time-lapse vid of Yosemite
Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell's mentor once wrote that if we could see with the eyes of eternal nature, we would see the mountains rise and fall like waves on the sea. Time-lapse photography always reminds me of Zimmer's quote. This is a four-minute, forty-four second video in today's Huffington Post of some of Yosemite's extraordinary beauty. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/yosemite-time-lapse-video-movie-shawn-reeder_n_1466107.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Collective consciousness and appearence (looks)?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: Seem to recall Maharishi wrote in SBAL something like this (paraphrasing): With rising coherence in the collective consciousness, people shall start looking more beautiful. If that's the case, it most certainly is based on epigenetic changes in a more coherent environment, or stuff? Helsinki, the capital of Finland, is at the moment prolly the only place in Finland where e.g. YF in groups is performed quite regularly. Here is a somewhat drastic example of the above mentioned effect: The Second Runner-up in Miss Helsinki contest, Miss Alisa Ranta-aho when she still lived in her birth town, called Kouvola, generally considered one of the ass-holes (pers-läpi_s) in Finland: http://insider.kyamk.fi/issues/v1013/Alisa-Ranta-Aho.jpg The same chick after living a couple of years in Helsinki: http://www.iltalehti.fi/viihde/2012043015516930_vi.shtml I much prefer the first picture. Can't see the MD going much for the look in the second pic Perhaps it's somewhat photoshopped and sillyconized, for her as Catwoman... ;D
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness
The world is an old perv dressed as a monk who molests young women and pretends to be a guru? 309200 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/309200 Either Vaj is fibbing or he's being hypocritical! One thing is fer sure - we've got a lot of cowards on this forum that won't even defend their own teacher, MMY. Go figure. Well, I guess it's settled then. Not one single FFL informant will speak up for their guru, MMY. Rick: don't even bother to shut it down. Sad.
[FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich
“Tough shit for you guys, because I’m not tired of talking about it,” King said. “I’ve known rich people, and why not, since I’m one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing ‘Disco Inferno’ than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar.” http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/30/stephen-king-tells-rich-people-upset-over-tax-increases-tough-st/ 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Time-lapse vid of Yosemite
Beautiful. I like the shooting stars that streak across - at least I think that's what they are. From: marekreavis reavisma...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 5:34 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Time-lapse vid of Yosemite Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell's mentor once wrote that if we could see with the eyes of eternal nature, we would see the mountains rise and fall like waves on the sea. Time-lapse photography always reminds me of Zimmer's quote. This is a four-minute, forty-four second video in today's Huffington Post of some of Yosemite's extraordinary beauty. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/yosemite-time-lapse-video-movie-shawn-reeder_n_1466107.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich
King owns a great radio station in Bangor which he converted recently to a liberal talk-show station. It's great, we get Pat LeMarche and Stephanie Miller in the morn and Ed Schultz and Randi Miller in the afternoon radiating like a coherence wave out over the Tea Bagger masses. It's a dose of sanity just listening to it. On May 1, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Bhairitu wrote: “Tough shit for you guys, because I’m not tired of talking about it,” King said. “I’ve known rich people, and why not, since I’m one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing ‘Disco Inferno’ than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar.”
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness
On May 1, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Well, I guess it's settled then. Not one single FFL informant will speak up for their guru, MMY. Rick: don't even bother to shut it down. Sad. Well I will: I'm happy Maharishi helped popularize meditation and meditation research, even if they're both of so-so quality, it's helped make the world a better place because he was such a great marketer and promoter. Way to go M.! High five.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: From Laurie (TM Free blog).
It's worth the watch, IMO, when you get the chance. It's unique in that it cast real SEALs and the strategic coordination and planning of the team on its assignments comes to the forefront pretty effectively. It's not the best acted film, but after all, actors weren't used. I almost never see military movies, and there are a lot of shots to the head with high powered weapons, but this one intrigued me because of how it attempts to make the experience more real by using real people and although the plot is fictionalized, it is apparently accurate in its representation of the type of missions the SEALs go on. Better than the average reality show :) From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: From Laurie (TM Free blog). I've mentioned movies shot with Digital SLR cameras and Act of Valor was mostly shot with DSLRs. I doubt if Turq saw it. I haven't seen it either but I reserve some films for either streaming or disc when they are available that way. We don't have $3 theaters around here anymore but the matinee at the digital theater at the top of the hill is only $7.25. And I'm old enough to go in the evening for that price too but rarely ever do except to escape trick or treaters. ;-) On 04/30/2012 01:24 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: And for another movie - did I miss the reviews of Act of Valor? I saw it over the weekend at a local theatre (movies come to it late but they only charge $3.00). Thought it was good, overall, and provides interesting and valid perspective of those in that branch of the military (SEAL). From: Bhairitunoozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 12:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: From Laurie (TM Free blog). On 04/30/2012 11:01 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGapcompost1uk@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4uno_reply@ Turq, you may experience Savikalpa (temporary) Samadhi, but that is not the final state, Nirvikalpa IS, as such, Samadhi is the *means* AND the *end* in Yoga. If your 'chi' (prana) is caught up in the lower chakras, your prana is locked in the lower vibrations of feeling. Once those impediments are removed through right living and meditation one can begin to make progress Indeed. As has been so graciously imparted by Dogzen Nobby WickyWackyWoo He whose mind is absorbed in the Downton will never merge his blue, radiant fifth eye with the pure, transcendent light of Shamatha Vidya Bear Grylls. So true... And yet...to delve into the worlds of Zen, does a Gyrll have Buddha-nature? There are those who believe that she does, and those who believe that not only does she...uh ...not, her nature is more akin to those low-rent dakinis who seem (in legend) to have lived only to tempt the Potentially Enlightened away from their...uh...potential I remain unconvinced that the Gyrlls of HBO's Girls represent either this categorization of themselves or the sexual liberation that I fucked for...uh...I mean fought for...and are represented by this series. It reminds me more of what I was trying to leave behind me...even then...than what I saw through the windshield. Back in the Downton era, who knows what I might have thought... :-) So where's your review of The Avengers? Are you starting to slip up as Whedonite? I see it opened on the 25th in the Netherlands. BTW, it has opened in other countries A WEEK before it opens in the US (May 4th). My bet is the studio is trying to see if an early foreign release curbs piracy. :-D
Re: [FairfieldLife] Collective consciousness and appearence (looks)?
Tee Hee. I thought I was going to see someone who was now a blond. From: cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 12:05 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Collective consciousness and appearence (looks)? Seem to recall Maharishi wrote in SBAL something like this (paraphrasing): With rising coherence in the collective consciousness, people shall start looking more beautiful. If that's the case, it most certainly is based on epigenetic changes in a more coherent environment, or stuff? Helsinki, the capital of Finland, is at the moment prolly the only place in Finland where e.g. YF in groups is performed quite regularly. Here is a somewhat drastic example of the above mentioned effect: The Second Runner-up in Miss Helsinki contest, Miss Alisa Ranta-aho when she still lived in her birth town, called Kouvola, generally considered one of the ass-holes (pers-läpi_s) in Finland: http://insider.kyamk.fi/issues/v1013/Alisa-Ranta-Aho.jpg The same chick after living a couple of years in Helsinki: http://www.iltalehti.fi/viihde/2012043015516930_vi.shtml
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich
I think you mean Randi Rhodes not Randi Miller. Too bad he doesn't have Thom Hartmann on at that time. Randi is too much of an Obama apologist for my tastes. Randi is still on 960 AM here along with Norman Goldman in the afternoon. I listen to Thom via Internet. He was on in the mornings live but then switched his show to 12-3 PM PDT. Thom was more popular in the Bay Area than Randi but Randi had a syndication contract that Clear Channel didn't want to buy out. I think I recall that Goldman buys his time. So Thom is broadcast on that station at 10 PM recorded. Clear Channel was just going to take that station entirely conservative in January but got scared of the fallout in the Bay Area over KGO a big 50KW station going from talk to news. Mornings are conservative on 960 AM. Liberals don't need the constant re-affirmation loops that conservative need so the don't listen to radio as much. My streaming delight is www.prn.fm or the Progressive Radio Network. I'm listening to Gary Null right now. They also have some good shows on spiritual stuff that FFL'ers might like. On 05/01/2012 09:42 AM, Vaj wrote: King owns a great radio station in Bangor which he converted recently to a liberal talk-show station. It's great, we get Pat LeMarche and Stephanie Miller in the morn and Ed Schultz and Randi Miller in the afternoon radiating like a coherence wave out over the Tea Bagger masses. It's a dose of sanity just listening to it. On May 1, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Bhairitu wrote: “Tough shit for you guys, because I’m not tired of talking about it,” King said. “I’ve known rich people, and why not, since I’m one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing ‘Disco Inferno’ than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar.” 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] The Best Feeling in the World
Story from April's Sun Magazine - Reader's Write section: What state of consciousness in TM might this correspond to? For most of my adult life I thought sex was the highest pleasure. I could not imagine anything more intense or delicious. Then, after I had been meditating daily for twenty-five years, I found myself involuntarily waking up at 3 am every night. Not knowing what else to do, I would meditate, and at the end of each sitting I would burst into tears. This continued for nine months. Then one day something changed.I’d gotten home before my wife that afternoon, so I started to make dinner. While I was waiting for the macaroni to bake, I was doing a Buddhist practice called “labeling”: instead of getting lost in each thought, I simply labeled it. As I was doing this, the room began to get brighter, sounds became more vivid, and my sense of touch turned acute. Everything seemed so intensely beautiful that it began to overwhelm me. A cardinal singing outside, the grapefruit in my hand, even the little pieces of garbage at the bottom of the sink — all were precious.This state of vivid awareness continued for fifteen days and fifteen nights, twenty-four hours a day. It was a feeling of ecstatic joy. Sex fell to second place. Stephen W. Leslie Schoharie, New York
[FairfieldLife] Re: Collective consciousness and appearence (looks)?
I don't remember that idea from MMY. But the girl looked better when she was in Helsinki. I don't believe it's due to the Yogic Flyers though. You can figure out why. :) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Seem to recall Maharishi wrote in SBAL something like this (paraphrasing): With rising coherence in the collective consciousness, people shall start looking more beautiful. If that's the case, it most certainly is based on epigenetic changes in a more coherent environment, or stuff? Helsinki, the capital of Finland, is at the moment prolly the only place in Finland where e.g. YF in groups is performed quite regularly. Here is a somewhat drastic example of the above mentioned effect: The Second Runner-up in Miss Helsinki contest, Miss Alisa Ranta-aho when she still lived in her birth town, called Kouvola, generally considered one of the ass-holes (pers-läpi_s) in Finland: http://insider.kyamk.fi/issues/v1013/Alisa-Ranta-Aho.jpg The same chick after living a couple of years in Helsinki: http://www.iltalehti.fi/viihde/2012043015516930_vi.shtml
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Best Feeling in the World
On May 1, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: Story from April's Sun Magazine - Reader's Write section: What state of consciousness in TM might this correspond to? Off the Program Consciousness.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness
I know who he is - I've have his book. I found it's mode of presentation confusing in explanation - especially for people without a teacher. Perhaps he does better now. Patrul Rinpoche continued ngondro for his whole life, doing metanoia-s in the dirt and grass clumps - where ever he was. Guess he was a mere novice compared to you. Oh ... but that can't be 'cause your his tulku. Guess you forgot. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On May 1, 2012, at 1:26 AM, emptybill wrote: The presence or the absence of thinking is incidental to vidya/rigpa. Rigpa is always free of thought and always free of clinging. By definition, thoughts are concepts and thus the conceptual attitude of forming thoughts is redundant rhetoric. Perhaps, in his case, it serves as pedagogy, but in yours mere rhetoric. I didn't write the article William, it was written by Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, the son of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. It made perfect sense to me, I'm not sure why you're so confused. Perhaps you should repeat your ngondro?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Om, Let me respectfully remind you, Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed: Do not squander your life. Interestingly, this is why I stopped it in the first place. 10 years doing long prog and for what? I quit and went for nice walks in the evening instead. Time passes swiftly by indeed... -Buck, in the Dome
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich
On May 1, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I think you mean Randi Rhodes not Randi Miller. Yes, sorry my bad, Randi Rhodes. Too bad he doesn't have Thom Hartmann on at that time. Thom's on in the evening. Randi is too much of an Obama apologist for my tastes. Randi is still on 960 AM here along with Norman Goldman in the afternoon. I listen to Thom via Internet. He was on in the mornings live but then switched his show to 12-3 PM PDT. Thom was more popular in the Bay Area than Randi but Randi had a syndication contract that Clear Channel didn't want to buy out. I think I recall that Goldman buys his time. So Thom is broadcast on that station at 10 PM recorded. Clear Channel was just going to take that station entirely conservative in January but got scared of the fallout in the Bay Area over KGO a big 50KW station going from talk to news. Mornings are conservative on 960 AM. Liberals don't need the constant re-affirmation loops that conservative need so the don't listen to radio as much. The problem with liberals is they don't take the offensive enough and tout their own wins. The fact that we've been saved from a second and possibly worse Great Depression, saved the once failing auto industry, wiped out a lot of Al Qaeda, are drawing down the wars the last admin started and are moving towards dismantling the defense budget are major pluses that should be shouted from every rooftop. I for one hope Obama wins by a landslide over Magic Underwear Man and he and Panetta dismantle the entire military.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness
On May 1, 2012, at 2:02 PM, emptybill wrote: I know who he is - I've have his book. I found it's mode of presentation confusing in explanation - especially for people without a teacher. Perhaps he does better now. I like his writings, esp. on Dzogchen, but what I don't like is when he or anyone uses technical terms in Tibetan translation without including the corresponding Tibetan term in footnotes or parenthetically. Patrul Rinpoche continued ngondro for his whole life, doing metanoia-s in the dirt and grass clumps - where ever he was. Guess he was a mere novice compared to you. Not funny. Oh ... but that can't be 'cause your his tulku. Guess you forgot. No one ever told me before, thanks for recognizing me Bill!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness
Well, I guess it's settled then. Not one single FFL informant will speak up for their guru, MMY. Rick: don't even bother to shut it down. Sad. vajradhatu: Well I will: I'm happy Maharishi helped popularize meditation and meditation research, even if they're both of so-so quality, it's helped make the world a better place because he was such a great marketer and promoter. Way to go M.! High five. Way to go, Vajradhatu! Now what does that make you; a hypocrite AND a fibber. And what happened to all the TM Teachers on FFL? Enablers, I guess. The world is an old perv dressed as a monk who molests young women and pretends to be a guru? - Vajradhatu 309200 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/309200 In 1973 the Shambhala community was incorporated in Colorado as Vajradhatu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shambhala_Buddhism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shambhala_Buddhism
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich
On 05/01/2012 11:11 AM, Vaj wrote: On May 1, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I think you mean Randi Rhodes not Randi Miller. Yes, sorry my bad, Randi Rhodes. Too bad he doesn't have Thom Hartmann on at that time. Thom's on in the evening. Randi is too much of an Obama apologist for my tastes. Randi is still on 960 AM here along with Norman Goldman in the afternoon. I listen to Thom via Internet. He was on in the mornings live but then switched his show to 12-3 PM PDT. Thom was more popular in the Bay Area than Randi but Randi had a syndication contract that Clear Channel didn't want to buy out. I think I recall that Goldman buys his time. So Thom is broadcast on that station at 10 PM recorded. Clear Channel was just going to take that station entirely conservative in January but got scared of the fallout in the Bay Area over KGO a big 50KW station going from talk to news. Mornings are conservative on 960 AM. Liberals don't need the constant re-affirmation loops that conservative need so the don't listen to radio as much. The problem with liberals is they don't take the offensive enough and tout their own wins. The fact that we've been saved from a second and possibly worse Great Depression, saved the once failing auto industry, wiped out a lot of Al Qaeda, are drawing down the wars the last admin started and are moving towards dismantling the defense budget are major pluses that should be shouted from every rooftop. I for one hope Obama wins by a landslide over Magic Underwear Man and he and Panetta dismantle the entire military. I would argue we haven't been saved from a depression. The MSM just deflects reporting on it and and the government doesn't report figures like they should. More savvy economists like Max Keiser (by no means a conservative) point this out. Go to PRN and grab Gary Null's podcast from yesterday morning where Keiser was on in the last part. I still won't buy an American car and of course don't need to because the Forester just keeps running fine even though it is now 14 years old. American manufacturers don't like to build such long lasting vehicles. That's blasphemy to them. :-D Occupy should move from protests to celebrations even though they would be the same thing. The brain dead American sheeple hate protests even if in their best interests. Call them parties and celebrations and invite everyone. Celebrate breaking up the big banks, big oil, big corporation and progressive taxes in advance. Make very clear when we're raising taxes we're not talking raising taxes on the middle class. If anything the middle class deserves the tax breaks. The change of terms would be more psychological than anything. What is the format of King's other station? BTW, King used to visit my hometown area where he was buds with a writer who lives there (big hint who that is).
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich
On May 1, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Bhairitu wrote: What is the format of King's other station? Classic rock. He's also used it for emergencies. In the ice storm of '98 when there was no electricity or gas north of Portland, i.e. most of the state, King had generators helicoptered into Bangor for the station. Above Portland your car radio would fade out to static till King got his station back up. It made 11 days without electricity somewhat more bearable...
[FairfieldLife] Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136265/Dentist-Anna-Mackowiak-pulled-ALL-boyfriend-Marek-Olszewski-s-teeth-dumped-her.html http://goo.gl/4jMeZ
[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136265/Dentist-Anna-Mackowiak-pulled-ALL-boyfriend-Marek-Olszewski-s-teeth-dumped-her.html http://goo.gl/4jMeZ The things women will do when they've been dumped. I've never been the victim of any such drama queenery, but I have heard a few stories in my day, directly from either the men or the women in question. One was TM-related. A prominent attorney-governor, who had done work for the TM movement, was married to a high social flyer in that same movement. She became...uh...less interested in him. So she moved out, and filed for divorce. But because she still had his credit cards, she charged up several hundred thousands of dollars on them. When I asked her why she did this, she said with a straight face, It's really the only way to deal with men to get rid of them. If you treat them nicely, they wind up stalk- ing you forever. If you really, really mistreat them, they go away forever. She was a real gem. Another story involved the lovely coed who had been dating her professor, and planning to go on a tour of Europe with him that summer. A week before the planned trip, the prof dumped her and took one of her coed friends with him to Europe. Knowing that he would be away for three months, and still having a key to his house, she set upon a kind of Mendelesque revenge. Being a Biology major, she just snuck into one of the labs and absconded with a jar full of fruit flies. She took them to the prof's house, piled a few bunches of bananas on the kitchen counter, opened the jar of fruit flies, and left. When the professor returned, word has it that the resulting swarm of fruit flies was so thick that he couldn't see across the room. There was nothing but a black cloud of fruit flies. They were *every- where* in the house -- in drawers, pockets of clothing, everywhere. It took him months to get rid of the traces of them. I'm just thankful that I've never managed to piss off a woman sufficiently to drive her to such extremes.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136265/Dentist-Anna-Mackowiak-pulled-ALL-boyfriend-Marek-Olszewski-s-teeth-dumped-her.html http://goo.gl/4jMeZ I've never tried but is pulling teeth actually that easy? Mine seem rather well attached, still if you've got the tools and the motivation...
[FairfieldLife] For those who Transcend to Transcendental Pure Consciousness.
Have you heard the sound AUM, OM? According to MMY this is the first sound emanating from the absolute responsible for all creation and contains all other sounds (and mantras)...from OM the creation comes. MMY/the Vedas page two So, have you? heard the sound OM before transcending? How could you transcend without hearing it right?
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Best Feeling in the World
Ha ha. Seems like there are many paths to awareness. I noted that he had been meditating for 25 years before he had this experience. I expect to be dead before I log that much time...I'm looking for shortcuts :) From: Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Best Feeling in the World On May 1, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: Story from April's Sun Magazine - Reader's Write section: What state of consciousness in TM might this correspond to? Off the Program Consciousness.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich
On 05/01/2012 11:11 AM, Vaj wrote: On May 1, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I think you mean Randi Rhodes not Randi Miller. Yes, sorry my bad, Randi Rhodes. Too bad he doesn't have Thom Hartmann on at that time. Thom's on in the evening. I post more on Thom's message board than I ever do here and even start topics. I also just returned from Thom's chat room where I hang out occasionally. We should fix a time convenient for those who would like to try the chat room here and meet up. Should be a hoot!
[FairfieldLife] Re: How did the Lord do it?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: How did the Lord eventually visit the Israelites' sin upon them? The Torah The Worship of the Golden Calf by Filippino Lippi (14571504) When Moses went up onto Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments (Exodus 19:20), he left the Israelites for forty days and forty nights (Exodus 24:18). The Israelites feared that he would not return and asked Aaron to make for them an image of the God of Israel (Exodus 32:1). However, Aaron refused to build a representation of the God of Israel. The Israelites had complained enough to overwhelm Aaron, so he complied and gathered up the Israelites' golden earrings. He melted them and constructed a statue of a young bull, made of gold. Aaron also built an altar before the calf and declared Israel, these are your gods, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. And the next day, the Israelites made offerings to the Golden Calf and celebrated. Moses saw what they were doing and became angry with them, shattering the Tablets of Stone God had written His laws for the Israelites upon. Later, the Lord told Moses that his people had corrupted themselves, and he planned to eliminate them and start a new people from Moses himself. However, Moses argued and pleaded that they should be spared (Exodus 32:11), and the Lord relented. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he told Moses. Moses went down from the mountain, but upon seeing the calf, he too became angry. He threw down the tablets upon which God's law had been written, breaking them. Moses burnt the golden calf in a fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on water, and forced the Israelites to drink it. Aaron admitted collecting the gold, and throwing it into the fire along with cutting wood, and said it came out as a calf. Moses then called everyone who was willing to follow the Torah to himself. Most of Israel came to Moses, including every member of the tribe of Levi. Moses sent the Levites to slay a large number of people (3000) who had rejected Moses' call. A plague struck the Israelites. **Nevertheless, the Lord stated that he would one day visit the Israelites' sin upon them.** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_calf Their 'false god' was gold, Thou shalt have no gods before me, so I give, how DID the Lord do it? As ye sow, so shall ye reap!?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oprah TM, the morning after... Better Days Coming
Hmmmlife is a series of tradeoffs. I'm guessing the ability to meditate in the Dome takes preference over an acting career. Re: facial hair...the Amish also have some rules about that, as did the asbestos abatement team in my house recently. Asbestos abatement folks have to keep shaved...one facial hair is about 16 microns...one asbestos fiber can be as small as 6 microns. They were cited at one location by an inspector for not being shaved closely enough - mask or not. Oh yes, Dome should be capitalizedthank you for meditating for global peace :) From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 8:50 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oprah TM, the morning after... Better Days Coming Yep, Historic Movies, the first time I was denied a dome badge was for having facial hair. I rode for some time in my life with Civil War re-enactment cavalry regiments. I been in a lot of battles. At a time I was going to be hired as an extra for the movies, I had a very developed theatrical cavalryman's period-look beard and a nice big hussar's mustache at the time to go along with the horse and all. A kind of 19th Century Doug Henning theatrical prop look. One day they stopped me at the Dome and said I could not be in the dome. Only 'close' trimmed facial hair at most was allowed. I trimmed back to keep the dome badge but lost the $3,500 extra role then. That was the first time I was denied a dome badge. Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0dpuKULBQo --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Yeah, Tim Eriksen he consulted that music of the movie, Cold Mountain. I got to sing with him last night. Tim Eriksen came to Iowa City invited by the U. of Ia. school of music giving a workshop this week on early American music. This song 'Better Days Coming' is on his latest CD and when I heard it I thought it probably would work good transliterated over to TM. Often times tunes sung from around the Enlightenment up to the mission movement of the 19th Century transpose over to TM unified field-based themes in text real good. I sing these songs a lot in harmony groups and in singing I find I transpose the text often instantly over to Unified Field universality on the fly as I sing. Some of the hymnody is fabulous spirituality and some of it is ignorance. Some though certainly could work again as spiritual bhajans with the perspective of a little experience and new language sung to the western ear. Love, -Buck in the Dome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWMWpgyqmto --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Cold Mountain is one of my favorite soundtracks.  Nice post, Buck in the dome From: Buck dhamiltony2k5@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 12:01 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oprah TM, the morning after...  Better Days Coming The glorious times is rolling on when sinners are come flocking back to the domes. Oh there's better days coming will you come along with me and there's better days coming and we'll sound the jubilee! I long to hear the joyful sound, 'oh the dead's alive and the lost are found'. Oh there's better days coming will you come along with me and there's better days coming and we'll sound the jubilee! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWMWpgyqmto Subject: response to the Oprah broadcast 360: Inquiries we receive nationwide in a typical 4½ day period 7,394: Inquiries we have received in the last 4½ day period 14,000: Unique visitors to TM.org in typical 4½ day period 180,610: Unique visitors to TM.org in the last 4½ day period 285,000: Estimated number of people who watched the show. Note: This number is not considered particularly huge when compared with other shows. However, the response was very high, which leads us to believe that the people who watched the show were our core audience, i.e. they were individuals who already had an interest in our programs and what we offer. Also, since this showing clashed with the highly promoted first episode of the new Mad Men season, and our website was unavailable to many due to an overload of traffic during the show (currently being fixed), there is a strong likelihood that the next showing on April 8 will attract a large audience and generate a good response. Kind, like Larry King interviewing Maharishi, Maharishi had been out of circulation for some years and it took an incredible amount of editing of a lot of tape on the part of Larry King's production staff to get a coherent interview to show publicly. Larry King was extremely kind in this same way too. Other journalists
[FairfieldLife] Re: For those who Transcend to Transcendental Pure Consciousness.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote: Have you heard the sound AUM, OM? According to MMY this is the first sound emanating from the absolute responsible for all creation and contains all other sounds (and mantras)...from OM the creation comes. MMY/the Vedas page two Doesn't sound very likely to me. But then one of MMYs rules for life was Don't Analyze. Handy with an approach to science like his. So, have you? heard the sound OM before transcending? How could you transcend without hearing it right? I thought you had to transcend to hear it. But yes, amazing but just some nerve shit going on in your head, no need to start a religion about it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: For those who Transcend to Transcendental Pure Consciousness.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote: Have you heard the sound AUM, OM? According to MMY this is the first sound emanating from the absolute responsible for all creation and contains all other sounds (and mantras)...from OM the creation comes. MMY/the Vedas page two Doesn't sound very likely to me. But then one of MMYs rules for life was Don't Analyze. Handy with an approach to science like his. So, have you? heard the sound OM before transcending? How could you transcend without hearing it right? I thought you had to transcend to hear it. But yes, amazing but just some nerve shit going on in your head, no need to start a religion about it. Hardly, it just happens to be one of the most holy Hindu symbols called the pranava or the Sound vibration of the Holy Spirit vibration (Mother Nature) literally God's creative intelligence in action.
[FairfieldLife] Re: For those who Transcend to Transcendental Pure Consciousness.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote: Have you heard the sound AUM, OM? According to MMY this is the first sound emanating from the absolute responsible for all creation and contains all other sounds (and mantras)...from OM the creation comes. MMY/the Vedas page two Doesn't sound very likely to me. But then one of MMYs rules for life was Don't Analyze. Handy with an approach to science like his. So, have you? heard the sound OM before transcending? How could you transcend without hearing it right? I thought you had to transcend to hear it. But yes, amazing but just some nerve shit going on in your head, no need to start a religion about it. Hardly, it just happens to be one of the most holy Hindu symbols called the pranava or the Sound vibration of the Holy Spirit vibration (Mother Nature) literally God's creative intelligence in action. As I said, no need - but if you must...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich
Bhairitu, you must be retired if you have time to post at a minimum, equally, at both forums :) I had to look him up, of course, although he did sound familiar. Thanks for the reference. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich On 05/01/2012 11:11 AM, Vaj wrote: On May 1, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I think you mean Randi Rhodes not Randi Miller. Yes, sorry my bad, Randi Rhodes. Too bad he doesn't have Thom Hartmann on at that time. Thom's on in the evening. I post more on Thom's message board than I ever do here and even start topics. I also just returned from Thom's chat room where I hang out occasionally. We should fix a time convenient for those who would like to try the chat room here and meet up. Should be a hoot!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich
Self-employed as a contract programmer, so I make my own schedule. It actually doesn't take much time to post though on forums and I limit my time on chat rooms. When you write code it is often refreshing on a break to do something else like check groups one is on. Or clean house (not so refreshing). ;-) On 05/01/2012 01:41 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: Bhairitu, you must be retired if you have time to post at a minimum, equally, at both forums :) I had to look him up, of course, although he did sound familiar. Thanks for the reference. From: Bhairitunoozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich On 05/01/2012 11:11 AM, Vaj wrote: On May 1, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I think you mean Randi Rhodes not Randi Miller. Yes, sorry my bad, Randi Rhodes. Too bad he doesn't have Thom Hartmann on at that time. Thom's on in the evening. I post more on Thom's message board than I ever do here and even start topics. I also just returned from Thom's chat room where I hang out occasionally. We should fix a time convenient for those who would like to try the chat room here and meet up. Should be a hoot!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich
Wow. It's all about the schedule. That's the problem I had - my schedule/life was not my own. I've taken over the schedule for all the contractors coming in. Gotta have that overview :) From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich Self-employed as a contract programmer, so I make my own schedule. It actually doesn't take much time to post though on forums and I limit my time on chat rooms. When you write code it is often refreshing on a break to do something else like check groups one is on. Or clean house (not so refreshing). ;-) On 05/01/2012 01:41 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: Bhairitu, you must be retired if you have time to post at a minimum, equally, at both forums :) I had to look him up, of course, although he did sound familiar. Thanks for the reference. From: Bhairitunoozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Stephen King skewers the selfish rich On 05/01/2012 11:11 AM, Vaj wrote: On May 1, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I think you mean Randi Rhodes not Randi Miller. Yes, sorry my bad, Randi Rhodes. Too bad he doesn't have Thom Hartmann on at that time. Thom's on in the evening. I post more on Thom's message board than I ever do here and even start topics. I also just returned from Thom's chat room where I hang out occasionally. We should fix a time convenient for those who would like to try the chat room here and meet up. Should be a hoot!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Time-lapse vid of Yosemite
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Beautiful.  I like the shooting stars that streak across - at least I think that's what they are. I think they are mostly satellites, you can see lots of them following the same path at one point and they go further across the sky than most meteoritites. So that's what my money's on. From: marekreavis reavismarek@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 5:34 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Time-lapse vid of Yosemite  Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell's mentor once wrote that if we could see with the eyes of eternal nature, we would see the mountains rise and fall like waves on the sea. Time-lapse photography always reminds me of Zimmer's quote. This is a four-minute, forty-four second video in today's Huffington Post of some of Yosemite's extraordinary beauty. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/yosemite-time-lapse-video-movie-shawn-reeder_n_1466107.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Best Feeling in the World
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Story from April's Sun Magazine - Reader's Write section: What state of consciousness in TM might this correspond to? This would be GC, where perception can become intensified. Seeing 'the finest level of creation' a somewhat religious terminology here. Nine months of intense unstressing preceeded this experience. Experience like this can happen naturally, or taking a substance like mescaline. What would be interesting to find out would be what he experienced after the intensified perception stopped. One can have breakthrough experiences of 'higher states' and then these can shut back down, although they leave you changed in some way. In Buddhism this kind of experience would be considered delusion, even if really pleasant etc. In the TMO this would probably be considered a stepping stone to unity, provided unity followed this experience after some time. Since this thing in the TMO is called God Consciousness (GC), and Buddhism, especially Zen, does not really concern itself with this concept (God), I have always wondered what an atheist would experience in a state like this. 'Glorified' perception like this would not seem to have to be interpreted in a religious or spiritual manner. My thinking on this is such experiences can happen punching through after some kind of release of stress. What is stable after such experiences is ultimately more important. No specific experience ever lasts forever. The realisation that this is so is important because if one does not have it, one will cling to such experiences, hoping they will come back. They might, they might not. I had experiences like this, but they only lasted about an hour or less, but some kind of release was felt just prior to it happening. This was long ago. This one seems unusually intense in that it lasted so long. I wonder what he felt when it stopped. Perhaps Vaj could tell us about 'labeling'? I found a reference to this in relation to Tibetan Buddhism, but not in relation to Chinese or Japanese Buddhism sects. It may be a coincidence that the experience happened while he was doing this, considering what preceded it, but the labeling technique might have been the trigger once the nervous system was primed after all that release the previous nine months. For most of my adult life I thought sex was the highest pleasure. I could not imagine anything more intense or delicious. Then, after I had been meditating daily for twenty-five years, I found myself involuntarily waking up at 3 am every night. Not knowing what else to do, I would meditate, and at the end of each sitting I would burst into tears. This continued for nine months. Then one day something changed.Iâd gotten home before my wife that afternoon, so I started to make dinner. While I was waiting for the macaroni to bake, I was doing a Buddhist practice called âlabelingâ: instead of getting lost in each thought, I simply labeled it. As I was doing this, the room began to get brighter, sounds became more vivid, and my sense of touch turned acute. Everything seemed so intensely beautiful that it began to overwhelm me. A cardinal singing outside, the grapefruit in my hand, even the little pieces of garbage at the bottom of the sink â all were precious.This state of vivid awareness continued for fifteen days and fifteen nights, twenty-four hours a day. It was a feeling of ecstatic joy. Sex fell to second place. Stephen W. Leslie Schoharie, New York
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time-lapse vid of Yosemite
Right. except that shooting stars streak faster than satellites. I first noticed this on a backpacking trip in the Rockies back when I was 15. It's hard to tell with the time lapse, but there are an amazing number of satellites out there. On the other hand, maybe they caught a meteor shower. From: salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 2:09 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time-lapse vid of Yosemite --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Beautiful.  I like the shooting stars that streak across - at least I think that's what they are. I think they are mostly satellites, you can see lots of them following the same path at one point and they go further across the sky than most meteoritites. So that's what my money's on. From: marekreavis reavismarek@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 5:34 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Time-lapse vid of Yosemite  Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell's mentor once wrote that if we could see with the eyes of eternal nature, we would see the mountains rise and fall like waves on the sea. Time-lapse photography always reminds me of Zimmer's quote. This is a four-minute, forty-four second video in today's Huffington Post of some of Yosemite's extraordinary beauty. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/yosemite-time-lapse-video-movie-shawn-reeder_n_1466107.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Best Feeling in the World
I thought labeling was just witnessing in that context. My thinking on this is such experiences can happen punching through after some kind of release of stress. When I got laid off, I went through 5 days and nights of the most intense euphoria that I have ever experienced - nonstop. But, it was euphoria and it didn't last, however, given the level of depression I was experiencing immediately prior, it was pretty incredible. From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 2:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Best Feeling in the World --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Story from April's Sun Magazine - Reader's Write section: What state of consciousness in TM might this correspond to? This would be GC, where perception can become intensified. Seeing 'the finest level of creation' a somewhat religious terminology here. Nine months of intense unstressing preceeded this experience. Experience like this can happen naturally, or taking a substance like mescaline. What would be interesting to find out would be what he experienced after the intensified perception stopped. One can have breakthrough experiences of 'higher states' and then these can shut back down, although they leave you changed in some way. In Buddhism this kind of experience would be considered delusion, even if really pleasant etc. In the TMO this would probably be considered a stepping stone to unity, provided unity followed this experience after some time. Since this thing in the TMO is called God Consciousness (GC), and Buddhism, especially Zen, does not really concern itself with this concept (God), I have always wondered what an atheist would experience in a state like this. 'Glorified' perception like this would not seem to have to be interpreted in a religious or spiritual manner. My thinking on this is such experiences can happen punching through after some kind of release of stress. What is stable after such experiences is ultimately more important. No specific experience ever lasts forever. The realisation that this is so is important because if one does not have it, one will cling to such experiences, hoping they will come back. They might, they might not. I had experiences like this, but they only lasted about an hour or less, but some kind of release was felt just prior to it happening. This was long ago. This one seems unusually intense in that it lasted so long. I wonder what he felt when it stopped. Perhaps Vaj could tell us about 'labeling'? I found a reference to this in relation to Tibetan Buddhism, but not in relation to Chinese or Japanese Buddhism sects. It may be a coincidence that the experience happened while he was doing this, considering what preceded it, but the labeling technique might have been the trigger once the nervous system was primed after all that release the previous nine months. For most of my adult life I thought sex was the highest pleasure. I could not imagine anything more intense or delicious. Then, after I had been meditating daily for twenty-five years, I found myself involuntarily waking up at 3 am every night. Not knowing what else to do, I would meditate, and at the end of each sitting I would burst into tears. This continued for nine months. Then one day something changed.I’d gotten home before my wife that afternoon, so I started to make dinner. While I was waiting for the macaroni to bake, I was doing a Buddhist practice called “labeling�: instead of getting lost in each thought, I simply labeled it. As I was doing this, the room began to get brighter, sounds became more vivid, and my sense of touch turned acute. Everything seemed so intensely beautiful that it began to overwhelm me. A cardinal singing outside, the grapefruit in my hand, even the little pieces of garbage at the bottom of the sink †all were precious.This state of vivid awareness continued for fifteen days and fifteen nights, twenty-four hours a day. It was a feeling of ecstatic joy. Sex fell to second place. Stephen W. Leslie Schoharie, New York
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Best Feeling in the World
On 05/01/2012 10:08 AM, Emily Reyn wrote: Story from April's Sun Magazine - Reader's Write section: What state of consciousness in TM might this correspond to? For most of my adult life I thought sex was the highest pleasure. I could not imagine anything more intense or delicious. Then, after I had been meditating daily for twenty-five years, I found myself involuntarily waking up at 3 am every night. Not knowing what else to do, I would meditate, and at the end of each sitting I would burst into tears. This continued for nine months. Then one day something changed.I’d gotten home before my wife that afternoon, so I started to make dinner. While I was waiting for the macaroni to bake, I was doing a Buddhist practice called “labeling”: instead of getting lost in each thought, I simply labeled it. As I was doing this, the room began to get brighter, sounds became more vivid, and my sense of touch turned acute. Everything seemed so intensely beautiful that it began to overwhelm me. A cardinal singing outside, the grapefruit in my hand, even the little pieces of garbage at the bottom of the sink — all were precious.This state of vivid awareness continued for fifteen days and fifteen nights, twenty-four hours a day. It was a feeling of ecstatic joy. Sex fell to second place. Stephen W. Leslie Schoharie, New York In many traditions the morning meditation is at 3 AM or 3:30 AM. This is to coordinate with other yogis. But then that probably has more do to with yogis in India than in the US where there are a magnitude fewer.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Collective consciousness and appearence (looks)?
I seem to recall Adam Lambert, who has/(had?) a Finnish boyfriend (Sauli Koskinen, Saul Rapidsy) said something to the effect that there are amazingly many beautiful people in Helsinki. (Of course it's possible that he really didn't mean that...) I don't think that could be said of any other place in Finland, certainly not my home town (the largest inland town in Scandinavia and the birth place of Nokia Corp.) whose TM activity is IMO practically zilch at the moment! In the 70's and 80's Tampere was prolly one of the most active TM towns in Finland. https://www.google.fi/search?q=sauli+koskinenhl=fiprmd=imvnsotbm=ischtbo=usource=univsa=Xei=tmOgT57KPOfT4QShoa3wAgsqi=2ved=0CFIQsAQbiw=1333bih=654 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: I don't remember that idea from MMY. But the girl looked better when she was in Helsinki. I don't believe it's due to the Yogic Flyers though. You can figure out why. :) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: Seem to recall Maharishi wrote in SBAL something like this (paraphrasing): With rising coherence in the collective consciousness, people shall start looking more beautiful. If that's the case, it most certainly is based on epigenetic changes in a more coherent environment, or stuff? Helsinki, the capital of Finland, is at the moment prolly the only place in Finland where e.g. YF in groups is performed quite regularly. Here is a somewhat drastic example of the above mentioned effect: The Second Runner-up in Miss Helsinki contest, Miss Alisa Ranta-aho when she still lived in her birth town, called Kouvola, generally considered one of the ass-holes (pers-läpi_s) in Finland: http://insider.kyamk.fi/issues/v1013/Alisa-Ranta-Aho.jpg The same chick after living a couple of years in Helsinki: http://www.iltalehti.fi/viihde/2012043015516930_vi.shtml
[FairfieldLife] Re: For those who Transcend to Transcendental Pure Consciousness.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote:
Have you heard the sound AUM, OM?
Just curious, why the quote marks?
IMO, those are two different mantras, or versions of
the same mantra, as the sound 'o' in Sanskrit is diachronically,
so to speak, 'au', approximately as in 'how'.
1 aum ind. the sacred syllable of the S3u1dras (see 3. %{au}).
[FairfieldLife] Re: For those who Transcend to Transcendental Pure Consciousness.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
Have you heard the sound AUM, OM?
Just curious, why the quote marks?
IMO, those are two different mantras, or versions of
the same mantra, as the sound 'o' in Sanskrit is diachronically,
so to speak, 'au', approximately as in 'how'.
1 aum ind. the sacred syllable of the S3u1dras (see 3. %{au}).
Generally, they are two ways of writing the same mantra, one is definitive, or
the three syllables, A-k#257;ra, U-k#257;ra, and Ma-k#257;ra, and the other
is illustrative as to pronunciation, taken together they are pronounced OM...to
my understanding.
Apparently, MMY once said OM is like hearing a town from a distance but only
when you get close do you hear the detail.
[FairfieldLife] Re: For those who Transcend to Transcendental Pure Consciousness.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
Have you heard the sound AUM, OM?
Just curious, why the quote marks?
IMO, those are two different mantras, or versions of
the same mantra, as the sound 'o' in Sanskrit is diachronically,
so to speak, 'au', approximately as in 'how'.
1 aum ind. the sacred syllable of the S3u1dras (see 3. %{au}).
Generally, they are two ways of writing the same mantra, one is definitive,
or the three syllables, A-k#257;ra, U-k#257;ra, and Ma-k#257;ra, and the
other is illustrative as to pronunciation, taken together they are pronounced
OM...to my understanding.
Apparently, MMY once said OM is like hearing a town from a distance but only
when you get close do you hear the detail.
That is, A-kara, U-kara and Ma-kara, embracing Prakriti's (Mother Nature's)
entire creation of form, FROM sound, the entire Ved!
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Om, Let me respectfully remind you, Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed: Do not squander your life. -Buck, in the Dome Interestingly, this is why I stopped it in the first place. 10 years doing long prog and for what? I quit and went for nice walks in the evening instead. Time passes swiftly by indeed... Om Sal, More to meditation than just meditation. Sal, you should come back to the dome and try it. Again. You know, =See. Love, -Buck
[FairfieldLife] HEY
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[FairfieldLife] Black Bloc
In Seattle today, along with the Occupy protest. I haven't heard of them before. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/01/black-bloc-protesters-ignite-violence-at-seattle-may-day-protest/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Om, Let me respectfully remind you, Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed: Do not squander your life. -Buck, in the Dome Interestingly, this is why I stopped it in the first place. 10 years doing long prog and for what? I quit and went for nice walks in the evening instead. Time passes swiftly by indeed... Om Sal, More to meditation than just meditation. Sal, you should come back to the dome and try it. Again. You know, =See. Love, -Buck Interesting point though, Sal. A few years back some people here in Fairfield brought a guy they had met from previous travels, Shivabalayogi to town for a visit. Wild 'story' of a dude but is a saint who teaches a dhyaana meditation. You know, from the Yoga Sutras, dharana, dhyaana, samadhi meditation. He sits in a dhyaana meditation of samadhi and generates a samadhic field. Some guys from TM Purusha came for a visit and expressed that they don't experience samadhi when they mediate. He taught them otherwise and their lives were changed as TM meditators. I see them in the dome still. Evidently it's something you got to do too, as in meditate. Ya kind of have to sit up in an 'effortless' way. It might not just be about coming back to the mantra or a sutra or taking a walk.
[FairfieldLife] HELLO
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Mother Divine Retreats from Heavenly Mountain
Some of the best FFL comes via the inbox to the side like: And yet someone made a bundle off this, right? How many people lost their life's savings? Subject: Heavenly Mountain campus in North Carolina is too costly Dearest Donors to the Home of Maharishi University of Enlightenment and Mother Divine at Heavenly Mountain in North Carolina, We wish to inform you of the decision we have had to make very recently with respect to the renovations of our Heavenly Mountain East Campus property. After deep consideration and taking advice from experts as well as wise leaders of our Movement, we have concluded that we must stop the renovations on the Heavenly Mountain property and try to sell it. This decision was not made lightly, and not before careful thought and thorough assessment of our situation. Since the purchase of the property last May, renovations have been in full swing, headed by a skilled and dedicated team. Everything was moving along well. However, in the past two months as we started a thorough survey and detailed investigation of the suites and common areas of the large building and the dining hall, aided by a team of expert subcontractors, we began to uncover more and more work that needed to be done in order for the buildings to meet the basic requirements for occupancy. Even though we had performed thorough due diligence on all the buildings prior to purchase, additional and more extensive damage came to light once the renovations were in process. At first we thought we would be able to overcome these challenges, but last week we received a comprehensive summary report from our project manager and renovations team outlining the scope of work and related costs necessary to achieve partial occupancy of the campus. The report indicated a timeline of one year or more with costs exceeding our budget by many millions. In addition, we considered once again the very high operating costs and ongoing maintenance of an older facility such as this and the pressure that would inevitably be put on our future financial requirements. Even though this was factored into our original fundraising goal, we had not counted on the renovations taking so long or being so extensive and costly. We feel that new construction with recent energy saving designs could significantly lower ongoing operating costs and be more sustainable for us in the future. We know this news of our intention to sell the property may come as a surprise. We fully appreciate that all of you have given to us from the depths of your hearts in whatever way you could, and many have really stretched to make this possibility of Mother Divine returning to their beautiful former home on Heavenly Mountain a reality. We are tremendously grateful to all of you. There is still a great need and desire to create a permanent and comfortable home for Mother Divine in North America, a place where we can all be together, expand our numbers, and welcome ladies from all over the world to join us for courses and special programs. The Heavenly Mountain property remains very valuable and for the right person with plentiful resources could be a great investment. We are all very optimistic that the sale of this property will yield a nice profit that can be the seed money for the permanent home of Mother Divine. We continue to view your donation as an investment in our future home. We have the sense that Nature is organizing for us in the best possible way and guiding us in a very positive direction. We have already started to explore some promising options, and look forward to sharing with you our future plans for a new home for Mother Divine and Maharishi University of Enlightenment that will be sustainable and ideal in every way. We deeply appreciate your goodwill and support, and once again thank you with all our hearts for your unbounded generosity. Jai Guru Dev With all our love and gratitude, The Raj Rajeshwaris and members of the Mother Divine Program http://www.motherdivine.org/
[FairfieldLife] Re: HELLO
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: wow this is pretty crazy you should check it out http://t.co/YacXb4aP ~*Advertisement If you just infected my computer with some virus damit I may have to stand my ground with you on this. -B
[FairfieldLife] Re: HELLO
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: wow this is pretty crazy you should check it out http://t.co/spammyasscrap ~*Advertisement If you just infected my computer with some virus damit I may have to stand my ground with you on this. -B It's just a spoofed email. My machine is not infected. This has been happening with a lot of Yahoo accounts, and I think hackers broke into Yahoo and grabbed account info from lots of accounts. I changed my password after it first happened, so they're just spoofing emails, with no need to access my account. There's not a damn thing I can do about it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: HELLO
Alex is right. Alex's emails originate from Fairfield, IA. The spurious email originated from Hiroshima, Japan. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: If you just infected my computer with some virus damit I may have to stand my ground with you on this. -B It's just a spoofed email. My machine is not infected. This has been happening with a lot of Yahoo accounts, and I think hackers broke into Yahoo and grabbed account info from lots of accounts. I changed my password after it first happened, so they're just spoofing emails, with no need to access my account. There's not a damn thing I can do about it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: HELLO
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: Alex is right. Alex's emails originate from Fairfield, IA. The spurious email originated from Hiroshima, Japan. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: If you just infected my computer with some virus damit I may have to stand my ground with you on this. -B It's just a spoofed email. My machine is not infected. This has been happening with a lot of Yahoo accounts, and I think hackers broke into Yahoo and grabbed account info from lots of accounts. I changed my password after it first happened, so they're just spoofing emails, with no need to access my account. There's not a damn thing I can do about it. It happened to me too, from two different people in my address book, I wonder if it's just spam or a virus?
[FairfieldLife] Re: From Laurie (TM Free blog).
Oh Judy , oh Judith love your sentimental to the brink of bathos reference --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: snip Indeed. As has been so graciously imparted by Dogzen Nobby WickyWackyWoo He whose mind is absorbed in the Downton will never merge his blue, radiant fifth eye with the pure, transcendent light of Shamatha Vidya Bear Grylls. So true... Sequence of graffiti on a NYC subway poster: I hate grils. It's girls, stupid. What about us grils? And it is when we most feel our grilness that we are most aware of our need for the transcendent light of a shepherd who provides the still water we need and doesn't ask us to do what we really can't do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAErOxuq2Do It's time to stand up our fingers from the bell Tell me sugar how you felt now .. All the lonely people Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong?
