date:20140112




Hey Bhairitu, and Alex, I think something is wrong with my
Firefox.  The image sails through when I use Explorer.

I wonder if Firefox has any imagepaste addon or something
like that?

I have a feeling the base64 encoding has to be pasted in IMG
alt=..command? I wonder what tags has to be added?







---  Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:

 It shows up in email. Like I said the only sure way I've ever been
 able to embed an image is with Base64 code.  It's not rocket science
but
 you do need to be able to insert it as HTML.  Also I did this on the
 classic or old interface as when I log in the interface goes from
Neo
 to the old site.  I haven't checked lately to see if that is the case
as
 I actually like Neo for Yahoo News because they finally are getting my
 location right and the local news setup is much better.  So I don't
know
 if it will work with Neo but I assume it will.

 To convert an image to Base64 you can use one of the online sites. 
Here
 is one:
 http://www.base64decode.org/ http://www.base64decode.org/

 Some folks have no problem though just dropping an image in the form
on
 the FFL web site.

 On 01/09/2014 11:11 AM, Jason wrote:
 
 
  I guess i have to stick with links now.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: If Another Country Was Doing This To Our Kids, Wed Be At War

Seraph, They Shoot Horses was a turning point in my movie watching. I was 
married at the time and my husband and I had seen a string of such depressing 
movies. This one was the last straw for me. I decided to see only positive 
films. And I wasn't even meditating yet! As a result I didn't see such highly 
acclaimed films like Silence of the Lambs which came out much later I think. 
The thing is, scientists say that our body reacts as if the events portrayed 
are real. Especially as I get older, I see the value of protecting the nervous 
system even in this way.





On Saturday, January 11, 2014 8:42 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com 
s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
Re I see hedonism, debauchery and greed enough without paying to do so for two 
hours in a movie theater.:

That's my attitude also - I'll be giving it a miss.
Talking of movies, years ago I saw They Shoot Horses Don't They?, starring Jane 
Fonda, which took the marathon dances of the 1920s in the US as a symbol of 
ruthless capitalism. It's one of the most depressing films I've ever seen and I 
loathed it at the time. It was on the box tonight and the scary thing is that 
it now seems much more like a prophecy/parable of the ghastly situation we're 
in today in which the young have no job security; zero-hours contracts have 
become common (in UK law a zero-hours contract does not oblige the employer 
to provide work for the employee but the employee agrees to be available for 
work as and when required); there is a housing bubble putting house ownership 
out of reach of the young; add in massive state debt which must devolve onto 
the younger generation; top that with high youth unemployment and cut-throat 
competition for jobs; sprinkle in welfare cuts specifically targeted at the 
young (the under-25s) and it makes
 for a depressing reality.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

Richard, did you see merudanda's chart?! He seems to know quite a lot about the 
situation. Are you questioning the accuracy of the info in the chart? 





On Saturday, January 11, 2014 9:42 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 
  
Let's put it this way: nobody here knows anything about the Shankaracharyas. 
The only member of this list that knows anything about the Shankaracharyas is 
Vaj, and he's no longer posting anything. All you need to know is that Swami 
Vasudevananda Saraswati is the successor to SBS at Jyotirmath and he is 
supported by the VHP. The other guy, the Swami Svarpanand, went over to another 
saint and Svarupanand is close to the Congress Party and Priyanka Gandhi. Go 
figure.




On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 6:49 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:

 
  
Dear
Empty and FFL Moderators, Empty; your thunderbird quip here is an
incredibly unkind slight of a fellow poster here likely in violence
to the Yahoo-groups guidelines about unkindness on Yahoo-groups.  Who
could possibly want to reply to it?  


However, evidently there is some
enmeshment with Hindoo-ism and the Shankaracharyas.  First off of
course Guru Dev was one of them.  And, the pandits north of town here
seem mighty Hindoo.  But recently MahaRaja Nader Raam
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Nader ]did appeal to the judiciary of the 
Shankaracharya to assert his own primacy over a recentcoup d'état attempt
by TM Mother Divine along with an Indian contingent.  Our
Shankaracharya evidently adjudicated the case to some kind of peace
placing MahaRaja Nader Raam in primacy.  


We
had a very nice birthday party last night for Nader Raam our MahaRaja
and guru.  He has been traveling holding satsanga and teaching with
meditators.  He brings the field effect of Love, Unification and
Revitalization where ever he goes visiting with people.  The effect
of his presence is great spiritually and nourishing.
Jai
Brahmananda Saraswati,
-Buck
in the Dome


emptybill... wrote:


Apparently Thunderbird doesn't allow you to understand common
English. So I'll repeat my question ...


What is the position of the TMO towards the authority of the 
Shankaracharyas since the TMO is technically not a Hindoo organization?


Does anyone on the list know
the views of the Shankaracharyas? What about all the Western quasi-Hindus going
to temples and doing Hindu stuff?
 
The pandit and at the temple
here accepted my status and performed pujas, rudra-abhishekas, agni-hotras and
death rites for my wife as if I was a Hindu. However, I don’t know if the
Shankaracharyas are equally accepting.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously


Seraph, Yoga is essentially balance, ie life within
parameters.  Tolstoy gave the right advice.

The prostitution industry is dangerous because it is
one-sided and has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality.
There is something called 'financial-economic differential'.
Wherever such a differential exists, there is always the
possibility of exploitation and abuse of rights.

Nature hates imbalances. Nature always tries to reach an
equilibrium.  Any society that is imbalanced will eventually
destroy itself.

The Yin-Yang balance is dharmic.  Strictly speaking only
egalitarian sexuality is dharmic. All other sexuality are
adharmic or against dharma.

An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.

I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.


---  s3raphita@... wrote:

 Tolstoy could well be the greatest writer in world literature. Bearing
in mind I've only read him in English translation, his novels and
stories are perfection. But - and it's a very big but indeed - he
suffered from old-man syndrome. When he was a young nobleman the serfs
on his estates brought their young daughters to him to be enjoyed by
Tolstoy as a part of his privileges. When he went on to become a student
and young man-about-town he frequented prostitutes and had many
mistresses.
  The trouble is that when he hit late middle age (and declining
potency) he had a change of heart and decided that sex was the root of
all evil and railed against the permissive society he lived in (and
Russian society in his day was very decadent indeed).
  He then penned a lot of puritanical stories and Christian propaganda
taking aim at the pleasures of the flesh. I really hate that. Leave the
young to enjoy their pleasures and make their own mistakes say I.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-12 Thread TurquoiseB

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason  wrote:

 An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
 has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
 prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.

 I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.

Jason, I think you still must be having trouble posting graphics to FFL.
This arrived in my email just now, labeled jedi_spock's idea of a
uni-sex dress-code.



:-)

[FairfieldLife] Happy Happy 12 January

It is my joy to invite everyone to come in the light of the knowledge and 
experience that the Science of Creative Intelligence provides and enjoy 
participating in this global awakening to herald the Age of Enlightenment.
 
 
 -Maharishi
 
 
 12 January 1975

[FairfieldLife] RE: quot;The glowquot;-- 1959 (Maharishi)

2014-01-12 Thread nablusoss1008

The Glow, yes that's what it's about. One wonders how many quit TM before the 
started to experience this. Seems many gave up long before they started to 
experience much about what TM is all about.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Information Technology Systems

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Williams

Cyber Security

One of the last computer courses I took when I was employed r the community
college was a course in cyber security. If I was young and had some
ambition, this is the field I would get into. I already know a little bit
about computer security because I worked as a system analyst for a few
years at the college.

Information Technology Security - ITSY 1342

However it's kind of a lonely life working in security - you are usually
stuck in a room in the basement of a building with two or three other nerds
dressed in T-shirts and jeans because of the heat; no windows to look out
of and the noise coming from the server room can be a real problem to get
used to. No guests are allowed into the server room!

can also be a drag if you get stuck working for a short, fat, bald-headed
guy that smokes a cigar. Fortunately we had a great gal from India to work
for, but I think I knew more about IT than she did. I liked it much better
managing the faculty computer lab and interacting with the teachers. Go
figure.

[image: Inline image 1]

IT department and faculty and student computer labs located on the 7th
floor

For years, U.S. merchants and banks have balked at adopting a
well-established system that uses credit and debit cards that store
information on computer chips. The technology, ubiquitous in Europe, Canada
and elsewhere, makes it harder for thieves to misuse data compared with
cards that store data only on magnetic stripes.

'Target payment card data theft highlights lagging U.S. security'
http://www.reuters.com/target-security-lagginghttp://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/22/us-target-security-lagging-idUSBRE9BL06X20131222

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

Data Center - Target

[image: Inline image 1]

NSA Utah data center - take note of how many cars you can see parked here
- 3-4. Go figure.

So, the target (no pun intended) was Target Stores. The hack is nearly
three times larger than first reported. This sounds tome like a middle-man
job to me. Target doesn't maintain their own data (pronounced day-ta)
center - most large companies depend on cloud services like Rackspace to
collect and store their data.

So, the data at the point-of-sale goes to the data center which could be
located anywhere. No large corporation that I know of stores their own
data. It looks like somebody got into the data center and planted a
collection program at the root level of the blade server. In order to do
that you'd probably have to gain physical entry to the data center. This
would be a lot easier to do if you worked either for the data center on
premises or could get access for a few hours or even days. It probably
takes twelve people in three shifts to run a large data center at the
physical location.

I'd say this caper would involve at least three people on the ground
inside the data center: one have the key; one to carry the laptop and
cable; and one that knows the password. I'd say that all three were caught
on video cameras, unless the insider hacker knew how to disable the
security system. It took Edward Snowden less than a few months to download
tons of data once he was inside or connected to the data center at Langley,
VA.

If you read the mainstream media you'd think someone broke into a target
store down on Main or at a local mall and stole some credit card numbers.
It's much bigger than that - all your data is stored somewhere, at some
data center somewhere. Hackers are probably looking at everyone's Obamacare
data as I hit the send button on my computer. You've got to assume that all
your individual cloud data is available to someone right now. If you don't
want to share your data with anyone your only recourse is for you to get
off the cloud. Now, how are you going to do that? Post your answer here -
thanks.

The revelations about Target's data breach continue to get worse, with
the retailer now estimating that at least 70 million customers have been
impacted, almost twice as many as the 40 million it had earlier disclosed.
And it may turn out even more people were affected.

Read the full story:

'Target says data breach bigger than previously thought'
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/target-data-breach/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/target-warns-data-breach-impacted-70-million-people/

Workd cited:

Data Centers - The Cloud:
https://groups.yahoo.com/FairfieldLife/368898https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/368898

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

Internet Alley

[image: Inline image 1]

In recent years, the influx of technology companies into Northern
Virginia has brought many new office buildings and hotels to the landscape.
The rapid growth of Tysons Corner (in comparison to other locations near
the Capital Beltway) has been the topic of numerous studies. This is a
visionary look at Tysons Corner as the driving

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously


Something like this might be better?








 ---  Jason  wrote:
 
  An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
  has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
  prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.
 
  I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.

---  TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:

 Jason, I think you still must be having trouble posting graphics to
FFL.
 This arrived in my email just now, labeled jedi_spock's idea of a
 uni-sex dress-code.


 :-)

[FairfieldLife] The Islamization of America in 2013

Your Constitution is is not revealed by Allah. The sword is your destiny unless 
you submit and beg to be His slave. Read it and weep infidel.
 

 
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/09/The-Islamization-of-America-in-2013
 
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/09/The-Islamization-of-America-in-2013

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

2014-01-12 Thread Richard J. Williams

   Let's put it this way: nobody here knows anything about the
   Shankaracharyas. The only member of this list that knows
   anything about the Shankaracharyas is Vaj, and he's no longer
   posting anything.
  

On 1/12/2014 6:29 AM, Share Long wrote:

  ...did you see merudanda's chart?! He seems to know quite a
  lot about the situation. Are you questioning the accuracy of
  the info in the chart?
 
Maybe I should rephrase what I wrote: Vaj isn't around any more to give 
us any insider information on the comings and goings of the 
Shankaracharyas of India.

Apparently Vaj was over there and sat at the feet of the Shankaracharya 
of Sringeri. Several years ago I used to get some insider information 
when I frequented a nearby yoga camp at Barsana Dham, one of the largest 
Hindu temples outside India, and I would overhear gossip from some of 
the devotees over there. The resident Swami at Barsana was apparently a 
direct disciple of SBS and claimed to have once been offered the 
Jyotirmath seat. Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Happy 12 January

Thanks, Buck, Happy January 12!





On Sunday, January 12, 2014 7:31 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 
dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
It is my joy to invite
everyone to come in the light of the knowledge and experience that
the Science of Creative Intelligence provides and enjoy participating
in this global awakening to herald the Age of Enlightenment.

-Maharishi

12 January 1975

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

Ok, Richard, thanks for clarifying and Happy January 12 to you and Rita.





On Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:05 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 
  
  Let's put it this way: nobody here knows anything about the
  Shankaracharyas. The only member of this list that knows
  anything about the Shankaracharyas is Vaj, and he's no longer
  posting anything.
 

On 1/12/2014 6:29 AM, Share Long wrote:

 ...did you see merudanda's chart?! He seems to know quite a
 lot about the situation. Are you questioning the accuracy of
 the info in the chart?

Maybe I should rephrase what I wrote: Vaj isn't around any more to give 
us any insider information on the comings and goings of the 
Shankaracharyas of India.

Apparently Vaj was over there and sat at the feet of the Shankaracharya 
of Sringeri. Several years ago I used to get some insider information 
when I frequented a nearby yoga camp at Barsana Dham, one of the largest 
Hindu temples outside India, and I would overhear gossip from some of 
the devotees over there. The resident Swami at Barsana was apparently a 
direct disciple of SBS and claimed to have once been offered the 
Jyotirmath seat. Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Williams

*The Fighting Ascetics of India*

[image: Inline image 1]

View looking north to Barsana from Radiance - Friday Mt on right

Apparently, the Swami Prakashanand Saraswati gave Robert Kropinsky a
'letter of introduction' in order to get an audience with the Swami
Swaroopanand at Guru Dev's birthday celebration in Vrindaban. In the
Kropinsky interview Swami Swaroopanand does not deny the validity of Guru
Dev's will. In fact, ...none of the civil suits in this dispute seems to
have been framed in terms of contesting the legal standing of Brahmananda's
will according to Mr. Sundaresan.

So, lets sum up what we know:

The Swaroopanand is opposed to the VHP. However it should be noted that
both Swaroopanand and Prakashanand have gone over to other saints.
Swaroopanand favors the Congress Party and is opposed to plans to turn
India into a religious, fundamentalist Hindutva state. It is a fact that
the Swami Swaroopanand and the Swami Prakashanand are no longer in the
disciplic line of SBS, having gone over to adopt the teachings of other
Saints, babas, and gurus. Swami Vasudevananda Saraswati is currently the
*sole representative Guru Dev's lineage*, according to Vidyasankar
Sundaresan. Vasudevananda was present at the appointment of a
Mahamandaleswara of the Mahanirvani Akhada in 1995, according to Hinduism
Today. There are probably only a few disciples of SBS still alive today,
but what is important is what the *current* disciples in the SBS lineage
have to say.

There is some very distressing facts related to the Swami Prakashanand, a
desciple of SBS. He is currently a fugitive from justice in the U.S. and
has gone into hiding. According to Mr. Sundaresan, ...although he was
initiated into Sannyasa by Brahmananda Saraswati, his personal religious
philosophy is Acintya Bhedabheda, associated with Caitanya Mahaprabhu and
Gaudiya Vaishnavas. This leads me to seriously suspect his claim of having
been offered the Sankaracharya post.

It is a fact that the Kashi Vidvat Parishad has attempted to place a
political puppet on the Jyotirmath seat on at least two separate occasions
after seating SBS - Swami Krishnabodha and Swami Swaroopanand. Mr.
Sundaresan notes ...the Kashi Vidvat Parishad and the Akhila Bharatiya
Dharmasangha have tried to exercise a right over Jyotirmath for the third
time.

There is another undisputed fact - neither Swaroopanand nor Prakashanand's
name was listed in the will of SBS. In the case of the Shankaracharya it is
the usual custom to follow the disciple succession. According to Mr.
Sundaresan, ...once Swami Brahmananda Saraswati was accepted as the
Jyotirmath Sankaracharya, and there were no serious disputes about it at
the time, further activities of these other institutions with respect to
succession issues could be construed as unnecessary interference.

The Bharata Dharma Mahamandala, Kashi Vidvat Parishad, and the Akhila
Bharatiya Dharmasangha were all present at the installation of SBS's
successor, Swami Shantanand Saraswati. Shantanand was present at a number
of TMO activities, the least not being the Saints Course at Ram Nagar, the
ground-breaking of Shankaracharya Nagar at Rishikesh, and at the Maharishi
Guru Poornima at Noida held in 1990.

Work cited:

The Jyotirmath Sankaracharya Lineage in the 20th Century
by Vidyasankar Sundaresan - at the Indology Web Site:
http://indology.info/papers/sundaresan/





On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 *An attack by some naked Naga sadhus in Haridwar!*

 The last Kumbh festival of this century is over, but not the war between
 the Shankaracharyas of Jyotipeeth here. There are three of them claiming
 that seat, established by Adi Shankaracharya who, in the eighth century,
 walked all the way from his village Kalari, in Kerala, to the Himalayas to
 meditate under a mulberry tree here to obtain enlightenment, bring to an
 end through discourse the influence and control of Buddhism on the life of
 the Indian people and revive Hinduism. According to what I've read, India
 is just teeming with fighting ascetics. Go figure.

 During the Kumbh of 2002, on the big bathing day of March 28,
 Shankaracharya Swami Madhavashram was badly injured in an attack by some
 naked Naga sadhus in Haridwar. One of his followers reported the attack to
 the police and complained that it was provoked by a rival Shankaracharya,
 Swami Vasudevanand. A few days later Swami Vasudevanand applied for and
 obtained an anticipatory bail from the Allahabad High Court until the next
 month. Swami Madhavashram, whose body is in plaster and bandages, told
 Press persons that he had been receiving threatening phone calls from
 followers of the other two claimants to the seat. The callers had
 threatened to kill him soon, he added.

 Meanwhile, the people of Joshimath, where the high religious seat is
 located, have decided that the issue must not been resolved through
 attacks, but by a contest in religious discourse between them before

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: quot;The glowquot;-- 1959 (Maharishi)

2014-01-12 Thread Michael Jackson

not nearly as many as those of us who gave it up AFTER we experienced the 
glow as you call it.

On Sun, 1/12/14, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: quot;The glowquot;-- 1959 (Maharishi)
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Sunday, January 12, 2014, 2:06 PM

   The Glow, yes that's what it's about.
 One wonders how many quit TM before the started to
 experience this. Seems many gave up long before they started
 to experience much about what TM is all about.

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

2014-01-12 Thread anartaxius

Mankind's propensity for irrational violence seems to rest substantially on 
insane metaphysical systems that infect its members. Islam is not based on 
service to Allah, it is based on service to the ideas in a book about something 
that in that book that is called 'Allah'. As with many other similar systems, 
it has dire consequences for civilisation, although this one is particularly 
pernicious as it is centred in a medieval mindset.
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote:

 Your Constitution is is not revealed by Allah. The sword is your destiny 
unless you submit and beg to be His slave. Read it and weep infidel.
 

 
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/09/The-Islamization-of-America-in-2013
 
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/09/The-Islamization-of-America-in-2013

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: quot;The glowquot;-- 1959 (Maharishi)

2014-01-12 Thread Richard J. Williams

   The Glow, yes that's what it's about. One wonders how
   many quit TM before the started to experience this.
   Seems many gave up long before they started to experience
   much about what TM is all about.
  
On 1/12/2014 9:28 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:

  not nearly as many as those of us who gave it up AFTER we
  experienced the glow as you call it.
 
So, you quit AFTER experiencing the Glow, but you gave up long before 
you started to experience much about what TM is all about. Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] RE: quot;The glowquot;-- 1959 (Maharishi)

2014-01-12 Thread anartaxius

By berating them in this way Buck, you give them no chance to grow. Not 
everyone succeeds with enlightenment, and in particular necessarily succeeds 
with a particular system of practices and pointers, and they having failed 
along one path, why not allow them the courtesy of finding another? For many 
here it would seem that ineffective practice is TM etc.

 

 dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:

 Yeah was outrageous, these recent deniers of subtle experience here on FFL. 
Shear blasphemy. A sin against a birthright of their own nature; denying subtle 
experience by an angry authority only of their own non-experience. Simply 
in-credible ignorance rooted in some morass of their own ineffective practice 
in life.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn#39;t take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-12 Thread punditster

Now that's better! 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jedi_spock@... wrote:

 
Something like this might be better?



 
 

 
 ---  Jason  wrote:
 
  An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
  has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
  prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.
 
  I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.
 
 ---  TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
 
 Jason, I think you still must be having trouble posting graphics to FFL.
 This arrived in my email just now, labeled jedi_spock's idea of a
 uni-sex dress-code.
 
 
 :-)

[FairfieldLife] Kasai, 41, an YFfer??

2014-01-12 Thread cardemaister

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/389113/kasai-41-becomes-oldest-world-cup-ski-jump-winner
 
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/389113/kasai-41-becomes-oldest-world-cup-ski-jump-winner
 

 Seems fairly likely he's recently learned Yogic Flying??

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Ok, Richard, thanks for clarifying and Happy January 12 to you and Rita.
 

 What is January 12th?
 

 
 
 On Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:05 AM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... 
wrote:
 
 Let's put it this way: nobody here knows anything about the
   Shankaracharyas. The only member of this list that knows
   anything about the Shankaracharyas is Vaj, and he's no longer
   posting anything.
  
 

 On 1/12/2014 6:29 AM, Share Long wrote:
 
  ...did you see merudanda's chart?! He seems to know quite a
  lot about the situation. Are you questioning the accuracy of
  the info in the chart?
 
 Maybe I should rephrase what I wrote: Vaj isn't around any more to give 
 us any insider information on the comings and goings of the 
 Shankaracharyas of India.
 
 Apparently Vaj was over there and sat at the feet of the Shankaracharya 
 of Sringeri. Several years ago I used to get some insider information 
 when I frequented a nearby yoga camp at Barsana Dham, one of the largest 
 Hindu temples outside India, and I would overhear gossip from some of 
 the devotees over there. The resident Swami at Barsana was apparently a 
 direct disciple of SBS and claimed to have once been offered the 
 Jyotirmath seat. Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

2014-01-12 Thread j_alexander_stanley

In addition to being the 12th day of the 1st month, it is also MMY's birthday.

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Ok, Richard, thanks for clarifying and Happy January 12 to you and Rita.
 

 What is January 12th?
 

 
 
 On Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:05 AM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... 
wrote:
 
 Let's put it this way: nobody here knows anything about the
   Shankaracharyas. The only member of this list that knows
   anything about the Shankaracharyas is Vaj, and he's no longer
   posting anything.
  
 

 On 1/12/2014 6:29 AM, Share Long wrote:
 
  ...did you see merudanda's chart?! He seems to know quite a
  lot about the situation. Are you questioning the accuracy of
  the info in the chart?
 
 Maybe I should rephrase what I wrote: Vaj isn't around any more to give 
 us any insider information on the comings and goings of the 
 Shankaracharyas of India.
 
 Apparently Vaj was over there and sat at the feet of the Shankaracharya 
 of Sringeri. Several years ago I used to get some insider information 
 when I frequented a nearby yoga camp at Barsana Dham, one of the largest 
 Hindu temples outside India, and I would overhear gossip from some of 
 the devotees over there. The resident Swami at Barsana was apparently a 
 direct disciple of SBS and claimed to have once been offered the 
 Jyotirmath seat. Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jason's barbell chart

You need to additionally add the picture width and height at the end 
when using Base64.  It's in the instructions for using HTML that 
YahooGroups provides. The format is:
pimg src=data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSk [lots of Base64 data]  
width=267 height=400 //p


There may be some sites that will encode a picture and add the width and 
height at the end. I wrote my own app that does that.



On 01/12/2014 04:13 AM, Jason wrote:


Hey Bhairitu, and Alex, I think something is wrong with my
Firefox.  The image sails through when I use Explorer.

I wonder if Firefox has any imagepaste addon or something
like that?

I have a feeling the base64 encoding has to be pasted in IMG
alt=..command? I wonder what tags has to be added?


---  Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:

 It shows up in email. Like I said the only sure way I've ever been
 able to embed an image is with Base64 code.  It's not rocket science 
but

 you do need to be able to insert it as HTML.  Also I did this on the
 classic or old interface as when I log in the interface goes from Neo
 to the old site.  I haven't checked lately to see if that is the 
case as

 I actually like Neo for Yahoo News because they finally are getting my
 location right and the local news setup is much better.  So I don't 
know

 if it will work with Neo but I assume it will.

 To convert an image to Base64 you can use one of the online sites.  
Here

 is one:
 http://www.base64decode.org/

 Some folks have no problem though just dropping an image in the form on
 the FFL web site.

 On 01/09/2014 11:11 AM, Jason wrote:
 
 
  I guess i have to stick with links now.

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Islamization of America in 2013

This guy probably checks under his bed each night.  Was commies now's 
muzzies. :-D


Geesh, there are plenty of peace loving Muslims living in the US with no 
intention of shoving their religion down other's throats. It's fundies 
that want to do that and there are fundies in other religious AND 
spiritual groups who want to do that too including TM.


On 01/12/2014 06:39 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:


Your Constitution is is not revealed by Allah. The sword is your 
destiny unless you submit and beg to be His slave. Read it and weep 
infidel.



http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/09/The-Islamization-of-America-in-2013

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

So will you convert or die? 

Sufism is the last castle still existing of Neo-Platonism but it is under 
attack by the Wahabi-s and Jihadists. They hate and kill Sufi-s like they kill 
kafir-s.

You worship polytheistic devils posing as gods. You say their devil-name 
emblems in your demon-worship meditations. That make you an enemy of Allah 
(al-llah the deity).

However, there is only one deity (La ilaha illa Allah) who has no associates or 
equals. Also, there is only one final divine messenger (Muhammadun rasulu'Llah) 
who abrogates all others.

Wake up and smell the stink of headless bodies in the streets.

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

Typical clap-trap appeasement.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

Get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning or meditate facing 
south? ;-)


On 01/12/2014 09:30 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:


Typical clap-trap appeasement.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Greatest Artists of Punk Rock

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Williams

The New York Dolls were a glam group and pre-punk. The roots of punk may go
back to Iggy and the Stooges, but real punk started with the Ramones in
1974, according to some music historians. Classic punk is based on the DIY
garage band - T-shirted, motorcycle jacketed, and blue jeans wearers like
rockabillies and British rockers of the 1960s. Female punk musicians
displayed styles ranging from Siouxsie Sioux's bondage gear to Patti
Smith's straight-from-the-gutter androgyny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock

The Seeds presaged the style of bands that would become known as the
archetypal figures of proto-punk: The Seeds were an American rock band.
The group, whose repertoire spread between garage rock and acid rock, are
considered one of the pioneers of punk rock. The Seed's Pushin Too Hard
is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock
and Roll.

The Seeds:

Pushin' Too Hard
http://youtu.be/IReb27tFqMg

[image: Inline image 1]

Notes: I had an encounter with Sky Saxon one day when he tried to get into
our house when we were living in Venice Beach back in 1970. After I locked
him out for being rowdy he got real angry and threatened to cut off my head
for locking him out. Go figure.

In 1973, Saxon became a member of the Source which was a religious cult
founded by a Hollywood restaurant owner named Jim Baker,who gave Saxon the
new spiritual name Arlick. I was planning on seeing Saxon's performance
in 2009 but he passed away suddenly in an Austin hospital due to an
infection at ge 71.

Read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seeds


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:35 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:



 Begin at the beginning. The New York Dolls were punk's parents. Looking
 for a kiss is from 1973 but has that recognisable sound and sensibility.


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvmvMFXWzc8

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

After death, bodies are turned with the head facing South to signal the 
yama-dhutas to come and lead the soul to Lord Yama.

Which is why Jñana Dakshinamurti Shiva sits in meditation facing South. He is 
the preceptor residing in unborn-undying awareness (jñana-chaitanyam) - marking 
death as just an idea in the mind of the deluded. 

So thank you for the compliment. I'll try and remind the jihadi-s that you are 
a KINO - a kafir in name only.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013


So says the book learned tantric. And you criticize Willy.  Go figure.


On 01/12/2014 11:08 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:


After death, bodies are turned with the head facing South to signal 
the yama-dhutas to come and lead the soul to Lord Yama.


Which is why Jñana Dakshinamurti Shiva sits in meditation facing 
South. He is the preceptor residing in unborn-undying awareness 
(jñana-chaitanyam) - marking death as just an idea in the mind of 
the deluded.


So thank you for the compliment. I'll try and remind the jihadi-s that 
you are a KINO - a kafir in name only.

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

2014-01-12 Thread jr_esq

Empty,
 

 The article is overly fearful of Muslims here in the USA.  As of date, Muslims 
represent only about one percent of the population according to Wikipedia.
 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jason's barbell chart

I see on Neo that it was truncated because it was larger than 64K so you 
need to practice with a smaller picture.  The ones I've posted here 
using Base64 were smaller than 64K, some were only around 18-20K.   
However when I used Chrome to login to FFL I still get the old 
interface! :-D


On 01/12/2014 12:05 PM, Jason wrote:



Angry birds and Scared pigs





---  Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:

 You need to additionally add the picture width and height at the end
 when using Base64.  It's in the instructions for using HTML that
 YahooGroups provides. The format is:
 pimg src=data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSk [lots of Base64 data] 
 width=267 height=400 //p

 There may be some sites that will encode a picture and add the width 
and

 height at the end. I wrote my own app that does that.


 On 01/12/2014 04:13 AM, Jason wrote:
 
  Hey Bhairitu, and Alex, I think something is wrong with my
  Firefox.  The image sails through when I use Explorer.
 
  I wonder if Firefox has any imagepaste addon or something
  like that?
 
  I have a feeling the base64 encoding has to be pasted in IMG
  alt=..command? I wonder what tags has to be added?
 
 
  ---  Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
  
   It shows up in email. Like I said the only sure way I've ever been
   able to embed an image is with Base64 code. It's not rocket science
  but
   you do need to be able to insert it as HTML. Also I did this on the
   classic or old interface as when I log in the interface goes 
from Neo

   to the old site.  I haven't checked lately to see if that is the
  case as
   I actually like Neo for Yahoo News because they finally are 
getting my

   location right and the local news setup is much better.  So I don't
  know
   if it will work with Neo but I assume it will.
  
   To convert an image to Base64 you can use one of the online sites.
  Here
   is one:
   http://www.base64decode.org/
  
   Some folks have no problem though just dropping an image in the 
form on

   the FFL web site.
  
   On 01/09/2014 11:11 AM, Jason wrote:
   
   
I guess i have to stick with links now.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jason's barbell chart





Angry birds and scared pigs





 
[http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/d4/86/70/d48670b7-92e9-61e4-fa2\
a-9386f3547d21/screen800x500.jpeg]



---  Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:

 You need to additionally add the picture width and height at the end
 when using Base64.  It's in the instructions for using HTML that
 YahooGroups provides. The format is:
 pimg src=data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSk [lots of Base64 data] 
 width=267 height=400 //p

 There may be some sites that will encode a picture and add the width
and
 height at the end. I wrote my own app that does that.


 On 01/12/2014 04:13 AM, Jason wrote:
 
  Hey Bhairitu, and Alex, I think something is wrong with my
  Firefox.  The image sails through when I use Explorer.
 
  I wonder if Firefox has any imagepaste addon or something
  like that?
 
  I have a feeling the base64 encoding has to be pasted in IMG
  alt=..command? I wonder what tags has to be added?
 
 
  ---  Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
  
   It shows up in email. Like I said the only sure way I've ever
been
   able to embed an image is with Base64 code.  It's not rocket
science
  but
   you do need to be able to insert it as HTML.  Also I did this on
the
   classic or old interface as when I log in the interface goes
from Neo
   to the old site.  I haven't checked lately to see if that is the
  case as
   I actually like Neo for Yahoo News because they finally are
getting my
   location right and the local news setup is much better.  So I
don't
  know
   if it will work with Neo but I assume it will.
  
   To convert an image to Base64 you can use one of the online sites.
  Here
   is one:
   http://www.base64decode.org/
  
   Some folks have no problem though just dropping an image in the
form on
   the FFL web site.
  
   On 01/09/2014 11:11 AM, Jason wrote:
   
   
I guess i have to stick with links now.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

Well it's Breitbart, what do you think?  They'd love to cut off the 
heads of everyone who isn't conservative. :-D


On 01/12/2014 11:59 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:


Empty,


The article is overly fearful of Muslims here in the USA.  As of date, 
Muslims represent only about one percent of the population according 
to Wikipedia.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

Actually, you have no idea what you are talking about
 . 
 As you know, I had a ritvikâcharya teach me mahârudrâbhishekam. Over a period 
of 5-6 years he also imparted much of the Vedika view of values. According to 
him, the Tantrika view was that the universe was actualized by limitless 
shakti-s that structured its being, patterns and interactions. 
 
 The only thing he wouldn't yield about was teaching me the mechanics of 
agni-hotra (although he performed one for me at the installation of my 
shiva-lingam). I believe he considered me too far from being a renouncer and 
therefore prone to get into trouble with an agni-hotra ... all because if done 
properly, the yajñamana receives the results quickly and decisively.
  
 You also forget that I have a Vajrayana Tantric and Dzogchen teacher. 
Certainly different practices but when he first saw my altar he pointed to the 
traditionally carved shiva lingam and commented “original Tantra”. 
  
 All this means that your evaluation is a parody of a Willy-ism - which is as 
much value as I can give it.

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

More appeasement. 

 You are asleep about the constitutional threat.
 However, don't worry about it. 

 Just take two Valium and
 call everything perfectly fine.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Happy Happy 12 January

It is in the hands of a few individuals in every country today to change the 
direction of time and guide the destiny of their nation for all harmony, 
happiness, and progress.
 
 It is my joy to invite everyone to come in the light of the knowledge and 
experience that the Science of Creative Intelligence provides and enjoy 
participating in this global awakening to herald the Age of Enlightenment.
 
 
 -Maharishi
 
 
 12 January 1975

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

But you were never initiated into the practice.  You obviously didn't 
get the humor siddhi either. :-D


On 01/12/2014 01:11 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:


Actually, you have no idea what you are talking about
.
As you know, I had a ritvikâcharya teach me mahârudrâbhishekam. Over a 
period of 5-6 years he also imparted much of the Vedika view of 
values. According to him, the Tantrika view was that the universe was 
actualized by limitless shakti-s that structured its being, patterns 
and interactions.


The only thing he wouldn't yield about was teaching me the mechanics 
of agni-hotra (although he performed one for me at the installation of 
my shiva-lingam). I believe he considered me too far from being a 
renouncer and therefore prone to get into trouble with an agni-hotra 
... all because if done properly, the yajñamana receives the results 
quickly and decisively.


You also forget that I have a Vajrayana Tantric and Dzogchen teacher. 
Certainly different practices but when he first saw my altar he 
pointed to the traditionally carved shiva lingam and commented 
“original Tantra”.


All this means that your evaluation is a parody of a Willy-ism - which 
is as much value as I can give it.

[FairfieldLife] Asymmetric Dress-Codes and Religion that doesn#39;t take itself deadly seriously


 Proly a lot of great millenarians employ and urge uniformity and simplicities, 
urging and adopting a commonality in symmetric dress-code as device to keep 
people's attention, energy, time and animal needs focused and thereby 
concentrated on the large spiritual practice of their movement and its business 
at hand.  There is a practicality in this as utility around group cohesion in 
formative stages.
 -Buck, a plain and common meditator only
 

 
 ---  Jason  wrote:
 
  An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
  has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
  prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.
 
  I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

 Now that's better! 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jedi_spock@... wrote:

 
Something like this might be better?



 
 

 
 ---  Jason  wrote:
 
  An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
  has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
  prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.
 
  I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.
 
 ---  TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
 
 Jason, I think you still must be having trouble posting graphics to FFL.
 This arrived in my email just now, labeled jedi_spock's idea of a
 uni-sex dress-code.
 
 
 :-)

[FairfieldLife] RE: Asymmetric Dress-Codes and Religion that doesn#39;t take itself deadly seriously

Yep, certainly Maharishi had us in a uniformity of business suits and 
schoolmarmish attire at a time. John Woolman and Quaker simplicity or Mao in 
symmetric dress-code movement too for example. Simplification as a spiritual 
organizational practice to keep people from running after silly ostentatious 
standards of extraneous materialism that are so fundamentally superfluous to 
the central focus in lean progress of necessity and might otherwise take those 
of young or immature mind away is time honored spiritual instruction. Evidently 
this principle of simple living has a profound purpose in Natural Law that the 
simple life keeps getting pulled on by spiritual Unified Field revival 
movements.   
 

 
 Proly a lot of great millenarians employ and urge uniformity and simplicities, 
urging and adopting a commonality in symmetric dress-code as device to keep 
people's attention, energy, time and animal needs focused and thereby 
concentrated on the large spiritual practice of their movement and its business 
at hand.  There is a practicality in this as utility around group cohesion in 
formative stages.
 -Buck, a plain and common meditator only
 

 
 ---  Jason  wrote:
 
  An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
  has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
  prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.
 
  I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

 Now that's better! 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jedi_spock@... wrote:

 
Something like this might be better?



 
 

 
 ---  Jason  wrote:
 
  An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
  has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
  prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.
 
  I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.
 
 ---  TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
 
 Jason, I think you still must be having trouble posting graphics to FFL.
 This arrived in my email just now, labeled jedi_spock's idea of a
 uni-sex dress-code.
 
 
 :-)

[FairfieldLife] RE: Asymmetric Dress-Codes and Religion that doesn#39;t take itself deadly seriously

“May we look upon our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, 
and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions. 
Holding treasures in the self-pleasing spirit is a strong plant, the fruit 
whereof ripens fast.  A day of outward distress is coming and Divine Love calls 
for us to prepare against it.”
  
 John Woolman, Journal,  Whittier  Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1871), 
Appendix, p. 307
 

 Yep, certainly Maharishi had us in a uniformity of business suits and 
schoolmarmish attire at a time. John Woolman and Quaker simplicity or Mao in 
symmetric dress-code movement too for example. Simplification as a spiritual 
organizational practice to keep people from running after silly ostentatious 
standards of extraneous materialism that are so fundamentally superfluous to 
the central focus in lean progress of necessity and might otherwise take those 
of young or immature mind away is time honored spiritual instruction. Evidently 
this principle of simple living has a profound purpose in Natural Law that the 
simple life keeps getting pulled on by spiritual Unified Field revival 
movements.   
 

 
 Proly a lot of great millenarians employ and urge uniformity and simplicities, 
urging and adopting a commonality in symmetric dress-code as device to keep 
people's attention, energy, time and animal needs focused and thereby 
concentrated on the large spiritual practice of their movement and its business 
at hand.  There is a practicality in this as utility around group cohesion in 
formative stages.
 -Buck, a plain and common meditator only
 

 
 ---  Jason  wrote:
 
  An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
  has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
  prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.
 
  I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

 Now that's better! 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jedi_spock@... wrote:

 
Something like this might be better?



 
 

 
 ---  Jason  wrote:
 
  An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
  has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
  prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.
 
  I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.
 
 ---  TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
 
 Jason, I think you still must be having trouble posting graphics to FFL.
 This arrived in my email just now, labeled jedi_spock's idea of a
 uni-sex dress-code.
 
 
 :-)

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

Obviously defiled ... right commissar?

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

You are absol ... fuckin.. uutaaly right. 
I was never initiated into Willy-ism. 
Go finger ...

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[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote:

 Actually, you have no idea what you are talking about
 . 
 As you know, I had a ritvikâcharya teach me mahârudrâbhishekam. Over a period 
of 5-6 years he also imparted much of the Vedika view of values. According to 
him, the Tantrika view was that the universe was actualized by limitless 
shakti-s that structured its being, patterns and interactions. 
 
 The only thing he wouldn't yield about was teaching me the mechanics of 
agni-hotra (although he performed one for me at the installation of my 
shiva-lingam). I believe he considered me too far from being a renouncer and 
therefore prone to get into trouble with an agni-hotra ... all because if done 
properly, the yajñamana receives the results quickly and decisively.
  
 You also forget that I have a Vajrayana Tantric and Dzogchen teacher. 
Certainly different practices but when he first saw my altar he pointed to the 
traditionally carved shiva lingam and commented “original Tantra”. 
  
 All this means that your evaluation is a parody of a Willy-ism - which is as 
much value as I can give it.
 

 Well, whatever it is you have been taught or think you know, what good is it 
if you continue to take yourself so seriously? I mean, really, all this 
teaching you have subjected yourself to has done nothing for your ability to 
lighten up or drop the pride. Still, it could be worse - I guess.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Asymmetric Dress-Codes and Religion that doesn#39;t take itself deadly seriously

But woe this other aspect of resentment of differentials as detriment in groups 
in which asymmetric style differentials can bring to a podium. . Thinking of 
robes, medallions, gold hats, crowns and such arrayed across a stage in front 
of an audience, an array that embarks on mixed signals to the higher human mind 
in the theatre of differentials that dress-code differentials can impose when 
not well used in groups. That proly explains some lot of an erosion in 
rank-and-file of what were once large spiritual movements. Loss of touch with 
reality between the podium and the audience. The asymmetric differential 
becomes too damned haughty. 
 
 
 
 

 “May we look upon our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our 
garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our 
possessions. Holding treasures in the self-pleasing spirit is a strong plant, 
the fruit whereof ripens fast.  A day of outward distress is coming and Divine 
Love calls for us to prepare against it.”
  
 John Woolman, Journal,  Whittier  Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1871), 
Appendix, p. 307
 

 Yep, certainly Maharishi had us in a uniformity of business suits and 
schoolmarmish attire at a time. John Woolman and Quaker simplicity or Mao in 
symmetric dress-code movement too for example. Simplification as a spiritual 
organizational practice to keep people from running after silly ostentatious 
standards of extraneous materialism that are so fundamentally superfluous to 
the central focus in lean progress of necessity and might otherwise take those 
of young or immature mind away is time honored spiritual instruction. Evidently 
this principle of simple living has a profound purpose in Natural Law that the 
simple life keeps getting pulled on by spiritual Unified Field revival 
movements.   
 

 
 Proly a lot of great millenarians employ and urge uniformity and simplicities, 
urging and adopting a commonality in symmetric dress-code as device to keep 
people's attention, energy, time and animal needs focused and thereby 
concentrated on the large spiritual practice of their movement and its business 
at hand.  There is a practicality in this as utility around group cohesion in 
formative stages.
 -Buck, a plain and common meditator only
 

 
 ---  Jason  wrote:
 
  An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
  has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
  prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.
 
  I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

 Now that's better! 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jedi_spock@... wrote:

 
Something like this might be better?



 
 

 
 ---  Jason  wrote:
 
  An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
  has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
  prejudice and bias on a very subtle level.
 
  I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.
 
 ---  TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
 
 Jason, I think you still must be having trouble posting graphics to FFL.
 This arrived in my email just now, labeled jedi_spock's idea of a
 uni-sex dress-code.
 
 
 :-)

[FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, j_alexander_stanley@... wrote:

 In addition to being the 12th day of the 1st month, it is also MMY's birthday.

 

 Oh, okay, thanks. Then why is Share wishing everyone except MMY happy January 
12? I thought you were supposed to wish the guy with the birthday this. FF has 
some interesting traditions I am, evidently, unfamiliar with.
 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote:

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Ok, Richard, thanks for clarifying and Happy January 12 to you and Rita.
 

 What is January 12th?
 

 
 
 On Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:05 AM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... 
wrote:
 
 Let's put it this way: nobody here knows anything about the
   Shankaracharyas. The only member of this list that knows
   anything about the Shankaracharyas is Vaj, and he's no longer
   posting anything.
  
 

 On 1/12/2014 6:29 AM, Share Long wrote:
 
  ...did you see merudanda's chart?! He seems to know quite a
  lot about the situation. Are you questioning the accuracy of
  the info in the chart?
 
 Maybe I should rephrase what I wrote: Vaj isn't around any more to give 
 us any insider information on the comings and goings of the 
 Shankaracharyas of India.
 
 Apparently Vaj was over there and sat at the feet of the Shankaracharya 
 of Sringeri. Several years ago I used to get some insider information 
 when I frequented a nearby yoga camp at Barsana Dham, one of the largest 
 Hindu temples outside India, and I would overhear gossip from some of 
 the devotees over there. The resident Swami at Barsana was apparently a 
 direct disciple of SBS and claimed to have once been offered the 
 Jyotirmath seat. Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Happy Happy 12 January

2014-01-12 Thread merudanda

'What is necessary is just a small area in the whole room to become lighted and 
the whole room becomes lighted. What is a bulb? It is a very small filament. 
How much is that in relation to the whole volume of the room? It's a very 
insignificant area. Yet it becomes lighted and the whole room becomes lighted. 
One simple, single individual brain becoming a little bit more orderly—how much 
more orderly could one become in fifteen minutes, with all the chaos and 
disorderliness of the whole day?—but that little orderliness increasing in the 
mind of an individual is good enough to radiate its influence. One small 
filament becoming lighted is enough to light the whole room.

'Like that, one person, one slightly enlightened person, is good enough for the 
whole society. It's a blessing for the whole society

It requires only a few people, just a few people! What do those few people have 
to do? Fifteen minutes morning and evening less gossip() and close the eyes; 
fathom the depth of underhandedness deep within one's own consciousness. 
Realize that fullness of life, that wholeness of life, that level of 
enlightenment which is kindled within, deep within everyone's heart. Unfold 
that, experience that, and that is enough to make the whole day more 
orderly—life in orderliness; life in accordance with all the laws of nature. . 
. . '
 ditto

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

Re You obviously didn't get the humour siddhi :
 

 Wow! That's the one they should be teaching. Religions have tended to assume 
that a serious approach to the practice is the same as a solemn approach. 
(That's one reason I was attracted to Aleister Crowley - he introduced humour 
into mystical writing. The Zen people understood the same thing - witness the 
sketches of their Zen masters . . .

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

In chanukistan they proly prefer live and let live. I figure it is the French 
influence - bend over and take it in the end. 

However, sometimes I have to remind the frothing critters that I don't make 
this stuff up but rather advance a traditional view of spiritual life i.e. 
advaita, tantra, dzogchen. 
 

 Whether you like, dislike, accept or, reject is incidental to me since you 
just make it up anyway. You have no basis to evaluate these teachings because 
you are not trained in them. Your assessment that they are based upon pride is 
just more self-referenced emotion.to me since it implies that you are an oracle 
uniquely qualified to assay my intent. It ain't necessarily so but so what?   . 
 

 Perhaps you have become the new World Teacher. 

 Robin would be so proud.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Greatest Artists of Punk Rock

The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't 
giving up either - Joey Ramone

 

 That view - ie, mainstream politicians of both the left and the right are 
*not* the solution to our problems - has always appealed to me. Punk was more 
than just music, of course. Its essential attitude was that we should just be 
ourselves - warts and all - and ignore the ideals that society expects us to 
conform to. So even plain or downright ugly people could adopt a style of 
clothing that said: This is what I am - accept me come what may. Sometimes 
the results were boringly self-indulgent or downright offensive; but sometimes 
they gave a certain dignity to those at the bottom of the social scale that you 
had to respect.
 

 Derek Jarman - being a true artist - captured the essence of punk in his film 
Jubilee. Here's a song from the film that is both patriotic and deeply 
subversive . . .
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFRg5pLD9EI 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFRg5pLD9EI

[FairfieldLife] RE: quot;If Another Country Was Doing This To Our Kids, Wed Be At Warquot;

Re As a result I didn't see such highly acclaimed films like Silence of the 
Lambs:

 

 Me neither! And horror is my favourite genre. (And I really like Jodie 
Foster.) But as I've said before, I like atmospheric, art-house horror like 
Don't Look Now rather than being seriously scared or having my nose rubbed in 
degrading violence. The emergence of torture porn like Saw and its offshoots 
has also passed me by.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn#39;t take itself deadly seriously

Re Tolstoy gave the right advice.:
 

 Possibly. But, as I said, it's the hypocrisy of Tolstoy that grates with me. 
 

 The English conservative journalist Malcolm Muggeridge (a true British 
eccentric but a first-rate broadcaster) was a big fan of Tolstoy. One time in 
the 1960s he gave a talk attacking sexual promiscuity. To be fair to Muggeridge 
he did mention in the talk that as his audience were all young they couldn't 
accept or comprehend what he was saying. They would only understand him when 
they matured. An acquaintance of his later claimed that Muggeridge said to him 
at the time that if he had been a student in those heady sixties days he'd have 
slept with all the girls he could!
 

 To me the key is that you should always be true to what you are; who you are; 
where you're at. And as the sexual drive is one of the strongest impulses 
pushing us along we have a choice: 
 1) go with the flow, in which case you can draw on your sex energy to motivate 
you in life's struggle
 or 2) resist the sex impulse, in which case you'll spend your life labouring 
*against* your own body energies, as well as having to cope with the problems 
life throws at you.



I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013