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[FairfieldLife] Re: Countering a Post-Modern Spiritual Disabling of the Human Being..

[yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Thx, there's no clear-cut distinction between materialism and Spirituality, 
since any particular materialistic item or even can conceivably be transmuted 
into something allied toward the goal of Enlightening everybody in the 
Universe. (a Mahayana Buddhist goal).
 OTOH, a materialist can be defined as a person who worships (in a fashion), 
anything/anybody as separate from purusha.  But even that definition breaks 
down since (for example), the Hare Krishnas claim that their conception  of 
Deity involves ONLY the "appearances and pasttimes" of Krishna; and to even 
desire realization of the Impersonal Absolute (purusha) is a heresy.
 Likewise, Fundamentalist Christians are only interested in establishing a 
relative, dualistic relationship between themselves and Jesus, and to even 
consider "Gnosis" is completely out of bounds and would entail shunning and 
exclusion from one's Congregation.
 Similarly, the Transcendentalist Spinoza was kicked out of his local Jewish 
Congregation and shunned.
 ,,,
 The bottom line: Fundamentalists involved in dualistic devotion as an activity 
apparently separate from purusha represent simply : the status of the 
evolutionary condition of those persons; and in terms of raw numbers, there's 
far more Southern Baptists in any middle or small town than the numbers of 
persons that Ammachi can gather together in CA.
 I'm just reporting on the way things are, not the way things "should" be. The 
Fundamentalists would vehemently deny that they are materialists. There must be 
a vast gray area of transitional categories.
 Ultimately, logic fails us in this discussion.  By way of example, when 
Katrina hit LA and other states, how many Quietists showed up on the scene to 
help rebuild devastated homes.  Otoh, large numbers of S. Baptists which tools 
in their hands rushed in immediately before FEMA to voluntarily rebuild homes. 
(and those persons with hammers and nails in their hands are materialists?). 
The definition of Spirituality should be broadened, imo.  Where to draw the 
line?  Nowhere. As soon as you draw the line somewhere, another person can come 
in with an exception or move the line or the goalpost..
 
 

 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Countering a Post-Modern Spiritual Disabling of the Human Being..

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Ammachi in Detroit, ‘Q and A’ satsang meeting. 
 11.23.16

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

 Transcription of rough handwritten notes..

 

 Q:What of the fear, agitation, commotion, hatred and confusion that is 
individual and societal for the present time?
 

 A: Amma answering, Swami translating.. 
 [ ..her observation was that everyone has opinions, like people have different 
opinions about how to take their tea.  But what good is fear? Her instruction 
directly was to gain spiritual strength, to strengthen ourselves spiritually 
without becoming too anxious about the future.  
 

 We are not candles that need to be lit but self-luminous suns. To just keep 
moving with spiritual growth.  That while we live in families and communities 
that ultimately we are alone and so we look to find strength in ourselves. 
Ultimately only God is there, gain mastery over mind. 
 

 Refocus on our dharma which is compassion and everything will be okay. With a 
candle keep walking forward into the dark and extend the light.  This is the 
dark age of materialism, Kali Yuga. 
 

 There is virtue and divinity in everything, even a broken clock reads the time 
correctly 2 times a day.  Even in the worst human beings there is compassion 
there too.  You cannot force unity to happen, it unfolds by itself. Feel happy 
first and others will be too. Every drop flows to the ocean. Do whatever you 
can. Even though one half are gripped by fear everything will be alright, even 
if it is not.  Strengthen the internal mind to help others. Let the weapon be 
love.  Be strong (jestering active stance ). Don’t meet anger with anger. Do 
the work.   ]  
 

 #
 11.24.16
 Excerpts from Ammachi’s ‘Big-Swami’ 
 talk/discourse with Swamiji..
 Transcribed From handwritten notes:

 

 Big-Swami-
 'A follow-up on the fear and confusion in the world and of ‘institutional 
fear’ questions from the previous day,'
 

 Big-Swami: “.. saying there is ‘no need of confusion or fear’ is not a simple 
or superficial statement.

 The way we look at the universe is different than ..the world view.  For us 
the universe cannot be self-made, everything obeys Nature.  We cannot amend 
that.  For every action Nature follows the set laws. We are not an exception to 
the laws of Nature, we only break ourselves against nature’s law.  
Indiscriminately the law of karma works as nature.  The Law of Karma is the law 
of the Universe.  [..some examples, ‘there are pious credits ..but then you get 
the credit’.. Gita IV.v17..] 
 ”The mills of God (nature) grind slow but fine.”
 

 ..Don’t expect that people will understand you.  Understanding equals love, 
patience equals compassion, if people do not understand then grow your own 
inner light. 
 In life, civil law we have to learn and Nature’s law we have to learn. Even a 
little of this practice protects from fear.  There are 3 dimensions of space 
and 1 of time, space is static, time is movement.  A. Huxley: there is one 
corner of the universe you can improve and that is your own.  
 

 [discussion of power politics.. Binding love and liberating love are 
different.. A sugar-coated politics is power politics with domination, greed, 
and anxiety. ..Sympathy is not the same as empathy.. 
 

 (Cultivating Remedy) in these times:  1.mental purification (ethical/moral 
preparation action). 2.love(selfless service to others) 3.meditation(spiritual 
practice). 
 

 ..Discerning self-less service (action) from “what is in it for me”. Love 
yourself, accept yourself; can’t love yourself can’t love others. 
 

 The human body is a Holy temple, it is a temple of God and through love and 
then acceptance life is an opportunity to serve and love.  A combination of 
perfection of meditation and compassion is a rare thing. There are awakened 
people but the combination of awakening with compassion is a rare thing. There 
are plenty of awakened who care nothing. But by the combination of awakened 
grace like in Amma we will soon see light within ourselves.  
 

 Divine Grace can help establish Peace, Peace from the heart Pervades.  
 

 #

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

 Post-election..
 After such a brutal and divisive election, it is clearly vital that we heal 
the rift and bring our nation back together. It is essential that we do 
everything we can to bolster our national coherence during this turbulent and 
sensitive transition. This will help calm the nation—and bring the best 
possible result for our country while the new Government is being formed and 
its priorities being set.
 Fortunately, Maharishi has given us the technologies we need to defuse deep 
societal tensions and bring powerful support of nature to the country. We 
simply need to apply them to a sufficient degree.
 

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

 I feel for all those who are anxious—and that includes some in my own family.  
Fortunately 

[FairfieldLife] Harri Aalto: 3rd Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 11/25/2016

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[FairfieldLife] Re: How Transcendentalism is Battling..

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Excerpts from Ammachi’s ‘Big-Swami’ talk/discourse..
 

 A follow-up on the fear and confusion in the world and of ‘institutional fear’ 
questions from the previous day,
 

 Transcribed From handwritten notes:
 Big-Swami: “.. saying there is ‘no need of confusion or fear’ is not a simple 
or superficial statement.
 The way we look at the universe is different than ..the world view.  For us 
the universe cannot be self-made, everything obeys Nature.  We cannot amend 
that.  For every action Nature follows the set laws. We are not an exception to 
the laws of Nature, we only break ourselves against nature’s law.  
Indiscriminately the law of karma works as nature.  The Law of Karma is the law 
of the Universe.  [..examples, ‘there are pious credits ..but then you get the 
credit’.. Gita IV.v17..] 
 ”The mills of God (nature) grind slow but fine.”
 

 ..Don’t expect that people will understand you.  Understanding equals love, 
patience equals compassion, if people do not understand then grow your own 
inner light. 
 In life, civil law we have to learn and Nature’s law we have to learn. Even a 
little of this practice protects from fear.  There are 3 dimensions of space 
and 1 of time, space is static, time is movement.  A. Huxley: there is one 
corner of the universe you can improve and that is your own.  
 

 [discussion of power politics.. Binding love and liberating love are 
different.. A sugar-coated politics is power politics with domination, greed, 
and anxiety. ..Sympathy is not the same as empathy.. 
 

 (Cultivating Remedy) in these times:  1.mental purification (ethical/moral 
preparation action). 2.love(selfless service to others) 3.meditation(spiritual 
practice). 
 

 ..Discerning self-less service (action) from “what is in it for me”. Love 
yourself, accept yourself; can’t love yourself can’t love others. 
 

 The human body is a Holy temple, it is a temple of God and through love and 
then acceptance life is an opportunity to serve and love.  A combination of 
perfection of meditation and compassion is a rare thing. There are awakened 
people but the combination of awakening with compassion is a rare thing. There 
are plenty of awakened who care nothing. But by the combination of awakened 
grace like in Amma we will soon see light within ourselves.  
 

 Divine Grace can help establish Peace, Peace from the heart Pervades.  
 

 #

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

 
 vs. form-ism, the battling clearly continues on.  From generation to 
generation it is transcendentalists providing the spiritual commentary and 
antidote to materialism.  
 

 I am seeing this generational attending happen right now here in the 
Millennial Center, in downtown Detroit. 
 

 Ammachi is in Detroit having public programs and a several day retreat this 
week. A lot of spiritual people gathered on retreat. Quite a lot from 
Fairfield, Iowa here too.  
 

 Yesterday at the public darshan program you could see quite a large flow of 
Gen-X coming in with their small kids. It was spectacular to see their 
diversity in a seeming ‘spiritual but not religious’ demographic.
 

 
 That apparently is in constitution. 
 

 

 Yifuxero writes:

 Thx for posting the article on Lynch.  I have the hard copy in front of me.
 On the ongoing battle between Quietism and Fundamentalist belief systems, the 
Quietists (historically since the first century CE, Gnosticism) initially lost 
as long as fundamentalist religions were in power in Europe, and that timespan 
was from Emperor Constatine into the Age Of Enlightenment when (for example), 
French patriots literally burned down the Catholic Churches.  But such battles 
continued well into the 20th century for example in Mexico during the 20's, 
with Catholic Priests persecuted.
 Therefore (at least in the West), and by no means discussing the East, 
inroads by Quietism had to wait until the grip of Fundamentalism finally began 
to wane.
 Unfortunately, Quietism in the US (as exemplified by Emerson and Thoreau) took 
a heavy beating when the efforts of the Wesley brothers (late 18-th century) 
panned out with Methodist missionaries spreading their dogma all throughout the 
country on all levels including the American Indians.  Where were the Quietist 
missionaries?
 As stated before, the trend toward scientific materialism after Newton also 
doomed Quietism from the "left" (liberal humanitarianism, coupled with 
materialism and scientism)  This occurred even though Newton himself was a 
probable Quietist though he kept it a secret lest he offend the Anglican 
Church. After all, if he wanted to maintain his position as the Chancellor the 
Exchequer, advertising himself as a "Quietist" wouldn't go over very well!
 Ironically, by the 20th century, it was science attacking from the left (via 
Planck and Einstein, then the Quantum pioneers), that facilitated the crumbling 
of the stranglehold of Evangelical Christianity on the upper crust of American 

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