[FairfieldLife] Forest Fires in the Amazon Forest
The fires in the Amazon are being caused by the malefic planets in the sign of Leo. Mars and the Sun are fiery planets in conjunction with Venus. This conjunction is not good for women, and ironically is not good for President Trump either. The prez may have some health issues relating to heat in the body or related issues.. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. https://www.yahoo.com/news/explainer-why-amazon-fires-sparking-175734079.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/explainer-why-amazon-fires-sparking-175734079.html
[FairfieldLife] Mountain lion spotted on Fairfield Loop Trail North of MUM Campus
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[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Conscionable, in TM?
In community.. and hurtful tendency exposed - particularly, that of coveting and grasping after riches. To obtain which, many of the members of our society had launched into extensive business - more particularly, in the line of commerce. And in order for the carrying it on, had involved themselves in debt beyond their ability to pay. And in order to keep up a false credit, had through a show of friendship and a deceptive appearance of having great possession, drawn in others to lend them money and become their sureties for large sums, until both the borrowers and lenders were involved in utter ruin - to the great scandal of themselves, the distress of their families, and the reproach of our holy profession. 1814 Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. Hauptman’s Federal indictment is on the internet to read.. then also hearing immediate reactions with how other felons have been in the flock, and some infamous names unindicted. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Transcendentalists’ Morality.. In the ™ movement we were told some little details about Maharishi’s teacher Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. About how Maharishi first met SBS and also about how Guru Dev found his own teacher. On advanced training residential courses with Maharishi back in the 1970’s for those of us who were TM teachers there was a typed one page translated discourse of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, of Guru Dev’s that was let to be passed around. This was the talk warning of the selling of life for the price of spinach. An advice that held intrinsic value that was important clarification, like a moral wake up, for people in TM then. Discourse 59 “After experiencing 8,400,000 births, we have obtained this rare human body; don't waste it. Each and every moment of life is very valuable. And if you don't understand its value? Then you will have nothing else to do but weep, and you will have nothing in your hands in the end. You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad. As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà (the Transcendent), then understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach. One does not worship Paramàtmà for the sake of Paramàtmà. One worships Paramàtmà to remove one's own sorrow, lack of peace, ignorance, and lack of power. Paramàtmà is all knowing, omnipotent, and full of limitless bliss. Through worship, one can grasp on to his unending power. The fulfillment of this superb act is the real purpose of human life. If there is no effort made toward this, then understand that you have cheated yourself.” The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Shankaràcàrya translation by Cynthia A. Humes http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ethics, Later on MMY counseled a type of self discipline.. to be happy and mind your own business towards being regular practicing meditators and ‘on the program’ as a basis for behavior. This instruction would be a spiritual working ethic maybe different from social cultural ethic like the Golden Rule, that kindness seems overtly more to do with effects of behavior on subtle psycho-spiritual light-bodies of people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A hardwired morality of self-interest v Altruism.. In a core worldview th
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Conscionable, in TM?
Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. Hauptman’s Federal indictment is on the internet to read.. then also hearing immediate reactions with how other felons have been in the flock, and some infamous names unindicted. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Transcendentalists’ Morality.. In the ™ movement we were told some little details about Maharishi’s teacher Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. About how Maharishi first met SBS and also about how Guru Dev found his own teacher. On advanced training residential courses with Maharishi back in the 1970’s for those of us who were TM teachers there was a typed one page translated discourse of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, of Guru Dev’s that was let to be passed around. This was the talk warning of the selling of life for the price of spinach. An advice that held intrinsic value that was important clarification, like a moral wake up, for people in TM then. Discourse 59 “After experiencing 8,400,000 births, we have obtained this rare human body; don't waste it. Each and every moment of life is very valuable. And if you don't understand its value? Then you will have nothing else to do but weep, and you will have nothing in your hands in the end. You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad. As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà (the Transcendent), then understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach. One does not worship Paramàtmà for the sake of Paramàtmà. One worships Paramàtmà to remove one's own sorrow, lack of peace, ignorance, and lack of power. Paramàtmà is all knowing, omnipotent, and full of limitless bliss. Through worship, one can grasp on to his unending power. The fulfillment of this superb act is the real purpose of human life. If there is no effort made toward this, then understand that you have cheated yourself.” The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Shankaràcàrya translation by Cynthia A. Humes http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ethics, Later on MMY counseled a type of self discipline.. to be happy and mind your own business towards being regular practicing meditators and ‘on the program’ as a basis for behavior. This instruction would be a spiritual working ethic maybe different from social cultural ethic like the Golden Rule, that kindness seems overtly more to do with effects of behavior on subtle psycho-spiritual light-bodies of people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A hardwired morality of self-interest v Altruism.. In a core worldview that life is nakedly a selfish struggle for money and dominance the great act of moral decoupling woven through this in this worldview, morality has nothing to do with anything. Altruism, trust, cooperation and virtue are unaffordable luxuries in the struggle of all against all. Everything is about self-interest. Powerful, selfish people have always adopted this dirty-minded realism to justify their own selfishness. The problem is that this philosophy is based on an error about human beings and it leads to self-destructive behavior in all cases. The error is that it misunderstands what drives human action. Of course people are driven by selfish motivations — for individual status, wealth and power. But they are als
[FairfieldLife] Community Group Meditation
Sunday, August 25: Community Group Meditation followed by social in the Golden Dome Market Cafe Sunday, August 25, our second Community Group Meditation will be held at all 11 local group meditation halls: 9 for TM-Sidhi practice, and 2 for Transcendental Meditation practice. Community Group Meditations for TM Meditators are at 5 PM on the second floor of the Orpheum Building on Broadway Avenue (near the square, south hallway), and in the MUM Campus Peace Palace. A Group Check will also take place at the Peace Palace at 4:30 PM. TM-Sidhas begin Group Practice as usual in their ten local halls at 5 PM. The Super-Radiance Social for both the Women’s and Men’s Domes will be held right after Community Group Meditation, upstairs in the Golden Dome Cafe, as it was in July, supplemented by Everybody’s Whole Foods’ major generous layout of savories and snacks. “Our National Coherence-Creating Group was established 40 years ago, in August of 1979, after the Amherst World Peace Assembly, to help prevent and reduce social, political, and cultural tensions. If enough TM-Sidhas and Meditators enjoy that bliss in togetherness enough of the time, it will work,” said Mary Cathryn Olsen of the Super-Radiance Action Team (SAT). The Super-Radiance Action Team invites each practitioner of the TM and TM-Sidhi Program to enjoy Community Group Meditation and help build National Super-Radiance attendance at a time when it is so obviously needed.
[FairfieldLife] friends of Tom Winquist; he passed away 8/23
Hello to everyone, My name is John Congdon and I have been helping Tom with his affairs for around 3 months now. Tom and I first met late in 1969 when he came to my hometown to teach a TM course that I was helping to organize. We have been friends and in contact on and off ever since, and much more the last two years as we both have been living in Fairfield. Most know that Tom has been suffering from Parkinson's Disease with some early symptoms appearing 5 years ago with symptoms being more evident in the last three years. Though Tom has tried many different products to help with his PD nothing seemed to help, even with treatments where others had found benefits. During the last 6 months the deterioration in his health and endurance has been quite rapid. Summer in Fairfield and Utopia Park didn't help much but the fact that Iowa's chiggers found Tom to be exceptionally tasty was the worst for him. Tom devised an escape plan of coming to Laramie, Wyoming for 10 days, where chiggers do not roam and elevation is said to help Parkinson's. I accompanied him on the trip to do the driving and heavy lifting. He wasn't bothered by any chiggers which was a big relief. However at his more advanced stage of PD he continued to weaken and spent the majority of time trying to rest which the disease had made very difficult if not impossible for him. He passed yesterday in Laramie. His 76th birthday would be on this coming September 18. Tom's wishes were to be cremated and have his ashes scattered with his parents' on his older brother's property near Eugene, Oregon. Plans are being formed to have a celebration of Tom's life in Fairfield, probably in mid September, perhaps the 18th. The actual date will be announced after arrangements are finalized.
