[FairfieldLife] Re: Shring?
Sorry, but that seems like rubbish to me... Vaj: One of my favorite mantra dictionaries is the Mantrarthabhidanam from the Varada Tantra... So, you believe in 'Buddhas'.
[FairfieldLife] The Science Of Objectification (was Re: Can an Enlightened Person Lust?)
IMO, the message is that love conquers all, even lust itself... turquoiseb: Right on, Obba. It's been clear for some time that JohnR is by far the most sexually repressed and hung up person here... So, you're opposed to normal sexual relations with a wife? The left-handed tantric's main goal, which is to have sexual relations with their mother, Sri Lakshmi, short of that, sex with a sixteen year old. Did I get that right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra Sort of like with Zen Master Rama and that girl he gave the sleeping pills to up in Westchester? Thanks for all your help! Lenz, 48, and a female companion, who was not identified, tried to kill themselves April 11 by taking a large amount of Valium, Gierasch said. They then went out on a dock at the rear of his $2 million home, where Lenz fell into the water. His body was found two days later with a dog collar around his neck. The Three Village Herald reports that 33-year-old Lacey Brinn, who was found at Lenz's mansion, said Lenz had taken 150 tablets of the sedative and she had taken 50... - The Three Village Herald, April 16
[FairfieldLife] Re: Bill Clinton's Ideas to Fix US Economy
JohnJr: A US president is supposed to lead the people to the American dream... Our entitlement system, meanwhile, is designed to redistribute wealth. But this redistribution doesn't go from the idle rich to the working poor; it goes from young to old, working-age savings to retiree consumption, middle-class parents to empty-nest seniors. . . 'What Tax Dollars Can't Buy' New York Times: http://tinyurl.com/d75zu2l
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shring?
One of my favorite mantra dictionaries is the Mantrarthabhidanam from the Varada Tantra... So, you believe in 'Buddhas'. Vaj: I've met a few. How many 'Dakinis' do you know? 'Dakini Teachings' By Padmasambhava North Atlantic Books, 2004
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Monkees Fan Club metaphor
whynotnow7: Yeah, you're a real (yawn) bad-ass, Barry. You are unable to have a discussion with anyone about anything, and now that this is widely recognized, you attempt to play the only card you have left, supposedly relishing the role of troll, button-pusher, and misanthrope... The acts of those who have OCD may appear paranoid and potentially psychotic. However, OCD sufferers generally recognize their obsessions and compulsions as irrational, and may become further distressed by this realization... 'Obsessive-compulsive disorder' http://tinyurl.com/r37s7o
[FairfieldLife] Gone Mental (was Re: WHY TM CAN'T BE LEARNED FROM A BOOK)
The reason is that in the years between then and now I've had many more experiences, some of which put the earlier experiences in the shade and raised the bar on my internal Woo Scale. What I used to consider a 9 I now consider a 4. I'm sure you get what I'm talking about. Oh yes, definitely. It was a long time before I was able to wrap my head around the fact that TM-style phenomenon were largely mental plane phenomenon. The light mental bliss I thought was so special, was just a mere shadow; the kundalini, mere prana-kundalini and the visions mental mirages. The perspective of time and experience changes everything. turquoiseb: That's the main reason I can no longer identify with many of the things discussed here enough to participate in such discussions. I'm really not like that. To me ideas and beliefs are like toys. You take them out of the toy box and play with them for a while, just for their entertainment value. When you get bored with one toy, you take out another and play with it for a while. So, you've never been married. But, doesn't hanging out at bars and cafes get boring after forty years? Maybe you should just face reality and get a job so you can support a family. It's a little late, you're what over 50, but anything is possible. You're not even a homeowner, right? My advice to you is to get over the MMY and Rama, and just move on with your life. Are you thinking you can hide from life forever? You're a little old to be still living in a commune in downtown Amsterdam, incessantly posting about your old gurus! snip
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shring?
One of my favorite mantra dictionaries is the Mantrarthabhidanam from the Varada Tantra... So, you believe in 'Buddhas'. Vaj: I've met a few. How many 'Dakinis' do you know? Vaj: Enough. Did you ever meet up with the Yeshe Tsogyel, concubine of Guru Padmasambhava? 'Sky Dancer' The Secret Life of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel by Stag-am Nus-ldan-rdo-rje Snow Lion, 1996
[FairfieldLife] Re: Neonazi Billy's Shring?
Vag is no Sanskrit reader. Vaj: I've been reading Sanskrit texts since I was 15 years old... Maybe so, but you didn't seem to know that 'shring' is a tantric bija mantra. For the Shankaracharya tradition POV, I would rely on Brahmananda's successor who states... Interestingly, if the opinions of these bodies are to be set aside at any time after 1941, only the lineage of Vasudevananda (through Santananda) can be traced directly to Brahmananda, without any interruptions. - Vidyasakar Sundaresan http://indology.info/papers/sundaresan/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shring?
Sorry, but that seems like rubbish to me... Vaj: For example, another level of the TM mantra Shreeng is Sa (the first letter) indicates Mahalakshmi... The TM 'shring' bija has nothing to do with Sri Lakshmi. The Sri Vidya bijas are used in TM, which come from Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, a Sri Vidya adherent. You conjecture is rubbish! However, the late orthodox leader of the largest Samaya school of Sri Vidya, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal, says that the Sri in Sri Vidya is a title of respect meaning The Vidya and has no connotation to Laksmi... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri_Vidya
[FairfieldLife] Gone Mental (was Re: WHY TM CAN'T BE LEARNED FROM A BOOK)
turquoiseb: Thanks for mentioning this. I will check it out, possibly even later tonight, since it turned out to be a 20-minute download. Pirate. :-) You turned out to be quite the software pirate! Do you ever pay for anything, or are you just poor? You probably even stole Bruse Cockburn albums! Maybe your next move should be to China - you'd fit right in! Go figure. The latest offensive in the content industry's never-ending war on copyright infringement is the Stop Online Piracy Act, which was introduced in the House two weeks ago. It incorporates key provisions of the Senate's Protect IP Act as well as another Senate bill that makes unauthorized streaming a felony... 'The Stop Online Piracy Act: Big Content's full-on assault against the Safe Harbor' Ars Technica: http://tinyurl.com/6tm3fyk
[FairfieldLife] The Science Of Objectification (was Re: Can an Enlightened Person Lust?)
Ravi Yogi: Did you read this - http://life.salon.com/2011/11/04/the_fantasy_of_a_cheating_wife/singleton/?mobile.html Maybe that's one of the reason you no longer have a wife?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Can an Enlightened Person Have Lust?
John jr_esq: Osho was into tantra to get enlightened. As such, he enjoyed having sex with women in his ashram without getting married to them. From what I've read, Osho had sex with a single woman, Vivek, for over ten years. Apparently he was NOT into having sex with multiple partners. 'Bhagwan: The God That Failed' By Hugh Milne St Martin's Press, 1987 He said that his parents did not approve of his chosen path. Osho's parents preferred that he had chosen the traditional life paths available in India. That is, you either get married or become a celebate monk in the Himalayas or an ashram.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Unacceptable ... ?
turquoiseb: This is cool. It's like Sarko is the Judy Stein of the G20 summit, and Obama's the Curtis... Personally I commend Sarko on telling it like it is, and commend Obama for doing the same thing in reply. As far as they knew they were just two guys talking, about a third guy whom they both know to be an asshole, but they also know they've gotta keep interacting with him. International politics sounds a lot like FFL. :-) Don't you just hate those lying Jews like Netanyahu! PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a liar in a private conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama that was accidentally broadcast to journalists during last week's G20 summit in Cannes... 'Sarkozy tells Obama Netanyahu is a liar' http://tinyurl.com/cc9w45m
[FairfieldLife] Re: Can an Enlightened Person Have Lust?
Johnjr_esq: You have to read in between the lines in what he's saying. Specifically, Osho discouraged his followers to marry. In doing so, many of his followers had multiple partners. As such, it would be likely that Osho participated in this practice as well. Yes, one would think so, but according to Hugh Milne, Osho's bodyguard for ten years, Rajneesh was pretty much with a single woman for over over ten years. Go figure. John jr_esq: Osho was into tantra to get enlightened. As such, he enjoyed having sex with women in his ashram without getting married to them. From what I've read, Osho had sex with a single woman, Vivek, for over ten years. Apparently he was NOT into having sex with multiple partners. 'Bhagwan: The God That Failed' By Hugh Milne St Martin's Press, 1987 He said that his parents did not approve of his chosen path. Osho's parents preferred that he had chosen the traditional life paths available in India. That is, you either get married or become a celebate monk in the Himalayas or an ashram.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Can an Enlightened Person Have Lust?
Ravi Yogi: Then Barry about MMY and groupies, another retard trying to project his repressed sexual desires into perverted fantasies. Osho had a single girl friend Vivek... Yes, apparently it's very difficult to participate in an orgy when you're stoned out on Valium, Quaaludes and nitrous oxide! 'He's an impotent, dirty old man,' she [Deeksha] insisted, claiming she'd been one of many women he'd had sex with in Bombay [in the early 1970s]... 'The Promise of Paradise' A Woman's Intimate Story of the Perils of Life with Rajneesh By Satya Bharti Franklin,1992, pp. 323-4 Among their number was a shy twenty-two-year-old English woman named Christine Wolff. Taking on the name Ma Yoga Vivek, she became Osho's constant companion... 'Breaking the Spell' My Life as a Rajneeshee and the Long Journey Back to Freedom By Jane Stork, 2009 Interview with Ma Yoga Vivek: http://www.satrakshita.be/interview_with_vivek.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Bill Clinton's Ideas to Fix US Economy
Johnjr_esq: Bill Clinton's Ideas to Fix US Economy Can C.E.O.'s, politicians, people running for the presidency, or an ex-president, actually create jobs? The fact is that creating them in a far-too-sluggish economy is practically impossible in our current capitalist democracy. No corporate leader is rewarded for hiring people who aren't absolutely required. Most companies hire only when its workforce can no longer keep up with the demand for its products. Even with all the attention on hiring, the government's ability to create jobs is pretty dispiriting, no matter who is in charge... 'Can Anyone Really Create Jobs?' New York Times: http://tinyurl.com/d99nv74
[FairfieldLife] Re: Can an Enlightened Person Have Lust?
Ravi Yogi: Willytex quotes Eleanor Roosevelt... Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Subject: Small Minds Author: TurquoiseB Date: December 1, 2009 4:56 am http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/235684
[FairfieldLife] Re: Can an Enlightened Person Have Lust?
Johnjr_esq: If you believe that Osho only had one woman either before or after Vivek, I can sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. Can you present any evidence? From what I've read, Osho was big on the talk, but quite small when it came to the action. 'Bhagwan: The God That Failed' By Hugh Milne St Martin's Press, 1987 'The Promise of Paradise' A Woman's Intimate Story of the Perils of Life with Rajneesh By Satya Bharti Franklin, 1992 'Breaking the Spell' My Life as a Rajneeshee and the Long Journey Back to Freedom By Jane Stork, 2009
[FairfieldLife] Re: Last Breakfast for Catholocism
Yifu: I'm hoping eventually to participate in the dismantling of Catholocism. Basically, that religion is an Abomination... Don't you just hate those Roman Catholics! I'm predicting that Christianity will be engulfed within Sanatana Dharma... Don't you just love that caste system!
[FairfieldLife] OCCUPYFAIL
A business owner near the Occupy Wall Street encampment claims she has been repeatedly harassed and threatened with bodily harm by protesters after she and her employees refused to give in to their outlandish demands... 'Eatery: Occupiers Terrorize Us' http://tinyurl.com/6oh3l2n
[FairfieldLife] Re: Last Breakfast for Catholocism
...with an end to the dualistic Trinity worship. wgm4u: OM-TAT-SAT is the Hindu (Sanatana Dharma) version of the trinity. Brahma, Visnu, and Shiva + the caste system. LoL!!!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Unacceptable ... ?
WLeed3: ...we need to remember this on election day. PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a liar in a private conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama that was accidentally broadcast to journalists during last week's G20 summit in Cannes... 'Sarkozy tells Obama Netanyahu is a liar' http://tinyurl.com/cc9w45m
[FairfieldLife] Re: WHY TM CAN'T BE LEARNED FROM A BOOK
turquoiseb: The reason is that in the years between then and now I've had many more experiences, some of which put the earlier experiences in the shade and raised the bar on my internal Woo Scale. What I used to consider a 9 I now consider a 4. I'm sure you get what I'm talking about... Yes, I think so: you're thinking you are in CC now, or at least in an enlightened state of 'Woo Woo', right?
[FairfieldLife] Re: OCCUPYFAIL
seekliberation: You're apparently out of tune with the reality of the OWS message. The business owner who is being harrassed is a greedy individual who deserves to be harrassed... Harrass the owner of a bread shop because she doesn't want her bathroom trashed by hooligans? Go figure. Bodily harm is called for in this situation as well as any situation with any other business owner who does give in to their demands. OWS is a representation of a more enlightened America, and they are going to make it happen, you just wait and see. A business owner near the Occupy Wall Street encampment claims she has been repeatedly harassed and threatened with bodily harm by protesters after she and her employees refused to give in to their outlandish demands... 'Eatery: Occupiers Terrorize Us' http://tinyurl.com/6oh3l2n
[FairfieldLife] Re: OCCUPYFAIL
When the crazies come for you, you're on your own. http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/131222/ 'Bloomberg's Broken Windows' http://tinyurl.com/7okgm7x
[FairfieldLife] Re: WHY TM CAN'T BE LEARNED FROM A BOOK
whynotnow: It is simply bizarre to me why someone who has not done these things for so many years would even care to comment on them... Vaj reminds me of how John Manning used to spam the Mormon news forum, I guess because John at one time was married to a Mormon girl, back in 1970. But, even Manning said Vaj was a liar and had never learned TM! OCD. An obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations (obsessions), or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something (compulsions). The acts of those who have OCD may appear paranoid and potentially psychotic. However, OCD sufferers generally recognize their obsessions and compulsions as irrational, and may become further distressed by this realization... 'Obsessive-compulsive disorder' http://tinyurl.com/r37s7o
[FairfieldLife] Re: Unacceptable ... ?
This is cool. It's like Sarko is the Judy Stein of the G20 summit, and Obama's the Curtis... Sal Sunshine: The Israelis believe in recycling their old politicians even more than the Repugs do. How many times now has Bibi gotten his chance to actually do something? And blown it every time? The Israeli Nixon. Don't you just love that HAMAS! Apparently you want to admit that the real problem is the racial prejudice of the Europeans and the US President.
[FairfieldLife] How's that 'Hopey-Changey' thing workin' out for ya?
The unemployment rate for males between 25 and 34 years old with high-school diplomas is 14.4%up from 6.1% before the downturn four years ago and far above today's 9% national rate. The picture is even more bleak for slightly younger men: 22.4% for high-school graduates 20 to 24 years old. That's up from 10.4% four years ago... 'Generation Jobless: Young Men Suffer Worst as Economy Staggers' Wall Street Journal: http://tinyurl.com/bqd46lf
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Unacceptable ... ?
As far as they knew they were just two guys talking, about a third guy whom they both know to be an asshole, but they also know they've gotta keep interacting with him. International politics sounds a lot like FFL... Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Benny Nutty Yahoo wants to risk starting WWIII over his little patch of magic land because the magic man in the sky told him to do so. Don't you just hate that Jew, 'Benny Nutty'!
[FairfieldLife] Re: How's that 'Hopey-Changey' thing workin' out for ya?
Bhairitu: It's the result of the previous 8 years of the Bush Crime Family... France has unveiled the toughest austerity measures since World War Two despite the looming danger of a double-dip recession, vowing to slash borrowing by 65bn over the next five years in a last-ditch effort to save the country's AAA rating... 'France cuts frantically as Italy nears debt spiral' The Telegraph: http://tinyurl.com/d2ehkak The unemployment rate for males between 25 and 34 years old with high-school diplomas is 14.4%up from 6.1% before the downturn four years ago and far above today's 9% national rate. The picture is even more bleak for slightly younger men: 22.4% for high-school graduates 20 to 24 years old. That's up from 10.4% four years ago... 'Generation Jobless: Young Men Suffer Worst as Economy Staggers' Wall Street Journal: http://tinyurl.com/bqd46lf
[FairfieldLife] Re: OCCUPYFAIL
What a lovely group. They're just like you and me The 99%! 'LA Goons Shut Down Burger King' Gateway Pundit: http://tinyurl.com/7nsl7aw
[FairfieldLife] Re: OCCUPYFAIL
wgm4u: And to think Obama encourages these individuals by his passive complicity (including the liberal media). BOSTON Three people arrested Thursday night inside the Occupy Boston camp have been charged with dealing crack cocaine... '3 Charged With Dealing Crack; Occupy Boston `Deteriorating' Boston Herald: http://tinyurl.com/cpnm7rc What a lovely group. They're just like you and me The 99%! 'LA Goons Shut Down Burger King' Gateway Pundit: http://tinyurl.com/7nsl7aw
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Unacceptable ... ?
Don't you just hate that Jew, 'Benny Nutty'! Bhairitu: So it's true then that in your last life you were a guard at Auschwitz. So, you hate Jews AND Auschwitz guards!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lemony Snicket on Occupy Wall Street
Bhairitu: If the bankers win I hope the 39% enjoy the pain and suffering of the tyranny. Now one can understand how Hitler came to power. It really is playing out just like Animal Farm, isn't it? Instead, those present discussed how they could commandeer the $500,000 for their new, more exclusive organization. No, this was not the meeting of any traditional influence on Wall Street. These were six of the leaders of Occupy Wall Street (OWS)... A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street: 'The Leaders of the allegedly Leaderless Movement' http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=27479
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lemony Snicket on Occupy Wall Street
turquoiseb: 13 pithy comments from an author on the ramifications of the OWS protestors storming the ramparts. 5 reasons why income inequality is a myth: If inequality had really exploded during the past 30 to 40 years, why did American politics simultaneously move rightward toward a greater embrace of free-market capitalism? Shouldn't just the opposite have happened as beleaguered workers united and demanded a vastly expanded social safety net and sharply higher taxes on the rich? What happened to presidents Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry? Even Barack Obama ran for president as a market friendly, third-way technocrat. Nope, the story doesn't hold together because the financial facts don't support it... '5 reasons why income inequality is a myth and Occupy Wall Street is wrong' http://tinyurl.com/63f6ukv
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama's effigy finally surfaces at OWS.
wgm4u: I think we're finally beginning to get the picture, these same folks voted for Obama so they can't protest against him... The news that 175 people were arrested over the weekend in a Chicago OWS protest started me thinking about the ritualized nature of left demonstrations. The drums, the chants, the defiance, the arrests and, sometimes, the glass smashing and the fire setting: it all unfolds according to a predictable pattern that in its modern form is essentially unchanged since the Vietnam War. The Vain And Empty Rituals Of Protest On The Streets: http://tinyurl.com/6xjqohj
[FairfieldLife] Re: WHY TM CAN'T BE LEARNED FROM A BOOK
Vaj: ...it does not come from a real lineal tradition, it's something Mahesh made up. What exactly, are the parts by MMY that are different from those recited by GD? From what I've heard, the MMY GD puja is standard - I've heard it recited by at least three sources other than the TMO, such as at a recent Sri Sri Ravi Shankar yoga camp. Sri Sri says it's the same as the one recited by GD, the one recited at the Jyortirmath Peeth in the Himalayas. Recording of Guru Dev reciting 'Guru Pranam': http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/TMpuja.htm Subject: aavaahanam Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Author: ekihki Date: September 10, 2000 3:43 am http://tinyurl.com/7cvywve The Holy Tradition eki âvâhanam nârâyanaM padmabhavaM vashiSThaM shaktim ca tatputra parasharam ca vyâsaM shukam gauDapadaM mahântaM govinda yogîndra mathâsya shiSyam | shrî shankarâcâryamathâsya padmapâdan ca hastâmalakan ca shiSyam taM troTakam vârtikakâram anyânasmad gurûn santatamânato 'smi || shruti-smRti-purâNânam âlayam karuNâlayam | namâmi bhagavat-pâdam shankaraM lokashankaram || shankaraM shankarâcâryaM keshvaM bâdarâyaNam | sûtra-bhâSya-kRtau vande bhagavantau punaH punaH || yad-dvâre nikhilâ nilimpa-pariSad siddhiM vidhatte 'nisham shrîmat-shrî-lasitaM jagadgurupadaM natvâtmatRptiM gatâH | lokâjñâna payoDa-pâTân-dhuraM shrî shankaram sharmadaM brahmânanda sarasvatîm guruvaraM dhyâyâmi jyotirmayam || Transliterated from the Sanskrit by Borje Mullquist
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lemony Snicket on Occupy Wall Street
A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street: 'The Leaders of the allegedly Leaderless Movement' http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=27479 . Bhairitu: Definitely the right wing, corporate America and idiots do not like the Occupy movement... So, what do you think the OWS leaders will do with all the money? Put it in a bank? LoL! If the bankers win I hope the 39% enjoy the pain and suffering of the tyranny. Now one can understand how Hitler came to power. It really is playing out just like Animal Farm, isn't it? Instead, those present discussed how they could commandeer the $500,000 for their new, more exclusive organization. No, this was not the meeting of any traditional influence on Wall Street. These were six of the leaders of Occupy Wall Street (OWS)...
[FairfieldLife] Re: WHY TM CAN'T BE LEARNED FROM A BOOK
emptybill: This is the usual disinformation from Vag, the master of misanthropic subterfuge. Here are the reality of the TM Puja: It looks like we've got another fib by Vaj, but why would he be fibbing, when it's so easy to source the material? Go figure. Acharya Vandana Puja sourced and translated by Paul Mason: http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/TMpuja.htm We actually now know where the TM puja came from and what sources the puja was hobbled together from. It's from a pundits poem that Mahesh was told to throw away. There's nothing magical about it at all - unless you believe it is. But it does not come from a real lineal tradition, it's something Mahesh made up.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lemony Snicket on Occupy Wall Street
13 pithy comments from an author on the ramifications of the OWS protestors storming the ramparts. 5 reasons why income inequality is a myth: authfriend: Reprising my post from last Tuesday, which Willytex apparently didn't see... Thoroughly refuted here, with links: So, if inequality had really exploded during the past 30 to 40 years, why did American politics simultaneously move rightward toward a greater embrace of free-market capitalism? http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/10/yes-indeed-income-inequality-really-growing Money quote from Matt O'Brien after talking to the economist whose paper was (mis)used at Willytex's link to attempt to discredit income equality: Consider the research and writing of Robert Gordon, a professor of social sciences at Northwestern University. He has done pioneering work questioning the extent of the aforementioned gap between productivity and median wageswork that Pethokoukis misappropriates to claim that income gains have been shared 'fairly equally.' Gordon found that the productivity gap may be about a tenth the size as what is commonly thought, but, as he told me, that doesn't negate the story about runaway wealth at the top of the income distribution. The evidence on the long-term increase of inequality within the bottom 99 percent is ambiguous and complex, but what stands out like a searchlight is the unprecedented and increasing inequality between the bottom 99 percent and the top 1 percent, Gordon told me. If inequality had really exploded during the past 30 to 40 years, why did American politics simultaneously move rightward toward a greater embrace of free-market capitalism? Shouldn't just the opposite have happened as beleaguered workers united and demanded a vastly expanded social safety net and sharply higher taxes on the rich? What happened to presidents Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry? Even Barack Obama ran for president as a market friendly, third-way technocrat. Nope, the story doesn't hold together because the financial facts don't support it... '5 reasons why income inequality is a myth and Occupy Wall Street is wrong' http://tinyurl.com/63f6ukv
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lemony Snicket on Occupy Wall Street
So, what do you think the OWS leaders will do with all the money? Put it in a bank? LoL! Bhairitu: Scared little Texan, some Zen master you are... It looks like the OWS movement has its own 1% that want to dictate to the 99% how to live their lives! On Sunday, October 23, a meeting was held at 60 Wall Street. Six leaders discussed what to do with the half-million dollars that had been donated to their organization, since, in their estimation, the organization was incapable of making sound financial decisions... 'Inside the Orwellian machinations in Occupy Wall Street' Hot Air: http://tinyurl.com/c4dqydr
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rivalry for Jyotir Math
Vaj: This will, published on June 8, 1953, stated that Brahmananda had actually nominated four persons as qualified for the position, and named them in order of preference... One thing is fer sure: Swami Svarupanand's name is NOT in the will. This [new] Will was written in December 1952 and was deposited at that time. The Interim Committee obtained a copy of the Will from the Registrar's Office, in which was written a perfect elaboration and explanation of the management of the Peeth (the seat of Shankaracharya), and in the Will was also the kram (series) of uttaradhikar (those who the inheritance would revert to. Source: Extract from `Shri Shankaracharya Upadesha' pages 20-23 of the newsletter of Shankaracharya of Jyotishpeeth Published 20th July 1953 http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/TheLastInstruction.html 'Shri Shankaracharya Upadesha' newsletter was translated from Hindi to English by Premanand Paul Mason, April 2011
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rivalry for Jyotir Math
Vaj: Even the present acarya of the disputed Kanchi vidyapith, Swami Jayendra Saraswati, names Swarupananda as the proper claimant... There is not one shred of evidence that the Adi Shankara founded a fifth matha to oversee all the other four mathas. If he had done so, he would have said so, would he not? Or, one of his famous desciples would have said so, would they not? Or, at least ONE historian or archaeologist would say so, would they not? Since, the Adi Shankara did not say that he founded a fifth matha, and since none of the Adi's desciples say that the he founded a fifth matha, and since NO historian or archaeologist has ever maintained that the Adi Shankara founded a fifth matha, a reasonble person might conclude that the Adi did not found a fifth matha, would he not? And, since the Shankaracharya of Sringeri and the Shankaracharya of Dwarka both deny that the Kanchi matha is an Amnya Matha, even a bhogi such as yourself would reasonably conclude that the Adi Shankara did not found a fifth matha to oversee all the rest, would he not? And, considering that the Kanchi math seer is in jail on murder charges, a reasonable person would not even probably bring the subject up, would he? 'The Truth about the Kumbhakonam Math' by Sri R. Krishnaswamy Aiyar and Sri K. R. Venkatraman, Sri Ramakrishna Press, Madurai, 1977. 'Kanchi Kamakoti Math - a Myth' by Sri Varanasi Raj Gopal Sarma, Ganga Tunga Prakashan, Varanasi, 1987.
[FairfieldLife] Re: S.O.S -S.O.S..lost in posting jungle
merudanda: ...posting and reposting and reposting and reposting are so tiresome and time consuming? Have you tried posting something that was worth reading? If otherwise, what's the problem?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lemony Snicket on Occupy Wall Street
turquoiseb: ...the OWS protestors storming the ramparts. They expect to live as beneficiaries of a prosperous Western society without making any contribution to the productivity necessary to sustain it. That's 'collaborate' in the Nazi-occupied-France sense: The city's feckless political class are collaborating with anarchists against the taxpayers who maintain them in their sinecures. They're not the only ones. - Mark Steyn Corporate Collaborators http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/282280
[FairfieldLife] Re: Blues
I tend to prefer to let people stew in their own battles... authfriend: He's simply being asked to make it clear he objects to Barry's behavior, disapproves of it, puts himself on the record as finding it unacceptable... Where I come from, silence usually indicates agreement.
[FairfieldLife] Re: DOC-DEBUT: David Wants to Fly | Link TV
Vaj: What I'd like to see is an extra which includes the entire interview with the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math... You lose all credibility when you play the caste card. Everyone knows that the Shankaracharya tradition in India is based on a person's birth circumstances. I would not believe a single thing the 'Shankaracharya' in India had to say about anything. If the only source Vaj can provide is the words of a caste monger like Svarupanand, then I'll take MMY's words of wisdom anyday! Vaj can stick to his Hindu quasi- Buddhist religion if he wants to, but he should stop all the fibbing about the MMY and the Shankaracharyas of India. If I had been the Maharishi, I wouldn't have wanted to be associated with any of the Shankaracharyas sitting on their seats in India today. I don't see how any Shankaracharya could be enlightened and still promote the Indian caste system like they do. It's just outrageous! So, to my mind, the Maharsihi was like a breath of fresh air compared to any of the Shankaracharyas that restrict spiritual teaching to their own caste. I can see no reason a person born in Texas, or anywhere else, couldn't be a TMer and reach enlightenment. So, who but Vaj would want to be associated with the casteism, promoted in the name of religion by the Shankaryacharya Svarupanand? Or, that other Shank-pretender, the one in jail for murder over in Kanchi. Or, that Shank Swami on the run down in Mexico, the guy that spread the false rumor that MMY murdered Guru Dev? Or, that Vaj guru, the Swami Rama of the Himalayas, the guru that Vaj said he visited once, the one convicted of raping a female yoga student. So, far from proving that MMY killed anyone, when the facts come out, we can clearly see that the whole Vaj claim just get blown to bits. Not to mention tampering with mutt records. The real question is why ALL the fibbing if Vaj really isn't and never was a TM Teacher? Where is Dr. Pete when we need him? Nobody can figure this one. Senior VHP leader Acharya Giriraj Kishore sees a conspiracy behind the arrest of the two Shankaracharyas of Kanchi Mutt. Read more: http://rwilliams.blogspot.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: An Open Letter to All the Readers and Posters at FFL
You have a wall of words here.,, salsunshine: No kidding. Hey Sal, why do almost all of your posts begin with RE: and end on one line?
[FairfieldLife] Re: An Open Letter to All the Readers and Posters at FFL
whynotnow7: I told King Baby he should walk around in something other than clear plastic wrap, but he refuses to listen. It's not a 'King Baby wrap', it's a dog-pooh bag that'he carries around town. My name is Barry Wright
[FairfieldLife] Re: Herman Cain Considers Lawsuit
Cain's presidential candidacy may soon end the longer this sexual harrassment story goes on. salsunshine: It's already over. All that's left is to get the forks out. Herman Cain is showing initial resilience in the face of allegations of sexual impropriety: More than half of potential Republican voters say the controversy is not serious, fewer than a quarter say it makes them less likely to support Cain, and he's running essentially evenly with Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination... ABC news: http://tinyurl.com/3thaw4x
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality Distortion Field: from Steven Jobs by Walter Isaacson
In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules. Is there anyone else this reminds you of? turquoiseb: Absolutely. Interestingly enough, however, who it reminded me of most -- the first person who popped into my mind ... Rama can convince anyone of practically anything.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Best Little Whore In Texas
Vaj: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rick-perry-the-best-little- whore-in-texas-20111026 Rolling Stone has essentially become the house organ of the Democratic National Committee. - Jonah Goldberg
[FairfieldLife] Re: An Open Letter to All the Readers and Posters at FFL
Bhairitu: Here's an example of the reformat. You failed to break lines, so when viewed in the reply box, it is a real mess. Grade - F. My name is Barry Wright... SNIP
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality Distortion Field: from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
maskedzebra: I don't judge Vaj for doing this [I am proceeding from the premise that he has not done TM etc... But, if Vaj is fibbing, we must conclude that he is one sick dude, to lurk here all these years, telling all those fibs, one right after another, all the while pretending that he once got down on his knees to make a spiritual promise to Guru Dev to not tell fibs to anyone.
[FairfieldLife] Re: An Open Letter to All the Readers and Posters at FFL
maskedzebra: Bhairitu, Looks, feels, reads pretty good I'd say. You forgot to break your lines lines and you both failed to snip. LoL! But the tone changes...
[FairfieldLife] Re: An Open Letter to All the Readers and Posters at FFL
Bhairitu: So you want to be deliberately unreadable? Just tryin' to help. Hasn't Judy mentioned this to you? It's her profession. This is funny - Judy has been telling you about breaking your lines, in the reply box, for years, since the old days on Usenet, but you seem to still be using the ol' word wrap. Go figure. Barry Wright uses EditPad and breaks every line! LOL!!!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality Distortion Field: from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
snip You mean you accompanied one of my friends to where I was temporarily staying in DC and they confronted me with my astrological chart, and I refused to read itsince I had converted to Catholicism, and was therefore up to date on what Augustine and Aquinas had said about the limit of the influence of the starsand therefore wouldn't budge? authfriend: Honestly I think claims of enlightenment debunk themselves. Subject: Robin Carlsen Article on Islamic Web Site Author: ColdBluICE Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: May 31, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/3cjqs52 Then the downward spiral by Robin, to end up a mental insitution near Vancouver, B.C. Robin can't hold a candle to all of your accomplishments! Who could forget your candlelight march out to Friday Mountain (over by the old Bedicheck place) by Prakash devotees during Buddhapurnima?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality Distortion Field: from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Nov 4, 2011, at 8:48 PM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: snip You mean you accompanied one of my friends to where I was temporarily staying in DC and they confronted me with my astrological chart, and I refused to read itsince I had converted to Catholicism, and was therefore up to date on what Augustine and Aquinas had said about the limit of the influence of the starsand therefore wouldn't budge? authfriend: Honestly I think claims of enlightenment debunk themselves. Subject: Robin Carlsen Article on Islamic Web Site Author: ColdBluICE Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: May 31, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/3cjqs52 Vaj: How I got on a terrorist watch list, by WillyTex. How Vaj got on the usenet watch list: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD and several personality disorders! Subject: Re: That lying, libelous Judy Stein Author: Vaj Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: October 23, 2005 8:11 am http://tinyurl.com/4xych4p It's sad to say, but this is a very accurate description. In this case it's helped induce what appears to be an anxiety disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, along with several personality disorders. And this is not restricted to just Judy. Similar symptoms are present in a number of alt.m.t zealots.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality Distortion Field: from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
authfriend: Willytex, pay attention to your attributions when quoting. If necessary, add bracketed attributions as I did below. Otherwise, you know, it looks like *I* said claims of enlightenment debunk themselves. Newsgroups: alt.religion.islam From: god...@uga.cc.uga.edu Date: 1998/02/18 Subject: Robin Woodsworth Carlsen Does anyone know what happened to Robin Woodsworth Carlsen (Robin Carlsen)? He seems to have disappeared from public life after writing his books on the Iranian Revolution. snip You mean you accompanied one of my friends to where I was temporarily staying in DC and they confronted me with my astrological chart, and I refused to read itsince I had converted to Catholicism, and was therefore up to date on what Augustine and Aquinas had said about the limit of the influence of the starsand therefore wouldn't budge? authfriend [quoting Vaj]: Honestly I think claims of enlightenment debunk themselves. Subject: Robin Carlsen Article on Islamic Web Site Author: ColdBluICE Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: May 31, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/3cjqs52 Then the downward spiral by Robin, to end up a mental insitution near Vancouver, B.C. Robin can't hold a candle to all of your accomplishments! Who could forget your candlelight march out to Friday Mountain (over by the old Bedicheck place) by Prakash devotees during Buddhapurnima?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Israel wants to pick a fight
Bhairitu: Seems those crazy people over in Israel who believe the magic man in the sky has given them some magic land all for themselves... Don't you just hate those Jews over in Israel!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Israel wants to pick a fight
Seems those crazy people over in Israel who believe the magic man in the sky has given them some magic land all for themselves... Don't you just hate those Jews over in Israel! Bhairitu: No, I'm not a bigot like you right wingers. Don't you just hate bigots like those right wingers that support Isreal's right to exist!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Israel wants to pick a fight
Johnjr_esq: They could very well start the Armageddon since there are many Christian Americans who believe in this prophecy. One of the West's most left-wing newspapers reports that President Obama is planning a pre-emptive attack on a Middle Eastern country, and, rather than being critical of such a strike, the paper merely wishes to run interference against any suspicion that it may be politically motivated... 'UK Preparing to Join In Attack On Iran?' Powerline: http://tinyurl.com/3bveygj
[FairfieldLife] Re: Steve Jobs diet quirks
Bhairitu: ...there are those who feel that wiping out much of the population through epidemics and disease is a good thing as there are too many people on the planet. Aren't you the little crises monger-Jew-baiter today! The Crisis Mongers A few people in the media have started to notice: Reuters notes that falling population may present more serious social problems than rising population. (How will we pay for our welfare states, to example?) 'Population Bomb Epic Fail' Powerline: http://tinyurl.com/3k6fghz
[FairfieldLife] Re: Blues
curtisdeltablues: Thanks for filling me in on where you are at Bob. I had it all wrong. That may have been the most insulting, disgusting post I have ever read here. And yeah, that was way too mean for me. Well, let's see - we've had one Jew-bait post here today, and another suggesting mass extermination. But, Bob is being mean? Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Day That TMers Became Officially Crazy
...but somehow the TMO went 'bat-shit crazy' because you went over to work for Fred Lenz. LoL! wayback71: Richard, I doubt Barry will read or respond to your post. Barry reads every single post here, every single day. But I think Barry was active in the TMO for several years beyond 1972... Maybe so, but I just thought it was funny when Barry said the TMO went bat-shit crazy and then Barry went over to the bat-shit crazy Lenz. LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Everyone here in my FFL mind
ME: There are examples. Jim and I authfriend: This isn't an example that relates to what I just wrote. Barry can't stand any kind of criticism, he just goes bat-shit crazy when you do that. Barry is also very prejudiced about people in general. As a spiritual teacher Barry sucks, big time. Where I come from, when others are silent, that usually indicates agreement. But remember, the guilty always scream the loudest. LoL! As some have noticed, I have a low tolerance threshold when it comes to idiots who show up on Internet forums I frequent and bring a hidden agenda with them. I suspect everybody does, but it is more obvious in my case because I am often merciless about insulting these idiots and ripping them a new asshole verbally. Here's why. It saves time. So my theory is that I just lay into them hard -- insult them, make fun of them, do everything I possibly can to push their buttons. And what happens? Because they have an agenda, they always react angrily, and in that anger stop trying to *hide* their agenda. They start saying things and revealing things that otherwise might have taken weeks for everybody to figure out. It's a neat technique. I highly recommend it. It saves time... From: Uncle Tantra Subject: Agendananda Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: February 16, 2003
[FairfieldLife] Re: Everyone here in my FFL mind
Curtis to Judy: He gets your goat by talking trash... maskedzebra: But the Barry thing will always strike a false note to me. Well, maybe not a false note, but a song that seems consciously off-key... Whatever you do, do not ever question Barry's status as the world's greatest spiritual teacher, because Barry has 'walked the walk', 'been there and done that'. Barry has read over 200 books on the Cathars! Excerpts from my first dialogs with Barry: From: Uncle Tantra Subject: Re: Question for Delia -- Catharism Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: 2003-09-11 01:26:49 PST Willy, Willy, Willy, you're such an idiot sometimes it actually inspires awe. :-) I'm not interested in cheap, cheezy shit you can find on the Net about the Cathars... From: Uncle Tantra Subject: Open Letter To Willytex Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: 2003-08-06 08:53:26 PST Willy, since fucking prairie dogs or whatever you do with your time doesn't seem to fill enough of it lately, and you've been going out of your way to associate me with Rama and thus with a big, bad cult figure, I figure I should explain a couple of things...
[FairfieldLife] Re: A History Lesson
...the sooner we decide to roll up our sleeves and get back to work instead of looking for bankers to blame, the better our chances of coming back. Denise Evans: His statement was a stereotypical corporate executive denial statement Herman Cain, of Godfather's Pizza, created jobs for Americans. He rolled up his sleeves and went to work creating thousands of jobs. Herman Cain is not responsible for current U.S. Government policy for U.S. corporations. I guess authoring corporate policy regulations is the responsibilty of the U.S. President and the U.S. Congress. It is not that Wall Street is completely innocent, but what the Occupy movement, and their intellectual leaders, fail to grasp is that the federal government has been Wall Street's partner in crime! The Hill Poll: http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/129933/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Gautama Buddha a Shaka??
From The Legend of King Vikrama... Vaj: Why do you think he is called Buddha Shakyamuni (zAkyamuni)? Because they thought the muni was enlightened so they called him 'Buddha'? FYI: King 'Vikrama' is a legendary emperor in Indian history, later an assumed name from the Gupta Age. Vikramaditya lived in the first century BC. The 'Shakas' were the Indo-Scythians refered to in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, who invaded India in 180 BC. According to Thapar, the 'Shakya', in Shakyamuni, refers to the Shakya (Gotama gotra) from which was supposedly born the historical Buddha, in 563 BC at Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, mentioned in the 'Mahavastu' as being a ruling clan at Kapilavastu, according to the 'Lalitavistara'. Apparently there was a misunderstanding between the Shayas and the Kosalas, having to do with a slave girl, resulting in the Kosalas wiping out the Shakyas around 525 BC. 'Indian Buddhism' By A.K. Warder Motilal Banarsidass, 2004 2000. p. 45 'Ancient Indian Social History' By Romilla Thapar Orient Longman, 1978 p.117
[FairfieldLife] Re: A History Lesson
Bhairitu: This is why corporations should not be allowed to get too big nor individuals to have too much wealth... There's no such thing as 'too much wealth'; mind your own business! This kind of reflexive anti-business mentality seems to be quite common in some sectors of society, but it has little basis in reality and seems firmly entrenched in resentment and envy rather than an honest examination of the country's political system. - Professor Bainbridge 'The Absurdity of the Anti-Corporation Movement' http://tinyurl.com/5vwmk63 http://tinyurl.com/5vwmk63
[FairfieldLife] Re: Rebuttal to Aquinas
turquoiseb: P.S. This post should in no way be construed as dumping on Dexter. So, you watch Dexter on TV. The current season may be the best yet, because they're examining the role of faith. Dexter, the non-believing serial killer with a heart of gold, who worships science and looks down on belief in God... Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Rebuttal to Aquinas
Vaj: This is a scary prospect for followers of sectarian theologies like those of Aquinas - esp. those in denial of eastern wisdom schools - although such denial is to be expected in those who suffered psychological and neurological damage from Eastern pop gurus. You mean like your pop gurus the Swami Rama of the Himalayas, the Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche of the Vajradorje, the Tarthang Tulku, and the Sakyong Jamgon Mipham? http://www3.telus.net/public/sarlo/Ratings.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anybody know what form of meditation MMY practiced?
That's why he says meditate on xyz as if it was a topic of reflection. wgm4u: ...still waiting for Willytex's explanation. So, we get TM and the TM bijas from MMY, who got the bijas from SBS, who got the bijas from the Swami Krishananda Saraswati of Sringeri. So, the TM bijas come from the Shankaracharya tradition of Kaula Tantra which was founded at Sringeri by the Adi Shankara. There is no difference between an object meditated upon and the object itself. Since the Absolute is not a subject to be cognized, TMers use bija mantras in order to provide the ideal opportunity for the transcending. So, when TMers use the bija mantra of Saraswati, there is no difference between the bija and the Absolute itself - there is only the illusion of duration. According to Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, The difference is the same as the difference between rice and paddy. Remove the skin of the paddy and it is rice. Similarly, remove the covering of Maya, and the Jiva will become Brahman. According to the Shankaracharya of Sringeri, the Adi Shankara placed the Sri Chakra, symbol of Tripurasundari, with the TM mantras inscribed thereon, at each of the seats of learning - Dwarka, Puri, Sringeri, and at Jyotirmath. So, the mantras of TM are DIRECTLY related to Sri Vidya. Bija mantras issued by TM are ''Sri Vidya'' bija mantras. To be fair, I won't go into what they are, but if one listens to all TM mantras, except for 2, they are 2 or 3 syllable, and this is a very important component of the technique... From: Billy Smith Subject: Re: Guru Dev and Sri Vidya Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: April 22, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ye8my2 The Sri Vidya tradition is derived from Kashmere Saivism which teaches that conciousness alternates between two phases, rest and action. The phase of transcendental rest is called 'Pralaya' in Sanskrit, which has no first beginning, therefore no primal cause. Read more: http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/centering.htm The central philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism is that everything is vibration, or 'Spanda', both the objective exterior reality and the subjective inner world. So, nothing exists without some movement or vibration, but not in ordinary space and time, but in the Supreme Consciousness, the Absolute. So, Ultimate Reality is a cycle of internalization and externalization of consciousness itself - TM. The name Sri Vidya is also used to refer to a specific mantra used in this tradition having fifteen syllables. Among these fifteen are the TM bijas used in the practice of TM. References: 'History of the Tantric Religion' An Historical, Ritualistic, and Philosophical Study By N. N. Bhattacharyya, New Delhi: Manohar, 1999 'The Secret of the Three Cities' An Introduction to Hindu Sakta Tantrism By Douglas Renfrew Brooks University Of Chicago Press; 1998
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anybody know what form of meditation MMY practiced?
Tom Pall: Guess that allowed him to forge wills at the end. Do you have any new evidence to support your claim that MMY forged SBS's will? So, I assume not. This [new] Will was written in December 1952 and was deposited at that time. The Interim Committee obtained a copy of the Will from the Registrar's Office, in which was written a perfect elaboration and explanation of the management of the Peeth (the seat of Shankaracharya), and in the Will was also the kram (series) of uttaradhikar (those who the inheritance would revert to). Source: Extract from `Shri Shankaracharya Upadesha' pages 20-23 of the newsletter of Shankaracharya of Jyotishpeeth Published 20th July 1953 http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/TheLastInstruction.html 'Shri Shankaracharya Upadesha' newsletter was translated from Hindi to English by Premanand Paul Mason, April 2011 Only the lineage of Vasudevananda (through Santananda) can be traced directly to Brahmananda, without any interruptions. - Vidyasankar Sundaresan http://indology.info/papers/sundaresan/ Read more: The Cook Did It! http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/shantanand3.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anybody know what form of meditation MMY practiced?
Yifu: For those arguing that MMY was a secret Divine Mother devotee or Sri Yantra Sadhana practitioner; I doubt it... Maybe so, but the edifice architecture espoused by MMY tells a different story. In fact, the Maharishi Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge is a symbol of the Divine Mother. The Devine Mother is Vastu, 'sthapatya veda', the ancient science of Indian geomancy. For example, the Patanjali Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge at Fairfield, Iowa, home of the TM-Sidhi program, is a void, truncated, modified quasi-domed dodecahedron dedicated to Saraswati. In other words, the Golden Dome at Fairfield, (not to be confused with the Maharishi Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge at Radience, Texas, home of the Superadiance program), is a sort of hollow tope, surmounted by a kalasa, supported by the amalaka in which the akasha, symbolizing dimensionless space, is supported by the linga, surmounting the eight-angled cintamani vajra, an 8-sided prototypic harmika with a rail surrounding the hypaethral pavilion constituting a veritible chaitya-garbha pradakshina with a nice fence around it! In the nearness of that, turbulence ceases. - Patanjali
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oakland Cops Go Bizerkeley
Bhairitu: What! And miss out on all the fun! So, how much will the protest cost the California taxpayer? From what I've read, the cost to the city of New York was over a million dollars, so far.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anybody know what form of meditation MMY practiced?
In the nearness of that, turbulence ceases. - Patanjali nablusoss1008: Did you upload this post to the FFL files section ? You can read my full report here: 'Inside the Golden Dome' http://www.rwilliams.us/inside/ For those arguing that MMY was a secret Divine Mother devotee or Sri Yantra Sadhana practitioner; I doubt it... Maybe so, but the edifice architecture espoused by MMY tells a different story. In fact, the Maharishi Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge is a symbol of the Divine Mother. The Devine Mother is Vastu, 'sthapatya veda', the ancient science of Indian geomancy. For example, the Patanjali Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge at Fairfield, Iowa, home of the TM-Sidhi program, is a void, truncated, modified quasi-domed dodecahedron dedicated to Saraswati. In other words, the Golden Dome at Fairfield, (not to be confused with the Maharishi Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge at Radience, Texas, home of the Superadiance program), is a sort of hollow tope, surmounted by a kalasa, supported by the amalaka in which the akasha, symbolizing dimensionless space, is supported by the linga, surmounting the eight-angled cintamani vajra, an 8-sided prototypic harmika with a rail surrounding the hypaethral pavilion constituting a veritible chaitya-garbha pradakshina with a nice fence around it!
[FairfieldLife] Re: At least there's still one cult more embarrassing than the TMO
turquoiseb: At least there's still one cult more embarrassing than the TMO... There's are several problems with your critique of the TMO - the TMO is not a cult. You have not provided any specific elements that distinguish cult practices: manipulation of members, traumatic brainwashing of those who wish to leave, coercing money, etc. If these are issues with TM (which they may very well be, for all I know), the director should have exposed them as well... 'David Lynch and Transcendental Meditation: David Wants to Fly' Huffington Post: http://tinyurl.com/3e3f8jh
[FairfieldLife] Re: At least there's still one cult more embarrassing than the TMO
turquoiseb: It's one of the most insightful and accurate send-ups of spiritual quackery... Speaking of 'quackery', it looks like your old pal 'The Amazing Randi' is headed for an arrest. It's pretty sad when we find out that the so-called 'quackbusters' are the real quacks! But, apparently, Turq believes almost anything he reads on the internet. So, now the Turq wants to be the spirtual quackbuster informant and snitch on almost every spiritual friend he ever had on the planet. Go figure. Quackpot Watch: 4http://www.quackpotwatch.org/ Will the Top Skeptic Amazing Randi Be Federally Indicted in Florida? Who in the world would give a basically uneducated mini-twerp like James Randi $2,216,670 to promote critical thinking or investigate the paranormal? Or for any reason? More, Randi takes a $195,000, per year, salary out of this organization. 'Randi Arrested' Bolen Report, Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 http://tinyurl.com/3ntvt9j
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anybody know what form of meditation MMY practiced?
wgm4u: For Instance, did MMY practice TM? Or, did he practice any meditation at all? Did the Guru Dev initiate him? and into what? Brahmananda Saraswati and Mahesh Yogi both practiced samaya marga of Sri Vidya. Sri Vidya is a path of internal puja to the deity of the Sri Yantra. There are fifteen bija mantras enumerated in the Saundalahari composed by the Adi Shankara. SBS's guru was Swami Krishnanada Saraswati of Sringeri, founded by the Adi Shaknkaryarya. It is incumbent on every Saraswati sannyasin to meditate at least twice a day and to perform internal puja to the Sri Yantra. According to Swami Rama, SBS used to meditate on the Sri Yantra and the bija mantra of Saraswati, just like TMers do today - a meditation that is transcendental. This, too, is my understanding of Guru Dev's practice as well. ...via mantras and nyasas. I would add that the bija mantras used are the same as the mantras used in TM... Subject: Re: Guru Dev and Sri Vidya From: James Duffy Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: 2003-04-21 12:17:54 PST Read more: http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/srividya.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Last chance to enter the FFF Suck-Up Fest contest
turquoiseb: The contest has been a smashing success so far. As its sponsors figured, there has been such a lack of obvious sucking up... You suck as a spiritual teacher, Turq.
[FairfieldLife] Re: GREAT ARTICLE
johnlasher20002000: The god they serve, the financial system, is a dying god... If inequality had really exploded during the past 30 to 40 years, why did American politics simultaneously move rightward toward a greater embrace of free-market capitalism? Shouldn't just the opposite have happened as beleaguered workers united and demanded a vastly expanded social safety net and sharply higher taxes on the rich? What happened to presidents Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry? Even Barack Obama ran for president as a market friendly, third-way technocrat. Nope, the story doesn't hold together because the financial facts don't support it... '5 reasons why income inequality is a myth and Occupy Wall Street is wrong' http://tinyurl.com/63f6ukv
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Day That TMers Became Officially Crazy
What I've found interesting since starting this thread is that no one -- not even the near-professional apol- ogists on this forum -- have attempted *to* create a rational explanation for how bouncing on their butts creates world peace. uthfriend: A magnificent example of Barry's mastery of inadvertent irony, given his own gullibility about Lenz's feats, which he persists in maintaining many years later, even after Lenz's ignominious suicide... 1531-1575, Zen Master, Japan; 1602-1771, Head of Zen Order, Japan; 1725-1804, Master of Monastery, Tibet; 1834-1905, Jnana Yoga Master, India; 1912-1945, Tibetan Lama and Head of Monastic Order, Tibet; 1950- ,Self Realized Spiritual Teacher and Director of Spiritual Communities, United States. Frederick Lenz, a/k/a Zen Master Rama (1950 - 1998): http://www.ex-cult.org/Groups/Rama/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anybody know what form of meditation MMY practiced?
For Instance, did MMY practice TM? Or, did he practice any meditation at all? Did the Guru Dev initiate him? and into what? Brahmananda Saraswati and Mahesh Yogi both practiced samaya marga of Sri Vidya. wgm4u: What do you mean by, meditate on the Sri Yantra? The Sri Yantra is the symbol of Tripurasundari, with the fifteen bija-mantras enumerated. TM is based on the meditation that is transcendental using bija mantras. The srividya, because it consists of indestructible seed syllables (bijaksara) rather than words, transcends such mundane considerations as semantic meaning. Accordingly, a bija-only mantra is not merely esoteric but inherently superior. Because it is purely seed-syllables [bijasaras] is the purest form of mantra. It does not make a request or praise god, it is God's purest expression (95). Work cited: Auspicious Wisdon The texts and traditions of Srividya Sakta Tantrism in South India. by Douglas Renfrew Brooks SUNY 1992 Sri Vidya is a path of internal puja to the deity of the Sri Yantra. There are fifteen bija mantras enumerated in the Saundalahari composed by the Adi Shankara. SBS's guru was Swami Krishnanada Saraswati of Sringeri, founded by the Adi Shaknkaryarya. It is incumbent on every Saraswati sannyasin to meditate at least twice a day and to perform internal puja to the Sri Yantra. According to Swami Rama, SBS used to meditate on the Sri Yantra and the bija mantra of Saraswati, just like TMers do today - a meditation that is transcendental. This, too, is my understanding of Guru Dev's practice as well. ...via mantras and nyasas. I would add that the bija mantras used are the same as the mantras used in TM... Subject: Re: Guru Dev and Sri Vidya From: James Duffy Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: 2003-04-21 12:17:54 PST Read more: http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/srividya.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anybody know what form of meditation MMY practiced?
Tom Pall: Guess that allowed him to forge wills at the end. Do you have any new evidence to support your claim that MMY forged SBS's will? Only the lineage of Vasudevananda (through Santananda) can be traced directly to Brahmananda, without any interruptions. - Vidyasankar Sundaresan http://indology.info/papers/sundaresan/ Read more: The Cook Did It! http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/shantanand3.htm
[FairfieldLife] Secret to Living Well
I was just sitting in traffic and an RV pulled up. I said, I could probably fit in that thing. The more I looked into it, the more I realized how practical it would be. For what I was paying for rent in LA, I could own my house free and clear and not pay rent, and own my car as well. - Glenn Morrissette 'The Secret to Living Well on $11,000 a Year' http://tinyurl.com/6kj9u8j
[FairfieldLife] Re: David Wants to Fly
Vaj: There also exists no recognition, by his teacher, that he held any exalted status beyond being his administrative secretary. That's more than enough for me - most people wouldn't be attracted to a spiritual tradition based on the Indian caste system. Mahesh Yogi, like the Buddha before him, smashed to bits the old social order based on jati and a person's skin color. Apparently, the Brahmacharya Mahesh was with with Guru Dev at his passing, so we can assume that Mahesh was very important to Guru Dev. I doubt that a Saint like Guru Dev would concern himself with the doings of mere 'secretary', would he? Besides, how a 'mere clerk would come to be sitting beside a dying Saint and carrying out his last instructions doesn't make much sense unless Mahesh Yogi was much more than an administrative secretary! It certainly boggles the mind to imagine how a low level 'clerk' could somehow get an audience with a fully realized Saint, a Shankaracharya, sitting on his deathbed, then somehow geting hold of the Saint's physical body, wrestle it away from all the other ashram inmates, put it on a train, make all the arrangements for the national funeral up in Kashi, then get Guru Dev's last will and testament out of the Jyotirmath Trust at the National Bank, where it was registered, and then go about installing the successor to the Shankaracharya Seat, according to a forged will. That's a real stretch for a mere clerk, and if true, very impressive! Bottom line is, that the 'TMO' founded by MMY and the present Shankaraycharya cult in India is like comparing a very large mountain to a tiny ant hill. In point of fact, the Shankaracharya Seats in India are irrelevant today and not at all suited to the modern age - the organization should be banned, and the leaders charged with crimes against humanity - they should be jailed just like the scoundrel Shank from Puri, who is on trial for murder, and the other fugitive Shank Swami, convicted of child molesting. Hardly anyone the MMY would want backing his TM org! How you could grovel before the feet of these devious Shank impostors is beyond me. Go figure. It is a fact that the Adi Shankarachara was an infamous caste-monger, as are all his successors up to including the present 'Shank of the South'. It should be a universal crime to teach spirituality in the name of birth circumstances! Caste System: http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/ambedkar/
[FairfieldLife] Re: David Wants to Fly
I just watched David Wants to Fly. One of the more powerful, poignant scenes is when Raja Emanuel uses the term Invincible Germany in a public address. The phrase causes quite a stir. Invincible raises militaristic overtones. People in the audience shout that invincibility is what Hitler wanted to achieve. authfriend: The video of that address was floating around awhile back, and we had quite a bit of discussion about it. As I recall, the German word he used for invincible was the same word Hitler had used--unbesiegbar, I think. That Schiffgens, himself a German, *didn't know this* is appalling. The film is too cynically lightweight about the benefits of meditation, as well as about the integrity of Lynch's vision. Any reader of Lynch's published musing on creativity and meditation -- Catching the Big Fish -- will note that Lynch is no fanatic, but simply (and intelligently) proposes a helpful connection between meditating 20 minutes a day and opening channels of creativity. 'David Lynch and Transcendental Meditation: David Wants to Fly' Huffington Post: http://tinyurl.com/3e3f8jh
[FairfieldLife] World Series
ST. LOUIS Just when the Texas Rangers seemed picked clean as the barbecue Cardinals closer Jason Motte (notes) devoured for lunch in front of TV cameras, they scored two runs in the ninth inning Thursday night to win 2-1 and even the World Series at one victory apiece... 'Rangers pull out Game 2 in the ninth inning' http://tinyurl.com/3nvmfhw
[FairfieldLife] Re: Most relaxing musical track created
Denise Evans: Post a track... Listen to samples on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/3cahwar I dare ya. Or, you could get out more often! Jim Cullum Jazz Band: http://www.landing.com/ Texas Public Radio: http://www.tpr.org/programs/riverwalkjazz.html Austin City Limits: http://www.austincitylimits.org/ The most relaxing music is flute music, IMO. nablusoss1008: You forgot to mention that this most world renown flutist has done the bulk of his recordings for Maharishi Gandharvaved, was Maharishi's most cherised musiscian and a long time TM'er. See link below to www.maharishi-gandharva-veda.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Mystery of Consciousness
Is this the experience people here have had - that becoming aware of consciousness makes it something other than consciousness? jpgillam: I thought the whole point of many meditation practices was to provide an opportunity for consciousness to be aware of itself. Most of us here either practice or used to practice a meditation technique. What's your experience? Maybe they are thinking that 'consciousness' is the Ultimate Reality. This sounds like Turq is on the path of 'Consciousness Only' (Yogacara) - everything else being just a result of being fully conscious. Tart seems to be saying that things and events that are percieved are the result of physical dynamics - that things are changed or altered by their being percieved. This brongs up the question: do we all see and experience the same thing, that is, is there a constructed chaqracter of knowing? According to MMY, the process of TM is a purely mechanical process. If so, then we could apply the principles of quantum mechanics which suggests that the universe is non-deterministic (Schrodinger Equation), and that the concept of an objective measurement is meaningless (Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle).
[FairfieldLife] Re: Most relaxing musical track created
Tom Pall: Your Youtube expostions are also highly sleep inducing. Which one? http://www.youtube.com/user/punditster http://www.youtube.com/user/punditster http://youtu.be/VakdfxnEBs4
[FairfieldLife] Eight Hot Used Cars
Eight Hot Used Cars on sale for pennies on the dollar Popular Mechanics: http://tinyurl.com/3z8k2vt Our tax dollars at work... 'Solyndra On Wheels?' http://tinyurl.com/3vef5rg
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Day That TMers Became Officially Crazy
turquoiseb: I cannot pinpoint the exact day or month or year in which TMers went officially bat shit crazy (some TM historian type here may be able to do that for us), because I'd already left before it happened... So, you know nothing about the TMO after 1972, when you got kicked out, but somehow the TMO went 'bat-shit crazy' because you went over to work for Fred Lenz. LoL! SNIP
[FairfieldLife] Re: Conversation between Curtis Robin
authfriend: On my monitor, which is widescreen, two of the above lines are broken in the Reply window. Let's see what happens to them when my post appears. It can also be helpful to use a smaller font when viewing posts on the Web site. But Turq is about the only person who does archaic hard returns. Wrong. I do as well, and so does Willytex. I've been complaining about this for several years. All anyone has to do is use the Return key at to break the lines after 25 characters. Otherwise what displays is just a bunch of garbage. You other people need take a course in web netiquette because you are posting trash where you think you're being clever - it's a sure sign of a newbie! Nobody should have to go out of their way to format for web forums. Everyone should format before they post, it's just a common courtesy for newsgroup readers. You're forgetting what happens when someone responds to a post via the Web site. The software adds hard returns to the end of every line (if there isn't one already) and two characters ([space]) to the beginning of every line. The result is that longer lines get broken instead of wrapping, and it gets worse the longer an exchange goes on. But the extra characters at the beginnings of lines make a conversation so much easier to follow; you always know who's written what by how many characters precede the lines. The early BBS readers were so much better at this. And boy, if we could all just remember to SNIP stuff we aren't responding to, reading posts would be so much more pleasant. That's 50 for me and out until the weekend.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Conversation between Curtis Robin
Bhairitu: As my buddy on my TM Sidhis course said... Hey, Buddy! Listen to Judy and take a hint: nobody wants to read and reply to anybody's word jumbles! these people have overstimulated intellects. Years later I found out why and that is because agni mantras like Saraswati mantras will over stimulate the intellect unless balancing measures are taken. People also become more vata practicing them and will tend to ramble when they write. I also detect that anyone that writes pages of text here is vata imbalanced. That is a typical trait and results in someone living in their own cerebral world. This is something I took from MMY's discussion on the intellect and observed with intellectuals I met since. FYI, just to remind you that hard coded line returns went out of style in the 1980s. Today's email clients word wrap fine. Your posts when viewed on a mobile email client don't wrap well not to mention how the FFL web interface may look on phones and tablets. Leave it up to the software.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oprah in the dome tonight
While I understand Oprah's tendency to buy into Woo Woo, what I don't understand is her support staff's failure to clue her in to some of the darker sides of the TMO, such as the robes and crowns, nablusoss1008: What's wrong with that ? Being a so-called Buddhist and someone who thinks that world famous Lama is a good guy should be accustomed to crownsrobes by now. Turq believes in Buddhas, karma, and the bardo. He also believes in a spiritual path and apparently he also believes in spirits and souls and the Self. Lots of Buddhas have robes and crowns. There are numerous dark buddha's as well. So, I figure that Turq actually believes in a lot of things that he doesn't even know he believes in. murder on the MUM campus, 1 murder by some unbalanced fellow in a place that has housed hundreds of thousands of people during the last 40 years amounts to nothing. banning people It's not a crime. If you want to get in you follow the rules. Or go somewhere else. Any workplace, any organizations has rules. The darkness is in your brain only :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: A History Lesson
One of the most important lessons Dad taught us was not to feel like victims. He never felt like a victim; he never talked like a victim. And both of our parents taught us not to think that the government owed us something. They didn't teach us to be mad at this country. - Herman Cain Bhairitu: Of course when your dad grew up the government really didn't do much at all for blacks. Most of the OWS protestors are just leftists out of step with most American voters. From what I've read, most of the protestors don't really want to work, they just want to create anarchy or impose communism; trouble-makers. Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn't represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda. Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd: http://tinyurl.com/64ykysj
[FairfieldLife] Re: Most relaxing musical track created
Most relaxing musical track created turquoiseb: One of the faults I most have to overlook is their choice of dinner music... The most relaxing music is flute music, IMO. This is the one - the 'Flying Beyond CD by Hariprasad Chaurasia - a transcendental experience. Very highly recommended! The Bamboo flute (Bansuri) in both India and Japan is considered to be the original musical instrument, and is noted for being closest to the human singing voice. The richness from the fine nuances of pitch is accomplished by a subtle blowing technique and by partially covering the seven to eight finger holes. Each flute can only play in one scale. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, born 1938, is an acknoweldged Bansuri master. In 1981, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to music, he was given the National Indian Award of the Sangeet Natak Academy in New Delhi. In 1990, Hari Prasad Chaurasia received the Gaurav Puraskar, one of the most prestigious awards, from the State Government of Maharashtra, India. He also received from the President of India, the coveted Padmabhushan award. Press Reviews: ...full of life, rhythm and vocal inflections, charged by the spirit of true improvisation. - Washington Post ...improvisations that sizzle without ever losing elegance. - The Village Voice Music for deep relaxation and integration of body and mind: http://www.maharishi-gandharva-veda.de/ Flying Beyond By Hariprasad Chaurasia Improvisations on Bansuri (CD AV-89004) Available from 'Eternal Music' P.O. Box 3612 San Rafael, CA. 94912
[FairfieldLife] Re: A History Lesson
Most of the OWS protestors are just leftists out of step with most American voters. From what I've read, most of the protestors don't really want to work, they just want to create anarchy or impose communism; trouble-makers. Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn't represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda. Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd: http://tinyurl.com/64ykysj Bhairitu: Dumb ol' Willy, acting very silly, still thinks the rich, are going to pee money on him. So, you've got what, $10,000 worth of Asian goods in your house; you drive a Japanese car and burn Saudi oil; you pay $180 to Comcast Corp every month; you own an iPod on AtT; an iPad, and an iMac, all made in China; but Willy is dumb? Go figure. He's really so silly, believing Willy Nilly, that the rich are going to pee money on him! Silly ol' Willy, believes conservative gangsters, and hopes that they will pee money on him! Someday Willy, maybe won't be so silly, and find instead the very rich have screwed him in the butt instead! Michael Moore: Historians going to wonder why the rich overplayed their hand: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/18/michael-moore-historians-going-to-wonder-why-the-rich-overplayed-their-hand/
