[FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: I can understand how some of the people like the folks that post on the TM Free Blog are so very angry - its sometimes hard to believe he poured all this stuff out to keep people connected to him and make money - although after watching some of his last videos (just watched the one where he talks about the south facing entrance in a home creating all sorts of problems) I am still convinced he had dementia, the moderate stages - I have seen it in family members and he has the signs - I think at a certain point the people around him took over and used him as a figure head. That's interesting. There is a plot for a novel in that. I haven't seen any of the videos of his last performances, but the public recounting of his last days certain suggests dementia. I mean, there hasn't been quite as good a staging of King Lear since...uh...since...well, since Shakespeare's original King Lear. Dude should have taken up ballroom dancing. That's been proven to stave off dementia. Do it in a big hall with a South-facing entrance and you're home free. Heck, he'd have gotten so into it that he would have copyrighted it and sold it as Maharishi Mambo or the Jivanmukti Jive or the Samaveda Samba or the Vedic Valtz. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga
Not that I find people in dementia funny, since I am witnessing it in someone I know right now, but man, the Jivan mukta Jive! I had to laugh! From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 2:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: I can understand how some of the people like the folks that post on the TM Free Blog are so very angry - its sometimes hard to believe he poured all this stuff out to keep people connected to him and make money - although after watching some of his last videos (just watched the one where he talks about the south facing entrance in a home creating all sorts of problems) I am still convinced he had dementia, the moderate stages - I have seen it in family members and he has the signs - I think at a certain point the people around him took over and used him as a figure head. That's interesting. There is a plot for a novel in that. I haven't seen any of the videos of his last performances, but the public recounting of his last days certain suggests dementia. I mean, there hasn't been quite as good a staging of King Lear since...uh...since...well, since Shakespeare's original King Lear. Dude should have taken up ballroom dancing. That's been proven to stave off dementia. Do it in a big hall with a South-facing entrance and you're home free. Heck, he'd have gotten so into it that he would have copyrighted it and sold it as Maharishi Mambo™ or the Jivanmukti Jive™ or the Samaveda Samba™ or the Vedic Valtz™. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: A new world will be lived in by the same people. And what they will be? They will never be sick, they will never be shrouded with small things. There will be peace unbounded, prosperity unlimited, coherence unimaginable. This is Vastu living. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi A long-time Fairfield resident who lived in SV for years just died of cancer. That was several years after her divorce. I just read about a murderer in the newspaper, and guess what ? He was breastfed as a child !
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From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:25 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@... wrote: A new world will be lived in by the same people. And what they will be? They will never be sick, they will never be shrouded with small things. There will be peace unbounded, prosperity unlimited, coherence unimaginable. This is Vastu living. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi A long-time Fairfield resident who lived in SV for years just died of cancer. That was several years after her divorce. I just read about a murderer in the newspaper, and guess what ? He was breastfed as a child ! Read Maharishi's quote again: They will never be sick, etc.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: A new world will be lived in by the same people. And what they will be? They will never be sick, they will never be shrouded with small things. There will be peace unbounded, prosperity unlimited, coherence unimaginable. This is Vastu living. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi A long-time Fairfield resident who lived in SV for years just died of cancer. That was several years after her divorce. I just read about a murderer in the newspaper, and guess what ? He was breastfed as a child ! Yeah, but from South-facing breasts.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: A new world will be lived in by the same people. And what they will be? They will never be sick, they will never be shrouded with small things. There will be peace unbounded, prosperity unlimited, coherence unimaginable. This is Vastu living. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi A long-time Fairfield resident who lived in SV for years just died of cancer. That was several years after her divorce. Vastu living is Brahman Consciousness (or whatever you want to call it), you always face the risen sun (metaphorically speaking, because in actually you are the risen sun). The body dies, by whatever cause, and is of no moment. A damn building is not needed. No building; no amount of attention to health will ever give you what you want in life: in the end these things will crumble, and if you are still desiring these things, you will crumble with them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga
Rick Archer: A long-time Fairfield resident who lived in SV for years just died of cancer. SV doesn't cause cancer. That was several years after her divorce. Stress causes divorce. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi A new world will be lived in by the same people. And what they will be? They will never be sick, they will never be shrouded with small things. There will be peace unbounded, prosperity unlimited, coherence unimaginable. This is Vastu living.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga
Xenophaneros Anartaxius: No building; no amount of attention to health will ever give you what you want in life: in the end these things will crumble, and if you are still desiring these things, you will crumble with them... You think it's alright to wash the dishes and place them on the drying rack tonight? Maybe, we should just let the place go to shit if there's no reason to create a home. It's so depressing to want to plant flowers in the garden! Why don't I just kill myself instead? In fact, building a home and hearth is the highest spiritual calling. It is Geomancy: a way of serving the Earth Mother. All traditional cultures have their own system of natural geomancy. There are many solutions that nature has provided in the way of housing, such as cocoons, shells, webs, nests and dens, which are but a few examples of natural geomancy. Thus, geomancy is inherent and vital to life survival. In human society, geomancy is a part of our animal heritage and the result of continuing improvement in human dwelling construction. People have always developed shelters and homes in concert with nature. Tree houses, caves, cliff dwellings, and commanding views are some examples of universal geomancy. Geomancy is at least half a million years old, dating from early Homo Sapiens. Images of 'Magna Mater' dating from 30,000 BCE were placed in small wall recesses in homes, in order to insure vitality and abundance. Geomancy can be defined as 'The skillfull use of the best available knowledge in order to create the *most suitable conditions* for living and working' (T. Lin Yun). Geomancy involves the awareness of how the ways of construction, orientation, and placement affect our environment and thus our own daily activities and relations.
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I am astonished you aren't claiming geomancy came from the Buddhists From: Richard J. Williams rich...@rwilliams.us To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 7:29 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga Xenophaneros Anartaxius: No building; no amount of attention to health will ever give you what you want in life: in the end these things will crumble, and if you are still desiring these things, you will crumble with them... You think it's alright to wash the dishes and place them on the drying rack tonight? Maybe, we should just let the place go to shit if there's no reason to create a home. It's so depressing to want to plant flowers in the garden! Why don't I just kill myself instead? In fact, building a home and hearth is the highest spiritual calling. It is Geomancy: a way of serving the Earth Mother. All traditional cultures have their own system of natural geomancy. There are many solutions that nature has provided in the way of housing, such as cocoons, shells, webs, nests and dens, which are but a few examples of natural geomancy. Thus, geomancy is inherent and vital to life survival. In human society, geomancy is a part of our animal heritage and the result of continuing improvement in human dwelling construction. People have always developed shelters and homes in concert with nature. Tree houses, caves, cliff dwellings, and commanding views are some examples of universal geomancy. Geomancy is at least half a million years old, dating from early Homo Sapiens. Images of 'Magna Mater' dating from 30,000 BCE were placed in small wall recesses in homes, in order to insure vitality and abundance. Geomancy can be defined as 'The skillfull use of the best available knowledge in order to create the *most suitable conditions* for living and working' (T. Lin Yun). Geomancy involves the awareness of how the ways of construction, orientation, and placement affect our environment and thus our own daily activities and relations.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga
mjackson74: I am astonished you aren't claiming geomancy came from the Buddhists... History in India begins with the Buddha - before that is considered to be pre-history. So, yes, just about everything we know about ancient India we learned from the Buddhists. If it wasn't for the stupa relics, we wouldn't even know that the Buddha was a historical person that lived in India! The symbol for 'OM' does not occur in the Rig Veda (circa 1500 BCE). OM isn't mentioned in the Rig because there was no written text back then (archaic Sanskrit) the symbol for OM was added much later. It is found mentioned in the Chandogya Upanishad, (udgitha), which was obviously composed after the historical Buddha's passing. OM is alluded to in Patanjali's Yoga Sutra (pranava) (circa 200 BCE), and in the Bhagavad Gita (circa 100 CE). The Gita appeared later than the great movement represented by the early Upanishads. So, if OM had been known before 400 BCE, it would have been mentioned by the Buddha, Shakya the Muni. The symbol OM isn't really a bija mantra at all; bijas didn't come into use until the age of the tantrics (circa 100 CE). If you inspect the archaic Sankrit of the Rig Veda, you will not find the OM symbol. OM was addded to the text during the time of their arrangement by Pannini. For example, you won't find the bija mantra 'phat' in the Rig Veda either. So, how did we get OM? It's just the symbol of the Transcendent, an expression that was added after the age of tantrism, after the invention of writing. OM is the mantra of assent. It means yes and affirms and energizes whatever we say after it. Obviously, there were no esoteric symbols in Sanskrit before writing! The first instance of writing in India occurs on the Sarnath Pillar erected by Asoka (circa 200 BCE). There is no OM symbol in the Saraswati Civilzation (circa 2400 BCE). OM is a verbal expressions, not part of the original Gayatri Mantra. OM is not a primordial symbol - it is an invention of tantrics that was added later. OM is merely a salutation, just like 'Amen is used in Hebrew. For example, there's no Amen expression in the Old Testament - it is added when the passage is recited, as an affirmation. According to Mircea Eliade, quoting the Tantras, tantric sadhana explains the importance of sexuality. Tantrics teach control of the temporal rhythms by disciplining respiration, thus escaping the domination of time. The flesh, the living cosmos, and time are the three fundamental elements of tantric sadhana. Work cited: 'Yoga: Immortality and Freedom' by Mircea Eliade Princeton, Bollengen Foundation Second Edition 1969 Paper: 0-691-01764-6 The standard text on Yoga; scholarly; definitive, by the author of 'Shamanism', 'The Myth of the Eternal Return', 'History of Religious Ideas', etc. p. 264 Reference: 'The Tantric Tradition' Agehananda Bharati (Author) Rider, 1970 Other titles of interest: 'Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization' Heinrich Robert Zimmer, Joseph Campbell Princeton University Press, 1972
[FairfieldLife] Re: Living in vastu buildings in sat-yuga
I did place a dish in the drying rack tonight. Geomancy is fine. But human societies do not have a specific defined way of implementing it. It just evolves naturally. Having a home is fine. What I was saying is if *you* are the vastu, those other things are just icing on the cake. You can live in a cave, in an apartment facing south, in an RV, in a tent, and you have what all these other things superfically attempt provide, or are said to provide. There is no good reason that I see that any particular system that attempts to define how one should build a home is superior to some other. One does have to take into account weather, temperature etc. You would not build a hacienda style home in Anarctica for example, and you would not be able to face any wall east, west, or south if you built a home at the South Pole. The International Space Station is a home that has certain specific qualities necessary for life in orbit around the Earth. What I was saying is someone who has experience what is called enlightenment does not have to bother so much with this. For that person, that person's abode is whatever is going on, wherever, whenever. The best condition for living is to not be totally screwed up mentally, and that is internal in our mind. This is the reason for meditating. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams richard@... wrote: Xenophaneros Anartaxius: No building; no amount of attention to health will ever give you what you want in life: in the end these things will crumble, and if you are still desiring these things, you will crumble with them... You think it's alright to wash the dishes and place them on the drying rack tonight? Maybe, we should just let the place go to shit if there's no reason to create a home. It's so depressing to want to plant flowers in the garden! Why don't I just kill myself instead? In fact, building a home and hearth is the highest spiritual calling. It is Geomancy: a way of serving the Earth Mother. All traditional cultures have their own system of natural geomancy. There are many solutions that nature has provided in the way of housing, such as cocoons, shells, webs, nests and dens, which are but a few examples of natural geomancy. Thus, geomancy is inherent and vital to life survival. In human society, geomancy is a part of our animal heritage and the result of continuing improvement in human dwelling construction. People have always developed shelters and homes in concert with nature. Tree houses, caves, cliff dwellings, and commanding views are some examples of universal geomancy. Geomancy is at least half a million years old, dating from early Homo Sapiens. Images of 'Magna Mater' dating from 30,000 BCE were placed in small wall recesses in homes, in order to insure vitality and abundance. Geomancy can be defined as 'The skillfull use of the best available knowledge in order to create the *most suitable conditions* for living and working' (T. Lin Yun). Geomancy involves the awareness of how the ways of construction, orientation, and placement affect our environment and thus our own daily activities and relations.
