[FairfieldLife] Shearer's translation?

2007-10-25 Thread cardemaister
Anyone's got Alistair Shearer's translation of YS? I'd like to see his translation of I 18.

[FairfieldLife] 'DOD to Modifiy B-2 Bombers'

2007-10-25 Thread Robert
>From The Times October 26, 2007 Now what would a huge US bomb be aimed at? Gerard Baker Nestled deep in George Bush’s latest $190 billion request to Congress for emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is a tantalising little item that has received scant attention. The US Depar

[FairfieldLife] TM in Breakfast of Champions

2007-10-25 Thread Stu
I have been slowly rereading Kurt Vonnegut who I read passionately when I was in high school. As I reread the books I am taken by how influential his skeptical point of view was on my then forming mind. While reading "Breakfast of Champions" I came upon this description: When Bunny played the pi

[FairfieldLife] 'John Lennon- Studio Tracks Collection'

2007-10-25 Thread Robert
Quinta-feira, 25 de Outubro de 2007 John Lennon - Studio Tracks Collection John Lennon Studio Tracks Vol. 1 tracklist: 1. I'm The Greatest 2. Going Down On Love 3. Honey Don't 4. Matchbox 5. How Do You Sleep 6. Out Of The Blue 7. Goodnight Vienna 8. God 9. Mucho Mungo 10. Woman Is Th

[FairfieldLife] 'Madison Scientists Offer Perspective on Wildfires'

2007-10-25 Thread Robert
University of Wisconsin-Madison Experts Available on Wildfire Ecology and Human Impacts MADISON, Wis., Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The fires raging in southern California have already consumed more than 600 square miles and forced the evacuation of more than half a million residents, an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Morford: American kids dumber than dirt

2007-10-25 Thread Angela Mailander
Jesus Christ. They guy either told the truth: American kids are dummer than dirt, or he didn't. If it's true, then we have better things to do than to engage in pissing contests on a personal level. Then there are serious questions to ask about that. Plus, once again, you're not reading what I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Morford: American kids dumber than dirt

2007-10-25 Thread feste37
Every generation that has ever lived has complained about the younger generation, but what young people need to know changes from generation to generation. Has it ever occurred to you that the young people today do not necessarily need to know everything that you learned so long ago, and that they

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jews Turning Against Israel's Right Wing Zionist Policy

2007-10-25 Thread billy jim
Who cares? Let them all eat yellow cake. Better yet, while dining in the valley of megiddo. "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jewish Glasnost Update: Zionist Panic! Tony Karon Rootless Cosmopolitan, October 23, 2007 http://tonykaron.com/2007/10/23/jewish-glasnost-update-zi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Power of the Puja (What is the purpose of the puja?)

2007-10-25 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "biosoundbill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even the Lords Prayer in the orignial Arameic,another Energy > language,would probably work,as it takes one back to source - see: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUIlaRKOT7A > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An

[FairfieldLife] Jews Turning Against Israel's Right Wing Zionist Policy

2007-10-25 Thread do.rflex
Jewish Glasnost Update: Zionist Panic! Tony Karon Rootless Cosmopolitan, October 23, 2007 http://tonykaron.com/2007/10/23/jewish-glasnost-update-zionist-panic/ Is Israel's top liberal daily a fifth column? Apropos my earlier piece arguing that the ferocious backlash by the Zionist right again

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Morford: American kids dumber than dirt

2007-10-25 Thread Angela Mailander
Of course there are brilliant students, but that doesn't mean they've had an education. I met brilliant illiterates all over the world. They're illiterate, not stupid. Get the difference? I don't have a particularly low opinion of most of the members, but somebody posted something about the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Morford: American kids dumber than dirt

2007-10-25 Thread feste37
You must have taught at some lousy colleges. I have taught at high school, undergraduate and graduate level and have been fortunate enough to have had some brilliant students. In the words of The Who, "The kids are all right!" I wonder why you deign to contribute to this list since you have such

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: [examma] Re: Facts & Evidence (MORE LINKS)

2007-10-25 Thread feste37
I doubt whether anyone on this list will react much to this. If it had been a report connected with any Maharishi operation, the posts would have gone on for days about how corrupt and evil the TM movement is. But Amma is likely to get a pass from those here who reserve their most virulent hatred f

Re: [FairfieldLife] Question for Alex from Bronte

2007-10-25 Thread Vaj
On Oct 25, 2007, at 5:26 PM, brontebaxter8 wrote: Thanks for explaining that! So, I can't read the attachments I post because I don't receive FFL email. Can other members read the attachments I posted (the people who do get FFL email)? Yes. That's the way people are supposed to get email li

[FairfieldLife] Proud to be a Whiner!

2007-10-25 Thread brontebaxter8
It seems to me, Turq, that you have a whiner/ mono-topic of your own: pooping on other people's posts. You think you are so positive, but a big percentage of what you churn out is criticism. Not that that's always awful. I actually enjoy most of your rants, because they make me think. But you a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Question for Alex from Bronte

2007-10-25 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "brontebaxter8" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for explaining that! So, I can't read the attachments I post > because I don't receive FFL email. Can other members read the > attachments I posted (the people who do get FFL email)? Yes, people who re

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: I think that the basic TM technique is more powerful than the advanced techn

2007-10-25 Thread Bhairitu
Richard J. Williams wrote: >>> So, most mantra meditation is TM and has been TM for >>> centuries. >>> >>> > Bhairitu wrote: > >> The other way around: TM is just a form "yogic meditation" >> which has been taught for centuries. >> >> > So, TM is yogic meditation that has been taug

[FairfieldLife] Re: I think that the basic TM technique is more powerful than the advanced techn

2007-10-25 Thread Richard J. Williams
> > So, most mantra meditation is TM and has been TM for > > centuries. > > Bhairitu wrote: > The other way around: TM is just a form "yogic meditation" > which has been taught for centuries. > So, TM is yogic meditation that has been taught for centuries.

[FairfieldLife] Question for Alex from Bronte

2007-10-25 Thread brontebaxter8
Thanks for explaining that! So, I can't read the attachments I post because I don't receive FFL email. Can other members read the attachments I posted (the people who do get FFL email)? - Bronte -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In Fairfie

Re: [FairfieldLife] Morford: American kids dumber than dirt

2007-10-25 Thread Angela Mailander
This is most true. And it didn't happen suddenly. It happened over the entirety of my fifty-year teaching career, and it was going on before I got on board. I believe it was in 1906 or 9 when one of the Rockefellers said, "It will not be our purpose to educate philosophers or scientists, but

[FairfieldLife] Re: Power of the Puja (What is the purpose of the puja?)

2007-10-25 Thread biosoundbill
Even the Lords Prayer in the orignial Arameic,another Energy language,would probably work,as it takes one back to source - see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUIlaRKOT7A See how much more Cosmic this version is to what most of us know! Namaste, Billy --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "

[FairfieldLife] Re: Power of the Puja (What is the purpose of the puja?)

2007-10-25 Thread biosoundbill
I imagine that any puja work work to take the mind of the teacher to a higher level to impart the mantra with shakti. Billy --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The puja as taught by MMY is about identification from gross to > subtle. It is worship con

Re: [FairfieldLife] Dick Cheney Meditating

2007-10-25 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 10/25/07 11:57:13 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cheney falls asleep during Cabinet meeting on wildfires. During a cabinet meeting yesterday, Vice President Cheney fell asleep on camera while President Bush was discussing wildfires in California.

[FairfieldLife] Brahma Gives Sadhu A Lift -- In Front Of The White House

2007-10-25 Thread Samadhi Is Much Closer Than You Think -- Really! -- It's A No-Brainer. Who'd've Thunk It?
*Man levitates outside the White House* By staff writers October 23, 2007 DUTCH magician Ramana has been doing his best to freak out American people by levitating in Times Square and in front of the White House. The illusionist, real name Wouter Bijdendijk, hovered several feet above the paveme

[FairfieldLife] Re: Prabhupada: On Genitals and Heavenly Nectar

2007-10-25 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Billy and all, > > My comments are shown below: > > > The impersonalist must know from this verse that > > > the Lord is not impersonal, for He has His genitals, on which all > >the > > > pleasurable objects of sex de

[FairfieldLife] Re: Morford: American kids dumber than dirt

2007-10-25 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Warning: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in > U.S. history > > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/10/24/notes102407.DTL Here's some disturbing evidence of the 'dumbing d

[FairfieldLife] Morford: American kids dumber than dirt

2007-10-25 Thread Bhairitu
Warning: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in U.S. history http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/10/24/notes102407.DTL (Would be FFL "columnists" would do well to study how Morford's writing style can carry you forward like butter instead of looking ov

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dick Cheney Meditating

2007-10-25 Thread Bhairitu
do.rflex wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Cheney falls asleep during Cabinet meeting on wildfires. >> >> During a cabinet meeting yesterday, Vice President Cheney fell >> > asleep on > >> camera while President Bush was discussing w

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dick Cheney Meditating

2007-10-25 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cheney falls asleep during Cabinet meeting on wildfires. > > During a cabinet meeting yesterday, Vice President Cheney fell asleep on > camera while President Bush was discussing wildfires in California. A > Cheney spo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Prabhupada: On Genitals and Heavenly Nectar

2007-10-25 Thread John
Billy and all, My comments are shown below: > > > > Here is what Prabhupada commented on one of the slokas in the Srimad > > Bhagavatam, Canto 2, Chapter 10: > > > > "The heavenly pleasure for the conditioned soul is sexual pleasure, > >and > > this pleasure is tasted by the genitals. >

[FairfieldLife] Dick Cheney Meditating

2007-10-25 Thread Bhairitu
Cheney falls asleep during Cabinet meeting on wildfires. During a cabinet meeting yesterday, Vice President Cheney fell asleep on camera while President Bush was discussing wildfires in California. A Cheney spokeswoman “laughed it off,” telling CNN that the vice president was “practicing medita

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Israel Ready to Go'

2007-10-25 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 10/25/07 7:01:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Israel is behaving like Nazi Germany and they will go the same way > > > they went if they do not drastically change their poli

[FairfieldLife] Pandits' winter clothing

2007-10-25 Thread Rick Archer
Our beloved Meditating community ~~ Maharishi has just approved getting the Pandits warm winter coats, etc! A $25,000 matching donation has already been given for this purpose. Could we, together with our network of friends, come up with the rest of the money needed? We have all benefited so

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Israel Ready to Go'

2007-10-25 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 10/25/07 7:01:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Israel is behaving like Nazi Germany and they will go the same way > > they went if they do not drastically change their policy. > > > > > > > > Is this a Moveon.org type point of view? > > No it

[FairfieldLife] Power of the Puja (What is the purpose of the puja?)

2007-10-25 Thread Duveyoung
The puja as taught by MMY is about identification from gross to subtle. It is worship conducted according to ANCIENT rules of mental-judo and is one of the purest forms of ritual-that-actually-works available on the planet. I don't think MMY messed with these "rules." If done "correctly," the TM p

[FairfieldLife] YouTube - Spread The Love (Insomnia Film Festival 2007)

2007-10-25 Thread Rick Archer
A zombie love story, created for the 2007 Insomnia Film Festival, starring a couple of MUM students and members of our Wednesday night satsang group: HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjOs9ZJDtF8"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y jOs9ZJDtF8 No virus found in this outgoing message. Check

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whoops - Re- Posting It So It Opens (Article on Ashram Incident)

2007-10-25 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Attachments are only available to people who receive FFL traffic in email. Yahoo strips off the attachments on the Yahoo Groups website. The Ammachi ashram story you're trying to post has been covered on the Guru

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Identification and saturational clarity

2007-10-25 Thread Vaj
On Oct 25, 2007, at 12:06 AM, new.morning wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --Vaj, your'e not being consistent. I just received my Snow Lion > magazine today with a cover article on the Green Tara. Devotion to > Her is not only a wisdom

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is the purpose of the puja?

2007-10-25 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "biosoundbill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I often wonder why a mental puja is not used. The TM Puja is 99% mental.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rus kick in for Paul, Obama, Kucinich

2007-10-25 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante wrote: > > > > http://www.ottumwacourier.com/local/local_story_296002124.html > > > from the article: > "There are two exceptions among the top candidates. Neit

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Israel Ready to Go'

2007-10-25 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 10/24/07 11:10:33 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Israel is behaving like Nazi Germany and they will go the same way > > they went if they do not drastically change their polic

[FairfieldLife] Announcing the Whiners-R-Us Yahoo group

2007-10-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone just sent me this. Another side of the Amma movement? > > - Bronte Announcing the Whiners-R-Us Yahoo group For those who (like Sal) are afflicted with the particular character flaw that enables them

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is the purpose of the puja?

2007-10-25 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > > > > > --- shempmcgurk wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "biosoundbill" > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Does anybody know what is the

[FairfieldLife] For Vaj -- Bruce Cockburn on his way back to Nepal

2007-10-25 Thread TurquoiseB
Just FYI, since I know that you like the guy, too. He was last there 20 years ago, and wrote some great songs about his experiences while there. I suspect we'll see some more from this journey in the next album. One of the Bruce fan websites is kinda "following" the trip, and may have audio and v

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is the purpose of the puja?

2007-10-25 Thread biosoundbill
I often wonder why a mental puja is not used. Burn some incense,and have the Initiate observe the teacher chanting a mental pija in preparing himself/herself to impart the mantra. Here is an example of a mental puja:- The Shiva manasa puja by Sri Adi Shankaracharya is a unique stotra. It in in

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is the purpose of the puja?

2007-10-25 Thread biosoundbill
I am a Usui Reiki Master,I hate that title,but it just means I can attune people to the 3 different levels of Reiki. When I perform an attunement on somebody,I get totally bombed out,and I always notice that my meditations are much more blissful for several days afterwards. It's probably someth

[FairfieldLife] Re: Prabhupada: On Genitals and Heavenly Nectar

2007-10-25 Thread John
Edg, My comments are as follows: 1.> Women rule. > > And they'll continue to rule forever, and it's been that way from the > beginningest beginning. > > There's a female presence -- ancient, devious, powerful, spell casting > -- with a fort, an outpost, in every speck of you. Yes, ancient and