[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: I'm also curious about the true source of the technique of using these particular bija mantras in this way. I would like to think that it was there

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: I'm also curious about the true source of the technique of using these particular bija mantras in this way. I would like to think that it was there

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread guyfawkes91
Sorry, the divorce is final...the money is gone...but it's not about money... Don't ya git it. It's not about $$$... It's about creating an atomosphere of love, or whatever you want

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fry at MUM

2009-04-29 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: During the election last summer the BBC sent writer, broadcaster and national-treasure Stephen Fry to drive round America in his London

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread guyfawkes91
The Shiva/Varma clan had been doing this for longer than you or I. You cannot win against them. That money is their's, and you won't get it back... So, getting stuck on how to get the money back, will keep you trapped in that mode, and prevent you from doing anything else, constructive.

[FairfieldLife] '1955/Transits for Maharishi Mahesh Yogi'

2009-04-29 Thread Robert
01/12/1917 12:00 - Adjust 0.00 - Julian day 2421241.00 07-03-1955 06:26 GMT - Julian day 2435291.77 07/03/1955Aspect01/12/1917Orb/ValueMoonSextileUranus 0.57 183VenusOppositionVenus 2.07-214MarsOppositionSun 3.03-212MarsSquareJupiter 1.30 -83MarsConjunctionSaturn 2.47

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawke...@... wrote: Sorry, the divorce is final...the money is gone...but it's not about money... Don't ya git it. It's not about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Supreme Master Television, The Future of Education: Consciousness-Based Lea

2009-04-29 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:20 PM, Rick Archer wrote: From a friend: One thing I've never quite understood... why does everything always have to

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Apr 27, 2009, at 6:15 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Apr 27, 2009, at 6:36 PM, sparaig wrote: You say tomato, I say tomato. You say Ayurvedic, non-GMO, Maharishi organic, scientifically-proven Vedic tomato, I say tomato. ;-) But does it smell as sweet? [cyrano du

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Unified Field - The Big Question.

2009-04-29 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: Q: Does there actually need to be a unified field? A: No.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2009-04-29 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawke...@... wrote: Do you think the reports about millions going to his personal family members in India and hidden accounts are all made up? I think it's pretty well established as far as we can tell. But I don't think the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2009-04-29 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Unified Field - The Big Question.

2009-04-29 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Yorkshire man wakes up Irish after brain surgery

2009-04-29 Thread Richard M
Most peculiar. Who knows - evidence for reincarnation? From top of the head to top of the morning -- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28/irish_yorkshire/ A Yorkshire man woke up from brain surgery to find he'd turned from a flat vowelled, thrifty

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yorkshire man wakes up Irish after brain surgery

2009-04-29 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: Most peculiar. Surprisingly common too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome Hear one for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6y0voUoeGE Not sure that an English accent is an affliction myself.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Richard M
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: I really have nothing against the technique itself, never have. I still practice TM every morning for 1/2 hour. I do it for one reason and one reason only. It feels good. I like how I feel afterwards when I read the

[FairfieldLife] 'War-Gaming/Amping up Fear'

2009-04-29 Thread Robert
For some reason, it seems to coincidental, that the fear is being ramped up the past couple of  days... There's some war-gaming going on... Why would they create that incident in NYC, on Monday Morning at !0:00  Why would they suddenly become sick in Mexico City? Is this just to see how systems

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yorkshire man wakes up Irish after brain surgery

2009-04-29 Thread Richard M
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: Most peculiar. Surprisingly common too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome Hear one for yourself:

[FairfieldLife] Love In The Time Of Swine Flu, by Gabriel Garcia Porca

2009-04-29 Thread TurquoiseB
This morning I had to get up early and drive to the Barcelona airport to pick up loved ones. And it turned into an educational experience for me, one in which I learned how radically one's awareness of one's envir- onment can shift in a very short time. The education started when I walked into

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_re...@... wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,69431-order,4/description.html http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,69431-order,4/description.htm\ l Speaking of Mac vs. PC, yesterday, the PC came out on top for me. I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 28, 2009, at 10:24 PM, scienceofabundance wrote: I was talking earlier today to a friend of mine who is a university teacher in counseling. We were talking about last Sunday's NY Times article titled Enlightenment Therapy (a story on a Zen master who decides that he needs to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:17 AM, geezerfreak wrote: I'm also curious about the true source of the technique of using these particular bija mantras in this way. I would like to think that it was there long before MMY. But I've heard evidence that this was something Maharishi cooked up in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Supreme Master Television, The Future of Education: Consciousness-Based Learning at Maharishi University Schools, part 2

2009-04-29 Thread shukra69
I went and tried their meditation, heard the inner sound right away without the initiation due to all the TM I have done, some of their fully initiated people don't get those experiences. TM is less impressive in terms of experience in meditation for me but more blissful and restorative and I

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread shukra69
and manasika japa is not TM, I can do manasika japa anywhere like on the subway and do, I would never want to do TM in those situations , its something very subtle and delicate. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:17 AM, geezerfreak wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Love In The Time Of Swine Flu, by Gabriel Garcia Porca

2009-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
TurquoiseB wrote: THAT is love in the time of swine flu. Just because the world is a little dangerous, that doesn't mean that we have to stop having fun with it. Because fun is more contagious than the swine flu... BERLIN — Germany confirmed three swine flu cases and Austria one, while the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 9:49 AM, shukra69 wrote: and manasika japa is not TM, I can do manasika japa anywhere like on the subway and do, I would never want to do TM in those situations , its something very subtle and delicate. Yes, TM is a form of manasika-japa. It's a ubiquitous and old

[FairfieldLife] Swine Flu Racism?

2009-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
'Hate-Mongering Conservative Commentators Using Swine Flu to Promote Racism!' Huffington Post, April 29, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/dfgcfk Read more: Savage — 'make no mistake about it' — believes that radical Islamic countries planted the virus in Mexico knowing that humans make the perfect

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: I'm also curious about the true source of the technique of using these

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawkes91@ wrote: But of course we know that the reality is that loads of people would learn TM anyway if only the price was right, teachers could earn a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:02 AM, grate.swan wrote: You can accept or reject either of these points. If you accept both (at least as reasonable and plausible) then its hard to buy a lot of this GD would have been upset and dismayed with MMY sort of patter. It's been said (sorry don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread shukra69
Didnt say you can't do TM on the subway , just that I wouldn't want to , and your not understanding the difference between TM and other manasika japa just speaks about your own lack of understanding of TM. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:02 AM, grate.swan wrote: You can accept or reject either of these points. If you accept both (at least as reasonable and plausible) then its hard to buy a lot of this GD would have been upset

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: I'm also curious about the true source of the technique of using these

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:27 AM, grate.swan wrote: It's been said (sorry don't have a source) that GD told Mahesh to go to the mountains and meditate, that he would otherwise only be good at making money. If this quote is true, then he disobeyed his masters oral instructions. So yes, he would be

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: I really have nothing against the technique itself, never have. I still practice TM every morning for 1/2 hour. I do it for one reason and one

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:27 AM, grate.swan wrote: It's been said (sorry don't have a source) that GD told Mahesh to go to the mountains and meditate, that he would otherwise only be good at making money. If this quote is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yorkshire man wakes up Irish after brain surgery

2009-04-29 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: Most peculiar. Surprisingly common too:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:59 PM, guyfawkes91 wrote: It's quite sad really. It's a hail mary pass with nearly zero chance of success. I can see that the general idea is that people inside the TMO think the reason people outside aren't attracted to learn TM is because of lack of coherence in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:46 AM, geezerfreak wrote: Yep, it could be. All we can do here is state our opinions based on the observations and input we have received so far in life. Mine tell me that GD would have paddled Mahesh's hiny for what he has done. As a good touchstone you'd have to

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: I'm also

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:00 AM, geezerfreak wrote: Robert, I get what you are saying but I do NOT want the money back. (I'm sure there are people who do however.) No, that's not my point at all. I do--I want it all back, every cent. And I want it all to go to the teachers who taught for

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:46 AM, geezerfreak wrote: Yep, it could be. All we can do here is state our opinions based on the observations and input we have received so far in life. Mine tell me that GD would have paddled

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:27 AM, grate.swan wrote: It's been said (sorry don't have a source) that GD told Mahesh to go to the mountains and meditate,

[FairfieldLife] Dog breaks out of his cage and springs his friends

2009-04-29 Thread do.rflex
A dog figures out how to open his own cage. When he breaks out, he goes back to free his buddies, too! Watch: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=34068

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Supreme Master Television, The Future of Education: Consciousness-Based Learning at Maharishi University Schools, part 2

2009-04-29 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:22 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:20 PM, Rick Archer wrote: From a friend: One thing I've never quite understood... why does everything always have to be Supreme This or Supreme

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Apr 28, 2009, at 10:24 PM, scienceofabundance wrote: I was talking earlier today to a friend of mine who is a university teacher in counseling. We were talking about last Sunday's NY Times article titled

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:27 AM, grate.swan wrote: It's been said (sorry

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:26 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: Speaking of Mac vs. PC, yesterday, the PC came out on top for me. I needed to extract just the scene about Fairfield from that Stephen Fry video, and iMovie on the Mac would not import the original .AVI file. And, yes, I do have the Perian

Re: [FairfieldLife] Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:35 AM, bob_brigante wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,69431-order,4/ description.html The cheap way is to get a Mac Clone which will run Mac OS X, Linux and XP/Vista: http://www.psystar.com/

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
Vaj wrote: It's been said (sorry don't have a source) that GD told Mahesh to go to the mountains and meditate, that he would otherwise only be good at making money. If this quote is true, then he disobeyed his masters oral instructions. So yes, he would be pissed. According to my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
Vaj wrote: The cheap way is to get a Mac Clone which will run Mac OS X, Linux and XP/Vista: http://www.psystar.com/ Why would anyone spend twice as much to buy a Mac, so they could run Windows? All the parts to run a Windows/Intel machine are available, off the shelf, at most computer

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawkes91@ wrote: But of course we know that the reality is that loads of people would learn TM anyway if only the price was right, teachers could earn a

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread boo_lives
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: I really have nothing against the technique itself, never have. I still practice TM every morning for 1/2 hour. I do it for one reason and one

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 11:12 AM, grate.swan wrote: That's funny that your view of GD -- or any master of the tradition -- or any enlightenment tradition - is so one dimensional. he did this, ergo he could have thought or done nothing else. Doesn't speak well for the vastness of the Knowledge

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_li...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: I really have nothing against the technique itself, never have. I still

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Hugo wrote: Boy it sounds a lot harder than unstressing no wonder the TMO simplifies everything. The type of techniques to guide people beyond swooning are actually quite easy, they just require a good guide. But it does explain why you meet some people

Re: [FairfieldLife] Dog breaks out of his cage and springs his friends

2009-04-29 Thread I am the eternal
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM, do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com wrote: A dog figures out how to open his own cage. When he breaks out, he goes back to free his buddies, too! Watch: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=34068 A metaphor of FFL? Doubtful. There are few buddies

[FairfieldLife] Smoke angels in the sky

2009-04-29 Thread Richard M
From: cloud animals http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/33-creepiest-clouds-on-ea\ rth/1515/3 and cloud faces http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/33-creepiest-clouds-on-ea\ rth/1515/2 :

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at 11:12 AM, grate.swan wrote: That's funny that your view of GD -- or any master of the tradition -- or any enlightenment tradition - is so one dimensional. he did this, ergo he could have thought or

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:09 PM, grate.swan wrote: Personally, I wasn't all that impressed with the Holy Shank. Order. If you liked endless pomp and ritual and horrendous Karnatic singing by the follower's kids, you might have dug it. I was just never one for that dripping Vaishnavite

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread TurquoiseB
Vaj, this is interesting to me in light of my mini-rant the other day about TM rounding and the almost *expected* negative results of it such as being spaced out, experiencing heavy unstressing, etc. I have encountered other teachers in the larger world of meditative arts who have also warned

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread Richard M
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_li...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: I really have nothing against the technique itself, never have. I still

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dog breaks out of his cage and springs his friends

2009-04-29 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: A dog figures out how to open his own cage. When he breaks out, he goes back to free his buddies, too! Watch:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread Bhairitu
bob_brigante wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,69431-order,4/description.html http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,69431-order,4/description.htm\ l http://linuxmint.com/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Supreme Master Television, The Future of Education: Consciousness-Based Learning at Maharishi University Schools, part 2

2009-04-29 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: Because if you actually do realize enlightenment, one of the first things you realize is not only that you are just like everyone else, you *are* everyone else. We're all bozos on this bus; ain't no supreme bozo in the bunch. But then why can't they fix their damn computers

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:18 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: Vaj, this is interesting to me in light of my mini-rant the other day about TM rounding and the almost *expected* negative results of it such as being spaced out, experiencing heavy unstressing, etc. I have encountered other teachers in the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dog breaks out of his cage and springs his friends

2009-04-29 Thread I am the eternal
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:31 AM, do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: A dog figures out how to open his own cage. When he breaks out, he goes back

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:26 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: Speaking of Mac vs. PC, yesterday, the PC came out on top for me. I needed to extract just the scene about Fairfield from that Stephen Fry video, and iMovie on

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shukra69 shukr...@... wrote: and manasika japa is not TM, I can do manasika japa anywhere like on the subway and do, I would never want to do TM in those situations , its something very subtle and delicate. One can still think in a helicopter...

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:02 AM, grate.swan wrote: You can accept or reject either of these points. If you accept both (at least as reasonable and plausible) then its hard to buy a lot of this GD would have been upset

[FairfieldLife] Interesting message on the Swin Flu from Ron Paul

2009-04-29 Thread shempmcgurk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB5-Y08qbjo .

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
TurquoiseB wrote: I'm wondering whether any of the sources you men- tion below talked about these issues. Thanks in advance... Yes, they do, Turq. For example, Sogyal Rinpoche: So take care not to impose anything on the mind or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: Mine wouldn't open it either, so I didn't get to watch it. Boo-hoo. The WMV file on my server will play just fine on a Mac with VLC media player. Download it here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html I'll give it a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,69431-order,4/description.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
Vaj wrote: What needs to happen at this point, is the teacher needs to awaken kundalini through shaktipat... What needs to happen is, nothing. There is not a single thing that an aspirant or a teacher can do to develop awareness of the Transcendent - not a subject of cognition. No

[FairfieldLife] The Buddha Speaks

2009-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
One day a bright and intelligent student of the Buddha asked if he could fetch his younger brother to join the order. Delighted, the Buddha agreed. But the younger brother, although kind and gentle, turned out to be slow and dull witted. He could understand nothing of his studies and asked

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_re...@... wrote: Can Macs watch Netflix instant movies yet? According to the Netflix website, yes.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Are Runes, Astrology and Other Ancient Paths Connected?

2009-04-29 Thread beno beno
It is not so easy to explain a theory that takes a book in a single post. That is why I offer the link. But here is another tantalizer for you: Imagine with me the following logical sequence: something becomes Conscious. Being alone forever becomes unbearable. So It divides Itself into what we

[FairfieldLife] In Honor of a Woman

2009-04-29 Thread do.rflex
A black woman in the Capitol by John Aravosis My friend Chris writes: I don't know if you saw the news tonight, but a statue of Sojourner Truth was unveiled today at the U.S. Capitol. She's the first African American woman to be honored with a statue in Statuary Hall. She was born into

Re: [FairfieldLife] Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread Bhairitu
Vaj wrote: On Apr 28, 2009, at 10:24 PM, scienceofabundance wrote: I was talking earlier today to a friend of mine who is a university teacher in counseling. We were talking about last Sunday's NY Times article titled Enlightenment Therapy (a story on a Zen master who decides that he

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-29 Thread scienceofabundance
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii...@... wrote: You would need to offer people, what they are seeking... Not everyone who learned TM, were seeking enlightenment... Many did not even know what they were seeking, when they learned TM... People like to eat healthy food...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread scienceofabundance
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: One must wait to their next birth to try again. If they were given proper instruction on how to deal with this (and followed it), why would they need to wait to the next birth to try again? Or would they? Science

[FairfieldLife] Re: Only 21% of Americans identify with the Republican Party

2009-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
There will be 'Tea Parties' all over the country! geezerfreak wrote: Dream on Willy boy. Far from sketching out a truly forward-looking set of policies for the 21st century, as his supporters had hoped, Obama is instead serving up cryogenically tasteless and headache-inducing

[FairfieldLife] Are Runes, Astrology and Other Ancient Paths Connected?

2009-04-29 Thread beno beno
I have discovered, over the course of 24 years, a new system of metaphysics that combines and sythesizes all of the following into one great whole, like pieces of a great jigsaw puzzle: astrology, tarot, I Ching, runes, the Tolkin (Mayan calendar), the Enneagram, Wm. B. Yeates' A Vision, Messages

[FairfieldLife] 72 percent said they are optimistic about the next four years

2009-04-29 Thread do.rflex
CBS/NY Times' 100-Day Poll Barack Obama's presidency seems to be altering the public perception of race relations in the United States. Two-thirds of Americans now say race relations are generally good and the percentage of blacks who say so has doubled since last July, according to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
Bhairitu wrote: Or the teacher should have given the meditation technique with shaktipat to begin with... Look, Fella, you don't exactly have a good history of giving anyone anything, especially instruction in meditation. If people paid good money to learn how to sit from you in the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:07 PM, scienceofabundance wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: One must wait to their next birth to try again. If they were given proper instruction on how to deal with this (and followed it), why would they need to wait to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: 72 percent said they are optimistic about the next four years

2009-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
do.rflex wrote: CBS/NY Times' 100-Day Poll Poll results with 1,995 short comments: F - 37.4% MSNBC, April 29, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/c6vbeh

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Vaj wrote: What needs to happen at this point, is the teacher needs to awaken kundalini through shaktipat... What needs to happen is, nothing. There is not a single thing that an aspirant or a teacher can do to develop awareness of the

[FairfieldLife] Quantum physics and Eastern modes of thought

2009-04-29 Thread bob_brigante
http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Here-Portable-Universe/dp/0061137863 http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Here-Portable-Universe/dp/0061137863 Certain Eastern modes of thought tell us that the world is not made up of things or nothing, but is a web of interconnected phenomena. Quantum physics has arrived

[FairfieldLife] Obama Approval consistently in 60% range since taking office

2009-04-29 Thread do.rflex
Obamas approval numbers have consistently been in 60% range since he took office. See array of polls here: http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_job.htm Recent polls - ~ USA TODAY/Gallup Poll: Public thinks highly of Obama ~ WASHINGTON — His opening months in the Oval Office have fortified

[FairfieldLife] Are there any early-bird AM group meditation programs in town?

2009-04-29 Thread mike_shapiro2001
There used to be a 5:40AM group meditation program on MUM campus for folks who had to get finished up earlier and could not make the big 7:30AM program. Men were in building 150. I don't know if or where the ladies met. Numbers for men ranged between 15 and 30 each morning. And that was back

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,69431-order,4/description.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:26 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: Speaking of Mac vs. PC, yesterday, the PC came out on top for me. I needed to extract just the scene about Fairfield

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley Speaking of Mac vs. PC, yesterday, the PC came out on top for me. I needed to extract just the scene about Fairfield from that Stephen Fry video, and iMovie on the Mac would not import the original .AVI file. And, yes, I do have the Perian

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fry at MUM

2009-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 28, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Hugo wrote: Early the next morning I watch the rush of studentry to the main dome. They have to get there by eight o'clock to swipe their cards through a machine, pad into the hall and meditate for twenty minutes, which gives them course credits. If they miss

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turn your pathetic PC into a Mac

2009-04-29 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley Speaking of Mac vs. PC, yesterday, the PC came out on top for me. I needed to extract just the scene about Fairfield from that Stephen Fry video, and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Bypass

2009-04-29 Thread Bhairitu
Richard J. Williams wrote: Bhairitu wrote: Or the teacher should have given the meditation technique with shaktipat to begin with... Look, Fella, you don't exactly have a good history of giving anyone anything, especially instruction in meditation. How would you know

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