[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Siddhis are not restricted to the vedic literature. We find similar feats in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand premanandpaul@ wrote: As I understand it from a muslim friend, Hindus take their mythical writings

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cold weather and new YFfers?

2010-01-08 Thread cardemaister
Just read that Sweden's running out of electricity because of the cold weather! :0

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cold weather and new YFfers?

2010-01-08 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: Just read that Sweden's running out of electricity because of the cold weather! :0 In the UK the worry is gas: Temperature in Altnaharra in Scottish Highlands dips to -21C, almost on par with south pole, as snow causes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote: That would be something. TurquoiseB wrote: It gets even weirder when people claim that things they have NEVER experienced subjectively but have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: The notion that there exists a 'transcendental state' beyond the senses is a categorical imperative described by Immanuel Kant. The Ultimate Reality can never be known through pure reason alone. Just HAVE to get my red pen

[FairfieldLife] Judy's Hair Club For Women (was Re: 'Avatar' arouses conservatives' ire)

2010-01-08 Thread TurquoiseB
This followup to a followup is just for fun, because we all know that Judy is out there somewhere, chomping at the bit to come running back to FFL and call me a LIAR for saying the things below. Let's compare my characterization of her freakout over unkempt hair to her *actual words* on the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: St. Thomas Aquinas was able to levitate as well, although this is not generally known to people within or without the Christian church. I was watching an interesting program about the art of Spain recently (there was a wonderful

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread Premanand
Actually, most hermits, sadhus and swamis in India are perceived as beggars. In 1967 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi put it like this:- So there is nothing definite in the life of a monk, particularly in India. Here in the west the monks are more organized and the church is there and they take care of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread BillyG
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand premanandp...@... wrote: Actually, most hermits, sadhus and swamis in India are perceived as beggars. In 1967 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi put it like this:- So there is nothing definite in the life of a monk, particularly in India. Here in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread Premanand
MMY: I preach a simple system of transcendental meditation which gives the people the insight into life and they begin to enjoy all peace and happiness, and because this has been the message of all the saints in the past, they call me saint. - transcript of recording of Maharishi Aug/Sept 1967

[FairfieldLife] Judy's Hair Club For Women (was Re: 'Avatar' arouses conservatives' ire)

2010-01-08 Thread raunchydog
It's all about Judyagain. Didn't Barry make a formal declaration that she was a non-person? Didn't he vow to not read her posts beyond the message view because he's too cowardly to admit to himself how badly she mops the floor with him EVERY TIME? Now he's cruising for a bruising...again?

[FairfieldLife] Red State takes on Tiger woods, Brit Hume and Prays ( Hilarious! )

2010-01-08 Thread do.rflex
Must see! Jackie and Dunlap at Red State Update talk to Jesus about Buddhists, Tiger Woods and FOX's Christian proselytizer Brit Hume... Take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfO_z5JJEjY

[FairfieldLife] Judy's Hair Club For Women (was Re: 'Avatar' arouses conservatives' ire)

2010-01-08 Thread TurquoiseB
Perfect way to end my posting week, by pointing out that the *other* self-proclaimed feminist on this forum seems to *agree* with Judy characterizing another woman as a slut or prostitute *on the basis of her hairstyle*. Look up the word slattern. Note its synonyms: slut and prostitute. Note

[FairfieldLife] How much would you pay to hear Sarah Palin?

2010-01-08 Thread do.rflex
Is Palin Getting $100,000 to Speak at the Tea Party National Convention? This morning, I asked whether Sarah Palin's decision to speak at the Tea Party National Convention ... had anything to with money. Conservative blogger Dan Riehl is reporting, based on forwarded communications, that

[FairfieldLife] Is Tea Party.org leader an illiterate racist?

2010-01-08 Thread do.rflex
'N-Word' Sign Dogs Would-Be Tea Party Leader Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar Dale Robertson, a Tea Party activist who operates TeaParty.org, is getting stung for an old photo — taken at the Feb. 27, 2009 Tea Party in Houston http://houstontps.org/ — in which he holds a sign reading

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread BillyG
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand premanandp...@... wrote: MMY: I preach a simple system of transcendental meditation which gives the people the insight into life and they begin to enjoy all peace and happiness, and because this has been the message of all the saints in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread Premanand
BillyG, I gave up reseaching Maharishi a long, long time ago. But this quote I remembered, having included it in my biography of him. I wasn't actually disputing your comments, and am not now. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG wg...@... wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Judy's Hair Club For Women (was Re: 'Avatar' arouses conservatives' ire)

2010-01-08 Thread m 13
I'm looking forward to the day when we are inclusive and have ceased being EXclusive. The state of the heart is relevant and not the state of hair. Perhaps it is my being an artist, but i like the abstractness of a bedhead. I may even wear sticks, feathers, flowers, or anything that gives me

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread Vaj
On Jan 8, 2010, at 11:26 AM, BillyG wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand premanandp...@... wrote: MMY: I preach a simple system of transcendental meditation which gives the people the insight into life and they begin to enjoy all peace and happiness, and because

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread Premanand
Let's be honest, virtually everything Maharishi convinced many of his audience that he was a model of 'enlightenment'. He didn't need to come out and say it, nor did people notice when he didn't. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Jan 8, 2010, at 11:26

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread Premanand
Let's be honest, Maharishi apparent familiarity with higher states of consciousness convinced most of his audience he was a model of 'enlightenment'. He didn't need to come out and say it, nor did people notice when he didn't. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread Vaj
On Jan 8, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Premanand wrote: Let's be honest, virtually everything Maharishi convinced many of his audience that he was a model of 'enlightenment'. He didn't need to come out and say it, nor did people notice when he didn't. Around 1997, 121 Pundits came to Stroudsburg, PA

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Cold weather and new YFfers?

2010-01-08 Thread Bhairitu
cardemaister wrote: Just read that Sweden's running out of electricity because of the cold weather! :0 Just cozy up to the TV and watch a copy of Danny Boyle's Sunshine. :-D

[FairfieldLife] Judy's Hair Club For Women (was Re: 'Avatar' arouses conservatives' ire)

2010-01-08 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: This from the two feminists who suggested that me pointing out that IMO Sarah Palin is a very ordinary- looking woman and that the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because of makeup was misogyny and hatred of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread WillyTex
The 'Fairey Tales' of Western cultures have nothing to do with Yoga or Transcendental Knowledge, found in the Upanishads and in the Vedanta. Vaj wrote: Actually there are many parallels in Western (and really world) Fairy tales, with Vedic deva- and angiris-lore. The instances

[FairfieldLife] Religion is science, science is religion

2010-01-08 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_NEVazvsOk

[FairfieldLife] How much money do you have, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi? January 24, 1985, Washington,

2010-01-08 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLgpbED-5yMfeature=channel

[FairfieldLife] Who was your hero Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?

2010-01-08 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sBK1zg6cEofeature=channel

[FairfieldLife] Why haven't we heard of Transcendental Meditation (TM)?

2010-01-08 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE5a017uXe4feature=channel

[FairfieldLife] Help Maharishi School win $100,000 --- Forgive the duplication and cross-posting.

2010-01-08 Thread michael
    Re:  Maharishi School, Fairfield, Iowa!!     Please read below and circulate this as widely as possible!!     If you have already received this, sorry!!     Jai Guru Dev     RH         From: Joanna Pitt joannap...@gmail.com Sent: Wed, January 6,

[FairfieldLife] Re: John Stewart his team discuss Tiger Woods' religion

2010-01-08 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seekliberation seekliberat...@... wrote: I don't understand why people feel Tiger needs any help whatsoever, let alone any ridicule. What we have here is a double standard. John F Kennedy cheated on his wife, and people all over the country to this day are

[FairfieldLife] Global Chilling

2010-01-08 Thread Bhairitu
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Snow and blustery winds blew into the already-frigid East on Friday and drivers as far south as Georgia were urged to stay off icy roads. More... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34764240/ns/weather/ And it is raining here and it wasn't even forecast. It can rain all it wants. I

[FairfieldLife] Now the TSA wants to read your mind

2010-01-08 Thread Bhairitu
So walk through the airport meditating. That ought to flummox it. ;-) http://rawstory.com/2010/01/tsa-funding-airport-mindreading/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread WillyTex
PaliGap wrote: The categorical imperative was the central plank of Kant's moral philosophy, not epistemology... Yes, I stand corrected, it was Kant's 'theory of knowledge', the thing-in-itself, that I meant to mention, according to Kant in his 'Critique of Pure Reason'. Kant argued that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: St. Thomas Aquinas was able to levitate as well, although this is not generally known to people within or without the Christian church. I was watching

[FairfieldLife] Re: Global Chilling

2010-01-08 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Snow and blustery winds blew into the already-frigid East on Friday and drivers as far south as Georgia were urged to stay off icy roads. More... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34764240/ns/weather/ And it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: PaliGap wrote: The categorical imperative was the central plank of Kant's moral philosophy, not epistemology... Yes, I stand corrected, it was Kant's 'theory of knowledge', the thing-in-itself, that I meant to

[FairfieldLife] TM on ABC Nightline TONIGHT

2010-01-08 Thread Rick Archer
Watch tonight on ABC Nightline at 11:35 p.m. ET! Appears to be quite positive...after the show there may be many comments from everywhere! http://abcnews.go.com/ http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/transcendental-meditation-vedic-city-iowa/st ory?id=9218475 Transcendental

[FairfieldLife] Bhuutajaya in Vlodrop?

2010-01-08 Thread cardemaister
I hope siddhas in Vlodrop next week (12th - 15th) shall use bhuuta-jaya-siddhi, or something, to warm up the weather in Europe at least by about 10 degrees of Celsius... : /

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2010-01-08 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jan 02 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Jan 09 00:00:00 2010 412 messages as of (UTC) Fri Jan 08 22:48:56 2010 50 authfriend jst...@panix.com 50 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com 45 WillyTex willy...@yahoo.com 31

[FairfieldLife] Avatar, as seen through the eyes of Shemp

2010-01-08 Thread ShempMcGurk
Wonderful, wonderful movie. I thought it appropriate that the movie came out in the same month as a study that showed the ocean's ability to absorb CO2 has not diminished: http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/ocean-absorption-co2-not-shrinking Avatar is the story of Gaia, the idea that the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walking on Water as a Siddhi

2010-01-08 Thread dhamiltony2k5
But to claim that something *you haven't even exper- ienced* is Truth because you BELIEVE it is, or because you read it in a book you consider Truth? That's the absolute *absence* of humility. Yes, discernment. By giving up even these powers comes the destruction of the very seed

RE: [FairfieldLife] Avatar, as seen through the eyes of Shemp

2010-01-08 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 6:30 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Avatar, as seen through the eyes of Shemp I thought it appropriate that the movie came out in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Avatar, as seen through the eyes of Shemp

2010-01-08 Thread ShempMcGurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 6:30 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Avatar, as seen through

[FairfieldLife] Re: How much would you pay to hear Sarah Palin?

2010-01-08 Thread suziezuzie
Lets not forget, if Palin had been the front runner candidate for president instead of McCain, she would have been president. Its alright though, because in 2012, she will. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Is Palin Getting $100,000 to Speak at the Tea

[FairfieldLife] Judy's Hair Club For Women (was Re: 'Avatar' arouses conservatives' ire)

2010-01-08 Thread jeff.evans60
Judy's Native American name may indeed be splitting hairs ! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Perfect way to end my posting week, by pointing out that the *other* self-proclaimed feminist on this forum seems to *agree* with Judy characterizing another woman