[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Years ago, I heard that the way to find God was to quit looking for Him. > But you did look for him yeah? You can't give it up in the middle or not even bother searching and then read about a person called Jim who said on FFL that the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > Good stuff, Curtis. Where you're coming from is why the Buddha told everyone to please kill him if you meet him in the road. All these external forms of spirituality must die for authentic spirituality to be born. Many, of course, get stuck i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > > > But I have to say that watching these guys on Mt. Athos made me feel as though I was watching people who had decided that rather than being open to life on its own terms and discovering truth, they had opted for dictating wh

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > > It is the path of yoga - suppression with awareness. > Ex-cultists & pseudo-spiritualists like Barry and Curtis will argue that > monastic life is the *opposite* of material life. NO. The opposite of > material life is *suicide*, t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > > > The Orthodox are very hard-core believers. They rightly point out that > > they are the original Christian church, unbroken in lineage, belief > and > > pra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama birth certificate issued by White House

Judy, you have to understand that what WillyTex sees when looking at the birth certificate is different from what you and I see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/birthers-still-have-quest_n_854591.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Interesting that what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > The Orthodox are very hard-core believers. They rightly point out that > they are the original Christian church, unbroken in lineage, belief and > practice. They are very Platonic in many ways, especially in using > beauty as an approac

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:13 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured

[FairfieldLife] Helena, Montana

1870 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/36833.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > These guys found a theurgical mix for inner exploration of > Christianity, which I consider a lot deeper than just about anything > out there Jesus-wise. > Don't know about that. Periodically I tune into Joel Osteen. To me he has a pretty p

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: Monasticism > is really much better and/or much worse than the CBS program depicts, > depending on participation and faithfulness. I would be interested to hear what you feel are the better and worse outcomes of the monastisc life. An

[FairfieldLife] Monks

Life of a monk, too structured at Mt. Athos. Meals take longer than 10 minutes. I prefer "Infinite Divisibility" [Yves Tanguy, 1942]: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/1/1975.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

I was just asking your opinion. My opinion is that I did not see much naturalness in their lifestyle. It all seemed quite orthodox. I guess if you feel that a regimented, continual recitation of prayers leads to a closeness to God, then they got it going on. But I don't see it. So again, what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama birth certificate issued by White House

No, they aren't (as I just said). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > authfriend: > > Interesting that what Willytex quotes > > isn't from either of the Web pages he > > gives URLs for... > > > The quotes are from: > > 'You've GOT To Be Kidding Me!' > http://marke

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > Abstract: Until recently, Neoplatonic theurgy has been defined by > scholars as an attempt to manipulate the gods through ritual, and its > influence in late antique Platonic circles has been interpreted as > evidence for the decline of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama birth certificate issued by White House

authfriend: > Interesting that what Willytex quotes > isn't from either of the Web pages he > gives URLs for... > The quotes are from: 'You've GOT To Be Kidding Me!' http://market-ticker.org/post=185094 and 'The Corner' http://tinyurl.com/3kz7clp > > That this document has been cropped and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama birth certificate issued by White House

Bhairitu: > Sometime I think Florida needs to be broken > off and shipped along with Texas to Antarctica. > Don't you just hate those Hispanics! "The House budget blueprint for the next fiscal year would keep the current Medicare program in place for people now 55 and older. But those youn

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama birth certificate issued by White House

Interesting that what Willytex quotes isn't from either of the Web pages he gives URLs for. The second one, in fact, is from National Review Online, a right-wing publication; it's a post that *debunks* the notion that the certificate is a forgery. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex"

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama birth certificate issued by White House

Vaj: > Who wants to guess what the replacing conspiracy > theory will be? > That this document has been cropped and altered by an idiot who thought he knew how to scan a birth certificate using Adobe Acrobat? At the least this was a scanned document produced by a moron who thought he knew Phot

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

You're taking this too personally and so you see it as a personal put-down. I may be acerbic in my comments but I'm not denigrating your experience doing long retreats of siddhi practice as such. I just don't believe it to be comparable but rather see it as a form of spiritual retreat of indetermi

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Apr 23 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat Apr 30 00:00:00 2011 447 messages as of (UTC) Wed Apr 27 21:50:33 2011 45 authfriend 40 Ravi Yogi 39 Yifu 28 turquoiseb 28 Vaj 28 Rick Archer 22 nablusoss1008 21 Tom Pall

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

That fourth sutra is about upeksha, accurately translated as equimimity. It is the fourth valule in the Buddhist iteration of the Brahma-vihaara-s, the stations or consciousness-states of Lord Brahma, the purohita of our local cosmos. It is not enumerated by Patanjali because he found no "accompli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > > On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues > > > > He was translating experiential writings of the dessert fathers. > > > > Would these have included cheesecake recipes? > > No

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues > > He was translating experiential writings of the dessert fathers. > > Would these have included cheesecake recipes? I have an original copy of Christ's strawberry-rhubarb crumble recipe. Accepting

Re: [FairfieldLife] Obama birth certificate issued by White House

On 04/27/2011 12:00 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of Bhairitu > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:44 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Obama birth certificate issued by White House

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Vedic Science

> > > > > > > > > Veda Bhumi, Deva Bhumi, Purna Bhumi Bharat > > > > > > > Developments in modern science, in particular in Quantum Physics, have > > opened new perspectives for a unified understanding of Nature. > > > > This process of unification culminates in a complete unification at

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama birth certificate issued by White House

On 04/27/2011 11:57 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: >>> On Behalf Of Vaj >>> >>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/obama-birth-certificate-r_n_854248.html >>> >>> They should have waited till a month or two before the election. >>> >>> Who wants

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > > wrote: > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues > > He was translating experiential writings of the dessert fathers. > > Would these have included cheesecake recipes? No, but he had a really good one for pecan sandies.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

Oh Judy, *smutty* sounds so *judgmental*. I think *suggestively naughty*(spoken with a thick British accent) is more appropriate. From: authfriend To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, April 27, 2011 8:53:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos fea

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > I believe it makes sense for me to evaluate claims according > > > to the reaso

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:13 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes He was translating experiential writings of the desser

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > I look at it differently, as I see these monks performing a certain > type of reality selection based on their own beliefs, beliefs they've > chosen to enact via their theurgy or ritual magical practice. But as > Bill's post points out Div

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > I believe it makes sense for me to evaluate claims according > > to the reasons they are being made. If your version of the > > humility you are requesting req

[FairfieldLife] Speet-siddhi?

>From 200 bpm to 280 bpm: http://www.drummerworld.com/Videos/georgekollias200280.html

RE: [FairfieldLife] Obama birth certificate issued by White House

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bhairitu Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:44 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Obama birth certificate issued by White House On 04/27/2011 08:29 AM, Rick Archer wrote: >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama birth certificate issued by White House

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > > On Behalf Of Vaj > > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/obama-birth-certificate-r_n_854248.html > > > > They should have waited till a month or two before the election. > > > > Who wants to guess what the replacing conspiracy th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

I look at it differently, as I see these monks performing a certain type of reality selection based on their own beliefs, beliefs they've chosen to enact via their theurgy or ritual magical practice. But as Bill's post points out Divine Theurgy is something that is both "applied Gnostic Chr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > Cultic participation does not equal monastic experience. Your judgments > about it are not informed by a real direct experience, in spite of your > assumptions that you are "experienced" like Jimmy Hendrix. Monasticism > is really much b

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > I believe it makes sense for me to evaluate claims according > to the reasons they are being made. If your version of the > humility you are requesting requires me to abandon that belief, > I would need to now why. I haven't fo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Obama birth certificate issued by White House

On 04/27/2011 08:29 AM, Rick Archer wrote: > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of Vaj > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 10:16 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Obama birth certificate issued by White House > > > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

U... Empty, I think you're taking some of the banter around here a little too seriously. Life is too short to play *who can be offended most by the least*. Wasn't one of the original sutras *Indifference*? From: emptybill To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > > wrote: > > > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Yifu" wrote: > > > > Excellent!...another expert on what's "authentic". Now we > > have two. > > http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/vampire-throneroom.jpg > > Exactly. But for heaven's sake, we want

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Yifu" wrote: > > Excellent!...another expert on what's "authentic". Now we have two. > http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/vampire-throneroom.jpg Exactly. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > > Cultic participation does not equal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

Excellent!...another expert on what's "authentic". Now we have two. http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/vampire-throneroom.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > Cultic participation does not equal monastic experience. Your judgments > about it are not informed by a real di

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've been wrong about a lot of things in my life. Really > > > > > impo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

Cultic participation does not equal monastic experience. Your judgments about it are not informed by a real direct experience, in spite of your assumptions that you are "experienced" like Jimmy Hendrix. Monasticism is really much better and/or much worse than the CBS program depicts, depending on p

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

I love all the diverse opinions, great work everyone! (I haven't decided yet what "the truth" is,...but maybe some day). But on the whole, instead of visiting either of those Monkish places, I would recommend spending time watching "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". ... A Daniel Craig sequel com

[FairfieldLife] TM Leadership Training/ Raja Luis honours Governors of Latin America

http://www.maharishichannel.in/econtact_mailing/MAILING_OUT/2011_04/2010_04_26_clinic.html      

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

Hesse was never a monastic so he was just imagining what he thought it was. It is actually much more and also much less than your imagination. Everything in monasticism depends upon the individual monastic. Most Eastern Orthodox monasteries clothe and feed their own members along with their man

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > > wrote: > > > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > Good stuff, Curtis. Where you're coming from is why the Buddha told everyone > to please kill him if you meet him in the road. All these external forms of > spirituality must die for authentic spirituality to be born. Many, of course, > get

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > Fervent soliloquy from your self to yourself. Appears to be your > experience of what unity must be like - your own form of self-referral. > > > > This has nothing to do with the realities of monasticism but you can > still make gr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > I've been wrong about a lot of things in my life. Really > > > important things

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

A fundamentally protestant judgment. It's all a bunch of empty ceremony, right? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > I take it you were impressed by what you saw, or what you know about the daily living on Mt. Athos. I had kind of expected something different. It se

[FairfieldLife] Re: What did the Resurrection look like?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > They make reproductions at the monastery; you can > > order them. You can see smallish photos of the > > icons available here (see menu on the left for the > > categories): >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

Fervent soliloquy from your self to yourself. Appears to be your experience of what unity must be like - your own form of self-referral. This has nothing to do with the realities of monasticism but you can still make grand proclamations to Turq and he can make some back to you. Everyone doing s

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > I've been wrong about a lot of things in my life. Really > > important things. Things I had believed were irrefutable. > > So now I have a bit more humble pi

[FairfieldLife] Re: What did the Resurrection look like?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > > My memories are from the late '78-'79 era. > > I seem to remember seeing pictures of a > > monk up high on a ladder painting some of the > > iconic murals. I was impres

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 2011, at 8:04 AM, seventhray1 wrote: > > > I take it you were impressed by what you saw, or what you know > > about the daily living on Mt. Athos. I had kind of expected > > something different. It seemed more formal, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > I had such a charming time with the Cistercian monks when > I was into spirituality that I have continued an appreciation > for their alternative lifestyle. Sort of how I view people > way into the tattoo culture, interesting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

Hmmm ... this must be from that very rare Pali Sutta just recently translated into English: "Kill the Buddha Before He Kills You" Could you tell me where to find it in the Nikaya-s? I'm jus' so styoopid. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

Years ago, I heard that the way to find God was to quit looking for Him. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > Good stuff, Curtis. Where you're coming from is why the Buddha told everyone > to please kill him if you meet him in the road. All these external forms of > spirituali

[FairfieldLife] Re: Game Of Thrones

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Medieval, but better. > > If you've been watching it, you know what I'm > talking about. If you haven't, who cares what > you think? :-) As long as you don't get physical about it, that is. Man Throws Cousin Through Window Over 'Game of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Vedic Science

> > > > Veda Bhumi, Deva Bhumi, Purna Bhumi Bharat > > > > Developments in modern science, in particular in Quantum Physics, have opened > new perspectives for a unified understanding of Nature. > > This process of unification culminates in a complete unification at the level > of the Plan

[FairfieldLife] Do cyborgs age?

That would seem to be the question inspired by this enter- tainment news article. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not quite as quick on my feet as I was when I first saw Ahnold in this role. And if I wanted to look at all Terminator-like, I'd so have to suck in my gut. Can the Gover

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > I had such a charming time with the Cistercian monks when I was into > spirituality that I have continued an appreciation for their alternative > lifestyle. Sort of how I view people way into the tattoo culture, > interesti

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

Good stuff, Curtis. Where you're coming from is why the Buddha told everyone to please kill him if you meet him in the road. All these external forms of spirituality must die for authentic spirituality to be born. Many, of course, get stuck in the external form seemingly forever. Like those infa

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > > Reading the inane FFL comments here about this 60-Minutes CBS > > expose of Mt. Athos FWIW, it didn't seem to be an "expose," at least the text version of the story didn'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit word of April: ghRNaa, part 4

. amunaa; eva > hetunaa paraiH; anyaiH; ca > kaayavadbhiH; asaMsargaH samparka-abhaavaH saMsargaparivarjanam iti; arthaH . The meaning (arthaH) of saMsarga-parivarjana (abstaining from contact [with other people]) [is] like this (iti): for this (amunaa) very (eva) reason (hetunaa)[1] non-conta

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > I've been wrong about a lot of things in my life. Really > important things. Things I had believed were irrefutable. > So now I have a bit more humble pie on my dinner table and > a whole lot more of a "relly" in my reac

[FairfieldLife] CNN Breaking News

From: CNN Breaking News [mailto:breakingn...@mail.cnn.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 7:57 AM To: textbreakingn...@ema3lsv06.turner.com Subject: CNN Breaking News President Obama's long-form birth certificate is being released, the White House announced today. Finally exposing the Birth

[FairfieldLife] Bored-ass Jesus will see you now

Time for a little Mark Morford: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/04/27/notes042711.DTL &nl=fix http://tinyurl.com/3mpu4k2

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Vedic Science

> Veda Bhumi, Deva Bhumi, Purna Bhumi Bharat > Developments in modern science, in particular in Quantum Physics, have opened new perspectives for a unified understanding of Nature. This process of unification culminates in a complete unification at the level of the Planck scale (l0-33 cm) wh

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama birth certificate issued by White House

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/obama-birth-certificate-r_n_854248.html > > They should have waited till a month or two before the election. > > Who wants to guess what the replacing conspiracy theory will be? Obama never really lear

RE: [FairfieldLife] Obama birth certificate issued by White House

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Vaj Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 10:16 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Obama birth certificate issued by White House http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/obama-birth-

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

I had such a charming time with the Cistercian monks when I was into spirituality that I have continued an appreciation for their alternative lifestyle. Sort of how I view people way into the tattoo culture, interesting, but I keep my distance. I certainly dig the chanting and the Jungian ani

[FairfieldLife] Obama birth certificate issued by White House

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/obama-birth-certificate- r_n_854248.html They should have waited till a month or two before the election. Who wants to guess what the replacing conspiracy theory will be?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Washington Post on Sai Baba

Buffalo Springfield - For What Its Worthhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M_Ttstbgsin other news Iowa firm uses dog to sniff out bedbugs at hotels

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's Vedic Science

Veda Bhumi, Deva Bhumi, Purna Bhumi Bharat

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > One gets the feeling that you think hierarchically, > and have fallen for the trap of believing that one > of these ways of life is "higher" or "more evolved" > than the other. I see them as merely two different > approaches, neither any "

[FairfieldLife] Re: What did the Resurrection look like?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > My memories are from the late '78-'79 era. > I seem to remember seeing pictures of a > monk up high on a ladder painting some of the > iconic murals. I was impressed at the time and > still am but I can't find picts of the wall icons on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit word of April: ghRNaa, part 3

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > YS II 40 and Bhojadeva's comment: > > (http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_yoga/bhojavritti.itx > Transliteration scheme: ITRANS 5.2) > > shauchAtsvAN^gajugupsA parairasaMsargaH .. sAdhana 40.. > > vR^ittiH \-\-\- yaH shauchaM bhAv

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

On Apr 27, 2011, at 8:04 AM, seventhray1 wrote: I take it you were impressed by what you saw, or what you know about the daily living on Mt. Athos. I had kind of expected something different. It seemed more formal, and more ceremonial than I had expected. Really, I question the degree o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

I take it you were impressed by what you saw, or what you know about the daily living on Mt. Athos. I had kind of expected something different. It seemed more formal, and more ceremonial than I had expected. Really, I question the degree of spirtituality present there. What do you think? ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: What did the Resurrection look like?

My memories are from the late '78-'79 era. I seem to remember seeing pictures of a monk up high on a ladder painting some of the iconic murals. I was impressed at the time and still am but I can't find picts of the wall icons on the net either. That is typical among the Orthodox since they feel you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > Reading the inane FFL comments here about this 60-Minutes CBS > expose of Mt. Athos helps to contrast the basic viewpoint of > monastics (as contemplatives who practice seriously) with > some of these meditators who profess to have be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mt. Athos featured on 60 Minutes

Reading the inane FFL comments here about this 60-Minutes CBS expose of Mt. Athos helps to contrast the basic viewpoint of monastics (as contemplatives who practice seriously) with some of these meditators who profess to have been meditating 30+ years. >From the monastic viewpoint, the world -

[FairfieldLife] You're my effing singer! :D

[Charlie] Watts [, drummer of the British rock band, The Rolling Stones -- card] has spoken openly about a period in the mid-1980s when his previously-moderate use of alcohol and drugs became problematic: "[My drug and alcohol problems were] my way of dealing with [family problems] ... Looking

[FairfieldLife] Jersey Shore, performed a la Oscar Wilde

The closest to culture New Jersey is ever likely to come: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/26/jersey-shore-gone-wilde_n_853815.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit word of April: ghRNaa, part 2

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > YS II 40 and Bhojadeva's comment: > > (http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_yoga/bhojavritti.itx > Transliteration scheme: ITRANS 5.2) > > shauchAtsvAN^gajugupsA parairasaMsargaH .. sAdhana 40.. > vR^ittiH \-\-\- yaH shaucaM bhAvay