[FairfieldLife] John Bull, the Correct Tradition

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
http://bp2.blogger.com/_VlWFczK0-BU/RvwMpFmUmEI/Aog/UwmZxgT2LwQ/s1600-h/john+bull.jpg

[FairfieldLife] The "Org"

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
http://www.abundantgraceministries.org/Supernatural-Scientology-Cross.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dueling Fundamentalists

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
Finally. After all these years you admitted what you really are. You must have just gotten out of bed and didn't realize what you were doing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > One thing that's always struck me as ironically funny > about the "get Vaj" thang is that his

[FairfieldLife] Matthew next to Hitler

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
http://www.hogwild.net/cartoon/pope-bloopers-hitler.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Dueling Fundamentalists

2011-05-27 Thread turquoiseb
One thing that's always struck me as ironically funny about the "get Vaj" thang is that his critics have essentially the same fundamentalist vibe that he does. Vaj criticizes Maharishi for not following the "proper" ways of spiritual teaching and not following the rules and regs of a tradition t

[FairfieldLife] The sand castle

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
http://neosurrealismart.com/modern-art-prints/?artworks/the-sand-castle.html&fullsize

[FairfieldLife] The Inquisition

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
Surely you know that it still exists, known originially as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition and now as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Its former head master, Cardinal Rat-Zinger is now pope. BTW it is still active in its new form. I know a Be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread Ravi Yogi
Jim, yes - very interesting patterns emerge. Barry indeed feels victimized, threatened and obsessed with cults. There is a strange hold that cult leaders still have on him, clearly Rama killed himself but Barry continues to believe in this Negative Occult Energy B.S. that Rama taught. And then Barr

[FairfieldLife] Tomas de Torquemada

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
First Inguisitor General of Spain http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Torquemada.jpg

[FairfieldLife] A harvest of death

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
Gettysberg, 1863; featured on the History Channel, 5-30-11. http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/34103.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Family Karmic Tree

2011-05-27 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: > > > > Interesting it would be see a karmic tree of past relations > > of FFL posters. The types of exchanges here don't come from > > karmic strangers. Some people quite

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread whynotnow7
Ravi, Bozotronic Barry always brings up this sci-fi BS whenever his fragile ego feels put upon. Poor baby.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > > > > > Turquoiseb: > > > The "reality of FFL" is that si

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Family Karmic Tree

2011-05-27 Thread whynotnow7
How very whiny and victimized of you, Bozotronic Barry. Funny how you have been insulting others for years on forums and now when a few slings and arrows go your way, we are "inquisitors looking for victims". God, what a baby and spoiled brat you are. C'mon, get some balls and take it like a man

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > Turquoiseb: > > The "reality of FFL" is that since the beginning of > > this posting week, five posters (Judy, Jim, Willytex, > > Nabby, and Ravi) have made 62 posts either insulting > > me, trying to "refute" something I said, or ot

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: > > > What always seemed odd to me was that Mahesh occasionally is found > > worrying about being poisoned or his relatives being poisoned. > > > > Why? > > Perhaps because

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
Last time we went down this path I gave you a summary of Yogic Vedanta's definitions of "states" of unity consciousness. I did this because I doubted that you had access to the source material. It took me a lot of time because I work slowly, carefully and with continual measurement of the way we k

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Family Karmic Tree

2011-05-27 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > Interesting it would be see a karmic tree of past relations > of FFL posters. The types of exchanges here don't come from > karmic strangers. Some people quite pissed off some others > in past lives it would seem. One gets the feeling

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" willytex@ wrote: > > > > > > > > Vaj: > > > "If Mahesh thinks that he is backed by Shankaracharya, > > > then what is proper on his part is to tell people to > > > take initiation from Sh

[FairfieldLife] rat catcher holding ferrets

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/38652.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Mae West

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
http://www.mindspring.com/~hsstern/maewest/photos.htm

[FairfieldLife] Wallace Berry

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
1930 http://www.image-archeology.com/Movieland_Wax_Museum_Buena_Park_CA_Wallace_Berry_and_Marie_Dressler.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Meet the invisible man

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
http://www.movies-wallpapers.net/Movies/Abbott%20And%20Costello%20Meet%20The%20Invisible%20Man/Abbott%20And%20Costello%20Meet%20The%20Invisible%20Man-01.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > > > > Who the "fucking hell" cares what you have to say about this? > > Go talk to Bariatric-I whose opinion is that everything is opinion. > > To hold that there is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > > > > > > I have asked V a number of times for who, what, where he learned any > > meditation techniques. He avoids answering this and consistently > > disappears for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
In this context, "technique" just mean method. Agni-hotra is a method, a technique. Mahamudra is a method with many techniques. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > > > > > > I have asked V a number of t

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Family Karmic Tree

2011-05-27 Thread Ravi Yogi
Hmm..it just looks all wonder, joy, love and peace to me. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > Interesting it would be see a karmic tree of past relations of FFL posters. The types of exchanges here don't come from karmic strangers. Some people quite pissed off some others i

[FairfieldLife] the talking wolf

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
http://www.thismodernworld.org/gra/wolf.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Seeing through the eyes of the Lord

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/1997-09-22/index.html

[FairfieldLife] Mormon Tabernacle interior

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
1897, Utah http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/49534.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Beauty and the Beast

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
Errol Flynn and Bridgett Bardot. http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljaik0r4eM1qabj53o1_500.jpg "Flynn was about 44 at the time and lived another six years, dying at age 50, seeming to bring to fruition his famous quote, "I intend to live the first part of my life - I don't care about the rest."

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
But. But. I'm jus so styoopid. How'd it git all moral and all that? An what started it? Someone had to start it somewhere. It can't jus be on its own. Like forever?! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] FFL Family Karmic Tree

2011-05-27 Thread tartbrain
Interesting it would be see a karmic tree of past relations of FFL posters. The types of exchanges here don't come from karmic strangers. Some people quite pissed off some others in past lives it would seem.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > I have asked V a number of times for who, what, where he learned any > meditation techniques. He avoids answering this and consistently > disappears for a while after the query. Are techniques necessary?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > Who the "fucking hell" cares what you have to say about this? > Go talk to Bariatric-I whose opinion is that everything is opinion. To hold that there is something other than opinion implies you know something that is absolutely true.

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > > The poisoned simply thanks the poisoners for resolving their karma. > > > > The poisoners are setting themselves up for the same. > > > Yeah, resolving karma! That's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread tartbrain
I want to see Barack's initiation form certificate. (And GWB and father -- Mike love probably still has the forms.) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailt

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > Vaj: > > "If Mahesh thinks that he is backed by Shankaracharya, > > then what is proper on his part is to tell people to > > take initiation from Shankaracharya..." > > > Stupid idiot - ordinary people can't take 'initiation' > f

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > The poisoned simply thanks the poisoners for resolving their karma. > > The poisoners are setting themselves up for the same. > Yeah, resolving karma! That's what it's all about! Forget about the Shoah. It was just karma resolving. > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
Don't you know that salvation is through faith alone? No works can warrant it! I heard it from my Uncle: God sez jus git on yur neez an pray jeezus to forgiv you. That's even easier than the mantra of a hindoo demon and surely to happen. Judy … quick … call Ratko Mladic and tell him. ……

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread tartbrain
The poisoned simply thanks the poisoners for resolving their karma. The poisoners are setting themselves up for the same. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > Poison is the favorite method of killing gurus of opposing sampradaya-s > or even another guru within the s

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
Poison is the favorite method of killing gurus of opposing sampradaya-s or even another guru within the same sampradaya. It is usually slipped into the food while the cook is being distracted by another person and is carefully measured. By Milarepa's time it has spread to Tibet also. If you have

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
Poison is the favorite method of killing gurus of opposing sampradaya-s or even another guru within the same sampradaya. It is usually slipped into the food while the cook is being distracted by another person and is carefully measured. By Milarepa's time it has spread to Tibet also. If you have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > You've been harping on this one for years lurk.. > it evidently got to you. So sure, go ahead > and bring up the claim and show me how > "wrong" I was. Here ya go, Sal. Below is post #243746 made on March 14, 2010 (a little over a y

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > I believe Vaj's contributions here are more sincere than that. > If you accept the premise that there really IS a tradition of > knowledge of yoga, and if you believe that Maharishi has > corrupted it, then it all makes sense why

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > What always seemed odd to me was that Mahesh occasionally is found > worrying about being poisoned or his relatives being poisoned. > > Why? Perhaps because that's a common means of murder in India? I would imagine a country with a long trad

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > But for the sake of argument, lets assume that someone > did not formally learn TM or the sidhis. Does that mean > that they cannot have any knowledge of the practices > and cannot compare such methods to others that they are > learned in?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote: > > What the fucking hell does anyone here care about the > credentials about anyone else? It's the same damned deal > as being a birther. Does anyone -- ANYONE -- think the > Turq understands philosophy anywhere as deeply as Vaj? -- > yet

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote: [Rick wrote:] > > Probably because it's the only TM center in the country that > > has had the same center chairman (Janet Hoffman) since the > > 1960's. > > Exactly, and she seems very organized and careful. Janet's a pistol. Gave (no dou

[FairfieldLife] Re: Among the Truthers Rebuttal

2011-05-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > Nothing wrong with the conjunction to turn it into one > sentence. I don't think it is that hard to understand. Compound sentences are fine, but you should put a comma (or a semicolon) between them (in this case, after "fact of life"). Sp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2011-05-27 Thread Alex Stanley
Sorry 'bout this week's mangled Post Count. I manually counted the top posters, and no one over-posted. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, FFL PostCount wrote: > > Fairfield Life Post Counter > === > Start Date (UTC): Sat May 21 00:00:00 2011 > End Date (UTC): Sat May

[FairfieldLife] Vaj’s attacks on MMY distract from the world’s biggest spiritual failure, the DL

2011-05-27 Thread whynotnow7
Vaj's MO is to always keep the focus on Maharishi's relatively minor failings vs. having us notice the 400 pound gorilla in the room. OK, Maharishi had girlfriends and did other unethical things. Granted. On the other hand, THE DALAI LAMA SOLD OUT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY OF TIBET. First he lost the

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-05-27 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat May 21 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat May 28 00:00:00 2011 820 messages as of (UTC) Fri May 27 23:55:12 2011 63 authfriend 62 Yifu 59 turquoiseb 57 whynotnow7 53 WillyTex 49 tartbrain 47 seventhray1 37 Buck 34

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Among the Truthers Rebuttal

2011-05-27 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/27/2011 03:25 PM, seventhray1 wrote: > This sounds like a essay for the sixth grade. Let me grade it some: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: >> I'm proud to be a "conspiracist" and there are many great ones >> throughout history. Bhairitu, how many times have I to

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 6:36 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM On May 27, 2011, at 6:01 PM, wayback71 wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On May 27, 2011, at 6:01 PM, wayback71 wrote: > > I really doubt any records back any length of time > are kept or accessible in any way~~which is > undoubtedly why they ask you your TTC and > initiator over and over. Or at least they ddid. > A fun way to check would be to register for > a cour

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
You call that psycho-rant objectivity? Ha! It's just more tricycle dust blown up to watch it swirl in the wind. Objectivity is YOU giving up your teachers, courses, gurus along with actual dates so we can verify it. You are really sounding more and more like some internet pseudo-Buddhist living

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of wayback71 > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 6:02 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced,

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of wayback71 Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 6:02 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM I believe the NYC TM center is one of the few who still

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread Vaj
On May 27, 2011, at 2:47 PM, WillyTex wrote: > Vaj: >> "If Mahesh thinks that he is backed by Shankaracharya, >> then what is proper on his part is to tell people to >> take initiation from Shankaracharya..." >> > Stupid idiot - ordinary people can't take 'initiation' > from a Shankaracharya,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 5:02 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, pra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > I really doubt any records back any length of time > are kept or accessible in any way~~which is > undoubtedly why they ask you your TTC and > initiator over and over. Or at least they ddid. > A fun way to check would be to regist

[FairfieldLife] Re: Among the Truthers Rebuttal

2011-05-27 Thread seventhray1
This sounds like a essay for the sixth grade. Let me grade it some: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > I'm proud to be a "conspiracist" and there are many great ones > throughout history. Bhairitu, how many times have I told you to give examples!!! Let your reader know w

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread seventhray1
Jeesuuz Christ. I feel like I watching a WWII movie, or cowboy and indian movie where the cavalry or the reinforcements come charging over the hill in order to save the beseiged soldiers. BTW, I thought you made some excellent points! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote: > >

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 5:02 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM On May 27, 2011, at 4:48 PM, wayback71 wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On May 27, 2011, at 4:48 PM, wayback71 wrote: > Actually, I was initiating in the 70's and kept a record and index file on > everyone. But like many teachers of TM, when I moved I left the files with > the people who replaced me. People were mobile then and there was no central > repository of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ wrote: > > > Or should it be, "Barry The Buddhist Boundry Buster"? Oh, I know you > > are not a card carrying Buddhist. But you do have some affinity for the > > tradition. >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > > > As I said before, Vaj has never learned, practiced > > > or taught TM. He also knows nothing about the TM > > > Sidhis... > > > > turquoiseb: > > You forget that I used to work at the Western Regional > > Office. At that ti

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj just Ignore him as i have

2011-05-27 Thread wleed3
i just hope all here will not respond to him he will then i feel fade away In a message dated 05/27/11 16:05:49 Eastern Daylight Time, willy...@yahoo.com writes: Duveyoung: > Vaj has gone toe to toe toe with just about everyone > here and has held his own consistently and courageously, > a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread WillyTex
Duveyoung: > Vaj has gone toe to toe toe with just about everyone > here and has held his own consistently and courageously, > and he wields logic like a scalpel... > Only if you accept Vaj's premise that of all the meditation techniques known to man, TM is the only one that does NOT work. Wha

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread WillyTex
feste37: > So, you poison your spiritual teacher, then for > the rest of your life you choose to sit directly > under his portrait, give him credit for everything > you have done and are doing, and thank him by name > after every speech or lecture you make. > > Does this scenario make any s

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread WillyTex
> > As I said before, Vaj has never learned, practiced > > or taught TM. He also knows nothing about the TM > > Sidhis... > > turquoiseb: > You forget that I used to work at the Western Regional > Office. At that time (the late 70s), there was no way we > could check whether anyone had learne

[FairfieldLife] Movie for some FFLer's: "Stone"

2011-05-27 Thread Bhairitu
"Stone" stars Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Milla Jovovich and is about a convicted arsonist played by Norton who tries to get out of prison early by manipulating his parole officer played by De Niro with the help of his wife played by Jovovich. The first half hour is a bit sluggish and pe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread Yifu
A healthy dose of skepticism can be helpful, tempered by the prospect that the challenger may have a. arguments based on lies and false assumptions, and/or b. ulterior motives. If coupled with a. and b., one could compare the challenge to "Swift Boating": Wiki: "SBVT stated that "Kerry's phony

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread WillyTex
Vaj: > "If Mahesh thinks that he is backed by Shankaracharya, > then what is proper on his part is to tell people to > take initiation from Shankaracharya..." > Stupid idiot - ordinary people can't take 'initiation' from a Shankaracharya, unless they are Brahmins! But, anyone can take initiatio

Re: [FairfieldLife] Among the Truthers Rebuttal

2011-05-27 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/27/2011 10:51 AM, raunchydog wrote: > "Kay resorts to many of the old tactics of media manipulation developed > during the Cold War. He employs the whole arsenal of McCarthyesque clichés, > where the so-called Truthers are made to stand in for stereotypical communist > infiltrators seeking

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread Bhairitu
Well said. I might add that most likely TB'ers never learned any other program either before or after doing TM. I suspect because once someone has learned something else TM doesn't look so good. Vaj definitely has a background with the Swami Rama group. When I visited Ammachi's ashram in Ker

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread Vaj
On May 27, 2011, at 2:10 PM, emptybill wrote: Who the "fucking hell" cares what you have to say about this? Go talk to Bariatric-I whose opinion is that everything is opinion. You'll be able to entertain him for a moment. As someone who used to teach at the Maharishi School, Edg's opinions

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > I am familiar with the stories. But I am also familiar with two shanks -- personal audience with one, small group audience with another. An am somewhat familiar with the histories of some others. I am not sure that I would bet the farm on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
Who the "fucking hell" cares what you have to say about this? Go talk to Bariatric-I whose opinion is that everything is opinion. You'll be able to entertain him for a moment. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote: > > What the fucking hell does anyone here care about the credent

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread Duveyoung
What the fucking hell does anyone here care about the credentials about anyone else? It's the same damned deal as being a birther. Does anyone -- ANYONE -- think the Turq understands philosophy anywhere as deeply as Vaj? -- yet Turq taught TM for sure. Turq's credentials turn out to be merel

[FairfieldLife] Among the Truthers Rebuttal

2011-05-27 Thread raunchydog
"Kay resorts to many of the old tactics of media manipulation developed during the Cold War. He employs the whole arsenal of McCarthyesque clichés, where the so-called Truthers are made to stand in for stereotypical communist infiltrators seeking to subvert society from within. By drawing on th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > > On May 27, 2011, at 10:24 AM, seventhray1 wrote: > > > > > Thanks for providing these sources > > > > I am familiar with the stories. But I am also familiar with two

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Nice try troll. Dude, Barry doesn't read my posts. Therefore I have no clue > who you are, or how you gained access to his email account. There is NO WAY > you are him - just some impostor troll. I DO have evidence though, not from

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread emptybill
I have asked V a number of times for who, what, where he learned any meditation techniques. He avoids answering this and consistently disappears for a while after the query. At one point he claimed on the forum that he had received teaching from Namkhai Norbu and upon occasion indicated that he d

Re: [FairfieldLife] Four More Years of Fascism!I agree Col.wm. D. Leed IV U.S.Army. Ret

2011-05-27 Thread wleed3
Not so sure re turn coats what that may mean but that hardly matters here @ all. But agree in all else. Go Ran Paul & also mostly agree with him & the Tea Party as well as audit the Fed Ron Paul CUT CUT SPENDING & our borrowing to finance our so called present needs & that debt so easily passe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardnelson108" wrote: > He reminds of something that Deepak said to me. > He was talking about the TM-Ex people who used to carry protest signs outside > of courses going on in Washington, DC in the 80's. > He said "a fanatic will always be a fanatic.

[FairfieldLife] Four More Years of Fascism!

2011-05-27 Thread Bhairitu
The cowards and turncoats in the Senate voted to extend the treasonous Patriot Act four more years. I certainly don't agree with Rand Paul on everything but I applaud him for having the guts to stand up and say what is right about this pile of shit legislation. We ought to start a "Pee Party

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread richardnelson108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardnelson108" > wrote: > > > > > You, on the other hand, have this buring desire to make him the devil, even > > though you say you have "transcended" your TM practice. > > Don'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread richardnelson108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On May 27, 2011, at 11:00 AM, richardnelson108 wrote: > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > >> > >> > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On May 27, 2011, at 10:24 AM, se

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardnelson108" wrote: > You, on the other hand, have this buring desire to make him the devil, even > though you say you have "transcended" your TM practice. > Don't you have anything better to do with your time? > I believe Vaj's contributions her

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread tartbrain
This was not the case with the Puri shank that I met with. He had negative things to say about some types of teachers (no specific names) However, since by his own statements, Swaroop, given his strict adherence to caste class framework (that could be a red flag), stated MMY was not eligible to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread Vaj
On May 27, 2011, at 11:00 AM, richardnelson108 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 10:24 AM, seventhray1 wrote: Thanks for providing these sources One of the reasons I don't post it eve

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > Or should it be, "Barry The Buddhist Boundry Buster"? Oh, I know you > are not a card carrying Buddhist. But you do have some affinity for the > tradition. > You don't? (!!??) No affinity or appreciation of (the many and var

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread richardnelson108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > > On May 27, 2011, at 10:24 AM, seventhray1 wrote: > > > > > Thanks for providing these sources > > > > > > One of the reasons I don't post it every time this topic comes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On May 27, 2011, at 10:24 AM, seventhray1 wrote: > > > Thanks for providing these sources > > > One of the reasons I don't post it every time this topic comes up, is > because I assume most people who've done any objective examination o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread Vaj
On May 27, 2011, at 10:24 AM, seventhray1 wrote: Thanks for providing these sources One of the reasons I don't post it every time this topic comes up, is because I assume most people who've done any objective examination of Mahesh and his character are already familiar with it from years

[FairfieldLife] Re: the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > So, you poison your spiritual teacher, then for the rest of your life you > choose to sit directly under his portrait, give him credit for everything you > have done and are doing, and thank him by name after every speech or lecture >

Re: [FairfieldLife] the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread Vaj
On May 27, 2011, at 10:18 AM, feste37 wrote: So, you poison your spiritual teacher, then for the rest of your life you choose to sit directly under his portrait, give him credit for everything you have done and are doing, and thank him by name after every speech or lecture you make. Does

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-27 Thread seventhray1
Thanks for providing these sources --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > I have two sources on it: one a published interview with one of SBS's > students and a Shankaracharya, the other another a now deceased jivan- > mukta. > > Q: Mahesh Yogi claims that he preaches yoga according

[FairfieldLife] the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread feste37
So, you poison your spiritual teacher, then for the rest of your life you choose to sit directly under his portrait, give him credit for everything you have done and are doing, and thank him by name after every speech or lecture you make. Does this scenario make any sense?

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