So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the
bus with me.
Mickey Mouse in Finnish is Mikki Hiiri (mik-key heery).
The nickname for Microsoft is Mikkisofta. Softa refers to software!
Hi Ann. Thanks for all the three videos. I saw them all. Of course I know the
joy of movement! What did you think? Come on, I have been walking on my hands
half of my life, as a kid and also as an adult, I still do it! But IMHO these
are two topics, getting vairagya through meditation, loving
Another prominent south-Indian (Tamil), who:
Venkataraman was popular, good at sports, mischievous, and was very
intelligent with an exceptional memory which enabled him to succeed in school
without having to put in very much effort. He had a couple of unusual traits.
When he slept, he went
Btw. Ramana Maharshi got his title / name by Ganapathy Shastri Muni, also
called Nayana, a Shri Vidya practitioner from Andhra Pradesh. He was the first
one to make Ramana known to a larger audience within India. After finding his
guru in Ramana, he composed a 1000 versed poem, which was
Public transportation here in the South in general is pretty primitive and
pathetic - in South Carolina in particular. The only real public transpo is the
bus system that runs in the larger cities (if you can call them cities) - not
very clean, not very efficient and absolutely viewed in the
Now I find this interesting - I had never heard that M told the Rajas not to
mix with others. Not that I doubt your word, but what is the provenance of that
info? Did he tell 'em just not to do program with non-rajas, or not to
socialize or what?
From non-meditators to non-initiators to
It all began when Suryia the orangutan was so depressed after losing his
parents that he wouldn’t eat and didn’t respond to any medical treatments.
Veterinarians were even worried that he would die from sadness. But that all
changed the day Suryia met a homeless hound dog named Roscoe...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/us/seeking-a-bridge-between-western-science-and-eastern-faith-with-the-Dalai-Lama.html?hpw
I would ride the Richland-Fairfield metro line, except it runs right underneath
our house, without stopping.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Anyway, that's just what I felt like rapping about this evening. What
about the rest of you? We've got
MJ, those Raja guidelines were once published and hashed out on FFL before
your time here. They were in notes that Kingsley Brooks had from a meeting
delineating how Rajas should be conducting themselves. Their guidelines were in
the archive here but given the way nemo has no good search tool
so that brings up a couple questions - do you remember exactly what they were
told - I mean was it to not live with or socialize with those of lower ranks?
and I have never heard of a raja deal in Jackson Hole - is there a meditator
community there now?
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 8:06
It is interesting. There was an exodus of upper-middle-class meditators in the
1990's and through the 00's as it became apparent that the work of the movement
then was mostly about liberating money from them as a class. Many of them have
moved back now because they did not find community out
it was a different article - the one about wealthy people being less empathetic
and considerate, when faced with the problems of others.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
O.K. It works. Emily may not post often.
---In
Too many metrosexuals on the buses here.
From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 11:19 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation
So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
wondering what
Buck wrote:
MJ, those Raja guidelines were once published and hashed out on FFL before
your time here. They were in notes that Kingsley Brooks had from a meeting
delineating how Rajas should be conducting themselves. Their guidelines were in
the archive here but given the way nemo has no
Emily wrote:
What cracked me up about all this was that the article Share apparently only
read the title of was by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence she
considers a classic. LOL.
That is hilarious. I never noticed.
Excellent way to start the day, with a belly laugh!
No, that's the one Buck cited, the one by Goleman in the NYTimes. Emily's quite
right.
DoctorDumbass wrote:
it was a different article - the one about wealthy people being less
empathetic and considerate, when faced with the problems of others.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:08:38 AM, iranitea no_re...@yahoogroups.com
wrote:
Hi Ann. Thanks for all the three videos. I saw them all. Of course I know the
joy of movement! What did you think? Come on, I have been walking on my hands
half of my life, as a kid and also as an
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
turq, Vancouver has wonderful public transportation. At least it was wonderful
during the 2010 winter Olympics. Buses and trams full of people from all over
the world, mostly young, delighted to be in a beautiful city during a thrilling
event. As for me, I was falling in love so was also riding
dear Richard, well may your entire home be a Zone of Tranquility (-:
thanks for another lovely photo.
On Friday, October 11, 2013 2:45 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com
wrote:
We are thinking about a modest home - one with an interior courtyard garden for
the Zone of
Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study
finds.
Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new
analysis of ancient handprints. Most scholars had assumed these ancient artists
were predominantly men, so the finding overturns decades
http://www.tasteofherbs.com/fe/57309-taste-of-herbs-flavor-wheel?orid=99918opid=8
Thanks, I saw that a little earlier in the day. Of course the Nixon
administration proposed the Guaranteed Annual Income. Alaska pays its
residents profits from oil leases. I know the idea twiddles the minds
of conservatives but what are you going to do if there really are no
jobs for
Thanks, Edg. I don't know which I like best, the herb chart or the magnifying
gizmo (-:
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 10:48 AM, Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com
wrote:
http://www.tasteofherbs.com/fe/57309-taste-of-herbs-flavor-wheel?orid=99918opid=8
As I've posted before, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ain't so rapid.
Right now there is a possibility of another strike which will make
things really worse. Much at issue aren't so much union wages but
safety. Back in the day they probably thought they had the state of
the art public
I admit I've long wished the US had a coast to coast fast train and a car train
at that, maybe making 3 or so stops along the way. I've traveled in train a few
times and thoroughly enjoyed it.
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:17 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
As I've posted
Workers' wages buy less and less. In fact, workers have lost purchasing
power during the past half-century. Comparing prices to wages, the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose more than six times from 1965 to
2011---while the minimum wage rose less than five times.
'Measured In Gold, The Story Of
We have an Amtrak station here. I looked into traveling up to Seattle
that way but it was actually more expensive than taking a plane. When I
was a kid I traveled from here back up to Portland on a train. I would
bet the route has not changed much. I got to see a lot of fir trees.
On
Interesting - you learn something new every day but the mystery deepens.
National Geographic had this intriguing story:
Prehistoric peoples chose places of natural resonant sound to draw their famed
cave sketches, according to new analyses of paleolithic caves in France. In at
least
About 50 years ago, I traveled from Frostburg, MD in the mountains to DC Union
Station. Lots of trees at the beginning. Lots of govt buildings at the end. But
Union Station is quite beautiful as are some other parts of DC.
The passenger trains traveling east that go through FF end up in
Re Let's hope that Switzerland's bills pass and it goes viral in the world.:
I hope it passes also. Even if it ends in tears we'll all have learnt a great
deal from the experiment.
Nixon proposing a Guaranteed Annual Income was news to me. So the idea appeals
to those on the right? Yes,
Love it. If both this and the other story are true, it would mean the women
doing the cave paintings were likely priestesses and/or shamans. The mental
image--both visually and in terms of the type of energy involved--is so
different from the one I've had up to now that it gives me chills up my
Link to Nat Geo
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Love it. If both this and the other story are
Around here, there's one thing you can do if you have a car - you can get
out of town! LoL!
If there is one thing that keeps me in the U.S., other than the freedom, is
to be able to go anywhere I want to, anytime I want to, and be there with
the least effort.
It's all a matter of placement and
Thanks for the link. Last two paragraphs:
In rare instances, cave images include highly stylized females who appear to
be dancing or enigmatic, part-animal 'sorcerer' figures engaging in what seem
to be transformational dances.
'This is therefore an artistic connection between dance and
It's not really about Castaneda - we already pretty much discussed that
over on Usenet : alt.dreams.castaneda
And, it's more about Shamans than Don Juan Matus. It's more about
Shamanism as a influence on the Siddha tradition in India, where an
influence from the shaman substratum may be
Re It's not really about Castaneda:
OK - fair enough. The BBC docu I linked to is worth a look though. It briefly
touches on Castaneda's life but concentrates on the disappearances (and
presumed suicides) of his female fans Florinda Donner, Taisha Abelar, Amalia
Marquez and Kylie Lundahl .
Sometimes I wonder how people get by. It's all we can do just to drive
to the local Safeway and pack in enough food to last a week for a large
family, and we have a Chevy van!
So, let's say you're married and have two or three children. How are you
going to get to the store - on foot or on
Curiouser and curiouser. I'm with you when you say: I'll never look at cave
paintings the same way again. It's remarkable how something as simple - and
boring - as measuring finger lengths can result in one's preconceptions being
completely overturned.
Of course, in a decade hence some
Last week I rode downtown on one of these:
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:
**
About 50 years ago, I traveled from Frostburg, MD in the mountains to DC
Union Station. Lots of trees at the beginning. Lots of govt buildings at
Very colorful, Richard. FF could definitely use something like that to continue
its efforts in becoming a tourist destination. But I like your car too.
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 1:56 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com
wrote:
Last week I rode downtown on one of these:
On
Possession by spirits, although documented in a great many shamanisms,
does not seem to have been a primary and essential element. Rather, it
suggests a phenomenon of degeneration; for the supreme goal of the
shaman is to abandon his body and rise to heaven or descend into hell,
not to let
The Yanqui all natural terra-form home from West Texas.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:
dear Richard, well may your entire home be a Zone of Tranquility (-:
thanks for another lovely photo.
On Friday, October 11, 2013 2:45 PM, Richard Williams
Do you take the bike or ride in the car to get to the dome?
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:
**
Very colorful, Richard. FF could definitely use something like that to
continue its efforts in becoming a tourist destination.
Seraphita wrote:
Curiouser and curiouser. I'm with you when you say: I'll never look at cave
paintings the same way again. It's remarkable how something as simple - and
boring - as measuring finger lengths can result in one's preconceptions being
completely overturned.
What really gets
I drive to the Dome in my 2006 Honda Civic which was #1 in its class that year.
She has manual transmission, a sunroof and no GPS, all at my request (-:
Hmmm, in the movies, such limos have well stocked refrigerators...
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:17 PM, Richard Williams
It's all a matter of positioning and placement.
Geomancy is at least half a million years old, dating from early Homo
Sapiens. Images of 'Mater' dating from 30,000 B.C.E. were placed in small
wall recesses in homes, in order to insure vitality and abundance.
All traditional cultures have their
To Reflect...
Take Advantage of Every Opportunity
preach the Word; be ready in season and out of season (2
Timothy 4:2).
During a terrible storm, young Charles Spurgeon
took refuge in a Methodist Chapel. The sermon was preached by a deacon with
little instruction who frequently
It makes sense - women probably were the first to tame fire as well.
The very first use of human controlled fire, circa 50,000 BCE, in
relation to human a dwelling, was the controlled use of fire sticks.
Contrary to popular opinion, it is quite possible that ancient women
invented shamanism
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cave_of_forgotten_dreams/
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study
finds.
Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:08:38 AM, iranitea no_re...@yahoogroups.com
wrote:
Hi Ann. Thanks for all the three videos. I saw them all. Of course I know
the joy of movement! What did you think? Come on, I
I was going to post this as well. This movie on the Chauvet Cave was
excellent; it leaves one wanting more.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cave_of_forgotten_dreams/
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Today the Chromecast is running much better. Much, much better. Last
Saturday I made a comment to a friend about Fry's selling a 55 TV for
$499. I said, but who has ever heard of TCL? Duh, turns out they are
one of the top 4 TV manufacturers in the world and have only recently
set up shop
Iranitea wrote:
Ann wrote:
Of course Barry claims I'm a Mean Girl which I take as a personal badge of
honour coming
from him.
You should do so, it certainly is. Actually it's just satirizing a certain
type of piling on
behavior. No need to take it absolutely serious.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Iranitea wrote:
Ann wrote:
Of course Barry claims I'm a Mean Girl which I take as a personal badge of
honour coming
from him.
You should do so, it certainly is. Actually it's
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Got the Hulu Plus, the Chromecaster, and the Roku - and I've got me an
antenna at the Shack- $40.00. Now I can pull in some free UHF and VHF HD to
watch on my TV. It's a powered antenna with a gain control and a green LED
light. Highly rated by Consumer Reports.
According to what I've read, a
Marshall Brain on how to do this in the US including funding it:
http://marshallbrain.com/25000.htm
On 10/12/2013 10:33 AM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Re Let's hope that Switzerland's bills pass and it goes viral in the
world.:
I hope it passes also. Even if it ends in tears we'll all have
Rita and I are thinking about getting rid of our old furniture and getting
some new stuff, even though I already told her the rent's too damn high.
When I was a single guy back in 1970, I had a bean bag chair to sit in and
a foam slab to lie on. Go figure.
Now I know a guy that used to teach at a
Interesting observation that.
Did they turn red after they got here and, they must have all left together as
there don't seem to be any left there from what I have heard.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
They don't call Native Americans Indians
Concerning the twelve marks of a sadhu: hand applied, by every yogi, it
would be a cause of concern if any marks were to appear to be 'perfectly
applied' by using a mirror. Those marks are applied during the sanctified
bathing, and must never be applied with using a mirror, nor even by looking
at
Communal meditating Fairfield, Iowa deservedly is in very good company
alongside these other historical American groups rooted in Quietism and piety
in facilitating its spiritual practice.
-Buck in the Dome
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
TM and
Allahabad, January 10, 2001
The brass band gave a standing ovation to the triumphant entry of
Vasudevanand Saraswati. The Shankarcharya sat on high gold-coloured
throne with four of his men standing beside him as flag-bearers on the
Triveni Sangam Marg. The throne was being carried on a tractor
Our Mantra Yoga tradition begins with the Lord Narayana, the first
meditator, who thought the first thought and set in motion this science of
sound vibration. The thought sounds or mantras were cognized in ancient
India by the rishis, that is, the seers of the science of sound, the first
psychic
Apparently, the proto-Shiva discovered in the Indus Valey is the
original horned god of world mythology, Lord of Animals. This tradition
originated in South India about 4,000 B. C. and then spread to North
India via the Indus Valley Civilization. By all accounts, this early
South Indian
You just had to broadcast your IP address on the internet, didn't you?
The Obama administration, which unsuccessfully sought to get Snowden
returned from Russia where he has been granted asylum, is known to
maintain a list of terrorists for killing via drone strike. U.S.
citizens have not
This is what I mean when I say get out of town quick:
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http://www.vosizneias.com/fastest-us-highway-with-85-mph-limit/http://www.vosizneias.com/113118/2012/09/06/austin-tx-texas-to-open-fastest-us-highway-with-85-mph-limit/
My Project Car:
http://www.rwilliams.us/cad/
It's not complicated.
According to Gaudapada and Shankara, the external world has no existence
independent of consciousness. Ajativada, or the doctrine of
no-origination, is the fundamental doctrine of Adwaita.
Gaudapaada is one of the most important figures in Indian philosophy
since it is
emptybill wrote:
(snip)
Grudges? WTF. We’re “attempting” to have a conversation here. Give up the
Judy-
isms. Or is that your standard fall back?
Actually grudges is a Barry-ism, not a Judy-ism. Mr. Fluffy Tea picked it up
from him.
Have you heard of the suggestion of some mantra meditation teachers that for a
newbie the most beneficial idea is to do the the following: find a quiet space
where you won't be disturbed; sit down and close your eyes; gently allow your
thoughts to arise and fall without trying to control the
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