Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Effort means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-04 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/4/2014 6:15 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: On 06/04/2014 03:32 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: How do you know it is the mantra you're remembering? (This isn't a deep philosophical query.) Say your mantra is potato and you *hear* yourself

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Effort means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-04 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/4/2014 6:21 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: ReFunny you should mention that. On my TTC when MMY came to make us teachers he also gave out advanced techniques. On the flight back home folks were running around asking do you remember the mantra that MMY gave you for an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why Maharishi REALLY Hated Students 'Seeing Other Teachers'

2014-06-04 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/4/2014 6:27 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Don't you guys who oppose this thing think it might be a mighty good idea to find out where the TM council members including the mayor stand? And especially MUM? Even tho its a university the fact that they are

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi explains how UC becomes Brahman

2014-06-04 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/4/2014 6:47 PM, merudanda wrote: **FWIW in danada`s holding meruop-onion chasing fleeting wood`s maximize attunement with the universe of me-ness sounds flashy nice** You are not even making any sense - it sounds complicated.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Effort means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-04 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/4/2014 7:28 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Gee, in my understanding, you get only one bija mantra when you're initiated. The advanced techniques aren't new bija mantras, they're actual Sanskrit words that you use with your original bija mantra. Am I wrong? I have only one

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Effort means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-04 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Maybe if you are a kindergarden student as far as mantra shastra goes. Sadly, it's a subject that never was taught by Maharishi. But other paths do. It's also another reason why I walked away from TM: because it was very limited. FYI, this stuff has been available in books for decades.

Re: [FairfieldLife] detailed advanced technique discussion = bye bye for me.

2014-06-04 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
What a loser! On 06/04/2014 06:44 PM, lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: as the title suggests. I'm outa. Cheers all. L

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi explains how UC becomes Brahman

2014-06-04 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Whoa - ALL CAPS, eh? Self is right! :-) The spiritual explanation for that is, the continuing ripening and enrichment, the strength of the Self, from TC/CC to UC - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Fleetwood, for me it's not a CONCEPT of near and dear Self. It's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Effort means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-04 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Again it depends when you got your advanced technique. This ain't a religion. You are to keep your mantra secret supposedly to keep it's power for you. But discussion of mantra shastra and how mantras work is certainly not off limits unless a crazy cult leader demands it which would only be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi explains how UC becomes Brahman

2014-06-04 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think I'll start my own country next.:-) I am looking at a 42 acre, level, wooded property in the Sierra foothills, about fifteen miles north of Paradise, with a house and large horse barn included (art and music studio, and maybe a couple of cats, too). If I end up there, first priority:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Effort means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-04 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/4/2014 8:07 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: When did you get your advanced technique? When I got mine in 1976 it was based on a different beej mantra from the first technique I got. I've heard in later years it might have been taught by using the original beej

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Effort means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-04 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/4/2014 8:12 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: aing to aing namah to shri aing namah is the way it went for me. The only bija in this list is aing. Were you thinking that sri and namah were also bijas? Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedanta, TM and Vipassana

2014-06-04 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yeah, I basically agree. As many benefits as I have gained from TM, etc., and all the *crap* I enjoy about enlightenment - lol -, it wouldn't be worth a plugged nickel, if I didn't have a life, too. No Fun.:-( I pretty much run flat out, all the time, like an Irish Setter, and doing all the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Effort means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-04 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/4/2014 8:12 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: aing to aing namah to shri aing namah is the way it went for me. The so-called/Saraswati bija//mantra/ is an early Buddhist bija mantra - apparently you practiced Buddhism for twelve years. Did you also mediate

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Effort means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-04 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/4/2014 9:07 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yes, that is true. Supposedly, we only get one bija mantra. It is later used with Sanskrit words that interject certain meanings and actions – for TM they are shama akshara-s (i.e. peaceful, laudatory and surrendering

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