[FairfieldLife] Re: New Conference

2009-04-03 Thread BillyG.
thanks for the link that was great! David Lynch has the right approach, let's hope the Raja's don't torpedo the whole effort with their dos...I mean the last thing we need is a Renaissance pleasure fare for TM. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Conference

2009-04-03 Thread BillyG.
Poor Edg..caught up in hyperbole, and wishful thinking to boot. I think you blew your wad on the wrong horse Edg! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: enlightened_dawn11 wrote: thanks for posting this-- [snip] it is wonderful to hear paul m. and ringo and

[FairfieldLife] Re: VERY SPECIAL MEETING IN THE DOME 3:00pm FRIDAY!

2009-04-02 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: I think what strikes me most is the pretentiousness of the whole thing. I mean the fact that Raja Nader Ram has to keep up this pretense (along with some of the other big names) that he is actually functioning from the home of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahm Naad

2009-04-01 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernha...@... wrote: Anyone seen this? A Sri Sri Ravi project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dus9JMXwprgfeature=related It's a symphony of a thousand sitars. Kinda neato Pretty cool man..below is a better video of the event:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: To Protest McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert CANCELLED

2009-04-01 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John M. Knapp, LMSW jmknapp53@ wrote: Hi, Bob, I went to some pains to not say I was threatened. If I were in the DLF/TMO's position, I probably would have done something

[FairfieldLife] Re: Slaxity

2009-03-30 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: ..It is said that engaging in these breath- pausing lower absorptions leads to rebirth as an animal... Ha, ha, rebirth as an animal from 'improper' meditation, GMAB. Degenerating from the human species to a lower animal species

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Tm Allows One to Transcend Thought'

2009-03-29 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Robert wrote: It is a delicate process to transcend thought...that is the reason for the checking, etc... Because unless we have the experience of transcending thought, then we can think that repeating a mantra, or

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Tm Allows One to Transcend Thought'

2009-03-29 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: ---.Good; but as Charlie Lutes once said in jest, he asks the question as a challenge to those touting the benefits of transcending and at the same time

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Tm Allows One to Transcend Thought'

2009-03-29 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Robert wrote: It is a delicate process to transcend thought...that is the reason

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ten things that would make me become a TM TB again

2009-03-27 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Girish has a yacht?...prove it, or you are making false allegations. We don't need false allegations to reprove the Tmorg, there's plenty of ammo to go around already that's for real! This just sounds like gratuitous TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: The TM Is Not A Religion Religion

2009-03-27 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shukra69 shukr...@... wrote: This is just willful stupidity and closedmindedness. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I am SO bored with this topic I can't chime in with much more than a rant. I don't see how anyone

[FairfieldLife] Watch the spirits dance on channel 3. :-)

2009-03-21 Thread BillyG.
http://www.maharishichannel.in/

[FairfieldLife] Locked in to stupid!

2009-03-19 Thread BillyG.
For all those TM'ers who only use MMY as the source for their spiritual personal growth, unless you expand your horizons and explore the overall subject of Yoga you'll be 'locked in to stupid' till the day you die! There is a whole body of knowledge that surrounds the practice of TM that MMY

[FairfieldLife] Locked in to stupid!

2009-03-19 Thread BillyG.
For all those TM'ers who only use MMY as the source for their spiritual personal growth, unless you expand your horizons and explore the overall subject of Yoga you'll be 'locked in to stupid' till the day you die! There is a whole body of knowledge that surrounds the practice of TM that MMY

[FairfieldLife] Obama's teleprompter beginning to act like 'Hal' in 2001.

2009-03-18 Thread BillyG.
Obama's teleprompter gives him wrong speech, and he delivers it!! Obama laughed and returned to the podium to offer what might have been (was) Cowen's remarks. In doing so, President Obama thanked President Obama (himself) for inviting everyone over.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Remarks on AIG today - 3/18/09

2009-03-18 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: But...can you trust what his teleprompter is telling him to say? For instance, who is operating the teleprompter? And who decides what signals it sends to Obama? OBAMA: We're about -- I'm about to go to California, but I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Remarks on AIG today - 3/18/09

2009-03-18 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: But...can you trust what his teleprompter is telling him to say? For instance, who

[FairfieldLife] Obama teleprompter receiving messages from aliens.

2009-03-16 Thread BillyG.
It appears US President Barrack Obama has been channeling messages from the Alien 'Ztch3' from an undisclosed extraterrestrial planet using his teleprompter. You can hear them unscrambled here: http://www.zteck.com/radio/tv.htm NASA has been notified and the authorities are currently engaged

[FairfieldLife] Re: Global Good News Music Mall

2009-03-15 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Global Good News recently launched a new page on its website, Music Mall. The link to Music Mall appears in the navigation bar at the left

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to David Orme-Johnson.

2009-03-15 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: FWIW, I seem to recall that verse has been rather problematic for many commentators, because Krishna tells Arjuna: nis-trai-guNyo bhavaarjuna (bhava+arjuna) that is, not-three-'guNaic' be, Arjuna! In the next

[FairfieldLife] My response to David Orme-Johnson.

2009-03-14 Thread BillyG.
I think when MMY states in the Science of Being that TM is compatible with any Religion he doesn't mean in the way they are currently being practiced, but in the way they were initially practiced. To suggest that TM is compatible with Religion in the way it is currently practiced today

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to David Orme-Johnson.

2009-03-14 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: Well, not everyone accepts the universal being schtick that is basically a Hindu interpretation of the TC state. As I have pointed out before, a strong atheist might well attain God Consciousness or Unity Consciousness' ala

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to David Orme-Johnson.

2009-03-14 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Or rather than weeding them out, one could understand them differently. Thanks, that is pretty much my point. In fact in some cases you 'must' understand them differently to still remain in that Religion, but then the

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to David Orme-Johnson.

2009-03-14 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: Well, not everyone accepts the universal being schtick that is basically a Hindu

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to David Orme-Johnson.

2009-03-14 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: The experience of TC may or may not be the same from experiencer to experiencer. But the *interpretation* of that experience? How could that *ever* be the same, given the disparity in what we have been taught about what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visions during TM-sessions: blue sun?

2009-03-13 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: --- by Kirpal Singh, Spirituality, what it is: God-in-expression, there was vibration, which gave rise to Light and Sound principles, called by all Saints as Light and Udgit. God Absolute cannot be seen or heard, for nobody

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why MMY seldom mentioned the Chakras and Kundalini.

2009-03-13 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_li...@... wrote: I don't think mmy was that worried about religion here as he spent the last 20 yrs of his life talking about the vedas in all sorts of esoteric ways and esp with reference to hindu brahmin pundits doing their ceremonies as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why MMY seldom mentioned the Chakras and Kundalini.

2009-03-13 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip Precisely my perception. At the time when the sidhis were coming out in Switzerland, the inside group had actually amassed a huge book, all taken from various Hindu scriptures of kundalini, the various lokas, etc. It

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visions during TM-sessions: blue sun?

2009-03-13 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernha...@... wrote: It's just that let's say 20 years ago I was sitting during 'readings' 'looking into' 'the nature of mind as colors and tigle.' I asked the course leader about it. You know - It's nothing. As it turns out this is the

[FairfieldLife] Re: A. Of E. Techniques- Circa 1975

2009-03-13 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajrana...@... wrote: On Jan 20, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Peter wrote: This was not the most common A of E technique given out in '75. In fact, I've never heard of this specific technique before. MMY gave out many different ones and asked us to stay

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visions during TM-sessions: blue sun?

2009-03-12 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: During the first years of my doing TM I often saw a blue sun somewhat like this:

[FairfieldLife] Why MMY seldom mentioned the Chakras and Kundalini.

2009-03-12 Thread BillyG.
Actually there are two reasons, one is that it has Religious connotations with Hinduism and we don't want that do we! And the other, is that it is a very high state of development and few meditators (of any discipline) ever experience it. Why even mention it, TM is Yoga-lite for modernity

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why MMY seldom mentioned the Chakras and Kundalini.

2009-03-12 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernha...@... wrote: Fuck you Whoa, that's he most intense response I've ever received, and so thought out too! :-) I guess I inadvertently pushed your buttons, huh...Captain Kirk? - Original Message - From: BillyG. wg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visions during TM-sessions: blue sun?

2009-03-12 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernha...@... wrote: Bullshit. Whoa, another penetrating insightful response, what a guy! Well, brevity is the soul of wit..(in this case witless). :-) - Original Message - From: BillyG. wg...@... To: FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Re: Slide show of Brahmasthan of India

2009-03-07 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From a friend: Asher Ferguson, one of our young Purusha and this past year's MUM Valedictorian, is now working with Bevan in India.  He created a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Slide show of Brahmasthan of India

2009-03-07 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 12:52 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Slide show of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Elephant God

2009-03-05 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Image: Image: http://snipurl.com/d3roy Here's the answer to save America: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7qdbj_only-god-can-save-america-michael-s_news

[FairfieldLife] Why was Dhritarashtra blind?

2009-03-04 Thread BillyG.
1) We don't know. 2) Makes for a cool story. 3) He got a BB in his eye as a child. 4) It symbolized the blind mind dependent on its guidance from the intellect, (the intellect being either guided by the senses or the soul. The intellect is the charioteer, the mind are the reins of the horses,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'The Republican Hate Machine'

2009-03-03 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2...@... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: The 'Just Say No', Republican 'Hate Machine', Led by Rush Limbaugh, is not a laughing matter... This abandonment of reasonable rhetoric, is reminiscent of

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis re Guitar

2009-03-03 Thread BillyG.
- Original Message - From: Marek Reavis reavisma...@... Now I have a Kala spruce-top ukulele, which only intimidates me a little bit and I fool around with it almost every day. My fingers still don't do the impossible things that even the simplest chords require them to

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis re Guitar

2009-03-03 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Larry inmadi...@... wrote: But my main point is that after playing a couple weeks and I then knew about 5 chords, and it was only taking me about 31 seconds to switch between chords That ain't bad, in a few years I'm sure you'll be able to cut it down to

[FairfieldLife] Obama's Mission Accomplished..ha, ha!

2009-03-03 Thread BillyG.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/CartoonPopUp.aspx?id=320632820337258

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bridled Sexuality

2009-03-01 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Having listened to the rants on this forum about the evils and dangers of unbridled sexuality Here's a few: * AIDS: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) * Chlamydia infection: Chlamydia trachomatis * Genital

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bridled Sexuality

2009-03-01 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willy...@... wrote: BillyG wrote: You can only spit in the wind for so long before some of it gets on you! TurquoiseB wrote: Billy, The fact that if you seem to think that sex involves spitting explains much about your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans like their porn

2009-02-28 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_reply@ wrote: Just curious. So people who are not uptight about naked bodies, or depictions of sexual union, tended more to vote for McCain. And those who are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans like their porn

2009-02-28 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hope. Change. Believe. Sacrifice. Coming Together. l.shad...@... wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_reply@ wrote: Actually, my recollection is that people who live

[FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans like their porn

2009-02-28 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hope. Change. Believe. Sacrifice. Coming Together. l.shad...@... wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:40 PM, BillyG. wg...@... wrote: Perhaps you meant happy (quote unquote) sexual relationships, but since when is sex a source of happiness, (assuming you

[FairfieldLife] Shudra shunning at MUM was my tipping point (Re: Vaj the honest and forthright)

2009-02-24 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@... wrote: amen to that-- regarding the displaced anger, an all too frequent theme here on FFL from all the TM critics. if anything new was ever said about the TMO and their well known issues, but all of this is just a

[FairfieldLife] Shudra shunning at MUM was my tipping point (Re: Vaj the honest and forthright)

2009-02-23 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: When I was poor and wanting to still be able to do program in the domes, I had to ask them to let me in for free or at least give me a discount on the dome fee. You'd think that the TMO was scoring a point for having a

[FairfieldLife] Re: MIU Staff--They Sparkle in Yearbook Pictures

2009-02-23 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yateendrajee mcint...@... wrote: snip I'm on my third guru now Cam I think it's kind of important to remember that MMY is not a Guru, nor has he ever claimed to be a Guru. A Sat-Guru (True enlightened Guru) plays a very specific role in the life of a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Blue Solon Dr. Vernon Katz is this the man of our Gita?

2009-02-23 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WLeed3@ wrote: Is this the same Dr Vernon Katz of our Gita 1-6 chapteres 8 9 or so? Yup. Same Wernon as MMY used to call him. I wouldn't call MMY's uncompleted

[FairfieldLife] Floating on the river of Tao, (in complete obedience).

2009-02-22 Thread BillyG.
The Tao is *the way* and what MMY calls The Divine Plan, quote: The whole of creation is *set up* for the regular and continued evolution of the Soul so that each one in the creation may enjoy permanent happiness. MMY The Divine Plan. When we act 'in accord' with the Laws of Nature or the Tao we

[FairfieldLife] Re: Take that, Bongo Brazil: the morphing into Bush is now complete

2009-02-21 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal L.Shaddai@ wrote: Although I didn't at all like Maharishi's statement Damn Democracy I can definitely see where he's coming from. What has democracy brought

[FairfieldLife] Re: Several Maharishi Graduates Busted For Growing Pot

2009-02-20 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Disgusting. This thread has devolved into where's the best Mexican food? I understand gallows humor, but I don't understand the caustic and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kirpal Singh on Naam

2009-02-20 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: narrative by Kirpal Singh: The Masters teach that the one constant principle that links all these planes from pure spirit to gross matter is the principle of the flaming sound or the sounding flame. The Word or Shabd as

[FairfieldLife] The third eye and the Pineal gland.

2009-02-19 Thread BillyG.
By opening this door, (the Ajna chakra) one consciously transcends to pure consciousness. MMY never spoke much about this because it is a very high state of spiritual development, and few (if any) meditators of any discipline have reached this lofty state of consciousness. Charlie used to say the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The third eye and the Pineal gland.

2009-02-19 Thread BillyG.
of the third eye which allows us to consciously transcend to pure consciousness, but the opening of the next chakra, the crown, which enables this. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: By opening this door, (the Ajna chakra) one consciously transcends to pure consciousness

[FairfieldLife] Re: The third eye and the Pineal gland.

2009-02-19 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Feb 19, 2009, at 12:04 PM, BillyG. wrote: By opening this door, (the Ajna chakra) one consciously transcends to pure consciousness. MMY never spoke much about this because it is a very high state of spiritual

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj the devious and dishonest

2009-02-19 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:13 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: I'm sorry, I would have to stand by what I said. Have you ever met a real yogi? On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:30 PM,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The third eye and the Pineal gland.

2009-02-19 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@... wrote: again, i respectfully differ. all 7 must be open in order to achieve CC, the result of which then ripens through devotion into GC, and then further into UC. as long as any chakras are unopened, or uncleared,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The third eye and the Pineal gland.

2009-02-19 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: ---The 3-rd eye chakra can open up into pure Consciousness (as say the Sant Mat Gurus); when controlled out of body travel allows the Soul (composite of subtle bodies minus the physical body); to discard lower sheaths as it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is the revolt beginning? Call for a new tea party

2009-02-19 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Is Obama rewarding bad behavior with his new loan plan? If government spending can stimulate the economy, why don't we spend $1 trillion an hour so we can make $1.5 trillion an hour?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj the devious and dishonest

2009-02-19 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_li...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:13 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Several Maharishi Graduates Busted For Growing Pot

2009-02-18 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: http://livinginsmallsizes.com/2009/02/13/several-maharishi-graduates-busted-for-growing-pot/ http://is.gd/jOCY That's what happens when TM is taught in place of Religion! Ethics and morality don't magically

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whatever is done by Brahma is done by you

2009-02-16 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turiya89 deled2003@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: Yogavasistha Manu: Know that whatever is done by Brahma or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking the back of the devil thru spiritualized Will.

2009-02-16 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@... wrote: thanks for the question-- i see what i wrote is confusing- here i am talking about a devotional life and at the same time saying don't look for God(dess). the missing piece was that despite what was going on in my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking the back of the devil thru spiritualized Will.

2009-02-16 Thread BillyG.
: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: I like the passage in MMY's Gita where he says you have control over action alone, 'never' over the fruits. You have control

[FairfieldLife] Breaking the back of the devil thru spiritualized Will.

2009-02-15 Thread BillyG.
By practicing a form of meditation like TM one can 'spiritualize' their will, and only when the will has the power of the Spirit coming from, and in, the heart will success be ensured. A mere mental acknowledgment that one must change or an idealistic thought that losing weight would be nice or

[FairfieldLife] A theory of habit (Re: Breaking the back of the devil thru spiritualized Will.

2009-02-15 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: BillyG, Sounds to me like you're trying to find a way to make samyama an operative dynamic of daily life. When it comes to thinking oneself out of a problem, how about this as a rule of thumb: imagine-up a daydream

[FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking the back of the devil thru spiritualized Will.

2009-02-15 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@... wrote: well said. and by engaging this spiritualizing of the will, or perhaps combining faith and desire, however we look at it, it grows with practice. i recall when i was younger feeling somewhat tentative and alone

[FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking the back of the devil thru spiritualized Will.

2009-02-15 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: snip Have you even known morally lazy meditators? I have, as if meditation alone was going to transform them and almost as if effort was a 'no-no', it's totally

[FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking the back of the devil thru spiritualized Will.

2009-02-15 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: I think your point is well taken, even though what MMY said was on the margins...it was there! On the margins?? It was a whole section in SBAL, and TM teachers certainly heard a lot about it during TTC, from what they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking the back of the devil thru spiritualized Will.

2009-02-15 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I think your point is well taken, even though what MMY said was on the margins

[FairfieldLife] Laugh for the day....

2009-02-12 Thread BillyG.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidZdGiyjCM

[FairfieldLife] Re: What will change about you when you realize enlightenment?

2009-02-10 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: I post this as an open question to FFL readers. I think it's an interesting question. If you believe in enlightenment, and that it is within your grasp in this lifetime, what about yourself do you believe will *change*

[FairfieldLife] Re: The confusion caused by the bubble diagram.

2009-02-08 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@... wrote: thanks for bringing this up-- something which i have been thinking about as well lately. i think the beauty and power of the bubble diagram is that it suddenly made consciousness comprehensible in a simple and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The confusion caused by the bubble diagram.

2009-02-08 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@... wrote: thanks for bringing this up-- something which i have been thinking about as well lately. In addition, I've come to conclude that when MMY said thought comes from the source of thought he was talking about the Holy

[FairfieldLife] Re: The confusion caused by the bubble diagram.

2009-02-08 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_li...@... wrote: The bubble diagram was an intriguing way to conceptualize what was going on in meditation for me for years. Now, however, I find it to be major mental maya. The whole concept that you need to go somewhere to experience

[FairfieldLife] Re: Age of Aquarius

2009-02-08 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrGLf4J33vUfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrGLf4J33vUfeature=related Remember Hair? Well.. now we have a date, February 14th,2009. The moon will be in the 7th house. Jupiter

[FairfieldLife] Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs or *means* must be practiced-MMY

2009-02-07 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: I always thought that he meant that, yes, practise of any of the 8 limbs leads to enlightenment but the 8th limb -- samadhi -- is the one to go to first. And by practising TM, you get the benefit of simultaneous

[FairfieldLife] Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs or *means* must be practiced-MMY

2009-02-07 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: I think MMY made it clear that he felt that TM was the missing element in EVERY culture. One already had exercise, spiritual/religious guidelines /worship, etc, but not TM. So why reinvent the other wheels? L. So why

[FairfieldLife] Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs or *means* must be practiced-MMY

2009-02-07 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: snip So why didn't MMY recommend in his formal teachings that TM was meant to be practiced *in conjunction* with your Religion? He didn't He *did*. Why do you

[FairfieldLife] TM is the essence of Religion.

2009-02-07 Thread BillyG.
TM doesn't *stand alone*, it's the practical aspect of the overall eternal Religion,.. represented by the Vedas. MMY The Vedas You have six systems of Indian Philosophy, Yoga (TM) is the practical aspect, Sankhya, Vedanta and the others basically represent the theoretical aspect. Religion means

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread BillyG.
form of ego.) Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Feb 6, 2009, at 7:55 PM, BillyG. wrote: If you read MMY's Bhagavad Gita Appendix on Yoga you will find this comment, quote: With the continuous practice of all

[FairfieldLife] Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs or *means* must be practiced-MMY

2009-02-07 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: snip So why didn't MMY

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: A little lengthy but, it reminds me of MMY's analogy of the flower, we see

[FairfieldLife] The confusion caused by the bubble diagram.

2009-02-07 Thread BillyG.
Most TM'ers think they are actually transcending to Pure Consciousness (i.e. Brahman or unmanifest Being), in the daily 2X20 meditation they practice. Nothing could be further from the truth! The illustration of the thought bubble coming up from the source of thought is essentially correct,

[FairfieldLife] All of Patanjali's 8 limbs or *means* must be practiced-MMY

2009-02-06 Thread BillyG.
If you read MMY's Bhagavad Gita Appendix on Yoga you will find this comment, quote: With the continuous practice of all these limbs, or means, simultaneously, the state of Yoga grows simultaneously in all the eight spheres of life MMY HB pg363 Notice he uses the term *means*, this is very

[FairfieldLife] Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs or *means* must be practiced-MMY

2009-02-06 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Feb 6, 2009, at 7:55 PM, BillyG. wrote: If you read MMY's Bhagavad Gita Appendix on Yoga you will find this comment, quote: With the continuous practice of all these limbs, or means, simultaneously, the state of Yoga

[FairfieldLife] Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs or *means* must be practiced-MMY

2009-02-06 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Fairfield Lifer fairfield.li...@... wrote: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:55 PM, BillyG. wg...@... wrote: I think MMY kind of felt the ends justified the means, and teaching a little Yoga in a simple manner would be more popular than teaching the complete

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)

2009-02-04 Thread BillyG.
@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: perhaps after all MMY was just human, true it would have been nice had he said so!! He did. MMY: I'm just a normal human being Bevan: Well today we certainly got a new definition of a normal human being - Vlodrop, 1999 MMY's normal was someone

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)

2009-02-04 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: perhaps after all MMY was just human, true it would have been nice had he said so!! He

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)

2009-02-04 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: perhaps after

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)

2009-02-04 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernha...@... wrote: BC is exploring the fullness and texture of motion found in the stillness of CC :) I like to put it this way; when you realize the spark of God that exists as your own soul in its fullness, that is CC. When that singular

[FairfieldLife] Re: New video: Palestinian students learn Transcendental Meditation through David Lynch Foundation grants.

2009-02-03 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickm...@... wrote: Fwd: Palestinian students learn Transcendental Meditation through David Lynch Foundation grants. See interviews at http://www.mum.edu/videos/palestine_peace_project. Jai Guru Dev Craig Shaw Research Librarian

[FairfieldLife] Re: Prosperity and spirituality

2009-02-03 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: OK, I got it. Maharishi told us that the eight limbs of Yoga are really the legs of a table. Pull one, you pull the whole table and the other limbs go with the table. I don't remember that, you mean all you have to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Prosperity and spirituality

2009-02-03 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: An entire Humboldt residence course tape (which later became a MERU tape with Pacabel and the duck floating by) was devoted to this. Unlike many of the tapes, I don't recall this tape starting off with a question to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)

2009-02-02 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Billy, you're a puzzle to me, cuz ya agrees with me and then ya don't. So, point taken by you again with your noting that Maharishi got so many to place their attentions on the inner life. That's at the top of his Column

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)

2009-02-02 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Hey, haven't lost a thing; if anyone here is rich with objectionalness, it's me. Heh. No, Billy, I don't understand MMY at all. (By the way, when I was a hotshot gob'nor of the age of enlit, it was considered very bad to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)

2009-02-02 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: perhaps after all MMY was just human, true it would have been nice had he said so!! He did. MMY: I'm just a normal human being Bevan: Well today we

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