[FairfieldLife] Re: Somewhere in the Akash

2007-05-24 Thread Marek Reavis
Edg, great stuff. I'm totally in love with you. And totally agree about Rick. Thanks. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick, I gotta tip my hat to you for keeping whatever it is you got going that folks like The Purusha Guy trust enough to, you

[FairfieldLife] Re: 5-MEO-DMT Sasha Shulgin's rating scale

2007-05-15 Thread Marek Reavis
could open their hearts and heal. I remember when it used to legal nationwide. It's amazing how much our politicians and lawmakers fear humans having use of their own nervous systems. On May 14, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Marek Reavis wrote: Shulgin and his partner came and lectured

[FairfieldLife] Re: Doesn't this remind you of a Maxfield Parris poster?

2007-05-14 Thread Marek Reavis
Totally Parrish. It's beautiful, too. That's Hillary, right? On the White House balcony or something? What a great political poster.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Doesn't this remind you of a Maxfield Parris poster?

2007-05-14 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** (It's a lovely photo, a beautiful composition, but it doesn't remind me much of a Maxfield Parrish work.) **end** The warm yellow light on the foreground figure with the same warm

[FairfieldLife] Re: Doesn't this remind you of a Maxfield Parris poster?

2007-05-14 Thread Marek Reavis
- Publishing - Publicity - Marketing * On 5/14/07, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: **snip** (It's a lovely photo, a beautiful composition, but it doesn't remind me much of a Maxfield Parrish

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whole Brain Functioning - flaws of Unity

2007-05-12 Thread Marek Reavis
Jim's comment (below) is as well said as anything I've heard or read. It would seem that the self never truly experiences or identifies, but rather the ego, being the reflection of That in prakiti does the identifying (and the suffering) as its proxy. The ego (jiva) can be happy or blissful it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Neurotransmittors and Happiness

2007-05-12 Thread Marek Reavis
Wow, really excellent stuff. Thank you for bringing that up and articulating it so well. Although ignorance seems so hard to dispel, Claudio's earlier remark about how overwhelming enlightenment should be is more the truth. Almost anything can be the stimulus/catalyst to that realization and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whole Brain Functioning

2007-05-11 Thread Marek Reavis
I sees through both my eyes. I sees through all 100 trillion eyes on this planet. So what's the use of yet another pair of eyes to see with, unless it's to check out what the binocular perspective from that moving point in the universe is like. Being yet one more hot squidge of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whole Brain Functioning - flaws of Unity

2007-05-11 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both of you are looking at the Relative in a rather upbeat way, perhaps reflecting transient (for most mortals) blissful moods (maybe states or permanent stations in your cases??). Doesn't help the

[FairfieldLife] Re: ignorance is part of totality

2007-05-11 Thread Marek Reavis
Quick comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'So both diversification and unification ... when the two come to awareness then the hiding, the cover, also comes to awareness. So the cover is uncovered. This is the mechanics of how we get

[FairfieldLife] Re: ignorance is part of totality

2007-05-11 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment at bottom: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignorance is only apparent, it isn't real - I know, fundamentally and philosophically this is supposed to be so and yes one can appreciate the cleverness in that magical trick - it's only a rope

[FairfieldLife] Re: message from purusha

2007-05-08 Thread Marek Reavis
Must be the Taste of Tapioca course. Very bland and not likely to upset the stomach. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like they're all reading from the same brochure! Where's the f***ing juice in these experiences? They all need to get laid

[FairfieldLife] Re: El Laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)

2007-05-05 Thread Marek Reavis
Thanks, Turq, I'll get it and watch it. Even though I read the good reviews about it (and they were all unfailingly positive), I never got around to checking it out. Your recommendation has pushed me over the edge. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: life

2007-05-04 Thread Marek Reavis
Dear Lee, Your son's case is very distressing and is an unfortunate narrative of the adage that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Certainly the states' legislatures believe that sexual abuse and specifically child sex abuse are crimes that deserve particular attention because

[FairfieldLife] Re: Commonalities R Us

2007-05-03 Thread Marek Reavis
Great post (below)! And oh so true, inasmuch as my perspective matches Edg's and any further commentary by me would be just a field of dittos. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gang, About this bickering . . . Here's what's strange: all of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Troubled past

2007-05-03 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will address this to judyjim who seem to have formed a symbiotic entity of malice toward me personally. From the ages of 16 through 31 I explored the teachings of MMY. I did it with the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Troubled past

2007-05-03 Thread Marek Reavis
Sal, what's the meaning of your signoff acronym JM2C (below)? I'm stumped. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 3, 2007, at 9:19 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: To Judy: You have brought up the idea that when I fight back when personally

[FairfieldLife] Re: Narada, a cup of tea and, please, don't spill a drop

2007-04-30 Thread Marek Reavis
The Yoga Vashishta has the story that sounds similar to the Narada tea story, and maybe that's what you're thinking of. In the YV Vyasa sends Shukadev to King Janaka for instruction. Shukadev is kind of contemptuous of Janaka because he's the epitome of householder life and Shukadev is sky

[FairfieldLife] Re: Narada, a cup of tea and, please, don't spill a drop

2007-04-30 Thread Marek Reavis
and convey to others is a moral conscience. Only such persons deserve to lead others, in any capacity. Anything less is a menace to society. * ** ** On 4/30/07, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Yoga Vashishta has the story that sounds similar to the Narada tea story, and maybe that's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ever wonder where the prudery in the TMO came from?

2007-04-29 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** What happened to striving for ideals? Again I call this criticism of the Indian caste system racist. Why? Because those who criticize it are doing so because it is Indian. If not,

[FairfieldLife] Re: when one looks to the sky for rain, the rain falls

2007-04-26 Thread Marek Reavis
Ditto. Excellent discussion between two fine writers and thinkers. Big thanks for that. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great responses man, thanks. Lots to think about. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guns don't kill people, the lack of guns kill people

2007-04-20 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk claudiouk@ wrote: **snip** Of course the means of destruction do matter: Thats why automatic weapons were invented in the first place, because the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hirondelles

2007-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I awoke this morning to find that the hirondelles are back in town. Cool. I sat on my neighbor's terrace this morning

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does Jesus love you? CAN Jesus love you?

2007-04-17 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** For me the key to what you say above is in the phrase repeated applications of attention. The Rama fellow I studied with for a while used to talk about storing power, focusing one's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does Jesus love you? CAN Jesus love you? - Now Where's my Maypo?

2007-04-17 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:54 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Parents who are depressed are also emotionally and physically unavailable. That's what a lot of these experiences seem to me to be--

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does Jesus love you? CAN Jesus love you?

2007-04-16 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a recent posting exchange about Andrew Sullivan's beliefs, I was struck by his claim that Jesus loves him. Since that time, I have seen about one thousand bumper stickers on neighbor's cars

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does Jesus love you? CAN Jesus love you?

2007-04-16 Thread Marek Reavis
[Comments interleaved]: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: **snip** But it seems to me that the initial presumption of the reality of time and therefore the sequential

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does Jesus love you? CAN Jesus love you?

2007-04-16 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When it comes to forming a fantasy relationship: it's not hard! I remember practicing puja in my hotel room -- bottom half naked. I was rounding, and I would get up and do a puja and wouldn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's House on Raam Navami

2007-04-12 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], gullible fool fflmod@ wrote: Most cultures, including Indian, like lots of lights during celebrations. I'm

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment in 5-7 years

2007-04-06 Thread Marek Reavis
Willytex (or the person who uses that screen name) reminds me of Narada in the Puranas who goes about creating dissension and quarrels -- a full-time trickster and freelance gadfly who gets off on stirring up trouble. Another way to be. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Codicil 371.3

2007-04-06 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** And for me. As you might have gathered, even though I don't study with any teacher and am not part of any spiritual organization, I'm still a bit of an enlight- enment freak. And I've found

[FairfieldLife] Re: Please excuse the narcissism!

2007-04-02 Thread Marek Reavis
What a fine review. Like love in the morning. Congratulations! ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I woke up this morning to find a link to this review of my CD in my box. http://www.soulofrocknroll.com/?p=53 Some days really start off

[FairfieldLife] Re: Discussion with Judy about Guru Dev and MMY's intro letter continues

2007-03-31 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** There are very few people who really influence us in our lives. People who have touched our hearts and minds. They may have their weakness, they may have, what others consider to be 'fallen'.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Discussion with Judy about Guru Dev and MMY's intro letter continues

2007-03-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Curtis, without snipping any of your post (below) or spending a whole lot more time or words on the subject, it seems pretty clear that Guru Dev, himself, believed in siddhis and miracles, as is obvious from Paul Mason's site with quotes from him exactly on that subject, as well as the bios of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Discussion with Judy about Guru Dev and MMY's intro letter continues

2007-03-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As always I am glad you weighed in Marek! I agree with what you said up to a point. Certainly Guru Dev had such beliefs and may have viewed his own experiences as proof of miracles. Since I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Discussion with Judy about Guru Dev and MMY's intro letter continues

2007-03-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Reply below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marek Reavis wrote: But, based on everything I have heard or read about Guru Dev, I feel that his character and personality are totally worthy of emulation, reverence and respect

[FairfieldLife] Re: Various from 3/25: Marek, Vaj, Curtis, Barry

2007-03-26 Thread Marek Reavis
Reply below (to the comments addressed to me): ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: snip Judy, there's no way that Rick doesn't hold fairness, honesty, and sincerity as dearly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Various from 3/25: Marek, Vaj, Curtis, Barry

2007-03-26 Thread Marek Reavis
Reply below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Reply below (to the comments addressed to me): ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Heart-stopping

2007-03-25 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** Maybe I'm guilty of damning with faint praise. The point I was trying to make is that we all have a sweet, innocent little child within, often deeply buried, but sometimes it emerges. Some

[FairfieldLife] Re: Heart-stopping

2007-03-25 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: snip Maybe I'm guilty of damning with faint praise. Allow me to give you a quick rundown, Rick, of why that was such an incredibly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Press invitation, written by Maharishi in October, 1952

2007-03-22 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it fascinating that MMY's PR uses the implication that Guru Dev had a magical source for money: One unique principle of the great Sage that distinguishes him completely from other

[FairfieldLife] Re: Press invitation, written by Maharishi in October, 1952

2007-03-22 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can always count on an interesting, reasoned response from you Marek! Thanks. Really excellent discussion of Guru Dev's private funding. In my own case, my life of privilege made it

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Two Paradigms = thanks Jim

2007-03-20 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor matrixmonitor@ wrote: ---Yes, Tolle, Ramana, and Papaji are examples of individuals who awakened more or less spontaneously without the need

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Two Paradigms = thanks Jim

2007-03-20 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, coshlnx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---There's no contention that all is already That. The point is to Realize IT. Are you saying that people are to instantaneously realize IT simply because you say Ye are already THAT?. **snip to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Just for the record - Paul Mason is not anti-TM or anti-MMY

2007-02-27 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz peterklutz@ wrote: snip Q: What is the problem with Paul Mason - is it that he is a closet-hater of all things TMO? A: Not exactly. Q:

[FairfieldLife] Re: we have responded 2 much lets just not respond to Vaj.Ignore all is missives

2007-02-05 Thread Marek Reavis
Good point, Sparaig. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Feb 4, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Rick Archer wrote: No one is saying there is anything wrong with it. Some of us are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Things to do when your village gets medieval on your ass

2007-02-05 Thread Marek Reavis
Very excellent story and wonderful story telling. Life is sweet, or certainly can be. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As many of you know, I live in a small French village that saw its heyday in the 12th and 13th centuries. It's now got all

[FairfieldLife] Re: Karma of Praise and Criticism

2007-02-04 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 3, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: **snip** Certainly not on the commercial side of things

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do non-meditators seem like wild animals to you?

2007-02-04 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: My experience over the years is that as my consciousness rises if I spend any amount of time at all around non-meditators the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Karma of Praise and Criticism

2007-02-03 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus, see, at least look for and seek, the Divine -- the infinitely bestowed -- in everyone one and everything that passes before you. And praise THAT divinity. The result; the person or thing is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Karma of Praise and Criticism

2007-02-03 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** Certainly not on the commercial side of things, but on the spiritual side of this, he constantly defers to GD. I always thought a comment I heard years ago, when they had just unveiled the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why would you believe that someone is enlig

2007-01-31 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I sure did. As a result, I find it difficult to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why would you believe that someone is enlightened?

2007-01-29 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** Me: To address consciousness more head on, I believe that people can alter the way their minds functions radically through meditation. It happened to me so I don't have any reason

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why would you believe that someone is enlightened?

2007-01-29 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me: I'm glad you weighed in, I enjoyed your post. I don't mean to discount the experiences of alternate states of consciousness as profound or even useful. I just have a different view of what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why would you believe that someone is enlightened?

2007-01-29 Thread Marek Reavis
Quick reply below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** It has been a cool thread so far, hasn't it? Thanks to you for getting it, and for taking it to a whole new level. What you just did is what conversation is all about to me. Those

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why would you believe that someone is enlightened?

2007-01-29 Thread Marek Reavis
[Comments] interleaved: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marek: But do you feel that the content-free, unbounded state is who you are (without denying the Curtis guy who does his Delta Blues thing)? Is the silent witness just one of the items

[FairfieldLife] Re: Some Questions Provoked By A Visit To Fairfield

2007-01-21 Thread Marek Reavis
[One person's answers] interleaved: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ancient5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Part of my family and I spent a recent day wandering around Fairfield, MUM, and Jefferson County's trails. Seemed like a nice place - an unusually vibrant small town set in a

[FairfieldLife] Re: KT: dilettante morpho-syntactic analysis of some Brahma-suutras: 1

2007-01-21 Thread Marek Reavis
Cardemaister, if you're planning on going through the whole Brahma Sutras like this, I'm all for it. Thanks. Of course, the first sutra is the easy one. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suutra 1: athaato brahma-jijñaasaa

[FairfieldLife] NY Times article on that old-time religion of the Greeks

2007-01-21 Thread Marek Reavis
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Greece-Ancient-Gods.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Some Questions Provoked By A Visit To Fairfield

2007-01-21 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 21, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Marek Reavis wrote: [Maharishi and the TMO have long been strong proponents of avoiding anything that evenly faintly smacks of anything hippie. As an old

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who needs holograms?

2007-01-21 Thread Marek Reavis
Wow. Great stuff; great find, Sparaig. Thanks. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this becomes reality, whoa http://physorg.com/news88439430.html Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- on One Photon First image stored and retrieved from a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-21 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a question on another topic. There was a lawyer who was defending a guy in LA what happened with the situation? I was pretty certain the guy would be convicted but there were some charges that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another Nisargadatta quote

2007-01-20 Thread Marek Reavis
Very nice, indeed, thanks. The conception of the Tao is so perfectly elegant and Lao Tzu is such a lucid conveyer of it. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: The ordinary man

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another Nisargadatta quote

2007-01-20 Thread Marek Reavis
[Comments] interleaved: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: But, surely all *will* happen as it must. The term all certainly includes our emotions, our morality, our

[FairfieldLife] Another Nisargadatta quote

2007-01-19 Thread Marek Reavis
The ordinary man is personally concerned, he counts his risks and chances, while the gnani remains aloof, sure that all will happen as it must; and it does not matter much what happens, for ultimately the return to balance and harmony is inevitable. The heart of things is at peace. **

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another Nisargadatta quote

2007-01-19 Thread Marek Reavis
is I don't know and I don't care...(that's THEIR perspective.). What's yours? [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: The ordinary man is personally concerned, he counts his risks and chances, while the gnani remains aloof, sure that all will happen as it must

[FairfieldLife] An animation

2007-01-18 Thread Marek Reavis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwyuQbIb0Xs

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** I suspect one can experience *any* emotion, strong or otherwise, in enlightenment, because the emotion *is* enlightenment, as is everything else the enlightened being experiences. The Self

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is enlightenment sexist?

2007-01-17 Thread Marek Reavis
Hey, Sparaig, what is the background on the moniker, Sparaig? Sparrow is cool and seemingly related to Sparaig, but I've always been puzzled by it. If you don't mind my asking, that is. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is enlightenment sexist?

2007-01-17 Thread Marek Reavis
children that sankalpa had faded by the time of their arrival. They still got stuck with odd names, though, just not Middle Earth ones. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Hey, Sparaig

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is enlightenment sexist?

2007-01-17 Thread Marek Reavis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** Luckily enough for my two children that sankalpa had faded by the time of their arrival. They still got stuck with odd names, though, just not Middle Earth ones. Not as odd as Moon Unit and Dweezil, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is enlightenment sexist?

2007-01-17 Thread Marek Reavis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** Not as odd as Moon Unit and Dweezil, I hope. That's what Frank Zappa named his kids. :-) Moon dropped the second part of her name--makes it much nicer. But if you think those are awful, you ought to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is enlightenment sexist?

2007-01-17 Thread Marek Reavis
You're right, of course, Sal. Just curious. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: **snip** Not as odd as Moon

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:04 PM, wmurphy77 wrote: In Love and God MMY proclaims Guru Dev had reached the Cosmic Consciousness'the perfect expression of 'Purnamadah purnamidam'. Now in the Gita

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** The real significence of his Bhagavad Gita is that Awareness in the state of Being alone makes the whole field of devotion real, this is significent! (page 7 Preface) The state of Being he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** He does mention bhakti, but it's more *transcendental bhakti* and is present in the transitional refinement of GC. In other words it's not 'falling down in the street with your tambourine

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** True, in man, it is limited in its expression, (The silence which is experienced in cosmic consciousness, and which separates the Self from activity, is on an *infinitely* smaller scale,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Marek Reavis
vajranatha@ wrote: On Jan 16, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: **snip** He does mention bhakti, but it's more *transcendental bhakti* and is present in the transitional refinement

[FairfieldLife] Just a story

2007-01-15 Thread Marek Reavis
Rooting around my files I found the following email I sent to a good friend of mine several years back. It's a good story and I always appreciate it when people on FFL post about where they live and what it's like. So I thought I'd share this one with you all. ** 7/7/04 Sunday I saw three

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quiet Trains Update

2007-01-15 Thread Marek Reavis
Sal, this is way outside my field. Seems unlikely, however, that one non-profit could extend its charter and provide an umbrella for another organization's fundraising project. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:12 PM, Rick

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY's 'goofy'? idea on karma!

2007-01-11 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** Only Leisha Vidya (the remains of the yagya -- after the burning of the offerings) remains. Only enough of ignorance for there to be activity, but it does not overwhelm the bliss or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attendance in Recert Course

2007-01-06 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** I last taught someone when my son learned his sitting technique in 2001, but as divine as that day was, I don't aspire to teach again. If I had a room I could devote to the puja

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Clerk of Jyotirmath?

2007-01-06 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **snip** Shatananda was declared unqualified because he was a cook, basically. The fact that he was Gurudev's oldest disciple didn't matter to the scholars. **snip to end** Shantanand was initated

[FairfieldLife] Re: dev ved

2007-01-04 Thread Marek Reavis
Vaj, nice bit of research and information. Thanks. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone had asked on devas recently and I just came across an interesting gloss on the derivation of the word deva. According to monosyllabic dictionaries which

[FairfieldLife] Scale -- Excellent Video

2007-01-03 Thread Marek Reavis
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3974466981713172831pr=goog-sl

[FairfieldLife] Article in NYTimes

2006-12-31 Thread Marek Reavis
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/arts/music/31thom.html

[FairfieldLife] Deepak Chopra on Colbert Report

2006-12-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Chopra does an excellent job of playing with Colbert and speaking the knowledge. His last line is perfect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7fLpTYQISk

[FairfieldLife] Guy flying in Swiss Alps

2006-12-29 Thread Marek Reavis
The guy's own explanation of what it feels like (at the end of the video) is in (Swiss)French so maybe Turq and other Francophones can understand what's what. Pretty amazing.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guy flying in Swiss Alps (here's the video site)

2006-12-29 Thread Marek Reavis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The guy's own explanation of what it feels like (at the end of the video) is in (Swiss)French so maybe Turq and other Francophones can understand what's what. Pretty amazing. http://youtube.com/watch?v

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where do you go when you die?

2006-12-28 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It took a while, but it just occurred to me how different awakening is from what we are looking for. We think we are looking for eternal life for the self when the body dies. Instead what really

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where do you go when you die?

2006-12-27 Thread Marek Reavis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When one has *awakened* where do they go when they drop the body? ** Where was One before the body dropped? [T]he birth and death of countless beings takes place in the one infinite consciousness, as it were. They

[FairfieldLife] VOOMM Memo (was: Re: Pundits to change salt into sugar)

2006-12-21 Thread Marek Reavis
Thanks, Cardemaister. Your contributions are always appreciated, too. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Well said, Sal, thanks. Being a part of TM in the 60s

[FairfieldLife] VOOMM Memo (was: Re: Pundits to change salt into sugar)

2006-12-20 Thread Marek Reavis
Well said, Sal, thanks. Being a part of TM in the 60s and 70s, and perhaps even a little further on, meant being part of a movement towards greater spirituality and positivity in the world. At some point, however, the TMO became, if not entirely, but certainly in the greater part, a

[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO compound at Vlodrop

2006-12-18 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 18, 2006, at 4:59 AM, hugheshugo wrote: I'm only half joking I know someone who has bought a sv apartment and his contract states that the TMO reserves the right to enter his house if

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nisargadatta quote

2006-12-09 Thread Marek Reavis
Peter, thanks for this (below). Really explains a lot of my own meditation experience for many years. However, I found that my experience changed after I read Nisargadatta. The clarity that is characteristic of meditation (and life) now is wholly in line with what I have learned from

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nisargadatta quote

2006-12-09 Thread Marek Reavis
Barry, also well said, though I don't think disastrous results is necessarily correct. I understand that from your perspective in the Buddhist tradition you acknowledge that there are causes and consequences, valued as both good and bad, and there's no argument about that in my mind exactly, but

[FairfieldLife] Re: The last of the real surfers--in Cleveland

2006-12-09 Thread Marek Reavis
Excellent! Thanks, Judy. There was a surf movie I watched not too long ago (can't think of the title right now) tha covered lots of different surf spots, including Cleveland. And also in Texas where they surf the wakes of huge supertankers as they head up some delta inlet to refineries. They

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nisargadatta quote

2006-12-08 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **Snip** Still another way of looking at it is that it is a choice *only in retrospect*, i.e., from the perspective of realization, but not from the waking-state perspective (Knowledge is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nisargadatta quote

2006-12-08 Thread Marek Reavis
. There are no experts in karma, and there's no proof or even evidence for Ramana's assertion, other than the appeal to authority. (but in regard to the appeal to authorities, I wouldn't trust MMY to guide anybody in matters of economics). In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chip Charleston that I knew -

2006-12-07 Thread Marek Reavis
Sal, were you a student or a professor? (If you don't mind my asking.) Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 7, 2006, at 8:22 AM, Peter wrote: Sounds like he was one of those good professors that deeply inspire students with their

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