[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, it basically boils down to one guru who isn't qualified to be a guru lashing out at another guru because he isn't qualified to be a guru. Indian spiritual politics... gotta love it! *lol* I love YOU, Alex; Your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Unconditional Love and Samskaras -- was/Seclorum Disputed

2007-06-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thank you too for bringing up yet more particles of self-righteous fundamentalist fervor within me who think we absolutely *know* the truth, despite our vast ignorance, and who apparently just cannot be reached

[FairfieldLife] Re: Unconditional Love and Samskaras -- was/Seclorum Disputed

2007-06-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory, it sounds to me as if you would really enjoy the TV series Dexter. For me it's one of the best essays on *compassion* I've ever encountered, and for me that term means a lot of what you seem to mean when you use

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-12 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron sidha7001@ wrote: Loving what *IS* may be different than loving what is - --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: Yes, what appears to be the remnants of dualism. I'm finding as we inquire into and integrate

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-12 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I can offer a little food for thought here. There are no rules that say one that is enlightened must keep it secret. I have been saying things are direct and to the point here in my path. So, for a starter, one can ask

[FairfieldLife] Re: Loving what is.

2007-06-12 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My reading of Byron Katie is that she is primarily focussed on the message, and analysis in life situations, of loving what is, not loving what IS . I'm currently finding there is no difference. Love what is, and we

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Judy deals with life

2007-06-12 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gibson probably also thinks the Founding Fathers of America were Christians, when in fact most of them were FreeMasons intent on establishing the Novus Ordo Seclorum (see your dollar notes ) New Secular Order

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Judy deals with life

2007-06-12 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick note -- Novus Ordo Seclorum translates as New (Novus) Order (Ordo) of the Ages, Generations or Centuries (Seclorum or more fully Saeculorum being the genitive or possessive plural of Saeculum, Age or Century

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seclorum Disputed ---- was/How Judy...

2007-06-12 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seclorum disputed: Actually, your own quote states: Secular -- from the adjective Saecularis: worldly, secular, of the age In other words it means secular also. Saecularis MEANS worldy, secular, so what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seclorum Disputed ---- was/How Judy...

2007-06-12 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, your own quote states: Secular -- from the adjective Saecularis: worldly, secular, of the age In other words it means secular also. No, SAECULARIS means secular and SECLORUM means of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seclorum Disputed ---- was/How Judy...

2007-06-12 Thread Rory Goff
rather than a Christian blueprint for this nation, but that's no excuse for bad scholarship, is it? :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: Actually, your own quote states

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Does The self Fear Most?

2007-06-11 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: I would never be so silly as to believe that there was such a thing as one truth, let alone try to express it. I'll leave that to you... So, the one truth for you, Barry, is that it's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-11 Thread Rory Goff
I wonder if this Guru would enjoy Byron Katie... :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your guru ends the message of trying to draw Maharishi down into the mud with: I WELCOME YOU ALL WITH GREAT LOVE AND RESPECT. What a joke... I forwarded this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was anyone there for the exploding door trick?

2007-06-11 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking about Cala Millor got me to remembering things from that course, and I remembered the exploding door incident. I was not present at the time, but fellow course participants I ate with most every night were,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-11 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Loving what *IS* may be different than loving what is - Yes, what appears to be the remnants of dualism. I'm finding as we inquire into and integrate our self-righteously scripted reactions around warmongers, liars, false

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-11 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, we've often found Byron Katie (Loving what IS) to be very useful in helping the divisive mind to catch up with Us :-) http://www.thework.com/index.asp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

2007-06-11 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I agree with the ultimate perfection of what you have said here. On the other hand I also enjoy the play of moving from that false- intellect to the Real, again and again and again. There seems to be a natural

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reversal of subtle pranas key to transcending...

2007-06-10 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless, perhaps, to say, I'm thoroughly enjoying this discussion. ;-) There's a very odd resonance to it, however, that Rory will probably find of interest. I did, Judy; many thanks! A few additional comments

[FairfieldLife] Re: Posting Totals

2007-06-09 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But then who will protect us from Al Gore? Quit trying to scare us with the horrors of Silent Shemp! :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reversal of subtle pranas key to transcending...

2007-06-09 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not necessarily a good thing to confuse future-self and present- self. See, this was part of the Awakening for me -- That Awakening to viscerally realize That is the container of time and space, of the illusion of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reversal of subtle pranas key to transcending...

2007-06-08 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to keep in mind, particularly in a technique administered to thousands or millions of people without personalized instruction: I don't know where you're getting this from; I certainly received all the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reversal of subtle pranas key to transcending...

2007-06-08 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not everyone is as fortunate as we have been Rory. I did not get that instruction. I just knew it was...and left. Yes, that's what I mean about getting that instruction. Much of the really good stuff is on that level of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reversal of subtle pranas key to transcending...

2007-06-08 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great expression, though I'd like to add that the awakened hearts of others who don't participate actively in any spiritual practice or meditation also find the Self friendly and blissful and attractive and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reversal of subtle pranas key to transcending...

2007-06-08 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you're likely skrying a future self of your own intentionality, not necessarily her own. Only insofar as everyone is my past-present-futureself. That particular dharma holds no real futurebliss for this-individual me,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritually hot in FF, Karunamayi this Month

2007-06-08 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug wrote: Amma is the living embodiment of the infinite wisdom, love and compassion of Divine Mother. Her mission is one of universal peace and the spiritual elevation of humanity. So, an older

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reversal of subtle pranas key to transcending...

2007-06-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an important technique and taught in many of the higher yogas of both Hindu and Buddhist tantra. It is not taught in TM or the TMSP. snip It has been an automatic *result* of the TM/TMSP (and in the pathless path

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reversal of subtle pranas key to transcending...

2007-06-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: This is an important technique and taught in many of the higher yogas of both Hindu and Buddhist tantra. It is not taught in TM or the TMSP. snip --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reversal of subtle pranas key to transcending...

2007-06-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be interesting if you could share your experience here...vis-a-vis this subject of prana. My experience has been that Prana is like the covering of the Bodily Light; the more it is effortlessly surrendered into

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reversal of subtle pranas key to transcending...

2007-06-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not my experience of non-proliferation of karmic winds at all, although your description was very colorful. Thank you. I did not go into detail yet again on early experiences of refinement/cessation of breath and the

[FairfieldLife] Clap on, clap off (was Re: Ron Dector: A Prison of the Mind, Sthapatya Veda)

2007-06-05 Thread Rory Goff
Yes, I don't really see the people on FFL lined up into the two camps you described, Turq, and I am not trying to heal Judy. I see nothing in Judy that needs fixing, any more than I see anything in you that needs fixing. I didn't find when I tried to point out her a-priori enlightenment, that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ron Dector: A Prison of the Mind, Sthapatya Veda

2007-06-04 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please understand, I do define TB a bit differently. For me a TB is someone who simply is a true believer in the TM technique and or the enlightened status of Mr. Varma. SNIP How about if we *also* believe in every other

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ron Dector: A Prison of the Mind, Sthapatya Veda

2007-06-04 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's really amazing is that he uses the same identical tactics over and over and *over* again, without any success whatsoever. Actually, I think he's been *highly* successful -- he got you to bite yet again, didn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ron Dector: A Prison of the Mind, Sthapatya Veda

2007-06-04 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's really amazing is that he uses the same identical tactics over and over and *over* again, without any success whatsoever. Rory Goff wrote: Actually, I think he's been *highly* successful -- he got

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ron Dector: A Prison of the Mind, Sthapatya Veda

2007-06-04 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, yes, but it's not so. You've got what he says wrong, which is why I said you weren't tuned in. What you got *right* is that what he says he wants isn't what he wants. And what he says is contradictory. So

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ron Dector: A Prison of the Mind, Sthapatya Veda

2007-06-04 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like I got you that time. :-) Looks like You ALL got me! Dang, I LOVE You guys! :-) :-) :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ron Dector: A Prison of the Mind, Sthapatya Veda

2007-06-03 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the excerpts you have printed, I can kind of understand where this guy is coming from, however I'd rephrase the above quote to say something like, hard work without applying intelligence to it, and without

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ron Dector: A Prison of the Mind, Sthapatya Veda

2007-06-03 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You went away for a long weekend, hopefully to relax and chill a bit. And what happened when you returned? You've shot over a third of your wad of 35 posts today, *every one of them* belittling someone on this group, or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ron Dector: A Prison of the Mind, Sthapatya Veda

2007-06-03 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I certainly did not mean that in a disparaging way in your regard NM, I meant it merely as an observation, that from our personal conversations you held what I consider to be some of the primary qualities of a TB: the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ron Dector: A Prison of the Mind, Sthapatya Veda

2007-06-03 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nature as whore-- An immature view to be sure, although the fully realized meaning of the expression, Do nothing, and accomplish everything is completely and absolutely valid and experienced as such when lived in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ron Dector: A Prison of the Mind, Sthapatya Veda

2007-06-03 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, thats along the lines of my connotation and use of the term. And for me, it can also mean a willing aplogist for odd cultish behavior of ther organization and its members. And may imply cliquishness --

[FairfieldLife] Conny's response Re: God's Little Clown

2007-06-02 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Rick! My answer will come but I have sent it to my friend Robert for correcting my bad english otherwise it will look so dreadfull. I think he will send it to you when he have gone trough it. Otherwise I have

[FairfieldLife] (FFL, meet Lisa and Joe) Re: God's Little Clown

2007-06-02 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, conscientiousobjector2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you should spend more of your time researching the facts about suspicuious people who make allegations they cannot back up bozo. I see you are completely avoiding the REAL issue here

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ann Coulter on illegal immigrants

2007-05-31 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thought here: How can you possibly not care that there are several people on this forum who *routinely and deliberately* tell falsehoods? Great question! Speaking for myself alone, it's because I know them, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brief comment on Muktananda's Blue Pearl.

2007-05-27 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 26, 2007, at 10:50 PM, Rory Goff wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: I'd be very curious to know: has anyone on this forum had an experience of the Blue Pearl

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brief comment on Muktananda's Blue Pearl.

2007-05-27 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: I'd be very curious to know: has anyone on this forum had an experience of the Blue Pearl

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brief comment on Muktananda's Blue Pearl.

2007-05-27 Thread Rory Goff
the bodymind, like someone in a car looking out at the passing scenery. On May 26, 2007, at 10:50 PM, Rory Goff wrote: An interesting take on it. To me, everything had always appeared *outside* the bodymind, like someone in a car looking out at the passing scenery, before I realized

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brief comment on Muktananda's Blue Pearl.

2007-05-27 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure, but I also see both as seamless sameness. Nicely put :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: A different explanation of stress release

2007-05-26 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, qntmpkt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Perhaps a dazzing display of Sidhis would turn such people on. What do you think? snip Wow! I think you should consider writing a book on your various experiences with all these paths and gurus. It might reach a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brief comment on Muktananda's Blue Pearl.

2007-05-26 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be very curious to know: has anyone on this forum had an experience of the Blue Pearl? When the thousand-petalled lotus first appeared over my head on a TM- sidhis prep course in about '78, it looked much like a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Somewhere in the Akash

2007-05-24 Thread Rory Goff
Many thanks, Rick! It's been fun to explore these energies. A few thoughts interspersed below... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was from the friend (whom you call The Purusha Guy but who is actually married) with whom I've been having that

[FairfieldLife] Re: A different explanation of stress release

2007-05-24 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When reading the following passage from Swami Muktananda's Satsang with Baba, Volume III (August 18, 1972, page 122), I thought that it was another explanation of the mechanics of stress release; that is, that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Somewhere in the Akash

2007-05-24 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: snip This is equally true of the POV-3 Eclectic and the POV-2 Fundamentalist. The only difference is, the POV-3 Eclectic is no longer denying

[FairfieldLife] Re: A different explanation of stress release

2007-05-24 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, qntmpkt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Yea...Swami Muktananda - it appears from available evidence that he was quite adept at molesting underage Daughters of his disciples. Yes, so I've heard. Still a nice insight, and I appreciate Shemp's posting it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Somewhere in the Akash

2007-05-24 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slathering everything with maya nays I see! Rory-ji! Sri Sri Sri Nama Rori-ji! :-) Too many puns! Ahh well, soemtime I'll ketchup, and in the meantime I'll relax, pick a lily, and relish yours :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Mother Meera site

2007-05-23 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 22, 2007, at 7:08 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: Bringing people together in silence. (oh yes. Silence, deep silence. Nothin betta) Doesn't anyone else get, you know, kind of bored with all the

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to a friend's suggestion that we engage in a discussion about the movement

2007-05-23 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lurk Oh yea, he totally demolished Rick. I mean, really, I felt like I was listening to Adi Shankaracharya and that blazing intellect.NOT! Rory:

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to a friend's suggestion that we engage in a discussion about th

2007-05-23 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip In contrast, those who cling so strongly to what they believe now, to the point of being incapable of stating even the *possibility* that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Advice Sought

2007-05-23 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As for insomnia, someone asked whether I feel tired during the day. And, oddly, not much. A little wearier, but certainly not as tired as I should have expected on only a few hours sleep. Further, on

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to a friend's suggestion that we engage in a discussion about th

2007-05-23 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude-ji! I was just thinking about the whole particle/wave perception alternation, though I didn't carry it into group dynamics as you have. Yummy stuff! On another topic, I've been noticing some interesting

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to a friend's suggestion that we engage in a discussion about th

2007-05-22 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This discussion is fascinating to me. Both Rick's and Turq's experiences. What makes it more riveting for me is that both of you have maintained a spiritual perspective, but not one that conforms to a

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to a friend's suggestion that we engage in a discussion about the movement

2007-05-22 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those who have previously doubted that some fools actually believe Mr. Varma is a rishi and he cognized the vedas for the modern world, please read the above. It's amazing what cult conditioning and cultured

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to a friend's suggestion that we engage in a discussion about the movement

2007-05-22 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put another way, He kicks some serious ass! Jai Guru Dev. :-) I bow to your far more succinct guru-sutra, Jimji! Jai Guru Dev. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: My response to a friend's suggestion that we engage in a discussion about the movement

2007-05-22 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Put another way, He kicks some serious ass! Jai Guru Dev. :-) Oh yea, he totally demolished Rick. I mean, really, I felt like I was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritually Hot in FF, TSR meeting

2007-05-18 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Hoehneris that a native American name? Definitely- you've never heard of the Harmonica tribe of the Dakotas? Yes; they're the ones that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritually Hot in FF, TSR meeting

2007-05-18 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cool doo dee doo doo story

2007-05-17 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, which perhaps is another way of saying, don't waste time and energy judging others. Well, I'm not saying don't do it; I'm just trying to point out its illusory, or more accurately self-reflective, basis.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cool doo dee doo doo story

2007-05-17 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This whole judge/don't judge dynamic intrigues me. There seems to be a skill in action involved tied directly to our ability to develop or not attributes of character, through judging/not judging. In other words,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cool doo dee doo doo story

2007-05-16 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I see there being two phases to the process, the TB process where one follows the guru and tunes one's mind and heart to Him perfectly, so that when it is time to learn to fly, one's faith in the guru and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cool doo dee doo doo story

2007-05-16 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, spacetime and growth *are* a big joke, and while we are laughing at them, they are laughing right back at us, watching our every move, evaluating, seeing if we are slave or master, with neck, hand and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cool doo dee doo doo story

2007-05-16 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That assumes that people have a hierarchtical view of the stages. And a superiority complex. snip Or a belief in space-time and growth, which is perhaps saying the same thing! But anyway, you have anticipated the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cool doo dee doo doo story

2007-05-16 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it is a good point, and a constant reminder, lest I begin to take my movie subtitles as gospel. :-) *lol* Good one! And the issue at hand isn't whether someone is behind us or ahead of us. It is what we do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cool doo dee doo doo story

2007-05-15 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip On the other hand, I am trying to be more careful with my writing. Sometimes when I am writing, I will look back at what I have written and realize it didn't convey what I had intended. Case in point was my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cool doo dee doo doo story

2007-05-15 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I did- just like to check in sometimes. Like I said, language can be cumbersome or fraught with assumptions if all the angles aren't explicitly covered, and then who the heck wants to read it?! Anyway I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cool doo dee doo doo story

2007-05-15 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, qntmpkt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Rory, be careful about using the word sweet. Various TMO TB have been known to use that expression, in emulation of MMY. I remember when Jerry Jarvis used to burp like MMY. A real insider might burp and say sweet

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cool doo dee doo doo story

2007-05-15 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, qntmpkt qntmpkt@ wrote: --- Rory, be careful about using the word sweet. Various TMO TB have

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

2007-05-12 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: claudiouk claudiouk@ wrote:. . . amazing how the mere act of observation can alter outcomes in quantum experiments. Hmmm, I'm thinking that observation as defined in today's physics is actually not such. It's not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whole Brain Functioning

2007-05-11 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why is it that the billions of souls on this atmospheric sphere placed precisely in space, near Surya, have chosen this very moment to realize the exact lessons, their perfect dreams, the specific scenery of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whole Brain Functioning

2007-05-11 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: constantly crossing and recrossing the gap of ignorance might imply therefore that something is lacking in UNITY? Never saw the sense of the purpose of life as expansion of happiness by going into ignorance.. if the

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

2007-05-11 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk claudiouk@ 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??). For me a mood is a state of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whole Brain Functioning

2007-05-10 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Right, but there's no law dictating that animals can't get Enlightened. Ramana Maharshi stated that Lakshmi the Cow got Enlightened upon leaving her body. My hypothesis: rocks can get Enlightened but they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whole Brain Functioning

2007-05-10 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor matrixmonitor@ wrote: --Right, but there's no law dictating that animals can't get Enlightened. Ramana Maharshi stated that Lakshmi the Cow got Enlightened

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whole Brain Functioning

2007-05-10 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rory, good to hear from you. Your perspective is always a refreshing and profound one. I find it delightfully paradoxical that we as humans, as the perfect agents of the Divine, serve Him and Her best by finding

[FairfieldLife] Re: Having fun with a mild form of death -- was: Sixties Gurus Go On Tour

2007-05-09 Thread Rory Goff
Duve, this was so beautiful that I read it out loud to my wife -- first time I've ever done that with a FFL offering, and a bit of a contradiction I suppose (loudly pronouncing your panagyric to the power of silence), but what of That? She totally dug it too. It reminded her of her Dad, who

[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven On Earth

2007-04-29 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent report from my life-identity theft hijacker! So many fantastic details. I can't match the sensory richness in my own post, so I will take it in another direction but still under the heading of keep'n

[FairfieldLife] Re: The joys of walking

2007-04-29 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, a question to the Fairfield dwellers here amongst us: do people walk much in Fairfield? For pleasure, that is, just for the sheer joy of taking a stroll? It would seem to me, from the one time I was there for a few

[FairfieldLife] Re: The joys of walking

2007-04-29 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should come and play at it sometime, Curtis. If ever you visit FF, be sure you're here on the first Friday of the month in warm weather and bring your guitar and drum kit. I second Rick's invitation, Curtis.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Codicil 371.3

2007-04-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: It seems like the experience in the Dome for you was one of your core being expanded greatly through

[FairfieldLife] Re: Codicil 371.3

2007-04-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The world being within us being as revolutionary a reality as the earth being round, not flat. Yes! I have often thought of the inside-out full-paradox Awakening as Spiritual (or Subjective) Copernicanism! And understanding

[FairfieldLife] Re: Codicil 371.3

2007-04-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like the experience in the Dome for you was one of your core being expanded greatly through the intense energetic and magnetic attraction of Maharishi when He has His Attention on You. He really brings the Absolute

[FairfieldLife] Re: Codicil 371.3

2007-04-12 Thread Rory Goff
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: during my return to the Dome last summer, I noticed repeatedly that MMY and I were utterly identical, and *on the basis of this identity* I felt overwhelming waves of surrender and devotion for Him, as I did for Guru Dev

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saw Grindhouse

2007-04-10 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip In the Tibetan view, when you die and hit the Bardo, How do you mean, *when* we die and hit the Bardo? How is what is described below different from where we are now? you manifest all of your attachments *and*

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saw Grindhouse

2007-04-10 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip In the Tibetan view, when you die and hit the Bardo, How do you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Codicil 371.3

2007-04-09 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip What I have *always* found most lacking in Maharishi is *empathy*, the ability to relate to other people as if they were his equals. His

[FairfieldLife] Re: Codicil 371.3

2007-04-08 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip What I have *always* found most lacking in Maharishi is *empathy*, the ability to relate to other people as if they were his equals. His entire life is struc- tured around the dynamics of the teacher-student

[FairfieldLife] Re: Discussion with Judy about Guru Dev and

2007-04-05 Thread Rory Goff
Rick Archer wrote: Huh? Rory couldn't have been nicer. He was expressing genuine appreciation for Judy. He was downright obsequious. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, Rory insulted Curtis, Vaj, Barry, Off-World and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Discussion with Judy about Guru Dev and

2007-04-03 Thread Rory Goff
On Mar 31, 2007, at 11:40 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: It is your underlying arrogant assumption that you know me better than I know myself that makes you such a bore. It leaks into every discussion. No one has blown holes in anything. We are all offering our own point of view. Your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Discussion with Judy about Guru Dev and

2007-04-03 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh... at a loss for words If all that's for real, Rory, thank you. (The truth, as they say, is probably somewhere in between moi as Jedi-Judy incarnation of Durga and as lowlife scum Harasser-in-Chief.)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Discussion with Judy about Guru Dev and

2007-04-03 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Talk about synchronicity, I was just thinking yesterday how nice it would be to have Rory back on FFL, and here you are. Do not try to resist. You are under my control. It would also be nice to have you back in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Discussion with Judy about Guru Dev and

2007-04-03 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, no Rory Goff on AMT in 2002 dialoging with Judy; no Uncle Tantra dialoging with Rory on AMT in 2002; but the mystery of who started the lie that the Maharishi once said that enlightenment could

[FairfieldLife] Re: Inside Pundit Info

2006-12-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Dec 13, 2006, at 10:49 AM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: I wonder if anyone has

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