On Jul 20, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
The full Mac OS, to be released today, is only 30 USD.
But you need a Mac to run it. IOW, a regular PC with a tweaked BIOS,
and an Apple logo on it, that would cost about 1/2 as much otherwise.
I don't find that much difference, feature for
On Jul 20, 2011, at 2:35 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
Did anyone else notice that in this single post Mark said more
positive
things about Maharishi than tedadams and danfriedman have said
in all of the posts they've made to Fairfield Life combined?
Actually rather inspiring and hopeful. And
On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:42 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
I appreciate your offering them here for the story value. And as
disillusioned as I am, the attraction of these sandals is
understandable, so you need to cash all the way in for these.
I think you should go after the rich guys in
On Jul 19, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Alex Stanley wrote:
I may be the odd one out here, but the idea of buying someone's
ratty, sweaty, old footwear kinda grosses me out. I would no more
want MMY's old sandals than Mario Batali's old orange Crocs.
Yeah, it just doesn't synch with the western
On Jul 19, 2011, at 6:53 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
Still tripping on the value of tantra in one's life, I thought I'd
pose
a question to the august members of Fairfield Life. What's the most
off-the-wall, nonsensical, irrational thing you've ever done that --
despite all logic -- enabled you to
On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:28 AM, obbajeeba wrote:
What is a good example of a on-the-program TMer? : )
http://www.rwilliams.us/inside/
On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Mark Landau wrote:
Thank you, Vaj, who is SSRS?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, one of Maharishi's former pandits and really
the most successful gentleman in maintaining and preserving the form
of meditation Maharishi taught, for millions of people. I believe
On Jul 19, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Mark Landau wrote:
Hmmm, yes, thank you, of course. Does he really have a picture of
M's feet on his altar? I always thought of him as having split off
to do his own thing, though I know he says that M blessed him in that.
A former TM teacher who used to
That kinda looks like Maharishi or Charlie Manson.
On Jul 18, 2011, at 12:49 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
Couple Finds Jesus In Walmart Receipt (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/18/jesus-in-walmart-
receipt_n_901548.html
On Jul 18, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Archer
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 12:21 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Confirmation Bias Corp, you can't make
On Jul 18, 2011, at 1:07 PM, sparaig wrote:
I suspect that this study will end up being the relaxation
response study of teh teens. Just as virtually all meditation
techniques result in some level of relaxation, but the details of
that relaxation vary from technique to technique, so just
On Jul 17, 2011, at 10:55 AM, richardjwilliamstexas wrote:
Alex Stanley:
He erased it right after posting it. But, Vaj quoted all of it in his
response here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/282852
So, which one is the one from Missouri?
http
On Jul 16, 2011, at 4:30 AM, cardemaister wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jul 15, 2011, at 4:54 PM, sparaig wrote:
Certainly that is the case, that the TM researchers thought (and still
do) that these episodes are significant. I'm
On Jul 15, 2011, at 11:27 PM, sparaig wrote:
These days, scientists call it the default mode of the brain.
Which scientists are these? Lemme guess, from MUM?
On Jul 16, 2011, at 4:46 AM, cardemaister wrote:
Is it true that iPhone 5 is overheating because of the
dual core A5 processor?
It hasn't been released yet, has it?
You're probably thinking of Nokia.
On Jul 16, 2011, at 5:56 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
As a side note, when you click on the link on Huffpost,
please don't freak out when you find out the source of
the article. I have found Al Jazeera to consistently
be one of the most balanced, nuanced, and accurate news
forums out there,
On Jul 16, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
On 07/16/2011 01:46 AM, cardemaister wrote:
Is it true that iPhone 5 is overheating because of the
dual core A5 processor?
The corporate wars are heating up. They're all out after Google with
their patent attorneys due to Android's success.
On Jul 16, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Duveyoung wrote:
For the first time, I see: Bhairitu can be spelled Barry Two.
Are we all being played?
No, we just have two Barry's, just like we have two Willy's: Willy One and
Willy Two.
On Jul 16, 2011, at 7:46 PM, obbajeeba wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jul 16, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Duveyoung wrote:
For the first time, I see: Bhairitu can be spelled Barry Two.
Are we all being played?
No, we just have two
On Jul 14, 2011, at 9:46 PM, sparaig wrote:
However, what I meant by there's alpha and then there's alpha is
a reference to the specific pattern(s) that show up during TM,
especially during the pure consciousness state.
Alleged pure consciousness state. I don't believe anyone accepts
On Jul 14, 2011, at 9:48 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:06 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, William Parkinson
ameradian2@ wrote:
[...]
Thank you also Turq (Lawson) for your warm
On Jul 14, 2011, at 9:50 PM, sparaig wrote:
One of the pitfalls, or one of the most important aspects of the
difference between TM and what you think is proper?
Name and form: namarupa.
Is Meditation the Push-up for the Brain?
July 14th, 2011 in Psychology Psychiatry
(Medical Xpress) -- Two years ago, researchers at UCLA found that
specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger
and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control
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On Jul 15, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
The now overpriced south Indian restaurant there serves a killer
butter
chicken, the yogurt sauce variety not the tomato one.
The main difference I found between food in India and here was the
rice
is a bit different in India. I found one
On Jul 15, 2011, at 4:53 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jul 14, 2011, at 9:46 PM, sparaig wrote:
However, what I meant by there's alpha and then there's alpha is
a reference to the specific pattern(s) that show up during TM
On Jul 15, 2011, at 4:54 PM, sparaig wrote:
Certainly that is the case, that the TM researchers thought (and still do)
that these episodes are significant. I'm curious as to why you think they are
not?
Because there's been nothing demonstrated as outside the normal realm of
On Jul 14, 2011, at 12:20 AM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
[...]
The much-touted witnessing of advanced TMers is seen in normal
humans all the time, but esp. in the elderly and people in pain.
Big whoop.
Derealization during pain
On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:20 PM, William Parkinson wrote:
Thank you so much for the information Bhairitu . I tried to trace
back my own mantra within the Advaita-shakti tradition and found
that it was recorded in Shankara's 'Saundaryalahari.' Perhaps I am
just slow witted, but I don't believe
Wow, does he mischaracterize shamatha mediation. Not a very honest
presentation.
But sadly, not surprising.
On Jul 14, 2011, at 12:17 PM, sparaig wrote:
New book: http://www.pdf-archive.com/2011/07/01/consciousness-
states-cosic-2011/consciousness-states-cosic-2011.pdf chapter 10 is
about
On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:28 PM, William Parkinson wrote:
I found this webpage and it has a different way to pronounce the mantra I was
taught. Those of you who were teachers, is this way correct? For example,
hearim (as in 'hear') instead of herim (as in 'her'). Is this list even
valid? Thx
On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:06 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, William Parkinson ameradian2@...
wrote:
[...]
Thank you also Turq (Lawson) for your warm welcome too. There is much I
still have to learn about TM, but also about the members here. Still it
has been
On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:08 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, William Parkinson ameradian2@...
wrote:
Â
I found this webpage and it has a different way to pronounce the mantra I
was taught. Those of you who were teachers, is this way correct? For
example,
On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:21 PM, sparaig wrote:
Oh wait, TM is effortless... Did MMY lie or is there something to be learned
from the realization that attempting to remember a specific pronunciation
from 38 years ago is often extremely difficult?
If you knew basic Sanskrit pronunciation (very
On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Yifu wrote:
below...vault of the mouth. Nope - as stated or implied by others; those
people excessively concerned about authentic pronunciation apparently don't
have a clue about TM and probably were not initiated into it.
Then they don't understand namarupa,
On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
You have opened a whole can of worms here. I've watched for years
different tantra school argue over whether the beej mantras should have
use the ng ending or the m ending.
The traditional schtick I was given was that the M ending was written to
On Jul 14, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
On 07/14/2011 02:15 PM, Vaj wrote:
On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
You have opened a whole can of worms here. I've watched for years
different tantra school argue over whether the beej mantras should have
use the ng ending
On Jul 13, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Tom Pall wrote:
Good to hear that it was just a prolonged joke. Never enlightened
after all, eh? Just exercising your sense of humor? Welcome back
to planet Earth, Ravi. Now why don't you and your fellow
pretenders go eat shit and die?
Couldn't they
On Jul 13, 2011, at 11:05 AM, obbajeeba wrote:
http://www.research.va.gov/news/research_highlights/ptsd-
cam-051711.cfm
Interesting breakdown and what nature supports ;-):
Of the facilities that offer meditation, 79% offer mindfulness
meditation, 13% offer mantra repetition meditation,
On Jul 13, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
On 07/13/2011 12:17 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote:
[...]
You probably know that most brain wave research would say that deep
sleep would be the delta state which is possible to produce
On Jul 13, 2011, at 5:16 PM, William Parkinson wrote:
Vaj, as I understand it, the TM people don't make hay from the mere presence
of alpha waves, but rather from alpha coherence, which is wide spread over
the various lobes. Is that not correct? Am I missing something here? Someone
On Jul 12, 2011, at 11:21 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
I'll just have to settle for this in liu of the right word for the
job: Judy is knowingly misrepresenting my objections and is
creating a false impression ment to mislead the readers into
drawing an erroneous conclusion concerning my
you would be offended.
Being a Buddhist is a choice. Being Jewish is not.
It's completely out of line for you to equate the two.
As to Nabby's lack of respect for Buddhism, Vaj and
Barry don't respect Hinduism, but I don't see you
criticizing Vaj or Barry, just Nabby.
He also often refers
On Jul 12, 2011, at 1:47 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
I think that part of it is that *over time* many people
became self unaware. That is, they got so completely
immersed in the cult that they became incapable of
seeing themselves the way that someone outside the cult
might see them. There was a
On Jul 11, 2011, at 8:15 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
In my life experience, those who practice this art have always
impressed
me as both more happy and more productive than those who do not. But
YMMV. TB TMers might feel, for example, that consciously shifting
one's
focus away from the
On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:18 AM, sparaig wrote:
In people in general who still are largely under sway of negative,
afflictive emotions, we now know from functional MRI that the
frontal
cortex - the part of the brain responsible for positive
attachment to
the other, goes dark. It shuts
Some brief points extrapolated from this:
- it was pancreatitis, not poison. Apparently Maharishi had some paranoid ideas
about being poisoned, at numerous times during his life. Poisoning is still a
common form of assassination in India. This brief vignette also reveals that
Maharishi was so
On Jul 11, 2011, at 4:18 PM, maskedzebra wrote:
I hope you realize what I am saying here, Curtis: I am not up for this at
this point. Your point of view is held with the power and courage and fight
that would indicate your very being is in it to win it—not that this is your
intent at all;
On Jul 10, 2011, at 7:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:36 PM, emptybill wrote:
You are wasting our time Vag.
Another ad hominem. Sheesh.
I'm beginning to think emptybill is really an empty person.
I'm
On Jul 9, 2011, at 12:15 AM, seventhray1 wrote:
Thanks for the recommendations. I wish I could find something I enjoy
reading for a few minutes before I drop off to sleep. I am so narrow minded
that I can't bring myself to read fiction and usually stick with something
spiritual in
On Jul 9, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
What was that verse that Maharishi use to always quote, something like:
Taking recourse to my Self, I create again and again.
Sanskrit, English, and source please
It's from the Bhagavad-gita 9:8
prakritim svam avastabhya
visrijami punah
On Jul 9, 2011, at 1:40 PM, cardemaister wrote:
Vaj:
It's actually nothing like TM. Within a couple of
weeks Shamatha meditators were transcending for many
hours at a time.
Pray tell, what is your proof of that?
The experience reports came back pretty soon after the retreats ended
On Jul 9, 2011, at 6:04 PM, emptybill wrote:
Oh so sorry but you're been given the con's own definition.
There is no transcending defined in Buddhist meditation - which is the
source lineage for Alan Wallace's concentration training. The Sanskrit word
used by Buddhism is shamataa, from
On Jul 9, 2011, at 8:25 PM, emptybill wrote:
You're just a bullshit con here, Vag.
Thanks for the ad hominem, it add SO much to already non-existent logic!
The words sama-dhi and sam-aa-dhi are different in meaning. Sama-dhi is not a
cognate for Shamataa either.
In Sanskrit, meaning is
On Jul 9, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Vaj wrote:
Non-sequitur - filled with more lies. And really none of your business - esp.
for a slimeball like yourself, who takes in the occasional weekend dharma
retreats in KC, while practicing ceremonial magic, claiming also to be a
practicing Greek Orthodox
On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:36 PM, emptybill wrote:
You are wasting our time Vag.
Another ad hominem. Sheesh.
I'm beginning to think emptybill is really an empty person. It makes me sad
to have to think that of any sentient.
You are also obviously afraid to answer those five questions.
No.
On Jul 6, 2011, at 11:12 PM, sparaig wrote:
When Vaj apparently attempt to score brownie points in an argument
this way, and never bother to apologize (that I am aware of), it
just confirms the rather nasty impression I have gotten of Vaj-as-a-
person, not just just his style of arguing
Willy One Lawson, here's what's been published so far on the
Shamatha Project.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Jacobs, T.L., Epel, E.S., Lin, J., Blackburn, E.H., Wolkowitz, O.M.,
Bridwell, D.A., Zanesco., A.P., Aichele, S.R., Sahdra, B.K., MacLean,
K.A., King, B.G.,
On Jul 7, 2011, at 10:52 AM, richardjwilliamstexas wrote:
Vaj:
here's what's been published so far on the
Shamatha Project.
None of these papers are double-blind studies.
But, all these papers just validate the practice
of TM.
The fact is, meditation can help reduce stress,
one
On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:50 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@...
wrote:
Barry takes authenticity and honesty, or their lack, as
tools for manipulating responses from others on here.
That is his entire game; using his writing skills to
plant
On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
Very interesting Vaj, from your older post about two years ago. It
is interesting how instinctive reactions peel off with time. Maybe
certain reactions, say a bat flies close to your face will not
disappear, but non-threatening
On Jul 7, 2011, at 2:56 PM, sparaig wrote:
That's an impressive number of citations, but most don't show up in the
pubmed database...
Lawson
It's not clear to how many, if any more, papers are in the pipeline still. The
project has been extended with an endorsement by HHDL and is now
On Jul 6, 2011, at 2:52 AM, Robert wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-maharishi-years-the-
u_b_86412.html
So much for TM reducing heart attacks, huh?
On Jul 6, 2011, at 4:13 AM, Robert wrote:
I wonder why no one was ever charged in this crime...?
Who was the foriegnor in India, in 1991?
Anyone want to make a guess?
I believe initially it was suspected by the paranoid Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi, that he was poisoned or perhaps it was his own
On Jul 6, 2011, at 8:08 AM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-maharishi-years-
the-u_b_86412.html
Very much reads like an historical novel with the narrator taking
the first person
On Jul 6, 2011, at 11:54 AM, richardjwilliamstexas wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-maharishi-years-the-
u_b_86412.html
Maharishi had suffered severe abdominal pain and
inflammation of the pancreas, along with kidney
failure followed by a heart attack.
Vaj:
So much
On Jul 6, 2011, at 12:46 PM, richardjwilliamstexas wrote:
P.S. I'm still waiting for you to post the links to the
research studies of meditation brain wave research
done up in Boulder at the Vajradhatu.
Are you referring to the Shamatha Project?
On Jul 6, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Tom Pall wrote:
There was a presentation in the Dome on Sunday (to people with
valid badges, of course) pitching people to sign up for Maharishi
(SM) (TM) Vastu, MVVT, Ayurveda, Jyotish, Gemstones, Timeshares,
Coursse at Brahamastans, Support of Pandits because
, along with kidney
failure followed by a heart attack.
Vaj:
So much for TM reducing heart attacks, huh?
Looks like Vaj slipped in another fib! Is Vaj
thinking that TM prevents drinking poison?
Arsenic, lead, mercury, they're candies?
Actually the Ayurvedic viagra the movement sold
On Jul 6, 2011, at 2:12 PM, richardjwilliamstexas wrote:
Vaj:
Are you referring to the Shamatha Project?
Apparently there's no scientific research on the Shamantha
Project that has been published in peer-reviewed journals.
Apparently you don't pay attention. Elizabeth Blackburn found
On Jul 6, 2011, at 2:32 PM, richardjwilliamstexas wrote:
Actually the latest study was found to have had the
data deliberately skewed.
authfriend:
Actually was found = one medical journalist said he
thought it was skewed in a blog post on Forbes.com.
We should not misinterpret this
On Jul 6, 2011, at 8:10 AM, sparaig wrote:
Allegedly MMY was poisoned. So much for TM reducing the effects of poisoning,
you meant to say...
No, a myocardial infarction, a heart attack.
Maharishi had suffered severe abdominal pain and inflammation of the pancreas,
along with kidney failure
On Jul 6, 2011, at 5:34 PM, John wrote:
Vernon Katz has a new book out available at MUM Press.
http://www.mumpress.com/books/other-authors/f06.html
Now there's a TMO-affliate book I will buy.
Thanks Johnesque. MMY fan post of the year!
On Jul 6, 2011, at 5:55 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
Conversations with Maharishi
By Dr. Vernon Katz
Hardcover, 393 pages
Published in 2011
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Speaks about Full Development of Human Consciousness
Have you read it Nabby?
Review?
Anyone?
Any post- or in- TMer could
On Jul 5, 2011, at 3:53 AM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jul 4, 2011, at 12:37 PM, cardemaister wrote:
Does meditation speed up the ripening(?) of karma?
If it does, does the quality of the experiences possibly
somehow associatable
On Jul 5, 2011, at 9:52 AM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
[...]
Yeah, MMY's interpretation was a rogue one. It's a deviation from the
purity of the Patanjali tradition.
Yes, and all interpretations of xyz are automatically bad because
George Erickson www.tundracub.com
Christianists on the March By Chris Hedges - Truthdig
Dr. James Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told us
[that when we were] 80 - we would be fighting Christian fascists.
The warning, given 25 years ago, came when Pat
On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:41 PM, richardjwilliamstexas wrote:
Let's bash some Christians today!
Apparently some people will stoop at nothing
to get a sideways slap at some particular
group they don't agree with. Fer chirssakes,
Vaj, you could have linked to it, instead of
posting the whole
On Jul 4, 2011, at 12:37 PM, cardemaister wrote:
Does meditation speed up the ripening(?) of karma?
If it does, does the quality of the experiences possibly
somehow associatable to meditation depend on the quality
of praarabdha-karma: kRSNA (black), shukla (white) or mishra (grey)?
The
On Jul 3, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Dick Mays wrote:
My brother told me about the below three-minute excerpt from the July 1st
episode of The Discovery Channel's The Supernaturalist. Enjoy.
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/the-supernaturalist-levitation.html
There have been legitimate flying
But this guy looks like many of the charlatans...
On Jul 3, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net wrote:
On Jul 3, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Dick Mays wrote:
My brother told me about the below three-minute excerpt from the July 1st
episode of The Discovery Channel's The Supernaturalist
On Jun 30, 2011, at 10:58 AM, sparaig wrote:
Are you referring to serotonin overdose?
No I wasn't.
Michele Bachmann, hell's Barbie
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Meanwhile, while you were sleeping, while you were allowing your
attention to wander to issues more pressing, heartwarming and good,
such as gay New Yorkers in love and goofy dogs running marathons,
On Jun 29, 2011, at 2:59 AM, maskedzebra wrote:
That is, refuse to allow myself to surrender to God in this Hindu-
pantheistic form, and realize that, somehow, fallen angels were
deceiving me into experiencing reality in such a way which was
contrary to THE WAY IT ACTUALLY IS.
What do
On Jun 29, 2011, at 9:39 AM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jun 29, 2011, at 2:59 AM, maskedzebra wrote:
That is, refuse to allow myself to surrender to God in this Hindu-
pantheistic form, and realize that, somehow, fallen angels were
On Jun 29, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Buck wrote:
Ayahuasca as a neuro-toxin, anybody have experience with this?
We've been running into people with this. They've tried
ayahuasca hoping for spiritual experience and have instead fried their
nervous systems.
Wondering, is neuro-damage also become a
On Jun 29, 2011, at 7:36 PM, whynotnow7 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
TM and the TM-Sidhi program has created neurotoxic reactions in numerous
TMers, do you have any info or research findings on That?
You being a supposed former practitioner
On Jun 29, 2011, at 8:59 PM, richardjwilliamstexas wrote:
Buck:
Ayahuasca as a neuro-toxin, anybody have
experience with this?
Oh yeah, but down here people usually just
smoke their DMT. LoL!!!
Oh well, at least they have a respect for time, no?
A 20 minute trip is a businessman's
On Jun 26, 2011, at 1:05 PM, sparaig wrote:
So, I'm curious as to how MZ, not to mention Vaj, respond to this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanne-ball/meditation-trauma-
abuse_b_883225.html
The Balls are well-known TM proselytizers, almost always relying on
self-produced research
The enlightened vaca of a buddha.
On Jun 27, 2011, at 3:12 PM, cardemaister wrote:
Naagaarjuna seems to repeat verious forms derived from the root 'gam' (to go)
almost obsessively (muula-madhyamaka-kaarikaa):
gataṃ na gamyate tāvad agataṃ naiva gamyate |
gatāgatavinirmuktaṃ
On Jun 27, 2011, at 6:15 PM, richardjwilliamstexas wrote:
Naagaarjuna seems to repeat verious forms derived
from the root 'gam' (to go)..
Because MMK 2 is an investigation of 'Coming and Going'?
madhyamaka karika:
http://www.stephenbatchelor.org/verses2.htm
Maybe the TM orgs
On Jun 26, 2011, at 5:25 AM, maskedzebra wrote:
Hi. I didn't receive answers to my last two questions, but I'll pose a third.
AFAIK, you're the only person in recorded history to have achieved a
unity-type
state of consciousness or any other flavor of enlightenment and then
denounce
it
On Jun 24, 2011, at 6:56 AM, raunchydog wrote:
That said, there are those who say the video is a hoax. What say you?
I'll take 850,000 to go.
Looking Glasses
A pair of camera-equipped shades makes video-sharing as easy as walking down
the street
CORINNE IOZZIO
Rather than let life pass you by, save it. With the camera-equipped Eyez
glasses, users can share point-of-view video without the clunky cameras and
nettlesome file transfers
from the TM screenplay onto their own (supposedly
autonomously Self-produced) enlightenment?
Don't think I entirely understand what you are saying here, Vaj. Perhaps you
could pose the question a different way. Oh, by the way: my enlightenment, it
was REAL.
People have different
On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:59 AM, maskedzebra wrote:
I think everything to do with Werner extremely problematic, and the effect on
the mind of his seminars (now called Landmark Education) mystically
inhibiting and even dissociative.
A major psychiatric hospital I know of began suggesting in
On Jun 23, 2011, at 12:07 PM, blastedactresses wrote:
Dear maskedzebra - all I see is a lot of intellectual jugglery and nothing
concrete. Can you please, if it's even possible for you, describe in a few
lines each on your enlightenment, the reasons why you thought it was mystical
deceit
On Jun 21, 2011, at 9:41 PM, emptybill wrote:
Effort ... isn't that what TM-Sidhi practice finally amounts to in reality?
Prayatna is the actual word Patanjai uses.
Not everyone had authentic Patanjali instruction. Apparently you're yet another
one. Any meditation the relies on alambanas
On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:21 AM, sparaig wrote:
So setting oneself up to hop around is fabricated and therefore not
spontaneous. OK. fine lines there, you must admit.
Meditation is a subtle kind of thing. So such fine distinctions are just the
nature of the territory.
On Jun 21, 2011, at 1:16 AM, sparaig wrote:
As I have pointed out to you before, almost all the TM research
cited in the The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness was published
before 1980, and the Transcendental Consciousness studies and
Cosmic Consciousness studies cited below are
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