Why morality is important in reaching enlightenment. And,
Why TM teachers cannot get Shankara's teachings:
Jai Guru Dev, These are fantastic posts.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/380831
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/convers
Jai Guru Dev, These are fantastic posts. I been out building fence and seeding
pastures and such these last few days, and am way behind reading here on FFL.
These two experiential spiritual posts to FFL really speak to where the
Fairfield, Iowa meditating community has gone, experiential-ly. The
This is all an interesting consideration about Transcendental Meditation. Very
much like Brahmananda Saraswati, our Guru Dev, meditators here
characteristically are very practical, down to earth and real in their
spirituality. You have read the discourses of Guru Dev, Maharishi's teacher?
Peopl
Good Friday signifies the day on which Jesus was crucified and laid in the
tomb. It symbolizes the process of transformation followed by resurrection. One
can see it as a time for Being in the Unified Field transcendent and enter into
a higher state of consciousness as we release what no longer
Yes, the Raja part of TM is such a small circle in TM and of the larger TM
community but people do wonder if they are going to keep doing it. When you
talk to meditators in the community there is a general disheartenment that
those guys wear that stuff representing the movement and the meditatin
Well actually Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam [MAR], CEO and Teacher of all of TM
commented the other evening that as much as we go in to consciousness we bring
it out and that as humans we should be active, caring and present in life and
civic affairs as well being meditators. This was in response to
Afterwords, out in the Dome entry area and on the sidewalks to the parking
areas as the meeting closed and people left: a big WTF reaction was, that they
actually came wearing the gold foil hats and robes and stuff. I can't say that
Alex's brother or some of those others following after Mahara
No, he was not asked about that so did not get to that. Uptown that readily
gets asked by meditators but it was not asked last night for him to comment on.
Nobody spoke about that. That as a larger community question Is still
unresolved, as in not spoken to. -Buck
mjackson74 asks:
Resolve: That as Community Meditators,
We will never bring disgrace on this our City, by an act of dishonesty or
cowardice.
We will fight for the ideals and Sacred Things of the City both alone and with
many.
We will revere and obey the City's laws, and we will do our best to incite a
like re
Was a Nice meditating community meeting. Non-meditators and townies would not
have understood a lot of it. Though nothing was said that they could not have
heard. It had some meditation news, some theoretical type of knowledge related
to consciousness and meditation, some celebration, John Hagel
Jai Guru Dev,
Russia, Ukraine, the US and the European Union have said that all sides have
agreed to steps to "de-escalate" the crisis in eastern Ukraine.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27072351
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27072351
The speech needs more breaks and pause written in to the text for delivery.
Speech-writing. If I were writing the speech for Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam,
CEO of all of TM, I'd reach out for George VI's speech to the UK given by radio
broadcast on the eve of war with the Nazis:
Text:
In th
Speech-writing. If I were writing the speech for Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam, CEO
of all of TM, I'd reach out for George VI's speech to the UK given by radio
broadcast on the eve of war with the Nazis:
Text:
In these grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in history, I send to every
househol
This meeting tonite is incredibly extremely really important for all of
Transcendental Meditation.
Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam, CEO of all of TM, will speak to the meditating
community.
Meeting with the Fairfield Meditating Community
In the Golden Dome this Thursday evening, April 17,
start
Wow, this is shocking that he'd do that. It is really sad. These FFL and TM
neganauts here, who don't even live in Fairfield, seem so cranky for their own
vile reasons that they even willfully misrepresent the science on meditation.
Great example here of anti-science. What could any good soul tr
My soul, be on guard;
Ten thousand foes arise;
The hosts of sin are pressing hard
To draw thee from the skies.
Om watch and meditate;
The battle ne'er give o'er;
Re-new it boldly ev'ry day,
And help the Unified Field implore.
Om watch and fight and meditate;
The battle ne'er give o'er;
When in need of guidance, go directly to the source of wisdom, the Unified
Field Transcendent. Close the eyes and go into the Self. Gently release the
chatter in the mind, letting thoughts drift away like faint clouds sweeping
across a blue sky. Settling into this silent place of peace, find the
Yep, some old hurt he has. Some obsession. Heck, he left years ago. He don't
live here now. Seems to have severed all relationship with spirituality anyway.
I don't see what dog he has in this fight. Evidently some deep hurt or
disposition. This is a different movement from the one he belonged t
Composed between the fifteenth and the fifth century BCE, the Vedas -
literally "Knowledge" - are a Sanskrit corpus considered by most Hindus as a
non-human revelation, and whose transmission has for centuries been
reserved to a socio-religious elite, the Brahmins. Throughout brahmanic
lite
Yes that evidently goes back to the possible range of human behavior, including
the NPD'ed. The so-called charismatic preacher could be a good example of that
too. I feel Weber's more scholarly definition is better for our larger purposes
of spiritual discussion here. It is more inclusive of wha
Jeezus X-mas, Not at all Charismatic? You evidently did not get to spend much
time around Maharishi.
That's a pity.
This is a good working definition of charismatic .. .
"Weber, in an oft quoted passage, defined charisma as a certain quality of an
individual personality, by virtue of
Meeting with the Fairfield Meditating Community In the Golden Dome this
Thursday evening, April 17,
starting at 8:00 p.m.
Although the content of the Vedas focuses mainly on the celebration of
sacrifice,
nowadays we witness a proliferation of texts and discourses which put
references to the Vedas into play
in the most diverse areas.
The attribution of the term “Vedic” is now used to legitimate all sorts of
k
Yup and pitiable they don't have the experiential reference neither that they
have to ask for some mental argument that 'absolutely shows' the divinity. With
no spiritual chops in this mentation round and round of these guys is like they
can't see the forest for the trees or the forest for the t
To really mediate this, we need much better public school education using and
teaching all that is scientific towards a more invincible future. Like taking
more quiet time employing effective transcending meditation into the
educational design of our schools, employing quiet time meditation in t
The attribution of the term “Vedic” is now used to legitimate all sorts of
knowledge
and practices. Thus, we hear of “Vedic architecture”, “Vedic astrology”,
“Vedic
ecology”, “Vedic mathematics”, “Ayur-Veda” (Vedic medicine), “Vedic
socialism and communism”, and even “Vedic management”. The
This international conference aims to bridge this gap by bringing together
ethnologists who have observed the birth and dissemination of these
phenomena in their field studies.
The participation of historians and Sanskrit
scholars will help us to put the historical dimension of these event
We need a revolution in the spiritual outlook of humanity right now. This is
about public education.
An Entrenched Materialism of our vast human race is the problem at core. The
problem is fundamentally spiritual.
We Must, End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Now. ..
http://www.bbc.com/news/scien
An Entrenched Materialism of our vast human race is the problem at core. The
problem is fundamentally spiritual.
End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Now. ..
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352
The problem is way too beyond jus
The participation of historians and Sanskrit
scholars will help us to put the historical dimension of these events into
perspective, while specialists of other cultural arenas, who face similar
phenomena of appeal to texts, will shed light on the regional specificity of
these observed socia
End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Now. ..
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352
The problem is way too beyond just sustainability.
We are talking survival. As a species.
It is quite time for a change. Radical change.
-Buck
The problem is way too beyond just sustainability.
We are talking survival. As a species.
It is quite time for a change. Radical change.
-Buck in the Dome
The World Simply Must
End the Use of Dirty Fuels,
Rampant Materialism, Hyper-Industrial Production and the Over-consumption of
t
During the conference, the primary task will be to understand the scope of
these phenomena, by examining the social identity of the actors involved:
which groups or individuals contribute to the production of these new forms of
knowledge? To whom are they addressed? Who are the intermediaries
We are talking survival.
It is quite time for a change. Radical change.
-Buck in the Dome
The World Simply Must
End the Use of Dirty Fuels,
Rampant Materialism, Hyper-Industrial Production and the Over-consumption of
the consumer economies of the world at too high a level by too many pe
Central to our investigation is a focus on the content of these “new” forms of
knowledge, and the legitimation strategies that go along with them. Although
it
takes particular forms in the modern world, referencing the Vedas is actually
an ancient way to affirm the validity of knowledge . Ho
This will lead us to question the role of textual authority in
contemporary Hinduism and its uses as a way of forging new religious
identities. If modern science as epistemological authority was amply used by
Hindu reformers during colonial times to prove the universal value of
Hinduism, ho
It is quite time for a change. Radical change.
-Buck in the Dome
The World Simply Must
End the Use of Dirty Fuels,
Rampant Materialism, Hyper-Industrial Production and the Over-consumption of
the consumer economies of the world at too high a level by too many people to
be sustainable is
The World Simply Must
End the Use of Dirty Fuels,
Rampant Materialism, Hyper-Industrial Production and the Over-consumption of
the consumer economies of the world at too high a level by too many people to
be sustainable is the problem.
sharelong60 writes: What does the Syrian war, des
Participants will also be asked to investigate
whether the attribution “Vedic” is always used in a “Hindu” context or whether
it can be a purely commercial term used to sell the “exotic” and the “ancient”
within India— as in the case of the Vedic City under construction by the Shri
Infratech
Similarly, the conference will deal with the economy that is generated as these
ideas spread. Besides the ideological dimension, commercial concerns seem
to be at the heart of these new phenomena.
“The attribution “Vedic” has
important commercial implications that should be attentively exam
“The attribution “Vedic” has
important commercial implications that should be attentively examined. The
Vedas are nowadays sold as a commercial item, in the form of printed texts,
recorded mantras (CD, DVD), or as a packaged tourist destination (Vedic
schools, Vedic meditations centres). “V
A Lifestyle inspired by the Golden age of the Indian Civilization. Chandragupta
Maurya ! Ashoka ! Reminiscent of the Golden Age is now a realty. Vedic City
will be an Epic beginning to a new life.
An Epic beginning to a new life, today we invite you to become a part of that
mystical grandeur
An Epic beginning to a new life, today we invite you to become a part of that
mystical grandeur in a Vedic City near you.
Welcome all ye friends of the Transcendent,
Welcome to the meditation.
Venture wholly on the Unified Field
Come and with Its people go.
Om, Yet we come in common duty,
Down beneath the waves we go;
Om the bliss, the heavenly beauty,
The Unified Field is experienced so.
Om Come, ye med
Om, Yet we come in common duty,
Down beneath the waves we go;
Om the bliss, the heavenly beauty,
The Unified Field is experienced so.
Om Come, ye meditators of the Global Country,
Follow It beneath the wave.
Meditate, an' Know the Transcendent,
Resurrected proclaim,
Its power to save.
-
Come, ye meditators of the Global Country,
Follow It beneath the wave.
Meditate, an' Know the Transcendent,
Resurrected proclaim,
Its power to save.
-Buck, on Palm Sunday Eve
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Unified Field! Hosanna in the
highest heaven!—Paraphrasing, Mat
Philosophy sophistry.. ., hell. Nuomenal. Great word, I feel we all should be
finding ways to use it as a new word bracket for really spiritual description
around the Transcendent Unified Field experience we all have here. We proly
needs CurtisDeltaBlues to come back here and sort this out as
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Unified Field! Hosanna in the
highest heaven!—Paraphrasing, Matthew 21:9
Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. The
multitudes that awaited Jesus’ arrival cried, “Blessed is the one who comes in
the name of the Lord!”
The Fairfield Meditating Community:
“We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a
transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the
Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group,
for the sake of br
Good argument. A plain truth is they'd better understand and better reference
ordinary experience if they better understood mysticism by experience. Is a
much much better use of time on earth to pursue spiritual practice while you
got a life on earth and thereby make the extraordinary ordinary.
Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. The multitudes
that awaited Jesus’ arrival cried, “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of
the Lord!”
The thoughts we think, the cells in our bodies, and the events in our lives
are like the multitudes who waited for Jesus: Ev
By the virtue and grace in our experience as Transcendentalists we welcome the
Transcendent on Earth.
"With joy, we welcome the Transcendent—the spirit of the Unified Field in the
midst of the human physiology.
Jai Guru Dev,
-Buck in the Dome
7Ray, good observation. You are completely correct, these are fallacious,
ignorant, anti-science and vile accusations being made against TM and the
meditating community here. These critics simply do not know what they are
talking about. Instead folks should meditate here together with the grou
Facilitating,
Look for Strategic Planning on the main mum.edu web page, to find these links
look under About MUM and scroll down to Master Plan . There are several links
around the strategic planning ongoing to facilitate the
meditating/consciousness-based education campus.
We come a long
There are a lot of cool photos of the Fairfield meditating campus.. .
Open the master plan 'book'.. . inside this link,
http://www.mum.edu/master-plan/2013 http://www.mum.edu/master-plan/2013
-Buck
There is a lot of practical work going on in process. Study the links to get a
better idea fo
There is a lot of practical work going on in process. Study the links to get a
better idea for yourself as to what is going on.
http://www.mum.edu/master-plan/planning-process
http://www.mum.edu/master-plan/planning-process
Regardless what some of these apostates and nattering naybobs of ne
Regardless what some of these apostates and nattering naybobs of negativity say
here
MUM is not going to go away anytime soon,
-U.S. Buck in the Dome
Lot of major work done last year to the foundations and roof of the old
Library related to drainage.
Ongoing work.http://www.mum.edu/mas
Lot of major work done last year to the foundations and roof of the old Library
related to drainage. Ongoing work.http://www.mum.edu/master-plan/2013
http://www.mum.edu/master-plan/2013
Yes, that is honest and fair. Everything is in renovation. It happens in
time and takes money. Ther
Yes, that is honest and fair. Everything is in renovation. It happens in time
and takes money. There is an active Board of Trustees, with planning and
process well in motion and it is well begun. Quite a lot has been done since
Maharishi passed away and quite a lot of capital outlay made on
Fairfield, Iowa.
Om, well word out on the Fairfield streets and in the coffee shops is that
there are meditators selling irrevocable trusts that are of a sketchy kind, in
cahoots too with an infamous security trader.. .
Also published in the local paper too, there was a warning article wr
Son, as usual with your anti-TM work, MJ; the observation may be correct but
the thinking is wrong.. .
This is Transcendentalism 101. It is about spiritual experience. No wonder
you don't get it.
-Buck in the Dome
1985, July 16
Unified Field Based Defense:
"The Ideal of Def
In Fairfield Today I sat through a complete Vedic performance of the Chandi
Path, the allegorical battle with those negative and un-spiritual thought-forms
as MJ, Turqb and some other negativists will often here post. Then, in this
evening at the weekly harmony singing here too were these old hy
Meditating Fairfield, Iowa [1974-2014.. .]
There are times when the world asks ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
The Fairfield Meditating Community:
“We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for
a transcendentally important common purpose, whi
“We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a
transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the
Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group,
for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world c
No, no, no. Not Black for me. Some really spiritual color. Like Blue.
Federal Blue.A Union (Unified) Field Officer's coat! Upholding Natural Law
and Equal rights to the Transcendent for all. I am a Unified Field Man
through and thru.
Normally I wear a 4 button enlisted man's sack co
As to the Meissner-like effect of consciousness coherence.. . When you get
things laid out in time series of publication to look at, it becomes remarkable
what he was doing all along going way back. Of the “Maharishi Effect”, it shows
up in publication in the mid-1970's and as a hypothesis based
As much as people want to dump on Maharishi as being some secreted
ultra-traditional nationalistic hindoo-ist, the record shows they guy to be
quite a modern and spiritual human. He was incredibly consistent looking at the
whole progression as science, spirituality in consciousness, and policy a
Once the Heidelberg color presses were purchased [early 1970's] Maharishi
published in cycle through the decades major volumes that he edited that show
the progression of the science, thought, and programs. It was all for linking
modern science research in spirituality. He was remarkably progres
Nope. Well, Turquoiseb is in error about his 1978 assertion and you are wrong
for thinking he is right. You guys just want to hate on Maharishi at every
turn. The Meissner-Like Effect of consciousness coherence in the “Maharishi
Effect” in publication goes back to at least [ 1976 ] with the publ
“We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a
transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the
Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group,
for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world co
Rory is quitting, Fairfield?
That is a shame, that he is leaving and to lose him.
Meditators; it's been a long time, it's been a sacrifice at times to have been
here. You've came bravely, proudly. You're a special group. You've found in one
another a bond that exists possibly only in banan
Also did not get to finish utopian-ism and Fairfield neither.
Dang.
What is utopian-ism?
Thanks though for the encouragement, jr. Spring rains happening here today.
Yep, I am running low of time indoors now with the end of winter here in
Iowa. Still got some things remaining that are unfini
Up more recently, TM and describing aspects of utopianism:
Born in 1927, Norman Zierold grew up in the Amana colonies, a Germanic Utopian
community in Iowa... . .. .
“I remember how aspects of Utopia had colored my days from the very beginning,
when I was born into a community that expected the
What is utopian-ism?
“I went to a lecture at the U. of Ia. in Iowa City the other nite given by a
visiting classicist professor and went out to dinner with him after. In
discussing [Meditating] Fairfield, Iowa he broke from what we were saying at a
point and declared that he [a classicist] coul
Thanks for the encouragement, jr. Spring rains happening here today. Yep, I am
running low of time indoors now with the end of winter here in Iowa. Still got
some things remaining that are unfinished here. I never finished my paper on
Quaker meditators coming to Fairfield. A long time ago I publ
What a bunch of manipulative honking you haters are doing against TM here. You
are cherry-picking some 'god' comments and making your own assumptions just to
make an argument. Reading the transcript, he's talking and using allegory to
lay out an inquiry to make a scientific design. Taking observ
Thank you for not selling drugs or alcohol to our children.. .
An exchange student fell to his death after ingesting marijuana in Colorado -
the first death linked to the drug since it was legalised in the US state.
I certainly feel that as meditators you should all move to Fairfield, Iowa
forthwith. Avert the danger before it comes. The Domes being geodesic
structures are some of the best to withstand global changes of the scale
evidently lining up. Maharishi consulted a lot with none other than
Buckminis
His hoary frost, His fleecy snow,
Descend and clothe the ground;
The liquid streams forbear to flow,
In icy fetters bound.
He sends His Word and melts the snow,
The fields no longer mourn;
He calls the warmer gales to blow
And bids the spring return.
Spring is upon us here in Iowa and I have go
Spring is upon us here in Iowa and I have got to go off-line more with field
work now mostly, after meditation in the Dome. I am two months behind on farm
work and horse training. Om those normal years. For this year given the global
weird weather this year and winter I am behind. Only the la
This is really interesting and pivotal, Authfriend. I got to come back and read
this. -Buck
authfriend writes:
Mike, I'm tellin' ya the details. The news programs didn't get the whole
story, about the rate going way down the following week.
It was 10 homicides in 36 hours. That's a lot;
Om Jesus X-mas, the holy Grail is meditation in the Golden Domes of Fairfield,
Iowa. ..
-Buck in the Dome
"This has been an incredibly popular endeavor to try to find something that
Jesus touched," Dr. Robert Cargill, an assistant professor of classics and
religious studies at the Univers
As I turn within to meditate, I prepare to bring forth my Self. I am willing to
learn and grow. All I need is fulfilled through the presence of the Unified
Field within me. I open to greater Knowledge, love, and understanding as I
meditate:
Om, Teach me. Show me how to be more loving and und
Seems I recall now the scorpion nation precipitation happened as it became
evident and was pointed out to Maharishi who was then holed up in his location
with his cultivated groups of upper income followers that some Danish and UK'er
TM teachers were out in the field teaching TM to common people
It obviously was the oxytocin. UK'ers and the Danish people must more
naturally suffer from either tooo high or too low blood levels of oxytocin in a
way that other movement meditators and TM teachers would not. That proly
explains a lot of this behavior. Disruptive oxytocin levels is proly in
In terms of our own natural history and sciences, very fortunately we don't got
scorpions by nature in Iowa. Just the ones that get imported here. And, they
don't thrive here at all in our climate,
-Buck
salyavin808 writes:
Scorpion Nation? Ah, that takes me back. 2005 it was, the TMO in
Buck Predicts:
Buck sees,
as to the inevitable success of our transcendentalism cause,
I do not pretend to command the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye
reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure
by the experience of sight; I can divine it
This same thing of some bad behavior of some plagued the early Mormon movement
when they showed up on the frontier in Illinois at Nauvoo to settle and build
their Shining City on the Hill overlooking the Mississippi River. Well, not
wishing to distract from the central subject of this here subje
Hearing about spiritual ideas such as love, generosity, and compassion, it is
as if a seed has been planted in consciousness. Just as a flower seed needs
sun, rain, and time to take root, one nurtures these divine ideas in prayer and
meditation, and as understanding grows.
Like the sun warms a
Bad socialization in an upbringing can be seen anywhere in a people at any
station. Evidently even in thel growing illumined. There is certainly Nature
and there is certainly nurture in any person. People are born in to the temple
as the human nervous system that comes with some manufactured sta
Yep, actually Dr. David Hawkins the late great Western sage had a lot to say
about this thing of ethical behavior and consciousness too. I feel MJ here is
making way to much of a fuss about all this stuff in the past. Seems like
abnormal fussiness. Evidently as with any socio-pathology the thing
The people listed on this venture capital project seem successful community
people who evidently are practically looking out for Fairfield, Iowa Life. Most
you don't live here; however while the rest of rural America is in decline and
de-population Jefferson County, Iowa has fortunately bucked t
Actually the attorneys general protecting the general public have put most the
crooked community meditators out of business either in to jail or barred from
at least security business, some barred for life. It is not that these
bad-minded ones were meditators but much more likely examples of aso
Om, just to be a little more accurate about some things mentioned below for any
outsiders looking in, it was [International Trading Group] ITG churning
accounts with made up information that the SEC sanctioned. Telegroup was taking
in good people's money from the community at their front door wh
Yes, and thanks be to the Unified Field for the States Attorneys Generals out
there doing the good work of protecting us all as the larger and civic
community from bad people doing bad things. -Buck
Mjackson74 writes:
I'd just as soon "invest" my money with Ed Beckley.
There have been a b
Dear, Dear Tuco;
You have no idea how loud or the reach.
Om,Ha,Ha,Ha,, ,
-Buck
You realize that your place and position in history is that You will go down
as the voice of this generation, of this decade, You will be the loudest voice..
Prepare Ye the Way!
As in all things, Science should strategically drive public policy, not
ignorance.
-U.S. Buck in the Dome
Punditster writes:
Lessons From the Little Ice Age
"During the 17th century, longer winters and cooler summers disrupted growing
seasons and destroyed
Dear Dear FFL Moderators;
Please stop this before it gets any worse. This particular thread is heading
out in to the sea of needless mean unkindness. Could you please have these
people take their personal stuff off line. That would be nicer and more in line
with the Yahoo-groups guidelines. If
Wonder reflects a sense of reverence for all of life. I am filled with wonder
as I gaze at a drop of rain perched on a leaf or behold the first ray of
sunlight over the horizon at dawn.
I expand my sense of wonder by taking nothing for granted. I am captivated as
I contemplate the world we liv
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