[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev and the Revival of Knowledge

2013-05-24 Thread sound of stillness
How many seeds have been germinated from Guru Dev's Grace? Transcendental Meditation Organization Others? How many people other than in India have learned TM through the TMO in the past 12 months? Past 36? How many TM Centers are there in the USA? Is the TMO sustainable without donations,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Total. Complete. Astouding. Absolute. Paradigm. Shift.

2013-05-23 Thread sound of stillness
God is not an object that can be seen. God is the subject. He is the seer. Don't concern your­self with objects that can be seen. Find out who the seer is. - Ramana Maharishi The awareness that I am does not belong to me. I am it because I belong to it, because I am a part of it. It is what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-26 Thread sound of stillness
Can we put our attention on the experiencer? I'm not so sure. Isn't Guru Dev reported to have said it isn't possible to concentrate on the unmanifest? Or is that something else he was talking about. My experience and understanding from Edwin Bryant's YS commentary is that with greater

[FairfieldLife] Enlightenment

2013-03-17 Thread sound of stillness
morning light abiding in the beauty of yonder shore Enlightenment. Is it . . . Being in harmony with our own state of evolution. Each state of consciousness with its own reality, each inseparable yet distinct from one another. As night is from day.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment

2013-03-17 Thread sound of stillness
@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: light and dark the yonder shores of each other, somewhere in the middle they meet, lost and found in the beauty of the other From: sound of stillness soundofstillness@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO - Part 4

2013-03-16 Thread sound of stillness
Well, as Jerry Jarvis used to say with a twinkle in his eye, that's one way of looking at it. I'm a currency trader. I call the Forex, the streams of abundance. And find the key to success, the key to consistently turning small amounts of money into larger amounts, is to 'Want What The

[FairfieldLife] How pure is your experience?

2013-03-16 Thread sound of stillness
The cherry blossoms having fallen, Enjoji Temple Is quiet once more. - Onitsura How pure is your experience, how entangled with the past?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Girish Varma accused of sexual harassment - The New Movement - Buck

2013-03-16 Thread sound of stillness
It think it was in Stephen Cope's book 'Yoga and the Quest for the True Self' that Stephen describes the changes the Kripalu Institute made after it's founder, Amrit Desai, was asked to leave. Who is the new movement that you mention? If in the end, we pass the Buck to you, how do you see

[FairfieldLife] The New Movement

2013-03-16 Thread sound of stillness
: Michael Jackson Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:40:09 -0700 no thoughts no mantra no TMO From: sound of stillness Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Girish Varma accused of sexual harassment - The New Movement - Buck It think it was in Stephen Cope's book 'Yoga and the Quest

[FairfieldLife] Re: The New Movement

2013-03-16 Thread sound of stillness
and capitalized on the fact by claiming TM was the best way to experience it. The TMO has too much baggage of its own and Marshy's to be of any further value to the world. From: sound of stillness soundofstillness@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dialogue - A proposal . . .

2013-03-13 Thread sound of stillness
Beautiful. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: My tradition is Kali Sadhaka Garana. As a Sidh Tantric I can teach meditation and do some healings. It's more about the questions that the student first asks me. On 03/12/2013 08:02 AM, sound of stillness

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dialogue - A proposal . . .

2013-03-12 Thread sound of stillness
on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CaptBebops They're mainly sketches as for YouTube I'm not going to try to polish. On 03/11/2013 10:13 AM, sound of stillness wrote: You say you came to a dead end doing TM. What was the dead end that you came to? p.s. My writing experience is in multi

[FairfieldLife] Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-12 Thread sound of stillness
I was listening to a meditation teacher (not a TM teacher) who when asked about thoughts, gave the instruction . . . Become aware of the one who is having the thoughts. Is it possible to become 'aware' of the one who is having a thought? Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object? If

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dialogue - A proposal . . .

2013-03-11 Thread sound of stillness
When we speak a thought, then think the same thought, wouldn't that be the process of transcending thought? And if so, wouldn't transcending thought be a common process, not necessarily what we think of as meditation? If we have a room with a table and chair in it, could in refer to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dialogue - A proposal . . .

2013-03-11 Thread sound of stillness
You say you came to a dead end doing TM. What was the dead end that you came to? p.s. My writing experience is in multi-media. The screenplay I'm writing may come to an iPad near you. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 03/10/2013 01:10 PM, sound

[FairfieldLife] Dialogue - A proposal . . .

2013-03-10 Thread sound of stillness
In Dialogue, a group of people can explore the individual and collective presuppositions, ideas, beliefs, and feelings that subtly control their interactions. It provides an opportunity to participate in a process that displays communication successes and failures. It can reveal the often

[FairfieldLife] Re: Question for TM Cheerleaders to Ann and navashok

2013-03-08 Thread sound of stillness
When someone asks me what meditation is, I sometimes say it's the process for taking time for awareness. To paraphrase Shri Maharishi Patanjali . . . 1.2 Yoga is a (process) of stilling the wandering mind. 1.3 Then Yoga becomes a (state) of awareness abiding in its own nature. As I