[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-23 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: From Bhojadeva's comment on YS II 15 As (yathaa) an eyeball (akSi-paatram?) experiences (anubhavati) great (mahatiim) pain (piiDaam) by mere (maatreNa) touch (sparsha) of a fiber (tantu) of wool (uurNaa), so (tathaa) a

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: From Bhojadeva's comment on YS II 15 As (yathaa) an eyeball (akSi-paatram?) experiences (anubhavati) great (mahatiim) pain (piiDaam) by

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: Continues like this (in Sanskrit Documents, Transliterated transcribed from a manuscript by : Dr. Suryanshu Ray

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-23 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: From Bhojadeva's comment on YS II 15 As (yathaa) an eyeball

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: I am not sure if this applies or not. But I tend to eshew things like beautiful sunsets, or beautiful days. Or at least I don't get emotional

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Continues like this (in Sanskrit Documents, Transliterated transcribed from a manuscript by : Dr. Suryanshu Ray

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Are you translating Bhoga-saadhana as experiences? No, just 'bhoga'... Bhoga means - worldly, materialistic; saadhana - here would be

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: As (yathaa) an eyeball (akSi-paatram?) experiences (anubhavati) great (mahatiim) pain (piiDaam) by mere (maatreNa) touch (sparsha) of a fiber (tantu) of wool (uurNaa), so (tathaa) a viveki udvij-s (see footnote 3 above)

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread WillyTex
Ravi Yogi: Anyway I think Bhoga Saadhana could indeed mean contemplating on worldly pleasures or indulgences... Samsara is described as mundane existence, full of suffering and misery and hence is considered undesirable and worth renunciation. The Samsara is without any beginning and

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread emptybill
It's not yer eyeballs. It's old age - the opposite of the new age. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: As (yathaa) an eyeball (akSi-paatram?) experiences (anubhavati) great (mahatiim)

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-20 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: I am not sure if this applies or not. But I tend to eshew things like beautiful sunsets, or beautiful days. Or at least I don't get emotional about them. They are what they are. I neither delight in them, nor ignore

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-20 Thread John
If you have a pitta constitution, you'll understand that it's a pain to have itches on your chest and arms. But the meditation practice tones down the itches at a milder or manageable level. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: I am not sure if this

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-20 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: I am not sure if this applies or not. But I tend to eshew things like beautiful sunsets, or beautiful days. Or at least I don't get emotional about them. They are what they are. I neither delight in them, nor

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-20 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: I am not sure if this applies or not. But I tend to eshew things like beautiful sunsets, or beautiful days. Or at least I don't get emotional

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-20 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: Are you translating Bhoga-saadhana as experiences? No, just 'bhoga'... Bhoga means - worldly, materialistic; saadhana - here would be indulgence. So just translating it as experiences doesn't seem to do justice to this

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-20 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: If you have a pitta constitution, you'll understand that it's a pain to have itches on your chest and arms. That's not the itch I typically deal with, but thanks for the advice. (-: But the meditation practice tones down the itches

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-19 Thread authfriend
It occurs to me that in these two paragraphs intended to diss Patanjali, there are two sentences, one in each paragraph, that inadvertently exemplify what he meant by experience is painful. Can anybody identify them? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: snip This

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Buck
O what a bunch of evil sophistry. This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. Nice writing but it still smells like the sophistry of limited epistemology. However, if you just had more experience then you'd see. Nice writing though, it's a

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: O what a bunch of evil sophistry. This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. One guy, having fun with an imaginary conversation with a possibly imaginary guy, is a *mob*?

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its original subject, Patanjali, and a quote of his from the Yoga Sutras. However, the wise (though their own mind

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its original subject, Patanjali, and a quote of his from

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: O what a bunch of evil sophistry. This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. One guy, having fun

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Hindu nihilism. Some of us do not desire to be free from rebirth. Some of the enlightened do not believe that being enlightened means that there is no rebirth. And most important, if the enlightened are so affronted by

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: O what a bunch of evil sophistry. This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: O what a bunch of evil sophistry. This thread reads as careful veiled spiritual hate. The beating of poor old Patanjali by mob. Nice writing but it still smells like the sophistry of limited epistemology. However, if

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: O what a bunch of evil sophistry. This thread reads as careful veiled

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
turquoiseb: Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its original subject, Patanjali... Samadhi, dukkha, suffering, nirodha (cessation) are crucial terms in Buddhist vocabulary. The doctrine of suffering is the core of what

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
curtisdeltablues: I just think he was full of it and that his premises about reality are bogus... But, for some reason you practiced yoga for fourteen years and majored in philosophy at MUM? It just doesn't make any sense! Samkhya is the philosophical foundation of all Indian culture,

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
fish market, 1935 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/32470.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: curtisdeltablues: I just think he was full of it and that his premises about reality are bogus... But, for some reason you practiced yoga for

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: curtisdeltablues: I just think he was full of it and that his premises about reality are bogus... But, for some reason you practiced yoga for fourteen years and majored in philosophy at MUM? It just doesn't make

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
You seem bound to post off-topic photos, so I guess to that extend you are not free. Or, you feel free to take up internet band-space for no good reason. Yifu: fish market, 1935 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/32470.jpg I just think he was full of it and that his premises

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Yifu
There's a deep message there. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: You seem bound to post off-topic photos, so I guess to that extend you are not free. Or, you feel free to take up internet band-space for no good reason. Yifu: fish market, 1935

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread WillyTex
curtisdeltablues: You may be overstating that since Samkhya came a lot later than many of the principles in Hinduism... Samkhya came long before 'Hinduism'; before the historical Buddha (563BCE), and before Buddhism. That's why historians think the Buddha may have been influenced by

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-18 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it all about Buddhism, I'm going to bring it back to its original subject, Patanjali, and a quote of his

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Ignoring attempts to derail this thread and make it all about Buddhism, If experience of reality *isn't* painful to him, why does Barry have to start his rant against Patanjali with a lie? Compulsive denial and distortion of