Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread Michael Jackson
That was her take on the issue, not mine - the original deal was the story of Vedaland being pitched to CPs after weeks of rounding and the deceit onthe part of the PR guy when asked what was Henning doing at that moment (when the PR guy apparently knew he was dying) - but it brought up for me

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27 wrote: Barry, Jim's enlightenment is parve. Meaning what does it matter,whether he is, or he isn't? It obviously matters a great deal to him. You can go either way with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up - to Jim

2013-01-27 Thread Carol
Jim stated: It is anything but a static state, first experienced as always being grounded in the Self, or permanent silence. Once a person is established in Silence within, the enlightenment begins to infect everything else. The Silence within can no longer be overshadowed, destroyed, or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: That was her take on the issue, not mine Excuse me, Michael, but what I was explaining to Curtis was very clearly one part of what you describe as your take on the issue: - the original deal was the story of Vedaland being pitched

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up - to Jim

2013-01-27 Thread Emily Reyn
Yes, I get to this state of mind backpacking as well, and at the beach, and this summer, while camping and hiking in Utah.  Once I get there, which takes several days sometimes (faster backpacking), it stays with me during the trip.   I always try to bring the state back to my real life, but I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: It simply wouldn't have been a big blip on my radar screen. Just more silly TMO blah-blah-blah, tune it out. Vedaland was a ridiculous notion to start with even when

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up - to Jim

2013-01-27 Thread Carol
Is it that one can get there faster through meditation...or is it meditation is more easily accessible than to going backpacking? When I walk dogs, I enter a similar state. So maybe I prefer a walking meditation. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread dhamiltony2k5
I really feel that if we could just sit to meditate together then you'd come to understand the truly larger Good you rile against. You guys just need to come back, get your meditation checked, sit in a group meditation, listen to an advanced lecture again and then you'd see what mischief in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread Carol
Salyavin stated: So I shall continue to be outraged on behalf of everyone on the course who had their evening ruined, and potentially their bank account emptied by a slick, bullshitting, money grabbing cocksucker from the age of enlightenment. I'm trying to recall Sal, if you are the one that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up - to Jim

2013-01-27 Thread Emily Reyn
Ha ha ha.I take a lot of long daily dog walks myself - and the dog needs these as well.  It's the time it all takes that I need to address.  And swimming works wonders for me as well - lots of breathing.   From: Carol jchwe...@gmail.com To:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: It simply wouldn't have been a big blip on my radar screen. Just more silly TMO blah-blah-blah, tune it out.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up - to Jim

2013-01-27 Thread Carol
I like swimming underwater and have put on my wish listgills. ;D --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn wrote: Ha ha ha.I take a lot of long daily dog walks myself - and the dog needs these as well.  It's the time it all takes that I need to address.  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up - to Jim

2013-01-27 Thread Ravi Chivukula
Meditation gets you there faster, no? No this is a wrong notion that I see being perpetuated by everyone I hear. Meditation lets you purify your body, mind and senses so the transition is smoother, easier when the mystical energy descends. When this happens and if it indeed happens is a big

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread Michael Jackson
Bucky, Bucky, I do actually appreciate your unflagging hopefulness, and your invitation to meditate together. I will if ever in your town be happy to meditate with you and anyone else you invite, but not of course, in the Dome since, if your suspicion is correct that the TMO lurks on FFL they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up - to Jim

2013-01-27 Thread Carol
I find your response interesting. Ravi, I started another thread regarding enlightenment here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/333764 Would you mind commenting on that thread? (Just to keep the comments together. Hope that is an okay request here on FFL.) In your words,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up - to Jim

2013-01-27 Thread doctordumbass
Yeah, that is the progression - first finding silence within oneself when doing quiet enjoyable activities. Then it grows, finally to a point where that inner whatever it is, never leaves, even under the most stressful circumstances. Puts an absolutely different perspective on life, where

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up - to Jim

2013-01-27 Thread Carol
DocD stated: ...where that inner whatever it is, never leaves,... Ha! I like that description...inner whatever it is. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: Yeah, that is the progression - first finding silence within oneself when doing quiet enjoyable

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up - to Jim

2013-01-27 Thread doctordumbass
An umbilical cord to Mother Divine (who others refer to as 'God' - same entity)?? This permanent connection to whatever it is, seems to be the destiny of each of us. Like one of those mid-air refueling ops that the military does, except you've never flown before, and all the tech manuals just

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: According to Nabby, anyone who says such things is on the payroll of the CIA, or the Dalai Lama. I don't know about you, but if this is true, my payroll checks have been lost in the mail. :-) Wrong, I've never mentioned the CIA.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: Apart from the waste of a nice sunny afternoon it would be to invent stories, I'm well aware I could be sued for spreading falsehoods like this. It's nice to see that you yourself feel you are s important, probably THE most

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread Michael Jackson
Just goes to show the difference in perception - I feel the Dalai Llama has a gazillion times more integrity and honesty than marsh-hee ever did in any lifetime. From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread doctordumbass
Doesn't matter - DL doesn't have any techniques for the masses, just a status quo nice guy, living in the past. Can't really compare the two, at all. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Just goes to show the difference in perception - I feel the Dalai Llama has a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread Michael Jackson
It'll never happen Sal - to sue you for libel, they would have to prove the event never happened and they know there were too many people there would would not testify in their behalf. From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread Bob Price
Too bad about the link, it played just fine in Playa Del Carmen; how about these: OBBA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwR0n87v2BQ EMILY: http://tinyurl.com/ah6ye8j ONCE UPON A TIME: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvDJ5a6KZj4 From: Emily Reyn

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: That's the most sickening thing to me, they way Mr smarm ducked the question about how Doug was at the time, knowing he was on his death bed but showing a movie about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread seventhray27
MJ, your powers of perception are absolutely amazing. No longer content to castigate MMY in his current incarantion, you now see fit to judge him in all his previous lifetimes. Where the f are you going to go from here? Where is it going to end. Thank God you ended your involvement with M

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: It simply wouldn't have been a big blip on my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-27 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-26 Thread doctordumbass
I can honestly say I went on a lot of residence courses, and was never asked to donate money, or purchase *anything*. Wasn't a perfect experience, but this rapaciousness you attribute to the reps of the TMO was just never present whenever I interacted with them. Not once, during major national

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-26 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: I can honestly say I went on a lot of residence courses, and was never asked to donate money, or purchase *anything*. Wasn't a perfect experience, but this rapaciousness you attribute to the reps of the TMO was just never

[FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people who brought it up

2013-01-26 Thread doctordumbass
Oh salyavin808, I am incredibly sorry I have not given your's and Barry's and MJ's victimization the full respect, adoration and drama it deserves! Damn, were you ever spanked by mommy, or daddy? Should we add that to the list?? Did you ever drop a quarter and it rolled under a sofa, and you

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