[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/16/05 5:09 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that more ethical movements, such as Amma's are relatively free of it. Do they havethe cash flow of the TMO? HOw do you know? Quite a bit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-17 Thread Ingegerd
Amma got a reward from Rotary in South India for her humanitarian work after the flood catastrophe last Christmas. So she is known in every Rotarian Club in the world for her work. Ingegerd --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-17 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Local paper, The Fairfield Ledger asks tough editorial questions: The larger question, though, is whether Amma's popularity in the Fairfield meditating community is a symptom of problems with in the TM movement

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-17 Thread Rick Archer
on 7/17/05 1:00 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/16/05 5:09 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that more ethical movements, such as Amma's are relatively free of it. Do they havethe cash

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-17 Thread Patrick Gillam
7/17/05 1:00 AM, sparaig wrote: Until [Amma] can talk in terms of billion dollar projects, you can't judge her ethics at the same level as the TMO's. Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So in other words, those who manage millions of dollars ethically can't be compared with those

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ingegerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/16/05 5:09 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/17/05 1:00 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/16/05 5:09 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that more

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Local paper, The Fairfield Ledger asks tough editorial questions: The larger question, though, is whether Amma's popularity in the Fairfield meditating community is a symptom of problems with in the TM movement

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Reliable on-the-scene sources have told me that a lot of the money (maybe 40%) the TMO brings into India is misappropriated. Define misappropriated and why haven't there been arrests made? To subscribe, send

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Reliable on-the-scene sources have told me that a lot of the money (maybe 40%) the TMO brings into India is misappropriated. Define misappropriated and why

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread Rick Archer
on 7/16/05 1:15 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Reliable on-the-scene sources have told me that a lot of the money (maybe 40%) the TMO brings into India is misappropriated. Define misappropriated and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Reliable on-the-scene sources have told me that a lot of the money (maybe 40%) the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/16/05 1:15 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Reliable on-the-scene sources have told me that a lot of the money (maybe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/16/05 1:03 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snips Amma's humanitarian efforts- - contrast just as sharply with the TM movement's fundraising campaignsFaced with a choice between an organization

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread Rick Archer
on 7/16/05 3:50 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/16/05 1:15 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Reliable on-the-scene

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/16/05 3:50 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/16/05 1:15 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread Rick Archer
on 7/16/05 5:09 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that more ethical movements, such as Amma's are relatively free of it. Do they havethe cash flow of the TMO? HOw do you know? Quite a bit less, I think. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/16/05 1:15 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Reliable on-the-scene sources have told me that a lot of the money (maybe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/16/05 1:15 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-16 Thread Rick Archer
on 7/16/05 6:47 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * When I was a (civilian) employee of a police station in Southern Cal, my watch commander used to say all the time that if he made a bust in which he found a pile of money and a pile of dope, the owners would walk, and sgt

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Local paper, The Fairfield Ledger asks tough editorial questions: The larger question, though, is whether Amma's popularity in the Fairfield meditating community is a symptom of problems with in the TM movement

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread Rick Archer
on 7/15/05 4:37 PM, off_world_beings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Local paper, The Fairfield Ledger asks tough editorial questions: The larger question, though, is whether Amma's popularity in the Fairfield

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread setheridge2003
What few here seem to realise is that when you watch a master chess player you don't understand all the moves and some of them seem darn right foolhardy, but this is much more complex than a chess game, Maharishi is 10,000 moves ahead of anyone else on the planet. Remember that Beatles

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip What few here seem to realise is that when you watch a master chess player you don't understand all the moves and some of them seem darn right foolhardy, but this is much more complex than a chess game,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, setheridge2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I've been most surprised to read of the disenchantment of living in Fairfield, (i'm new to this group), it kind of brings to question the concept of a collective coherent consciouness. Has anyone got any good

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread Rick Archer
on 7/15/05 7:01 PM, setheridge2003 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What few here seem to realise is that when you watch a master chess player you don't understand all the moves and some of them seem darn right foolhardy, but this is much more complex than a chess game, Maharishi is 10,000

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip What few here seem to realise is that when you watch a master chess player you don't understand all the moves and some of them

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, setheridge2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I've been most surprised to read of the disenchantment of living in Fairfield, (i'm new to this group), it kind of brings to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, its not a competition. Its just natural that I am first, and you are last. It is the natural order of things, a mathematical inevitability. No problem; I don't mind being the mopper up. Shiva gets the last

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread gullible fool
Are you back in Maine now, Rory? If so, coming down to see Amma? I think Rick is expecting you. --- Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, setheridge2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I've been most surprised to read of the disenchantment of living

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread Rick Archer
on 7/15/05 9:09 PM, off_world_beings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, my wife and I absolutely love it there; it's like no other place we've seen. The community is terrific -- not so much the TB's (whom we almost never see) -- but all of those awake or awakening to the larger wholeness

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread Rick Archer
on 7/15/05 9:16 PM, gullible fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you back in Maine now, Rory? If so, coming down to see Amma? I think Rick is expecting you. It would be great to have him there but I see him here, so no obligation. But he and Rena might like the whole festive Amma scene.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you back in Maine now, Rory? If so, coming down to see Amma? I think Rick is expecting you. Yes, we're back in Maine at the moment -- working intensively on house renovations here, before heading back to FF in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread gullible fool
It would be great to have him there but I see him here Bi-location. --- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/15/05 9:16 PM, gullible fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you back in Maine now, Rory? If so, coming down to see Amma? I think Rick is expecting you. It would

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-15 Thread Sal Sunshine
Stephen, Disenchantment with the TMO does not automatically mean disenchantment with FF by any means. I've been living here TMO-free for over 10 years now and I've survived. :) In fact, it's a great community to be in, for many reasons. And shaking off the TMO has been liberating, to say the