[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-21 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a question on another topic. There was a lawyer who was defending a guy in LA what happened with the situation? I was pretty certain the guy would be convicted but there were some charges t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-21 Thread Louis McKenzie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:59:28 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC Acording to MMY-CC! Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:06 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine > > wrote: > > > >>> just noting that for some people there can be a very > >>> powerful heart-value to intel

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:06 AM, authfriend wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>> just noting that for some people there can be a very >>> powerful heart-value to intellectual knowledge >> >> We were talking about dry intellectual knowledge, fo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2007, at 10:17 AM, authfriend wrote: > > >> And when that happens, usually the org > >> promoting the dry intellectual stuff finds some way to blame the > >> person, citing character defects or some othe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > **snip** > > I suspect one can experience *any* emotion, strong or > otherwise, in enlightenment, because the emotion *is* > enlightenment, as is everything else the enlightened > being experiences. T

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jan 17, 2007, at 10:17 AM, authfriend wrote: >> And when that happens, usually the org >> promoting the dry intellectual stuff finds some way to blame the >> person, citing character defects or some other reason. > > For the record, I wasn't "blaming" anybody or anything, Just for the record,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:18 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > My own belief, for what it is worth, is that any form of > > > "overwhelming" emotion is, by definition, a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 11:37 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" > > wrote: > > > >> Maharishi's teaching have always been rather dry and academic, even > >> more so the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:17 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > As for sparaig's notion that one cannot experience > > strong, even "overwhelming" emotion in enlightenment, > > I'd suggest that's Just Another Idea *About* Enlight- >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:18 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > >> > > >> On Jan 16, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Marek Reavis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:18 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Jan 16, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: > >> > >>> Comment below: > >>> > >>> ** > >>> > >>> ---

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jan 16, 2007, at 11:37 PM, authfriend wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Maharishi's teaching have always been rather dry and academic, even >> more so the last couple of decades. His circular expositions of >> silence, and silence

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" > > wrote: > > > > > > Comment below: > > > > > > ** > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread wmurphy77
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" > wrote: > > > > Comment below: > > > > ** > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 wrote: > > > > > >**snip** > > > > > > True, in man, it is l

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread Vaj
On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:17 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: As for sparaig's notion that one cannot experience strong, even "overwhelming" emotion in enlightenment, I'd suggest that's Just Another Idea *About* Enlight- enment, formed from the point of view of non-enlight- enment. I suspect one can experien

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:18 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > >> > >> On Jan 16, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: There have been passages in my life when I was overcome >>>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread Vaj
On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:18 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 16, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: **snip** He does mention bhakti, but it's more *tran

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-17 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Comment below: > > ** > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 wrote: > > > >**snip** > > > > True, in man, it is limited in its expression, ("The silence which > is > > experienced in cosmic conscio

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maharishi's teaching have always been rather dry and academic, even > more so the last couple of decades. His circular expositions of > silence, and silence into silence, and silence out of silence, etc., > etc., j

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sparaig, I'm certain Vaj wasn't mocking. Thanks for standing up for > me though. > > And I have read Love & God but it never moved me (even though I kept > hoping it would). I'd always kind of assumed that Mahari

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Marek Reavis
Sparaig, I'm certain Vaj wasn't mocking. Thanks for standing up for me though. And I have read Love & God but it never moved me (even though I kept hoping it would). I'd always kind of assumed that Maharishi and the TMO were 'heart' oriented but an old friend of mine, an initiator who later beca

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread wmurphy77
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:50 PM, wmurphy77 wrote: > > > > >> > > >> Indeed they are.: the commentaries of the Badarayana sutras. > > >> > > >> I traced this yea

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:50 PM, wmurphy77 wrote: > > >> > >> Indeed they are.: the commentaries of the Badarayana sutras. > >> > >> I traced this years ago after I heard the first mention. > > > > OK, let's just assume for si

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: > > > Comment below: > > > > ** > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > >> > > **snip** > >> > >> He does mention bhakti, but it's more *transcendental b

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Vaj
On Jan 16, 2007, at 6:44 PM, wmurphy77 wrote: Actually it is more simply stated as that between a thimble full of water representing Self Realization (CC according to MMY, sometimes), A picture full of water representing GC (realization of the personal formless 'consciousness' of the personal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread wmurphy77
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Non sequitur. There's no mention nor any implication in my above > statement that is connected to your response. Turiyatita or jivan- > mukti are the traditional words for "CC". It's well-known in what > style of literatu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >**snip** > > True, in man, it is limited in its expression, ("The silence which is > experienced in cosmic consciousness, and which separates the Self from > activity, is on an *infinitely* smaller

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Vaj
On Jan 16, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: **snip** He does mention bhakti, but it's more *transcendental bhakti* and is present in the transitional refinement of GC. In other words it's not 'f

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Vaj
On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:50 PM, wmurphy77 wrote: Indeed they are.: the commentaries of the Badarayana sutras. I traced this years ago after I heard the first mention. OK, let's just assume for simplicity sake Guru Dev was in UC and MMY just calls everything Cosmic Consciousness, Thanks! :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > **snip** > > He does mention bhakti, but it's more *transcendental bhakti* and is > present in the transitional refinement of GC. In other words it's not > 'falling down in the street with your tambouri

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread wmurphy77
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:26 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > The seven states of consciousness are identified, according to the > > MUM style guide, as: > > > > http://resources.mum.edu/manuals/styleguide.pdf > > > > > > Turiya Che

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread wmurphy77
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The seven states of consciousness are identified, according to the MUM style guide, as: > > http://resources.mum.edu/manuals/styleguide.pdf > > > Turiya Chetanå (Transcendental Consciousness) > Turiyåtit Chetanå (C

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Vaj
On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:26 PM, sparaig wrote: The seven states of consciousness are identified, according to the MUM style guide, as: http://resources.mum.edu/manuals/styleguide.pdf Turiya Chetanå (Transcendental Consciousness) Turiyåtit Chetanå (Cosmic Consciousness) Bhagavad Chetanå (God C

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: > > > Maharishi's articulation of states of enlightenment definitely seems > > to have evolved over time; at first he spoke only of Cosmic > > Consciousness (which was offer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread wmurphy77
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, this is the stuff that FFL was made for, right? > > The field of pure existence -- Being -- *is* the Self. Actually, the > Self is beyond both existence and non-existence. It is so rock-solid > and compl

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Vaj
On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: And that seems to be in contradistinction to what Guru Dev taught and lived. If you go to Paul Mason's website on Guru Dev you learn that Guru Dev taught primarily (at least to the masses) in terms of God and the heart. You can listen to Guru D

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Vaj
On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: But partly because of that, what's always struck me as peculiar is that Maharishi's programs and organizations are so devoid of bhakti. With the exception of him teaching us the guru puja to Guru Dev (now somewhat morphed -- at least in emphasis

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Vaj
On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Maharishi's articulation of states of enlightenment definitely seems to have evolved over time; at first he spoke only of Cosmic Consciousness (which was offered as the big E -- the be all and end all of human evolution), and only later spoke of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > **snip** The real significence of his > Bhagavad Gita is that "Awareness in the state of Being alone makes the > whole field of devotion real", this is significent! (page 7 Preface) > > The state of B

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread wmurphy77
Thanks Marek for a really fine reply!! The real significence of his Bhagavad Gita is that "Awareness in the state of Being alone makes the whole field of devotion real", this is significent! (page 7 Preface) The state of Being he is referring to is *Self-Realization* (or realization of the soul a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:04 PM, wmurphy77 wrote: > > > In Love and God MMY proclaims Guru Dev had reached the "Cosmic > > Consciousness'the perfect expression of 'Purnamadah > > purnamidam'. Now in the Gita he says

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:04 PM, wmurphy77 wrote: > > > In Love and God MMY proclaims Guru Dev had reached the "Cosmic > > Consciousness'the perfect expression of 'Purnamadah > > purnamidam'. Now

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, was Guru Dev in CC or GC or UC???? Acording to MMY-CC!

2007-01-16 Thread wmurphy77
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:04 PM, wmurphy77 wrote: > > > In Love and God MMY proclaims Guru Dev had reached the "Cosmic > > Consciousness'the perfect expression of 'Purnamadah > > purnamidam'. Now in the Gita he says