--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
Wgm4u,
Who in the fuck are you to conclude that I am some sort of dogma-bound, true
believer?
The truth about Shiva, being and non-being, heart and mind, actuality and
illusion, cannot be lassoed with words.
My trolling blurb was just that, a trolling blurb. You would know that if
A little thin skinned here EDg?, just thought your post was a great opportunity
to debunk this idea that Shiva is actually what God looks like, (God can take
any form and is ALL forms). At any rate, all you had to say was you were
kidding, it was obvious from your satirical post. Anyway DOES
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote:
A little thin skinned here EDg?, just thought your post was a great
opportunity to debunk this idea that Shiva is actually what God looks like,
(God can take any form and is ALL forms). At any rate, all you had to say was
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
A little thin skinned here EDg?, just thought your post
was a great opportunity to debunk this idea that Shiva
is actually what God looks like, (God can
--- Susan wayback71@ wrote:
Maybe it would be less offensive if that idea were just
left unsaid and they got on with the usual acceptance
of life responsibilities, difficulties, disappointments.
But that is a more Buddhist approach, and they are Hindu.
---
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
A little thin skinned here EDg?, just thought your post was a great
opportunity to debunk this idea that Shiva is actually what God looks like,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
A little thin skinned here EDg?, just thought your post was a great
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote:
Maybe it would be less offensive if that idea were just
left unsaid and they got on with the usual acceptance
of life responsibilities, difficulties,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
I'm not convinced that the beggar-recluse lifestyle
is a healthy one for anyone, in any tradition. ANY
tradition, including Buddhist monks who live the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote:
When meeting Lord Shiva, being on hands and knees doesn't cut it.
Better to be faced down, laying prone on the floor in abject unworthiness,
and
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
Poor Edg, he just don't get it! Shiva is merely a symbolic form
*representing* a formless creative intelligence of nature. There
ain't no Shiva out
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
Poor Edg, he just don't get it! Shiva is merely a symbolic form
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@
wrote:
I rather doubt there's a formless creative intelligence out
there either.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@
wrote:
I
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
I disagree *vehemently* about all of this speculation
meaning that we don't behave differently. Several on
this forum have claimed this, but I don't believe
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
Poor Edg, he just don't get it! Shiva is merely a symbolic form
*representing* a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
I disagree *vehemently* about all of this speculation
meaning that we don't behave
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@... wrote:
I'll insert a couple of questions, if you don't mind
About Mother Divine - that is a very small group of women who have chosen to
live this way (even if their self did not choose it).
Is joining the MD enforced on someone
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote:
Maybe it would be less offensive if that idea were just
left unsaid and they
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote:
Maybe it would be less offensive if that idea were just
left unsaid and they
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote:
I'll insert a couple of questions, if you don't mind
About Mother Divine - that is a very small group of women who have chosen
to live this way
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote:
Maybe it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams richard@... wrote:
You are a smart enough guy, Richard, that you don't
need to make stuff up to make your points.
Xenophaneros:
Not every procedure in the TMO has existed throughout
its history. Legalese documents
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
As many have probably figured out, I have just been
having fun with this scripture thread. I knew when
I started it that it would push a few people's buttons.
I also knew that some of them ones whose buttons had
gotten
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:
snip
Very nice, thanks for sharing.
Regarding the Puja, Maharishi allowed doing Puja when
appropiate, and not only for Initiation many years ago.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
snip
Just to start the week off right :-),
Translation: Barry is about to tell a lie.
I'll point
out that not a single TM defender here has tried
to make a case for either 1) the need to protect
the purity of a tradition
You guys can talk about the appropiate-ness [sic]
of doing puja all you want. I'm still rolling my
eyes at the phrase Maharishi allowed.
Grown adults talking about someone allowing them
to do something? What a waste of a mind.
authfriend:
As long as what Barry claims to believe
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams richard@... wrote:
snip
There are probably many witnesses that observed Barry
down on his hands and knees doing a puja to Lord
Shiva!
It's funny how often people say on his hands and knees
when they mean on his knees. They're two
There are probably many witnesses that observed Barry
down on his hands and knees doing a puja to Lord
Shiva!
authfriend:
It's funny how often people say on his hands and knees
when they mean on his knees. They're two very different
postures.
Let me re-phrase that:
There are
I think Merudanda's poetry might make for an enjoyable compilation.
From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 4, 2012 7:09 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is scripture really scripture
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams richard@... wrote:
There are probably many witnesses that observed Barry
down on his hands and knees doing a puja to Lord
Shiva!
authfriend:
It's funny how often people say on his hands and knees
when they mean on his knees.
When meeting Lord Shiva, being on hands and knees doesn't cut it.
Better to be faced down, laying prone on the floor in abject unworthiness, and
crying in body shuddering sobs and having your hairs standing on end and
abiding with your mantra: have mercy on me Lord.
And be prepared to have
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@... wrote:
When meeting Lord Shiva, being on hands and knees doesn't cut it.
Better to be faced down, laying prone on the floor in abject unworthiness,
and crying in body shuddering sobs and having your hairs standing on end and
Actually, in a type IV multiverse, ALL consistent stories are true somewhere.
L
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote:
When meeting Lord Shiva, being on hands and knees doesn't cut it.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius
anartaxius@... wrote:
The word scripture means 'writing'. It is a piece of writing.
Any piece of writing might do if for some reason it is revered
by some one person or more.
My point in bringing up this topic was merely to
On May 3, 2012, at 3:49 PM, emptybill wrote:
I was at the Fiuggi 2000 course and we did not sign or pledge
anything.
Learning the param-para puja and bBecoming a TM teacher was itself
considered a pledge.
Then get selling mantras dude! Perhaps at your next Yonge Khachab
retreat you vent
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@ wrote:
Not all who became initiators took it that way, though a lot of us did.
I've been a big fan of that puja for a long time. There were years when I
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@ wrote:
I was made a TM initiator by Maharishi on my birthday in 1972 in Fiuggi,
Italy. According to the number assigned me I was the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote:
The Guru Stotram (the TM puja) gets sung every morning at
the Domes. For TM as a movement it is an acculturating
thing now in function. For ever
The word scripture means 'writing'. It is a piece of
writing...
turquoiseb:
Judy, presented with an opinion from Vaj, one that
is also undeniably fact (that Maharishi's teaching
that he characterized as the holy tradition wasn't,
and was made up by him)...
So what part exactly, is
You two used to bow down to the Hindu Gods
and you took an oath to your guru to keep
the teaching pure.
Did you take an oath on TTC?
No, but everyone knows that when you become a
TM Teacher you bow down to your guru and pledge
to keep the teaching pure - it's in the
You are a smart enough guy, Richard, that you don't
need to make stuff up to make your points.
Xenophaneros:
Not every procedure in the TMO has existed throughout
its history. Legalese documents etc., have proliferated
over the years.
So, maybe some teachers didn't agree to a
Very nice, thanks for sharing.
Regarding the Puja, Maharishi allowed doing Puja
when appropiate, and not only for Initiation many
years ago...
turquoiseb:
Grown adults talking about someone allowing them
to do something? What a waste of a mind...
Here is an updated version of
On 05/04/2012 07:52 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
You two used to bow down to the Hindu Gods
and you took an oath to your guru to keep
the teaching pure.
Did you take an oath on TTC?
No, but everyone knows that when you become a
TM Teacher you bow down to your guru and pledge
to keep
@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 7:57 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is scripture really scripture?
You two used to bow down to the Hindu Gods
and you took an oath to your guru to keep
the teaching pure.
Bhairitu:
Did you take an oath on TTC?
No, but everyone knows
richard@...
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 7:57 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is scripture really scripture?
You two used to bow down to the Hindu Gods
and you took an oath to your guru to keep
the teaching pure.
Bhairitu:
Did you take an oath on TTC
Barry's still smarting from having his buttons pushed.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
snip
I think that both crazies are lazy, and are a great
example of how believing in scripture or dogma erodes
their ability to think. A rational response from the
Waco
I was in Fiuggi, and that pledge looks very familiar. I think I must have read
it and signed it at some point there or on an ATR course a year later. I do
not recall Jerry having us make a verbal pledge, but maybe we did. It was an
amazing time, and I felt so grateful to be there. After
merudanda:
On scripture one of the poets, whose name I cannot
recall,
Did I tell you about the time I lost my keys and they
were in my right hand?
has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to
remember, in one of his works, which for the time
being has slipped my mind...
Did I
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@
wrote:
snip
But that's just my opinion. You are free to have your
own opinion. I rest my case. Now make yours.
:-)
I think of scripture being
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
snip
Judy, presented with an opinion from Vaj, one that
is also undeniably fact (that Maharishi's teaching
that he characterized as the holy tradition wasn't,
and was made up by him), did *exactly* the same thing
and accused
[:D]
Ahh --that time..wasn't it the first known instance of lost keys
when the Devil took the Keys to the Pearly Gates.(BTW Satan denies
hiding the Keys, but doesn't he denies always everything? God too proud
to admit his mistake to give the Keys into your right hand, insisted
that
You two used to bow down to the Hindu Gods
and you took an oath to your guru to keep
the teaching pure.
Bhairitu:
Did you take an oath on TTC?
No, but everyone knows that when you become a
TM Teacher you bow down to your guru and pledge
to keep the teaching pure - it's in the Guru
On 05/03/2012 07:57 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
You two used to bow down to the Hindu Gods
and you took an oath to your guru to keep
the teaching pure.
Bhairitu:
Did you take an oath on TTC?
No, but everyone knows that when you become a
TM Teacher you bow down to your guru and pledge
On May 3, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
No, but everyone knows that when you become a
TM Teacher you bow down to your guru and pledge
to keep the teaching pure - it's in the Guru Dev
puja that you used to recite every day and it's
in the TTC pledge you made.
What if, as we
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
So here's a followup question. If someone were capable
of what you call direct
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On May 3, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
No, but everyone knows that when you become a
TM Teacher you bow down to your guru and pledge
to keep the teaching pure - it's in the Guru Dev
puja that you used to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On May 3, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
No, but everyone knows that when you become a
TM Teacher you bow down to your guru and pledge
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
snip
I consider Joss Whedon a master storyteller. If someone
hired him to make a move of The Bible, he could probably
manage to make it interesting...that's how good a story-
teller he is. :-)
But it wouldn't be the best
No, but everyone knows that when you become a
TM Teacher you bow down to your guru and pledge
to keep the teaching pure - it's in the Guru Dev
puja that you used to recite every day and it's
in the TTC pledge you made.
Vaj:
What if, as we now know, the teaching was impure?
Should
, May 3, 2012 7:57 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is scripture really scripture?
You two used to bow down to the Hindu Gods
and you took an oath to your guru to keep
the teaching pure.
Bhairitu:
Did you take an oath on TTC?
No, but everyone knows that when you become a
TM Teacher you
On 05/03/2012 10:42 AM, wgm4u wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriendjstein@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vajvajradhatu@ wrote:
On May 3, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
No, but everyone knows that when you become a
TM Teacher you bow down
.
From: authfriend jst...@panix.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 10:52 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is scripture really scripture?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
snip
I consider Joss Whedon a master
I was made a TM initiator by Maharishi on my birthday in 1972 in Fiuggi, Italy.
According to the number assigned me I was the 1018 TM initiator that he made.
I was never asked to take a pledge, either the one you printed below or any
other version. And the invocation to Guru Dev in the puja is
The word scripture means 'writing'. It is a piece of writing. Any piece of
writing might do if for some reason it is revered by some one person or more.
For example:
tracert
Usage: tracert [-d] [-h maximum_hops] [-j host-list] [-w timeout] target_name
Options:
-d Do not
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote:
snip
I mean, where do you start with someone who thinks
the Bible is boring because it's mostly about
superheroes rather than fallible human beings?
Sorry Barry, I'm praying today :) and getting a good laugh
at
This was my point as well - sacred is in the eye of the beholder. Number 3
resonates.
From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:26 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is scripture really
Well, I'm all for simplification. My Mother's Bible Stories does include a
number of smitings :)
From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:28 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is scripture really
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@... wrote:
I was made a TM initiator by Maharishi on my birthday in 1972 in Fiuggi,
Italy. According to the number assigned me I was the 1018 TM initiator that
he made.
I was never asked to take a pledge, either the one you
I was at the Fiuggi 2000 course and we did not sign or pledge anything.
Learning the param-para puja and bBecoming a TM teacher was itself
considered a pledge.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@...
wrote:
I was made a TM initiator by Maharishi on my birthday in
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@... wrote:
I was made a TM initiator by Maharishi on my birthday in 1972 in Fiuggi,
Italy. According to the number assigned me I was the 1018 TM initiator that
he made.
I was never asked to take a pledge, either the one you
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote:
snip
I mean, where do you start with someone who thinks
the Bible is boring because it's mostly about
superheroes rather than fallible human
Not all who became initiators took it that way, though a lot of us did. I've
been a big fan of that puja for a long time. There were years when I did puja
every morning. It's funny that all my heroes were monks and renunciates
(except for Vermeer).
***
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
No, that doesn't ring a bell, but it's entirely possible that I don't recollect
it or, perhaps, I didn't attend for some reason. An absolutely wonderful course
and such a high time. Really lucky to have caught that wave.
***
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote:
The opening of the book of Genesis in Paleo-Hebrew script. The alphabet
was based on the Phonecian alphabet. From the viewpoint of modern
archaeology, most of the timeline of this collection of writings (what
Christians call the Old Testament) is very likely mythological until
about the mid-first
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@... wrote:
Not all who became initiators took it that way, though a lot of us did. I've
been a big fan of that puja for a long time. There were years when I did puja
every morning. It's funny that all my heroes were monks and
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius
anartaxius@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@ wrote:
I was made a TM initiator by Maharishi on my birthday in 1972 in Fiuggi,
Italy. According to the number assigned me I was the 1018
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
It occurred to me, after writing an earlier post today
about the way I view scripture, that I don't remember
the subject of how others here view scripture having
been discussed.
Anyone up for such a discussion? Are
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
It occurred to me, after writing an earlier post today
about the way I view scripture, that I don't remember
the subject of how others here view scripture having
been discussed.
Been discussed a lot, actually.
Anyone up
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
It occurred to me, after writing an earlier post today
about the way I view scripture, that I don't remember
the subject of how others here view scripture
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
It occurred to me, after writing an earlier post today
about the way I view scripture, that I don't remember
the subject of how others here view scripture having
been discussed.
Anyone up for such a discussion? Are
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
It occurred to me, after writing an earlier post today
about the way I view
.
From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 9:58 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is scripture really scripture?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
I suspect that some will react to this as if I'd plopped
a turd in the communal punchbowl or tried to insult
people, but that's not really my intention.
authfriend:
Unfortunately, your takes on the specifics of scripture
have been so shallow and basically juvenile that your
boast
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
Scripture is always secondary to direct knowing, which
is *intuition*, without the direct
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
Scripture is always
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:
Some people believe that the Vedas are just a collection
of tales that traders used to tell.
If that were true, would that make them less than
if one considered them scripture?
See...to me, it wouldn't.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote:
snip
Dogmatic following of scripture is responsible for the
lives of millions of people, clearly a mistake! Even
today! Yeah, it can be dangerous in that
Uptight. Ha ha hathat's my funny for the day.
From: authfriend jst...@panix.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 1:05 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is scripture really scripture?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
On 05/02/2012 12:23 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote:
Some people believe that the Vedas are just a collection
of tales that traders used to tell.
If that were true, would that make them less than
if one considered them scripture?
If that were true, would that make them less
than if one considered them scripture?
See...to me, it wouldn't.
Bhairitu:
These are the kind of discussions that often go on
OUTSIDE the TMO. ;-)
You two Barrys ARE the TMO. ;-)
You two used to bow down to the Hindu Gods and you
took
On 05/02/2012 05:22 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
If that were true, would that make them less
than if one considered them scripture?
See...to me, it wouldn't.
Bhairitu:
These are the kind of discussions that often go on
OUTSIDE the TMO. ;-)
You two Barrys ARE the TMO. ;-)
You two
These are the kind of discussions that often go on
OUTSIDE the TMO. ;-)
You two Barrys ARE the TMO. ;-)
You two used to bow down to the Hindu Gods and you
took an oath to your guru to keep the teaching pure.
So, NOW you tell us its not sacred? Go figure.
Bhairitu:
You're
On 05/02/2012 05:48 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
These are the kind of discussions that often go on
OUTSIDE the TMO. ;-)
You two Barrys ARE the TMO. ;-)
You two used to bow down to the Hindu Gods and you
took an oath to your guru to keep the teaching pure.
So, NOW you tell us its not
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