[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread whynotnow7
The deal is, Vajihad, you have not exactly been forthcoming about your TM experience, dodging and weaving for years. Then Robin joins FFL, and all of your nastiness, your impotence, and your arrogance that you used to delight spraying about regarding Maharishi has now found a new target. Its pa

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread Vaj
On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:33 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: > otherwise you just sound like a shit head. Yeah, so maybe my chaktras aren't aligned.

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread whynotnow7
Such a fascination with excrement, Vajihad. You oughta integrate that base chaktra, otherwise you just sound like a shit head. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:58 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: > > > There was also a rumor going around that you kick dogs and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread Vaj
On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:58 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: > There was also a rumor going around that you kick dogs and mug old ladies. > Any truth to that, Vajihad? None, Rim-job Jim.

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread maskedzebra
There is a little orphaned sentence fragment that I am going to "put down'. When Judy doesn't get the irony, that means I'm getting too transcendentally ironic. While I'm at it, might as well make another aside: Thanks for the kind words, Vaj. Robin --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mas

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread maskedzebra
Judy, Judy: I was being ironic (inserting that question)—unless this response is itself your own sense of irony :-) Anyhow I was just kidding. I appreciate the pertinence of your question, however. "Where is there to go from here?" I will get around to answering that one too. We will miss the

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread whynotnow7
There was also a rumor going around that you kick dogs and mug old ladies. Any truth to that, Vajihad? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:39 PM, maskedzebra wrote: > > > But thanks. Yeah, Catholicism is not for me; Jesus either. But the goddamn > > th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread Vaj
On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:39 PM, maskedzebra wrote: > But thanks. Yeah, Catholicism is not for me; Jesus either. But the goddamn > thing is: *they would have been* had I lived before the Second World War. Let me guess, living the existential life-style? What was that book your uncle gave you? I

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > But thanks. Yeah, Catholicism is not for me; Jesus either. > But the goddamn thing is: *they would have been* had I lived > before the Second World War. > > Now, Judy, does that stitch the whole thing together finally? It should put in

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread maskedzebra
umanity.  You are just fooling yourself.  >   >   >   > From: emptybill > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:57 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi > Chivukula > > >   >   >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread Emily Reyn
gt;about another usually spurs further clarification or downright disagreement. > > From: Jason >To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" >Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:00 AM >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] L

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread Jason
is greatest con-job ever played on humanity.  You are just fooling yourself.        From: emptybill To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:57 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula         > > Robin sez:

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread Jason
      From: emptybill To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 8:44 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   >  > Well she was a Jewish girl who's beauty was in her intelligence. That's all I > da

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > Robin2: This reflection of yours prompted me to write a > > > post to zarzar; to which he responded surprisingly graciously. > > > > Indeed, I was surprised as well. H

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread obbajeeba
According to the Parasara Hora Shastras, size does matter. "My lingam is bigger than yours." : ) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > When you first started posting, I thought what the hell is th

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > When you first started posting, I thought what the hell is this!? > > Then, a while ago I began reading every word of yours, the context you > create, the reality coming through, the innocence, and the world of Robin > became know

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-21 Thread zarzari_786
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > Robin2: This reflection of yours prompted me to write a > > post to zarzar; to which he responded surprisingly graciously. > > Indeed, I was surprised as well. He's a good guy, very > smart, and clearly a serious seeker, but tempe

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > Nice laudation of Robin. However, you overlook his proclivity to > construct his replies so that he only addresses his own notions. > That is, if he answers at all. This is the definition of a > monologue. FWIW, that has not been my e

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread emptybill
_ > > From: emptybill emptybill@... > >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > >Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:14 PM > >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula > > > > > >Â > >Well she was a Je

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread Emily Reyn
woman was quite extraordinary. > > From: emptybill >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:14 PM >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi >Chivukula > > >  >Well

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread emptybill
Well she was a Jewish girl who's beauty was in her intelligence. That's all I dare say. Oh, you must mean Simone Weil ... "Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. " No wonder you ended up Buddhist. Now I know that date of you initiation: 1941. "The world is the closed door. It is a barrier

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread Vaj
On Dec 20, 2011, at 8:02 PM, zarzari_786 wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > What did Vaj really do on TTC? Where? When? How? > > You could at least reveal to us your age of enlightenment number. Each > teacher has an enlightenment number .Don't you know? Why d

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread zarzari_786
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > What did Vaj really do on TTC? Where? When? How? You could at least reveal to us your age of enlightenment number. Each teacher has an enlightenment number .Don't you know? Why didn't anyone here point this out? Are you all fake? And ple

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > Judy: You're not like anybody we've had on this group, at > least since I joined it in 2005. TM apostates are a dime a > dozen around here, but former cult leaders who used to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread Vaj
On Dec 20, 2011, at 5:38 PM, emptybill wrote: > Nice laudation of Robin. However, you overlook his proclivity to construct > his replies so that he only addresses his own notions. That is, if he answers > at all. This is the definition of a monologue. > > In this way, Robin has become the reve

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread whynotnow7
He just comes across as real, and he writes well. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > Nice laudation of Robin. However, you overlook his proclivity to > construct his replies so that he only addresses his own notions. That > is, if he answers at all. This is the defini

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread emptybill
Nice laudation of Robin. However, you overlook his proclivity to construct his replies so that he only addresses his own notions. That is, if he answers at all. This is the definition of a monologue. In this way, Robin has become the reverse mirror-image of Vag the Defier … an amusing corresponde

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread whynotnow7
When you first started posting, I thought what the hell is this!? Then, a while ago I began reading every word of yours, the context you create, the reality coming through, the innocence, and the world of Robin became known, with immediacy, not compared to anything else, just you. Others write

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread Bhairitu
beginning, doesn't deliver and requires > great leaps of faith, IMO. > > > >> >> From: Bhairitu >> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:20 AM >> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SEC

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: Judy: Robin, I'm snipping all the Vaj is-he-or-is-he-not stuff. I think most everything that needs to be said on that score this time around (it's come up on a regular basis for many years) has been said, at least to my satisfaction. May

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread Emily Reyn
..the plot, which shows promise at the beginning, doesn't deliver and requires great leaps of faith, IMO. > > From: Bhairitu >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:20 AM >Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: S

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread Jason
not project something onto him. > Robin creates a world of his own. >   > From: Vaj > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:19 AM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi > Chivukula > > &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread maskedzebra
Robin creates a world of his own. >   > From: Vaj > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:19 AM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi > Chivukula > > > > You really get it Z. You're as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread Bhairitu
On 12/20/2011 01:03 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ >> wrote: People will draw their own conclusion about what m

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread Jason
onto him. Robin creates a world of his own.   From: Vaj To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:19 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula You really get it Z. You're asking (IMO) all the right questio

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread obbajeeba
Beautiful. I wish I had the time to read your posts (and others) in full. This week is a bit filled with the organic embodiment,(as it always is in this life) of my presence being summoned to other areas of natural experiences, away from lengthy visits on this window of time on FFL. : ) ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > If those things appeal to you, and you find them more > interesting than TV or movies, I say go for it. You've > found an endless supply of them on FFL. I'll stick to > the media, thanks. Less ego, and to tell the truth, > fewer commercia

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread zarzari_786
Thank you Robin for your account! It is touching, and you have a great capacity as a narrator. It also brings flash-backs to me of my own TM time, of courses I have been and all the beautiful moments in the movement. I won't make any comments now,- maybe I will do it later. It is your life, as y

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ > wrote: > > > > > > People will draw their own conclusion about what motivates > > > people here. > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > If not, I leave you to what fascinates you in life. > I have other fascinations. > There must be something in this soap opera that keeps you here. Your oft stated reason is that you find the psychology of seekers, (especially those you co

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread emptybill
Heh ... where's the 19th tee? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > > > > You forgot to mention the real crux of the questions to Vag: > > > > 1. The place and time of his initiation into the ba

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread seventhray1
Perhaps you will find this interesting. My dad had a care giver the last two and half months of his life. As my sisters live elsewhere, I was the one who hired and interacted with her, in consulation with my sisters. According to her resume she was a former Nun and a hospice chaplain along with

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ > > wrote: > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread Yifu
"Who would Jesus bomb?" by Mark Bryan http://www.artofmarkbryan.com/Who_Would_Jesus_Bomb.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Dec 19, 2011, at 7:18 PM, maskedzebra wrote: > > > TM transformed me. Maharishi created an experience in me that told me he > > was the embodi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread Vaj
On Dec 19, 2011, at 7:18 PM, maskedzebra wrote: > TM transformed me. Maharishi created an experience in me that told me he was > the embodiment of the highest truth. The romance I refer to is the romance > that Saint Francis of Assisi (not comparing me to him, of course) had for > Christ. Maha

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread maskedzebra
TM transformed me. Maharishi created an experience in me that told me he was the embodiment of the highest truth. The romance I refer to is the romance that Saint Francis of Assisi (not comparing me to him, of course) had for Christ. Maharishi appeared to make me enlightened. Enlightenment was e

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread zarzari_786
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > zarzari, I'm getting a little uncomfortable discussing > Robin behind his back in public, as it were. I shouldn't > be trying to represent him, so I'm going to quit and let > him deal with your challenges if he's so inclined. Okay, fa

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread authfriend
zarzari, I'm getting a little uncomfortable discussing Robin behind his back in public, as it were. I shouldn't be trying to represent him, so I'm going to quit and let him deal with your challenges if he's so inclined. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > Robin's mind-st

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread Vaj
On Dec 19, 2011, at 5:41 PM, zarzari_786 wrote: > I had love for Maharishi, I had devotion and worked for him, I did what he, > or the movement told me at the time. And I think I can rightly say, you don't > need to teach me about intense bhakti. But what he is doing is romantizising, > that's

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread zarzari_786
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > As I see it, Robin had to force himself to give up something > > > that had meant the world to him because he found it to be > > > *ultimately*--in the full meaning of the term--deceptive. > > > > Which is a deceptive perceptio

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread authfriend
Robin, I'm snipping all the Vaj is-he-or-is-he-not stuff. I think most everything that needs to be said on that score this time around (it's come up on a regular basis for many years) has been said, at least to my satisfaction. Maybe something new and different will crop up next time, and we'll tak

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > You forgot to mention the real crux of the questions to Vag: > > 1. The place and time of his initiation into the basic technique. > 2. The place and time of his initiation into any advanced techniques. > > Even if you repudiat

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > > Hi, Robin-- > > > I am grateful to you for having understood me so well in > > my ambivalent attitude towards Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It > > is a real consolation to kn

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread whynotnow7
It is odd that you equate more than stating your opinion, without clarification, follow up, or discussion to be the limit of what you consider an expression of Self. To respond to most of the posts here, or answer someone's question, even with the intent of clarifying and deepening your own ex

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > > Hi, Robin-- > > > I am grateful to you for having understood me so well in > > my ambivalent attitude towards Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It > > is a real consolation to kn

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread Jason
      A good point Bill. From that POV he is an irritant badass. His old handle on FFL, Safeite is actually a name of a laxative.     > From: emptybill > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:27 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread emptybill
You forgot to mention the real crux of the questions to Vag: 1. The place and time of his initiation into the basic technique. 2. The place and time of his initiation into any advanced techniques. Even if you repudiate the teachings, as Robin has done: 3. The place and time of TTC and of b

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > > > > > Hmm, > > > > > > since there are so many TM teachers on this board, nay > > > even 'enlightened'

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: Hi, Robin-- > I am grateful to you for having understood me so well in > my ambivalent attitude towards Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It > is a real consolation to know that someone at least on > FFL has grasped the contradiction of my experienc

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ > wrote: > > > > > > This is along the lines of something I was thinking about as > > > I was driving ho

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ wrote: > > > > This is along the lines of something I was thinking about as > > I was driving home from more errands. For the most part, I > > think Vaj does reply to his

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread Vaj
On Dec 19, 2011, at 6:09 AM, zarzari_786 wrote: > When we are in unity, aren't we supposed to be everyone? (Not just stones > BlueIce, even those statues of Govinda) In Vajrayana Unity is seem differently than in Advaita Vedanta - it's the nonconventional experience of the unity of the three m

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > Steve, this discussion started when you announced you > were convinced the evidence that Vaj had been "a very > active participant in the TMO" was "irrefutable" or > "beyond a reasonable doubt." > > (He himself told you, BTW, that he h

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > You participated in that discussion, BTW. Here's what > you had to say about Vaj back then (#274447): > > "The thing I have noticed about Vaj, is that sometimes the > follow up is absent when contradicting evidence is presented > which

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread obbajeeba
What is even more funny is how long this thread is going with Ravi's name on it, and he can't post until Friday! LMAO! Hi Ravi, I kind of let the Turq know you were his secret admirer, without giving a name. Hope you do not mind. ; ) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: >

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread zarzari_786
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Dec 18, 2011, at 7:29 PM, zarzari_786 wrote: > > > since there are so many TM teachers on this board, nay even 'enlightened' > > ones, of what importance is it, that Vaj did TM or not? We have enough > > information about TM right? >

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread zarzari_786
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Dec 18, 2011, at 7:29 PM, zarzari_786 wrote: > > > I find several points -on TM - where I agree with him, and he exhibits > > knowledge, obviously others are missing out. > > What points would those be? > For example points about the

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread zarzari_786
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > > > Hmm, > > > > since there are so many TM teachers on this board, nay > > even 'enlightened' ones, of what importance is it, that Vaj > > did TM or not? We have enough

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > This is along the lines of something I was thinking about as > I was driving home from more errands. For the most part, I > think Vaj does reply to his critics. And why should he? I'll wait. > Exceptions would be you and Jim. And

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread zarzari_786
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Why not just get off the fence? It'll feel like a "new morning".;-) Haha, I am not 'new morning' (nice guess, I liked new morning). There are reasons I like to stay anonymous. And in this case, it also means to not give away old scr

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > Do not other's here adore and eulogize TM and Maharishi > in an overly romantic way, while stating simultaneausly > it is the most deceptive way, the devil invented? Only

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ > > wrote: > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > Judy, my rules of engagement are different, probably from yours. > (I mean, I guess that's pretty obvious). But I am not likely to > push someone too hard for details. Certainly I may be curious, > but if I detect there is some resis

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread seventhray1
Today, I feel like I got a clearer picture of Vaj's affiliation with the TMO. And I stated what that conclusion is a few posts back. As far as proof, I have nothing more or less than anyone else here. My reference was just to Vaj's desire to maintain the confidentiality of information that was

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > So Steve, that

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ > wrote: > > > > > > It is entirely possible that Vaj could have gleaned or picked up > > > particula

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ wrote: > > > > It is entirely possible that Vaj could have gleaned or picked up > > particulars about TM and Robin's group from reading materials or > > from discussing

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > So Steve, that's three highly iffy statements from Vaj in > > > a single brief post. Typ

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reply Vaj, has you have always replied when I have > > brought up a question in a sincere fashion. > > He sincerely wants you to believe h

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread whynotnow7
Why not just get off the fence? It'll feel like a "new morning".;-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > Hmm, > > since there are so many TM teachers on this board, nay even 'enlightened' > ones, of what importance is it, that Vaj did TM or not? We have enough > inform

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread seventhray1
ok, thanks. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > I wasn't referring to you R., that's why I said "other [unspecified] posters". >

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread seventhray1
ok --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > Well please keep in mind I don't always read all posts, so don't take it personally if I do not. It probably just means I'm busy doing something else. >

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > On Dec 18, 2011, at 7:29 PM, zarzari_786 wrote: > > > since there are so many TM teachers on this board, nay > > even 'enlightened' ones, of what importance is it, that Vaj > > did TM or not? We have enough information about TM right? > > W

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread Vaj
On Dec 18, 2011, at 7:29 PM, zarzari_786 wrote: > I find several points -on TM - where I agree with him, and he exhibits > knowledge, obviously others are missing out. What points would those be?

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
I think these points are valid. I find it curious though, that he persists in making this claim while so many disbelieve him, and that includes me. There are many other paths people have traveled, and success for those seems to have been attained for some of those that have persisted on those pa

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > Hmm, > > since there are so many TM teachers on this board, nay > even 'enlightened' ones, of what importance is it, that Vaj > did TM or not? We have enough information about TM right? > There are, just to cite an example many TMers

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" > wrote: > > > > This message following from the archive seems to be a > > reference to Vaj's TM knowledge. As I have been on the forum > > for only less than a year, t

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > This message following from the archive seems to be a > reference to Vaj's TM knowledge. As I have been on the forum > for only less than a year, this is before my knowledge of who > what writing what about whom. So doubt

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread Vaj
On Dec 18, 2011, at 7:29 PM, zarzari_786 wrote: > since there are so many TM teachers on this board, nay even 'enlightened' > ones, of what importance is it, that Vaj did TM or not? We have enough > information about TM right? When a major disruption comes up, like the recent national airing

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread zarzari_786
Hmm, since there are so many TM teachers on this board, nay even 'enlightened' ones, of what importance is it, that Vaj did TM or not? We have enough information about TM right? There are, just to cite an example many TMers here, who will swear that TM is the best spiritual technique, without

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread whynotnow7
> > But I believe Vaj himself has helped clear up that mystery. > > Oh? And how has he managed to do that, if I may ask? Just to fill in the blanks, once and for all: When he was in the seventh grade, Vaj had his mom drive him to the TM center once for a free cookie (She wouldn't get out of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
This message following from the archive seems to be a reference to Vaj's TM knowledge. As I have been on the forum for only less than a year, this is before my knowledge of who what writing what about whom. So doubt about Vaj seems to go back some time, more than half a decade. I have removed s

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > You have seen through his contrived crucifixion; but have you > > understand why he is determined not to prove that he is telling > > the truth about himself? > > Is this

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > It is entirely possible that Vaj could have gleaned or picked up > particulars about TM and Robin's group from reading materials or > from discussing these particulars with other people. And in > light what he mentioned a short time

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > So Steve, that's three highly iffy statements from Vaj in > > a single brief post. Typical, in my observation. > > > Well thanks. That's pretty good work. The part I fou

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Vaj, has you have always replied when I have > brought up a question in a sincere fashion. He sincerely wants you to believe his reply, that's for sure. Did all the details in his first paragraph convince you he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread Vaj
On Dec 18, 2011, at 5:37 PM, seventhray1 wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > So Steve, that's three highly iffy statements from Vaj in > > a single brief post. Typical, in my observation. > > > Well thanks. That's pretty good work. The part I found odd was th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread Vaj
On Dec 18, 2011, at 5:11 PM, seventhray1 wrote: > Thanks for the reply Vaj, has you have always replied when I have brought up > a question in a sincere fashion. Well please keep in mind I don't always read all posts, so don't take it personally if I do not. It probably just means I'm busy doi

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > So Steve, that's three highly iffy statements from Vaj in > a single brief post. Typical, in my observation. > Well thanks. That's pretty good work. The part I found odd was that he said that I, (Ray) had been deleting posts for months

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-18 Thread seventhray1
It is entirely possible that Vaj could have gleaned or picked up particulars about TM and Robin's group from reading materials or from discussing these particulars with other people. And in light what he mentioned a short time ago, it may be that this the case. What I am saying is that Vaj, has

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