[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-22 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
For some lifestreams the saying Brahman is the charioteer goes down as Brahman is the chauffer of a Lincoln Navigator Super stretch limo that includes computer controlled dish antenna TV on a 30 inch lcd screen with wet bar, refrigator, microwave and lovely attendants to make all life smooth and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis wrote: For other lifestreams the limo and the chariot get left in the garage and Brahman shows up with the bridle, bit, saddle, spurs and whips and you can guess who is the steed. Let's leave the kink at home, Tom, or we'll be back on the adults only

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-22 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some lifestreams the saying Brahman is the charioteer goes down as Brahman is the chauffer of a Lincoln Navigator Super stretch limo that includes computer controlled dish antenna TV on a 30

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-22 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: w, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-21 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup. It's also *still identification*. In the Buddhist paradigm, the goal is to identify with *no* point of view or state of attention, but to transcend them all and identify with *nothing*. Not identifying with

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Yup. It's also *still identification*. In the Buddhist paradigm, the goal is to identify with *no* point of view or state of attention, but to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-21 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Yup. It's also *still identification*. In the Buddhist paradigm, the goal is to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: You seem to be taking this very personally, while I simply try to elucitate the principles. For me this is an answer to the thoughts and ideas you bring

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-21 Thread t3rinity
Barry, you are far to heated, and I don't want to bore the audience here with a rebutal of your single arguments. Take my word for it: I don't mean it personal, and I surely don't want to change you (with whom should I discuss in the future? ;-)). Also when I say, that I don't understand, how

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry, you are far to heated, and I don't want to bore the audience here with a rebutal of your single arguments. Or with dealing with them. Whatever. :-) Take my word for it: I don't mean it personal, and I surely

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Yup. It's also *still identification*. In the Buddhist paradigm, the goal is to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Whatever floats your boat. :-) As long as we're dealing with speculation, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Whatever

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquoiseB: snipped Bingo. You're on a roll today. Some are convinced that their subjective experience of Brahman *is* Brahman, or that they are Brahman while that experience is going on. My view is that there is a state of attention from which one can experience Brahman, but it's still Just

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread Peter
--- tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TorquoiseB: snipped Bingo. You're on a roll today. Some are convinced that their subjective experience of Brahman *is* Brahman, or that they are Brahman while that experience is going on. My view is that there is a state of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awakening is the opposite of waking state in the sense that in waking state you are inside a huge physical world which is outside you. In Realization the entire world is inside you. It hangs like a basket in your

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Yup. It's

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Whatever

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...[ Non sequitur. Above you suggested Trinity had in mind an imperfect vs. a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-20 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...[ Non

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Great 2 cents. Here's mine. We're talking about identification, right, in different states of attention. Some prefer to identify with the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you're welcome to it if it floats your boat. I guess there is simply no choice. See? That's where we differ. I have a choice. :-) No, the situation is the same for us both, just you

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: But you're welcome to it if it floats your boat. I guess there is simply no choice. See? That's where we differ. I have a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because you didn't have the 'same' You surely had some degree of witnessing, but you didn't have the experience that you are not in charge. Or did you have the experience that you are not in charge, and then

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: But you're welcome to it if it floats your boat. I guess there is simply no choice. See? That's where we differ. I have a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
Whatever floats your boat. :-) As long as we're dealing with speculation, I think you're pretty heavily invested in not being responsible for your own decisions and actions. Something in you doesn't believe that they could ever be perfect if it was you that made the decisions. So you like to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever floats your boat. :-) As long as we're dealing with speculation, In this case we are dealing with experiences. I think you're pretty heavily invested in not being responsible for your own decisions and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Yup. It's also *still identification*. In the Buddhist paradigm, the goal is to identify with *no* point of view or state of attention, but to transcend them all and identify with *nothing*. This actually becomes

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_on_you_i_piss
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Whatever floats your boat. :-) As long as we're dealing with speculation, In this case we are dealing with experiences. I think you're pretty

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever floats your boat. :-) As long as we're dealing with speculation, I think you're pretty heavily invested in not being responsible for your own decisions and actions. Something in you doesn't believe that

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Whatever floats your boat. :-) As long as we're dealing with speculation, I think you're pretty heavily invested in not being responsible

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has it not occurred to you that you're trying to lecture someone who in your view does not *have* free will and convince him to use that non-existent free will to change his behavior and his beliefs? That you

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You've gotta get *your* consistency act together, dude. Either everything's perfect or it ain't. You can't have it both ways. This from the guy who howls bloody murder when he's accused of inconsistency and has

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IOW if you look at it from the ego POV, there are lots of mistakes and limitations, if you look from the POV of the Self there aren't, everything is perfect. It's just a matter from which level you look at things

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: It isn't about one set of decisions/actions that you would make if you were in charge versus a different set that would be made if the universe were

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip It he stands in the rain and gets wet, it's because the universe wanted it

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: IOW if you look at it from the ego POV, there are lots of mistakes and limitations, if you look from the POV of the Self there aren't, everything is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Whatever floats your boat. :-) As long as we're dealing with speculation,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: It isn't about one set of decisions/actions that you would make if you were in

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Whatever

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: IOW if you look at it from the ego POV, there are lots of mistakes and limitations,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: It isn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread foufou_fl
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: So if I stand in the rain and get wet, it's the result of my choice. I take

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, foufou_fl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: So if I stand

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Yup. It's also *still identification*. In the Buddhist paradigm, the goal is to identify with *no* point of view or state of attention, but to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread foufou_fl
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread feste37
I like Whitman on this business of contradiction: Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. Quoted from memory so may not be 100% accuate, but I'm pretty sure of it. And I think it was Emerson who wrote Consistency is the hobgoblin of small

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Yup. It's also *still identification*. In the Buddhist paradigm, the goal is to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_on_you_i_piss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff no_reply@

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Whatever floats your boat. :-) As long as we're dealing with speculation, I think you're pretty heavily invested in not being responsible

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In MY opinion, it's all about [MY] preference -- which of the many congruent and simultaneously manifesting realities [I] choose to focus on. MY preference is to focus on the one that seems the most productive at

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: someone who in your view does not *have* free will YOU as does everyONE has freewill. When there is noONE noYOU [claiming experiencer and doer] then

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: IOW if you look at it from the ego POV, there are lots of mistakes and limitations, if you look from the POV of the Self there aren't, everything is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: IOW if you look at it from the ego POV, there are lots of mistakes and limitations, if you look from the POV of the Self there aren't, everything is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SELF has a POV? Thats a good one. Actually, that's what I am saying. The state of attention in which one perceives that one is not the doer is Just Another State Of Attention. It's not really Self.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As acts go, I think that's one suits me better than yours, which seems to consist of shouting, It's not me, not me. 'I' don't like...it's the universe doing all this stuff. Not responsible. :-) The body is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect at least part of the resistance to the idea that one isn't in control is that one doesn't want to have to give up the credit for the latter. Thats impossible. The I will never give up the credit for the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, foufou_fl no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Whatever floats your boat. :-) As long as we're dealing with

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: SELF has a POV? Thats a good one. Actually, that's what I am saying. The state of attention in which one perceives that one is not the doer

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: IOW if you look at it from the ego POV, there are lots of mistakes and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread Sal Sunshine
Not this again. On Feb 19, 2006, at 9:44 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@> wrote: > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
The Universe wanted YOU to experience it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not this again. On Feb 19, 2006, at 9:44 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread Sal Sunshine
Or this. Where do you guys get the energy for these almost endless mind-numbing back and forths? Must be some new technique, I guess. Sal On Feb 19, 2006, at 9:44 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread Peter
--- Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: IOW if you look at it from

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Sorry dude, that's just chicken sh*t... That is one of the most insightful, powerful, well thought out, cogent and compelling postions I have

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Sorry dude, that's just chicken sh*t... That is one of the most

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anony_sleuth_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anony_sleuth_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anony_sleuth_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Great 2 cents. Here's mine. We're talking about identification, right, If still identifed you are. in different states of attention.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anony_sleuth_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2001@

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or this. Where do you guys get the energy for these almost endless mind-numbing back and forths? Must be some new technique, I guess. Why bother? I have seen much worse here. Yahoo!

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread anony_sleuth_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They say that he who can distinguish monkey-doo from chicken-doo, all knowledge blooms. As stressor undoubtedly has heard from his sources, the next big course will be focused on culturing the ability to do so.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anony_sleuth_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: They say that he who can distinguish monkey-doo from chicken-doo, all knowledge blooms. As stressor undoubtedly has heard

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_on_you_i_piss no_reply@ wrote: I hope all of this was good for the two of you. I have seen

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Yup. It's also *still identification*. In the Buddhist paradigm, the goal is to identify with *no* point of view or state of attention, but to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Whatever floats your boat. :-) As long as we're dealing with speculation, I think you're pretty heavily invested in not being responsible

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: IOW if you look at it from the ego POV, there are lots of mistakes and limitations, if you look from the POV of the Self there aren't, everything is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: IOW if you look at it from the ego POV, there are lots of mistakes and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Whatever floats your boat. :-) As long as we're dealing with

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: snip Now just one more point of Maharishis teachings, as far as I remember them:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: You're wrong about this. I actually don't believe that realization can be caused by a particular set of teachings. But I do believe it can definitely

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Now, if this tactics is terribly productive, I don't know, I just know that this particular body/mind organism called Maharishi was drawn

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Now, if this tactics is terribly productive, I don't know, I just know that this particular body/mind organism called Maharishi was drawn to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Okay, for the sake of others who might just catch this little bit of dialoque: Here I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-18 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: snip Now just

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-18 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: You're wrong about this. I actually don't believe that realization can be caused

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Ah, the familiar sound of the Judy Mantra: If anyone heard anything different than I heard, or understands what Maharishi said differently than I do,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: If you aren't convinced you know what is right and what is wrong, why are you still arguing? :-) To expose contradictions of course, and for the fun

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