[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-20 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---That's obvious. At any time before or after Enlightenment, take the Bodhisattva vow to help others, in any type of body appropriate for the task. Do this for a couple of trillion mayayugas for an evaluation;

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-20 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip We are one, we are many; we are a countless multitude of ourselves, showing ourselves ever-differing combinations of ourselves in the permutations of love, consciousness and bliss -- like dipping our fingers of

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, purushaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Thanks, Rory, interesting!. Question: Where does YHVH (YAHWEH) fit into all of this? Thanks again. Nice question, many thanks, purushaz! Here's how I understand it at the moment: Within the pivotal 13-state

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip although again, none of this will probably be viewable upon first conscious immersion in and as Brahman -- for one thing, when first comprehending the speed of light, the light itself appears to disappear (Dark

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So as we see it at this point anyhow, all of this is a part of Brahma- loka, specifically in what we might call Mahar-loka, corresponding to details of the Solar Plexus and the Full Moon Nakshatra and Brahman

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops - below should be Complement of Transcendence-*II* (Brahma- Shiva- Shiva) and ...incorporating the Bliss-complements of Transcendence-

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So as we see it at this point anyhow, all of this is a part of Brahma- loka, specifically in what we might call Mahar-loka, corresponding to details of the Solar Plexus and the Full Moon Nakshatra and Brahman

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Alex Stanley
Thanks for posting that, Rory. It saves me the time and gasoline to drive to town tonight to get my fill of mind-numbing Hiranyagarbledygook. Alex --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few interpolations and some expansions interleaved below: --- In

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for posting that, Rory. It saves me the time and gasoline to drive to town tonight to get my fill of mind-numbing

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for posting that, Rory. It saves me the time and

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So as we see it at this point anyhow, all of this is a part of Brahma- loka, specifically in what we might call Mahar-loka,

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again- If I understand what you have written above, is it so that those 'in' CC, GC, and UC are still working out earthly karma, and hence still bound to the wheel of earthly life and death, impression-

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for posting that, Rory. It saves me the time and gasoline to drive to town tonight to get my fill of mind-numbing Hiranyagarbledygook. HA! Good one, Alex; a truly Vedic pronunciation if I ever saw one! still,

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again- If I understand what you have written above, is it so that those 'in' CC, GC, and UC are still working out earthly karma,

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again- If I understand what you have written

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Rory. As I am not at a point of seeing this directly, nor do I have such an interest currently, nonetheless it is a similar experience in the mind, as listening to the Veda being chanted is to the body.

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without a doubt- otherwise what is there to do? I give up; what? :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-19 Thread matrixmonitor
---That's obvious. At any time before or after Enlightenment, take the Bodhisattva vow to help others, in any type of body appropriate for the task. Do this for a couple of trillion mayayugas for an evaluation; then repeat as often as desired.. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-18 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Energy (ananda, bliss, laughter, Shiva) = Mass (sat, love, Vishnu) times the speed of light (chit, consciousness, Brahma) squared (aware of itself). Mass resisted (denied the light of self- knowledge) becomes painful

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-18 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip ...with Vishnu as Love, Sat/Being, Sattva; Brahma as Light, Chit/Consciousness, Rajas; and Shiva as Laughter, Ananda/Bliss, Tamas. Again, the two poles of the Hiranyagarbha or horned-torus are at either end of its

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-18 Thread Rory Goff
A few interpolations and some expansions interleaved below: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip From here we move across a gap into the lighter side of Transcendence-II as the densest form of Light or Consciousness in the 9th state

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-18 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops - below should be Complement of Transcendence-*II* (Brahma-Shiva- Shiva) and ...incorporating the Bliss-complements of Transcendence- *I* (Shiva-Vishnu-Vishnu), just in case anyone actually is reading any of this. My

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-18 Thread purushaz
---Thanks, Rory, interesting!. Question: Where does YHVH (YAHWEH) fit into all of this? Thanks again. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops - below should be Complement of Transcendence-*II* (Brahma- Shiva- Shiva) and ...incorporating the

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would *appear* anyhow that the Brahma-point at the

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And all of this (four last posts) is your direct experience? Or imaginative speculation. And its useful, how? Perhaps to impress new

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps to impress new members? *lol* I hadn't thought of that, Judy! You think it might work? Wow! What would the benefit be to me, I wonder, if new members are impressed? And what do you mean by impressed, anyhow?

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it would appear that when one's Brahma or creative consciousness withholds approval or Self-knowledge from a given mind-matter impulse, then that impulse separates/is separated from the Whole and holds that

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps to impress new members? *lol* I hadn't thought of that, Judy! You think it might work? Wow! What would the benefit be to me, I

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And all of this (four last posts) is your direct experience? Or imaginative speculation. Yes, yes. And its useful, how? Helps me understand myself. Many thanks for asking :-) Yahoo!

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And all of this (four last posts) is your direct experience?

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps to impress new members? *lol* I hadn't thought of

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BC really stands for Borg Consciousnness. You will be assimilated. :-) Resistance is indeed futile :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, first, it isn't real clear why you believe you know what kinds of experiences I've had. And second, it's interesting that you think my comment was a function of being pissed off, for whatever reason. I thought

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, first, it isn't real clear why you believe you know what kinds of experiences I've had. And second, it's interesting that you think

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, first, it isn't real clear why you believe you know

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Energy (ananda, bliss, laughter, Shiva) = Mass (sat, love, Vishnu) times the speed of light (chit, consciousness, Brahma) squared (aware of itself). Mass resisted (denied the light of self- knowledge) becomes painful

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it would appear that when one's Brahma or creative consciousness withholds approval or Self-knowledge from a given mind-matter impulse,

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread akasha_108
Judy: It's what males *do*, and thank goodness. If they didn't, the species wouldn't survive for long. It's just funny and charming to see it in this context. I could be wrong, of course, but I got a chuckle out of the image. Sorry it pushed your buttons. Rory: It's

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'll take your word for it. But there seemed to me to be a sort of competition going on as to who could write the most elaborate and

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy: It's what males *do*, and thank goodness. If they didn't, the species wouldn't survive for long. It's just funny and charming to see it in this context. I could be wrong, of course, but I

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
Rory: If I entertain addictions to adulation, flirtation, and so on, as a substitute for genuine intimacy and appreciation of Self/Other/Self, those will indeed be wrong or demonic -- i.e., diseased, based around pain, an attempt to mask or compensate for primal fear, guilt and

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory: If I entertain addictions to adulation, flirtation, and so on, as a substitute for genuine intimacy and appreciation of Self/Other/Self, those will indeed be wrong or demonic -- i.e., diseased, based

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Energy (ananda, bliss, laughter, Shiva) = Mass (sat, love, Vishnu) times the speed of light (chit, consciousness, Brahma) squared

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory: If I entertain addictions to adulation, flirtation, and so on, as a substitute for genuine intimacy and appreciation of Self/Other/Self, those will indeed be wrong or demonic -- i.e., diseased, based

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread akasha_108
jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and I for one read many of your posts, except I confess some of the really, really, really long ones. As Loud-Zoo said: Big thoughts require big posts. Big posts require big minds to comprehend. Such minds become the Dao. Or was that Homer S. saying

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and I for one read many of your posts, except I confess some of the really, really, really long ones. As Loud-Zoo said: Big thoughts require big posts. Big posts require

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory: If I entertain addictions to adulation, flirtation, and so on, as a substitute for genuine intimacy and appreciation of

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory: If I entertain addictions to adulation, flirtation, and so on, as a substitute for genuine intimacy and appreciation of

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread akasha_108
Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps we are getting caught up in misunderstood definitions -- I merely mean to *identify* areas of pain in ourselves, feel them and heal them. Refusal to heal our own pain is a symptom and cause of surrendering to some addiction or other -- making

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: genuine physical immortality is not physical existence any longer, at least in the sense it is commonly understood. It would appear to be rather something along the lines of physically understanding all physical

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory: If I entertain addictions to adulation, flirtation, and so on, as a substitute for genuine intimacy and appreciation of

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if posting to FFL is an addiction. I wonder if before posting, we should all close our eyes and see if there is some discomfort in the body. And If so, attentionize and breath through it. Then open our eyes

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: genuine physical immortality is not physical existence any longer, at least in the sense it is commonly understood. It would appear to

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if posting to FFL is an addiction. I wonder if before posting, we should all close our eyes and see if there is some discomfort

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory: If I entertain addictions to adulation,

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if posting to FFL is an addiction. I wonder if

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps we are getting caught up in misunderstood definitions -- I merely mean to *identify* areas of pain in ourselves, feel them and heal them. Refusal to heal our own pain

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: genuine physical immortality is not physical existence any

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what would you say is the difference between an enjoyment and an addiction? You mean, between an enjoyment and an addiction to an

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what would you say is the difference between an

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread akasha_108
authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the simplest definition of an addiction is that if you don't indulge in it, you feel like something's missing. If it's just enjoyment, you can take it or leave it, but without feeling deprived if you leave it. Ah. Good framework for the label

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the simplest definition of an addiction is that if you don't indulge in it, you feel like something's missing. If it's just enjoyment, you can take it or leave it, but

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some samskaras are more addicting that heroin. The pathological need to be *afraid* that we see in the Neocons. The pathological need

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some samskaras are more addicting that heroin. The

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the simplest definition of an addiction is that if you don't indulge in it, you feel like something's missing. If it's just enjoyment, you can take it or leave it, but

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread anonymousff
Regarding your comments below - I would think that your perspective would be that everyone is actually blazing Brahman already, and just have to realize it. In that case, what special status would you give to those who are enlightened people who have actually been essentially or completely

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding your comments below - I would think that your perspective would be that everyone is actually blazing Brahman already, and just have to realize it. In that case, what special status would you give to those

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great question, and one I was thinking about some after writing this post. All I can really say is that while technically all are blazing Brahman already, some appear to blaze a lot brighter than others in this

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Energy (ananda, bliss, laughter, Shiva) = Mass (sat, love, Vishnu) times the speed of light (chit, consciousness, Brahma) squared (aware of itself). Mass resisted (denied the light of self- knowledge) becomes

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would *appear* anyhow that the Brahma-point at the center of the Hiranyagarbha (poised between the mountain-cone of Vishnu and the upside down cone of Shiva) becomes aware of itself via a very quick churning or

[FairfieldLife] To Rory - Re: Proclaiming ones enlightenment

2005-10-13 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would *appear* anyhow that the Brahma-point at the center of the Hiranyagarbha (poised between the mountain-cone of Vishnu and the