[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-11 Thread emptybill
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 wrote: this seems to be your only message here, over and over and over and over and over and over again Vaj. Empty Bill: I'm puzzled why you might assume that Vaj's complaints must somehow be rationally based objections. Any objective

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-11 Thread enlightened_dawn11
i agree though I wouldn't include Barry in this very short list-- he writes in a more experimental style, which although i disagree with his conclusions frequently, he doesn't strike me as a Buddhist zealot, unlike Vaj, who clearly is. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-11 Thread enlightened_dawn11
your conclusions are sound-- i also see Vaj's complaints against the evil Maharishi as just that, projections of his own shortcomings and failures. i posed the earlier statement to Vaj to see if he had anything to respond with. he doesn't. and yet you bring up a valid point that when we aren't

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-11 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: the key is in Curtis's statement about the silence -experienced in meditation-. by saying this, he indicates that the silence

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-11 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Larry inmadi...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Larry inmadison@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_reply@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-11 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: transcend in all of the various Vedantic bodies, only the mental one, they never really achieve true silence in the yogic sense, just a blank

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: That's right Curtis! Don't be buying into Barry's bilious propaganda! Since I actually started this angle of re-examination of yoga

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: That's right Curtis! Don't be buying into Barry's bilious

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread TurquoiseB
You are expressing a hierarchy of human awareness with one state as higher than another. I'm saying that for me, it's a better state. Don't put words in my mouth, please. Yeah, Curtis. How bilious of you. The correct word is better, not higher. Judy is better than you are for

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Let me jump into this attachment discussion. I'd like to argue that you don't know what attachment is until you experience pure consciousness

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: [Curtis wrote:] You are expressing a hierarchy of human awareness with one state as higher than another. [I wrote:] I'm saying that for me, it's a better state. Don't put words in my mouth, please. Yeah,

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread authfriend
Notice two points here. First, Barry does not deny anything I said. Second, he quotes what I *did* say about his and Curtis's broken and needs fixing notion, i.e., that it was nonsense--precisely the notion he claims in a later post that I was insisting on. What is it about the fact that I

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread Larry
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Let me jump into this attachment discussion. I'd like to argue that you don't know what attachment is until you experience pure consciousness while

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Notice two points here. First, Barry does not deny anything I said. Second, he quotes what I *did* say about his and Curtis's broken and needs fixing notion, i.e., that it was nonsense--precisely the notion he claims in

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Notice two points here. First, Barry does not deny anything I said. Second, he quotes what I *did* say about his and Curtis's broken and needs

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Let me jump into this attachment discussion. I'd like

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread Richard J. Williams
Judy wrote: Y'know, Geeze, your (and Barry's) obsessive disses would be *so* much more effective if you could rebut, or just say something substantive about, even *one* point in the post you're dissing... I wonder why almost all of Geezer's posts start with RE: and end on one line? ADD?

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Notice two points here. First, Barry does not deny anything I said.

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Larry inmadi...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Let me jump into this attachment discussion. I'd like to argue that you don't

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread Larry
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Larry inmadison@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Let me jump

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread enlightened_dawn11
in order to attempt an understanding of enlightenment, the waking state mind conceptualizes enlightenment as an object, with conventional attributes and boundaries. but enlightenment is unbounded by its very definition, without attributes and boundaries. so when the identification of the mind

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-10 Thread yifuxero
---great!...and there are stages of evolution beyond Enlightenment; to begin with, some form of physical perfection then evolving toward the attainment of a Glorified body. Of course, such evolutionary developments are relative, but nevertheless possibly where humanity is headed.

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: The interpretation that the experiences gained by meditating is the Self is not one I share now. When I was in the movement I did relate to this interpretation, and did believe I was experiencing what

Re: [FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread Vaj
On Feb 8, 2009, at 6:33 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip I don't know that it should be looked at as superior. The ordinary state of affairs is that our consciousness identifies with our body, I'm not so sure about that. My

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread Richard M
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: [snip] Curtis - this caught my eye: The states of detachment brought about through meditation took away an ability to feel emotions fully. I don't interpret that as a benefit. I am attempting to feel more

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Feb 8, 2009, at 6:33 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: snip I'm not so sure about that. My identity is biased towards my mind and emotions. My body is getting older but my mind and capacity to feel is getting better. I

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: You felt that then? That meditation was kind of numbing you or something? I think I re-started TM again about the time you began your experiment. To be honest my experience is the opposite, if anything. I have to say I

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: snip It's not that type of identity I'm talking about. It's not vanity or preoccupation with the body. Identification occurs with human development. Identification isn't an overt craving of the body, but a seamless

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread Richard M
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: You felt that then? That meditation was kind of numbing you or something? I think I re-started TM again about the time you began your

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... Me: I think it alters my neuro transmitters which makes it very enjoyable and addictive for me. So without feeling that it was doing more for me outside meditation, I couldn't justify the time spent Richard: Try substituting

Re: [FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread Peter
Let me jump into this attachment discussion. I'd like to argue that you don't know what attachment is until you experience pure consciousness while the mind functions. Any attempt to become unattached through the mind is pure mood-making/manipulation which is worthless. Most people

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Me: I am trying to figure out why they made such a big deal out of something that seems obvious to me. Judy Maybe it's because

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip It's not that type of identity I'm talking about. It's not vanity or preoccupation with the body. Identification occurs with

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip It's not that type of identity I'm talking about. It's not

Re: [FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:59 PM, geezerfreak wrote: It doesn't need fixing. You're buying into Barry's bilious propaganda. In any case, all I want to do is get you to understand what spiritual teachers mean by identification. I think I've made a start if I've gotten you to switch from thinking it's

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: snip It sounds like a positive aspect of our natural development

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread yifuxero
-RightJudy is talking about a structural property. If we examine the content of attachment rather than as a structure, it seems that Enlightened people are as attached as everybody else. (examine their sex lives). Thus, binding attachments seem to be ubiquitous. A larger bundle of

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: That's right Curtis! Don't be buying into Barry's bilious propaganda! Since I actually started this angle of re-examination of yoga terms I believe it must have been Barry who was buying into MY bilious propaganda! I want

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: snip It sounds like a positive aspect of our natural development and not anything that needs fixing to me. It doesn't need fixing. You're buying into Barry's bilious propaganda. What I wrote has nothing to do with

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:59 PM, geezerfreak wrote: It doesn't need fixing. You're buying into Barry's bilious propaganda. In any case, all I want to do is get you to understand what spiritual teachers mean by

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: That's right Curtis! Don't be buying into Barry's bilious propaganda! Since I actually started this angle of re-examination of yoga

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip It sounds like a positive aspect of our natural development and not anything that needs fixing to me. It doesn't need

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: That's right Curtis! Don't be buying into Barry's bilious propaganda! Since I actually started this angle of re-examination of yoga

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:59 PM, geezerfreak wrote: It doesn't need fixing. You're buying into Barry's bilious propaganda. In any case, all I

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip It sounds like a positive aspect of our natural development

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread curtisdeltablues
If you believe that you are somehow attached to the objects of perception and this is not the best relationship to have with them then it is a problem that gets fixed by yoga practice. Not being able to play the piano gets fixed by piano lessons and practice. But you have to want to

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:59 PM, geezerfreak wrote: It doesn't need

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Feb 7, 2009, at 3:34 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I think this yogic identification theory is totally bogus. It is a made-up problem. I am not identified with any object of perception. I can be passionate about some

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Feb 7, 2009, at 3:34 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I think this yogic identification theory is totally bogus. It is a made-up

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: snip You are expressing a hierarchy of human awareness with one state as higher than another. I'm saying that for me, it's a better state. Don't put words in my mouth, please. Are you saying

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: Curtis, what say you to Fred Travis' finding that long-term and short-term TMers show the same overall physiological changes DURING TM but that there are distinct differences between long-term and short-term meditators outside

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: If you believe that you are somehow attached to the objects of perception and this is not the best relationship to have with them then it is a problem that gets fixed by yoga practice. Not being

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: Curtis writes in this, I don't share his (Maharishi's) view that the silence experienced in meditation is our true nature or our real self. Ouch, is that right? True? Without the belief system mindset experiencing

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Curtis writes in this, I don't share his (Maharishi's) view that the silence experienced in meditation is our true nature or our real self. Ouch, is that right? True? Without the belief system mindset experiencing the silence of meditation is not obviously my true nature or real

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: Let me jump into this attachment discussion. I'd like to argue that you don't know what attachment is until you experience pure consciousness while the mind functions. Any attempt to become unattached through the mind is

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-09 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: Let me jump into this attachment discussion. I'd like to argue that you don't know what attachment is until you experience pure consciousness while the mind functions. Any attempt to become unattached through the mind is

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, metoostill metoost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I think this yogic identification theory is totally bogus. It is a made-up problem. I am not identified with any object of

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Curtis is assuming of course, his next life will be at least as good as his current non-sucky life. I am assuming that this is my one and only life and that the story of reincarnation is a fairy tale like salvation. What

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip Like you, Curtis, I don't find identification to be an issue of any kind. I'm sitting in a cafe, and a beautiful woman walks by. I look up. I look at her. I *appreciate* the beauty. It does not inspire lust in me (I'm

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Curtis is assuming of course, his next life will be at least as good as his current non-sucky life. I am assuming that this is my one

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread Duveyoung
curtisdeltablues wrote: I think this yogic identification theory is totally bogus. It is a made-up problem. I am not identified with any object of perception. I can be passionate about some things, but trying to paint that as some kind nonspiritual way to live seems so contrived. The whole

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, metoostill metoostill@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I think this yogic identification theory is totally bogus. It

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: Beautiful post...yours and Curtis's. Put into words thoughts I've had ever since leaving the TMO. And, as you well know Barry, life since then has been utterly amazing. 6 years ago I contracted endocarditis (infection

Re: [FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread Vaj
On Feb 7, 2009, at 3:34 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I think this yogic identification theory is totally bogus. It is a made-up problem. I am not identified with any object of perception. I can be passionate about some things, but trying to paint that as some kind nonspiritual way to live

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Feb 7, 2009, at 3:34 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I think this yogic identification theory is totally bogus. It is a made-up problem. I am not identified with any object of perception. I can be passionate about some

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread enlightened_dawn11
so like when you go to like Bruce Cockburn concerts, do you like bring a pair of extra boxers, and like, scream, Brce!! and like, toss your boxers at the stage? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@... wrote: so like when you go to like Bruce Cockburn concerts, do you like bring a pair of extra boxers, and like, scream, Brce!! and like, toss your boxers at the stage? At least I'm not on record as liking The

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: snip My point was that the idea that someone else have a superior way of organizing their internal sense of self, has lost its appeal. I don't see any evidence for this claim. Seems to me you'd have to live

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: snip My point was that the idea that someone else have a superior way of organizing their internal sense of self, has lost its appeal. I

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: snip I believe that some people have more or less

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: I'm not sure people long ago could relate to how our minds function today. Compared to them we may all be what they believed was enlightened. Are you suggesting that most people long ago were what we today would cosider

Re: [FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread Vaj
On Feb 8, 2009, at 4:19 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I'm glad you weighed in Vaj. I guess the word identify doesn't have much meaning for me in this context. I feel my body and flow my feelings through my instruments when I play them. But saying that this is an identification doesn't

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip I don't know that it should be looked at as superior. The ordinary state of affairs is that our consciousness identifies with our body, I'm not so sure about that. My identity is biased towards my mind and emotions. My

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread yifuxero
---.I fully agree...then the question becomes one of subjective importance, AFTER a given assumption: that something, some transition or quantum leap of sorts, takes place in Enlightenment or in stages before that. Then: a. the ancient Sages and/or Neo-Advaitins or globally, the Wilberian Great

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: they are to be worshipped on occasion, have sex with your wives, get free lunches Whoa, wait a minute here! I didn't get this memo and now may have to re-think my opting out of the whole program. This has more appeal than not

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I'm not sure people long ago could relate to how our minds function today. Compared to them we may all be what they believed was

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I'm not sure people long ago could relate to how our minds function today. Compared to them we may all be what they believed was

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: snip Me: I am trying to figure out why they made such a big deal out of something that seems obvious to me. Judy Maybe it's because what seems obvious to you isn't at all what it's about. OK, straighten me out on how

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I'm not sure people long ago could relate to how our minds function

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Me: I am trying to figure out why they made such a big deal out of something that seems obvious to me. Judy Maybe it's because

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-08 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: snip C'mon Curtis. Are you really telling me that you're willing to contradict High Horse Judy here? Haven't you realized that Judy sees all, knows alland apparently lives her life moment to moment here on FFL?

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread Duveyoung
BillyG wrote: If you read MMY's Bhagavad Gita Appendix on Yoga you will find this comment, quote: With the continuous practice of all these limbs, or means, simultaneously, the state of Yoga grows simultaneously in all the eight spheres of life MMY HB pg363snip. I think this proves

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: A little lengthy but, it reminds me of MMY's analogy of the flower, we see the flower (or a bag of cookies, works better) and we become so identified with it that we lose the awareness of the Silence or Self within, thru

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: A little lengthy but, it reminds me of MMY's analogy of the flower, we see the flower (or a bag of cookies, works better) and we become so identified with it that

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: A little lengthy but, it reminds me of MMY's analogy of the flower, we see

Re: [FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread Vaj
On Feb 7, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Duveyoung wrote: You guys have book-ended an issue. My favorite theory about meat-robot-programming is that 27 repetitions are required to get something to sink in. So here's about the 20th time that I'm going to bounce this ball called Identification.

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip Varela believed, and I'm sure many meditators of different traditions might agree, that the neurological accomplishment of lived human virtue (where it becomes a part of who and what we are, hard-wired in), what he called

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread enlightened_dawn11
oh stop that Judy! don't you know Vaj is far more comfortable preaching his great (unintegrated) knowledge to all of us humble supplicants? on your knees woman and be impressed! all hail the great Vaj! knower of the self -- (oops, forgot to capitalize that self word...) --- In

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread metoostill
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: I think this yogic identification theory is totally bogus. It is a made-up problem. I am not identified with any object of perception. I can be passionate about some things, but trying to paint that as

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, metoostill metoost...@... wrote: Curtis, your post resonated with me. A manufactured problem, yes. And that last paragraph is in my estimation a gem. That really when given the chance to come here we all waved our hands wildly saying me, pick me. And

[FairfieldLife] What is the nature of attachment? (Re: All of Patanjali's 8 limbs )

2009-02-07 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, metoostill metoost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I think this yogic identification theory is totally bogus. It is a made-up problem. I am not identified with any object of perception.

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