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

2011-12-29 Thread Emily Reyn
). Ravi, please don't leave without saying until we meet again.   From: Ravi Chivukula chivukula.r...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter

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

2011-12-29 Thread Vaj
On Dec 28, 2011, at 8:13 PM, azgrey no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Speaking of mad as a March hare. Just sayin'. Yeah, I know. I haven't been in the CIA for years, I've been so busy with Indiana Jones trying to find Q.

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

2011-12-29 Thread Bhairitu
On 12/28/2011 09:43 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: AlrightI might buy most of this.I am taken in by you...you have pushed me and I appreciate that. But, while I do understand the concept that you might feel the other persons pain after humiliating themwhy choose that tactic? It's not

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

2011-12-28 Thread Emily Reyn
, December 26, 2011 4:26 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: This stuff in unbelievable.  Taken in?  The assumptions in these statements demonstrates true psychic

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

2011-12-28 Thread Emily Reyn
.   From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 12:36 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn

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

2011-12-28 Thread Vaj
On Dec 28, 2011, at 12:48 AM, maskedzebra no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: What you have declared in this post makes me out to be a liar. Am I a liar, Steve? No, but you're still walking around with that boogar on your face.

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

2011-12-28 Thread Vaj
On Dec 28, 2011, at 6:11 AM, turquoiseb wrote: What I see is the same pattern that was established and legally censured in Iowa courts -- a disconnect with reality that involves becoming highly obsessed with people who don't react to him the way he wants them to, and devolves into being

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

2011-12-28 Thread Emily Reyn
or liar. Or, for that matter, Vag. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 12:36 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

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

2011-12-28 Thread Emily Reyn
steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 3:18 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   Emily, I feel obliged to give you fair warning.  You are likely one post away from being on Barry's

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

2011-12-28 Thread Emily Reyn
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 3:18 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   Emily, I feel obliged to give you fair warning.  You are likely one post away from being on Barry's DNRL.  Just so you know. --- In FairfieldLife

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

2011-12-28 Thread Emily Reyn
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   Emily Reyn: I tried my hand at interspersing my responses... Just a hint: Use before what they say, and then post your replies below that. That way, we can tell what they say and your replies. (Try looking

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

2011-12-28 Thread Ravi Chivukula
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Monday, December 26, 2011 4:26 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: This stuff in unbelievable. Â Taken in? Â The assumptions

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

2011-12-28 Thread Emily Reyn
then?  From: Ravi Chivukula chivukula.r...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   Your's/Barry's willingness to define Ravi and Robin

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

2011-12-28 Thread Ravi Chivukula
Hm..the winner huh. Your statement here is a bit convoluted. If you have no agenda, then why do you have to win. You make some assumptions here about the person who approaches you... Ravi - Approaches with an agenda that is, as in to confront me. Winner only from their

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

2011-12-28 Thread Ravi Chivukula
And Denise, yes Winner from the perspective of the one who wanted to challenge me. Now having humiliated this person, I feel that person's emotions - hurt, pain, anger, because they are another part of me, how can I not feel hurt? But I am able to quickly internalize and transform these

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

2011-12-28 Thread Emily Reyn
28, 2011 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   And Denise, yes Winner from the perspective of the one who wanted to challenge me. Now having humiliated this person, I feel that person's emotions - hurt, pain, anger, because

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

2011-12-28 Thread Ravi Chivukula
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula And Denise, yes Winner from the perspective of the one who wanted to challenge me. Now having humiliated this person, I feel that person's emotions

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

2011-12-28 Thread Ravi Chivukula
? From: Ravi Chivukula chivukula.r...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula And Denise, yes Winner from the perspective of the one who wanted

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

2011-12-28 Thread Emily Reyn
Thank god, DEFCON 1 has never been called for. From: seventhray1 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:58 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

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

2011-12-28 Thread Emily Reyn
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   And I will be the first person, if needed to soothe, love, apply medicine Denise. You are a mother, you will easily understand

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

2011-12-28 Thread Emily Reyn
not :)   Love, ~Em... From: Ravi Chivukula chivukula.r...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 10:18 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   I might be close

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

2011-12-27 Thread Vaj
On Dec 26, 2011, at 5:31 PM, zarzari_786 wrote: Maharishi had a word for this, for people slipping into Brahman (or so) and not being really grounded: Moody Brahman Yeah, I remember him, didn't he play the sax?

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

2011-12-27 Thread Vaj
On Dec 26, 2011, at 7:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 no_reply@... wrote: According to Maharishi and according to tradition this [losing Unity Consciousness] is not possible. In this case it wasn't fully established. Either that or it never

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

2011-12-27 Thread Bob Price
, or from Latin vagus ‘wandering, uncertain.’ From: Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 6:09:43 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula On Dec 26, 2011

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

2011-12-27 Thread Vaj
Hey Boob: On Dec 27, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Bob Price wrote: Vague, You and Barry give new meaning to the epithet Pond Scum, first you go after Robin's ex-wife, speculating on their love life, and now its his mother (neither of whom would give either of you the time of day---opps, I guess

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

2011-12-27 Thread Bob Price
And what about my accusation that you're pond scum? From: Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 10:44:28 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula Hey

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

2011-12-27 Thread Vaj
On Dec 27, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Bob Price wrote: And what about my accusation that you're pond scum? Pretty hard in the winter Boob.

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

2011-12-27 Thread Bob Price
From: Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net snip Actually, she did give me the time of day ***BP: Now we're getting somewhere, Dr. Carlsen treated you and Barry for your Oedipus complex. Vague, Don't ever let anyone tell you you're not terminally unique, I am

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

2011-12-27 Thread Vaj
On Dec 27, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Bob Price wrote: From: Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net snip Actually, she did give me the time of day ***BP: Now we're getting somewhere, Dr. Carlsen treated you and Barry for your Oedipus complex. Alas, we never met. But a

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

2011-12-27 Thread Bob Price
vajradh...@earthlink.net snip Actually, she did give me the time of day vajradh...@earthlink.net snip Alas, we never met. But a relative did send me the family tree. ***BP: Your VAGUENESS, Like I said: vague |vāg| adjective of uncertain,

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

2011-12-27 Thread Vaj
On Dec 27, 2011, at 2:14 PM, maskedzebra wrote: Vaj: There's more evidence to suggest this, as a common 'bragging claim' of Carlsen followers was the fact that he wrote The Discovery of Grace with commentary (I believe, or one of his tomes) by staying up all night and simply dictating it,

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

2011-12-27 Thread Vaj
On Dec 27, 2011, at 5:09 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: Vaj: And I wonder how many present day psychologists she inspired? Perhaps many. IMO, Dr. Norah Carlsen, Ph.D. is the more interesting story I'd like to hear.

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

2011-12-27 Thread Vaj
On Dec 27, 2011, at 6:47 PM, maskedzebra wrote: But I couldn't help acting when I saw the post to which this is a response. Well, look who fell for the bait.

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

2011-12-27 Thread Vaj
On Dec 27, 2011, at 7:43 PM, seventhray1 wrote: It is worth noting that most of the people discussing these supposed higher states of consciousness that some on this forum claim to have had are doing so completely from a theoretical basis. They have personally never had such

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

2011-12-27 Thread Vaj
On Dec 27, 2011, at 8:41 PM, seventhray1 wrote: I do have one question, Vaj, if you're listening. You are on record saying that you were not allowed to attend MIU by your parents. But evidently you were in Fairfield to witness certain events in RWC saga. Do I have this right? Thanks

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

2011-12-27 Thread Emily Reyn
. From: Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   On Dec 27, 2011, at 6:47 PM, maskedzebra wrote: But I couldn't help acting when I saw

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

2011-12-26 Thread Bhairitu
On 12/26/2011 04:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786no_reply@... wrote: According to Maharishi and according to tradition this [losing Unity Consciousness] is not possible. In this case it wasn't fully established. Either that or it never happened in

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

2011-12-26 Thread Bhairitu
On 12/26/2011 11:30 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: On 12/26/2011 04:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786no_reply@ wrote: According to Maharishi and according to tradition this [losing Unity

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

2011-12-26 Thread Emily Reyn
] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 no_reply@ wrote: snip Of course. He is smart enough, he makes everyone either follower (or admirer

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

2011-12-26 Thread Bhairitu
On 12/26/2011 02:31 PM, zarzari_786 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: On 12/26/2011 04:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786no_reply@ wrote: According to Maharishi and according to tradition this [losing Unity

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

2011-12-25 Thread Vaj
On Dec 24, 2011, at 9:41 PM, feste37 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 no_reply@... wrote: And for the TMers here? Ravi exemplifies a teacher figure that is sorely missing in the TM movement since the demise of MMY. Ravi is what the TMers would have expected

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

2011-12-23 Thread Vaj
Sent from my iPad On Dec 22, 2011, at 8:34 AM, zarzari_786 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: We know now, that we can rely on your account in the full sense, only we have to be able to read it with our own inner being. I write this from my own inner being, and I know, dear Vaj Ji, that you

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

2011-12-23 Thread Vaj
Sent from my iPad On Dec 22, 2011, at 9:02 AM, zarzari_786 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: When Judy doesn't get the irony, that means I'm getting too transcendentally ironic. I am sure, Robin, that Judy knows about

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

2011-12-23 Thread Emily Reyn
Girl or boy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfkGocmCiEfeature=related From: obbajeeba no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 2:32 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter

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

2011-12-22 Thread Bhairitu
On 12/20/2011 10:13 AM, Emily Reyn wrote: I saw Columbiana...it might be O.K. as a wind down movie where you don't have to think too much, but except for watching Zoe Saldana in action...the plot, which shows promise at the beginning, doesn't deliver and requires great leaps of faith, IMO.

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

2011-12-22 Thread Bhairitu
The actors and crew said they all learned a lot from the French production crew. Zoe got weapons training from the trainer of the Los Angeles SWAT team. I had no qualm overall with the production values just the writing and direction. It sorta reminded me of a 1990s type thriller though it

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

2011-12-22 Thread Bhairitu
On 12/22/2011 01:17 PM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: I was hoping that Enlightened might be FFL on TV which would make for either a great comedy or an insane thriller. But that didn't happen. Have no fear. Watch Salvation Boulevard

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

2011-12-22 Thread Bhairitu
On 12/22/2011 02:32 PM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: On 12/22/2011 01:17 PM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: I was hoping that Enlightened might be FFL on TV which would make for either

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

2011-12-22 Thread Emily Reyn
: Thursday, December 22, 2011 3:20 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   How about this challenge. You, Barry and Emily stop highjacking this thread and make one of your own. Barry can then promote his there is no truth but opinion and feel

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

2011-12-22 Thread Emily Reyn
: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   Perhaps you should just check your own messages since I was in a discussion with Robin. Remember him? You did bring up his name. However, I have a better idea. I'll start another thread directly with Robin. Then Steve, you

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2011-12-21 Thread Vaj
On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:19 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: The deal is, Vajihad, you have not exactly been forthcoming about your TM experience, dodging and weaving for years. Then Robin joins FFL, and all of your nastiness, your impotence, and your arrogance that you used to delight spraying about

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

2011-12-20 Thread Bhairitu
On 12/20/2011 01:03 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoisebno_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: People will draw their own conclusion

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

2011-12-20 Thread Emily Reyn
at the beginning, doesn't deliver and requires great leaps of faith, IMO. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi

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

2011-12-20 Thread Bhairitu
. From: Bhairitunoozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula On 12/20/2011 01:03 AM, turquoiseb wrote

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

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

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

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

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

2011-12-20 Thread Emily Reyn
extraordinary. From: emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:14 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula   Well she was a Jewish girl who's beauty was in her

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2011-12-18 Thread Vaj
You really missed the mark again Robin - you're not even close to the truth. What's up with that? How can you so consistently hit the mark. Do you have a straw man fetish or something? On Dec 18, 2011, at 12:32 AM, maskedzebra wrote: 1. You never seek to address the essence of what someone

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

2011-12-18 Thread Vaj
On Dec 18, 2011, at 10:24 AM, seventhray1 wrote: If I were on a jury, and had to make a determination based on the evidence I have heard over my time on FFL, I would say that IMO the evidence is irrefutable (or at least beyond a reasonable doubt) that Vaj was a very active participant in

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

2011-12-18 Thread Vaj
On Dec 18, 2011, at 11:44 AM, whynotnow7 wrote: Are your parents still furious with you for trying TM? Sounds like it... They were never furious in the first place. They gave their opinions only when asked and let me do as I pleased. They would not allow me to go to MIU though, a fact I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2011-12-17 Thread Bob Price
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 9:06:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula Much more eloquent than my simple Whatever, while conveying the same sentiment. Sorry to hear about the virus thang. But it led to you

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

2011-12-17 Thread Bhairitu
On 12/17/2011 11:08 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriendjstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltabluescurtisdeltablues@ wrote: After spending over an hour responding to your responses last night I was attacked by a virus

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

2011-12-17 Thread Bob Price
From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com snip Much more eloquent than my simple Whatever, while conveying the same sentiment. But it led to you creating and posting the perfect metaphor for what it's like to deal with this shit, so the virus may have

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

2011-12-17 Thread Vaj
On Dec 17, 2011, at 3:01 PM, maskedzebra wrote: One thing (you wouldn't know about this personally) about TM and Maharishi: it makes you contemptuous and patronizing when it comes to discussing Christianity. Well, unfortunately for you, you've probably lost the best conduit to speak

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

2011-12-17 Thread Emily Reyn
no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 9:06:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula Much more eloquent than my simple Whatever, while conveying the same sentiment. Sorry to hear about the virus

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

2011-12-17 Thread Emily Reyn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqkwu5W8E3Mfeature=related From: maskedzebra no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:19 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi

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

2011-12-17 Thread Vaj
On Dec 17, 2011, at 6:40 PM, maskedzebra wrote: RESPONSE: Not merely learning about divine things but also experiencing them—that does not come from mere intellectual acquaintance with the terms of scientific theology, but from loving the things of God and cleaving to them by affection.

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

2011-12-17 Thread Vaj
On Dec 17, 2011, at 7:02 PM, maskedzebra wrote: RESPONSE II: Not every love has the quality of friendship. In the first place it is reserved to that love for another which wills his well-being. When what we will is not the other's good for his sake, but the desire of it as it affects us,

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

2011-12-17 Thread Vaj
On Dec 17, 2011, at 7:06 PM, maskedzebra wrote: RESPONSE III: That a perfection is present in the human mind, too high to be explained by anything less than the supernatural, is man's nobility. Irrational creatures are impotent here. It does not follow that the highest human perfection is

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

2011-12-17 Thread Vaj
Sent from my iPad On Dec 17, 2011, at 7:24 PM, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: So now you are Vag, the critiquer of Christian contemplation – knower of what's authentic and what is not. How illuminating of you. So where did you arrive at direct experience of Christian

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

2011-12-14 Thread Vaj
Bravo Robindra! You get the Histrionic Personality award for 2011! Lady Gaga will be playing in your honor (it's actually a gay guy in drag, but hey, I couldn't tell the difference). Mhrvelous darling, simply marvelous. I do wish you'd place a rotating video of your visage on YouTube

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

2011-12-14 Thread Vaj
On Dec 14, 2011, at 12:25 PM, maskedzebra wrote: I am so tempted to appear on BatGap though; and that would suffice for the video you are seeking. Yes, I hope you're able to make the cut. I often wondered why you hadn't appeared, but I understand Rick has quite a backlog of

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

2011-12-13 Thread Vaj
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. John Lennon On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:55 PM, maskedzebra wrote: Life can educate one to belief in God. And experiences too are what bring this about; but I don't mean visions and other forms of sense experience which show us the 'existence of

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

2011-12-12 Thread Vaj
Dear Robindranath: On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:18 PM, maskedzebra wrote: Dear Vaj, Your fantasizing, I see, extends even into the living moment. Take for instance, your comments here. You have provided no personal, experiential, even intellectually believed evidence for one to assume you have

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

2011-12-12 Thread Vaj
Hey Robin, Try to have some respect for what Ravi's going through. If you honestly care, you'll realize things like this are best discussed off list. This isn't a public laundromat. On Dec 12, 2011, at 9:59 PM, maskedzebra no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Hey, Vaj: Would you consider telling