Re: [FairfieldLife] HTML in boards (Was: Think - Premanand Paul and Bob Brigante)

2005-06-26 Thread Bhairitu
uns_tressor wrote: ** I had forgotten how much I dislike HTML in message boards. Well worth banning. Uns. ** How about thread hijacking? Look how deep the threads get here when there are actually several

[FairfieldLife] Re: HTML in boards (Was: Think - Premanand Paul and Bob Brigante)

2005-06-26 Thread uns_tressor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uns_tressor wrote: ** I had forgotten how much I dislike HTML in message boards. Well worth banning. Uns. ** How about thread

[FairfieldLife] TM Laxity, was: For Vaj Re:Pitta-aggravating mantras

2005-06-26 Thread Rory Goff
Many thanks for your reply, Vaj. Yes, this all sounds pretty familiar, except for your phrase such a high level -- here is certainly not high; I feel exactly the same as before I ever started on any path. I mean *complete* ordinariness; ignorance even -- the only real difference being a simple

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: HTML in boards (Was: Think - Premanand Paul and Bob Brigante)

2005-06-26 Thread Bhairitu
uns_tressor wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uns_tressor wrote: ** I had forgotten how much I dislike HTML in message boards. Well worth banning. Uns. **

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Different levels of Bodhisattvas

2005-06-26 Thread Vaj
On Jun 26, 2005, at 6:42 PM, anonymousff wrote: For perspective, is full Buddhahood, beyond the cloud of dharma, realized by many in these traditions? The Dalai Lama ? Various Rinpoches? At what level is the attainment of the Rainbow Body? Yes, certainly it is realized. The rainbow body as

[FairfieldLife] TM Laxity, was: For Vaj Re:Pitta-aggravating mantras

2005-06-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 26, 2005, at 9:59 AM, authfriend wrote: Wow, I never heard that the absence of thoughts in TM indicates an absence of progress. Is that something MMY says that I've somehow managed to miss? Yeah, whatever

[FairfieldLife] Re: Think - Premanand Paul and Bob Brigante

2005-06-26 Thread uns_tressor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined a tad uncharitably: How about thread hijacking? Look how deep the threads get here when there are actually several subthreads ...YahooGroups is not that sophisticated. Its threading software is crap. If you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Think - Premanand Paul and Bob Brigante

2005-06-26 Thread Llundrub
This is sound advice, but for my part, I would sooner die than follow it." HariOm, Would Premanand Paul and Bob Brigantte give their opinion on this please.?? With, Jai Guru Dev, Jason ---Why, who cares what they think? I can tell you that my having 37 jobs proves

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Think - Premanand Paul and Bob Brigante

2005-06-26 Thread Llundrub
Interesting. I am curious though why Jason want the two opions of Paul and Bob, and not others? Are they especially suited to the quote somehow. I'm sorry Guys that I belittled your output. But uns_tressors urls seem to refer more to the Moron Movement mentality, that Bob espouses, and I'm

[FairfieldLife] Re: Think - Premanand Paul and Bob Brigante

2005-06-26 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As for getting a straigh answer to something Ii don't recall Bob ever giving one that didn't merely come rebounding off one of his inner mental rubberbands. If you were tryin to get his to step outside of his mental

[FairfieldLife] TM Laxity, was: For Vaj Re:Pitta-aggravating mantras

2005-06-26 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] ok, my question to Vaj had more to do with questioning the practical benefit of sitting as you say in samadhi for however long. I understand

[FairfieldLife] Re: Anger and Self-Realized, Liberated Sages/Yogis Absorbed in Brahman

2005-06-26 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] It is far more attractive to me to cultivate a state of steady prajna or a permanent state of non-anger, etc, than some abstraction called enlightenment. You guys who have had some success in life don't know the simple

[FairfieldLife] TM Laxity, was: For Vaj Re:Pitta-aggravating mantras

2005-06-26 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 26, 2005, at 12:41 AM, sparaig wrote: Did you get to see the EEG of Ken Wilber I posted a while back? Yes I did. Do you want me to ask EEG experts to comment on what it shows? Already shared it with one,

[FairfieldLife] TM Laxity, was: For Vaj Re:Pitta-aggravating mantras

2005-06-26 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 26, 2005, at 9:59 AM, authfriend wrote: Wow, I never heard that the absence of thoughts in TM indicates an absence of progress. Is that something MMY says that I've somehow managed to miss? Yeah, whatever

[FairfieldLife] Re: Think - Premanand Paul and Bob Brigante

2005-06-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is sound advice, but for my part, I would sooner die than follow it. Hari Om, Would Premanand Paul and Bob Brigantte

[FairfieldLife] TM Laxity, was: For Vaj Re:Pitta-aggravating mantras

2005-06-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 26, 2005, at 9:59 AM, authfriend wrote: Wow, I never heard that the absence of

[FairfieldLife] TM and Buddhism

2005-06-26 Thread off_world_beings
Anyone care to join in a discussion with some Buddhists, pseudo- Bhuddists, and agnostics? The agnostics/atheists are the only rude ones. The Buddhists are nice. I think I bit off more than I could chew though :-) C'mon Bob, Dr. Pete, Akasha and you other guys, help me out here. Naysayers and

[FairfieldLife] TM Laxity, was: For Vaj Re:Pitta-aggravating mantras

2005-06-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 26, 2005, at 9:59 AM, authfriend wrote: Wow, I never heard that the absence of thoughts

[FairfieldLife] TM vs concentration

2005-06-26 Thread off_world_beings
Having practiced both styles of meditation, I can attest to the fact that using certain styles of focused or concentrative meditation, one can pretty much enter samadhi at will and have it last for twenty minutes, an hour, or several hours, with no thoughts present. For the dyed-in-the-wool TMer,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Think - Premanand Paul and Bob Brigante

2005-06-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what IS the choice though? Acquiesce to either 1)idiocy, 2)failure, or 3)slavery? Why not play the game fully? Stay intact, true to oneself, and express it in such a way that those in power side with us.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Think - Premanand Paul and Bob Brigante

2005-06-26 Thread Bhairitu
uns_tressor wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined a tad uncharitably: How about thread hijacking? Look how deep the threads get here when there are actually several subthreads ...YahooGroups is not that sophisticated. Its

[FairfieldLife] Re: Anger and Self-Realized, Liberated Sages/Yogis Absorbed in Brahman

2005-06-26 Thread Jeff Fischer
Jeff: Nor do I think one guy can handle this planet alone. It takes a group. And ultimately we all make it together or not at all. A philosophy that tends to be espoused by groups. Unc True. But disorganized groups have been run over by organized groups of dubious notoriety:

[FairfieldLife] TM Laxity, was: For Vaj Re:Pitta-aggravating mantras

2005-06-26 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 26, 2005, at 9:59 AM, authfriend wrote: Wow, I never heard that the absence of

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Buddhism (per Mantreshwar, ancient jyotishi)

2005-06-26 Thread John
Hey, all According to Mantreshwar, an ancient jyotish author, my birth chart has a yoga for being a sanyasi, practicing a form of Buddhism. As a practicing TM meditator, I was at first puzzled by this observation. However, after pondering the description of this yoga, I became appreciative

[FairfieldLife] TM Laxity, was: For Vaj Re:Pitta-aggravating mantras

2005-06-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 26,

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM vs concentration

2005-06-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having practiced both styles of meditation, I can attest to the fact that using certain styles of focused or concentrative meditation, one can pretty much enter samadhi at will and have it last for twenty minutes,

[FairfieldLife] TM Laxity, was: For Vaj Re:Pitta-aggravating mantras

2005-06-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah but I never said what he is alluding to, that an absence of thoughts is indicative of a lack of progress during TM. I'm not sure where he got the idea, but it wasn't from me. In my reply above I was just

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