[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting! I am on the first few chapters of the new Harry Potter book myself :-) How very very interesting, my wife is reading it, and I will be reading it after. Wow. Finished it. Will reveal nothing.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
but I am not particularly interested in that part of the conscious mind, anyhow. Yes, but WE are! Attachment to attachment. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I think I understand what you are saying here -- you insist that ignorance is real, not merely a belief Not just real, but an *important* reality. How *dare* you suggest it's neither! I have a friend down here in

[FairfieldLife] Immortality questions

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
Just a question, inspired by my recent read of the latest Harry Potter book. I remember that a few years after I left the TM movement there was a lot of big talk in the movement about physical immortality. Immortality was the buzzword du jour. Whatever became of this fascination? I remember

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Robert Gimbel
--The only difference between being Realized and being Un- realized, doesn't have anything to do with the ego, the mind, the feelings, the body, survival instincts, the passing on of DNA, or anything relative. It has to do with recognizing the true Self. The true Self is nothing other than

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
Finished it. Will reveal nothing. :-)If you did I really would never forgive you. ;0 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --The only difference between being Realized and being Un- realized, doesn't have anything to do with the ego, the mind, the feelings, the body, survival instincts, the passing on of DNA, or anything relative.

[FairfieldLife] 'Self-Realization'/Turning the Attention Wtihin...'

2005-07-26 Thread Robert Gimbel
When we turn our attention within, past the thoughts, past the feelings, past the senses, past the mind, past the intellect, past the ego, what are we left with? We are looking within, not with the ego, not with the intellect, not with the mind, not with any sense, not with any particular

[FairfieldLife] The real magic of Harry Potter (no spoilers)

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
The Harry Potter books are a legitimate phenomenon, one that few people understand, although a lot of people claim to. They think that the series' popularity has to do with magic, and a fascination for magic in those who have never really experienced it. They think that the kids (and adults) who

Re: [FairfieldLife] NPR program coming up tomorrow

2005-07-26 Thread Vaj
On Jul 25, 2005, at 4:36 PM, L B Shriver wrote: NPR's Morning Edition will have a segment on meditation and brain research tomorrow (Tuesday). L B S Thanks, heard it this morn. Interesting they are now researching non-dual, open forms of meditation as well as mindfulness meditation.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Immortality questions

2005-07-26 Thread Vaj
On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:33 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Just a question, inspired by my recent read of the latest Harry Potter book. I remember that a few years after I left the TM movement there was a lot of big talk in the movement about physical immortality. Immortality was the buzzword du

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality questions

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:33 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Just a question, inspired by my recent read of the latest Harry Potter book. I remember that a few years after I left the TM movement there was a lot of big talk in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality questions

2005-07-26 Thread Vaj
On Jul 26, 2005, at 7:33 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: It's the talk about physical immortality that gets me. How could *anyone* who has had a daily taste of dying (for that is what transcendence is) be in the least concerned about physical death? Death is a fear one expects to see in those who

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I am not particularly interested in that part of the conscious mind, anyhow. Yes, but WE are! Attachment to attachment. No, attachment to attachment to attachment. To subscribe, send a message to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I think I understand what you are saying here -- you insist that ignorance is real, not merely a belief Not just real, but an

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I think I understand what you are saying here -- you insist that ignorance is real, not merely a belief Not just real, but an

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Barry, you're really pretty much hors de combat in this discussion. Not even your limp spitballs from the sidelines are poorly aimed. Whoops, that should be are well aimed. Changed sentence structure in the middle

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
I have a friend down here in the south of France who has a bit of a Zorro fetish. He knows all the Zorro books and movies and TV shows backwards and forwards and even dresses up like Zorro for parties and special occasions. He has fun with this fantasy of his. We have fun with him

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Self-Realization'/Turning the Attention Wtihin...'

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
Now let's look at this thing called the mind. Where is the mind? Is it in the eyes? Or is it in the smile? Or is it in the frown? Or is it in the arms? Is it in front? Or is it behind? Where is the mind? If it was full nothing could come into it. If it had a certain color

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Awareness of and identification with our infinite nature

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend down here in the south of France who has a bit of a Zorro fetish. He knows all the Zorro books and movies and TV shows backwards and forwards and even dresses up like Zorro for parties and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
No, attachment to attachment to attachment.The more attachments the more hard to reach spots one can cover at once. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' YAHOO!

[FairfieldLife] GCP/EGG update July 25 2005

2005-07-26 Thread Patrick Gillam
Poster's note: Roger Nelson's Global Consciousness Project has been mentioned a few times in this forum. Now it has a Yahoo group, noted below, along with some other links that may interest some here. So I'm posting the newsletter below. - Patrick Gillam

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
I think awards need to be given out for all the enlightened people. But first I have to start with the homeless. That is, the homeless who don't have two shopping carts and the makings of a small city in their contents. The award for detactment goes to those homeless who carry one

[FairfieldLife] The Awakening of an Atheist

2005-07-26 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread wmurphy77
Though killing (as such) is sin, Ch1v36, Dharma (duty) superscedes 'sin' and allows Arjuna to even kill in love, Ch2vs1. What MMY has published so conflicts with what he is saying today it is astounding and leaves one's 'limbs failing and mouth parched, my body quivers and my hair stands on

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think awards need to be given out for all the enlightened people. Since everyone is always already enlightened, I think you missed a few folks. But since it might get expensive to give an award to everyone who feels

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Awakening of an Atheist

2005-07-26 Thread L B Shriver
Comment below. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think awards need to be given out for all the enlightened people. Since everyone is always already enlightened, I think you missed a few

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Awakening of an Atheist

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
The reality can be surprising. I grew up in an atheist family. I remember my mother mentioning God only once, when I was sick. According to her I had got the measles, because I was so evil and God was punishing me. My father occasionally lectured us about the foolishness of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
I was thinking of the fucking Bhagavad Gita and how fallow the story and God's instructions are. To whit, what if Arjuna was faced with Nuclear arms race on both sides of the field. God would tell him to push the button. That's real smart Krishna. Real fucking smart Arjuna. Real good

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking of the fucking Bhagavad Gita and how fallow the story and God's instructions are. To whit, what if Arjuna was faced with Nuclear arms race on both sides of the field. God would tell him to push the button.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality questions

2005-07-26 Thread L B Shriver
Response below. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a question, inspired by my recent read of the latest Harry Potter book. I remember that a few years after I left the TM movement there was a lot of big talk in the movement about physical

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Awakening of an Atheist

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
Avoid excuses and using consciously your intelligence to defensive purposes. Inner growth and evolution is that simple. Sudden leaps to a higher level of awareness will appear on its own, when you are ready. Belief in God is not a necessity and in some phases can become an obstacle

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality questions

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
Living in Fairfield, especially, one can't help but be aware that the actuarial tables apply to Sidhas as much as anyone else. In fact, when you read the obits in the Fairfield Ledger, it seems that nonmeditators tend to live longer than meditators.L B S-As Iron Maiden says, "Only the good

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
But the Gita gives some pretty good advice oncerningthis situation and what to do about it, no? It isn'tas though it fails to acknowledge what the problem isor to suggest a solution.Bear with me. Say you have two guys drinking in Tijuana. One of them is buying the drinks, as he does

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think awards need to be given out for all the enlightened people.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the Gita gives some pretty good advice oncerning this situation and what to do about it, no? It isn't as though it fails to acknowledge what the problem is or to suggest a solution. Bear with me. Say you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking of the fucking Bhagavad Gita and how fallow the story and God's instructions are. To whit, what if Arjuna was faced with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the Gita gives some pretty good advice oncerning this situation and what to do about it, no? It isn't as though it fails to acknowledge what the problem is or to suggest a solution. Bear with me. Say you

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 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: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Steve Shimer passing

2005-07-26 Thread anonymousff
Good morning all. Early this morning Steve Shimer passed away of Hodgkin's disease. He had become an acupuncturist and had been living in Fairfield, California with his wife, Kathy Unger. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread wmurphy77
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking of the fucking Bhagavad Gita and how fallow the story and God's instructions are. To whit, what if Arjuna was faced with Nuclear

[FairfieldLife] Re: Steve Shimer passing

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning all. Early this morning Steve Shimer passed away of Hodgkin's disease. He had become an acupuncturist and had been living in Fairfield, California with his wife, Kathy Unger. I remember both names,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking of the fucking Bhagavad Gita and how fallow the story

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Awakening of an Atheist

2005-07-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reality can be surprising. I grew up in an atheist family. I remember my mother mentioning God only once, when I was sick. According to her I had got the measles, because I was so evil and God

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread wmurphy77
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking of the fucking Bhagavad Gita and how fallow the story and God's instructions are. To whit, what if Arjuna was faced with Nuclear arms race on both sides of the field. God would tell him to push the button.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How to get Enlightened

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
I always find pictures of Ramana Maharishi so lively and soothing, powerful and unyielding, like a force of nature personified. ---Me too. Seeing men in diapers makes me feel really grown up. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
- Original Message - From: authfriend To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:19 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Llundrub" [EMAIL PROTECTED]... wrote: But the Gita gives some

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
I've had some enlightenment experiences, and theywere neat. But so were, and are, all the experiencesin which enlightenment is not present. I don't make adistinction between them or long for one over another.I suspect that a lot of people here feel the same way.They, the ones who can live

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Steve Shimer passing

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
To the Clear Light! - Original Message - From: TurquoiseB To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Steve Shimer passing --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED]... wrote: Good morning all.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
You have an ego my friend, from which you think the whole securtiy of the world depends...such hubris, tut, tut! ---That smacks of good LSD logic. I'm going to consider that. Nah, I just looked and the ego couldn't be found. What I did find were a pack of Devas hiding behind my eyelids

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
- Original Message - From: TurquoiseB To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Llundrub" [EMAIL PROTECTED]... wrote: But the Gita gives some

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: authfriend To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:19 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita... --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
Sorry, wasn't aware of these finer points...Still, if he transcends, he'll do the dharmic thingspontaneously, whatever it happens to be that day,according to Arjuan, at any rate.I think I'm basically with you, though. On mydarker days, I tend to think I could have pisseda better system

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Still, if he transcends, he'll do the dharmic thing spontaneously, whatever it happens to be that day, according to Arjuan, at any rate. (*Arjuna*.) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Vaj
On Jul 26, 2005, at 12:40 PM, authfriend wrote: (*Arjuna*.) I liked Arjuan better. A Mexican Arjuna. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I think I'm basically with you, though. On my darker days, I tend to think I could have pissed a better system than we're stuck with. Take away my TM, and I'd be a really gnarly Gnostic. Gnosticism is very

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 26, 2005, at 12:40 PM, authfriend wrote: (*Arjuna*.) I liked Arjuan better. A Mexican Arjuna. Arjuan and Krishnito. (Sounds like somebody coughing and then sneezing.) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality questions

2005-07-26 Thread ffia1120
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Living in Fairfield, especially, one can't help but be aware that the actuarial tables apply to Sidhas as much as anyone else. In fact, when you read the obits in the Fairfield Ledger, it seems that nonmeditators tend

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
or without the gunas, with God in heart or without, with dharma or without, Krishna would tell Arjuna to push the button first if the Nukes were lined up on both sides. I don't really dig that stance.Are you stipulating that there's no other optionthan one side or the other pushing the

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to get Enlightened

2005-07-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always find pictures of Ramana Maharishi so lively and soothing, powerful and unyielding, like a force of nature personified. ---Me too. Seeing men in diapers makes me feel really grown up. Ha-ha!!! Yeah, that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
I liked Arjuan better. A Mexican Arjuna.Arjuan and Krishnito.(Sounds like somebody coughing and thensneezing.)You're on the level. :) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to get Enlightened

2005-07-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always find pictures of Ramana Maharishi so lively and soothing, powerful and unyielding, like a force of nature personified. Here are some more. I find his

[FairfieldLife] 'Former Meditator Creates High-Tech Enlightenment...'

2005-07-26 Thread Robert Gimbel
Bill Harris, former TM meditator has discovered, researched and designed, quite a remarkable technology, using certain harmonic tones, to 'force' the brain into greater levels, of synchrony, and at lower frequencies... See: http://www.getsynergized.com/Holosync/index2.html See:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: authfriend To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:19 AM Subject:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or without the gunas, with God in heart or without, with dharma or without, Krishna would tell Arjuna to push the button first if the Nukes were lined up on both sides. I don't really dig that stance. Are you

[FairfieldLife] Neuroscientists see red over Dalai Lama

2005-07-26 Thread Vaj
Neuroscientists see red over Dalai Lama David Cyranoski Critics of meditation 'pseudoscience' say conference talk should be cancelled. Some say meditation focuses the mind - but others say the research behind such claims is limited. © Punchstock A growing number of neuroscientists are calling

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
But Krishna never says "let's transcend and see what spontaneouslyhappens", there's never any question about it. It's just anotherversion of the same old-time religion -- kill your enemies and don'tworry about guilt or sin because we have god on our side.-That's right! It's the same as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How to get Enlightened

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
I especially like the one of the mountain and the one with him in color on the tiger skin. He has a quality that I liked originally in pics of Guru Dev also. Perhaps the fact that neither is smiling yet radiating bliss, or something. Probably impossible to categorize. Anyway, Thanks!I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Still, if he transcends, he'll do the dharmic thing spontaneously, whatever it happens to be that day, according to Arjuan, at any

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Former Meditator Creates High-Tech Enlightenment...'

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
I detest the website. How disgustingly commercial. Is this what spirituality is about? Maharishi should have just shot us all dead. - Original Message - From: Robert Gimbel To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:21 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife]

[FairfieldLife] Meditation and the Brain

2005-07-26 Thread L B Shriver
The NPR segment on meditation and neuroscience is available today online at: www.npr.org L B S To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
Yeah, Oh Merciful Creator. Seems to me in a MAD (mutual assured destruction) situation, it wouldn't matter much who pushed the button first. So I guess I'm missing your point. ---My point is that for Krishna, backing down is not an option.So pushing the button *isn't* the only

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to get Enlightened

2005-07-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find the pictures alot like houses in rural Iowa and point Midwest, that is, as if plunked down from space ready made. I mean WTF is a man doing on a Tiger skin on a box in a field? Now is that any way to identify the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, Oh Merciful Creator. Seems to me in a MAD (mutual assured destruction) situation, it wouldn't matter much who pushed the button first. So I guess I'm missing your point. ---My point is that for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I think I'm basically with you, though. On my darker days, I tend to think I could have pissed a better system than we're stuck with.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
Have you ever heard the joke about the guy on the island with Cindy Crawford?Nope. Do tell...I always like your stories.---The first few weeks are heaven. Then one day the guy tells Cindy, hey, do me a favor and sit on the other side of the tree and speak in a deep voice. He says "Hey?"

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real magic of Harry Potter (no spoilers)

2005-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: The Harry Potter books are a legitimate phenomenon, one that few people understand, although a lot of people claim to. They think that the series' popularity has to do with magic, and a fascination for magic in those who have never really experienced it. They think that the

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Former Meditator Creates High-Tech Enlightenment...'

2005-07-26 Thread Vaj
Someone sent me these as a gift a couple of years ago (the Centrepointe CD's). Interesting stuff, but hardly unique--a lot of people are selling the same thing (e.g. Chopra, Weil, etc.). Now I'm apparently on this guys mailing list for the rest of my life. On Jul 26, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Robert

[FairfieldLife] the Kiosk and a world where everything CAN be positve

2005-07-26 Thread Sharalyn Harris
From: scienceofabundance Date: Sun Jul 24, 2005  6:31 pm Subject: Re: PS: From A World Where Everything **WILL** Be Positive!! scienceofabu... She used to be here in the beginning, but she did not like the negativity, so she went and created her own group where she decides what can be posted and

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Former Meditator Creates High-Tech Enlightenment...'

2005-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
Robert Gimbel wrote: Bill Harris, former TM meditator has discovered, researched and designed, quite a remarkable technology, using certain harmonic tones, to 'force' the brain into greater levels, of synchrony, and at lower frequencies... See:

[FairfieldLife] Meditation alters perceptual rivalry in Tibetan Buddhist monks

2005-07-26 Thread Vaj
Meditation alters perceptual rivalry in Tibetan Buddhist monks   By O.L. Carter, D.E. Presti, C. Callistemon, Y. Ungerer, G.B. Liu, and J.D. Pettigrew Source: www.current-biology.com/7 June 2005

[FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality questions

2005-07-26 Thread L B Shriver
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffia1120 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Living in Fairfield, especially, one can't help but be aware that the actuarial tables apply to Sidhas as much as anyone else. In fact, when

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 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: snip It appears to me to be more like waking up doesn't mean

[FairfieldLife] Re: the Kiosk and a world where everything CAN be positve

2005-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
Anyone who is so brainwashed that she thinks of critics as enemies deserves only my pity. That's my version of behaving kindly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sharalyn Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: scienceofabundance Date: Sun Jul 24, 2005  6:31 pm Subject: Re: PS: From A

Re: [FairfieldLife] the Kiosk and a world where everything CAN be positve

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
I could take about three paragraphs. Thank God she's not around anymore. She probably puts her lipstick around her eyes and her liner on her nose for all the self reflection she has. - Original Message - From: Sharalyn Harris To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy: But the Gita gives some pretty good advice oncerning this situation and what to do about it, no? It isn't as though it fails to acknowledge what the problem is or to suggest a solution. Lundrub: Bear with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Llundrub
On my arrival in Bombay I was overtaken with emotions of "you are home." I tried putting it in check as some kind of mood making but it would not go away. I felt far more at home in India with the Indian people than I ever have in the US. Perhaps you would feel the same visiting

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Vaj
On Jul 26, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Bhairitu wrote: I have to be honest, I have a hard time with these dichotomous labels although of course it's helpful for talking about things--and sure there are Buddhists who are gungho with that label and Hindu tantrics who are the same way. I'm a Nath and

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 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: snip Yes, I think I understand what you are saying here -- you

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 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: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread L B Shriver
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Sorry, I keep having further thoughts on this: The mind can certainly get into making distinctions that go way beyond what's needed for survival, to the point where it becomes actually *harmful* to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The real magic of Harry Potter (no spoilers)

2005-07-26 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip And, IMO, it doesn't, and never has. What the world needs is a book or set of books that does for enlightenment what the Harry Potter books have done for magic -- make it ordinary, everyday. Because it is. It

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
Llundrub wrote: On my arrival in Bombay I was overtaken with emotions of you are home. I tried putting it in check as some kind of mood making but it would not go away. I felt far more at home in India with the Indian people than I ever have in the US. Perhaps you would feel the same

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