[FairfieldLife] More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread cardemaister
(72-77) Having thus humbled the pride of the Buddhists, the Brahmana sage [Skanda as Kumarila Bhatta] now began to expound the meanings of the Vedic Mantras in order to enlighten [Indra as] king Sudhanvan. The king thereupon said, In wordy controversies, success and failure depend only on the

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (72-77) Having thus humbled the pride of the Buddhists, the Brahmana sage [Skanda as Kumarila Bhatta] now began to expound the meanings of the Vedic Mantras in order to enlighten [Indra as] king Sudhanvan. The king

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (72-77) Having thus humbled the pride of the Buddhists, the Brahmana sage [Skanda as Kumarila Bhatta] now began to expound the

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (72-77) Having thus humbled the pride of the Buddhists,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Men's and women's peaces palaces on MUM campus

2005-10-07 Thread Peter
--- jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brahmachari108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These Maharishi Peace Palaces are a profound gift from Maharishi The Maharishi Peace Palaces will be financed through donations and the sale of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread Vaj
On 10/7/05 3:27 AM, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was kinda surprise to me how anti-buddhist Vidyaranya is. I myself have nothing against Buddhists. FCS, I'm doing anapanasati in addition to TM nowadays. :) And a combination ,sort of, of TM and anapana is very powerful. :0 As

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread Vaj
On 10/7/05 2:50 AM, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A wonderful teaching. I feel that the world would definitely be a better place if religious fanatics, those who are caught up in the My way is the best game, undertook a similar test and proved their best claim by leaping from the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Satsang Reports: Byron Katie Session

2005-10-07 Thread Peter
--- anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, eptfnj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, as my Aunt used to tell me when I was bored: Boredom is the sign of an undeveloped

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread benjaminccollins
In the world there are invisible ladders, leading step by step to the summit of heaven. There is a different ladder for every group, a different heaven for every path. Each one is ignorant of the other's condition in this wide kingdom which has no end or beginning. This one is amazed at that one

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, benjaminccollins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the world there are invisible ladders, leading step by step to the summit of heaven. There is a different ladder for every group, a different heaven for every path. Each one is ignorant of the other's

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's designated successor.. (was Re: A scolding for Maharishi...)

2005-10-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/6/05 5:18 PM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1st para, It's now official..? Well, that's what MMY said. MMY

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real problem is the need to compete. It can take many forms, depending on the nature of the competing religions. Well said. The need to compete keeps us attached to the birth and death of ideas, the birth and

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real problem is the need to compete. It can take many forms, depending on the nature of the competing religions. Well said. The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dangers of Pseudo-Advaita

2005-10-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip And also when Maharishi speaks about being instantly enlightened once we transcend for the first time. ... I've never heard MMY say anything remotely close to

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real problem is the need to compete. It can take

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi's designated successor.. (was Re: A scolding for Maharishi...)

2005-10-07 Thread Vaj
On 10/7/05 10:45 AM, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/6/05 5:18 PM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1st para, It's

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's designated successor.. (was Re: A scolding for Maharishi...)

2005-10-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/7/05 10:45 AM, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] For Vaj

2005-10-07 Thread Vaj
Sorry, I just noticed this--not sure why I missed it. Yeah I had heard about it just a couple of months ago so was waiting and when I checked iTunes the other day, there it was. I was wondering if he had replayed them since I have most of these (except the ones you mention)? I was hoping it would

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dangers of Pseudo-Advaita

2005-10-07 Thread Peter
--- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip And also when Maharishi speaks about being instantly enlightened once we transcend for the first time.

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's designated successor.. (was Re: A scolding for Maharishi...)

2005-10-07 Thread uns_tressor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/6/05 5:18 PM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1st para, It's now official..? Well, that's what MMY said. MMY - forever stretching one's concept of what enlightenment is. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dangers of Pseudo-Advaita

2005-10-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip And also when Maharishi

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Shankara-dig-vijaya: ...as lightly as a bundle of cotton.

2005-10-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's designated successor.. (was Re: A scolding for Maharishi...)

2005-10-07 Thread Robert Gimbel
Sex, sex and more sex/ - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/6/05 5:18 PM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1st para, It's now official..? Well, that's

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's designated successor.. (was Re: A scolding for Maharishi...)

2005-10-07 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Impressive. His first task might be to cognize from the absolute a cure for clinical obesity before he dies of heart failure. Uns. Skinny people die of heart failure also. Yahoo!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dangers of Pseudo-Advaita

2005-10-07 Thread eptfnj
I was referring to his comments about being enlightened as to the goal of enlightenment, the first time we transcend during TM and contact the Absolute. So it is a statement of relative enlightenment he was making. The point I was making was that this statement of his led some of us

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dangers of Pseudo-Advaita

2005-10-07 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, eptfnj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was referring to his comments about being enlightened as to the goal of enlightenment, the first time we transcend during TM and contact the Absolute. So it is a statement of relative enlightenment he was making.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dangers of Pseudo-Advaita

2005-10-07 Thread eptfnj
That was Zen; this is Tao. The movement decided that it was more in tune with Natural Law to buy the fort than to capture it. now, the Fort is only spoken about, loyal followers imply it has been captured, detractors say it will only be purchased, a few people see only an empty useless lot

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dangers of Pseudo-Advaita

2005-10-07 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, eptfnj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was Zen; this is Tao. The movement decided that it was more in tune with Natural Law to buy the fort than to capture it. now, the Fort is only spoken about, loyal followers imply it has been captured,

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's designated successor.. (was Re: A scolding for Maharishi...)

2005-10-07 Thread scienceofabundance
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sex, sex and more sex/ He might also do some cognizing of his own sexuality. - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dangers of Pseudo-Advaita

2005-10-07 Thread eptfnj
Re your writing above, how could 'loyal followers imply [the fort] has been captured'? If they have really captured the fort, in that context, they may be loyal but they could no longer, by definition, be followers. very good! but those Lions even after looking into the calm clear pool,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Power of Silence

2005-10-07 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hari Om, Here is an discourse on the Power of Silence There's a gag in there somewhere... Ouch!

[FairfieldLife] Re: more Lynch tour

2005-10-07 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recluse filmmaker David Lynch's East Coast college tour - which made a pit-stop at NYU Thursday to promote transcendental meditation -

[FairfieldLife] Re: Satsang Reports: Byron Katie Session

2005-10-07 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, eptfnj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, as my Aunt used to tell me when I was bored: Boredom is the sign of an undeveloped mind. i enjoyed the take on boredom by Trugpa

[FairfieldLife] Re: Men's and women's peaces palaces on MUM campus

2005-10-07 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brahmachari108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These Maharishi Peace Palaces are a profound gift from Maharishi The Maharishi Peace Palaces will be financed through donations and the sale of interest-bearing World Peace Bonds. How is it a gift when

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Men's and women's peaces palaces on MUM campus

2005-10-07 Thread Vaj
On 10/7/05 7:32 PM, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the manifestation of his knowledge that is the gift. If you don't value the knowledge, then you miss what the gift is. Diluted, commercialized knowledge is a gift? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Men's and women's peaces palaces on MUM campus

2005-10-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/7/05 7:32 PM, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brahmachari108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These Maharishi Peace Palaces are a profound gift from Maharishi The Maharishi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Men's and women's peaces palaces on MUM campus

2005-10-07 Thread Peter
--- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/7/05 7:32 PM, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the manifestation of his knowledge that is the gift. If you don't value the knowledge, then you miss what the gift is. Diluted, commercialized knowledge is a gift? There's a diamond in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Global Country of World Peace flag - comments?

2005-10-07 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, eptfnj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do others here think of the flag design? Located at http://tmbulletin.net/images/GCWP-flag.jpg and it's available for only $608 for your sv rectified dwelling! Yahoo! Groups

[FairfieldLife] Poll: Groups Unhappy With Bush Performance

2005-10-07 Thread gullible fool
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051008/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_ap_poll WASHINGTON - Evangelicals, Republican women, Southerners and other critical groups in President Bush's political coalition are worried about the direction the nation is headed and disappointed with his performance, an AP-Ipsos

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Men's and women's peaces palaces on MUM campus

2005-10-07 Thread Vaj
On 10/7/05 10:20 PM, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/7/05 7:32 PM, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the manifestation of his knowledge that is the gift. If you don't value the knowledge, then you miss what the gift is. Diluted,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Poll: Groups Unhappy With Bush Performance

2005-10-07 Thread authfriend
What cracks me up is to see conservatives saying things like this (quote from Kathryn Jean Lopez on the Corner, National Review Online's group blog): The president just took some questions. To sum up his message: She's my girl. She's a good girl. Trust me. I hate this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Poll: Groups Unhappy With Bush Performance

2005-10-07 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Bush is something that never should have happened in the first place, a stupid mistake. Every group gets the government it deserves -- Bush is a mistake only in the sense that he is representative of a