[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: He probably shouldn't have been meditating at all, at least not TM which can cause significant side effects... Unlike other, more powerful techniques?

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: so who regularly disses who for what claim of experience or non- experience? My own take on people who claim to be in full-blown brahman consciousness

[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy books

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy books

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy books

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You regularly indulge him in the pushing buttons theme. How could I tell this comment was sarcastic? I can't help but guffaw here, because this is just too precious. The whole *thread* was initiated to poke fun

[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy books

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: You regularly indulge him in the pushing buttons theme. How could I tell this comment was sarcastic? I can't help but guffaw here, because

[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy books

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: You regularly indulge him in the pushing buttons theme. How could I tell this comment was sarcastic? I can't help but guffaw here, because

[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy books

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: You regularly indulge him in the pushing buttons theme. How could I tell this comment was sarcastic? I can't help but guffaw here, because

[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy books

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: You regularly indulge him in the pushing buttons theme. How could I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy books

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: By the way, Jude...before you go off on one of your familiar rants about my use of quotation marks, it's worth remembering that sometimes they

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: [Transcendental_Meditation] House Magazine on Mahrishi Vedic Architecture

2006-03-02 Thread Ron F
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale

2006-03-02 Thread markmeredith2002
Just because some bonehead posts here that Kaplan was ripped off for $16 million does not make it true. Kaplan said all kinds of things about the TMO when he split, but being ripped off was not one of the claims -- Kaplan simply said that he was ill-treated after donating

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: He probably shouldn't have been meditating at all, at least not TM which can cause

[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy books

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: 6 months to the big E - not life times

2006-03-02 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonyff anonyff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz peterklutz@ wrote: A TM-teacher once said that MMY had said that the TM-Sidhi programme is so

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just because some bonehead posts here that Kaplan was ripped off for $16 million does not make it true. Kaplan said all kinds of things about the TMO when he split, but being ripped off was

[FairfieldLife] Thank You......................

2006-03-02 Thread President of the United STUDS
http://soundclick.com/mrroboto http://soundclick.com/rxr http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stonertimes-rxr Rick Reed Home Away From Home: http://murphylakes.com Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of homosexuality...

2006-03-02 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ Rather than a level, I should have said rate of evolving. Everyone seems to be in a frantic race to be enlightened but, I think it is easier to enjoy and let it go easily. I am quite busy enjoying work

[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy books

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: By the way, Jude...before you go off on one of your familiar rants about my

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:31 AM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: He probably shouldn't have been meditating at all, at 

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:31 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Upon learning the meditation taught by Rama, not only did all three start experiencing long periods of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 11:23 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:31 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Upon learning the meditation taught by Rama, not only did all three start

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-02 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Jim Flanegin: 1. determination of awakening, or not, of another is something sensed on a feeling level. Proclamations do no good, unless the person is walking the walk so to speak. Unfortunately it seems that the ones best able to see another's awakening are those who are awake themselves...

[FairfieldLife] Re: 6 months to the big E - not life times

2006-03-02 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Anonff writes: Here it is almost 37 years later, HA! Peter: HA! Is that the expression of the final discrimination into That? Tom T: It is my experience that when I hear someone who knows express it that unique way that only they can, there is an involuntary HA! that pops up and gets expressed.

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 11:23 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: LIAR!! That's just more typically negative slander from Vaj. It was a Transcendometer 600 (the newer and more accurate model), as he is well aware. What is it that drives

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Flanegin: 1. determination of awakening, or not, of another is something sensed on a feeling level. Proclamations do no good, unless the person is walking the walk so to speak.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 6 months to the big E - not life times

2006-03-02 Thread WLeed3
Well said again Tom T. on your last 2 posts TOM ...Thanks 4 some AHHH HAAS! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 11:51 AM, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis wrote:Jim Flanegin: 1. determination of awakening, or not, of another is something sensed on a feeling level. Proclamations do no good, unless the person is walking the walk so to speak. Unfortunately it seems that the ones best able

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-02 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip perhaps I felt it in bad form to talk of my own pointing-out and recognition, brag about it in public or discuss the details of how the View was tested and verified? I know it's all the rage, discussing of

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: snip perhaps I felt it in bad form to talk of my own pointing-out and recognition, brag about it in public or discuss the details of how the View

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-02 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's *not* some- thing that only happens to the holy or the pure or those who follow all the rules. Sometimes it happens to just the weirdest people in the world, for no other reason than it just happens to them.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness on 3/2/06 11:14 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you like to see the scar on my ass?  I'd love to show that to you! :-) Reminds me of Forrest Gump and LBJ. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/2/06 11:57 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip perhaps I felt it in bad form to talk of my own pointing-out and recognition, brag about it in public or discuss the details of how the View was tested and

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: It's *not* some- thing that only happens to the holy or the pure or those who follow all the rules. Sometimes it happens to just the weirdest

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:31 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:31 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Upon learning the meditation taught by

[FairfieldLife] Rebirth of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
Since I shared some of the excerpts and we've talked a little on the biography _Blazing Splendor_ by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, I thought I'd share this good news I just received. This is becoming more common in the west now. -V. The long awaited announcement has finally come. Tulku Urgyen

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to me that enlightenment is a matter of seeing things clearly. It doesn't mean you're Superman. That's as good and elegant a definition as I've heard-- seeing things clearly. Plain and simple.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/2/06 12:45 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it's like that. I don't think it's *ever* been like that. Shankara farted and shat just like everyone else does. I read that he had an anal fistula that bled and caused him a great deal of discomfort.

[FairfieldLife] Transcendometers, was: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/2/06 1:02 PM, jyouells2000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just posted about that same Transcendometer 600(+), before I saw your post. I guess I should have checked with my Raja first :-) At Poland Spring Maharishi and Itzhak Bentov talked about Transcendometers, using that actual term.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 3/2/06 12:45 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it's like that. I don't think it's *ever* been like that. Shankara farted and shat just like everyone else does. I read that he had an

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-02 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: It's *not* some- thing that only happens to the holy or the pure or

Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendometers, was: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Rick Archer wrote:on 3/2/06 1:02 PM, jyouells2000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just posted about that same Transcendometer 600(+), before I saw your post. I guess I should have checked with my Raja first :-) At Poland Spring Maharishi and Itzhak Bentov talked about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendometers, was: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Rick Archer wrote: on 3/2/06 1:02 PM, jyouells2000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just posted about that same Transcendometer 600(+), before I saw your post. I guess I should have checked

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Rick Archer wrote:but I have a hard time believing that people like Eckhart Tolle and Bernadette Roberts are not enlightened merely because they couldn't be oblivious to having a nail driven through their foot or that they cast a shadow. I think he's raising the bar

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness on 3/2/06 1:38 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well let's not take these two items out of context. The nail story of Vimalananda refers to a person who claimed the ability to be in a certain type of samadhi. The

[FairfieldLife] India pictures

2006-03-02 Thread Dick Mays
Here is a link to a website containing pictures taken at the Brahmasthan of India recently by two Ukraine Purushas. Note the pictures are all on one page so if you have a slow connection it may take some time to load. http://www.maharishi.org.ua/india2006/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendometers, was: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:36 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Rick Archer wrote: on 3/2/06 1:02 PM, jyouells2000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just posted about that same Transcendometer 600(+), before I  saw

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 11:23 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:31 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousne

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Flanegin: 1. determination of awakening, or not, of another is something sensed on a feeling level. Proclamations do no good, unless the person is walking the walk so to speak.

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 11:23 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: LIAR!! That's just more typically negative slander from Vaj. It was a Transcendometer 600 (the newer

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 3/2/06 11:57 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: snip perhaps I felt it in bad form to talk of my own pointing-out and recognition, brag

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendometers, was: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 3/2/06 1:02 PM, jyouells2000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just posted about that same Transcendometer 600(+), before I saw your post. I guess I should have checked with my Raja first :-) At Poland Spring

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Rick Archer wrote: but I have a hard time believing that people like Eckhart Tolle and Bernadette Roberts are not enlightened merely because they couldn't be oblivious to having a nail

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 3/2/06 1:38 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well let's not take these two items out of context. The nail story of Vimalananda refers to a person who claimed the ability to be in a certain type of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/2/06 3:30 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can tell, Vaj is misinterpretting/over-interpretting some text taht talks about how even a nail driven into one's hand won't takethem out of samadhi. But that's the definition of CC. Screaming isn't relevant to witnessing.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 3/2/06 3:30 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can tell, Vaj is misinterpretting/over-interpretting some text taht talks about how even a nail driven into one's hand won't takethem out of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:30 PM, sparaig wrote:As far as I can tell, Vaj is misinterpretting/over-interpretting some  text taht talks about how even a nail driven into one's hand won't  takethem out of samadhi. But that's the definition of CC. Screaming  isn't relevant to witnessing. Actually the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Rick Archer wrote:on 3/2/06 1:38 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well let's not take these two items out of context. The nail story of Vimalananda refers to a person who claimed the ability to be in a certain type of samadhi. The fact that he did experience pain

[FairfieldLife] Vedic City light circles

2006-03-02 Thread bbrigante
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[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM sued in stabbing, slaying of students

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 11:23 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: LIAR!! That's just more typically

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness on 3/2/06 3:53 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick, wasn't it you who shared the story of M. and the meeting with another meditation teacher whose students could go into an insensate samadhi? Yes, I told that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Rick Archer wrote:No. I’m sure such things are possible. There are stories in the Puranas too. My only point is that I’m not convinced that such an ability is an essential prerequisite for enlightenment. But that’s really just an opinion based on my current knowledge

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness on 3/2/06 5:46 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Rick Archer wrote: No. Im sure such things are possible. There are stories in the Puranas too. My only point is that Im not convinced that

[FairfieldLife] Sanskrit

2006-03-02 Thread bbrigante
http://www.centralchronicle.com/20060303/0303302.htm Sanskrit and Macaulayan education Literally meaning refined and sanctified, and priding itself as cultured, Sanskrit is acclaimed as the best, sweetest and divine language (bhashasu mukhya madhura divya geervaan bharati). Sanskrit is the

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- jim_flanegin wrote: --- Rick Archer wrote: Seems to me that enlightenment is a matter of seeing things clearly. It doesn't mean you're Superman. That's as good and elegant a definition as I've heard-- seeing things clearly. Plain and simple. To bring up Suzanne Segal again,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:25 PM, Rick Archer wrote:on 3/2/06 5:46 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Mar 2, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Rick Archer wrote:No. I’m sure such things are possible. There are stories in the Puranas too. My only point is that I’m not convinced that such an ability is an essential

[FairfieldLife] Chogyal Norbu Rinpoche - Crystal and Way of the Light

2006-03-02 Thread hyperbolicgeometry
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[FairfieldLife] Featuring : Neo-Advaitin Douglas Harding

2006-03-02 Thread coshlnx
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[FairfieldLife] Segal - Collision with the Infinite

2006-03-02 Thread coshlnx
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[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 3/2/06 5:46 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I used to receive a hand-typed newsletter from someone on Purusha and he also described a similar story with M. albeit that this would take place over a

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin wrote: --- Rick Archer wrote: Seems to me that enlightenment is a matter of seeing things clearly. It doesn't mean you're Superman. That's as good and elegant a definition as I've

[FairfieldLife] Interview with Byron Katie

2006-03-02 Thread coshlnx
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[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin wrote: --- Rick Archer wrote: Seems to me that enlightenment is a matter of seeing things clearly. It doesn't mean you're Superman. That's as good and elegant a definition as I've

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/2/06 8:48 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 3/2/06 5:46 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I used to receive a hand-typed newsletter from someone on Purusha and he also described a similar

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Much more becomes available, simply by placing the attention on it. No doubt sidhis and such powers are more easily expressed in such a state, but oddly enough, living a non-dual reality, where we are no

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that sense of easy and simple ever misleading? I'm thinking of MMY, and wondering whether that's why he assumed most everyone in the world would take to TM as soon as they heard about it, that governments would

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ wrote: --- jim_flanegin wrote: --- Rick Archer wrote: Seems to me that enlightenment is a matter of seeing things clearly. It doesn't mean