[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/26/06 2:04 PM, chaim_laib at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , authfriend jstein@ wrote: I *never* encountered any teaching in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: OK, Barry does say these people are close followers. Perhaps he means TM teachers, who may have received the teaching he describes while the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Human Incarnation Trio

2006-08-27 Thread surya
Egoism is the extra temperature. Removal of egoism does not mean the removal of your self-existence. Some people condemn themselves always as sinners. They think that this is removal of egoism. That is over action only and not the removal of fever but that is bringing down the body-

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, if I just took MMY's personality and surface behavior I'd have dismissed MMY and the TMO sometime in the late 70's. However I have been profoundly impacted by MMY's techniques and his presence. I experience MMY as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread TurquoiseB
I wasn't there, of course, but just from your quote I wouldn't be sure he was referring to attuning yourselves to his thinking in any case, so much as that eventually you would all be in the same state of consciousness he was. In my honest and long-considered opinion, all of Maharishi's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Donald Duck tries to skate the fundamental calculus theorem for vector analysis!

2006-08-27 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_calculus And blows it, which may have been part of the joke. I never understood algebra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: For me, if I just took MMY's personality and surface behavior I'd have dismissed MMY and the TMO sometime in the late 70's. However I have been

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't there, of course, but just from your quote I wouldn't be sure he was referring to attuning yourselves to his thinking in any case, so much as that eventually you would all be in the same state of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I wasn't there, of course, but just from your quote I wouldn't be sure he was referring to attuning yourselves to his thinking in any case, so

[FairfieldLife] Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-27 Thread TurquoiseB
As usual when I post an honest, heartfelt, and *non*-putdown opinion of Maharishi, one of the terribly attached TBs reacts to it as if it was a putdown (not true), and as if she were feeling terribly threatened by the opinion itself (true). Allow me to clarify, for those who are less anal

[FairfieldLife] Re: FF to Mother Meera

2006-08-27 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer groups@ wrote: on 8/26/06 5:26 PM, sparaig at sparaig@ wrote: Translation: Nyah and thumb-to-the-nose to all the TMers still doing program in the

[FairfieldLife] Letting Go / Hanging On

2006-08-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I wasn't there, of course, but just from your quote I wouldn't be sure he was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fear of CC: Self Loathing as Spiritual Path

2006-08-27 Thread Ingegerd
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/26/06 2:37 AM, Ingegerd at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He had success - Millions of people learned TM - but that did not last - because the foundation was weak (wrong), built on many lies and broken

[FairfieldLife] Re: Donald Duck tries to skate the fundamental calculus theorem for vector analysis!

2006-08-27 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_calculus

[FairfieldLife] A bad day redefined, and captured in photos

2006-08-27 Thread TurquoiseB
http://www.idiots-guide.org/badday.htm 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, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Donald Duck tries to skate the fundamental calculus theorem for vector analysis!

2006-08-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 27, 2006, at 2:29 AM, authfriend wrote: P.S.: Notice, once again, that Barry has conflated What MMY sez... (or in this case, What MMY may have meant...) with What MMY sez is true. It's really a very obvious distinction, but Barry simply cannot seem to make it. OK, Judy so then you

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Sage of a New Generation DVD

2006-08-27 Thread Paul Mason
This fascinating 1968 documentary has been re-released with bonus material at a reasonable price tag. http://www.alanwaite.com/maha_dvd.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-27 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual when I post an honest, heartfelt, and *non*-putdown opinion of Maharishi, one of the terribly attached TBs reacts to it as if it was a putdown (not true), and as if she were feeling terribly threatened by the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Invited!

2006-08-27 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Billionaires! Here's your chance to cough up some money and AVOID THE SHAME!!! I am going to ask my rich uncle Ernie if he can lend me a million dollars so that I can avoid the shame. OffWorld To

[FairfieldLife] Re: A bad day redefined, and captured in photos

2006-08-27 Thread off_world_beings
Lol ! , thanks for the laugh ! OffWOrld --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.idiots-guide.org/badday.htm To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry, I am suggesting, in fact I am asking, that you consider NOT READING the posts of those who upset you, like Judy. While I appreciate your intent, her words don't upset me. In this case, they provided me with an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Invited!

2006-08-27 Thread Ingegerd
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: Hey Billionaires! Here's your chance to cough up some money and AVOID THE SHAME!!! Again, I read the invitation to the Billionaires

[FairfieldLife] Re: A bad day redefined, and captured in photos

2006-08-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: http://www.idiots-guide.org/badday.htm Lol ! , thanks for the laugh ! Doesn't it kinda remind you of attempting to get people to come to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 2:29 AM, authfriend wrote: P.S.: Notice, once again, that Barry has conflated What MMY sez... (or in this case, What MMY may have meant...) with What MMY sez is true. It's really a very

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual when I post an honest, heartfelt, and *non*-putdown opinion of Maharishi, one of the terribly attached TBs reacts to it as if it was a putdown (not true), and as if she were feeling terribly threatened by the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 27, 2006, at 9:07 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 2:29 AM, authfriend wrote: P.S.: Notice, once again, that Barry has conflated What MMY sez... (or in this case, What MMY may have meant...) with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A bad day redefined, and captured in photos

2006-08-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 27, 2006, at 8:53 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Doesn't it kinda remind you of attempting to get people to come to the recent course by first appealing to fear, and then, when that's a disaster trying to make them feel shame? The fear truck is dead in the water, so they try to bring in a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-27 Thread Paul Mason
Back in 1975 at a meeting with Rabbi Levine, the rabbi stated that MMY was 'God Conscious at least!' If MMY is in no special state of consciousness it is misleading to allow such statements to be made without correcting them!? Below is a transcript of the meeting. God Realization: The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letting Go / Hanging On

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: Barry, I am suggesting, in fact I am asking, that you consider NOT READING the posts of those who upset you, like Judy. While I appreciate

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread curtisdeltablues
What you are putting forth basically means the end of any and all honest communication. Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal. High five. What would have taken me pages summed up in one short phrase. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 9:07 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 2:29 AM, authfriend wrote: P.S.: Notice, once again, that Barry has

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:07 AM, authfriend wrote: Also absolutely correct, and also absolutely irrelevant. Look, let's make it *real simple*. If I were to say, George Bush says God tells him what to do, would you automatically assume I believed God tells George Bush what to do? Or would

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letting Go / Hanging On

2006-08-27 Thread curtisdeltablues
First, welcome back Turq. I missed your sense of humor and interest in discussing topics in detail. You have been posting some thoughtful stuff. There are a few posters here who stretch my thinking beyond my own current boundaries and that is what I am here for. Otherwise I would just hang

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:00 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: What you are putting forth basically means the end of any and all honest communication. Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal. High five. What would have taken me pages summed up in one short phrase. Thanks. Sal To subscribe,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letting Go / Hanging On

2006-08-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my life, not an anti-TM rant. If anyone understands that, it's me. But you know as well as I do that several people here are going to see it as an anti-TM rant. That just means that encountering a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you are putting forth basically means the end of any and all honest communication. Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal. High five. What would have taken me pages summed up in one short phrase. And

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letting Go / Hanging On

2006-08-27 Thread curtisdeltablues
The squeakiest wheel doesn't always need any grease. I have learned a lot posting here. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: This is my life, not an anti-TM rant. If

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:07 AM, authfriend wrote: Also absolutely correct, and also absolutely irrelevant. Look, let's make it *real simple*. If I were to say, George Bush says God tells him what to do,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:42 AM, authfriend wrote: Let's take another example. Suppose somebody says they don't think MMY is a male chauvinist. And I respond, Well, he does say women should stay at home and raise the children. Would you assume I *believed* women should stay at home and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:07 AM, authfriend wrote: Also absolutely correct, and also absolutely irrelevant. Look, let's make it *real simple*. If I were to say, George Bush says God tells him what to do,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:19 AM, authfriend wrote: That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. If Barry, for example, has said that MMY has lost it, and then quoted MMY as saying the world is going to end if TM-Sidhas don't all go to the domes, would you assume Barry believes the world is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letting Go / Hanging On

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Your discussion of TM beliefs being clung to, contrasted with the experience of going beyond boundaries in meditation made me think. I have come to the conclusion that the belief system is more critical to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread TurquoiseB
What you are putting forth basically means the end of any and all honest communication. Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal. High five. What would have taken me pages summed up in one short phrase. I'm going to spend a few more words (if not pages) on this, because I suspect a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:42 AM, authfriend wrote: Let's take another example. Suppose somebody says they don't think MMY is a male chauvinist. And I respond, Well, he does say women should stay at home and

[FairfieldLife] Re: A bad day redefined, and captured in photos

2006-08-27 Thread L B Shriver
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.idiots-guide.org/badday.htm Here's the rest of the story: http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:19 AM, authfriend wrote: That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. If Barry, for example, has said that MMY has lost it, and then quoted MMY as saying the world is going to end if

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:26 PM, authfriend wrote: Sometimes we do what Barry does (as I just did in the case of MMY's dictum about women staying home and raising the children). Sometimes we're just correcting somebody who was misrepresenting MMY--eliminating a straw man, in other words. And

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:19 AM, authfriend wrote: That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. If Barry, for example, has said that MMY

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you are putting forth basically means the end of any and all honest communication. Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal. High five. What would have taken me pages summed up in one short phrase.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:26 PM, authfriend wrote: Sometimes we do what Barry does (as I just did in the case of MMY's dictum about women staying home and raising the children). Sometimes we're just correcting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: For me, if I just took MMY's personality and surface behavior I'd have dismissed MMY and the TMO sometime in the late 70's. However I have been

[FairfieldLife] Re: Map exercise (especially for Jim)

2006-08-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Oh, nuts, Alex, don't spoil it! The fun is *getting* there.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:26 PM, authfriend wrote: Sometimes we do what Barry does (as I just did in the case of MMY's dictum about women staying home and raising the children). Sometimes we're just correcting

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:50 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: How it works is, when someone says something that is contrary to the TM dogma, or that challenges it, the people who use this dodge regularly (neither of them TM teachers) reply using pretty much the exact argument that we who are TM teachers

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The underlying theme of her posts is usually the same. You can't follow my superior logic. Let me try again to explain it to you, little feller. Her point is only to win and be as condescending as possible doing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/26/06 3:28 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really think that in Mahesh's mind, if he could hussle for Guru Dev, then how hard could it be for a couple of his flunkies to set up hotels for 600

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:26 PM, authfriend wrote: snip Sometimes we play devil's advocate because the goofy interpretation is so, well,

[FairfieldLife] Re: A bad day redefined, and captured in photos

2006-08-27 Thread nablus108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 8:53 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Doesn't it kinda remind you of attempting to get people to come to the recent course by first appealing to fear, and then, when that's a disaster trying to make

[FairfieldLife] Re: Map exercise (especially for Jim)

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:50 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: How it works is, when someone says something that is contrary to the TM dogma, or that challenges it, the people who use this dodge regularly (neither of them TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my TTC, Paul, Mahesh said again and again: the actor can play god better than god. -- He was, of course, talking about himself and the joke was on us because we didn't get it. Mahesh could fool anybody and usually

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:00 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: What you are putting forth basically means the end of any and all honest communication. Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal. High five. What would

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letting Go / Hanging On

2006-08-27 Thread nablus108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread nablus108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you are putting forth basically means the end of any and all honest communication. Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal. High five. What would have taken me pages summed up in one short phrase.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-27 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: As usual when I post an honest, heartfelt, and *non*-putdown opinion of Maharishi, one of the terribly attached TBs reacts to it as if it was a putdown (not true), and as if she were feeling terribly threatened by the opinion itself (true). Allow me to clarify, for those who

[FairfieldLife] Check this out

2006-08-27 Thread johnlasher20002000
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7746532746186200027 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, go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is the TMO the solution for the planet??? Maybe

2006-08-27 Thread johnlasher20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ I don't know about the TMO but I have worked with biofeedback for years and do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread johnlasher20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/26/06 2:04 PM, chaim_laib at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , authfriend jstein@ wrote: I *never* encountered any teaching in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnlasher20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer groups@ wrote: on 8/26/06 2:04 PM, chaim_laib at chaim_laib@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com ,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is the TMO the solution for the planet??? Maybe

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnlasher20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't there, of course, but just from your quote I wouldn't be sure he was referring to attuning yourselves to his thinking in any case, so much as that eventually you would all be in the same state of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: For me, if I just took MMY's personality and surface behavior I'd have dismissed MMY and the TMO sometime in the late 70's. However I have been

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The energy of the sociopathic type invades your space, ignores your boundaries (much like Judy is so often want to do in an effort to squelch critical thought about the realities of Mahesh and his delusional

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess my questions for the group as a whole are: 1. *Is* it important to you to believe that Maharishi was/is enlightened? At the time, I think it made me feel really special that *I* was so special as to have found a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check this out

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnlasher20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7746532746186200027 Disgracefully inaccurate. Bush couldn't find Iran on a map to save his life. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 9:07 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 2:29 AM, authfriend wrote: P.S.: Notice, once again, that Barry has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you are putting forth basically means the end of any and all honest communication. Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal. High five. What would have taken me pages summed up in one short phrase.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread wayback71
Gerbal, I am guessing that at this point, Judy and Sparaig read and respond to each other's posts, but not many other people do - at least not regularly. snip Sal wrote: Judy, you are making distinctions with no visible difference at all. You're implying that people *may* go around

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 27, 2006, at 5:02 PM, gerbal88 wrote: Thanks to you and Sal and a few others, I think there might be hope for sorthing through the huge pile of crap Mahesh sold us and winnowing out the something of value. I think this is it--FF Life and the other places we've made friends, thanks to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check this out

2006-08-27 Thread Peter
--- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnlasher20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7746532746186200027 Disgracefully inaccurate. Bush couldn't find Iran on a map to save his life. Nor pronounce it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Sage of a New Generation DVD

2006-08-27 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This fascinating 1968 documentary has been re-released with bonus material at a reasonable price tag. http://www.alanwaite.com/maha_dvd.html http://www.alanwaite.com/about.html To subscribe,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 9:07 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Aug 27,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerbal, I am guessing that at this point, Judy and Sparaig read and respond to each other's posts, but not many other people do - at least not regularly. snip mutual admiration society, now nice for them To

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: For me, if I just took MMY's personality and surface behavior I'd have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:07 AM, authfriend wrote: Also absolutely correct, and also absolutely irrelevant. Look, let's make it *real simple*. If I were to say, George Bush says God tells him what to do, would

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you are putting forth basically means the end of any and all honest communication. Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal. High five. What would have taken me pages summed up in one short phrase. Of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: snip You and other pro-TMers who use MMY's quotes to back up what you've said either believe them to be true--or else are trying to deceive. So

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] As it happens, I *don't* believe women should stay in the home and raise children. I don't support MMY's male chauvinism at all. I was quoting MMY to the first person not to support MMY's views but to point out

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:42 AM, authfriend wrote: Let's take another example. Suppose somebody says they don't think MMY is a male chauvinist. And I respond, Well, he does say women should stay at home and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Barry knows I'm in the last category too, but he simply ignores the context and makes the default assumption that I agree with anything I quote MMY as saying, because he can always use that as a putdown. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerbal, I am guessing that at this point, Judy and Sparaig read and respond to each other's posts, but not many other people do - at least not regularly. snip Exactly right, wayback and Gerbal. I refuse to read her

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:26 PM, authfriend wrote: [...] I just realized who you keep reminding me of. It's the fundie Christian who used to hang out on alt.m.t. And another tactic you invariably fall back

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: What you are putting forth basically means the end of any and all honest communication. Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There was excellent advice given in one of the early posts of this thread. It is: I am suggesting, in fact I am asking, that you consider NOT READING the posts of those who upset you, like Judy. The underlying

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:42 AM, authfriend wrote: Let's take another example. Suppose somebody says they don't think MMY is a male

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Um, it doesn't just happen to refute it, it's chosen quite deliberately because it *does* refute it. (Actually the correct term here is rebut, not refute, unless we're talking about correcting a misquote. Rebut

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:50 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: How it works is, when someone says something that is contrary to the TM dogma, or that challenges it, the people who use this dodge regularly (neither of them TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:26 PM, authfriend wrote: Sometimes we do what Barry does (as I just did in the case of MMY's dictum about women

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