[FairfieldLife] Re: Zombie Apostles

2011-04-22 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Catholics have always struck me as wusses with all of their fake body of Christ, blood of Christ stuff. Why not go for the real thing? [http://i.imgur.com/Vl6cS.jpg] Hey Turk: All that stuff is only when the Romans

[FairfieldLife] 'Intense Astrology This Week!'

2011-04-22 Thread Robert
AstroCast: April 20-May 5, 2011 Published on April 21st, 2011 | Posted by Jim Schultz Tagged: AstroCast, Transits All times are PDT, unless stated otherwise. Planetary positions are expressed as the degree followed by the sign. If there is a number following the sign, it refers to the minute

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: I am not sure if this applies or not. But I tend to eshew things like beautiful sunsets, or beautiful days. Or at least I don't get emotional

[FairfieldLife] Re: Astrology reading for seventhray

2011-04-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
Steve, Since chart reading can be a never ending tiresome exercise I will just focus on my strengths which is personality analysis - areas of strengths and weaknesses. Let me know how I did, since you didn't mind the initial reading to be in public I'm posting it to FFL. A note of caution

[FairfieldLife] Don't revere your holy men, eat them! (was Re: Zombie Apostles)

2011-04-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Catholics have always struck me as wusses with all of their fake body of Christ, blood of Christ stuff. Why not go for the real thing?

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Continues like this (in Sanskrit Documents, Transliterated transcribed from a manuscript by : Dr. Suryanshu Ray

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Are you translating Bhoga-saadhana as experiences? No, just 'bhoga'... Bhoga means - worldly, materialistic; saadhana - here would be

[FairfieldLife] Don't revere your holy men, eat them! (was Re: Zombie Apostles)

2011-04-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
You do a have point Barry - metaphorically you are supposed to eat the Guru, Ammachi even composed a song where she say she is hungry and she wants to devour Mother Kali. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@

[FairfieldLife] Don't revere your holy men, eat them! (was Re: Zombie Apostles)

2011-04-22 Thread merudanda
8 Real Photographs That Prove Hell Exists on Earth By:Robert Brockway http://www.cracked.com/members/Robert+Brockway/ February 02, 2011 A wise and sagely woman once posited that heaven is a place on a Earth. And if that's true, then hell is just two exits down on the left.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Just in C.C.'??

2011-04-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
This whole question of someone being enlightened, or in CC, BC, BS seem to be so pointless to me. The only worthwhile question seems to be - am I enlightened or not? From my perspective every person is like the center of the universe, so it really doesn't matter what someone else is, enlightenment

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: As (yathaa) an eyeball (akSi-paatram?) experiences (anubhavati) great (mahatiim) pain (piiDaam) by mere (maatreNa) touch (sparsha) of a fiber (tantu) of wool (uurNaa), so (tathaa) a viveki udvij-s (see footnote 3 above)

[FairfieldLife] 5 Movie Martial Artists That Lost a Deathmatch to Dignity

2011-04-22 Thread merudanda

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Just in C.C.'??

2011-04-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: This whole question of someone being enlightened, or in CC, BC, BS seem to be so pointless to me. The only worthwhile question seems to be - am I enlightened or not? From my perspective every person is like the center of the

[FairfieldLife] 5 Movie Martial Artists That Lost a Deathmatch to Dignity

2011-04-22 Thread merudanda
5 Movie Martial Artists That Lost a Deathmatch to Dignity By: Robert Brockway http://www.cracked.com/members/Robert%20Brockway http://tinyurl.com/3wpydu2

[FairfieldLife] FYI: Guidelines for Colonialism

2011-04-22 Thread nablusoss1008
« FYI: US government subsidizes Monsanto's profits – in Brazil http://rajpatel.org/2011/04/13/fyi-us-governments-subsidize-monsantos-p\ rofits-in-brazil/ San Francisco, CA http://rajpatel.org/2011/04/21/san-francisco-ca-6/ » FYI: Guidelines for ColonialismBy Raj

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Jesus self-deceived?

2011-04-22 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: The problem I see with Jesus being a man in UC,according to M's teaching, is  that you need a master in UC to bring you into that awareness. The master enlightens the disciple with the Mahavakya, I am that, Thou art

[FairfieldLife] Re: Texas wild fires and rehab

2011-04-22 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: Oh, how fabulous, Mike. Sort of bittersweet, but must be a great thrill as well. Are you taking pictures, or video? There's a red-tail couple (Violet and Bobby) that has a nest with three eggs on the 11th floor of an

[FairfieldLife] Don't revere your holy men, eat them! (was Re: Zombie Apostles)

2011-04-22 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Catholics have always struck me as wusses with all of their fake body of Christ,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Buck
and it addressed 'embodiment', which was great for the Bonder people who were there. I walked out with one of them. she was prepared not to like him but loved him after. And oh those poor Bonder people. What are we going to do for them? That

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: AdyaS is sitting there saying okay you got the transcendent, it starts from there; sit with it some more and look in to it some more. Look into the transcendent some more ? He sounds as a good old moodmaker.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Astrology reading for seventhray

2011-04-22 Thread seventhray1
Ravi, Thank you for taking the time to do this. I want to comment later in the day or evening when I have some time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: Steve, Since chart reading can be a never ending tiresome exercise I will just focus on my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: and it addressed 'embodiment', which was great for the Bonder people who were there. I walked out with one of them. she was prepared not to like him but loved him after.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: and it addressed 'embodiment', which was great for the Bonder people who were there. I walked out

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: AdyaS is sitting there saying okay you got the transcendent, it starts from there; sit with it some more and look in to it some more.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: And oh those poor Bonder people. What are we going to do for them? That embodiment stuff. What's your beef with embodiment? Are you

[FairfieldLife] Easter Prayer

2011-04-22 Thread Buck
This is my Easter prayer. May all true devotees of God, uplifted by the transparent purity of their lives, begin to radiate the Infinite Light, equally present in all, even as Jesus did, and remember the long forgotten truth that they are all potential Sons of God. May each one of you be so

[FairfieldLife] Re: Easter Prayer

2011-04-22 Thread Buck
As Christ resurrected his consciousness from the sepulchre of mortal limitations, so must you learn to resurrect your mind by meditation from the tomb of material desires and body confinement to the consciousness of omnipresence. Resurrect your calmness from beneath the soil of restlessness;

[FairfieldLife] The Situation

2011-04-22 Thread WillyTex
THE SITUATION (received in email-reformatted for easy reading) In Washington, DC at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: AdyaS is sitting there saying okay you got the transcendent, it starts

[FairfieldLife] Hawk Cam

2011-04-22 Thread nablusoss1008
Violet just checked her eggs, they seem to be fine :-) http://tinyurl.com/3p2ttdt

[FairfieldLife] Searching for Eldorado

2011-04-22 Thread WillyTex
Neutrality, percipience, and non-agency Most of everything we know is we know through our eyes, ears, and sometimes with our nose. That is, we observe things and events, we see doors, tables, and chairs. But, are there other kinds of valid knowledge? We can also run and jump, think, and talk to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: And oh those poor Bonder people. What are we going to do for

[FairfieldLife] There is actually a very funny movie script in this news item

2011-04-22 Thread turquoiseb
It would be a perfect Seth Rogen movie. He's a schlub trapped inside a mall during a police lock-down initiated because of reports of a potential mass murderer inside the mall with a rifle. Typical trapped in a shopping mall plot so far. But then the schlub realizes that he's trapped inside the

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread WillyTex
Ravi Yogi: Anyway I think Bhoga Saadhana could indeed mean contemplating on worldly pleasures or indulgences... Samsara is described as mundane existence, full of suffering and misery and hence is considered undesirable and worth renunciation. The Samsara is without any beginning and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Zombie Apostles

2011-04-22 Thread WillyTex
turquoiseb: Catholics have always struck me as wusses with all of their fake body of Christ, blood of Christ stuff. Why not go for the real thing? Don't you just hate those Catholics!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam

2011-04-22 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: Violet just checked her eggs, they seem to be fine :-) http://tinyurl.com/3p2ttdt Now Violet seems to, eh, check the classified in a newspaper ! http://tinyurl.com/3p2ttdt

[FairfieldLife] Don't revere your holy men, eat them! (was Re: Zombie Apostles)

2011-04-22 Thread WillyTex
turquoiseb: For those anxious to put this theory to the test, wouldn't Sai Baba be a good test case...? Well, probably none of us know Sai Baba any more than we know you, except maybe Conny Larssen, so why not you be the test case, since this is your idea? You're wise enough to have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck

[FairfieldLife] Re: No matter how hard you try, you will never be as cool as this guy

2011-04-22 Thread Joe
Dude's definitely got it going on. This guy might actually be enlightened. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: That's what Reddit said about this video. They have a point. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d53_1303269425

[FairfieldLife] Let The Mystery Be - Iris DeMent

2011-04-22 Thread Rick Archer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaoR5m4L80

Re: [FairfieldLife] Movie: Hanna

2011-04-22 Thread Bhairitu
On 04/21/2011 02:32 PM, turquoiseb wrote: Excellent thriller, starring two great actresses. One, 41 at the time of filming, has had decades to establish her 'street cred' as an actress, to the tune of four Oscar nominations and one Oscar win. The other is a lightweight by comparison, and has

[FairfieldLife] Your...er...Uranus in Aries!

2011-04-22 Thread cardemaister
http://www.astro.com/astrologie/in_uranus1_e.htm On March 11 Uranus crosses the threshold from Pisces to Aries for the third and last time since May 2010. It is leaving the realm of dream and entering the realm of action where it will remain for the next eight years. The air god represents

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Just in C.C.'??

2011-04-22 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote: Anyone know anyone, who is just in CC.?? Fred Travis interviewed and then measured physiological parameters, of a bunch of people who claimed to have been witnessing continuously 24/7 for at least one year and published his

[FairfieldLife] The Law of Mother Earth: Behind Bolivia's Historic Bill

2011-04-22 Thread Rick Archer
The Law of Mother Earth: Behind Bolivia's Historic Bill Friday 22 April 2011 by: Nick Buxton, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/the-law-of-mother-earth-behind-bolivias-h istoric-bill YES! Magazine http://truthout.org/law-mother-earth-behind-bolivias-historic-bill/130348101 1

[FairfieldLife] Re: Movie: Hanna

2011-04-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 04/21/2011 02:32 PM, turquoiseb wrote: Excellent thriller, starring two great actresses. One, 41 at the time of filming, has had decades to establish her 'street cred' as an actress, to the tune of four Oscar

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Situation

2011-04-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: THE SITUATION (received in email-reformatted for easy reading) In Washington, DC at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Searching for Eldorado

2011-04-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: Neutrality, percipience, and non-agency Most of everything we know is we know through our eyes, ears, and sometimes with our nose. Interesting post Willy. Have you read Plato's Meno? Socrates demonstrates (it seems)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam

2011-04-22 Thread John
Nabs, Thanks for the update on these hawks. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: Violet just checked her eggs, they seem to be fine :-) http://tinyurl.com/3p2ttdt

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Situation

2011-04-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote: THE SITUATION (received in email-reformatted for easy reading) In Washington, DC at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Situation

2011-04-22 Thread John
WillyTex, Nice post! It just goes to show people are busy to get to work to make a living. There's a time and place to appreciate a good musician. The metro station is not one of them. JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: THE SITUATION (received in

[FairfieldLife] Re: No matter how hard you try, you will never be as cool as this guy

2011-04-22 Thread whynotnow7
Very cool video - a fred astaire for the new millenium, and then some - --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfreak@... wrote: Dude's definitely got it going on. This guy might actually be enlightened. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: That's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Situation

2011-04-22 Thread Bhairitu
There are a couple of very good musicians that play in the strip mall nearby. It is a shame they have to do this. In better days they would have regular gigs at local clubs. And people really don't have much money to throw at street players either nor time to stand and listen. On 04/22/2011

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Situation

2011-04-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote: THE SITUATION (received in email-reformatted for easy reading) In Washington,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Jesus self-deceived?

2011-04-22 Thread Mike Dixon
Judy, it couldn't have been John the Baptist. We all know he came back as John the Hagelinsnicker. Besides, where did JTB get his enlightenment from? The *hypocrites* I refer to are Christians in general, at least that is the perception or accusation of some on this list and to some degree

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Texas wild fires and rehab

2011-04-22 Thread Mike Dixon
Bittersweet? Very much so, but I'm staying focused on the little critters and enjoying my time with them. Somebody was taking pics the other day, I'll try to get some to post here. From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu,

[FairfieldLife] (unknown)

2011-04-22 Thread Louis McKenzie
http://tapuwuti.t35.com/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam

2011-04-22 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Nabs, Thanks for the update on these hawks. It's interesting to see how she has tucked that newspaper around her. Could it be The New York Times ? http://tinyurl.com/3p2ttdt --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Astrology reading for seventhray

2011-04-22 Thread seventhray1
Thank you Rav. I have assigned a 3-Star system with the exception of one item which I gave 5 stars. Overall I feel the analysis sort of missed the mark with the exception of the summary statement which I felt was 100% accurate. Thanks again. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-04-22 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Apr 16 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat Apr 23 00:00:00 2011 499 messages as of (UTC) Fri Apr 22 23:47:42 2011 50 authfriend jst...@panix.com 46 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 43 Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com 38 Ravi

[FairfieldLife] Neo-Advaita revisited

2011-04-22 Thread Yifu
on Eastern Spirituality...imo: there's Advaita and Pseudo-Advaita (or Neo-A), not East or West. ... Neo-A revisited... http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/neo-advaita.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam

2011-04-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Nabs, Thanks for the update on these hawks. It's interesting to see how she has tucked that newspaper around her. Could it be The New York Times ? How

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Jesus self-deceived?

2011-04-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Judy, it couldn't have been John the Baptist. We all know he came back as John the Hagelinsnicker. Heh...! Besides, where did JTB get his enlightenment from? We don't know much about his early life... The *hypocrites*

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Situation

2011-04-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: There are a couple of very good musicians that play in the strip mall nearby. It is a shame they have to do this. In better days they would have regular gigs at local clubs. Curtis might have a few words to say about this...

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Situation

2011-04-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: WillyTex, Nice post! It just goes to show people are busy to get to work to make a living. There's a time and place to appreciate a good musician. The metro station is not one of them. I agree. Nor was it the best choice of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: snip If one seeks the annihilation of self when one dies, how likely is such a person to immerse themselves in life, and enjoy its pleasures? Their whole goal in life is to have these pleasures *end*. Forever. Oh, nonsense.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Conversation With Patanjali

2011-04-22 Thread emptybill
It's not yer eyeballs. It's old age - the opposite of the new age. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: As (yathaa) an eyeball (akSi-paatram?) experiences (anubhavati) great (mahatiim)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Jesus self-deceived?

2011-04-22 Thread Yifu
imo...nothing's convincing about the Bible, as to one's conclusions, say - by cherry picking verses in support of various povs. If one elects to see substitutionary Atonement in the Bible, fine with me; or one can reject it totally, opting for a form of Gnosticism which totally rejects the

[FairfieldLife] How people post their location without meaning to

2011-04-22 Thread Tom Pall
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/37452/page1/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Just in C.C.'??

2011-04-22 Thread Robert
I think anyone who has the experience of 'Witnessing' is in CC. Anyone who has the experience of 'no mantra, no thoughts' is the beginning of CC. I believe CC is cultivated the minute one starts TM and notices that there is a greater and greater awareness of pure consciousness, as the mantra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Jesus self-deceived?

2011-04-22 Thread Robert
Actually, the one called 'John Lennon' was 'John the Baptist'... In that previous incarnation... Just my two cents... R. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Judy, it couldn't have been John the Baptist. We all know he came back as John the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: I'm not selling anything. I stated an opinion based on my observations of having lived in FF for almost 29 years. In the TM world, enlightenment is always this exalted state of future perfection that requires

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Just in C.C.'??

2011-04-22 Thread Yifu
...that sounds like the fuzzy C experienced by many TM'ers; doesn't match traditional accounts. Let's hear it from somebody in CC. Don't be shy. This is a topic worth examining in greater detail, since MMY imo has short-thrifted us when it comes to signposts. Need more good texts like that

[FairfieldLife] Tale of the Tub - 3 stages of Humanity

2011-04-22 Thread Yifu
Woodcut, 1705; from Jonathan Swift's Tale of the Tub: 3 stages of Humanity - the theater, gallows, and pulpit. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Tale-stages.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Emerald Butterfly

2011-04-22 Thread Yifu
http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/emerald-butterfly.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Saniel Bonder and Waking Down

2011-04-22 Thread Yifu
http://integrallife.com/editorial/introducing-saniel-bonder

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Buck
and it addressed 'embodiment', which was great for the Bonder people who were there. I walked out with one of them. she was prepared not to like him but loved him after. AdyaShanti did an amazingly good job skating a line between asking

Re: [FairfieldLife] Neo-Advaita revisited

2011-04-22 Thread Peter
That's a great article! --- On Fri, 4/22/11, Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Neo-Advaita revisited To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, April 22, 2011, 8:20 PM on Eastern Spirituality...imo: there's Advaita and Pseudo-Advaita

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Joe
Well put Alex. I started to fade on the idea in the late 70s after 6 or 7 years of hearing that the next big course was the one, the big one, the one that will really put you over. I went full tilt at it for as long as I could, but man, am I ever glad I took my foot off the imaginary spiritual

[FairfieldLife] Zen humor

2011-04-22 Thread Yifu Xero
--- Subject: Zen humor http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/Zen_Humor.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Situation

2011-04-22 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: It's almost as if they deliberately chose a piece that would be sure to prove their elitist point. They stacked the deck big-time. That was my impression. I am not sure what point were they driving to prove. I think just

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-22 Thread Yifu
I don't believe the Waking Down people are Neo-A's...they don't fit into that set. On the contrary, I would categorize them as realists. Nor are they self-abnegators. http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/green-mermaid.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:

[FairfieldLife] what were they thinking?

2011-04-22 Thread Yifu
http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/what-were-they-thinking/4764?nc#OmgPhoid=1

[FairfieldLife] Re: Astrology reading for seventhray

2011-04-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
Thanks Steve. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: Thank you Rav. I have assigned a 3-Star system with the exception of one item which I gave 5 stars. Overall I feel the analysis sort of missed the mark with the exception of the summary statement