[FairfieldLife] Re: How to play Rain Raga continuously on Youtube Please play!! Please pass on!

2012-07-09 Thread turquoiseb
This post provides an interesting opportunity to rap for a bit about psychosomatic medicine, the study of the interactions between psychological processes and physiological states. I'm conflicted when I read about things like this -- the idea that listening to a certain Indian raga can help you

[FairfieldLife] Another classic from Batdog at http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/

2012-07-09 Thread turquoiseb
The moral of this brilliant blog seems to be twofold: 1. Never teach your dog to text. 2. If you do, never allow him to read the Harry Potter books.

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to play Rain Raga continuously on Youtube Please play!! Please pass on!

2012-07-09 Thread iranitea
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: But searching around on the Net for this raga and its supposedly powerful Woo Woo qualities, I find that many people currently using it to cool down think that some- thing more than the placebo effect is taking place. In

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to play Rain Raga continuously on Youtube Please play!! Please pass on!

2012-07-09 Thread merudanda
http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=7_TXQoKYnTk YouTube Auto Replay is a Firefox extension for those of you who really miss a simple Auto Replay button in YouTube.com. This add on adds an auto replay checkbox in Youtube video page along with options to choose the portion of the video to be replayed.

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to play Rain Raga continuously on Youtube Please play!! Please pass on!

2012-07-09 Thread merudanda
uups---can't you type and send your rap- postings faster! [:D] because I just ordered a sunshine yagya and a play loopingly sunshine raga -Peter Walker -- Sunshine - Rainy Day Raga http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=dWZ05mAUJco Even in the rain... moths still strangely attracted to the light,

[FairfieldLife] Small Volcanoes vs UKFS United Kundalini Fire and Smoke

2012-07-09 Thread merudanda
http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/07/06/could_small_volcanoes_slo\ w_global_warming_.html Could Small Volcanoes Slow Global Warming? By Slate Staff http://www.slate.com/authors.slate_v_staff.html |The record temperatures and extreme weather so far this summer

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to play Rain Raga continuously on Youtube Please play!! Please pass on!

2012-07-09 Thread merudanda
soo please pleeeze stop your rain raga Baby please stop I'm dying You're turning my sky crying So please stop I'm flying 'Cos of you I'll be drowning, In my memories of sunshine Baby please stop Baby please stop or You should come see how could it would be To come drown with me Days upon

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to play Rain Raga continuously on Youtube Please play!! Please pass on!

2012-07-09 Thread merudanda
..please stop crying http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIyYPGoEXV8 soo please pleeeze stop your rain raga Baby please stop Indra 's crying I'm dying You're turning my sky crying So please stop please stop crying with wet wings I'm not flying 'Cos of you I'll be drowning, In my memories of

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Is Intellectual Humility?

2012-07-09 Thread iranitea
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote: Dear Empty Bill, I don't display it. I hide it inside my insufferable arrogance. That way it becomes a sort of embodied koan. LoL. That's actually funny! ( .. but what's irony got to do with it?) I think I need

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Is Intellectual Humility?

2012-07-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@ wrote: Dear Empty Bill, I don't display it. I hide it inside my insufferable arrogance. That way it becomes a sort of embodied koan. LoL.

[FairfieldLife] Sutrabhashyakritau vande (was Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI)

2012-07-09 Thread iranitea
Well, I am not making this up myself, it was here mentioned a number of times, for example by Lawson in 2005: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/62494?threaded=1 Probably a relatively recent addition. Did you become a TM teacher after Robin Carlson proclaimed himself

[FairfieldLife] We Are Colorful Birds

2012-07-09 Thread raunchydog
Heaped upon the ashes Iridescent in the sun Light upon the branches Hear a timeless song Take flight Festooned in rainbows [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LC8Tz_r3Hi8/T_pqzS6_6DI/BbA/\ BLahpQHYvgc/s600/Himalayan%2520Monal.jpg] Himalayan Monal

Re: [FairfieldLife] We Are Colorful Birds, for sure!

2012-07-09 Thread Share Long
Mommy, Mommy, I wanna be the quetzal!  Except it lives in humid highlands, isn't that an oxymoron, according to wiki.  And I probably don't know how to pronounce it (-: Anyway, me and my ego love its sweet little, fuzzy face.  From: raunchydog

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Is Intellectual Humility?

2012-07-09 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Where and when on this group have you ever displayed humility? Perhaps the perceiver also has to have the ability to know when humility is present. Your question implies you have either never recognized this in Robin or

[FairfieldLife] Trip Overholt: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 07/09/2012

2012-07-09 Thread Rick Archer
blog updates from Buddha at the Gas Pump http://gallery.mailchimp.com/e709a491029b04e745834d34d/images/star.gif published 07/09/2012 129. Trip Overholt http://batgap.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=62b7e50ba8598f35e2edf91d5id=7caf0384a4e=16e07f16fe Jul 08, 2012 10:28 am | Rick

[FairfieldLife] Sutrabhashyakritau vande (was Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI)

2012-07-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: Iranitea: Well, I am not making this up myself, it was here mentioned a number of times, for example by Lawson in 2005: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/62494?threaded=1 Probably a relatively recent

[FairfieldLife] Sutrabhashyakritau vande (was Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI)

2012-07-09 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: Well, I am not making this up myself, it was here mentioned a number of times, for example by Lawson in 2005: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/62494?threaded=1 Probably a relatively recent addition.

[FairfieldLife] Re: We Are Colorful Birds

2012-07-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
Who's the Artist here? I love his designs. Seems he has a very personal feeling for what he wants to create. Stunning, raunchydog, Thank you for letting us see all this beauty. More than The Unmanifest at work here.:-) I sense a personal intention in all this. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to play Rain Raga continuously on Youtube Please play!! Please pass on!

2012-07-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: snip Barry, clearly this one works best for cooling, it's the cool-aid in music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mln0RciE2o0 To actually produce rain and please Inrda, you please listen to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sutrabhashyakritau vande (was Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI)

2012-07-09 Thread Emily Reyn
Robin's response had me pretty riveted actually.  In my current state of intellectual humility, I am chortling.   From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 9:02 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife]

[FairfieldLife] Sutrabhashyakritau vande (was Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI)

2012-07-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Robin's response had me pretty riveted actually. In my current state of intellectual humility, I am chortling. It's sort of like watching a world champion bowler.

[FairfieldLife] The result of indulging in the afflictive emotions, redux

2012-07-09 Thread turquoiseb
Saw this today, and it reminded me of the metaphor I came up with the other day about indulging in one of the afflictive emotions being like immersing oneself in a tub full of the toxic goo of the emotion in question, and then allowing its toxins to seep into your system. As much as I may pity and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The result of indulging in the afflictive emotions, redux

2012-07-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Saw this today, and it reminded me of the metaphor I came up with the other day about indulging in one of the afflictive emotions being like immersing oneself in a tub full of the toxic goo of the emotion in question, and

[FairfieldLife] unconditional pride needed for true humility and true love

2012-07-09 Thread Share Long
On the other forum I frequent a poster writes about what he calls unconditional pride which is the basis of true humility. He explains that without unconditional pride, there is shame.  With shame, there is fear. With fear there is no unconditional love. He further explains that conditional

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to play Rain Raga continuously on Youtube Please play!! Please pass on!

2012-07-09 Thread merudanda
NO forgive me that's for me http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpagev=NY1PpQ4ULAc#t=5\ 0s http://tinyurl.com/7nk5edf but somehow we may understand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0cG11lTS1E --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to play Rain Raga continuously on Youtube Please play!! Please pass on!

2012-07-09 Thread sparaig
There's mainstream research that shows that exposure to good art will change how the brain behaves. I know of no research that makes the case that different kinds of art will have different kinds of effects, but it isn't a stretch to assume it. The question is: does the rain raga have the

Re: [FairfieldLife] unconditional pride needed for true humility and true love

2012-07-09 Thread Emily Reyn
Hunconditional pride - interesting term.  Can you elaborate on the definition in layman's terms?  Is it unconditional pride in who one is as a being - or who one perceives oneself as?  Or, is it pride in realizing through awareness of one's Self as defined using a spiritual definition? 

[FairfieldLife] This cripple is a Smart Ass, by Roger Ebert

2012-07-09 Thread turquoiseb
An interesting essay by Roger Ebert about a gentleman who writes a scathing, satirical, and above all funny blog about cripples, and why occasionally such voices are interesting, and valuable. Some of them have been there, done that with regard to the subjects they're writing about. This cripple

[FairfieldLife] GLOBAL SPIRIT TV

2012-07-09 Thread Rick Archer
Series Description: Presented by author/actor/comedian John Cleese, GLOBAL SPIRIT is a unique inquiry into humankind's belief systems, wisdom traditions and states of consciousness. Hosted by author and spiritual seeker Phil Cousineau and featuring renowned experts such as Karen Armstrong, Robert

Re: [FairfieldLife] unconditional pride needed for true humility and true love

2012-07-09 Thread Share Long
does this help? Unconditional pride: formless-pride essence-pride infinite-pride god-pride soul-pride free-pride instrisic-pride universal-pride absolute-pride true-pride internal-pride Conditional or false pride: ego-pride narcissistic-pride form-pride ahamkara-pride comparative-pride

[FairfieldLife] Re: GLOBAL SPIRIT TV

2012-07-09 Thread turquoiseb
Thanks, Rick. I just looked, and its not on the torrentnet yet, but it will be, and I'll be checking it out. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: Series Description: Presented by author/actor/comedian John Cleese, GLOBAL SPIRIT is a unique inquiry into humankind's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What Is Intellectual Humility?

2012-07-09 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/09/2012 04:49 AM, iranitea wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote: Dear Empty Bill, I don't display it. I hide it inside my insufferable arrogance. That way it becomes a sort of embodied koan. LoL. That's actually funny! ( .. but what's irony

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What Is Intellectual Humility?

2012-07-09 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/08/2012 03:07 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: And frankly if you spent years practicing sadhana did you do all that just to be the same as the average human being? i don't think so. Neither did I spend years practicing music

[FairfieldLife] Re: unconditional pride needed for true humility and true love

2012-07-09 Thread John
The word pride is a loaded term. It would be better to use another word that is less offensive, unless the intention is to grab attention. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: does this help? Unconditional pride: formless-pride essence-pride

[FairfieldLife] Re: unconditional pride needed for true humility and true love

2012-07-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
Dear Share, But the idea of unconditional pride as the true basis of humility, doesn't this first require one to be in CC? What good is it to aspire towards acting in this way before you are (presumably) in that state of consciousness where unconditional-pride, infinite-pride,

[FairfieldLife] A 'Perfect Storm' is Unfolding

2012-07-09 Thread John
This guy is making dire prediction for the world economy. It is more likely that he's already made investments so that he can make money from the potential economic debacle. So, he's preaching the worst scenario for his own financial interest.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A 'Perfect Storm' is Unfolding

2012-07-09 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: This guy is making dire prediction for the world economy. It is more likely that he's already made investments so that he can make money from the potential economic debacle. So, he's preaching the worst scenario for his own

[FairfieldLife] Re: A 'Perfect Storm' is Unfolding

2012-07-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: This guy is making dire prediction for the world economy. It is more likely that he's already made investments so that he can make money from the potential economic debacle. So, he's preaching the worst scenario for his own

[FairfieldLife] Re: The result of indulging in the afflictive emotions, redux

2012-07-09 Thread martyboi
I got picked on in high school by a bully or two. As a freshman, I was the second shortest guy in the school. The shortest guy used to feel better when he picked on me. I knew what he was doing, so I just let it be. The first day of school he pushed me against the wall and called me

[FairfieldLife] True Blood, season 5

2012-07-09 Thread turquoiseb
I admit to having been glammered into continuing to follow this series, even though the glammer wore off for me Big-Time during season 4. I rarely found myself giving enough of a crap about anythe major characters to get my yang up for watching the next episode. So I dived into season 5

[FairfieldLife] Re: The result of indulging in the afflictive emotions, redux

2012-07-09 Thread turquoiseb
Fascinating. One of the reasons this article was of interest to me is because it made me realize that if I was ever bullied in school, I have no memory of it, much less of who might have done it. Gone. Nada. Zip. That could mean either that it never really happened to me, or that if it did it

[FairfieldLife] Human Levitation on TV

2012-07-09 Thread John
It appears that an African shaman has performed a siddhi without knowing Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xFYBTk460gfeature=related

[FairfieldLife] Re: The result of indulging in the afflictive emotions, redux

2012-07-09 Thread oxcart49
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Fascinating. One of the reasons this article was of interest to me is because it made me realize that if I was ever bullied in school, I have no memory of it, much less of who might have done it. Gone. Nada. Zip. Well,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The result of indulging in the afflictive emotions, redux

2012-07-09 Thread oxcart49
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Fascinating. One of the reasons this article was of interest to me is because it made me realize that if I was ever bullied in school, I have no memory of it, much less of who might have done it. Gone. Nada. Zip. The

[FairfieldLife] Re: The result of indulging in the afflictive emotions, redux

2012-07-09 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, oxcart49 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Fascinating. One of the reasons this article was of interest to me is because it made me realize that if I was ever bullied in school, I have no

[FairfieldLife] Steve Nash Breaks Girl's Heart

2012-07-09 Thread John
Watch and weep. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/4-old-completely-loses-told-steve-nash-leaving-104957806.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Human Levitation on TV

2012-07-09 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: It appears that an African shaman has performed a siddhi without knowing Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xFYBTk460gfeature=related Couple of questions: Do you think that is even remotely convincing? And

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Is Intellectual Humility?

2012-07-09 Thread emptybill
Robin sez: I don't display it. I hide it inside my insufferable arrogance. That way it becomes a sort of embodied koan. I think I need to make my definition a little clearer, empty bill. Oh, and by the way: I like getting humbled. So, keep at it. Robin, Please … enough with the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: unconditional pride needed for true humility and true love

2012-07-09 Thread Share Long
Dear Robin, The guy who wrote about unconditional pride is not a TMer so I'm pretty sure he wasn't thinking of Maharishi, CC, etc.  The 2 lists are his also.  Something about the phrase unconditional pride resonated for me.  Also, I'd never heard it before.  Always candy to my mind (-: Any

[FairfieldLife] Re: unconditional pride needed for true humility and true love

2012-07-09 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Dear Robin, The guy who wrote about unconditional pride is not a TMer so I'm pretty sure he wasn't thinking of Maharishi, CC, etc.  The 2 lists are his also.  Something about the phrase unconditional pride resonated

[FairfieldLife] The Obamacare disaster (take the penality, it's cheaper).

2012-07-09 Thread wgm4u
Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama's health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association. The DPMA, a non-partisan association of doctors and patients, surveyed a random

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Is Intellectual Humility?

2012-07-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Robin sez: I don't display it. I hide it inside my insufferable arrogance. That way it becomes a sort of embodied koan. I think I need to make my definition a little clearer, empty bill. Oh, and by the way: I like

[FairfieldLife] by Marek Okron

2012-07-09 Thread Yifu Xero
http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g77/170077/170077_1245964007_large.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Rammstein or Neue Deutsche-harte

2012-07-09 Thread Yifu
by George Grie http://neosurrealismart.com/modern-art-prints/?artworks/rammstein-or-neue-deutsche-harte.htmlfullsize

Re: [FairfieldLife] The result of indulging in the afflictive emotions, redux

2012-07-09 Thread Emily Reyn
Oxygen deprivation is not good for the brain. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 9:52 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The result of indulging in the afflictive emotions, redux   Saw this

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2012-07-09 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jul 07 00:00:00 2012 End Date (UTC): Sat Jul 14 00:00:00 2012 196 messages as of (UTC) Mon Jul 09 16:57:53 2012 18 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 18 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 16 Share Long

[FairfieldLife] Re: The result of indulging in the afflictive emotions, redux

2012-07-09 Thread oxcart49
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, oxcart49 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Fascinating. One of the reasons this article was of interest to me is

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Obamacare disaster (take the penality, it's cheaper).

2012-07-09 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/09/2012 03:36 PM, wgm4u wrote: Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama's health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association. The DPMA, a non-partisan association of

Re: [FairfieldLife] A 'Perfect Storm' is Unfolding

2012-07-09 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/09/2012 12:23 PM, John wrote: This guy is making dire prediction for the world economy. It is more likely that he's already made investments so that he can make money from the potential economic debacle. So, he's preaching the worst scenario for his own financial interest.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Obamacare disaster (take the penality, it's cheaper).

2012-07-09 Thread sparaig
36,000 questionnaires were faxed. 699 were returned, or about 4.3% http://www.doctorsandpatients.org/component/content/article/81 This is very much a survey as done by fox news: you have to care enough to respond either way. 83% of those who cared enough to respond had considered leaving

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Obamacare disaster (take the penality, it's cheaper).

2012-07-09 Thread seventhray1
So what. I have often thought about quitting my job for various reasons. And of course, it's all about money. In many other countries, doctors just don't command the pay (or prestige) they do here. I remember being invited down to a lake house with some families of my kid's grade school.

[FairfieldLife] Living by the Grace of God–“Wisdom of the Siddhas” Tour

2012-07-09 Thread Richard
Here is info about a soon-to-happen worldwide tour to make a spiritual presentation of the wisdom of the Siddhas. The couple that are doing this do it out of service, and start this world wide tour with only the first ticket and $100, having faith that support will come.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Obamacare disaster (take the penality, it's cheaper).

2012-07-09 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 07/09/2012 03:36 PM, wgm4u wrote: Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama's health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor