[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I am wondering what the deal is on puja anyway. This is what good old Tom Ball, Re-certified Governor of North Carolina says on his blog and website about TM: But doesn't the Transcendental Meditation instruction ceremony

[FairfieldLife] The Citadel, or How Wingnut America Would Do Heaven On Earth

2013-01-23 Thread turquoiseb
Fascinating. This has been foretold in science fiction for decades, but it's interesting that someone is actually trying to do it. I say let them, allow their dream castle to become populated with people who think that it would be their version of heaven on Earth, and then seal them in forever.

[FairfieldLife] Guru English

2013-01-23 Thread navashok
I just got a copy of a book called 'Guru English' by Srinivas Aravamudan in India at a second hand bookstore where there are about 6 pages about TM. http://www.amazon.com/Guru-English-Cosmopolitan-Translation-Transnation/dp/0691118280/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1358934255sr=8-1keywords=guru+english

[FairfieldLife] The Nine Unknown Men

2013-01-23 Thread navashok
TM'ers are fond of claiming the success of major world events for themselves, the idea that their spiritual influence can change and guide the world is very prominent in TM. Many other new age groups have similar claims for the influence of their respective gurus. I came across the 'Nine

[FairfieldLife] The Spirituality Behind the UFOs - first page of thorough article

2013-01-23 Thread nablusoss1008
The Spirituality Behind the UFOs http://omtimes.com/2012/07/the-spirituality-behind-the-ufos/ OM Times Magazine http://omtimes.com/author/omtimes/ | July 3, 2012 | 1 Comment http://omtimes.com/2012/07/the-spirituality-behind-the-ufos/#comments Interview with Gerard Aartsen By Jason V. Francis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: There are others like former TM teacher Bob Fickes who say  the puja ceremony helps to refine the awareness of the initiator and gives the mantra its potency. He has said without the puja the mantra won't have the proper

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Are you saying the non-recertified Governors wouldn't have the expertise to know??? Only recertified governors would know whether what Knowles is teaching is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: When did Maharishi (yes, that's his name, in case you forgot).. It's not a name. It's a title he adopted, rightly or wrongly - (as it is being disputed by some) - that is not my issue here. I know many who call him only Mahesh Yogi.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru English

2013-01-23 Thread card
So, you think you are a new ashoka?? Prolly not.. Go figure, anyways... :D --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: I just got a copy of a book called 'Guru English' by Srinivas Aravamudan in India at a second hand bookstore where there are about 6 pages about TM.

[FairfieldLife] The difference between Transcendental Meditation and the other practices

2013-01-23 Thread merlin
The difference between Transcendental Meditation and the other practices: * http://meditationasheville.blogspot.nl/2010/01/vedic-meditation-and-other-facsimiles.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Citadel, or How Wingnut America Would Do Heaven On Earth

2013-01-23 Thread Share Long
My very favorite part is that they're proud to compare themselves to Disneyland.  Not having been to Disneyland, I'm lead to wonder if guns are also a big part of life there.  Picturing Mickey and Donald and Goofy with guns in paws and webs... From:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Share Long
I've heard that in the beginning Maharishi wanted to teach TM for free.  But the Westerners told him that people would not value it if it did not cost money.  When I began in 1975, the cost was one week's salary.  Also, I know some New Age teachers who say that there must be an exchange of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Citadel, or How Wingnut America Would Do Heaven On Earth

2013-01-23 Thread turquoiseb
_-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: My very favorite part is that they're proud to compare themselves to Disneyland. Not having been to Disneyland, I'm lead to wonder if guns are also a big part of life there. Picturing Mickey and Donald and Goofy with guns in paws and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Citadel, or How Wingnut America Would Do Heaven On Earth

2013-01-23 Thread Share Long
And to think I used to watch the Mickey Mouse Club!  Yikes!  Hopefully nothing subliminal was happening.  Good Lord, what a world we inhabit!  Rich and full yes.  But definitely strange too. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puja_(Hinduism)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count issues

2013-01-23 Thread obbajeeba
Ditto. Here. Spoken like a true enlightened. :) The self is the self and speeding that along got lost in the Hollywood, celebrity ideal of thinking. The amount of money one has, has become the focus of who is enlightened, just like the Christianity and the bling bling churches, hair and nails

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Jackson
Oh those are excellent points! From: navashok no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:34 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony   --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: People

2013-01-23 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, earthensunreborn wrote: HRB WAR REPORT ~ 13-13-13 is Comming! .., it's already upon us.. [snip] Posting humongous blocks of copied and pasted text is generally not well received here, and posting the same canned content multiple times is considered

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread obbajeeba
Yes! Authr my hero. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCLJWYc_Zwk --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Oh those are excellent points! From: navashok To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:34

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Richard J. Williams
Michael Jackson: I am wondering what the deal is on puja anyway. Puja is all about placement and positioning. The placement and positioning of fire; being mesmerized by fire was the first meditation. So, let's review what we know: The controlled use of fire has been dated by

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Richard J. Williams
Ann: Not being a teacher, just a simple meditator, I still was lucky enough to witness/participate in a few pujas... Most all hummans practice the art of puja around a hearth and most all humans meditate. Meditation is based on thinking and there's hardly a person who does not think.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Jackson
Well, it was a transcription of conversations that Raja Rogers had with Governors in the Southeast back a few years ago that some TM renegade posted to wikileaks. Here is the full quote: Joe - Have received more calls. Someone saw a negative website. Someone else complained about the price.  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: Michael Jackson: I am wondering what the deal is on puja anyway. Puja is all about placement and positioning. IMHO, puja is all about moodmaking and the placebo effect, both for the people performing them, and for the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread merudanda
Isn't Micheal Jackson moon-walking so easy to watch and is as been told not so easy to do and multifaced as your topic raised https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_3v-_p3ESo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_3v-_p3ESo For What It's Worth [:D] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: Michael Jackson: I am wondering what the deal is on puja anyway. Puja is all about placement and positioning. IMHO, puja is all about moodmaking and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Moral Compass

2013-01-23 Thread laughinggull108
Dear Laughinggull108, Re-certified? This is interesting. You have to be one of the few and only re-certified TM teachers willing to post here. This makes you more of an activist. I'll mark you down as Revolutionary Millenarian on the FFL member poster's list along with some of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Moral Compass

2013-01-23 Thread laughinggull108
Doug, why don't you give it a rest? You have your own agenda, and not for a moment do I think that you really want to understand anyone's thinking. Your posting history confirms this. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Any other re-certs here? How did you rationalize getting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Moral Compass

2013-01-23 Thread feste37
I honor laughinggull for choosing a path and sticking to it, when so many others fall away and spend their lives complaining. Those who stay the course win the prize. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, laughinggull108 wrote: Dear Laughinggull108, Re-certified? This is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Richard J. Williams
Puja is all about placement and positioning. IMHO, puja is all about moodmaking and the placebo effect, both for the people performing them, and for the people watching them and being instructed in some puja-accompanied technique. Ann: Said like the true cynic that you are...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread merudanda
love your post ,Ann --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: snip So maybe I'm a sucker. Please stay that way,Ann and I may saddle and ride my white horse like a slow motion-sea horses ride the ebbing tide Galloping the atmosphere; Pasture in the sky Watch the fog roll in! Isn't it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Oh those are excellent points! Not really. See below. From: navashok To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:34 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread Share Long
Be careful who you love, be careful what you do, because a lie becomes the truth... Something's happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear, there's a man with a gun over there...or maybe Mickey Mouse None for the other exists but surely each exists with every other each and eachness into

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread merudanda
..hear the butterfly wig-love in this word. Tenderness of heart and sympathy Poignant is the feeling of a human heart that recognizes its essential humanness in another. And already my mind wanders to a moment that is not Now ,tear-ing open my chest, to reach into my hrydiyam and cry with loving

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread doctordumbass
Agreed. Those who continue to say that there is no transcendental value in the Puja are simply parroting the values of the material world we live in. Lazy, confused minds, much more willingness to flow with the incomplete values of this world's consciousness, than attempting something

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: Michael Jackson: I am wondering what the deal is on puja anyway. Puja is all about placement

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread Share Long
Be here now.  Baba Ram Dass  OR don't be there then (-;  Beingness hereness nowness embrace you your wandering wondering mind your dear tender hrydiyam no matter what it they do let them giggle and hurl themselves off cliffs of impermanence let them get wigged out in love with There and Then too

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: Still others, specifically Raja Badgett Rogers has said that the mantra doesn't work unless there is the offering or dakshina of the fruit, flowers and money, and it is the offering, the gift, that makes the mantra work and of

[FairfieldLife] Fw: Second Chances on Rikers Island for Wednesday

2013-01-23 Thread Share Long
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: snip TM teachers are actually instructed *to* moodmake while performing the puja, and to dwell on the meaning of the words while performing one. I wouldn't know about that but

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: Agreed. Those who continue to say that there is no transcendental value in the Puja are simply parroting the values of the material world we live in. Sorta the same way you're parroting things TOLD to you by people you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count issues

2013-01-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 01/22/2013 07:27 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/22/2013 06:07 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/22/2013 02:10 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: TM teachers are actually instructed *to* moodmake while performing the puja, and to dwell on the meaning of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 01/22/2013 03:22 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I am wondering what the deal is on puja anyway. This is what good old Tom Ball, Re-certified Governor of North Carolina says on his blog and website about TM: But doesn't the Transcendental Meditation instruction ceremony involve offerings?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: I've heard that in the beginning Maharishi wanted to teach TM for free. I have heard that too!  But the Westerners told him that people would not value it if it did not cost money. I know the logic, but it is over-extended here

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 01/23/2013 06:36 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: Michael Jackson: I am wondering what the deal is on puja anyway. Puja is all about placement and positioning. IMHO, puja is all about moodmaking and the placebo effect, both for the

[FairfieldLife] Thanks for replying about puja

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Jackson
I appreciate everyone's posts about puja - the question popped up in my mind and I honestly wondered about the intent/purpose of the ceremony, having heard the different things I posted. Not being a teacher I have had to rely on what others told me. I remember some of the pujas I witnessed

Re: [FairfieldLife] Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Jackson
so what would be the effect of a teacher giving the mantra without the puja and what do you think of Raja Roger's statement that mantra doesn't work without dakshina? From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Oh those are excellent points! Not really. See below. From: navashok To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:34 AM Subject:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Are you saying the non-recertified Governors wouldn't have the expertise to know??? Only

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/22/2013 03:22 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I am wondering what the deal is on puja anyway. So to all you TM teachers or former TM teachers, what is the puja actually for of the above possibilities or is it something different

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread merudanda
OMG have to be careful in the misty fog sitting on the lap of love [:D] Diotima's love lap supreme beauty itself momentary in the mind – fitful tracing of a portal in the flesh immortal child of Penia and Poros orders and exchanges for sacrifices fills the space between, so that all is bound

Re: [FairfieldLife] Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Bhairitu
I answered about the effect of the mantra without giving a puja in my response to Turq. It would really depend on the teacher. Some may be so charged up every day that it wouldn't matter. In my tantric tradition we don't perform a puja before teaching meditation to someone. But we do give

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 01/23/2013 09:40 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/22/2013 03:22 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I am wondering what the deal is on puja anyway. So to all you TM teachers or former TM teachers, what is the puja actually for of the above

[FairfieldLife] Auroville - Building Matrimandir

2013-01-23 Thread navashok
Auroville - Building Matrimandir - Labour of Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jtrj_SbcwM This is a beautiful video about the building of the Matri Mandir in Auroville. Access to the meditation (concentration) in the Matri Mandir is free, but visitors must make a phone reservation, see a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread Share Long
I appreciate everything you say here.  It makes me think.  And also I'm remembering:  I worked on MIU staff for 1 year and that credit paid for eight weeks of TMSP prep courses in 1977; I worked on MIU staff for 3 years and that credit paid for an 11 month graduate program, MA in SCI; I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Oh those are excellent points! Not really. See below. From: navashok To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama's Inauguration Speech

2013-01-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 01/22/2013 12:36 PM, raunchydog wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/21/2013 05:19 PM, raunchydog wrote: Obama delivered a beautiful, inspirational speech at his inauguration today. It had a progressive hint of FDR that made me tear up feeling plugged into

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: love your post ,Ann --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: snip So maybe I'm a sucker. Please stay that way,Ann and I may saddle and ride my white horse like a slow motion-sea horses ride the ebbing tide Galloping

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread doctordumbass
Uh, Gee, Barry - It sure looks to me, and everyone else here, that *you* got YER BUTTONS PUSHED. Karma's a bitch, ain't she?? :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote: Agreed. Those who continue to say that

[FairfieldLife] Vedic Meditation teacher - puja and independent research

2013-01-23 Thread merudanda
..seems they include puja etc---just reporting [;)] here Vedic Meditation independent teacher: http://tm-independent.de/TM_independent/itm-lehrer.html http://tm-independent.de/TM_independent/itm-lehrer.html How do I know that I am initiated according to traditional rules ? Learning TM includes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread doctordumbass
*That* is amazing, almost otherwordly! I saw the horse show, Cavalia, last year, and it really brought out the intelligence, grace, sensitivity, and strength of horses, and the unimaginable skill of those who ride them. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: Michael Jackson: I am wondering

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread Share Long
pitiless spirit launching shaktipat from half way round the world misty fog without any purpose maybe porous and penia sweetest of clusters and rottenest of tress happy together Socrates said he learned everything he knew about love from her but maybe really from the hemlock another blasted

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count issues

2013-01-23 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/22/2013 07:27 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/22/2013 06:07 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/22/2013 02:10 PM, Alex

[FairfieldLife] Re: Moral Compass

2013-01-23 Thread Buck
Yes thanks, I am interested in what you say. I have been asked by some of the folks highest in TM to apply to become TM re-certified. I was wondering how other re-certs reconcile the moral compass problem for themselves going forward. It is like the elephant in the room that people inside

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard

Re: [FairfieldLife] Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Jackson
Thanks for this Bhairitu  - I was vaguely aware that puja is a ceremony that is done for a lot of different reasons in India - when I first started TM I thought it was just from Maha and for the TM mantra giving - I was mighty surprised when I went into an Indian gift shop somewhere and they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: Uh, Gee, Barry - It sure looks to me, and everyone else here, that *you* got YER BUTTONS PUSHED. Karma's a bitch, ain't she?? :-) So you're essentially saying that you have ZERO experiential basis on which to discuss the puja

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread authfriend
BTW, Share, navashok isn't a newbie, he's just using a new handle. He's a supporter of yours. Or at least was the last time he was here. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: I appreciate everything you say here.  It makes me think.  And also I'm remembering:  I worked

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread merudanda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread doctordumbass
I can easily stimulate the same effect today, by listening to a recording of the Vedas, chanted by those trained to do so. Its simply a continuation of the life that many have decided ends at the gross (vs. subtle) senses. Has nothing to do with the Puja, per se. The transcendence during the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count issues

2013-01-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 01/23/2013 10:36 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/22/2013 07:27 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/22/2013 06:07 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: BTW, Share, navashok isn't a newbie, he's just using a new handle. He's a supporter of yours. Or at least was the last time he was here. Well, I like to think of myself as a supporter of everyone ;-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread merudanda
love it thanks porous and penia pitiless saying good night Alcibiades this sour grape among your sweet clusters --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: pitiless spirit launching shaktipat from half way round the world misty fog without any purpose maybe porous and penia

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread merudanda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSGscLPNRKU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSGscLPNRKU --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: *That* is amazing, almost otherwordly! I saw the horse show, Cavalia, last year, and it really brought out the intelligence, grace, sensitivity,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Richard J. Williams
Puja is all about placement and positioning. turquoiseb: Maharishi invented the TM technique, Apparently the Rama guy used to put up a photo of Sri Chinmoy and called it 'the transcendental'. LoL! And Rama's students would perform a puja and meditate for an hour. Go figure. In reality

Re: [FairfieldLife] Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Bhairitu
The term puja means worship. Many Indians will refer to daily meditation as puja. There is or was a puja shop here in the Bay Area in Fremont. I even knew the owner. She had all kinds of supplies and books for puja ceremonies. The TM initiation puja is cobbled together from several

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread laughinggull108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: Some would say that is has a great deal more to do with reality than believing in things you've only been TOLD about by others, with no experience of personally. Or correct me here...how many pujas have you performed in your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: BTW, Share, navashok isn't a newbie, he's just using a new handle. He's a supporter of yours. Or at least was the last time he was here. It's probably the fellow who posted endless reports about taking the bus, chatting with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: Puja is all about placement and positioning. turquoiseb: Maharishi invented the TM technique, Apparently the Rama guy used to put up a photo of Sri Chinmoy and called it 'the transcendental'. LoL! And Rama's students

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Jackson
Now now Barry - Texas ain't no outhouse - they got lots of good stuff like the practice of using cows to bar-b-que instead of hawgs like we do here in South Carolina. I like that bar-b-que beef sometimes, tho it doesn't go too well with the mustard based bar-b-que sauce that is traditional

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Mini Review: The Following

2013-01-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/22/2013 10:40 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: What could be more of interest to FFL'ers than a show about a cult? I'm sure Turq will enjoy drawing all kinds of parallels with this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count issues

2013-01-23 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: Try putting quotes around it. You may also need an extra slash after the C: You could also just copy the Inbox file to the same directory as the script for testing. In that case mbox = Inbox should work. Simple python script to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread doctordumbass
I had lunch in Santa Cruz, by the harbor, last week. Tempura shrimp, and a margarita (OK, it was two...) on the rocks - Herradura silver. Good time, and great view. Not much wind, haze on the far horizon. It looked really calm on the ocean, until you looked at the point north, and saw ten foot

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread doctordumbass
I remember a BBQ joint down some back road through the pines, in central NC, tin roof and cooking pork - next to a dirt airstrip, where several vintage aircraft were doing touch and gos - good pulled pork BBQ, too - tangy red sauce, up there. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Mini Review: The Following

2013-01-23 Thread merudanda
http://www.fox.com/the-following/videos/13273667536/inside-the-following http://www.fox.com/the-following/videos/13273667536/inside-the-followin\ g Do not miss The -Following-Featurette (Inside The Following) a Go behind the scenes, where a brilliant and charismatic, yet psychotic serial killer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: My XK8 weighs just two thirds of what the XJ6 did, with an additional 100 horsepower, and two additional cylinders. It is also a drive by wire vehicle, like an aircraft. Very spirited, with such quick handling, I have to be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: I had lunch in Santa Cruz, by the harbor, last week. Tempura shrimp, and a margarita (OK, it was two...) on the rocks - Herradura silver. Good time, and great view. Not much wind, haze on the far horizon. It looked really calm

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Jackson
you boys are way out'n my league - I can barely handle the Mercury hunk of tin I drive From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:58 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Jackson
I know its each to his own when it comes to bar-be-que - I grew up with the mustard base sauces for pork and chicken - a place that still exists called Wise's Barbeque - established back in the 1930's - I never knew about tomato based sauces till I was probably a teenager - I liked that too,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote: My XK8 weighs just two thirds of what the XJ6 did, with an additional 100 horsepower, and two additional cylinders. It is also a drive by wire vehicle, like an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count issues

2013-01-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 01/23/2013 12:34 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: Try putting quotes around it. You may also need an extra slash after the C: You could also just copy the Inbox file to the same directory as the script for testing. In that case mbox = Inbox

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: you boys are way out'n my league - I can barely handle the Mercury hunk of tin I drive Understood, and appreciated. :-) I've just been fortunate enough to have been considered enough of a car reviewer earlier in life that people

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote: My XK8 weighs just two thirds of what the XJ6 did, with an additional 100 horsepower, and two additional cylinders. It is also a drive by wire vehicle, like an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: Nothing. It does say quite a bit about your own rapidly diminishing mental abilities, though. DrD never said his Jag had out-thought him. Nor did he ever say he has superior enlightened abilities with regard to driving a car. DrD?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony

2013-01-23 Thread obbajeeba
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Are you saying the non-recertified

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja to newbie navashok

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Jackson
Oh man I wish it had been ME driving that thing!!! Have you ever driven one of those Smart cars? I saw a guy the other night at a Bojangles of all places with one - it sure looked nice for a little sawed off thing - he was bragging on it right smart when I asked him about it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: Puja is all about placement and positioning. turquoiseb: Maharishi invented the TM technique, Apparently the Rama guy used to put up a photo of Sri

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

2013-01-23 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: Puja is all about placement and positioning. turquoiseb: Maharishi invented the TM technique, Apparently the Rama guy used to put up a photo of Sri

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count issues

2013-01-23 Thread Bhairitu
Right click on the pycount.py icon and you'll see Open with IDLE. Select that as it is the IDE (editor) for Python. It will open the script and from the menu select Run and Run Module to run the script. This way the Window won't close and it doesn't matter where the script is. I moved my

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