[FairfieldLife] RE: Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread cardemaister
Can't find 'viyoga' in the YS. OTOH, there is the word viniyoga in III 6: tasya bhuumiSu viniyogaH. Taimni's translation: Its (of saMyama) use by stages. viniyoga m. apportionment , distribution , division Nir. ; appointment to (loc.) , commission , charge , duty , task , occupation MBh. R.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Hey John, it sounds like a really good game. I'm remembering that back in the fall, Farmer's Almanac predicted a big storm for Feb 2. I just listened to Peyton Manning's post game interview and he seems like a humble guy. Might google for his chart (-: On Monday, January 20, 2014 1:50 AM,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
emptybill, thanks for your clarity here. This brings to my mind Maharishi's teaching that knowledge is different in different states of consciousness. Purusha Prakriti realization seems to be a GC experience to me whereas the experience of moksha as one's basic nature seems more like Unity. A

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread emilymaenot
Yes, I would agree with you, in that the offensive line didn't help him out much. He took a lot of hits. Kaepernick made some mistakes, but he is clearly a heck of a QB; that one 58-yard run he did was sweet. We are on a role this year. The city is going crazy. ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread emilymaenot
John, yes, the fans...fireworks were going off in my neighborhood after the game, scaring the dog. Geez. I was happy to watch it on the old T.V. Wouldn't have wanted to be at the game. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote: Emily, It was a good game. The 49ers played

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread Mike Dixon
The outcome or this weekend's games had to be this way, according to the Limbaugh theorem. You see, the Patriots represent a bunch of greedy, white,  land grabbing, slave owning, racist, sexist ,homophobes playing the Brancos, wild spirited horses that the Native Americans(natural and legal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Empty, really a great concise roadmap here that you write here. FFL-post-of- the- year thus far amongst all the athletic supporters flash-flooding this forum as place of high mind spirituality otherwise. Thanks. For Me the best sutras I got out of the TM-siddhis were the ones about the

[FairfieldLife] RE: Girish Varma's judicial remand extended

2014-01-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Who are the other players that shared out the empire? Seems there are not Indians but other than one on the Boards of the SBS Foundation and Trust. Seems there was a lot of cash moved in the direction of India in the last years of Maharishi. How much got away and generally to who? The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Best and Worst Car Values

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] 2014 Chevrolet SS (Holden) The 2014 Chevrolet SS is the first Chevrolet to take SS as a model name rather than a trim designation, and the first rear-drive Chevy sedan since the 1996 Impala SS. '2014 Chevrolet SS drive review'

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: HP: Windows 7 is back

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
It all depends on what you mean by nerdy. A computer is too technical for most people. What is needed is a simple device like an old-fashioned radio. Back then the radio was a device the whole family could use - it had to be very simple: you turn it on or off with a switch; you change stations

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Girish Varma's judicial remand extended

2014-01-20 Thread Michael Jackson
Hagelin, Fagin and Wynn are all on the board and are listed as living in Farifield, why don't you ask them? On Mon, 1/20/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Girish Varma's judicial remand extended

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements.

2014-01-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Weber's definition of charismatic is good for purpose of discussion generally and also for extending out to include the uncomfortable person who is skeptically asking in unknowing disbelief, “what exactly's a saint?” I feel that granting the spiritual consideration of charisma makes the whole

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
Buck: For Me the best sutras I got out of the TM-siddhis were the ones about the discernment/distinction o Bhuti a Purusha. For most TMers, the esoteric teachings are the most important aspects of their practice - the knowledge and the mechanics of the Sri Vidya and the Kashmere Trika theory.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: HP: Windows 7 is back

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Richard, the other day I went to my Facebook home page and there were photos that a friend of mine had posted. Photos of a naked yoga teacher! How were they on my home page?! And once my Mom told me that she liked the MUM photo I had on my home page. But I didn't put it there! I don't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Mike, Kimbaugh theorem as in Rush Limbaugh?! Isn't he an ultra conservative radio host? Wouldn't he be saying that it was evil forces that allowed Patriots and capitalists to be defeated?! On Monday, January 20, 2014 7:23 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com wrote:   The outcome or this

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Buck, that's one of my favorites too. Share in Bhagambrini... On Monday, January 20, 2014 7:39 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:   Empty, really a great concise roadmap here that you write here.  FFL-post-of- the- year thus far amongst all the athletic supporters

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
A popular view of Advaita Vedanta (sometimes an accusation) is that it is Maya-vada... Maybe you lost them, but you have to begin with a definition of the term maya - which I already posted: maya is neither real nor unreal, nor both, nor neither. Maya is not an illusion or something that is not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Richard, I've heard that when tamas guna dominates, maya is a covering over reality; when rajo guna dominates, maya is a veil; but when sat guna dominates, maya is actually a means to ultimate reality. What do you think? On Monday, January 20, 2014 9:40 AM, Richard Williams

[FairfieldLife] RE: 'Allah' Row in Malaysia

2014-01-20 Thread s3raphita
Re Islam is more tolerant than what is being practiced by some Muslim sects: Have you actually read the Koran? Take a look at this conference footage from Sam Harris's site. As Harris says: The organizers of this conference believe (with good reason) that “extremist” views are not rare

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
Share: This brings to my mind Maharishi's teaching that knowledge is different in different states of consciousness... Things and events - phenomena - are not real, yet not unreal either. They are like an illusion in that they are not exactly as they appear to be, yet they are real in the sense

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Signposts Of Enlightenment

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Seraph, I used to think that there are infallible signs of enlightenment. Now I think there aren't any! Especially when considering the inner state of another. I just go by resonance, meaning, I listen to the teachers whose words resonate with my own experience. On Sunday, January 19,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jobs That Suck

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
Jobs That Suck There are probably lots of jobs out there that suck, really suck. Like, cleaning out chicken coops in the hot summer; or laying hot black tar onto a rooftop of a commercial building; or jobs where you had to put up with jerks at work and a fat, bald headed guy that smokes a cigar.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Richard, this brings to mind one of my favorite passages from Maharishi's SBAL: ...identification is not bondage. What is bondage is inability to maintain Being along with identification while indulging in experience and activity. pg 238 On Monday, January 20, 2014 9:50 AM, Richard Williams

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jobs That Suck

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Great photo, Richard, thanks for sharing. I couldn't find my high school grad pic! On Monday, January 20, 2014 9:57 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:   Jobs That Suck There are probably lots of jobs out there that suck, really suck. Like, cleaning out chicken coops in

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Signposts Of Enlightenment

2014-01-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: Seraph, I used to think that there are infallible signs of enlightenment. Now I think there aren't any! Especially when considering the inner state of another. I just go by resonance, meaning, I listen to the teachers whose words

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Xeno, you are probably correct that it is difficult after all this time to know what Jesus actually taught. For me he embodies agape. So any teaching that deviates much from that principle, I don't trust it as coming from him. I think early on his actual teachings got hijacked for other than

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jobs That Suck

2014-01-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Jobs That Suck There are probably lots of jobs out there that suck, really suck. Like, cleaning out chicken coops in the hot summer; or laying hot black tar onto a rooftop of a commercial building; or jobs where you had to put

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Rent is Too Damn High!

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
For about a year we lived in Venice California at 405 Howland Canal. Barry said he used to live in Venice too. It used to be a great place with health food stores around and a great beach to visit. It's only a few miles from the Santa Monica Pier. [image: Inline image 1] Howland Canal,Venice,

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 'Allah' Row in Malaysia

2014-01-20 Thread Bhairitu
No, they're not extremists, they're just fools. They'll lose in the end. But then again as with any other religion 85% just pay lip service. On 01/20/2014 07:48 AM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Re Islam is more tolerant than what is being practiced by some Muslim sects: Have you actually

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jobs That Suck

2014-01-20 Thread Bhairitu
I think my dad decided I had it too easy just playing for dances on weekends and making more money than my high school peer did working at burger shacks after school so he decided I should work in wheat harvest. So for two weeks I got to get up too early in the morning crawl under a WWII

[FairfieldLife] Obscene Wealth

2014-01-20 Thread Bhairitu
Talk about greed: 85 ‘global elites’ as wealthy as half of the world’s population: Oxfam Oxfam also argues that this is no accident either, saying growing inequality has been driven by a “power grab” by wealthy elites, who have co-opted the political process to rig the rules of the economic

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jobs That Suck

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
See, Ann and Richard, this is why I prefer yahoo groups to Facebook. You post a picture and people can respond to it and that's that, Bob's your uncle! FB is too complicated and I'm on a learning curve with it! Ann, I still cut my own bangs. My maternal grandmother was a beautician and I think

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread jr_esq
Share, Peyton Manning is the heart and soul of the Broncos. If he gets injured, the team is not going to win.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jobs That Suck

2014-01-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: See, Ann and Richard, this is why I prefer yahoo groups to Facebook. You post a picture and people can respond to it and that's that, Bob's your uncle! FB is too complicated and I'm on a learning curve with it! Ann, I still cut

[FairfieldLife] RE: 'Allah' Row in Malaysia

2014-01-20 Thread jr_esq
S3, The Old Testament or the Torah has many extremist views as well. That's why fundamentalism from any religion will only lead to violence. The failure to realize this is due to a low level of consciousness which can be attributed to the reptilian part of the human brain. Moses has

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 'Allah' Row in Malaysia

2014-01-20 Thread jr_esq
Bhairitu, The Islamists or terrorists are using Islam as a political tool to grab power to subjugate the people. These people are not concerned for the development of their people's collective consciousness. Their motivation is domination to keep the people ignorant through violence and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread emilymaenot
Ha. Well then, if your theory holds, the Seahawks will win the Superbowl. Not that winning means anything of any *real* importance, but it is good for a short adrenalin rush. The lowly fish should be and is held in high esteem by many; a critical element of the ecosystem they are. Have a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread Bhairitu
Rename the Super Bowl the Stoner Bowl because the two teams playing come from state that have legalized marijuana. Put that in your chillum and smoke it. :-D Care for some munchies? On 01/19/2014 11:50 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Emily, It was a good game. The 49ers played their hearts

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 'Allah' Row in Malaysia

2014-01-20 Thread Bhairitu
Yup, fools make good useful idiots. ;-) On 01/20/2014 10:33 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Bhairitu, The Islamists or terrorists are using Islam as a political tool to grab power to subjugate the people. These people are not concerned for the development of their people's collective

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
yahoo, nature supporting the 2 states that legalized marijuana! Read it and weep...out of joy! On Monday, January 20, 2014 1:40 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:   Rename the Super Bowl the Stoner Bowl because the two teams playing come from state that have legalized

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
John, how does Peyton's chart look? Any Mangal problems? Hey, anybody know what the book is on the game? On Monday, January 20, 2014 12:05 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:   Share, Peyton Manning is the heart and soul of the Broncos.  If he gets injured, the team is not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jobs That Suck

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Thanks, Ann, I'm still trying to figure out how stuff is getting on my front page. And how to unfriend those people! FB help was no help at all. And I see that people have lots of problems with it. Doesn't look like much fun! On Monday, January 20, 2014 12:20 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com

[FairfieldLife] Why yogii's and svaamii's have long hair and beards?

2014-01-20 Thread cardemaister
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66867356@N02/8579163893/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/66867356@N02/8579163893/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jobs That Suck

2014-01-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: Thanks, Ann, I'm still trying to figure out how stuff is getting on my front page. And how to unfriend those people! FB help was no help at all. And I see that people have lots of problems with it. Doesn't look like much fun!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jobs That Suck

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Thanks, Ann, I called my best friend who LOVES FB and her SO answered and he walked me through unfriending. And explained about Front Page and Timeline. So I'm taking baby steps with it. But really, so far, I don't like it very much. It seems too complicated. But maybe I'll change my mind.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Obscene Wealth

2014-01-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Yes, Spiritual Economy; this is extremely sound shastra to meditate and live by in life: —Are Meditators careful to live within the bounds of their circumstances, and to avoid involving themselves in business beyond their ability to manage; or in hazardous or speculative trade. Are they

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread jr_esq
Bhairitu, The other night, I was watching a documentary about the sadhus in India. The narrator stated that the sadhus smoke bhong or marijuana all day because they consider the plant to be a divine gift from Shiva. So, they smoke the hemp to worship Shiva. Is it possible that these

[FairfieldLife] RE: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread jr_esq
Share, Yes, these cities may have been blessed by Shiva. Please, see my comments to Bhairitu on this thread.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread Bhairitu
On 01/20/2014 02:35 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Bhairitu, The other night, I was watching a documentary about the sadhus in India. The narrator stated that the sadhus smoke bhong or marijuana all day because they consider the plant to be a divine gift from Shiva. So, they smoke the hemp

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread j_alexander_stanley
The recent drug bust in Fairfield of a ru kid and his wife, who were caught with 100 pounds of cannabis and a bunch of other stuff, got me thinking... Which Hindu gods are associated with methamphetamine , heroin, and black market pharmaceuticals? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Signposts Of Enlightenment

2014-01-20 Thread Michael Jackson
No, no other questions. The whole guru thing is so universal on one level and so ridiculous on another level there must be gazillions of experiences we can all have. I appreciate you sharing what you have shared. On Mon, 1/20/14,

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Tue 21-Jan-14 00:15:03 UTC

2014-01-20 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 01/18/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 01/25/14 00:00:00 253 messages as of (UTC) 01/20/14 23:55:11 37 Share Long 30 authfriend 26 Richard Williams 23 awoelflebater 21 dhamiltony2k5 19 Bhairitu 15 jr_esq 14 emptybill

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread emilymaenot
As of December 2013, 20 states have legalized marijuana in some form, two of these have legalized marijuana for *recreational* use. http://www.governing.com/gov-data/state-marijuana-laws-map-medical-recreational.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread emilymaenot
Re: Is it possible that these cities with legalized marijuana are being blessed by Shiva? Thus, their teams have made it to the Super Bowl. Also, I'm beginning to believe that smoking marijuana is the reason why the Seahawks fans are so loud and spirited during the games up there. John,

[FairfieldLife] RE: Jobs That Suck

2014-01-20 Thread s3raphita
If you really want a job that sucks (a prestigious job, that is - we can all think of low-status work like prostitution that really does suck!) I've always thought that being a forensic pathologist pretty much takes the biscuit. I also read somewhere that dentists have a high rate of suicide.

[FairfieldLife] O Mio Babbino Caro

2014-01-20 Thread jr_esq
Sissel sings this classical song with English subtitles. The translation gives an extra dimension to this song. Let us know what you think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YKBrUqwIU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YKBrUqwIU

[FairfieldLife] Pope: Cultivating Consciousness is NOT the same thing as Morality.

2014-01-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
“When you speak of consciousness, you do not refer to the moral conscious: the very rigor of your methods ensures that you do not leave the strictly scientific domain which belongs to you. What you have in mind exclusively is the same faculty of perceiving and of reacting to perception, that is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread jr_esq
Alex, I would guess it's Rahu. But then again it could be any of Shiva's friends. Also, from what I understand, the sadhus drink hard liquor for meditation since Shiva is known for drinking this too. IMO, this comes from the vedic story that Shiva drank the poison to cleanse the

[FairfieldLife] RE: O Mio Babbino Caro

2014-01-20 Thread authfriend
It's actually one of Puccini's best-known arias, from the short comic opera Gianni Schicchi, composed in the early 20th century. Sissel's performance is technically excellent but kind of bloodless, IMHO. (Who is us?) Sissel sings this classical song with English subtitles. The

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Dear Alex the Model of Moderation, it is not the Lourde Unified Field but some demigod of asocialism that arrests these people. Vassana is the classical term. We should have signs out on the four entries to town, Thank you for not selling drugs and alcohol to our children, Pot included.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Why yogii's and svaamii's have long hair and beards?

2014-01-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
First time ever I was kicked out of the Domes was for facial hair. They changed the guideline on facial hair after some while. (So much for administrative 'purity of the teaching'). Second or Third time out was for seeing saints. They subsequently granted me (only) an exemption. Jai Gurus Dev,

[FairfieldLife] RE: Why yogii's and svaamii's have long hair and beards?

2014-01-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: First time ever I was kicked out of the Domes was for facial hair. They changed the guideline on facial hair after some while. (So much for administrative 'purity of the teaching'). Second or Third time out was for seeing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Dear Alex the Model of Moderation, it is not the Lourde Unified Field but some demigod of asocialism that arrests these people. Vassana is the classical term. We should have signs out on the four entries to town, Thank you

[FairfieldLife] RE: Girish Varma's judicial remand extended

2014-01-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Reading now, 1978 World Government News noticable then the World Government at the top included Indians: Rt. Hon. Kirti Shrivastava Rt. Hon. Praveen Shrivastava and Rt. Hon. Brahmachari Nandkishore “After the maharishi’s death in 2008, his vast empire of educational and other institutions in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread emptybill
This reply demonstrates that you are either unable to understand the post or you didn't read it. It also shows that you are probably unqualified to study advaita. The post was about Advaita - not Kashmiri Trika or Shri Vidya.Your reply is merely inane. Don't sully this one with your

[FairfieldLife] RE: O Mio Babbino Caro

2014-01-20 Thread emptybill
Since it is opera why not listen to it sung by some of the best mezzos? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow1niq0mOwE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow1niq0mOwE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU3bJ5JJhlw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU3bJ5JJhlw

[FairfieldLife] Hidden sector matter and YF?

2014-01-20 Thread cardemaister
As I understood it, John Hagelin explained on Buddha at the Gas Pump that the temperature of Hidden Sector Matter predicted(?) by some string theory would be near absolute zero. Let's suppose that the (a?) subtle body (suukSma-shariira) consists of the HSM. Seems to me that would explain how

[FairfieldLife] RE: Hidden sector matter and YF?

2014-01-20 Thread cardemaister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOtIsnG71U ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister@... wrote: As I understood it, John Hagelin explained on Buddha at the Gas Pump that the temperature of Hidden Sector Matter predicted(?) by some string theory would be near absolute zero. Let's