From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:32 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] A Message From Advaita State
A Message From Advaita State (ASSES)
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From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote :
Ya talkin' about WillyTex? Looks likehe now pestering The Peak. :-D
How deeply joyous for both of us, 'tis indeed the season of glad tidings!
The question of how long he can last there
I'm still making my way through this series, and even kinda enjoying it in a
prurient way, but I do feel the need to pass along a more critical article that
kinda nails its failings (below).
As I remember, the person who first mentioned this new series on FFL mentioned
it in the same breath
Yeah, it's to nail down Nisargadatta's take on whether consciousness, after
death of the body, is yet maintained within some sort of physicality I know not
of. Astral nervous system?
Nisargadatta's so out of the person business and, too, so clear that perfect
nothingness is sentient and
Just curious, do you remember the first time you saw Marshy and if so what was
it like?
From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives
Yeah, it's to nail
Really? That's your best shot, Turq? That's your big play?
I am so much worse than anything anyone here has yet accused me of being.
So much worse. I have failed in just about every human way possible. I
retired in 1998 from society just because of such failures. You think you can
add to
From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] A Message From Advaita State
But awareness is not consciousness has more validity than anything I've
ever seen you post, and that's the
I first saw Maharishi in 1971 -- Humboldt -- One month course.
I was a mess. Big mood maker. Totally thinking I was cool and set for
greatness.
First time: Not sure if it was on the stage or if it was when I handed him a
flower as he walked into the building. He looked me in the eyes, and I
Go ahead, put me down. Pleases ya, does it? And by the way, my writing, such
as it is, has gotten me retired very comfortably, thank you. 17 years now
without having to suck up to someone. And still churning out the residual
nickles. How's your writing income doing for you? Still working
Hey Barry, check this one out. Whaddya think? Where do you rate this on a
humor scale of 1-5?
Bill Burr - Emails From Psychotic Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGxCQB7xpH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGxCQB7xpH4
Bill Burr - Emails From Psychotic Women
P.S. I didn't listen to all of it (yet) - hope it isn't too off-colour. If
so, I'll delete the post.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emily.mae50@... wrote :
Hey Barry, check this one out. Whaddya think? Where do you rate this on a
humor scale of 1-5?
Bill Burr - Emails From
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I can't find it in me to even finish this one. Sorry, but there is something in
the tone of his voice (not to mention the things he says) that just screams
Misogynist to me. I could be wrong, and he could be one of those radio guys
who only badraps women for the ratings, but I'm so turned off
It's just good TV. I also think the storylines are a bit of a
metaphor about our current state of affairs. You can say a lot of
things if you shroud it in pseudo history. Usually I'm not too big on
period pieces but the series is entertaining.
On 12/16/2014 05:54 AM, TurquoiseBee
My first meetings with Maharishi were unplanned and pleasant. I was on TTC
Arosa in '75
Being a country-boy from WI and in Arosa in June it was like a second spring
and I took opportunities to go gallivanting in the Alps. One time I returned
from a walk to find Maharishi had flown in on
By any logic awareness and consciousness can not be mutually exclusive.
The argument has it's semantic problems as you can not have awareness
without being consciousness. And what is being meant by awareness? The
senses?
But it's all not worth worrying about. My exploration with Advaita
I wouldn't be too worried about death. You prepare for it every night
when you go to sleep. For all we know this life may be nothing but an
amusement park ride.
On 12/16/2014 06:48 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
Yeah, it's to nail down Nisargadatta's take on whether consciousness,
after death of the
Yes, both series can be considered entertaining and nothing else, if you are
talking about adult viewers who actually *know* their history and thus
understand that these TV plots are often as far from it as humanly possible.
But now think about the teenagers who can't even find the Yucatan or
My first encounter with Maharishi was at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in
1967, and I came away *not* so much impressed with him as I was by something he
said, which in retrospect is kinda poignant.
What I remember most about the day is that someone in the audience got up and
asked a
By any logic means you're using the dictionary meanings. BAH. I'm
contending that Nisargadatta is giving us new meanings and trying his best to
use mere words when they must necessarily fall short.
Yes, in the dictionary, we find very similar meanings for the two words. But
Nisargadatta is
Thank you Eustace for the 60 Minutes link. I watched the show - a good plug.
Jon Kabat-Zinn is looking peaceful. :) If Anderson Cooper can surrender his
mobile devices and keep coming back to his breath, than so can I. And, I
practiced this morning and I do feel calmer. If it is good enough
I couldn't take it either - skipped through it and it didn't get any better -
stereotypical clap trap. I posted it because a 30-minute stand up routine by
comic Bill Burr was referenced as what the participants in the study on humor
and self-deception watched. People who scored high on
Then there is the remake of Broadchurch as Gracepoint which pretty
much followed the script of the original except for the ending. That's
a bit controversial given that the series wasn't renewed though there is
a second season of Broadchurch starting in February.
On 12/16/2014 09:01 AM,
I also read Nisargadatta too as well as his student's books. That was
in the late 1990s. I guess if one is still in serial consciousness
these issues would be of a concern. But after awhile they do indeed
become mental masturbation and essence of the teaching inconsequential.
Just be the
I watched both, and enjoyed both. Interesting scenario for a remake -- same
writer, same showrunner, at least one cast member in common, and equally good.
Given my rants in the past on this forum against remakes, I found that I
actually (gulp!) enjoyed Gracepoint more than Broadchurch. A large
I find that re-reading increases my clarity -- guess I'm still learning.
Haven't had any light experiences since TT days. From the little I can
remember, they seem to agree with my present ways of describing Advaita.
My theory is that understanding is grown. We grow our nervous systems,
I might cut him some slack in that it took some time for him to find how
lame westerners can be and they do need a nanny. :-D
There's so much about MMY that if you have spent any time around Indians
and particularly hear other Indians speak of western society as well as
the silliness of many
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :
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In theory, theory and practice
The human mind cannot parse infinity, or infinities. The awareness versus
consciousness issue is the goad for the 'path of enlightenment'. It shows up in
various guises.
Reality versus illusion
Absolute versus relative
Consciousness versus 'pure' consciousness
Silence versus thought
Broadchurch was a bit dry but not as bad as some BBC series. I find
with some my mind drifts and I have to concentrate hard on the show. A
local Brit friend tried to get us to watch Hinterland because it was
shot in his hometown. The pace was very slow and disinteresting so I
survived one
Thanks for your reply.
What?
You were expecting more?
No, that's it. Thanks for your reply.
What were you hoping for?
From: emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 7:54 PM
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That's too bad after sticking with TM all these years. As MMY would
have said you didn't get the goods. He wouldn't have said it but
probably thought you should have moved on and tried something else.
Perhaps Shiva mantra might have worked better. There are some
techniques out there that
This will be rather amazing if true...
Nasa finds evidence of 'life on Mars'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html
Nasa finds evidence
What a worthy project. Talk about solution-oriented - corporate sponsors,
global relations - excellent.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seerdope@... wrote :
Two Trillion Trees to Save the World: Video
An answer to the following question in yes/no format. Were the responses to
the questions consistent with the integrity of Barry Wright, as you perceive
him?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :
Thanks for your reply.
What?
You were expecting more?
But why worry about it? Just do sadhana and see where it goes. If one
technique doesn't deliver try another. Don't let the politics of an
organization control you.
By all definition I started meditating at age 4 when I asked my mother
where the end of the sky was and she told me it was
Who said to worry?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote :
But why worry about it? Just do sadhana and see where it goes. If one
technique doesn't deliver try another. Don't let the politics of an
organization control you.
By all definition I started meditating at
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/joint-statement-on-the-visit-of-russian-president-vladimir-putin-to-india-full-text-633140From:
Joint Statement on the Visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to India: Full
Text
Point 33:
« 33. India and Russia .../... will encourage cooperation to
Re But I'm a math joke. Need a smart person for this. Anyone?:
Not me. I came across Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form in the library one time. I
read the first few pages and put it back on the shelf. Dry-as-dust symbolic
logic interspersed with gnomic, zen-like comments.
Spencer-Brown
Not that people on FFL have been nitpicking these issues for ages. I
guess they feel better nitpicking than exploring enlightenment. ;-)
On 12/16/2014 12:09 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Who said to worry?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote :
But
What the hell does Swami Brahmananda have to do with Putin and the thug who is
in the driver's seat in India?
From: email4you mikemail4...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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To: mikemail4...@yahoo.com mikemail4...@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 4:06 PM
Oil, gas, nuclear, rare earths and biotech crops is what these two are
slavering over - that yoga/ayurveda crap is in there for Modi to suck up to the
yogis in the country and their many voting followers.
From: email4you mikemail4...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
See? See? NOW THIS IS A PROPER FFL RESPONSE. I might sorta disagree with a
lot of it, but man o man does it give you a challenge to shore up your
axioms.or change. Nice.
I don't think I'm a cultist -- may not ever actually have been one in my
true-believer days -- narcissism protects
I only jist seem him one time. I was over at that thar MIU and we wuz on a
course, it was that Taste of Utopia course and we had jist had some kinder
meeting where that feller what used to be some kind-a general or sergeant major
or somethin' was talking to us about what kinder programs they
Re Duveyoung: Nisargadatta's so out of the person business and, too, so clear
that perfect nothingness is sentient and eternal, that I truly do not think he
cared if the soul has metaphysical staying power. It was all illusion to him.
He was a heavy smoker till his dying day. When asked
I was there too, MJ, at that very moment! Hell, we might even have been sitting
next to each other! I experienced MMY's presence as an extraordinary and quite
unexpected peacefulness that settled all over me. It was quite wonderful, and
unlike anything I had experienced before. All the niggling
What I wrote was a discussion, not a prescription. By your own admission,
narcissism would be your main stumbling block. We all tend to believe what we
think is true, but how often does that work out? Agreeing and disagreeing is
just giving yourself strokes. By the way, I have never done a
Russians have been into yoga for some time. But the bigger news is that
the Ruble is getting crushed in this new cold war and they've raised
interest rates in Russia to 17%. Ouch!
And Russia might get pissed enough to stop providing us with uranium
which we need for our nuke power plants.
On 12/16/2014 02:56 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Re Duveyoung: Nisargadatta's so out of the person business and, too,
so clear that perfect nothingness is sentient and eternal, that I
truly do not think he cared if the soul has metaphysical staying
power. It was all
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We were also responding to another one of Edg walks into a bar
moments. IOW, it was as if Edg was walking into a bar, waving his arms
and shouting and the clientèle saying WTF! Of course if it really was
a bar he would have been promptly shown the door. :-D
On 12/16/2014 03:12 PM,
Re The extra weight probably lead to his heart condition which eventually
killed him.:
Something I've noticed (and was predictable and predicted) is that the
anti-smoking backlash and indoor smoking bans have at least some responsibility
for the scary increase in obesity levels in the West.
As 99 per cent of the methane produced on Earth is generated by biological
processes it looks like H G Wells may have been on the right track after all.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :
This will be rather amazing if true...
Nasa finds evidence of
Derby the dog: Running on 3D Printed Prosthetics http://youtu.be/uRmoowIN8aY
http://youtu.be/uRmoowIN8aY
Derby the dog: Running on 3D Printed Prosthetics http://youtu.be/uRmoowIN8aY
See how unique, custom-3D printed prosthetics allow derby the dog to run for
the first time.
View
View online.
Mindfulness http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/mindfulness/
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/mindfulness/
Mindfulness http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/mindfulness/ Anderson Cooper puts
down the mobile devices to meditate and report on what it’s like to try to ...
Love it, love it, love it.
I see that early followers of MMY commonly referred to Maharishi as His
Holiness. (At least amongst themselves. Do any FFLifers who actually met
Maharishi ever remember addressing him in person as Your Holiness?)
Now the Queen of England is properly addressed as Her Majesty? So is she
What can I do to test these statements?
Nisargadatta
The scriptures say so, but I know nothing about it. I know myself as I am; as
I appeared or will appear is not within my experience. It is not that I do not
remember. In fact there is nothing to remember. Reincarnation implies a
The methane could be coming from microbes underneath the ground. The rovers
should find more interesting facts as long as they keep operating on the
planet.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote :
As 99 per cent of the methane produced on Earth is generated by
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote :
As 99 per cent of the methane produced on Earth is generated by biological
processes it looks like H G Wells may have been on the right track after all.
Funnily enough, they did this experiment in the '70s with the Viking lander
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote :
Re salyavin808: The problem here is the metaphors taking themselves too
seriously. You probably think that's ducking the question but it's just
avoiding getting pulled into the endless cycle of ever more mysterious
sophistry. We
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