[FairfieldLife] Well, whaddya know - nine/eleven!
avajaananti maam muuDhaa maanuSiiM tanum aashritam paraM bhaavam ajaananto mama bhuuta-mahesh_varam The ignorant ones (muuDhaaH), not knowing (ajaanantaH) My (mama) supreme (param) natures (bhaavam) as the great Lord (maheshvaram) of all beings (bhuuta-) , disregard (avajaananti) Me (maam) when I assume (aashritam) human (maanuSiim) form (tanum). (9.11) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In light of the two letters to the editor that Rick Archer reproduced for us -- and which I found were of the Fundamentalist Christian ilk wrapped in TM cultspeak -- I am ready to predict what the next direction the Movement will take. In the last of the two letters, the writer relates that he got into a discussion with a prostelytizer at the door (sect and religion not mentioned). And it struck me and others on this forum how very similar both the door knocker and the letter writer -- the TMer -- were. Then it came to me that it would be only natural that MMY require all that are recertified to spend 3 hours each day going door-to- door spreading the world of TM. Heck, the Mormons do it; the Jehovah's Witnesses do it; Girl Scouts do it (aren't those chocolate-coconut cookies the best? http://www.girlscoutcookiesabc.com/atc/Caramel_deLites.asp)...so why not TMers? If the kooky idea of malls was breached and taken seriously by the TM powers that be, knocking on doors is not too much of a stretch, eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. So to really make it a success, you'd have to come up with some sort of TM contest. Maybe the poor recerts could earn their way to Raja status. Bring in 108 new initiates and earn your robe! Bring in 300 and get the crown that goes with it. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Leaning Into Flight'
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes I get the feeling; Especially from dreams; The flying dreams, I've had; Where I am able to fully levitate in the dream. That I somehow 'leaning into like falling backwards' When the urge to lift off. Almost, like hopping up, backwards motion Leaning 'back' into the impulse; And sensing a feeling; Of energy, prana; As you lean back ward's; It's as if you hopped in a backward; sort of; Circular motion, that once 'getting it'; It feels completely spontaneous, and easy. Kind of like; flowing up and back; Into the field of gravity itself. Nice. Based on my dreams, in which I can fly pretty much any time I want, the word 'prana' may be right on. There is something I do with the breath to enable flying in the dream plane...now if I could just remember what it is when awake... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Deccan Herald- advice to Bush- Close south entrance
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 8/21/05 1:48:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That bit of news aught to sell a few mantras. maybe. It just increases the 'kook' vibe for the general public. Glad you recognize that. How could it be missed? (Oh, wait lots of folks have missed it...). I've had people who were anxious to start TM look at the TMO websites and never mention it favorably again. And these were successfull, spiritually minded people. To sum up their comments: eoueeh! TM finally was around enough to gain some visible respectability in the press and then went even wierder. It all started to go downhill with those gold-encrusted publications that began to appear around the time of the Yawning of the Age of Enlightenment, and continues into the websites of today. Who could look at them and not think 'cult?' Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Malls centers ARE kooky and selling Maharishi honey, candy bars, soap, etc. is kooky cubed. Why? It brings in money, does it not? This is pretty hilarious. On the one hand we've got the conservative greed-is-good capitalist arguing that these business ideas are kooky and out of place in an organization that should be focusing on teach- ing meditation to as many people as possible. On the other we've got the liberal saying that anything that brings in money is good for the movement. Go figure. :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gravity refuted!
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], qntmpkt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The average physicist today would say that there is no such entity, nor can there be. Basically, predicting the future with 100% precision is out of the question. All knowing may not be the same as predicting the future. Think of God as the observer-state of the universe. All POSSIBLE universes. Ah, but if God is well read, and has delved into the Heisenberg Principle, He'd know that to observe is to influence, so out of fairness He wouldn't be watching. :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Malls centers ARE kooky and selling Maharishi honey, candy bars, soap, etc. is kooky cubed. Why? It brings in money, does it not? This is pretty hilarious. On the one hand we've got the conservative greed-is-good capitalist arguing that these business ideas are kooky and out of place in an organization that should be focusing on teach- ing meditation to as many people as possible. On the other we've got the liberal saying that anything that brings in money is good for the movement. Go figure. :-) The above was obviously tongue in cheek, but there is a question I've been wanting to ask sparaig for a while. You seem to be consistently in favor of anything that brings in money so that the organization can survive into the future. Is that a correct assessment? My question is, Survive as what? The Catholic Church has survived for a long time. As an organization that no longer offers any technique or method by which followers can be like the supposed founder of the organization (Christ) or achieve any of the things he lived on a daily basis. In fact, all of the dogma even *suggesting* that followers could ever be on the same level as Christ has been carefully purged and eliminated. It's an organization whose major goal can be accurately viewed in terms of history as self preservation. The primary goal of the Catholic Church IS the preservation and continuation of the Catholic Church. Always has been. In my opinion, that's where the TMO is headed. They've *already* all but eliminated the teach- ing of TM. But they're raising money like gang- busters to be able to continue teaching the technique they no longer teach and seemingly have no interest in ever teaching on a mass scale again. The emphasis is all on Grand Schemes (big buildings) and robes and crowns to impress the lingering rank and filers (think the pomp and circumstance of the costumes worn at the Vatican). What is is that the TMO is raising all this money FOR? In your opinion, it seems to be a way of ensuring that this valuable rediscovery they call TM will never be lost, and will be made available to future generations. However, even in *this* generation, the organization has done everything in its power to make sure it is NOT available. TM, the *foundation* of the church, is passé, forgotten. It is rarely even *discussed* in the TMO any more, as far as I can tell, much less taught. I think the TM organization is already caught in self perpetuation mode. They want to keep on keepin' on forever, and need more and more money TO keep on keepin' on forever. But they have forgotten WHY they wanted to keep on keepin' on in the first place. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators aren't deluded - nonbelievers are
This letter has features of erroneous logic typical of fundamentalism as has the person, who visited the writer. I haven't seen anyone levitating yet. And the claim of 90% reduce of illness in TM practitioners is just obnoxious as it is very untrue for most meditators. I recently participated a seminar, where a theosopher gave an introduction. He cited from Jesus saying: I'm the path, the truth, and life. (Sorry I don't know the exact English formula) This man had understood that each one of us are the path, the truth and life. Great insight, huge awakening. Irmeli --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Letter to the editor of the Fairfield Ledger by Laurence Topliffe, August 18. Again, if you want to write a letter to the editor in response to this or the other one, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include your real name and where you live. Keep it under 500 words. To the editor: A couple days ago, I was sitting at my computer when a gentleman knocked on my door. When I asked what he wanted, he asked me if I was concerned with what was going on in the world such as child abductions and other crimes. I said of course I was. He replied that he would like to speak with me about a solution. I said that he must not know about the U.S. Peace Government and what we were doing which would end this and other crimes. He said he know about it but that the whole thing was just a sham. When I tried to tell him that he was wrong and basically didn¹t know anything about it, he said he didn¹t want to debate me and when I tried to show him how he was wrong he literally jumped off the porch and ran down the sidewalk. I know that this person was going to tell me what his religion says and to try to convince me that the only way to end the crimes is to become a member of his religion or pray with him and others. For anyone to think that the U.S. Peace Government and the knowledge it is based on is a sham is frankly quite absurd, for a number of reasons. First, it would mean that all those who benefited from the technique really didn¹t. (They must be deluded.) Second, it would mean that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who brought the TM technique to the world, is a liar or is also deluded or something. Third, it would mean that all the research (or perhaps only some I\of it), research that has been published in some of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world and which shows, among other things, that the crime rate falls when the number of TM meditators (or yogic flyers) in an area is high enough, that the practice reduces illness by as much as 90 percent, that it increases mental potential, etc., is all fake and that the scientists who did the research and also the ones who accepted the research for publication, were somehow in collusion to perpetrate a hoax on the entire human race. It would mean that the yogic flyers are not really levitating but are only pretending to and that the research that shows that the brain wave coherence within and between the hemispheres increases dramatically when they are levitating is nothing but a bunch of lies. It would mean that the seven judges in St. Louis, Mo., who are sentencing offenders to practice the TM technique are basing their decisions on nothing. It would mean that the students who said they found schoolwork easier, more enjoyable and got better grades and enjoyed school more, have been lying or are also deluded. It¹s clear that it¹s not the meditators who are deluded. It¹s those who think that the meditators are who are deluded. It is very unfortunate that many of those who think that way do so because of what their religion tells them. When I was going to church, I remember being told that Jesus was an example of what we could all become. By now, it should be clear that one can¹t become like him by going to church or praying. If that was true, by this time, thousands of members of all religions would have become like him and would have gained the ability to perform ³miracles.² Not only have religions not achieved this, many clergy have committed some of the heinous acts imaginable. Yet those who practice the TM technique can describe what Jesus called the ³Kingdom of Heaven within.² They can describe it because the TM practice allows one to experience it. Laurence Topliffe, Fairfield Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Respecting Maharishi requires absolute belief
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Letter from Jon Kelly Kirkpatrick to the editor of the Fairfield Ledger, snip However, if one really understands what Maharishi is saying, one is left with just two possibilities. When someone claims total knowledge as Maharishi has, it gives us a great epistemological advantage. How can anyone claim total knowledge unless he either has it or is a fake? Can you think of anything in between? snip I can think a whole universe in between. The world is not black and white. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: What if ?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It just dawned on me to look at MMY:s proclamations symbolically rather than literally. Actually this way his thinking and reasoning starts to make sense. It's an interesting and positive way of looking at things, but I still have trouble getting past the fact that he wants 600 billion dollars of other people's money to pay for the latest symbol. :-) Me too. Here it may be useful to know that you can make sense of the talk of psychotic people and possibly even help them by not understanding there odd expressions and logic literally and instead searching for the hidden symbolic message. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Respecting Maharishi requires absolute belief
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Letter from Jon Kelly Kirkpatrick to the editor of the Fairfield Ledger, snip However, if one really understands what Maharishi is saying, one is left with just two possibilities. When someone claims total knowledge as Maharishi has, it gives us a great epistemological advantage. How can anyone claim total knowledge unless he either has it or is a fake? Can you think of anything in between? snip I can think a whole universe in between. The world is not black and white. Ah, but it can be. Do you own a digital camera or camcorder? Chances are that there is a mode switch on that camera. Choose the right setting, and all the colors go out of the viewfinder. Point it at anything, and all you see is black and white. There's probably another mode for sepia. Choose that one, and everything in the viewfinder is displayed in shades of gold (or brown) and white. These are neat features. One can look at them as being analogous to our ability as humans to *choose* how we see the world. There is nothing inherently wrong in making a decision to choose a viewfinder setting in which the world appears all black and white, or all gold. What is questionable is when the person who has made such a choice starts to delare that the world really looks that way, just because they have chosen to see it that way... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] 'When Is God Watching?'
When is God watching? Obviously when we are watching. God lives through us. We do influence what we put our attention on. So, if we put our attention on anything; When we are established in God; Then God is watching. But when we pray to a statue; Or chant words we do not understand; Or listen and believe the media; We lose God watching. And when we lose God watching; Then we have chaos, and war. At this point in history; It seems obvious; That evil is not possible; When God is watching. That is the principle of invincibility, Maharishi speaks of; When God is watching; From within us. Who cares about 300 billion dollars; Maybe Maharishi, has just figured out; That the only thing we really love, in these times, When God is not watching; Is Money. So, in order to find God; Don't look to an organization of any kind. They will always fall short; For an organization is not God. You know where God is. Now, find Him. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Respecting Maharishi requires absolute belief
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Letter from Jon Kelly Kirkpatrick to the editor of the Fairfield Ledger, snip However, if one really understands what Maharishi is saying, one is left with just two possibilities. When someone claims total knowledge as Maharishi has, it gives us a great epistemological advantage. How can anyone claim total knowledge unless he either has it or is a fake? Can you think of anything in between? snip I can think a whole universe in between. The world is not black and white. Ah, but it can be. Do you own a digital camera or camcorder? Chances are that there is a mode switch on that camera. Choose the right setting, and all the colors go out of the viewfinder. Point it at anything, and all you see is black and white. There's probably another mode for sepia. Choose that one, and everything in the viewfinder is displayed in shades of gold (or brown) and white. These are neat features. One can look at them as being analogous to our ability as humans to *choose* how we see the world. There is nothing inherently wrong in making a decision to choose a viewfinder setting in which the world appears all black and white, or all gold. What is questionable is when the person who has made such a choice starts to delare that the world really looks that way, just because they have chosen to see it that way... Good analogies. Although I cannot see that we generally choose to see the view as black and white. A new dimension or structure in our perception seems to first appear as black and white. With more evolution colours come with. Just as we first had black and white movies and TV. And it is good to help people with black and white views to get in some colours also. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Attack on Amma
Attack on India's 'hugging saint' Mata Amritanandamayi bestows blessings with a hug An unidentified man has been arrested after he apparently tried to stab a famous Indian spiritual leader known as the hugging saint on Sunday. Mata Amritanandamayi, who blesses her devotees with a hug, escaped unhurt in the attack which took place in Kerala. Reports say her followers wrestled the attacker on to the ground before he could reach the stage where she was leading prayers for 18,000 people. She has a huge following in India and supporters around the world. I don't want my [followers] to create any problem for what had happened Mata Amritanandamayi Embraced by the saint The incident took place in Kerala's in Kollam district, where Ms Amritanandamayi's group is based. Two of her followers are said to have suffered minor injuries in the attack. I heard someone shouting, I couldn't see his face, she told Indian television channel, NDTV. He had a knife in his hand. The Indian Express newspaper said the attacker may have been a follower who was expelled recently. Humble roots Ms Amritanandamayi said on Monday she wanted her followers to forgive the attacker. Amma began hugging devotees at a young age All those who are born will die one day. I am going ahead keeping this reality in mind, she said. I will carry on. I will continue to give darshan to the devotees coming here to meet me. I don't want my [followers] to create any problem for what had happened yesterday. Known to her followers as Amma (Mother), Mata Amritanandamayi, 51, heads a charitable trust which runs schools and hospitals across India and abroad. Ms Amritanandamayi, whose name means Mother of Absolute Bliss was born to a low caste family in a southern Indian fishing community. She refused school and then marriage, preferring to meditate. She began hugging devotees at a young age. In the 1980s Ms Amritanandamayi founded an ashram, or spiritual home, to receive followers and dispense more hugs. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Organic mung dahl
Dear Friends, Mung Dahl Once again, it is time to reorder the fabulous organic split mung bean dahl. It comes in 25 lb bags and is 3.75 per pound plus shipping. I will take orders for 25 lb bags and some 15 lbs., 10 lbs and some 5 lbs. The smaller bags are very time consuming to break up and bag so the price for those is including buying the bags is $4.25 per lb. ( for 5 and 10). Please email your order as soon as possible, if interested. We have to get at least 200 lbs and so we need to presell it. Please include your street shipping address for UPS delivery, your phone number, and how you would like to pay for your order. Cell Phone Radiation Maharishi, through Dr. Bevan Morris on the Maharishi channel, has been warning about the radiation from cell phone use and its deleterious effect on the brain for some time. Maharishi even mentioned it directly at this years Guru Purnima celebration. If you must use a cell phone we suggest you use one with a speaker phone feature or, for private conversations, an air tube technology head set. (Wired earpieces can channel radiation directly to your head). To help alleviate this problem, we have researched and have available excellent air tube technology earpieces. If you would like to know more please see below and reply to this email. Best regards, Jai Guru Dev, Gail Dalby, MVS- CT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. Actually not. They get patches and pins, no monetary awards. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators aren't deluded - nonbelievers are
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This letter has features of erroneous logic typical of fundamentalism as has the person, who visited the writer. I haven't seen anyone levitating yet. And the claim of 90% reduce of illness in TM practitioners is just obnoxious as it is very untrue for most meditators. In fairness, he said up to 90%, so there was a bit of qualification. There's probably some study somewhere showing that 90% of some illness was reduced. Obnoxiously misleading, perhaps, but maybe not entirely untrue. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. Actually not. They get patches and pins, no monetary awards. Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters, for the national one. But there have actually been articles in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so the policy does exist at least in some places. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will start to have an appeal! Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive success is that it's a contest -- the girls are earning college money for selling the most cookies, that sorta thang. Actually not. They get patches and pins, no monetary awards. Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters, for the national one. But there have actually been articles in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so the policy does exist at least in some places. Yeah, there could be local contests funded by local supporters, but the only Girl Scout-specific policy involved would be that of allowing them to take place. The whole idea of the Girl Scouts (and Boy Scouts) is mastering skills for your own satisfaction and future benefit in life; that's why the only official awards are the patches and pins. They make a big deal about what can be learned from participating in the cookie program--teamwork, how to handle money, keep records, do market research, construct a sales pitch, and so on. There's a whole curriculum involved. And the local Scout troops design their own selling programs, deciding how much to charge for the cookies, which ones to order from which supplier, how much of the proceeds will be turned back to the national organization and how much will be kept to fund local Girl Scout projects. Wouldn't be a bad model at all for the TMO, come to think of it. (They do need to get rid of the trans-fats in the cookies, though.) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
Impossible, since only GS s in their elementary years are allowed to sell. GSs join mainly for those early years--by the time they're in HS most have long since moved on. The few that stay do so mostly to help out the younger troops. And the GS policies are the same all over the country. There are no speical regional rules. Sal Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters, for the national one. But there have actually been articles in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so the policy does exist at least in some places. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Impossible, since only GS s in their elementary years are allowed to sell. GSs join mainly for those early years--by the time they're in HS most have long since moved on. The few that stay do so mostly to help out the younger troops. And the GS policies are the same all over the country. There are no speical regional rules. Tell that to the reporters who wrote the articles I've seen over the years, in more than one town. As I remember, the amounts of the scholarships were pretty low ($1000 or so), to be put in trust for the kid until she reached college age. As seems to need to be said often on this forum, just 'cause you've never seen something doesn't mean it's impossible, only that you haven't seen it. Heck, it may even be *against* official Girl Scout policy for all I know...I wasn't ever one. The closest I ever got was at summer camp once, where we had the Boy Scout camp on one side of the lake and the Girl Scout camp on the other side. One of the only merit badges I ever earned was for swimming. :-) Unc Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters, for the national one. But there have actually been articles in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so the policy does exist at least in some places. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Impossible, since only GS s in their elementary years are allowed to sell. These days, accumulating money for college can start very early, sometimes even from birth, because the cost of a college education is so high. It's by no means impossible that scholarship money would be a big incentive for (at least the parents of) elementary-age Girl Scouts, especially since even a small amount invested at the time would grow significantly by the time the child was ready for college. Also, of course, an excellent way for a local business to get publicity. And if the girls are hotly competing for the scholarship money, it's good for both the local troop and the national organization because more cookies will be sold. I seriously doubt the Girl Scout organization would be unwilling to permit such offers to be made. But they *would* be local, and none of the money would come from the organization, either local or national. GSs join mainly for those early years--by the time they're in HS most have long since moved on. The few that stay do so mostly to help out the younger troops. And the GS policies are the same all over the country. There are no speical regional rules. Sal Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters, for the national one. But there have actually been articles in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so the policy does exist at least in some places. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Attack on Amma
on 8/22/05 6:01 AM, David Fiske at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: She refused school and then marriage, preferring to meditate. She began hugging devotees at a young age. She didn't refuse school, but her parents pulled her out after the 4th grade to make her a household servant. She did refuse marriage, chasing some potential suitors off with a stick. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Amma is not afraid of death
from Amritapuri.org Press Conference After Devi Bhava 4:30am, Monday August 22nd, 2005 As Amma gave darshan, the leading press agencies from around the world descended on Amritapuri to find out what had really happened earlier in the night. (NEWS) Since the news was already appearing in the media, devotees from around the world began calling the ashram to inquire about Amma's wellbeing. Reporters from the leading news agencies, like Reuters, NDTV, Sahara TV, Aajtak, Star News, ANI etc., were waiting for hours to interview Amma. As soon as the darshan finished, Amma came straight from the stage and met all the waiting reporters in her hut. One of the reporters asked, What is Amma's reaction to this incident? Amma smilingly replied, I don‚t have any reaction to this incident. Amma doesn‚t have any fear of death. There have never been any security measures taken here in the ashram, and if anyone wants to kill Amma, they can do it anywhere at any time. Amma is not afraid of death at all. Amma continued by referring to the swamis. They are afraid that Amma can be harmed. There was a police intelligence report passed on to the ashram officials about 2 weeks back that stated there may be a threat against Amma. She went on to say, Amma doesn‚t know all the people staying here. Many come just to get darshan and don‚t leave the ashram afterwards. They may hang around and sleep on the balcony or on the beach somewhere. Amma doesn't even know where all the residents in the ashram come from. If Amma were really afraid of death, the first thing she would have done is check the background of everyone staying here at the ashram. Amma continued, Whatever is meant to happen will happen when the time comes. I just want to do what I have to do. Anyway, one day we all have to die. Therefore, it is better to get worn out than to rust away. The next reporter asked, How should Amma's children respond to this? Amma answered with a question of her own. What is the use in reacting? Forgive. The past is gone. Amma was then asked, Hearing this news, devotees around the world will be very anxious. What is your message for them? Amma advised They need not worry at all. Nothing will happen to Amma. He didn‚t attack Amma; he simply came onto the stage with a knife. Amma wants all her children to be patient and calm. They should not create any problems in the name of this incident. That is Amma's only fear. When Amma was informed about what happened, she said, 'No one should worry about this; there is no reason to panic. Even if there were policeman and security here, if someone wants to kill Amma, they can kill me. My path is this (hugging people)∑ till the end. Amma will continue to give darshan. Anybody can dress up as a brahmachari. If someone want to kill me, they can simply dress up like that.' The last question was asked, Would you like to meet the attacker? Amma replied, I don‚t have any problem meeting him. Amma will meet everyone. Amma has overcome much worse situations than this in the past. Amma doesn‚t give much importance to this incident. Ôm Amriteswaryai Namah Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Walken for President)
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[FairfieldLife] Break the cords
Title: Break the cords The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly. -- Saint John of the Cross To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] More Indian press on the south-facing factor
Hindustan Times author: S. Rajagopalan Washington, August 21, 2005 http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1468563,00050001.htm South is bad vaastu for both Bush, Blair Just close the White House's south entrance and see the difference. That is the advice for US President George W. Bush from John Hagelin, quantum physicist from Harvard and a Vedic architecture buff. For making wiser and more intelligent decisions, Bush should start using the north entrance, says Hagelin. He has a similar prescription for Bush's comrade-in-arms, Tony Blair: Shut down the south entrance to 10 Downing Street. This could mean the end of their troubles in Iraq. Nothing seems to be working yet. Vaastu may well bring the two leaders some respite. Vedic architecture, incorporating Vaastu principles, is just about catching on in the US a $ 72-million tower, touted as the world's largest Vedic green office building, is now coming up on Washington's outskirts. Much of the Vaastu propagation is being carried out by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's band of followers like Hagelin, who heads an organisation called the US Peace Government. Nothing good will ever come from the government as long as the leaders are living and working in the disorderly influence of improperly designed and oriented buildings. The leaders should flee these old buildings as they were hit by an earthquake, says Hagelin. His counsel is not confined to Bush and Blair. At a press conference here, Hagelin also wanted the Indian government to abandon the Parliament buildings because of their skewed entrances. Has this come up before? Closing the south-facing entrances is only a stop-gap measure until properly designed and oriented offices and residences can be built for Mr Bush, Mr Blair and all government leaders. The positive effects of a proper eastern orientation on the brain and behaviour are now being documented by modern science, says Hagelin. He speaks of recent EEG research that points to greater efficiency of neuronal functioning when the head is oriented towards the east, compared to the south. Says Jonathan Lipman, the chief Vedic architect from the Maharishi stable: Beyond beauty and engineering, architecture should be able to create influences. © HT Media Ltd. 2005. India News -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Devi Bhava incident
Post from Amma chat group about attack attempt: i was there at amritapuri during the incident yesterday. none of the devotees were aware of what happened as everyone was engrosed in the bhajans. after bhajans, i met all those who were on the stage trying to control the intruder. also met the ashramites who took this miscrient locked him up in a room. also had a look at the xerox copy of the personal diary of the intruder. i prefer not to comment on the cirumstances material evidences seen. the mind was hardly on the devi bhava. as the darshan was going on into the night, there was hectic activity within the Swami's area. i met Arun Kumar (who sustained the stab injury, who also happens to be a buddy of mine - we're all proud of him!). after receiving basic first aid, Arun came for Amma's darshan. Amma told him that, he received what She was supposed to get. how fortunate he was in taking it...!! Arun who is a householder devotee, who does stage monitoring seva on thursdays sundays. his mother also accompanies him whenever he goes to Amritapuri. right now, he is in AIMS hospital, and is admitted in a room, thats located close to where my father (who had a surgery 2 days back) is admitted. i constantly go meet them to see if they require any assistance. he's been attending the relentless calls from morning, that by afternoon his nokia's charge went empty!! i would suggest you guys out there, not to call him. he needs rest. by Her grac, he's not expiriencing any pain, neither is there any bleeding. Arun's mother told me how Amma's was crying after seeing Arun's injury, but she, his biological mother, did not feel any remorse. Amma is his real mother, she was saying. have to run now. catch you later. Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavanthu. Aum shanthi shanthi shanthihi. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Break the cords
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly. -- Saint John of the Cross Nice. And a reminder, from the same author, of how one *can* fly once one has broken the cord: The conditions of a solitary bird are five: the first, that it flies to the highest point; the second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind; the third, that it aims its beak to the skies; the fourth, that it does not have a definite color; the fifth, that it sings very softly. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
Links? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell that to the reporters who wrote the articles I've seen over the years, in more than one town. As I remember, the amounts of the scholarships were pretty low ($1000 or so), to be put in trust for the kid until she reached college age. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell that to the reporters who wrote the articles I've seen over the years, in more than one town. As I remember, the amounts of the scholarships were pretty low ($1000 or so), to be put in trust for the kid until she reached college age. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell that to the reporters who wrote the articles I've seen over the years, in more than one town. As I remember, the amounts of the scholarships were pretty low ($1000 or so), to be put in trust for the kid until she reached college age. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. Sorry, but I spot-checked, and there wasn't one college scholarship offered for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. The Girl Scouts *do* have scholarship programs, but they aren't for selling the most cookies; and they're for a variety of things besides college, including summer Scout camp tuition or Scout membership fees for those who can't afford them. The pages that have the words Girl Scout cookies and scholarship on them don't necessarily connect the two, of course. None of those I checked did, in fact. It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
Yeah, I want links. Let's get to the bottom of this horrible Girl Scout cookie controversy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell that to the reporters who wrote the articles I've seen over the years, in more than one town. As I remember, the amounts of the scholarships were pretty low ($1000 or so), to be put in trust for the kid until she reached college age. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Indian press on the south-facing factor
Did anyone hear anything resembling the following? MMY was once asked why with other traditions of spiritual architecture (my term) it was okay to have a southern entrance. I'm not sure whether the reference was to Feng Shui as I'm not that familiar with it but the response was apparently: south is okay for an entrance for that tradition because the knowledge for that country/nation/culture came from the south. I presumed that the country in question was china and that the knowledge being referred to was Buddhism which came to India vis a southern route (east from India through Burma and Indo-China and then north to China). Are my recollections on this correct...anyone heard anything like this? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hindustan Times author: S. Rajagopalan Washington, August 21, 2005 http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1468563,00050001.htm South is bad vaastu for both Bush, Blair Just close the White House's south entrance and see the difference. That is the advice for US President George W. Bush from John Hagelin, quantum physicist from Harvard and a Vedic architecture buff. For making wiser and more intelligent decisions, Bush should start using the north entrance, says Hagelin. He has a similar prescription for Bush's comrade-in-arms, Tony Blair: Shut down the south entrance to 10 Downing Street. This could mean the end of their troubles in Iraq. Nothing seems to be working yet. Vaastu may well bring the two leaders some respite. Vedic architecture, incorporating Vaastu principles, is just about catching on in the US a $ 72-million tower, touted as the world's largest Vedic green office building, is now coming up on Washington's outskirts. Much of the Vaastu propagation is being carried out by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's band of followers like Hagelin, who heads an organisation called the US Peace Government. Nothing good will ever come from the government as long as the leaders are living and working in the disorderly influence of improperly designed and oriented buildings. The leaders should flee these old buildings as they were hit by an earthquake, says Hagelin. His counsel is not confined to Bush and Blair. At a press conference here, Hagelin also wanted the Indian government to abandon the Parliament buildings because of their skewed entrances. Has this come up before? Closing the south-facing entrances is only a stop-gap measure until properly designed and oriented offices and residences can be built for Mr Bush, Mr Blair and all government leaders. The positive effects of a proper eastern orientation on the brain and behaviour are now being documented by modern science, says Hagelin. He speaks of recent EEG research that points to greater efficiency of neuronal functioning when the head is oriented towards the east, compared to the south. Says Jonathan Lipman, the chief Vedic architect from the Maharishi stable: Beyond beauty and engineering, architecture should be able to create influences. © HT Media Ltd. 2005. India News -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. Sorry, but I spot-checked, and there wasn't one college scholarship offered for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. The Girl Scouts *do* have scholarship programs, but they aren't for selling the most cookies; and they're for a variety of things besides college, including summer Scout camp tuition or Scout membership fees for those who can't afford them. The pages that have the words Girl Scout cookies and scholarship on them don't necessarily connect the two, of course. None of those I checked did, in fact. It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I want links. Let's get to the bottom of this horrible Girl Scout cookie controversy. The real question about Girl Scout cookies was raised in one of the Addams Family movies: Are they made from real Girl Scouts? :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Indian press on the south-facing factor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did anyone hear anything resembling the following? MMY was once asked why with other traditions of spiritual architecture (my term) it was okay to have a southern entrance. I'm not sure whether the reference was to Feng Shui as I'm not that familiar with it but the response was apparently: south is okay for an entrance for that tradition because the knowledge for that country/nation/culture came from the south. I presumed that the country in question was china and that the knowledge being referred to was Buddhism which came to India vis a southern route (east from India through Burma and Indo-China and then north to China). Are my recollections on this correct...anyone heard anything like this? Not specifically, but yes, the geomancy of feng shui tends to be very different from MMY's version of Sthapatya-Veda, and different again from Western geomancy and Tibetan Sa-che. I guess the only way to really settle things lies in the realm of quantum physics -- let's generate four *different* Earths, rebuild them all from top to bottom according th the theory in question, and see which one turns out to be the coolest rock to live on. :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Attack on Amma] Peaceful mind
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David Fiske [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attack on India's 'hugging saint' I was reading these recent posts about Amma, and decided to visit her web site. When I did, I came across this prominent quote: Unless we have a certain degree of mastery over the mind, true peace is difficult to attain. -Amma When I read it, I had the following observation: There is a direct relationship between identification of the self, and mastery over the mind. If we identify with the small self, the localized ego, the mastery of the mind is unavailable. If we identify with the small self, the mind is distracted easily, and will wander irrespective of its owner's intention. A relatively large amount of thoughts characterize this mind-set, because of the necessity of the small ego to constantly substantiate its position in time and space. No peace of mind is achieved. If we identify with the Universal Self, mastery of the mind is much, much easier. If we identify with the Universal Self, the mind is easily satisfied by the instantly available bottomless depth, and infinite breadth of the mind. This creates two symptoms in the mind: One, control of the mind is nearly effortless under any circumstance. Two, there is a noticeable lessening of thoughts, vs. the state of mind identified with small ego. True peace is achieved. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Respecting Maharishi requires absolute belief
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Good analogies. Although I cannot see that we generally choose to see the view as black and white. A new dimension or structure in our perception seems to first appear as black and white. With more evolution colours come with. Just as we first had black and white movies and TV. And it is good to help people with black and white views to get in some colours also. Irmeli Interesting that there is a direct analogy also to the way color is perceived relative to the amount of light available. Red for example will be seen as black in low light. Also, at both dawn and dusk, the world of sight is rendered in mostly black and white. This analogy works with the increase and decrease of light relative to time, as when comparing the colors at dawn or dusk with those at midday. Oddly, it also works with space: If you move an object like a pencil from directly in front of you, to your peripheral vision, it will lose its color, and be seen as black and white. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Indian press on the south-facing factor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did anyone hear anything resembling the following? MMY was once asked why with other traditions of spiritual architecture (my term) it was okay to have a southern entrance. I'm not sure whether the reference was to Feng Shui as I'm not that familiar with it but the response was apparently: south is okay for an entrance for that tradition because the knowledge for that country/nation/culture came from the south. I presumed that the country in question was china and that the knowledge being referred to was Buddhism which came to India vis a southern route (east from India through Burma and Indo-China and then north to China). Are my recollections on this correct...anyone heard anything like this? Ok, just for fun, and momentarily disregarding any exploitive aspects of the migrations, look at at various immigrant groups and their entrance to the US, and how, as a whole, the group has fared. Anglo-Saxon types, continental europeans entered East, via Ellis Island or East Coast. Generally did well. Hispanics from Mexico and South America, entering from the South have not historically done so well. Blacks, via forced migration, aka slavery, often entered from the South, via Cuba and Carribean slave trading / holding centers, or via major river ports, e.g., New Orleans and Mississippi gateway. Historically have not done so well. Asian immigrants entering from the West. Have done OK, better than those entering from the South. Multi-stop immigrants, migrating to Canada, then entering US from the North, have done pretty well, as have long-resident Canadians. And one of the largest current terrorist threats are terrorists entering the US via the Southern borders, within groups of illegal hispanic entrants. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. Sorry, but I spot-checked, and there wasn't one college scholarship offered for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. The Girl Scouts *do* have scholarship programs, but they aren't for selling the most cookies; and they're for a variety of things besides college, including summer Scout camp tuition or Scout membership fees for those who can't afford them. The pages that have the words Girl Scout cookies and scholarship on them don't necessarily connect the two, of course. None of those I checked did, in fact. It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Actually, no, you made the claim, then supplied the purported documentation as proof of that claim, so you get to find the right ones if you want them found. You should have simply stuck with saying what you remembered instead of citing a misleading Google search as though it validated your memory. You've done enough Google searches to know they don't always turn up what you think they're going to turn up. The idea that a search on Girl Scout cookies plus scholarship would yield only items about college scholarships awarded for selling the most Girl Scout cookies was absurd on its face, and you knew that. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Unc, you might want to choose from the following Yogi Berra quotes: I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. I never said most of the things I said. Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Memory (was Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell that to the reporters who wrote the articles I've seen over the years, in more than one town. As I remember, the amounts of the scholarships were pretty low ($1000 or so), to be put in trust for the kid until she reached college age. Or maybe those of us who have lived in 50 places (hell I almost did that in just my 20's) and do remember details are / did (take your pick): a) younger at heart, b) blew less memory circuits via i) (lots of) sex ( MMY when repeatedly pressed about why celibacy said my memory is not foggy) ii) (lots of) drugs iii) (lots of ) rock and roll c) better genes d) better jeans e) are faking the details f) are remember details, but the wrong details (about other things) g) takes lots of choline h) are obviously more spiritually evolved i are obviously more attached (line on stone) j) did more rounding (but neck still snaps 90 degrees, occaisionally) k) did less far out and cool things in each location and thus have less to remember l) have less alzheimic plaque building up m) had memory curcuits cleared during the abduction n) listen to more grateful dead o) listen to less grateful dead p) went to a better university q) have read FFL longer / shorter r) can't just live in the NOW s) live in east facing residence t) take mercury rasayanas u) sold their soul v) do lots of memory type work w) have good ritam x) used Dr Bronner's soap y) wore earth shoes z) used that green swiss soap in the yellow plactic bottles Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. Sorry, but I spot-checked, and there wasn't one college scholarship offered for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. The Girl Scouts *do* have scholarship programs, but they aren't for selling the most cookies; and they're for a variety of things besides college, including summer Scout camp tuition or Scout membership fees for those who can't afford them. The pages that have the words Girl Scout cookies and scholarship on them don't necessarily connect the two, of course. None of those I checked did, in fact. It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Ha Ha Ha Ha! And only come back here once you'd read all 6690 of them -- twice -- and done a 3,000 word book report on each. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Indian press on the south-facing factor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did anyone hear anything resembling the following? MMY was once asked why with other traditions of spiritual architecture (my term) it was okay to have a southern entrance. I'm not sure whether the reference was to Feng Shui as I'm not that familiar with it but the response was apparently: south is okay for an entrance for that tradition because the knowledge for that country/nation/culture came from the south. I presumed that the country in question was china and that the knowledge being referred to was Buddhism which came to India vis a southern route (east from India through Burma and Indo-China and then north to China). Are my recollections on this correct...anyone heard anything like this? Ok, just for fun, and momentarily disregarding any exploitive aspects of the migrations, look at at various immigrant groups and their entrance to the US, and how, as a whole, the group has fared. Anglo-Saxon types, continental europeans entered East, via Ellis Island or East Coast. Generally did well. Hispanics from Mexico and South America, entering from the South have not historically done so well. Blacks, via forced migration, aka slavery, often entered from the South, via Cuba and Carribean slave trading / holding centers, or via major river ports, e.g., New Orleans and Mississippi gateway. Historically have not done so well. Asian immigrants entering from the West. Have done OK, better than those entering from the South. Multi-stop immigrants, migrating to Canada, then entering US from the North, have done pretty well, as have long-resident Canadians. And one of the largest current terrorist threats are terrorists entering the US via the Southern borders, within groups of illegal hispanic entrants. ...and, of course, there was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who, if I remember my Mother-Olsen 101 Hermit in the House information correctly, entered the U.S. from the West. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sallysunshine01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links? Are you kidding? I can barely remember the *names* of all the towns I've lived (over 50 at this point), much less the names of their newspapers, much less which towns I was in when I saw these things. You guys who have more settled lives might be able to remember such things, but not I. :-) The above is still true, but because this seems to mean so much to you, I Googled girl scout cookies plus scholarship and got 6690 page hits. If you have a serious Need To Know thang going down, you could do the same thing. Sorry, but I spot-checked, and there wasn't one college scholarship offered for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. The Girl Scouts *do* have scholarship programs, but they aren't for selling the most cookies; and they're for a variety of things besides college, including summer Scout camp tuition or Scout membership fees for those who can't afford them. The pages that have the words Girl Scout cookies and scholarship on them don't necessarily connect the two, of course. None of those I checked did, in fact. It's possible your memory has conflated articles about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on the other. Or perhaps there were articles that mentioned both, but again, without connecting the two. And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Actually, no, you made the claim, then supplied the purported documentation as proof of that claim, so you get to find the right ones if you want them found. You should have simply stuck with saying what you remembered instead of citing a misleading Google search as though it validated your memory. You've done enough Google searches to know they don't always turn up what you think they're going to turn up. The idea that a search on Girl Scout cookies plus scholarship would yield only items about college scholarships awarded for selling the most Girl Scout cookies was absurd on its face, and you knew that. Judy, you forgot the but of course as in but of course you knew that. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/22/05 3:51 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea that a search on Girl Scout cookies plus scholarship would yield only items about college scholarships awarded for selling the most Girl Scout cookies was absurd on its face, and you knew that. Judy, you forgot the but of course as in but of course you knew that. Should I add Girl Scout Cookies to the site description as one of the things we've discussed recently? I got a chuckle over the fact that Barry and Judy managed to get into an argument over them. They'll argue over whether the sky is blue if you give them the opportunity. They are the quintessential you say tomato I say to-mah-to couple... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gravity refuted!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but if God is well read, and has delved into the Heisenberg Principle, He'd know that to observe is to influence, so out of fairness He wouldn't be watching. :-) Ah, but if S/H/We weren't watching, nothing would happen :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] MP Uniyal
Can anyone relate their experience with this jyotishee? Have you had good results from your yagyas? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gravity refuted!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, qntmpkt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The average physicist today would say that there is no such entity, nor can there be. Basically, predicting the future with 100% precision is out of the question. All knowing may not be the same as predicting the future. Think of God as the observer-state of the universe. All POSSIBLE universes. Ah, but if God is well read, and has delved into the Heisenberg Principle, He'd know that to observe is to influence, so out of fairness He wouldn't be watching. :-) What, you think God watches Star Trek and has adopted the Prime Directive??? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Should I add Girl Scout Cookies to the site description as one of the things we've discussed recently? I got a chuckle over the fact that Barry and Judy managed to get into an argument over them. They'll argue over whether the sky is blue if you give them the opportunity. They are the quintessential you say tomato I say to-mah-to couple... You're not very observant. To start with, I corrected Barry on a minor factual point, which he was, wisely, willing to concede. No argument there. But then someone *else* challenged him to provide links to the newspaper stories he claims to remember, and anxious to defend his honor, he trotted out a lame Google search as evidence. I pointed out that the search didn't show what he claimed it showed--and he attacked me for doing so. If you look, you might find that an awful lot of our arguments are started by Barry, not by me. As I said, he should have stuck with what he remembered. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
Adn given your history of wanting to personalize everything, it's not surprsing your would respond defensively. I checked out several sites also. Not one had any scholarship based on selling cookies. It's up to you to prove your assertion, not someone else. Either your memories are faulty or , more likely, the articles don't exist. Sal And, given your history of wanting to prove me wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the dozen or so sites you spot checked out of the 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Should I add Girl Scout Cookies to the site description as one of the things we've discussed recently? I got a chuckle over the fact that Barry and Judy managed to get into an argument over them. They'll argue over whether the sky is blue if you give them the opportunity. They are the quintessential you say tomato I say to-mah-to couple... You're not very observant. To start with, I corrected Barry on a minor factual point, which he was, wisely, willing to concede. No argument there. But then someone *else* challenged him to provide links to the newspaper stories he claims to remember, and anxious to defend his honor, he trotted out a lame Google search as evidence. I pointed out that the search didn't show what he claimed it showed--and he attacked me for doing so. Why point out anything at this point, then, if you don't want to be at his alleged low level of existence? What prompts you to get involved? Don't you have better things to do with your time? Go to the boardwalk (aren't you in Atlantic City?). Go to one of the casinos and give Mr. Trump some of your money or something. If you look, you might find that an awful lot of our arguments are started by Barry, not by me. For God's sake, woman, we're talking about GIRL SCOUT COOKIES Get a life... As I said, he should have stuck with what he remembered. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction: the next MMY pronouncement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Should I add Girl Scout Cookies to the site description as one of the things we've discussed recently? I got a chuckle over the fact that Barry and Judy managed to get into an argument over them. They'll argue over whether the sky is blue if you give them the opportunity. They are the quintessential you say tomato I say to-mah-to couple... You're not very observant. To start with, I corrected Barry on a minor factual point, which he was, wisely, willing to concede. No argument there. But then someone *else* challenged him to provide links to the newspaper stories he claims to remember, and anxious to defend his honor, he trotted out a lame Google search as evidence. I pointed out that the search didn't show what he claimed it showed--and he attacked me for doing so. Why point out anything at this point, then, if you don't want to be at his alleged low level of existence? What prompts you to get involved? Huh? I like facts. Live with it. (As much as it may be contrary to your--and Barry's--inclinations.) Don't you have better things to do with your time? Not in the five-minute increments I have for taking breaks while I'm working. Go to the boardwalk (aren't you in Atlantic City?). No, I'm not in Atlantic City. Go to one of the casinos and give Mr. Trump some of your money or something. If you look, you might find that an awful lot of our arguments are started by Barry, not by me. For God's sake, woman, we're talking about GIRL SCOUT COOKIES Non sequitur. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gravity refuted!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but if God is well read, and has delved into the Heisenberg Principle, He'd know that to observe is to influence, so out of fairness He wouldn't be watching. :-) Ah, but if S/H/We weren't watching, nothing would happen :-) And someone, even in the darkest stillest most abstract unformed nothingness, is always watching Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] 'Peace at a Price'- Article in Oregon Newspaper.
http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20050822/HEALTH/508220302/1093 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Copied- 'Post of Oregon Article'(Link not working)
Peace at a price Transcendental Mediation is hailed by some as life changing, but others warn those interested to give it some thought BY PARKER HOWELL Statesman Journal August 22, 2005 People in Salem who feel unfulfilled, stressed and ineffective have another way to seek relief -- one that is said to help you and the world, but those with big promises comes a hefty price tag. Learning TM only requires seven classes and about eight hours, but it costs $2,500. Local Transcendental Meditation teacher Dave Price touts TM as a technique that benefits physical health and makes life easier. Many TM teachers and students claim the technique has changed their lives, yet some scientists, scholars and former TM practitioners criticize TM as a deceitful money-making scam. TM 101 Founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, famed guru for The Beatles during the 1960s, the movement began as an outgrowth of Hinduism in India during the late 1950s. More than 6 million people have learned TM worldwide, according to the organization's Web site. Called a mental technique by proponents, TM is billed by some as the single most effective meditation technique available to gain mental and physical benefits and to attain inner happiness and fulfillment. Proponents say it's different from other forms of meditation because the participant's mind is supposed to transcend physical boundaries to join a universal creative force. TM recently gained more attention because avant-garde filmmaker David Lynch wants to raise about $7 billion to teach TM to any child in America who wants to learn it. Beginning TM practitioners meditate for about 20 minutes twice daily while seated with their eyes closed. TM is not sleeping but a state of very quiet and very, very awake thinking, Price said. It's an easy process, he said. If you can think a thought, you can meditate, he said. To rid themselves of conscious thought and connect with pure awareness, TM meditators repeat a mantra -- a syllabic sound assigned to them by a TM teacher based on their age when they started learning the technique. Price said reaching this level of pure awareness allows the meditator access to greater creativity and increases his or her preparedness for mental or physical activities. As people progress in TM, they meditate for longer periods. Price meditates for about eight hours a day and said he finds the process enjoyable. Intended effects of TM The body settles into a deep state of relaxation during TM mediation, lowering blood pressure and providing other health benefits, according to TM literature. After meditating, people experience tremendous alertness, Price said. Dan Dingle of Salem said he learned TM in high school during the 1970s to improve his grades. Dingle, who enjoys rock climbing, said TM helps calm his mind so he can climb safely. It really did work, he said. It's the main thing that keeps my mind together when I'm climbing. Dingle said TM also helps him in other ways. It gives one practice in how to have peace of mind and not get all stressed out and caught up in stressful events, he said. Dingle, who lived in India and has studied other forms of meditation, said TM is different because it simplifies meditation. I can really say that one of the things that distinguishes Maharishi's teaching is he's made it so simple, Dingle said. He's really distilled the essence of esoteric Eastern techniques and made it commonly, readily available for people. Patti Steurer, a TM teacher from Lake Oswego, learned TM in college after a student said it was the secret to his academic success. There was something more in me, and I didn't know how to unlock it, she said. Spreading peace Beyond the benefits advocates say TM provides, they also claim TM promotes peace by tapping into the consciousness that all humans share and broadcasting a positive influence. During intense group TM sessions, people practice yogic flying, a controversial technique in which TM practitioners sit cross-legged on foam pads and say they levitate. Maharishi has promoted TM as the solution to terrorism and as the means to world peace. Practicing TM in Salem would affect the Oregon Legislature by making government officials more amicable, Price said. TM controversy Criticism of TM arises over its cost, its difference from other forms of meditation and its status as a religion. Consumers should be aware that TM is a kind of high-priced commodity and there are alternatives, said Professor Barry Markovsky, chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. Research comparing the benefits of TM with other forms of meditation shows that though TM charges more for classes and services than other types of meditation, it offers no special benefits, he said. But Steurer said the cost of learning TM is justified, saying Westerners are willing to pay $4,000 for a plasma television but not
[FairfieldLife] 'Maharishi Article/India Newspaper'
Mahesh Yogi, 95, disgusted with UKBy: Khalid A-H Ansari August 22, 2005 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in his headquarters at Vlodrop Roerdalen in the NetherlandsPic: The GuardianLondon: His devotees call him His Holiness, his detractors the giggling guru, because of his habit of laughing at press conferences.Ninety-five year old guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of transcendental meditation (TM), a yogic philosophy that spread like wildfire across the world after the Beatles embraced it some 40 years ago, is sick up to his gills with Britain.The maharishi is disgusted at Tony Blairs support for the Iraq war and at the British electorates failure to throw out the PM. He says there is no point continuing to waste the beautiful nectar of TM on a scorpion nation. Last week, the Maharishi, speaking at one of his regular broadcasts on a private satellite channel from his monastery in Vlodrop in the Netherlands, called upon his followers in Britain to stop teaching meditation and levitation, the yogic effect or flying to a higher plane. The good effects of transcendental meditation increased creativity and long life should not be given to a dangerous country that is constantly busy destroying the world, the guru advised.TM is a gift from me to those who want to create peace and harmony in the world.However, he has exhorted his followers at Skelmersdale in Lancashire (UK), to beam peace-loving thoughts to the British electorate with the objective of unseating the Labour government.The maharishis disillusionment with the British government pre-date the 7/7 and 20/7 bombings stems out of the failure of his thought experiment, expressed through the Natural Law Party, that fielded 300 candidates in the 1992 general election to win support for his age of enlightenment.Beatle George Harrison launched the partys campaign at a benefit concert at Londons Royal Albert Hall, but all candidates lost their deposits. Last year, the maharishi initiated a similar thought experiment in the US with the aim of defeating George W Bush, as a protest against his war on Iraq.Since last year, the maharishi has been dispatching yogic flyers to India, the US, China and Brazil in an attempt to foster global peace by building what he terms a coherent world philosophy.The maharishis decision to withdraw from Britain has disappointed and divided his followers.It has had quite a deep impact on our organisation, says Geoffrey Clements, who chairs the maharishis UK charity and was a Natural Law Party candidate.But the maharishi explained to us that the poison in this country was so concentrated that he felt it was no use our continuing to nurture creativity and intelligence here.Instead, says Clements, teachers of TM and the maharishis more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn yoga to levitate, were being encouraged to teach in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, USA, an impressive campus built on Vedic architectural principles, where around 2,000 TM practitioners are housed.Transcendental meditation is a set of human meditation techniques, which supposedly bring practitioners to a higher state of consciousness characterised as enlightenment or bliss. The method involves reciting a mantra, a secret _expression_ unique to each practitioner.Whereas, it is now generally accepted that meditating twice a day can reduce stress and lower blood pressure, detractors aver that the maharishis claims that TM can cure cancer and prolong life spans do not stand up to medical scrutiny.Cynics also point out that television clips show that advanced TM practitioners, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position, actually hop, not fly.Nor do they accept his belief that a small group of his yogic flying disciples, through concentrated meditation, can effect major changes in society via a phenomenon he calls the maharishi effect. They also maintain that the fee of around £1,300 (approx Rs 1.20 lakh) for a standard TM introduction course and more for the advanced TM-Sidhi programme, are exorbitant.More than five million people around the world (around 2,00,000 in the UK) are said to have learnt TM since it was founded in 1957. The two best known British votaries of TM are former Conservative party leader William Hague and industrialist and broadcaster Sir John Harvey-Jones. The latter says TM has made him a better person to live with.The Beatles song, Sexy Sadie, written by John Lennon, is said to have been originally called, Maharishi, Maharishi, what have you done? (Sexy Sadie what have you done/You made a fool of everyone) after the Beatle was disillusioned with reports that the maharishi had allegedly made a pass at actress Mia Farrow at his Indian ashram. The title was later changed at George Harrisons insistence.More than 1,500 followers of the maharishi are said to have met in Holland early this month to celebrate the
Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Peace at a Price'- Article in Oregon Newspaper.
on 8/22/05 6:13 PM, Robert Gimbel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20050822/HEALTH/508220302/1093 Broken URL: http://tinyurl.com/cf4bx Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Indian Biotech boom, with Mahabharat rider
Title: Indian Biotech boom, with Mahabharat rider Biotech boom, with Mahabharat rider London, Aug. 21: In 2001, President Bush curbed funding of stem cell research. The decision shaped at least partly by the Republican Partys evangelical Christian base provoked joy in India. It was felt that US qualms about stem cell research could open a huge opportunity. Just four years later, this wish has come true. According to Ernst Youngs Global Biotechnology Report in 2004, Indian biotech firms are expected to grow ten-fold in the next five years, creating more than a million jobs. With more than 10,000 highly trained and cheaply available scientists, India is one of the leading biotech powers along with South Korea, Singapore, China, Japan, Sweden, Britain and Israel. The Reliance group owns Reliance Life Sciences, which is trying to devise new treatments for diabetes as well as Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases, and create human skin, blood and replacement organs genetically matched to their recipients. Some researchers have even more ambitious ideas: they plan to clone the endangered species of Indian lions and cheetahs. US scientists and businessmen note enviously that religious and moral considerations do not seem to inhibit Indian biotechnologists. But this indifference to ethical issues would have certainly appalled Gandhi. The Mahatma accused Western medicine, and much of modern science and technology, of inflicting violence on human nature. His vegetarianism and belief in non-violence were derived from Indian traditions, mainly Hinduism. Indeed, most evangelical Christians, who believe that the embryo is a person, may find more support in Hindu texts than in the Bible. Many Hindus see the soul atman as the spiritual and imperishable component of human personality. After death destroys the body, the soul soon finds a new temporal home. Thus, for Hindus and Catholics, life begins at conception. Ayurveda assumes foetuses are alive and conscious when it prescribes a particular mental and spiritual regimen to pregnant women. The same assumption is implicit in the Mahabharat. In one of its stories, Arjuna describes to his pregnant wife Subhadra a seven-stage military strategy. His yet- to-be-born son Abhimanyu is listening, too. As Arjuna describes the last stage, Subhadra falls asleep. Years later, fighting the Kauravas, Abhimanyu uses well the military training he has learned in his mothers womb, until the seventh stage, where he falters and is killed. But Hinduism is less monolithic than Islam and Christianity; it can yield contradictory arguments. The Mahabharat has a story about how the 100 Kauravas came into being. Their mother Gandhari had produced a mass of flesh after two years of pregnancy. But then a sage divided the flesh into 100 parts, which were treated with herbs and ghee, and kept in pots for two years from which the Kauravas emerged. Indian backers of stem cell research often offer this story as an early instance of human cloning through stem cells extracted from embryos. But spiritual tradition cannot solve all the ethical issues raised by sciences progress. Ultrasound scans help many Indian women to abort female foetuses. The trade in human organs, especially kidneys, remains big business. As stem cell research grows in India, and remains unregulated, a small industry devoted to the creation of human embryos might soon develop. Stem cell research is also expensive. The advanced treatments promised by biotechnology are likely to benefit the rich, at least for the first few years. In the meantime, the poor may be asked to offer themselves as guinea pigs. Last year, a magazine article asserted: India has another gold mine the worlds largest population of naive sick patients, on whom no medicine has ever been tried. Indias distinct communities and large families are ideal subjects for genetic and clinical research. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050822/asp/nation/story_5141157.asp To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Organic mung dahl
In a message dated 8/22/05 7:46:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Friends, Mung Dahl Once again, it is time to reorder the fabulous organic split mung bean dahl. It comes in 25 lb bags and is 3.75 per pound plus shipping. I will take orders for 25 lb bags and some 15 lbs., 10 lbs and some 5 lbs. The smaller bags are very time consuming to break up and bag so the price for those is including buying the bags is $4.25 per lb. ( for 5 and 10). Please email your order as soon as possible, if interested. We have to get at least 200 lbs and so we need to presell it. Please include your street shipping address for UPS delivery, your phone number, and how you would like to pay for your order. Cell Phone Radiation Maharishi, through Dr. Bevan Morris on the Maharishi channel, has been warning about the radiation from cell phone use and its deleterious effect on the brain for some time. Maharishi even mentioned it directly at this years Guru Purnima celebration. If you must use a cell phone we suggest you use one with a speaker phone feature or, for private conversations, an air tube technology head set. (Wired earpieces can channel radiation directly to your head). To help alleviate this problem, we have researched and have available excellent air tube technology earpieces. If you would like to know more please see below and reply to this email. Sounds like some one never got "dealing" out of their system. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] The Conference on Spiritual Activism
AMAZING GRACE By Rabbi Michael Lerner July 29, 2005 Dear Friend of Tikkun, It's impossible to replicate for you the level of excitement and energy that almost everyone experienced at the Conference on Spiritual Activism in Berkeley, these past few days, the first stage in a two year process of launching the Network of Spiritual Progressives http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/. There were over 1,300 people experiencing what could only be called spiritual elation. First, there were the incredible speakers, some 108 of them, representing some of the most advanced thinking in Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, and spiritual but not religious thought. There were small groups of ten which met every day for the four days of the conference, so that people got to know others in a much more intimate way than often happens when things get this big. There was music ranging from Holly Near (surprise guest appearance at the last minute) to the wonderful Vocolot to Christian gospel to the melodies of Jewish Hasidism. Over forty workshops and ongoing workgroups that produced some valuable material for a future platform which will be finalized in 2007. But what was equally moving was the quality of attendees. Priests of the Catholic church and the Buddhist faith, ministers of many of the denominations of Protestantism, orthodox Jews wearing their tzitzit out, Reform and Reconstructionist and Renewal and Conservative Jews who packed the Shabbat services and Torah study with Rabbi Lerner and Sylvia Boorstein, Muslims who challenged the distortion of Islam by terrorists and who embodied a path of gentleness and non-violence, Palestinians and Israelis seeking reconciliation, and even representatives from Italy, England and Australia. There were some world-famous scientists seeking a fruitful dialogue with people of faith, lawyers and doctors and educators seeking changes in their professions to make them more consonant with our proposed New Bottom Line, economists who understood the need to revise their professsion's vision of efficiency and rationality, and activists of almost every possible contemporary stripe. What amazed everyone was the level of kindness, generosity and open-heatedness toward each other that the participants frequently showed (not every second, to be sure, but mostly and enough so that it shaped the gathering and made people feel very safe, and hence created an atmosphere in which people were willing to explore ideas were new and sometimes challenging to their established ways of thinking about the world, a challenge that comes up the moment people really get what the politics of meaning is that we've been expounding in Tikkun these past nineteen years). No where was that more impressive than in the respect religious people and spiritual but NOT religious people showed each other, neither group seeking to convert or demean the other, but instead showing genuine curiosity and mutual respect. This, of course, is only the first step. We urge you to join as dues paying members the Network of Spiritual Progressives and to become involved with us in building this venture. Please read the article by Van Jones, a powerful voice for justice for incarcerated young African Americans, as he tells why he feels so supportive of what we are trying to do (read it at www.tikkun.org). Also, please go to www.tikkun.org for Frequently Asked Questions about the Network of Spiritual Progressives and for more info on the basic conception of the Network, and read our Core Vision. One final point: while the Bay Area and Sacramento newspapers gave this full coverage, and Fox News nationally did a story about it (because the Right wing media takes religion seriously), the rest of the media blocked it out. This was the largest gathering of a Spiritual Left to ever occur in American history, and it was not reported. So no wonder most Americans equate religious and spiritual concerns with the Right when the media simply ignores this kind event... For more information: http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/ NHNE News List: To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To review current posts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/messages Published by David Sunfellow NewHeavenNewEarth (NHNE) eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NHNE Website: http://www.nhne.com/ Phone: (928) 282-6120 Fax: (815) 642-0117 Appreciate what we are doing? You can say so with a tax-deductible donation: http://www.nhne.com/main/donations.html P.O. Box 2242 Sedona, AZ 86339 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This
[FairfieldLife] In Search of the Spiritual
IN SEARCH OF THE SPIRITUAL By Jerry Adler With Anne Underwood, Ben Whitford, Juliet Chung, Vanessa Juarez, Dan Berrett and Lorraine Ali Newsweek August 29 - Sept. 5, 2005 Issue http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9024914/site/newsweek/ Move over, politics. Americans are looking for personal, ecstatic experiences of God, and, according to our poll, they don't much care what the neighbors are doing. The 1960s did not penetrate very deeply into the small towns of the Quaboag Valley of central Massachusetts. Even so, Father Thomas Keating, the abbot of St. Joseph's Abbey, couldn't help noticing the attraction that the exotic religious practices of the East held for many young Roman Catholics. To him, as a Trappist monk, meditation was second nature. He invited the great Zen master Roshi Sasaki to lead retreats at the abbey. And surely, he thought, there must be a precedent within the church for making such simple but powerful spiritual techniques available to laypeople. His Trappist brother Father William Meninger found it in one day in 1974, in a dusty copy of a 14th-century guide to contemplative meditation, The Cloud of Unknowing. Drawing on that work, as well as the writings of the contemplatives Saint John of the Cross and Saint Teresa of Avila, the two monks began teaching a form of Christian meditation that grew into the worldwide phenomenon known as centering prayer. Twice a day for 20 minutes, practitioners find a quiet place to sit with their eyes closed and surrender their minds to God. In more than a dozen books and in speeches and retreats that have attracted tens of thousands, Keating has spread the word to a world of hungry people, looking for a deeper relationship with God. For most of history, that's exactly what most people have been looking for. But only a generation ago it appeared from some vantage points, such as midtown Manhattan, that Americans were on their way to turning their backs on God. In sepulchral black and red, the cover of Time magazine dated April 8, 1966 -- Good Friday -- introduced millions of readers to existential anguish with the question Is God Dead? If he was, the likely culprit was science, whose triumph was deemed so complete that what cannot be known [by scientific methods] seems uninteresting, unreal. Nobody would write such an article now, in an era of round-the-clock televangelism and official presidential displays of Christian piety. Even more remarkable today is the article's obsession with the experience of a handful of the most prestigious Protestant denominations. No one looked for God in the Pentecostal churches of East Los Angeles or among the backwoods Baptists of Arkansas. Muslims earned no notice, nor did American Hindus or Buddhists, except for a passage that raised the alarming prospect of seekers' desperately turning to psychiatry, Zen or drugs. History records that the vanguard of angst-ridden intellectuals in Time, struggling to imagine God as a cloud of gas in the far reaches of the galaxy, never did sweep the nation. What was dying in 1966 was a well-meaning but arid theology born of rationalism: a wavering trumpet call for ethical behavior, a search for meaning in a letter to the editor in favor of civil rights. What would be born in its stead, in a cycle of renewal that has played itself out many times since the Temple of Solomon, was a passion for an immediate, transcendent experience of God. And a uniquely American acceptance of the amazingly diverse paths people have taken to find it. NEWSWEEK set out to map this new topography of faith, visiting storefront churches in Brooklyn and mosques in Los Angeles, an environmental Christian activist in West Virginia and a Catholic college in Ohio -- talking to Americans of all creeds, and none, about their spiritual journeys. A major poll, commissioned jointly with Beliefnet.com, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9014628/site/newsweek/ reveals a breadth of tolerance and curiosity virtually across the religious spectrum. And everywhere we looked, a flowering of spirituality: in the hollering, swooning, foot-stomping services of the new wave of Pentecostals; in Catholic churches where worshipers pass the small hours of the night alone contemplating the eucharist, and among Jews who are seeking God in the mystical thickets of Kabbalah. Also, in the rebirth of Pagan religions that look for God in the wonders of the natural world; in Zen and innumerable other threads of Buddhism, whose followers seek enlightenment through meditation and prayer, and in the efforts of American Muslims to achieve a more God-centered Islam. And, for that matter, at the Church of the Holy Communion, described by the Rev. Gary Jones as a proper Episcopal church in one of the wealthiest parts of Memphis, where increasingly personal experience is at the heart of much of what we do. A few years ago Jones added a Sunday-evening service that has evolved into a blend of Celtic evensong with communion. Congregants were invited
