[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:30 PM, sparaig wrote:
 
  Women must be different on Governor Training since I'm worth as
  reasonable bit on paper,owning lots of property, but no-one appears
  to think of moi as a good catch.
 
 Should we feign surprise?


Are you hinting at something?





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
  
 I don't know about anyone else, but I find the 
 concept of women thinking of a man as a good
 catch because of his income more offensive than
 any of the racist epithets attributed here to Tom.



Why would you be offended by this? It's a simple fact of life,
affirmed to be so by many intelligent women in private 
conversation and also by normal observations.
   
   No argument there. It's just that personally I would
   never have anything to do with any woman who was
   interested in me for my money (not that I have a lot
   of it). I *know* that it's a factor in many women's
   search for a partner; it's just that I'm not searching
   for many women, just one who is looking for a little
   more out of life than an easy life.
  
  Looking for a good provider is an essential thing for a sane
  woman who is hoping to raise a family unless she is already well-
to-
  do.
 
 Not only that, it's hard-wired, an evolutionary
 survival trait.  The children of women who have
 a knack for picking a good provider are more likely
 to survive and pass on their genes (including the
 gene for the knack of picking a good provider).
 
 Long ago, of course, a good provider was the guy
 who reliably brought home game after the hunt and
 was strong enough to protect the woman and the kids
 from predators (animal and otherwise).
 
 These days it's money rather than game (bringing
 home the bacon), but there's still a premium on
 good looks and strength because they tend to
 indicate good health and fertility (in both males
 and females), which again favors survival of the
 genes.
 

Genetics can breed for faux signals. You can have women (or men) who 
aren't worth a darn in or out of bed, have no concept of how to raise 
a child, etc., but their overall appearance and demeaner triggers 
mating instincts in many people just by some combination of 
features/qualities that fit the inbred  pattern recognition for 
mates. Of course, people are more complicated than crabs, so not 
everyone is triggered by the giant claw, or whatever, but the 
principle is still applies in virtually everyone, to some extent: 
there's someone out there whom, if you meet them, you WILL make a 
fool of yourself.

 
  The problem is when you make money the MOST important part of who 
  you're looking for.







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[FairfieldLife] Keeping Things Quiet (was Re: Hurdy Gurdy Man revealed)

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 
   What's strange is that I forgot to mention codependency.
   
   Thanks for reminding me.
  
  Thanks for providing my morning chuckle, Vaj.  :-)
 
 Says the comrade-in-arms while chuckling over jokes made at 
 the expense of someone with suspected and/or diagnosed 
mental 
 problems.

Lighten up, Lawson.  I was not laughing at the recent
jibes made here about your medical condition, and do
not support them.  I was laughing at Judy's compulsive
rush to defend one of the people she views as a 
comrade-in-arms and supporter.  The 'codependency'
Vaj jokes about is on her side, not yours.  I found
it funny, that's all.
   
   Actually, I took it as a jibe at me since co-dependency 
   is, well, a two-way street.
   
   You can't have a single person be co-dependent.
  
  You are correct, of course. I was just chuckling
  at the 'dependency' Vaj nailed in someone who has
  made an Internet 'career' out of trying to convince
  others that she's right and that they pretty much
  have to agree with her. Once she recruits someone
  into the position of agreeing with her fairly consis-
  tently
 
 In other words, *Lawson* is the co-dependent, the
 one who is manipulated and controlled (or the toady,
 as Barry is fond of putting it).

That's pretty much what I thought (and still think) was implied.

 
 , then she seems compelled to dive in and 
  support them any time they get into a challenging 
  discussion.
 
 Actually this is bullshit, of course.  I support
 people who appear to me to be the target of unfair
 criticism, whether I happen to agree with them or
 not.  The idea of supporting someone just because
 it's the right thing to do is not in Barry's
 ethical vocabulary.
 
 It's bullshit as far as Lawson is concerned as well.
 He and I often disagree, but generally speaking we've
 been able to do so amicably because we respect each
 other.
 
 All I ask of anyone is sincerity, fairness, and
 intellectual (and factual) honesty, not agreement.
 
 Oh, yeah, and the notion that *Barry* is somehow
 above trying to convince people he's right is
 laughable.  Try disagreeing with him sometime and
 see how he treats you.  No matter how amicable you
 are in your disagreement, no matter how often Barry
 claims he's not trying to convince you of anything
 and doesn't care if you think differently, you'll
 be the target of his putdowns as long as the exchange
 continues.
 
 
 
 
  
  So it's a dependency issue, not a co-dependency
  issue. Some people only feel comfortable about life
  when others agree with them on their illusions about
  it. Consensus reality, and all that...  :-)
  
I think you've been showing admirable restraint lately
with the knee-jerk posting thang, and have been putting
much more thought into your replies before pushing Send.
IMO, that's a good thing, both for yourself and for the
forum.
   
   Think of them as koans... There's far more thought in my 
   one liners than in my stream-of-consciousness paragraphs...
  
  I had noticed that, actually.
 







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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 snip
  Women must be different on Governor Training since I'm worth as 
  reasonable bit on paper,owning lots of property, but no-one appears 
  to think of moi as a good catch. Of course, I don't advertise, 
  having learned that whatever you advertise, is the kind of person
  you attract.
 
 (Says Lawson, advertising.)



True, but the odds that anyone is going to take me seriously, travel to 
tucson and get involved with me because of some braggartly posting on 
FFL are kinda slim, so I feel safe.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Hagelin sez 2000 student university in DC immediately

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 we are immediately establishing a group of 2,000 meditating students 
 in Washington, D.C.,
 
 http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=11339834121142172


TMO-speak for wouldn't it be nice if...?





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 
 
 
 snip
 
 . Numerous studies have persuaded linguistic 
  researchers that acquisition of a second language after the age 
of 
  15 means that one is unlikely to acquire mastery (especially in 
  terms of pronunciation -- the brain has less flexibility after 
the 
  age of 15), although there are certainly individual variations:
  
  http://tinyurl.com/a322s
  learning before the age of 7 yields perfect command
 
 *
 
 I have found it interesting that at MSAE Maharishi doesn't allow 
2nd language acquisition 
 at the younger age (he may make an exception for Sanskrit) because 
he claims that for the 
 youngster to speak something other than the mother tongue creates 
some subtle kind of 
 confusion—even though, as you note, it is the ideal time for 
language acquistion.
 
 Does anyone have more precise information on this?
 
 L B S


I hadn't heard that claim. I have heard that he thinks the only way 
to acquire a second language completely is to live in a country where 
it is spoken natively. This is in-line with normal linguistics 
research, from what I hear.






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:51 PM, L B Shriver wrote:
 
  I have found it interesting that at MSAE Maharishi doesn't allow  
  2nd language acquisition
  at the younger age (he may make an exception for Sanskrit) 
because  
  he claims that for the
  youngster to speak something other than the mother tongue 
creates  
  some subtle kind of
  confusion—even though, as you note, it is the ideal time for  
  language acquistion.
 
  Does anyone have more precise information on this?
 
  L B S
 
 I asked my wife who has a masters in Infant development. Do it 
BEFORE  
 elementary school.
 
 Would you trust *your* children to Mahesh's theories?


Would you trust rumors that may not ahve any basis in fact in order 
to pass judgement on someone?





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 On Dec 8, 2005, at 8:17 PM, anonymousff wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  Would you trust *your* children to Mahesh's theories?
 
 
  Indeed.  I had almost total immersion in Czech at Our Lady of the
  Inquisition Catholic School in kindergarten and 1-2 grade.  The nuns
  were right off the boat from Czecho.  It was easy as pie to learn  
  Czech.
 
 But M's theory is that this should just confuse you Akasha.


No, this is someone's possible mis-remembering of MMY's theory.

*I* heard almost exactly the opposite about learning 2nd languages.






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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Has *anyone* suggested Tom get a wrathful mantra/ishta rather than a  
 peaceful one? Peaceful deity mantras are just peachy for your average  
 Joe or Judy wanting to *transcend*, but special mentations require  
 special mantras. This guys a diamond in the rough just waiting for  
 the right method. He'd attain mirror-like Wisdom quite quickly I'd  
 guess.
 
 Interesting man that Tom.


You're assuming that Tom is just wrath.  Actually, he's full of shake
and quake but is very sensitive to slights, as he was trained like
Pavlov's dogs to equate the slightest displeasure of someone with him
as another night he has to worry about being murdered or thrown out in
the snow shoeless and naked to spend the night shivering in what
little pile of leaves he could find. Hopefully God was good that night
and he was able to get some rest for school the next day. 

That sensitiveness to slights makes him feel differently about Ben
saying he was happy everybody enjoyed their special coins or
amulets when he didn't receive anything.  It's true Tom told Ben after
a few years that he wasn't that excited about receiving sacred ash,
but Ben's mamory is ever convenient to cover up his own failings.  Ben
does appear to suffer from attention and memory deficit.  Tom lives in
a world in which a man's word is his bond, else he's fired an hour
after he fails to deliver.  Tom truly believes Ben is just another one
of those space cadets who's quite suited to the SoCal let's have
lunch mentality.  Tom is not all hate.  There are a lot of flakey
people in the world and there are a lot of vicious people in the
world, Dr. Pete and Dr. Lechter being two of them.  Tom might have
asked for it, but that doesn't mean it's got to run the gauntlet and
then have the person he least honors for truth and reliability after
having dealt with him for years, the Pundit in training, to pick up on
Dr. Pete's damnation of him with just look at his chracter. 
search the archives. as a way to cover up his own failing and child
abuse issues.  

Tom has arranged for a $50,000 legal retainer to sue
Ben the lier.  If Ben posts a fully apologitic statement in which he
admits in every line that he, and not Tom was wrong and he apologizes
for wrongfully accusing Tom for it in an unambiguous, convincing,
non-finger pointing way, the suit will not be filed.  Any hint that
he's being insincere and Tom will see Ben in Court.  If Ben posts
anything to Fairfield life on any subject becept a convincing  apology
and  agreement that he is a flake, the lawsuit against Ben will be
filed and a few days later Ben will receive his subpoena.  Tom doesn't
want to stiffle Ben's freedom of speach.  But he doesn't want to read
the words of a lier who reprements himself as totally innocent of any
wrong doing.  The lawyers will prove otherwise.  Tom has more money
set aside for more prosecuition, counter suits and to fight malicious,
frivilous law suits against him.  He's also got every email Ben ever
sent to him, notes of every phone conversation, every email he ever
sent to Ben or others about Ben.  Some of it will curl your hair.

Joining YBC is the best thing Tom ever did.  It's been a week now he's
been doing full TM/TM Sidhi Program.  The consciousness flows through
him now and he feels full of spunk and hope and optimism as he did 14
years ago when he was last able to do full program off a course.  The
infusion of consciousness makes former perceived slights not.  It
makes frustrations in traffic not.  It makes the feeling of being
helplessly stuck in the muck and mire not. It makes formely
overwhelming terror and panic which drove him to the bottle of Dr.s'
prescripions flow through and out of him.

Tom has lead a moderately successful life here and there, clearing a
quarter million a year here, being an National Merit there, branch
manager of a control systems vendor resident at Bechtel in SF with an
annual 1/4 $billion annual budged there, being born conscious and
remembering his past there.  

Interesting Man that Tom is not only truer than you imagine, its
truer than you can imagine.  Richard Nixon opened us to Mainland
China, but took Dilantin for his depression, did some really petty
shit and resigned as the articles of impeachment were being drawn up.  

Abraham Lincoln and his life believed in dreams and wrote every one
down.  They had sayances performed in the White House regularly and
Lincoln timed has actions based on the feedback he got through his
secretary from a noted psychic.  Lincoln told his cabinet the day
before that night about the very disturbing dream where we woke up and
heard wailing.  He walked into a hall and there was a large man laid
out in a coffin.  He asked an overcome woman who was laid out in the
coffin.  The woman told him it was the President.  Lincoln campaigned
to have That Pecular Instituion undone  but also put his power behind
the establishment of the country of 

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  
  Has *anyone* suggested Tom get a wrathful mantra/ishta rather than 
 a  
  peaceful one? Peaceful deity mantras are just peachy for your 
 average  
  Joe or Judy wanting to *transcend*, but special mentations require  
  special mantras. This guys a diamond in the rough just waiting for  
  the right method. He'd attain mirror-like Wisdom quite quickly I'd  
  guess.
  
  Interesting man that Tom.
 
 Being on a spiritual path has not mitigated 
 what seems to me to be some real flaws. 

So you've been keeping Tom's diary.  Once again Tom is damned because
he's fabulously improved but not perfect.

I think it lends credence to 
 the notion that we all could use a good dose of therapy.  I would 
 welcome Dr. Pete's opinion on this. 

I'd welcome the the opinion of a real doctor, not a sick himself
wannabe psychologist or a vet saying he's a psychologist.


It's hard to imagine anything more 
 horrendous than this story.  They say emotional development gets 
 arrested at the time of abuse.  

Damning Tom once again.  He's not a survivor who's getting over.  He's
forever damned because his emotional development was arrested at the
time of abuse.  Funny the real Dr.s who treated Tom didn't feel that
way.  They felt no need to teach Tom how to act or encourage him to
grow. They watched it happen before their eyes and took notes.  They
felt that merely freeing the pain brought forth the true, loving,
secure Tom.  With other patients these very Drs. taught their patients
what they had failed to develop.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 
 --- anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
  lurkernomore20002000 
   
Imagine the day in the life of a cetain 5 year
  old 
   boy.
   
   snip
   
   Sorry to come in late on this thread, but is this
  Tom Pall's story, 
   and if so, is this a reposting, or is this new
  information?  Thanks.
   
   lurk
  
  It is not a reposting.  I think I know Tom Pall
  rather well and
  believe it to be Tom's story.  It was not written to
  evoke pity to
  make the statement that shrinks, except ones who are
  obviously in it
  to cure their own misery, should be less flippant
  and derisive.  It
  did prove one thing.  Dr. Pete isn't perhaps a
  doctor.  If he is
  he's most likely a vet.
 
 One thing about this anon, he doesn't let go once he
 sinks his teeth in.
 

The attributes of a survivor and what makes Anon exceedingly
successful in his profession.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Shuurangama suutra

2005-12-09 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 
 Anyone read Shuurangama suutra? I read a couple 
 of pages. It felt rather boring.


FWIW, according to SS, Gautama Shaakyamuni had blue eyes?!
Anyways, shaakya prolly means, that He belonged to
Scythian shakas.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: The supposed Emotional Healing of Tom Pall

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Pall
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bostonbob53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 
 I'm sorry, but I just don't get it.  Anon or Tom Pall, these posts are
 obviously his. What the hell?  Does he think he's fooling anyone or
 that anyone still cares?   

They still care enought to attack him.  To state categorically that he
is forever doomed because development stops when abuse begins. 

My guess is that Tom wants to have the last
 word and even up all his imagined slights.  So okay Tom.  You win.  We
 all love you.  Happy now?


That is absolutely what Tom wants.  He wants sincere apologies from
the people who derided him over and over.  He want a detailed, sincere
apology from the Dr. who said that Tom would always be his nigah. 
Tom is working day and night to get FFL deleted.  He wants the slams
made against him and encouraged by others undone.  He'll eventuall
shame the hatemongers into apologizing or better yet, make FFL not be
there when you next go to visit it.  So he won't have to see more
ganging up against him to slam him for the fun of it.

And he wants the So okay Tom. You win.  We all love you.  Happy now?
turned into sincere words.  Not of we love you but we've been some
really immature louts.  If it's too tedious for you to do so, then
just keep your wise ass Happy now? comments out of it.  You have
added to the flames.  Happy now?






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 
  It *was* kinda embarrassing; I had to buy some baggy
  pants for the duration. Fortunately I was on vacation
  and not doing training classes at the time, otherwise
  the students would've been making snide comments about
  my new laser pointer.  :-)
  
  But at least now I know the secret of Billy and Mick's
  onstage charisma.
 
 When I'm not sleeping (I assume) and am rounding, the laser 
 pointer is almost ever present.  One of Nature's little 
 impractacle jokes, I suspose.

Having a laser pointer with the button stuck in the ON
position is actually not that unusual for men who are
engaging in extended periods of meditation, in my
experience.  Kundalini awakening, and all that.








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[FairfieldLife] Keeping Things Quiet (was Re: Hurdy Gurdy Man revealed)

2005-12-09 Thread TurquoiseB
   What's strange is that I forgot to mention 
   codependency.
   
   Thanks for reminding me.
  
  Thanks for providing my morning chuckle, Vaj.  :-)
 
 Says the comrade-in-arms while chuckling over jokes made 
 at the expense of someone with suspected and/or diagnosed  
 mental problems.

Lighten up, Lawson.  I was not laughing at the recent
jibes made here about your medical condition, and do
not support them.  I was laughing at Judy's compulsive
rush to defend one of the people she views as a 
comrade-in-arms and supporter.  The 'codependency'
Vaj jokes about is on her side, not yours.  I found
it funny, that's all.
   
   Actually, I took it as a jibe at me since co-dependency 
   is, well, a two-way street.
   
   You can't have a single person be co-dependent.
  
  You are correct, of course. I was just chuckling
  at the 'dependency' Vaj nailed in someone who has
  made an Internet 'career' out of trying to convince
  others that she's right and that they pretty much
  have to agree with her. Once she recruits someone
  into the position of agreeing with her fairly consis-
  tently
 
 In other words, *Lawson* is the co-dependent, the
 one who is manipulated and controlled (or the toady,
 as Barry is fond of putting it).

No, exactly backwards.  As you keep saying, you might
learn to read. I was suggesting that *you* are dependent
on the people whom you feel agree with you. I was sug-
gesting that (IMO, of course) it seems to give you
some feeling of comfort to know that people agree 
with you or that you have been successful in convincing
them that you are right, and when that happens, you
form a protective relationship with them, compulsively
rushing in to protect them whenever they get into a
challenging discussion. I could be wrong about this,
but it's my honest opinion after watching your behavior
for years.

Lawson does NOT need your protection. He has neither
asked for it nor does he seem to welcome it.  But you
seem compelled to provide it. *That* is the 'dependency'
I was speaking of. It's all from your side.

Clear now?

But I owe you an apology for bringing all this up again,
and you have it -- I apologize.

You are who you are, and that's OK.  I really *am*
tired of all this circular sniping with you, Judy.
It's boring and unproductive.

What's brought me to this realization is the discovery
yesterday that my brother seems to have done a Dennis
Miller and become a Born Again Conservative, compelled
to overreact whenever anyone pushes his America is a
great place buttons by questioning that myth, and
equally compelled to try to convince the offending
parties that they are WRONG and that he is RIGHT.

It's downright embarrassing. It's like discovering 
that you have Bill O'Reilly for a brother.  :-)

And it's made me realize that what I really enjoy on
Internet discussion groups like this one is interactions
with people who are comfortable with believing what they
believe, and equally comfortable with other people
believing what *they* believe, even if it's the
polar opposite.  There are such people here at FFL,
and I treasure them.  Rick has created a great forum,
one in which one can (theoretically) exchange points
of view and learn from the differences between those
points of view, without the need to butt heads to 
establish dominance or prove one point of view better
than another.

I really don't believe that my point of view is right.
It's just my point of view.  It changes daily, if not
more often.  If your point of view or someone else's
differs from mine, I think that's OK, and I'm going
to try my best to not get involved in discussions that
seem to be oriented towards proving the superiority of
one point of view and the inferiority of the other.
That strikes me as terribly lowvibe and not worthy of
someone who has spent as long on a spiritual path as
I have or as you have.  If you still get off on such
things, I wish you well with it, but I really don't
want to get involved any more.







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[FairfieldLife] Re: Visit to a Third World nation

2005-12-09 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 
 The Hub is the center of the universe. The great city
 of Boston.
 
 http://www.gethep.net/road/hub.html

That's just an feeling you have because in Boston
no one will let you out of a traffic roundabout once
you've gotten into one, so you have the illusion
of being at the center of things.  :-)  :-)  :-)

 --- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   on 12/7/05 4:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 12/7/05 12:22:13 P.M. Central
  Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

   Have you and conservatives in general always
  disliked the 
   French or is that just fashionable now because
  they wouldn¹t 
   join this war?
  
  *Everyone* has *always* disliked the French.  :-)
  And with reason.  The Bushies just tried to make
  it patriotic to do what everyone was already doing.
  
  The French are a trying lot, and I live here and
  love them dearly.  My favorite metaphor for the
  mindset that raises hackles in other countries is
  a stone set in the ground in front of the cathedral
  of Notre Dame in Paris.  It's called 'Point Zero.'
  From the medieval period onwards, every French 
  measurement of distance in the world was made from 
  that stone.  London was so many kilometers away from
  Point Zero, Cairo was so many kilometers away from
  Point Zero, and so on.  Basically, it's a way of
  saying that France (and thus the French) are at the
  center of the universe, and that everything revolves
  around them.  Is it any wonder that such an attitude
  occasionally inspires resistance in other peoples?
  
  Now consider the TM movement, which obviously feels
  the same way about itself and its True Believers,
  and you might begin to understand why some people
  have some resistance to its gawdawful self-important
  posturing.  :-)






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[FairfieldLife] Zen Cartoon

2005-12-09 Thread TurquoiseB
When I was in Santa Fe, a friend who once spent a year
studying in a Zen monastery in Kyoto showed me this
classic Gahan Wilson cartoon. It's funny, but it's
also just Right On, so I thought I'd share it. If 
you're a member of FFL, this link should work for you:

http://tinyurl.com/by2xv

It's at the base level of the Photos section; if Rick
feels the need to delete it or move it in the future,
that's fine.








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Re: [FairfieldLife] Shuurangama suutra

2005-12-09 Thread Vaj


On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:52 AM, cardemaister wrote:Anyone read Shuurangama suutra? I read a couple  of pages. It felt rather boring. Skip to last section on the 50 Demonic states of consciousness. They're the rage in FF!See:http://homepage.mac.com/vajranatha/FileSharing2.html





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Vaj


On Dec 9, 2005, at 3:36 AM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:51 PM, L B Shriver wrote:  I have found it interesting that at MSAE Maharishi doesn't allow   2nd language acquisition at the younger age (he may make an exception for Sanskrit)  because   he claims that for the youngster to speak something other than the "mother tongue"  creates   some subtle kind of confusion—even though, as you note, it is the ideal time for   language acquistion.  Does anyone have more precise information on this?  L B S  I asked my wife who has a masters in Infant development. Do it  BEFORE   elementary school.  Would you trust *your* children to Mahesh's theories?   Would you trust rumors that may not ahve any basis in fact in order  to pass judgement on someone? "Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." 





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Vaj


On Dec 9, 2005, at 4:09 AM, anonymousff wrote:You're assuming that Tom is just wrath. No, not at all. Just that he had possible anger issues. In any event, it helpful for *anyone* to be able to integrate the movement of thought with the calm, transcendent state irregardless of what individual issues we might have. For that, wrathful mantra is a great friend. IMO TMSP will just exacerbate issues. YMMV.Bottom line: it's pretty standard that if you do mantra-japa as your sadhana to do at least a quarter of that japa to a fire or flame. Make offerings that please your devata. That's the simplest yajna you can do. Self yajna. But it's our work to do as individuals--you can't really outsource your own sadhana to India.





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[FairfieldLife] Was:The supposed Emotional Healing of Tom Pall, Now: Pity Party

2005-12-09 Thread Peter


--- Tom Pall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bostonbob53
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  
  I'm sorry, but I just don't get it.  Anon or Tom
 Pall, these posts are
  obviously his. What the hell?  Does he think he's
 fooling anyone or
  that anyone still cares?   
 
 They still care enought to attack him.  To state
 categorically that he
 is forever doomed because development stops when
 abuse begins.

Your ridiculous pity party is becoming absurd,Tom.
Everybody is sorry that some really nasty shit
happened to you growing up, but to play it over and
over again in order to justify your rage towards
others is getting very old, very quickly. And these
inferences you come up with from others' posts that
you turn into statements that you then claim they made
against you is asinine. Butch up, man. Deal with your
shit, don't pathetically smear it all over a
newsgroup. You need professional help to deal with
your past trauma. No amount of yagyas will help you as
evidenced by your posts! Yeah, I know. You have
contacted the authorities, my employer and have
lawyers on retainer that will sue me for everything.  


 My guess is that Tom wants to have the last
  word and even up all his imagined slights.  So
 okay Tom.  You win.  We
  all love you.  Happy now?
 
 
 That is absolutely what Tom wants.  He wants sincere
 apologies from
 the people who derided him over and over.  He want a
 detailed, sincere
 apology from the Dr. who said that Tom would
 always be his nigah.

You stupid liar. I said no such thing and you know it.
GROW UP baby boy.

 
 Tom is working day and night to get FFL deleted.  He
 wants the slams
 made against him and encouraged by others undone. 
 He'll eventuall
 shame the hatemongers into apologizing or better
 yet, make FFL not be
 there when you next go to visit it.  So he won't
 have to see more
 ganging up against him to slam him for the fun of
 it.

You are a pathetic whiner. If you don't like FFL, then
LEAVE. Nobody is making you stay, are they?

 
 And he wants the So okay Tom. You win.  We all love
 you.  Happy now?
 turned into sincere words.  Not of we love you but
 we've been some
 really immature louts.  If it's too tedious for you
 to do so, then
 just keep your wise ass Happy now? comments out of
 it.  You have
 added to the flames.  Happy now?

Why do you continue the abuse, Tom? You set
yourself-up so people post comments like the one I'm
making and the emotional abuse continues. Ever heard
of a repetition compulsion? You interact with people
to draw out their ire and then you scream Foul!
Unfair! Look how horrible people are towards me! I was
abused! You really need help. You don't need to
act-out your rage in a newsgroup. Good bye. Go. Leave.
Nobody cares anymore. Go crap on somebody else. We're
no longer interested. Have someone else change your
dirty diaper. Pathetic. Are you happy now that I've
posted this? Isn't a post such as this exactly what
you want so you can now pout and become outraged
against the injustice of these comments? Look at what
you're doing. But unfortunately the odds of that are
the same as the pundits arriving.


 
 
 
 
 
 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 On Dec 9, 2005, at 3:36 AM, sparaig wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 
  On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:51 PM, L B Shriver wrote:
 
 
  I have found it interesting that at MSAE Maharishi doesn't allow
  2nd language acquisition
  at the younger age (he may make an exception for Sanskrit)
 
  because
 
  he claims that for the
  youngster to speak something other than the mother tongue
 
  creates
 
  some subtle kind of
  confusion—even though, as you note, it is the ideal time for
  language acquistion.
 
  Does anyone have more precise information on this?
 
  L B S
 
 
  I asked my wife who has a masters in Infant development. Do it
 
  BEFORE
 
  elementary school.
 
  Would you trust *your* children to Mahesh's theories?
 
 
 
  Would you trust rumors that may not ahve any basis in fact in 
order
  to pass judgement on someone?
 
 Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not 
believe  
 what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.  
 But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be  
 kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all 
beings  
 -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.


Was that directed to me, or to you?






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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Vaj


On Dec 9, 2005, at 7:49 AM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   On Dec 9, 2005, at 3:36 AM, sparaig wrote:  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:51 PM, L B Shriver wrote:   I have found it interesting that at MSAE Maharishi doesn't allow 2nd language acquisition at the younger age (he may make an exception for Sanskrit)  because  he claims that for the youngster to speak something other than the "mother tongue"  creates  some subtle kind of confusion—even though, as you note, it is the ideal time for language acquistion.  Does anyone have more precise information on this?  L B S   I asked my wife who has a masters in Infant development. Do it  BEFORE  elementary school.  Would you trust *your* children to Mahesh's theories?Would you trust rumors that may not ahve any basis in fact in  order to pass judgement on someone?  "Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not  believe   what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.   But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be   kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all  beings   -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."   Was that directed to me, or to you? Anyone.





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[FairfieldLife] YF, etc, and mantras?

2005-12-09 Thread cardemaister

The third sentence(?) of BaadaraayaNa's (?aka Veda-vyaasa's, KRSNa
Dvaipaayana's, who is thought to be the author of Vedaanta-suutras aka
Brahma-suutras aka Shaariiraka-suutras) commentary on YS IV 1 goes 
like this:

mantrairaakaashagamanaaNimaadilaabhaH

 without sandhi prolly like this:

mantraiH; aakaasha-gamana; aNimaa-aadi -laabhaH

mantraiH  by (or whatever is the most best
 preposition hereabouts) mantras
akaasha-gamana space-going (yogic flying)
aNimaadi (aNimaa-aadi) aNimaa, etc: the eight
 mahaa-siddhis (aNimaa, mahimaa, garimaa, laghimaa...)
laabhaH achievement (~they [YF and the 8] are achieved)

It's interesting that BaadaraayaNa, the author
of Vedaanta-suutras (etena yogaH pratyuktaH, [by this
{paatañjala-}yoga is refuted]) specifically mentions
YF here. 

Ouch, I'm running out, or stuff, of brackets... :0






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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 
 Damning Tom once again.  He's not a survivor who's getting over.  
He's
 forever damned because his emotional development was arrested at 
the
 time of abuse..

snip

Yes, you're right. It's not polite to treat someone like a 
psychological specimen to be prodded and analyzed.  Yet he does not 
read the posts, so I just speculated some.  I would be interested to 
see an example of something which demonstrates slander or fraud on 
the part of Ben Collins(?).  I mean everthing I've seen posted by 
Ben seemed pretty balanced.  What am I missing or mis-interpreting.  
It sounds like there must be ample instances.  Thanks.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] YF, etc, and mantras?

2005-12-09 Thread Vaj


On Dec 9, 2005, at 8:35 AM, cardemaister wrote:akaasha-gamana space-going (yogic flying)Is akaaza-gamana a hidden allusion to the khechari-mudra--the secret process of drinking soma?...and aNimaa the improved subtlety of consciousness thereby experienced?





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Peter


--- lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 
  
  Damning Tom once again.  He's not a survivor who's
 getting over.  
 He's
  forever damned because his emotional development
 was arrested at 
 the
  time of
 abuse..
 
 snip
 
 Yes, you're right. It's not polite to treat someone
 like a 
 psychological specimen to be prodded and analyzed. 
 Yet he does not 
 read the posts, so I just speculated some.  I would
 be interested to 
 see an example of something which demonstrates
 slander or fraud on 
 the part of Ben Collins(?).  I mean everthing I've
 seen posted by 
 Ben seemed pretty balanced.  What am I missing or
 mis-interpreting.  
 It sounds like there must be ample instances. 
 Thanks.
 
 lurk

Ample evidence supporting Tom's rage can be found in
his imagination.



 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Peter


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 But it's our work to do as
 individuals--you can't  
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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread TurquoiseB
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  But it's our work to do as
  individuals--you can't  
  really outsource your own sadhana to India.
 
 Very wise words.

I noticed that, too.  Nor, IMO, can you outsource 
them to a guru or a spiritual tradition to do 
for you.  We got ourselves into this karmic
mess ( or illusion of a mess, if you prefer ), and
we have to get ourselves out ( or realize that there
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[FairfieldLife] Re: YF, etc, and mantras?

2005-12-09 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 On Dec 9, 2005, at 8:35 AM, cardemaister wrote:
 
  akaasha-gamana space-going (yogic flying)
 
 Is akaaza-gamana a hidden allusion to the khechari-mudra--the secret  
 process of drinking soma?

Have no idea, but a related word aakaasha-ga means 'bird'.

 
 ...and aNimaa the improved subtlety of consciousness thereby  
 experienced?

aNimaa is one of the eight mahaa-siddhis:

1 aNiman %{a} m. (fr. %{aNu} q.v.) , minuteness , fineness , thinness 
S3Br. c. ; meagreness ; atomic nature , the superhuman power of 
becoming as small as an atom , (%{a4Niman}) n. the smallest particle 
S3Br.  

(the form aNiman is the inflectional stem of the word 
whose nominative singular is aNimaa; it's derived
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Peter


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  --- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   But it's our work to do as
   individuals--you can't  
   really outsource your own sadhana to India.
  
  Very wise words.
 
 I noticed that, too.  Nor, IMO, can you outsource 
 them to a guru or a spiritual tradition to do 
 for you.  We got ourselves into this karmic
 mess ( or illusion of a mess, if you prefer ), and
 we have to get ourselves out ( or realize that there
 was never anything to get out of, again if you
 prefer :-).

The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically
states that you become realized only through your own
effort, nothing else.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[FairfieldLife] Closing FFL

2005-12-09 Thread dhamiltony2k5
So, they are trying to close FFL.

The irony is that if Maharishi or Bevan or John were not doing girls 
while trying to hold everybody else to a double-standard of 'dignity' 
this list would not need to be closed to minors.  Truth and 
consequent?   

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[FairfieldLife] Keeping Things Quiet (was Re: Hurdy Gurdy Man revealed)

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
[Vaj wrote:]
What's strange is that I forgot to mention 
codependency.

Thanks for reminding me.
   
   Thanks for providing my morning chuckle, Vaj.  :-)
  
  Says the comrade-in-arms while chuckling over jokes made 
  at the expense of someone with suspected and/or diagnosed 
  mental problems.
 
 Lighten up, Lawson.  I was not laughing at the recent
 jibes made here about your medical condition, and do
 not support them.  I was laughing at Judy's compulsive
 rush to defend one of the people she views as a 
 comrade-in-arms and supporter.  The 'codependency'
 Vaj jokes about is on her side, not yours.  I found
 it funny, that's all.

Actually, I took it as a jibe at me since co-dependency 
is, well, a two-way street.

You can't have a single person be co-dependent.
   
   You are correct, of course. I was just chuckling
   at the 'dependency' Vaj nailed in someone who has
   made an Internet 'career' out of trying to convince
   others that she's right and that they pretty much
   have to agree with her. Once she recruits someone
   into the position of agreeing with her fairly consis-
   tently
  
  In other words, *Lawson* is the co-dependent, the
  one who is manipulated and controlled (or the toady,
  as Barry is fond of putting it).
 
 That's pretty much what I thought (and still think) was implied.

I don't think either Barry or Vaj were implying it.
They both meant to take a slam at me, not you, and
were in too much of a hurry to do so to bother to
think about what co-dependency actually means.

Typical.






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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/9/05 5:01 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
 It *was* kinda embarrassing; I had to buy some baggy
 pants for the duration. Fortunately I was on vacation
 and not doing training classes at the time, otherwise
 the students would've been making snide comments about
 my new laser pointer.  :-)
 
 But at least now I know the secret of Billy and Mick's
 onstage charisma.
 
 When I'm not sleeping (I assume) and am rounding, the laser
 pointer is almost ever present.  One of Nature's little
 impractacle jokes, I suspose.
 
 Having a laser pointer with the button stuck in the ON
 position is actually not that unusual for men who are
 engaging in extended periods of meditation, in my
 experience.  Kundalini awakening, and all that.

A friend of mine told me a very funny story about being called up in front
of his high school class to speak when he happened to have an erection. It
was hilarious as he told it.




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[FairfieldLife] Keeping Things Quiet (was Re: Hurdy Gurdy Man r

2005-12-09 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquiseB writes: Big snipperino
That strikes me as terribly lowvibe and not worthy of
someone who has spent as long on a spiritual path as
I have or as you have.  If you still get off on such
things, I wish you well with it, but I really don't
want to get involved any more.

Tom T responds:
Thank you Thank you thank you. Spoken like a true Buddhist. We all
appreciate your comments but the war seemed silly in light of what you
said. Now congruence in thought and action. Bravo!. Love Tom T







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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:51 PM, L B Shriver wrote:
  
   I have found it interesting that at MSAE Maharishi doesn't 
   allow 2nd language acquisition at the younger age (he may make 
   an exception for Sanskrit) because he claims that for the
   youngster to speak something other than the mother tongue 
   creates some subtle kind of confusion—even though, as you note, 
   it is the ideal time for language acquistion.
  
   Does anyone have more precise information on this?
  
  I asked my wife who has a masters in Infant development. Do it 
  BEFORE elementary school.
  
  Would you trust *your* children to Mahesh's theories?
 
 Would you trust rumors that may not ahve any basis in fact in order 
 to pass judgement on someone?

Even if it's true as stated by LBS, to decide not to
trust one's children to MMY because his theories are
not the same as those of someone who has a master's in
infant development is a knee-jerk, thoughtless
conclusion.

The subtle confusion LBS refers to isn't necessarily
in conflict with the principle that the younger the
better in terms of second-language acquisition.  The
purported confusion may be on an entirely different
level than that of facility in a second language.

It isn't impossible that the optimal situation, in
MMY's view, is a sort of trade-off between acquiring
second-language facility and avoiding the subtle
confusion.  In other words, an older child may still
be able to learn a second language well enough to 
become reasonably fluent in it at a point when learning
it may no longer cause the subtle confusion.

Or maybe not.  But obviously we don't know enough, on
the basis of LBS's account, to say either way.






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[FairfieldLife] Keeping Things Quiet (was Re: Hurdy Gurdy Man revealed)

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

What's strange is that I forgot to mention 
codependency.

Thanks for reminding me.
   
   Thanks for providing my morning chuckle, Vaj.  :-)
  
  Says the comrade-in-arms while chuckling over jokes made 
  at the expense of someone with suspected and/or 
diagnosed  
  mental problems.
 
 Lighten up, Lawson.  I was not laughing at the recent
 jibes made here about your medical condition, and do
 not support them.  I was laughing at Judy's compulsive
 rush to defend one of the people she views as a 
 comrade-in-arms and supporter.  The 'codependency'
 Vaj jokes about is on her side, not yours.  I found
 it funny, that's all.

Actually, I took it as a jibe at me since co-dependency 
is, well, a two-way street.

You can't have a single person be co-dependent.
   
   You are correct, of course. I was just chuckling
   at the 'dependency' Vaj nailed in someone who has
   made an Internet 'career' out of trying to convince
   others that she's right and that they pretty much
   have to agree with her. Once she recruits someone
   into the position of agreeing with her fairly consis-
   tently
  
  In other words, *Lawson* is the co-dependent, the
  one who is manipulated and controlled (or the toady,
  as Barry is fond of putting it).
 
 No, exactly backwards.  As you keep saying, you might
 learn to read. I was suggesting that *you* are dependent
 on the people whom you feel agree with you.

You can suggest anything you like.  I'm just pointing
out that that isn't what co-dependent means.  A co-
dependent is someone who is manipulated by another
person with a personality disorder.  Only if you're
claiming Lawson is the one doing the manipulating could
you properly call me the co-dependent.  If I'm the
manipulator, then Lawson is the co-dependent.

 I was sug-
 gesting that (IMO, of course) it seems to give you
 some feeling of comfort to know that people agree 
 with you or that you have been successful in convincing
 them that you are right,

I suspect the vast majority of people feel more
comfortable with agreement than disagreement.

 and when that happens, you
 form a protective relationship with them, compulsively
 rushing in to protect them whenever they get into a
 challenging discussion. I could be wrong about this,
 but it's my honest opinion after watching your behavior
 for years.

Yeah, you're wrong about this.  As I said, I support
those I feel are being unfairly attacked, whether I
agree with them or not.

 Lawson does NOT need your protection.

Has nothing to do with protection.  It has to do
with standing up for what I feel is right, i.e.,
fairness.  Not something you'd understand, of course.

snip
 I really don't believe that my point of view is right.
 It's just my point of view.  It changes daily, if not
 more often.  If your point of view or someone else's
 differs from mine, I think that's OK, and I'm going
 to try my best to not get involved in discussions that
 seem to be oriented towards proving the superiority of
 one point of view and the inferiority of the other.
 That strikes me as terribly lowvibe and not worthy of
 someone who has spent as long on a spiritual path as
 I have or as you have.  If you still get off on such
 things, I wish you well with it, but I really don't
 want to get involved any more.

snore  Be interesting to know exactly how many times
you've made this vow.  Between FFL and alt.m.t, it's
surely up to the several dozens by now.






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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Vaj


On Dec 9, 2005, at 10:49 AM, authfriend wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:51 PM, L B Shriver wrote:  I have found it interesting that at MSAE Maharishi doesn't  allow 2nd language acquisition at the younger age (he may make  an exception for Sanskrit) because he claims that for the youngster to speak something other than the "mother tongue"  creates some subtle kind of confusion—even though, as you note,  it is the ideal time for language acquistion.  Does anyone have more precise information on this?  I asked my wife who has a masters in Infant development. Do it  BEFORE elementary school.  Would you trust *your* children to Mahesh's theories?  Would you trust rumors that may not ahve any basis in fact in order  to pass judgement on someone?  Even if it's true as stated by LBS, to decide not to trust one's children to MMY because his "theories" are not the same as those of someone who has a master's in infant development is a knee-jerk, thoughtless conclusion. It really has nothing to do with a degree or any reaction but that this an accepted scientific fact.Take it or leave it, it doesn't really matter to me.On a separate note I do know a number of yogis who used sadhana to help with knowledge acquisition and retention, often with great effect. Typically sadhanas of Jupiterian deities are of wonderful assistance. Now with growing recognition of neuroplasticity and the fact that the neural hardware tends to morph itself to the consciousness of the person--old neural pathways are not written in stone. This is wonderful news for education, recovery from abuse/addictions or criminal rehabilitation. Reminds me of a movie where criminals were put in suspended animation instead of jail and their neural-pathways "retrained" using computers linked the body-hardware (i.e. the brain/nervous system). 





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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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 --- lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff
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  wrote:
  
   
   Damning Tom once again.  He's not a survivor who's
  getting over.  
  He's
   forever damned because his emotional development
  was arrested at 
  the
   time of
  abuse..
  
  snip
  
  Yes, you're right. It's not polite to treat someone
  like a 
  psychological specimen to be prodded and analyzed. 
  Yet he does not 
  read the posts, so I just speculated some.  I would
  be interested to 
  see an example of something which demonstrates
  slander or fraud on 
  the part of Ben Collins(?).  I mean everthing I've
  seen posted by 
  Ben seemed pretty balanced.  What am I missing or
  mis-interpreting.  
  It sounds like there must be ample instances. 
  Thanks.
  
  lurk
 
 Ample evidence supporting Tom's rage can be found in
 his imagination.
 
Agreed. I will say again that I thought it was a brave thing for Tom 
to openly post details of his childhood trauma. Such an action can 
sometimes be helpful for empowerment and to destigmatize  
victimizing event.

However, instead of then taking a breath of fresh air and getting on 
with life, he squanders his equity by trashing others. Aside from 
finding it annoying and disruptive, it doesn't help Tom in the 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below:

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**SNIP** 
 
 Tom has arranged for a $50,000 legal retainer to sue
 Ben the lier.  If Ben posts a fully apologitic statement in which he
 admits in every line that he, and not Tom was wrong and he apologizes
 for wrongfully accusing Tom for it in an unambiguous, convincing,
 non-finger pointing way, the suit will not be filed.  Any hint that
 he's being insincere and Tom will see Ben in Court.  If Ben posts
 anything to Fairfield life on any subject becept a convincing  apology
 and  agreement that he is a flake, the lawsuit against Ben will be
 filed and a few days later Ben will receive his subpoena.  Tom doesn't
 want to stiffle Ben's freedom of speach.  But he doesn't want to read
 the words of a lier who reprements himself as totally innocent of any
 wrong doing.  The lawyers will prove otherwise.  Tom has more money
 set aside for more prosecuition, counter suits and to fight malicious,
 frivilous law suits against him.  He's also got every email Ben ever
 sent to him, notes of every phone conversation, every email he ever
 sent to Ben or others about Ben.  Some of it will curl your hair.
 
**SNIP TO END**

Tom,

$50k is quite a large retainer to sue a private individual for
defamation and libel.  And from what I've read of Ben's posts, and as
a lawyer (albeit one who doesn't get $50k retainers), I don't see how
you'd make a case.  Your suit would likely be considered frivolous.

Perhaps the people who have hurt you in your life did so because they
were radiating the hurt and ignorance in their own.  To whatever
degree that is true, it certainly doesn't minimize or mitigate the
pain and suffering that you have endured and continue to wrestle with.
 But the expansion of misery and suffering to others can't diminish or
resolve your own.  I'm sure you know that.

Why not use your legal fund to establish some foundation or project
that serves to alleviate suffering rather than increase it.  If Ben is
the scoundrel you know him to be, why not let him reap the
consequences of his behavior without enmeshing you in it, too?  If
Nature is due to deliver Ben the consequences of his bad karma you
don't have to volunteer to be the carrier of that karmic delivery.

That's just a response to what you've written and, as you know from a
previous post of mine, I do not share your opinion of Ben.  But, then
perhaps you know more of him than I.  Or perhaps you're wrong in your
evaluation of his character.  I don't know all the details (not do I
think it's necessary that I need to); but solely as a human being who
cares about others and prefers to see the expansion of happiness
rather than the converse, I'd ask you to consider this response to
your posting as a sincere and candid reaction from your environment to
what you are projecting into it.

Thanks for taking the time to consider this.

Marek






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
   On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:51 PM, L B Shriver wrote:
   
I have found it interesting that at MSAE Maharishi doesn't 
allow 2nd language acquisition at the younger age (he may 
make 
an exception for Sanskrit) because he claims that for the
youngster to speak something other than the mother tongue 
creates some subtle kind of confusion—even though, as you 
note, 
it is the ideal time for language acquistion.
   
Does anyone have more precise information on this?
   
   I asked my wife who has a masters in Infant development. Do it 
   BEFORE elementary school.
   
   Would you trust *your* children to Mahesh's theories?
  
  Would you trust rumors that may not ahve any basis in fact in 
order 
  to pass judgement on someone?
 
 Even if it's true as stated by LBS, to decide not to
 trust one's children to MMY because his theories are
 not the same as those of someone who has a master's in
 infant development is a knee-jerk, thoughtless
 conclusion.
 
 The subtle confusion LBS refers to isn't necessarily
 in conflict with the principle that the younger the
 better in terms of second-language acquisition.  The
 purported confusion may be on an entirely different
 level than that of facility in a second language.
 
 It isn't impossible that the optimal situation, in
 MMY's view, is a sort of trade-off between acquiring
 second-language facility and avoiding the subtle
 confusion.  In other words, an older child may still
 be able to learn a second language well enough to 
 become reasonably fluent in it at a point when learning
 it may no longer cause the subtle confusion.
 
 Or maybe not.  But obviously we don't know enough, on
 the basis of LBS's account, to say either way.


My experience has been that as a born English speaker I found no 
subtle confusion when very young being introduced to a language of 
the country I was in. For example, learning Spanish in Mexico, 
because I heard and spoke both languages daily. I also rapidly 
forgot the non-English language after leaving its country of origin. 






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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Comment below:
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 **SNIP** 
  
  Tom has arranged for a $50,000 legal retainer to sue
  Ben the lier.  If Ben posts a fully apologitic statement in 
which he
  admits in every line that he, and not Tom was wrong and he 
apologizes
  for wrongfully accusing Tom for it in an unambiguous, convincing,
  non-finger pointing way, the suit will not be filed.  Any hint 
that
  he's being insincere and Tom will see Ben in Court.  If Ben posts
  anything to Fairfield life on any subject becept a convincing  
apology
  and  agreement that he is a flake, the lawsuit against Ben will 
be
  filed and a few days later Ben will receive his subpoena.  Tom 
doesn't
  want to stiffle Ben's freedom of speach.  But he doesn't want to 
read
  the words of a lier who reprements himself as totally innocent 
of any
  wrong doing.  The lawyers will prove otherwise.  Tom has more 
money
  set aside for more prosecuition, counter suits and to fight 
malicious,
  frivilous law suits against him.  He's also got every email Ben 
ever
  sent to him, notes of every phone conversation, every email he 
ever
  sent to Ben or others about Ben.  Some of it will curl your hair.
  
 **SNIP TO END**
 
 Tom,
 
 $50k is quite a large retainer to sue a private individual for
 defamation and libel.  And from what I've read of Ben's posts, and 
as
 a lawyer (albeit one who doesn't get $50k retainers), I don't see 
how
 you'd make a case.  Your suit would likely be considered frivolous.
 
 Perhaps the people who have hurt you in your life did so because 
they
 were radiating the hurt and ignorance in their own.  To whatever
 degree that is true, it certainly doesn't minimize or mitigate the
 pain and suffering that you have endured and continue to wrestle 
with.
  But the expansion of misery and suffering to others can't 
diminish or
 resolve your own.  I'm sure you know that.
 
 Why not use your legal fund to establish some foundation or project
 that serves to alleviate suffering rather than increase it.  If 
Ben is
 the scoundrel you know him to be, why not let him reap the
 consequences of his behavior without enmeshing you in it, too?  If
 Nature is due to deliver Ben the consequences of his bad karma you
 don't have to volunteer to be the carrier of that karmic delivery.
 
 That's just a response to what you've written and, as you know 
from a
 previous post of mine, I do not share your opinion of Ben.  But, 
then
 perhaps you know more of him than I.  Or perhaps you're wrong in 
your
 evaluation of his character.  I don't know all the details (not do 
I
 think it's necessary that I need to); but solely as a human being 
who
 cares about others and prefers to see the expansion of happiness
 rather than the converse, I'd ask you to consider this response to
 your posting as a sincere and candid reaction from your 
environment to
 what you are projecting into it.
 
 Thanks for taking the time to consider this.
 
 Marek


Bravo! Thank you- excellently stated!





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 On Dec 9, 2005, at 10:49 AM, authfriend wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 
  On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:51 PM, L B Shriver wrote:
 
 
  I have found it interesting that at MSAE Maharishi doesn't
  allow 2nd language acquisition at the younger age (he may make
  an exception for Sanskrit) because he claims that for the
  youngster to speak something other than the mother tongue
  creates some subtle kind of confusion—even though, as you note,
  it is the ideal time for language acquistion.
 
  Does anyone have more precise information on this?
 
 
  I asked my wife who has a masters in Infant development. Do it
  BEFORE elementary school.
 
  Would you trust *your* children to Mahesh's theories?
 
  Would you trust rumors that may not ahve any basis in fact in 
  order to pass judgement on someone?
 
  Even if it's true as stated by LBS, to decide not to
  trust one's children to MMY because his theories are
  not the same as those of someone who has a master's in
  infant development is a knee-jerk, thoughtless
  conclusion.
 
 It really has nothing to do with a degree or any reaction but that  
 this an accepted scientific fact.

How odd, you seem to have deleted what I went on
to say, which made it clear I wasn't questioning
the accepted scientific fact.

I'm sure it was inadvertent.  You read the first
paragraph of my response, jumped to the erroneous
conclusion that I was disputing the science, and
decided the rest of what I said must be more of the
same and could therefore be ignored.

Here, let me give you another chance to read what
you snipped, so you can take a stab at making a
relevant response:

The subtle confusion LBS refers to isn't necessarily
in conflict with the principle that the younger the
better in terms of second-language acquisition. The
purported confusion may be on an entirely different
level than that of facility in a second language.

It isn't impossible that the optimal situation, in
MMY's view, is a sort of trade-off between acquiring
second-language facility and avoiding the subtle
confusion. In other words, an older child may still
be able to learn a second language well enough to
become reasonably fluent in it at a point when learning
it may no longer cause the subtle confusion.

Or maybe not. But obviously we don't know enough, on
the basis of LBS's account, to say either way.






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:51 PM, L B Shriver wrote:

 I have found it interesting that at MSAE Maharishi doesn't 
 allow 2nd language acquisition at the younger age (he may 
 make 
 an exception for Sanskrit) because he claims that for the
 youngster to speak something other than the mother tongue 
 creates some subtle kind of confusion—even though, as you 
 note, 
 it is the ideal time for language acquistion.

 Does anyone have more precise information on this?

I asked my wife who has a masters in Infant development. Do 
it 
BEFORE elementary school.

Would you trust *your* children to Mahesh's theories?
   
   Would you trust rumors that may not ahve any basis in fact in 
 order 
   to pass judgement on someone?
  
  Even if it's true as stated by LBS, to decide not to
  trust one's children to MMY because his theories are
  not the same as those of someone who has a master's in
  infant development is a knee-jerk, thoughtless
  conclusion.
  
  The subtle confusion LBS refers to isn't necessarily
  in conflict with the principle that the younger the
  better in terms of second-language acquisition.  The
  purported confusion may be on an entirely different
  level than that of facility in a second language.
  
  It isn't impossible that the optimal situation, in
  MMY's view, is a sort of trade-off between acquiring
  second-language facility and avoiding the subtle
  confusion.  In other words, an older child may still
  be able to learn a second language well enough to 
  become reasonably fluent in it at a point when learning
  it may no longer cause the subtle confusion.
  
  Or maybe not.  But obviously we don't know enough, on
  the basis of LBS's account, to say either way.
 
 My experience has been that as a born English speaker I found no 
 subtle confusion when very young being introduced to a language of 
 the country I was in. For example, learning Spanish in Mexico, 
 because I heard and spoke both languages daily. I also rapidly 
 forgot the non-English language after leaving its country of origin.

The question in my mind is whether the confusion MMY
is talking about is on such a subtle level that you
*wouldn't* detect it as such--the point being that we
really don't know what he's referring to.

Until we have a clearer idea, it makes no sense to
assume he's contradicting established scientific 
fact.







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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Vaj


On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:29 AM, authfriend wrote:How odd, you seem to have deleted what I went on to say, which made it clear I wasn't questioning the accepted scientific fact. It wasn't clear to me.Despite repeated accusations of having some hidden agenda in the quoting of your email messages, there exists no such agenda, other than in your own consciousness.DISCLAIMER: The above message contains material quoted from another, longer, message. This is done for the sake of conciseness and brevity. Any perceived other reason is solely the responsibility of the reader. Any similarity to email messages existing or deleted is purely coincidental. Any reading of the message/email, or clipping/cut--pasting/ or verbal repetition of  message/email constitutes acceptance of the terms of this disclaimer.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 
 
 --- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
   --- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
But it's our work to do as
individuals--you can't  
really outsource your own sadhana to India.
   
   Very wise words.
  
  I noticed that, too.  Nor, IMO, can you outsource 
  them to a guru or a spiritual tradition to do 
  for you.  We got ourselves into this karmic
  mess ( or illusion of a mess, if you prefer ), and 
  we have to get ourselves out ( or realize that there
  was never anything to get out of, again if you
  prefer :-).
 
 The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically
 states that you become realized only through your own
 effort, nothing else.
 

Another one o' them pair-of-oxes: 

Before liberation or the full sunshine of the Self in Unity, or pick 
your own description, we pray and exhort Gods, Godesses, and the 
saints and Masters to deliver us from our suffering. Afterwards, we 
are delighted we did it all by our Selves! 

Again, looking back it seems absurd that such a duality of 
deliverance from our ignorance by someone or someGod else would be 
preferred. After all, if we don't do it by ourselves, we can't 
really know exactly what we have done, and by extension would 
hypothetically remain in ignorance...







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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
snippage 
  My experience has been that as a born English speaker I found no 
  subtle confusion when very young being introduced to a language 
of 
  the country I was in. For example, learning Spanish in Mexico, 
  because I heard and spoke both languages daily. I also rapidly 
  forgot the non-English language after leaving its country of 
origin.
 
 The question in my mind is whether the confusion MMY
 is talking about is on such a subtle level that you
 *wouldn't* detect it as such--the point being that we
 really don't know what he's referring to.

I mean no disrespect to him or to you, but if it is that subtle, 
from a practical standpoint, who cares? My benchmark for such things 
even as a child has been if it is creating undue strain, don't 
bother. On the other hand, if something seems readily available, 
take advantage of it...

Reminds me of a larger issue, sort of related to the emotional 
healing vs TM discussion. After I had been meditating for awhile and 
been exposed to all of the esoteric Indian stuff and tried some of 
it on for size, I realized that as a person of the world, with a 
finite amount of time to devote to spiritual practice, I had to use 
common sense in what I adopted vs not.

This then led to a growing sense of freedom that it was I who was 
most interested in enlightening myself, vs blindly accepting and 
following the precepts of the saints. 

It eventually made for a much more interesting journey, being 
empowered to deliberately choose from a menu of thought and practice 
what best suited my personal spiritual development.

 Until we have a clearer idea, it makes no sense to
 assume he's contradicting established scientific 
 fact.







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[FairfieldLife] Re: Zen Cartoon

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 When I was in Santa Fe, a friend who once spent a year
 studying in a Zen monastery in Kyoto showed me this
 classic Gahan Wilson cartoon. It's funny, but it's
 also just Right On, so I thought I'd share it. If 
 you're a member of FFL, this link should work for you:
 
 http://tinyurl.com/by2xv
 
 It's at the base level of the Photos section; if Rick
 feels the need to delete it or move it in the future,
 that's fine.


Funny! I haven't seen a Gahan Wilson cartoon in ages. I always 
appreciated his exceedingly dry sense of humor...

So, what's next?





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:29 AM, authfriend wrote:
 
  How odd, you seem to have deleted what I went on
  to say, which made it clear I wasn't questioning
  the accepted scientific fact.
 
 It wasn't clear to me.

Well, let's have another look, shall we?  (Since
you snipped it again.)


The subtle confusion LBS refers to isn't necessarily
in conflict with the principle that the younger the
better in terms of second-language acquisition. The
purported confusion may be on an entirely different
level than that of facility in a second language.

It isn't impossible that the optimal situation, in
MMY's view, is a sort of trade-off between acquiring
second-language facility and avoiding the subtle
confusion. In other words, an older child may still
be able to learn a second language well enough to
become reasonably fluent in it at a point when learning
it may no longer cause the subtle confusion.

Or maybe not. But obviously we don't know enough, on
the basis of LBS's account, to say either way.


Where in what I wrote do you see any suggestion
that I was questioning accepted scientific fact?

I repeat: I think you just *assumed*, in a knee-jerk
fashion, that I would question established scientific
fact because you have me erroneously pegged as a
true believer (or just hope you can convince others
to think I am).

And therefore you didn't pay much attention to the
rest of what I said.  If you had, you'd have seen
that I was actually accepting as a given that
children learn languages more easily the younger
they are.  (One hint: that's why I referred to it
as a principle rather than a theory.)

 Despite repeated accusations of having some hidden agenda in the  
 quoting of your email messages, there exists no such agenda, other  
 than in your own consciousness.

Oh, goodness, it's not just *my* email messages (I
assume you mean posts to FFL and alt.m.t) by any means.
You even snip portions of your own earlier posts when
they might conflict with or detract from whatever you're
saying in your current post.  In any case, the snipping
is always in your own interest.

I'm quite willing to believe, however, that the
agenda may not be conscious.  I suspect it's just
become second nature, and you do it without even
thinking about it.

That out of the way, do you have any relevant comment
on what I suggested, i.e., that we don't know enough
about what MMY means to come to the conclusion, as you
did, that he isn't to be trusted with children's
education?






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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
What do you guys think is the connection between 
the individual and collective consciousness? I've 
often felt that my individual evolution is in thrall 
to the collective, just as my income usually depends 
on the larger economy. 

Your remarks below consider only individual power, 
independent of collective consciousness.


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 
  
  
  --- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
   wrote:
--- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 But it's our work to do as
 individuals--you can't  
 really outsource your own sadhana to India.

Very wise words.
   
   I noticed that, too.  Nor, IMO, can you outsource 
   them to a guru or a spiritual tradition to do 
   for you.  We got ourselves into this karmic
   mess ( or illusion of a mess, if you prefer ), and 
   we have to get ourselves out ( or realize that there
   was never anything to get out of, again if you
   prefer :-).
  
  The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically
  states that you become realized only through your own
  effort, nothing else.
  
 
 Another one o' them pair-of-oxes: 
 
 Before liberation or the full sunshine of the Self in Unity, or pick 
 your own description, we pray and exhort Gods, Godesses, and the 
 saints and Masters to deliver us from our suffering. Afterwards, we 
 are delighted we did it all by our Selves! 
 
 Again, looking back it seems absurd that such a duality of 
 deliverance from our ignorance by someone or someGod else would be 
 preferred. After all, if we don't do it by ourselves, we can't 
 really know exactly what we have done, and by extension would 
 hypothetically remain in ignorance...








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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Rick Archer wrote:
 
 A friend of mine told me a very funny story 
 about being called up in front of his high 
 school class to speak when he happened to 
 have an erection. 

At what point in high school does a male *not* have an erection?






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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Vaj


On Dec 9, 2005, at 12:11 PM, authfriend wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:29 AM, authfriend wrote:  How odd, you seem to have deleted what I went on to say, which made it clear I wasn't questioning the accepted scientific fact.  It wasn't clear to me.  Well, let's have another look, shall we?  (Since you snipped it again.)   The "subtle confusion" LBS refers to isn't necessarily in conflict with the principle that the younger the better in terms of second-language acquisition. The purported confusion may be on an entirely different level than that of facility in a second language.  It isn't impossible that the optimal situation, in MMY's view, is a sort of trade-off between acquiring second-language facility and avoiding the subtle confusion. In other words, an older child may still be able to learn a second language well enough to become reasonably fluent in it at a point when learning it may no longer cause the subtle confusion.  Or maybe not. But obviously we don't know enough, on the basis of LBS's account, to say either way.   Where in what I wrote do you see any suggestion that I was questioning accepted scientific fact?  I repeat: I think you just *assumed*, in a knee-jerk fashion, that I would question established scientific fact because you have me erroneously pegged as a "true believer" (or just hope you can convince others to think I am).  And therefore you didn't pay much attention to the rest of what I said.  If you had, you'd have seen that I was actually accepting as a given that children learn languages more easily the younger they are.  (One hint: that's why I referred to it as a "principle" rather than a "theory.")  Despite repeated accusations of having some hidden agenda in the   quoting of your email messages, there exists no such agenda, other   than in your own consciousness.  Oh, goodness, it's not just *my* "email messages" (I assume you mean posts to FFL and alt.m.t) by any means. You even snip portions of your own earlier posts when they might conflict with or detract from whatever you're saying in your current post.  In any case, the snipping is always in your own interest.  I'm quite willing to believe, however, that the agenda may not be conscious.  I suspect it's just become second nature, and you do it without even thinking about it.  That out of the way, do you have any relevant comment on what I suggested, i.e., that we don't know enough about what MMY means to come to the conclusion, as you did, that he isn't to be trusted with children's education? LOL. You read way too much into these things. Why do you think that is? 





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
 snippage 
   My experience has been that as a born English speaker I found 
   no subtle confusion when very young being introduced to a 
   language of the country I was in. For example, learning Spanish 
   in Mexico, because I heard and spoke both languages daily. I 
   also rapidly forgot the non-English language after leaving its 
   country of origin.
  
  The question in my mind is whether the confusion MMY
  is talking about is on such a subtle level that you
  *wouldn't* detect it as such--the point being that we
  really don't know what he's referring to.
 
 I mean no disrespect to him or to you, but if it is that subtle, 
 from a practical standpoint, who cares?

Sure, obviously it's an individual decision whether
you want to worry about it on the basis of something
MMY has said.  I'm not advocating either way, and for
all I know MMY could be completely wrong about it.

I'm just saying that on the basis of what very little
we know, it's not impossible that something could
get screwed up on a very subtle level that would have
some negative impact on grosser levels without the person
necessarily being able to make the connection, or even
realizing there had *been* a screwup.  And if so, it
might be something you'd want to avoid if you could,
even if it did mean sacrificing some degree of ease
of learning a second language as a tradeoff.

Again, all I'm saying is that we can't rule this
possibility out without knowing more about what MMY
means.  I'm not suggesting anybody even worry about
it if they don't feel it's worth it.  Just pointing
out that the original conclusion that MMY can't be
trusted with children's education in this regard 
isn't warranted on the basis of what information we
have.

There's just this knee-jerk kind of reaction that
many here have, that if something MMY says doesn't
immediately make perfect sense to us on its face,
therefore it must be crazy and wrong.  Maybe it is
and maybe it isn't, but often the assumption is
made on a very superficial basis.

That's really all I'm getting at.





 My benchmark for such 
 things even as a child has been if it is creating undue strain, 
 don't bother. On the other hand, if something seems readily 
 available, take advantage of it...
 
 Reminds me of a larger issue, sort of related to the emotional 
 healing vs TM discussion. After I had been meditating for awhile 
 and been exposed to all of the esoteric Indian stuff and tried some
 of it on for size, I realized that as a person of the world, with a 
 finite amount of time to devote to spiritual practice, I had to use 
 common sense in what I adopted vs not.
 
 This then led to a growing sense of freedom that it was I who was 
 most interested in enlightening myself, vs blindly accepting and 
 following the precepts of the saints. 
 
 It eventually made for a much more interesting journey, being 
 empowered to deliberately choose from a menu of thought and 
 practice what best suited my personal spiritual development.
 
  Until we have a clearer idea, it makes no sense to
  assume he's contradicting established scientific 
  fact.






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
   wrote:
  snippage 
My experience has been that as a born English speaker I 
found 
no subtle confusion when very young being introduced to a 
language of the country I was in. For example, learning 
Spanish 
in Mexico, because I heard and spoke both languages daily. I 
also rapidly forgot the non-English language after leaving 
its 
country of origin.
   
   The question in my mind is whether the confusion MMY
   is talking about is on such a subtle level that you
   *wouldn't* detect it as such--the point being that we
   really don't know what he's referring to.
  
  I mean no disrespect to him or to you, but if it is that subtle, 
  from a practical standpoint, who cares?
 
 Sure, obviously it's an individual decision whether
 you want to worry about it on the basis of something
 MMY has said.  I'm not advocating either way, and for
 all I know MMY could be completely wrong about it.
 
 I'm just saying that on the basis of what very little
 we know, it's not impossible that something could
 get screwed up on a very subtle level that would have
 some negative impact on grosser levels without the person
 necessarily being able to make the connection, or even
 realizing there had *been* a screwup.  And if so, it
 might be something you'd want to avoid if you could,
 even if it did mean sacrificing some degree of ease
 of learning a second language as a tradeoff.
 
 Again, all I'm saying is that we can't rule this
 possibility out without knowing more about what MMY
 means.  I'm not suggesting anybody even worry about
 it if they don't feel it's worth it.  Just pointing
 out that the original conclusion that MMY can't be
 trusted with children's education in this regard 
 isn't warranted on the basis of what information we
 have.
 
 There's just this knee-jerk kind of reaction that
 many here have, that if something MMY says doesn't
 immediately make perfect sense to us on its face,
 therefore it must be crazy and wrong.  Maybe it is
 and maybe it isn't, but often the assumption is
 made on a very superficial basis.
 
 That's really all I'm getting at.
 
Oh OK. Yes, I agree with you.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 What do you guys think is the connection between 
 the individual and collective consciousness? 

Here we go with another paradox. Once the illusion of seperation is 
largely dispelled as a result of identification with the Self, there 
really is no individual vs collective consciousness. 

So we act walk and talk like individuals, and operate as such 
because we each have our own physical bodies, and it is the 
practical material thing to do, but it is upon closer examination, 
not ultimately real.

As an experiment, when we close our eyes, we expand to Infinity 
through silence, and when we open our eyes, we also expand to 
Infinity through the action of the senses. In both directions and in 
both cases, infinity is the end result. 

So there may appear to be a surface construct of individual vs 
collective consciousness, but the reality is forever a union of the 
two, a oneness, a singularity, where the actual boundary 
between 'me' and 'you' cannot be located.  

I've 
 often felt that my individual evolution is in thrall 
 to the collective, just as my income usually depends 
 on the larger economy. 
 
 Your remarks below consider only individual power, 
 independent of collective consciousness.
 






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Dec 9, 2005, at 12:11 PM, authfriend wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:29 AM, authfriend wrote:
  How odd, you seem to have deleted what I went on
  to say, which made it clear I wasn't questioning
  the accepted scientific fact.
 
  It wasn't clear to me.
 
  Well, let's have another look, shall we?  (Since
  you snipped it again.)
  
  The subtle confusion LBS refers to isn't necessarily
  in conflict with the principle that the younger the
  better in terms of second-language acquisition. The
  purported confusion may be on an entirely different
  level than that of facility in a second language.
 
  It isn't impossible that the optimal situation, in
  MMY's view, is a sort of trade-off between acquiring
  second-language facility and avoiding the subtle
  confusion. In other words, an older child may still
  be able to learn a second language well enough to
  become reasonably fluent in it at a point when learning
  it may no longer cause the subtle confusion.
 
  Or maybe not. But obviously we don't know enough, on
  the basis of LBS's account, to say either way.
  
  Where in what I wrote do you see any suggestion
  that I was questioning accepted scientific fact?
 
  I repeat: I think you just *assumed*, in a knee-jerk
  fashion, that I would question established scientific
  fact because you have me erroneously pegged as a
  true believer (or just hope you can convince others
  to think I am).
 
  And therefore you didn't pay much attention to the
  rest of what I said.  If you had, you'd have seen
  that I was actually accepting as a given that
  children learn languages more easily the younger
  they are.  (One hint: that's why I referred to it
  as a principle rather than a theory.)
 
  Despite repeated accusations of having some hidden agenda in the
  quoting of your email messages, there exists no such agenda, 
  other than in your own consciousness.
 
  Oh, goodness, it's not just *my* email messages (I
  assume you mean posts to FFL and alt.m.t) by any means.
  You even snip portions of your own earlier posts when
  they might conflict with or detract from whatever you're
  saying in your current post.  In any case, the snipping
  is always in your own interest.
 
  I'm quite willing to believe, however, that the
  agenda may not be conscious.  I suspect it's just
  become second nature, and you do it without even
  thinking about it.
 
  That out of the way, do you have any relevant comment
  on what I suggested, i.e., that we don't know enough
  about what MMY means to come to the conclusion, as you
  did, that he isn't to be trusted with children's
  education?
 
 LOL. You read way too much into these things.
 
 Why do you think that is?

You seem to be assuming I think it's the case,
but obviously I don't.

I note that you *still* can't address what I
suggested; nor are you able to say where in
what I wrote you saw any hint that I was
questioning established scientific facts.

Now, why do you think *that* is?






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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
snip
  The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically
  states that you become realized only through your own
  effort, nothing else.
 
 Another one o' them pair-of-oxes: 
 
 Before liberation or the full sunshine of the Self in Unity, or
 pick your own description, we pray and exhort Gods, Godesses, and 
 the saints and Masters to deliver us from our suffering. 
 Afterwards, we are delighted we did it all by our Selves!

As I was reading the first sentence, I thought you
were going to finish by saying, Afterwards, we are
delighted to find that every one of them was just
our Self all along!

 Again, looking back it seems absurd that such a duality of 
 deliverance from our ignorance by someone or someGod else would be 
 preferred. After all, if we don't do it by ourselves, we can't 
 really know exactly what we have done, and by extension would 
 hypothetically remain in ignorance...

Nah.  We *do* know exactly what we have done: we have
appealed to aspects of our very own Self.  From the
perspective of enlightenment--I would assume--there's
no way we can do it *other* than by ourselves.







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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
 snip
   The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically
   states that you become realized only through your own
   effort, nothing else.
  
  Another one o' them pair-of-oxes: 
  
  Before liberation or the full sunshine of the Self in Unity, or
  pick your own description, we pray and exhort Gods, Godesses, 
and 
  the saints and Masters to deliver us from our suffering. 
  Afterwards, we are delighted we did it all by our Selves!
 
 As I was reading the first sentence, I thought you
 were going to finish by saying, Afterwards, we are
 delighted to find that every one of them was just
 our Self all along!

Yep. Thanks, That is probably more accurate.
 
  Again, looking back it seems absurd that such a duality of 
  deliverance from our ignorance by someone or someGod else would 
be 
  preferred. After all, if we don't do it by ourselves, we can't 
  really know exactly what we have done, and by extension would 
  hypothetically remain in ignorance...
 
 Nah.  We *do* know exactly what we have done: we have
 appealed to aspects of our very own Self.  From the
 perspective of enlightenment--I would assume--there's
 no way we can do it *other* than by ourselves.

Yep.





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Vaj


On Dec 9, 2005, at 1:08 PM, authfriend wrote:Now, why do you think *that* is? I don't like wasting my time on constant arguments?





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[FairfieldLife] FW: News from India about Ayurveda

2005-12-09 Thread Rick Archer
Title: FW: News from India about Ayurveda





Source: BBC

Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 13:22 GMT 
 
India hits back in 'bio-piracy' battle 

In a quiet government office in the Indian capital, Delhi, some 100 doctors are hunched over computers poring over ancient medical texts and keying in information.

These doctors are practitioners of ayurveda, unani and siddha, ancient Indian medical systems that date back thousands of years.

One of them is Jaya Saklani Kala, a young ayurveda doctor, who is wading through a dog-eared 500-year-old text book for information on a medicine derived from the mango fruit.

Soon the world will know the medicine, and the fact that it originated from India, she says.

With help from software engineers and patent examiners, Ms Kala and her colleagues are putting together a 30-million-page electronic encyclopaedia of India's traditional medical knowledge, the first of its kind in the world.

'Bio-piracy'

The ambitious $2m project, christened Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, will roll out an encyclopaedia of the country's traditional medicine in five languages - English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish - in an effort to stop people from claiming them as their own and patenting them.

The electronic encyclopaedia, which will be made available next year, will contain information on the traditional medicines, including exhaustive references, photographs of the plants and scans from the original texts.

Indian scientists say the country has been a victim of what they describe as bio-piracy for a long time.

When we put out this encyclopaedia in the public domain, no one will be able to claim that these medicines or therapies are their inventions. Till now, we have not done the needful to protect our traditional wealth, says Ajay Dua, a senior bureaucrat in the federal commerce ministry.

Putting together the encyclopaedia is a daunting task.

For one, ayurvedic texts are in Sanskrit and Hindi, unani texts are in Arabic and Persian and siddha material is in Tamil language. Material from these texts is being translated into five international languages, using sophisticated software coding.

The sheer wealth of material that has to be read through for information is enormous - there are some 54 authoritative 'text books' on ayurveda alone, some thousands of years old.

Then there are nearly 150,000 recorded ayurvedic, unani and siddha medicines; and some 1,500 asanas (physical exercises and postures) in yoga, which originated in India more than 5,000 years ago.

Under normal circumstances, a patent application should always be rejected if there is prior existing knowledge about the product.

But in most of the developed nations like United States, prior existing knowledge is only recognised if it is published in a journal or is available on a database - not if it has been passed down through generations of oral and folk traditions.

The irony here is that India has suffered even though its
traditional knowledge, as in China, has been documented extensively.

But information about traditional medicine has never been culled from their texts, translated and put out in the public domain.

Litigation

No wonder then that India has been embroiled in some high-profile patent litigation in the past decade - the government spent some $6m alone in fighting legal battles against the patenting of turmeric and neem-based medicines.

In 1995, the US Patent Office granted a patent on the wound-healing properties of turmeric.

Indian scientists protested and fought a two-year-long legal battle to get the patent revoked.

Last year, India won a 10-year-long battle at the European Patent Office against a patent granted on an anti-fungal product, derived from neem, by successfully arguing that the medicinal neem tree is part of traditional Indian knowledge.

In 1998 the US Patent Office granted patent to a local company for new strains of rice similar to basmati, which has been grown for centuries in the Himalayan foothills of north-west India and Pakistan and has become popular internationally. After a prolonged legal battle, the patent was revoked four years ago.

And, in the US, an expatriate Indian yoga teacher has claimed copyright on a sequence of 36 yoga asanas, or postures.

Dr Vinod Kumar Gupta, who is leading the traditional wealth encyclopaedia project and heads India's National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (Niscair), reckons that of the nearly 5,000 patents given out by the US Patent Office on various medical plants by the year 2000, some 80% were plants of
Indian origin.

Practitioners of traditional medicines say their importance cannot be denied - according to the WHO, 70% of the people living in India use traditional medicine for primary health care.

Also, some 42% of the people living in the US and 70% of the people living in Canada have used traditional medicines at least once for treatment.

By one estimate, a quarter of the new drugs 

[FairfieldLife] Keeping Things Quiet (was Re: Hurdy Gurdy Man revealed)

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
[...]
  That's pretty much what I thought (and still think) was implied.
 
 I don't think either Barry or Vaj were implying it.
 They both meant to take a slam at me, not you, and
 were in too much of a hurry to do so to bother to
 think about what co-dependency actually means.
 
 Typical.


Actually, if you read what Vaj and Barry say about ANYONE who agrees 
with you on something concerning them, they DO believe that we're all 
a co-dependent bunch of losers.





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[FairfieldLife] Keeping Things Quiet (was Re: Hurdy Gurdy Man revealed)

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[...]
  No, exactly backwards.  As you keep saying, you might
  learn to read. I was suggesting that *you* are dependent
  on the people whom you feel agree with you.
 
 You can suggest anything you like.  I'm just pointing
 out that that isn't what co-dependent means.  A co-
 dependent is someone who is manipulated by another
 person with a personality disorder.  Only if you're
 claiming Lawson is the one doing the manipulating could
 you properly call me the co-dependent.  If I'm the
 manipulator, then Lawson is the co-dependent.

We could also be mutually co-dependent.






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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Sal Sunshine
Considering the track record of the MSAE, would you trust your children, if you had them, to the teachers there?

Let's see...by now most of the decent teachers have long ago left, not willing to work for no pay, no benefits, and for an oftentimes capricious administration that routinely makes decisions that show a breath-taking lack of concern for anyone, including the kids.  Now personally I can't imagine why anyone would object to those things, but there you have it.  And the few halfway decent teachers that have remained teach the boys, since the education of girls apparently doesn't matter at all.  This basically gives the parents of girls few options except to spend even more $$ and time hiring private tutors.

And the parents kids with any kind of disability, be it learning, speech, behavior, etc are told to either stuff it or take care of it on their own, since, of course, children going to school in paradise don't have those issues.

Sal


On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:11 AM, authfriend wrote:

 That out of the way, do you have any relevant comment
 on what I suggested, i.e., that we don't know enough
 about what MMY means to come to the conclusion, as you
 did, that he isn't to be trusted with children's
 education?

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
[...]
 However, instead of then taking a breath of fresh air and getting on 
 with life, he squanders his equity by trashing others. Aside from 
 finding it annoying and disruptive, it doesn't help Tom in the 
 slightest.


Which is why I originally questioned the concept that itwas *always* 
good to open up and discuss such things. Deliberately waking the 
sleeping elephants (to use MMY's unstressing metaphor) may not be a 
good idea if you don't know where the exit is and don't have a guide to 
get you past the ensuing stampede.






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 The question in my mind is whether the confusion MMY
 is talking about is on such a subtle level that you
 *wouldn't* detect it as such--the point being that we
 really don't know what he's referring to.
 
 Until we have a clearer idea, it makes no sense to
 assume he's contradicting established scientific 
 fact.


And of course, we don't know what is being referred to in the first 
place, since MY recollection is merely that MMY didn't like second 
languages being taught outside their country-of-use because it was 
inefficient and [presumeably] a waste of time.

My first Japanese teacher is finishing up his doctorate in educational 
linguistics (my term). He's been doing research on interesting things 
like how native speakers move their eyes while reading their native 
language as opposed to secondary language speakers. Apparently there's 
a very striking difference that is quite consistent.

His own comments in class,based on his years of study inthe field, 
about the utility of foreign language instruction outside a native-
speaking country are very inline with what *I* have heard that MMY say 
about it.

Ihaven't heard before  that MMY says its not a good to learn a second 
laguage early on. In fact, given that most educated Indians are at 
least somewhat bilingual from exposure in school, including himself and 
apparently Gurudev, that would be rather silly.







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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
 snip
   The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically
   states that you become realized only through your own
   effort, nothing else.
  
  Another one o' them pair-of-oxes: 
  
  Before liberation or the full sunshine of the Self in Unity, or
  pick your own description, we pray and exhort Gods, Godesses, and 
  the saints and Masters to deliver us from our suffering. 
  Afterwards, we are delighted we did it all by our Selves!
 
 As I was reading the first sentence, I thought you
 were going to finish by saying, Afterwards, we are
 delighted to find that every one of them was just
 our Self all along!
 
  Again, looking back it seems absurd that such a duality of 
  deliverance from our ignorance by someone or someGod else would 
be 
  preferred. After all, if we don't do it by ourselves, we can't 
  really know exactly what we have done, and by extension would 
  hypothetically remain in ignorance...
 
 Nah.  We *do* know exactly what we have done: we have
 appealed to aspects of our very own Self.  From the
 perspective of enlightenment--I would assume--there's
 no way we can do it *other* than by ourselves.


Isn't there something in the gita about the Self unfolding the Self 
or somesuch?







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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 Considering the track record of the MSAE, would you trust your 
 children, if you had them, to the teachers there?

The track record has always seemed rather good. Has this changed?

 
 Let's see...by now most of the decent teachers have long ago left, 
not 
 willing to work for no pay, no benefits, and for an oftentimes 
 capricious administration that routinely makes decisions that show 
a 
 breath-taking lack of concern for anyone, including the kids. 


I can't comment on these assertions, but has the school changed inthe 
past few months and years. National Merit Scholarship and semi-
finalists don't grow on trees. Nor do exceptionaly high scores on 
standardized tests.

 Now 
 personally I can't imagine why anyone would object to those things, 
but 
 there you have it.  And the few halfway decent teachers that have 
 remained teach the boys, since the education of girls apparently 
 doesn't matter at all.  This basically gives the parents of girls 
few 
 options except to spend even more $$ and time hiring private tutors.
 

Do you have documentation that there is such a dichotomy in 
educational treatment?

 And the parents kids with any kind of disability, be it learning, 
 speech, behavior, etc are told to either stuff it or take care of 
it on 
 their own, since, of course, children going to school in paradise 
don't 
 have those issues.

Heh. Screening takes all forms. Few public charter schools are 
willing to deal with extreme special needs kids and the way Arizona 
law is set up, they don't have to. Aside from wheelchair access 
andthe like, charter schools aren't required to be equiped for 
arbitrary special needs because, by definition, charter schools are 
specializing in special needs already.

Most private schools operate the same way: if your child doesn't fit 
the curriculum or facility, then they don't modify the curriculum or 
the facilities to accomidate the child -- the child has to go 
somewhere that DOES accomidate them.
 





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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 [...]
  However, instead of then taking a breath of fresh air and 
getting on 
  with life, he squanders his equity by trashing others. Aside 
from 
  finding it annoying and disruptive, it doesn't help Tom in the 
  slightest.
 
 
 Which is why I originally questioned the concept that itwas 
*always* 
 good to open up and discuss such things. Deliberately waking the 
 sleeping elephants (to use MMY's unstressing metaphor) may not be 
a 
 good idea if you don't know where the exit is and don't have a 
guide to 
 get you past the ensuing stampede.

I agree- was never much for group 'therapy' myself.






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 Considering the track record of the MSAE, would you trust your 
 children, if you had them, to the teachers there?

Let's see...I believe the context of my post was
MMY's reported notion that very young children
shouldn't be taught second languages because it
causes some kind of subtle confusion.

I'm having a little trouble seeing how the things
you list have anything to do with that.  Would you
care to elaborate?

(And frankly, I don't take what you knee-jerk
anti-TMOers have to say about the horrors of the
TMO any more seriously than I do what the TBers
have to say about its glories.  I consider the
perspective of both groups rather seriously warped.)

 Let's see...by now most of the decent teachers have long ago left, 
 not willing to work for no pay, no benefits, and for an oftentimes 
 capricious administration that routinely makes decisions that show 
 a breath-taking lack of concern for anyone, including the kids.  
 Now personally I can't imagine why anyone would object to those 
 things, but there you have it.  And the few halfway decent teachers 
 that have remained teach the boys, since the education of girls 
 apparently doesn't matter at all.  This basically gives the parents 
 of girls few options except to spend even more $$ and time hiring 
 private tutors.
 
 And the parents kids with any kind of disability, be it learning, 
 speech, behavior, etc are told to either stuff it or take care of 
 it on their own, since, of course, children going to school in 
 paradise don't have those issues.
 
 Sal
 
 
 On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:11 AM, authfriend wrote:
 
   That out of the way, do you have any relevant comment
   on what I suggested, i.e., that we don't know enough
   about what MMY means to come to the conclusion, as you
   did, that he isn't to be trusted with children's
   education?







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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:34 PM, authfriend wrote:

 Let's see...I believe the context of my post was
 MMY's reported notion that very young children
 shouldn't be taught second languages because it
 causes some kind of subtle confusion.

And what exactly gives you the impression that MMY knows *anything* about what children need, or what causes confusion or anything else?  All the experience he's had raising them?

 I'm having a little trouble seeing how the things
 you list have anything to do with that.  Would you
 care to elaborate?

I'm obviously experiencing subtle confusion. Must have been the Spanish I took in grade school.

Sal


[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:34 PM, authfriend wrote:
 
   Let's see...I believe the context of my post was
   MMY's reported notion that very young children
   shouldn't be taught second languages because it
   causes some kind of subtle confusion.
 
 And what exactly gives you the impression that MMY knows *anything* 
 about what children need, or what causes confusion or anything
 else?  All the experience he's had raising them?

I don't believe I said I had that impression.

Do you think you're reading more than is there
into what I'm writing?

   I'm having a little trouble seeing how the things
   you list have anything to do with that.  Would you
   care to elaborate?
 
 I'm obviously experiencing subtle confusion. Must have been the 
Spanish 
 I took in grade school.
 
 Sal







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[FairfieldLife] Woman's Duty, Happiness and Power...was Men and women

2005-12-09 Thread hanumanhoffman9
Taken from the Book Sri Datta Darshanam.

Jaya Guru Datta

The most virtuous Anasuya Mata was the wife of Lord Brahma's mind born son, 
Saptarishi 
Atri. She was the 2nd daughter of Kardama Prajapati and Devahuti.

Brahma's act of creating the human species continued ceaselessly; and has it 
continued 
people indulged in sense pleasure and vulgar enjoyments in the name of Grhastha 
Dharma. They ignored the need for contemplation and forgot the Soul. This 
caused 
Brahma deep anguish, and he reflected over it seriously. He came to the 
conclusion that 
the incarnation of a Saviour possessing immense moral and spiritual power would 
be the 
only solution to this problem.

He performed the marriage of Anasuya with his own mind born son Atri, a 
peerless 
Brahmajnani. He commanded Atri to assist him in his work of creation according 
to 
Grhastha Dharma (householder).

That excellent couple spent many thousands of celestial years as man and wife. 
Their 
wedded life was full of tapas, faultless, marvelous, unequalled and unsullied 
by lust.

By the power of his tapas Maharishi Atri was able to receive the revelation of 
the 5th 
mandala of the Shakalya branch of the Rig Veda. That part of the Veda 
containing prayer 
to Agnilinga, and the topic of Amarendra which possesses the power of bestowing 
happiness both here and hereafter.

During Krita Yuga when disease and sickness spread and the world of living 
beings was 
being destroyed, it was Maharishi Atri who obtained the vision of Ayurveda.

At another time when people were feeling that the Dharma Shastra compied by 
Manu had 
become incomprehensible, Atri himself composed a Smrti in words beautiful, 
clear and 
easy to understand. When the demons captured the Sun and Moon plunging the 
whole 
world into utter darkness, it was Atri who was sought by the devatas. He 
himself assumed 
the form of the Sun and Moon and dispersed lighrt to the world.

There is no comparison to the various miracles performed by Anasuya, with her 
exemplary 
chastity and sincere devotion to here husband.

Once, due to scorching heat, the river Ganga dried up; and Anasuya brought the 
river back 
to life for the convenience of the munis.

Another time the river Ganga lost its purity and had been turned black by the 
sinner's 
touch. Anasuya sprinkled water from her kamandalu and burnt away all the 
impurities of 
Ganga in an instant. Many such deeds she performed.

It was through their intense tapas that the Trinity... Brahma, Vishnu, and 
Shiva appeared at 
the same time and told them they would be born to them as their son who was 
Dattatreya.

Anasuya was human, yet her chastity and fame was so great as to instill the 
jealousy of the 
three Goddesses, Lakshmi, Saraswati, and Parvati.

(parts of story snipped)

Anasuya was called upon to save the world when another chaste woman, Sumati 
kept the 
son from rising due to another curse on her husband, Kausika.

Anasuya said this to Sumati:

For a virtuous and devoted wife, the company of her husband alone is all the 
world. His 
happiness is her happiness. His nearness alone gives meaning to her life. she 
has life so 
long as the husband is hale and hearty. Such a one is said to be a 'Pativrata'.

While a man cannot acquire merit without undergoing much suffering and without 
observing rituals, for us, dedicated service to our husbands is enough. That 
alone can 
easily give us all rewards.

For women there is no need for any other religious observances or disciplines. 
For a 
Woman her husband alone is God. Service to one's husband is worship to God. I 
have 
achieved great things through that alone.

In Datta seva

Sri Guru Datta

Hanuman












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[FairfieldLife] Re: Fidel Castro and TM

2005-12-09 Thread Eustace
You are probably right. World government and raja rhetoric certainly
wouldn't do. But a research project to evaluate the benefits of a
simple alternative medicine technique might be another story.  -Eustace

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Castro wouldn't let SSRS in the country several years
 ago. I doubt he'd let the TMO with its world
 government and raja rhetoric into the country for
 anything.
 
 --- Eustace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Several years ago TMO had considered Fidel Castro
  the personification
  of the Invincibility principle, or something like
  that. It was quite
  appropriate given the more than 400, if I remember
  correctly,
  assassination attempts against his person organized
  by the CIA and the
  Miami mafia... Anyway, if you do a search on a
  recent speech he gave:
  
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0512/S00120.htm
  
  you will find that he uses several time the verb
  meditate, once
  meditation, and once transcendental (in a
  context where the use of
  the word was kink of artificial and certainly not
  necessitated). A
  reasonable explanation would be that the efforts of
  TMO to reach him
  had, after all, some effect, at some (conscious or
  unconscious) level.
  I think people in the TMO should know about this. I
  don't think that
  suggesting that Cuba organize a group of yogic
  flyers would be such a
  good idea... It takes a lot of believing for the
  uninitiated and has
  not worked even in much richer countries. But Cuba
  has excellent
  medicine. Maybe some research project could be
  proposed that the Cuban
  doctors would be interested to participate in or
  carry out...
  
  It would be great if they would couple their El
  pueblo/ unido/ jamas
  sera vencido! (The people united will never be
  defeated) with
  Yogastah kuru karmani.
  
  JGD,
  
  Eustace





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[FairfieldLife] MSAE record, was Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread feste37
No, it's not changed. Although the brutally cynical posters on this board will 
never acknowledge it, MSAE has a remarkable record of significant 
achievement. See the list compiled below, which I have taken from the MSAE 
website. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 
  Considering the track record of the MSAE, would you trust your 
  children, if you had them, to the teachers there?
 
 The track record has always seemed rather good. Has this changed?

MSAE
HIGHLIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTS


In the past decade, students at Maharishi School have won more than 100 
state titles in science, speech, drama, writing, poetry, spelling, art, 
photography, history, mathematics, chess, tennis, golf, track, and Destination 
ImagiNation, a national and international creative problem-solving 
competition. 



Grades 10-12 score in the top 1% nationally, and in Iowa, on standardized 
tests (ITED)

95% of graduates accepted at four-year colleges

Over ten times the nation's average for National Merit Scholar Finalists over 
the past five years



State Record: 41 state championships in creative problem-solving 
competitions Destination ImagiNation and Odyssey of the Mind

World Record: Winners of the Global Finals of Destination ImagiNation, and 
more top-ten finishes than any other school in the world



First Place: American High School Math Exam, Iowa Division, four years in a 
row

First Place: Five first-place finishes, Iowa State History Fair, Senior Division

First Place: Ten first-place finishes in the senior division of the Eastern 
Iowa or 
Hawkeye state science fairs

Grand Champions: Eight grand champion awards in the past decade in the 
junior division of the Eastern Iowa Science and Engineering Fair



First place: Twice winner of the state spelling bee



State Record: Most Critic's Choice State Banner Awards for speech in the past 
decade (16)

National Champion: Bravo Cable Channel High School Theater Competition



State Record: Congressional Art Competition, An Artistic Discovery, grand 
prize three years in a row



First Place: Iowa Poetry Association's high school contest

First Place: Iowa Young Writer of the Year award



State Champion: Iowa Junior Chess Championship

First Place: Iowa Educational Media Association (Photography)

Grand Prize: International Photo Imaging Education Association competition


State Champions: 16 boys' state tennis championships, 
tying for the most in Iowa history 

State Champion: Girls' state singles tennis

State Record: Tennis Triple Crown winner two years in a row

State Record: Boys' track 800 m

State Champions: Golf team and individual

ESVN

*   The End School Violence Now (ESVN) and Students Creating Peace 
Network (SCPN) has given presentations on radio stations, participated in 
Youth Development in the 21st Century sponsored by the 4-H clubs of 
America, and given presentations to guests of the School. 

The students have given presentations at the St.Louis Enlightened 
Sentencing Project Graduation. They were invited to represent Southeast 
Iowa at the Youth Development in the 21st Century Conference at Iowa State 
University in Ames, and invited to Expo High School in Waterloo, Iowa. They 
were also invited to the kick-off event for the Season of Non-Violence in Los 
Angeles where they spoke to educators, parents and the event organizers. 
While in Los Angeles a presentation was given at a South Los Angeles 
alternative High School. All the events met with great success.

The students are working on a student-to-student video, a web site, and other 
projects to bring 8,000 Yogic Flyers to Maharishi University of Management 
and Maharishi Vedic City.

 
  
  Let's see...by now most of the decent teachers have long ago left, 
 not 
  willing to work for no pay, no benefits, and for an oftentimes 
  capricious administration that routinely makes decisions that show 
 a 
  breath-taking lack of concern for anyone, including the kids. 
 
 
 I can't comment on these assertions, but has the school changed inthe 
 past few months and years. National Merit Scholarship and semi-
 finalists don't grow on trees. Nor do exceptionaly high scores on 
 standardized tests.
 
  Now 
  personally I can't imagine why anyone would object to those things, 
 but 
  there you have it.  And the few halfway decent teachers that have 
  remained teach the boys, since the education of girls apparently 
  doesn't matter at all.  This basically gives the parents of girls 
 few 
  options except to spend even more $$ and time hiring private tutors.
  
 
 Do you have documentation that there is such a dichotomy in 
 educational treatment?
 
  And the parents kids with any kind of disability, be it learning, 
  speech, behavior, etc are told to either stuff it or take care of 
 it on 
  their own, since, of course, children going to school in paradise 
 don't 
  have 

[FairfieldLife] Walking through solid walls..Witnessed by hundreds

2005-12-09 Thread hanumanhoffman9
 Life History of H.H. Sri Swamiji 161

Life History of H.H. Sri Swamiji 161
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Seeing the tail is like seeing the tiger is a saying. Some people who believe 
in statements 
like that, spread the news that the entire city of Mysore was blacked out. 
Swamy was angry 
at this exaggeration of facts and said, I do not touch any wires at all. The 
elder residents 
of the colony heaved a sigh of relief on hearing it from Swamy. They were 
frightened that 
their stupidity in testing Swamy would lead them to be prosecuted by the 
officials of the 
electricity board. Swamy had already said that it was his duty to save them. 
These events 
did upset Swamy a lot. He increased his tour programmes of visiting other 
places. Some 
days he spent his time in the prayer room of Nagappa's house. When he wanted to 
spend 
more time on meditation without being disturbed, he preferred to come to 
Nagappa's 
house. Nagappa and his wife Jayamma were always ready to receive Swamy at their 
house. 
Jayamma actually looked upon and treated Swamy as her own grandson. Swamy on 
his 
part walked around like their child in that house. He addressed Jayamma as 
Amma, 
Amma. Nagappa's car was the disposal of Swamy and met all his travel needs. 
One or two 
other cars belonging to the other devotees were also available for the use of 
Swamy if 
needed. Nagappa's driver served Swamy with love and devotion. Sometimes Dwaraka 
would go in the middle of the night on his bike to Nagappa's house to get the 
car. The 
driver happily would get up and come to the ashrama and take Swamy wherever he 
wanted 
to go. One day there was a violin concert by the famous A.S.Shivarudrappa at 
Nagappa's 
house. Shivarudrappa was a great violinist, a scholar and had received honours 
at the 
place. He used to attract a number of fans at his concerts. He enjoyed playing 
for Swamy. 
That day both Swamy and Shivarudrappa was deeply immersed in the music. Few 
people 
sitting near the homa commented, Who cares for these powers? It is only for 
the benefit 
of the rich. These are guises of cheats. (Meaning that the guises are to 
attract the money 
from the rich). Swamy walked towards them angrily, and like a small child 
rolling his 
cheeks and lips made a funny noise and spat out a number of loose coins from 
his mouth. 
As they had considered Swamy as Ashadabhootis, Swamy had decided to 
materialise only 
loose coins for them. The critics sat quiet and did not even apologise. Swamy 
went back to 
his seat. At the end of the homa the devotees came forward to receive the 
blessing of 
Swamy. The turn came for the critics to receive the blessings. Swamy stopped 
them and 
said, Why do you want to fall at the feet of Ashadabhootis? Those critics 
were sorry and 
fell at the feet of Swamy and begged to be excused. In view of the demand, the 
city 
transport authority had organised special bus services to the ashrama. On the 
days of 
sankeertanas, the programme would go late into the evening and the bus drivers 
waited 
patiently till the last of the passenger got on to the bus. There was no worry 
for the 
devotees about missing the last bus. The final stop of the bus to the ashrama 
came to be 
known as the Swamy's ashrama stop.] An unusual event happened one Thursday. 
The 
bhajans finished at about 10pm. Swamy went inside to take rest. Prasadam was 
being 
distributed to the devotees. Some youngsters from the colony started a scuffle. 
The 
youngsters were complaining that the functions at the ashrama were disturbing 
this sleep. 
some devotees tried to object to the criticism by the lads and that ended up in 
the scuffle 
that night. Not wanting to see any harm come to Swamy, some of the devotees 
locked his 
room from outside. All the houses at the colony were of a stereotype; they did 
not have a 
backdoor. There was only one way in and out of the houses. The youngsters 
started 
shouting that Swamy was frightened of them and has decided to hide inside. 
Holding on to 
their batons and other tools, they started shouting and asking for Swamy to 
come out and 
face them. Swamy shouted and asked his devotees to open the door and let him 
out to 
face the youngsters. No one took notice of Swamy's request. Suddenly Swamy came 
out 
through the solid walls of the room shouting, Who is the fool that is asking 
for me? 
Hundreds of devotees witnessed this miracle. The youngsters got frightened and 
some 
even wet their trousers. Dropping their tools they ran away. Some of them asked 
Swamy 
for his forgiveness. The elders in the colony also asked forgiveness for the 
acts committed 
by the youngsters. Srikantiah begged Swamy to calm down and took him inside.


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[FairfieldLife] Re: Woman's Duty, Happiness and Power...was Men and women

2005-12-09 Thread vashtirama
I'm excited about this information. It sounds so easy, there must be 
a catch, or maybe something got lost in translation. What are some of 
the rewards I could expect? When can I expect them? What kinds of 
services should I provide to my husband--specific duties, or is 
it anything goes?

Please elaborate if possible, thank you. I'm tired of waiting for the 
payoff from all the tapas.

--vashtirama


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 Taken from the Book Sri Datta Darshanam.
 
 Jaya Guru Datta
[snipt]
 Anasuya said this to Sumati:
 
 For a virtuous and devoted wife, the company of her husband alone 
is all the world. His 
 happiness is her happiness. His nearness alone gives meaning to her 
life. she has life so 
 long as the husband is hale and hearty. Such a one is said to be 
a 'Pativrata'.
 
 While a man cannot acquire merit without undergoing much suffering 
and without 
 observing rituals, for us, dedicated service to our husbands is 
enough. That alone can 
 easily give us all rewards.
 
 For women there is no need for any other religious observances or 
disciplines. For a 
 Woman her husband alone is God. Service to one's husband is worship 
to God. I have 
 achieved great things through that alone.
 
 In Datta seva
 
 Sri Guru Datta
 
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[FairfieldLife] TM n kids

2005-12-09 Thread bbrigante
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Re: [FairfieldLife] MSAE record, was Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 9, 2005, at 3:32 PM, feste37 wrote:

No, it's not changed. Although the brutally cynical posters on this board will 
 never acknowledge it, MSAE has a remarkable record of significant 
 achievement. See the list compiled below, which I have taken from the MSAE 
 website. 

Yes, now there's a credible, objective source. 

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 >
 > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
 > wrote:
 > >
 > > Considering the track record of the MSAE, would you trust your 
 > > children, if you had them, to the teachers there?
 > 
 > The track record has always seemed rather good. Has this changed?

 MSAE
 HIGHLIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTS


 In the past decade, students at Maharishi School have won more than 100 
 state titles in science, speech, drama, writing, poetry, spelling, art, 
 photography, history, mathematics, chess, tennis, golf, track, and Destination 
 ImagiNation, a national and international creative problem-solving 
 competition. 

Do you believe everything you read on websites, Feste?  Notice the lack of specifics, or even the lack of names.  What state titles were these, anyway? 
 Grades 10-12 score in the top 1% nationally, and in Iowa, on standardized 
 tests (ITED)

 95% of graduates accepted at four-year colleges

Many if not most of the graduates there go to MUM.  Again, if they're all going to well-known  colleges, they would mention which ones.
 Over ten times the nation's average for National Merit Scholar Finalists over 
 the past five years

What does that mean, exactly?  The nation doesn't have an average for National Merit Scholar Finalists, individual high  schools do.

 State Record: 41 state championships in creative problem-solving 
 competitions Destination ImagiNation and Odyssey of the Mind

Yep.  And these programs are so great that every other private school in the country participates in them, right?  Ever been to their websites?

 World Record: Winners of the Global Finals of Destination ImagiNation, and 
 more top-ten finishes than any other school in the world



 First Place: American High School Math Exam, Iowa Division, four years in a 
 row

 First Place: Five first-place finishes, Iowa State History Fair, Senior Division

 First Place: Ten first-place finishes in the senior division of the Eastern Iowa or 
 Hawkeye state science fairs

 Grand Champions: Eight grand champion awards in the past decade in the 
 junior division of the Eastern Iowa Science and Engineering Fair



 First place: Twice winner of the state spelling bee



 State Record: Most Critic's Choice State Banner Awards for speech in the past 
 decade (16)

 National Champion: Bravo Cable Channel High School Theater Competition



 State Record: Congressional Art Competition, An Artistic Discovery, grand 
 prize three years in a row



 First Place: Iowa Poetry Association's high school contest

 First Place: Iowa Young Writer of the Year award



 State Champion: Iowa Junior Chess Championship

 First Place: Iowa Educational Media Association (Photography)

 Grand Prize: International Photo Imaging Education Association competition


 State Champions: 16 boys' state tennis championships, 
 tying for the most in Iowa history 

 State Champion: Girls' state singles tennis

 State Record: Tennis Triple Crown winner two years in a row

 State Record: Boys' track 800 m

 State Champions: Golf team and individual

 ESVN

 *  The End School Violence Now (ESVN) and Students Creating Peace 
 Network (SCPN) has given presentations on radio stations, participated in 
 Youth Development in the 21st Century sponsored by the 4-H clubs of 
 America, and given presentations to guests of the School. 

 The students have given presentations at the St.Louis Enlightened 
 Sentencing Project Graduation. They were invited to represent Southeast 
 Iowa at the Youth Development in the 21st Century Conference at Iowa State 
 University in Ames, and invited to Expo High School in Waterloo, Iowa. They 
 were also invited to the kick-off event for the Season of Non-Violence in Los 
 Angeles where they spoke to educators, parents and the event organizers. 
 While in Los Angeles a presentation was given at a South Los Angeles 
 alternative High School. All the events met with great success.

 The students are working on a student-to-student video, a web site, and other 
 projects to bring 8,000 Yogic Flyers to Maharishi University of Management 
 and Maharishi Vedic City.

 > 
 > I can't comment on these assertions, but has the school changed inthe 
 > past few months and years. National Merit Scholarship and semi-
 > finalists don't grow on trees. Nor do exceptionaly high scores on 
 > standardized tests.
 > 
 >  Now 
 > > personally I can't imagine why anyone would object to those things, 
 > but 
 > > there you have it.  And the few halfway decent teachers that have 
 > > remained teach the boys, since the education of girls apparently 

[FairfieldLife] Howard Stern, another celebrity TMer

2005-12-09 Thread bbrigante
In TM, you let distracting thoughts float right out of your mind. 
Some thoughts, though, are like fish bones. Like how about that ad 
Howard's boss took out? Good riddance to twenty years of stale fart 
jokes, as if he couldn't wait to usher Howard out the door. 
Infuriating! Reduce Howard to fart jokes! What about his penis and 
vagina material? He practically invented saying penis and vagina on 
the radio! And his stripper bits and lesbian gags and his legion of 
deformed and defective characters? Howard's boss ought to drop to his 
knees and thank him. Those fart jokes built an empire! That genius 
should get testicular cancer!

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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin 
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 wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
 snip
   The Shiva Sutras 

Just happened to find a PDFile of Shiva-suutras on my 
Desktop. Suutra I 18 might refer to (bidirectional)M-effect:

lokaanandaH samaadhi-sukham (his bliss of samaadhi is [a cause
of?] happiness of the world - or vice versa: in Sanskrit  
word order is rather free, so both samaadhi-sukham and
lokaanandaH can be considered the subject or topic, or whatever).



have a sloka(?) that specifically
   states that you become realized only through your own
   effort, nothing else.

Perhaps II 2: pra_yatnaH saadhakaH ??


  
  Another one o' them pair-of-oxes: 
  
  Before liberation or the full sunshine of the Self in Unity, or
  pick your own description, we pray and exhort Gods, Godesses, and 
  the saints and Masters to deliver us from our suffering. 
  Afterwards, we are delighted we did it all by our Selves!
 
 As I was reading the first sentence, I thought you
 were going to finish by saying, Afterwards, we are
 delighted to find that every one of them was just
 our Self all along!
 
  Again, looking back it seems absurd that such a duality of 
  deliverance from our ignorance by someone or someGod else would 
be 
  preferred. After all, if we don't do it by ourselves, we can't 
  really know exactly what we have done, and by extension would 
  hypothetically remain in ignorance...
 
 Nah.  We *do* know exactly what we have done: we have
 appealed to aspects of our very own Self.  From the
 perspective of enlightenment--I would assume--there's
 no way we can do it *other* than by ourselves.








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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Peter
Maybe I read a bad translation!

--- cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
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   wrote:
  snip
The Shiva Sutras 
 
 Just happened to find a PDFile of Shiva-suutras on
 my 
 Desktop. Suutra I 18 might refer to
 (bidirectional)M-effect:
 
 lokaanandaH samaadhi-sukham (his bliss of samaadhi
 is [a cause
 of?] happiness of the world - or vice versa: in
 Sanskrit  
 word order is rather free, so both samaadhi-sukham
 and
 lokaanandaH can be considered the subject or
 topic, or whatever).
 
 
 
 have a sloka(?) that specifically
states that you become realized only through
 your own
effort, nothing else.
 
 Perhaps II 2: pra_yatnaH saadhakaH ??
 
 
   
   Another one o' them pair-of-oxes: 
   
   Before liberation or the full sunshine of the
 Self in Unity, or
   pick your own description, we pray and exhort
 Gods, Godesses, and 
   the saints and Masters to deliver us from our
 suffering. 
   Afterwards, we are delighted we did it all by
 our Selves!
  
  As I was reading the first sentence, I thought you
  were going to finish by saying, Afterwards, we
 are
  delighted to find that every one of them was just
  our Self all along!
  
   Again, looking back it seems absurd that such a
 duality of 
   deliverance from our ignorance by someone or
 someGod else would 
 be 
   preferred. After all, if we don't do it by
 ourselves, we can't 
   really know exactly what we have done, and by
 extension would 
   hypothetically remain in ignorance...
  
  Nah.  We *do* know exactly what we have done: we
 have
  appealed to aspects of our very own Self.  From
 the
  perspective of enlightenment--I would
 assume--there's
  no way we can do it *other* than by ourselves.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[FairfieldLife] MSAE record, was Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread feste37
You are so intent on denigrating the achievements of others that you can see 
nothing but faults and failures. Successes should also be acknowledged, in 
my view. That doesn't mean that the school is perfect, or without serious 
problems, but its successes are undeniable to any reasonable observer. Nor 
are these successes all in the past. If you were to look at the University 
Report, 2004-05, you would see full details of awards won, with names of 
competitions and students. (I don't think it's available online; it's sent to 
donors.) Here's just one example: Maharishi School students won more first- 
and second-place awards than any other school in the world at the 
Destination ImagiNation world competition held in Knoxville, Tennessee. 

I don't expect to convince you of the merits of the school, nor do I care to, 
since you appear to be more interested in venting your anger and cynicism 
than in pursuing the truth, but I hope there are others on this forum who are 
capable of reaching more accurate, balanced and informed conclusions than 
you are. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 On Dec 9, 2005, at 3:32 PM, feste37 wrote:
 
  No, it's not changed. Although the brutally cynical posters on this 
  board will
   never acknowledge it, MSAE has a remarkable record of significant
   achievement. See the list compiled below, which I have taken from the 
  MSAE
   website.
 
 Yes, now there's a credible, objective source.
 
 
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Considering the track record of the MSAE, would you trust your
 children, if you had them, to the teachers there?
   
The track record has always seemed rather good. Has this changed?
 
   MSAE
   HIGHLIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTS
 
 
   In the past decade, students at Maharishi School have won more than 
  100
   state titles in science, speech, drama, writing, poetry, spelling, 
  art,
   photography, history, mathematics, chess, tennis, golf, track, and 
  Destination
   ImagiNation, a national and international creative problem-solving
   competition.
 
 Do you believe everything you read on websites, Feste?  Notice the lack 
 of specifics, or even the lack of names.  What state titles were 
 these, anyway?
 
   Grades 10-12 score in the top 1% nationally, and in Iowa, on 
  standardized
   tests (ITED)
 
   95% of graduates accepted at four-year colleges
 
 Many if not most of the graduates there go to MUM.  Again, if they're 
 all going to well-known  colleges, they would mention which ones.
 
   Over ten times the nation's average for National Merit Scholar 
  Finalists over
   the past five years
 
 What does that mean, exactly?  The nation doesn't have an average for 
 National Merit Scholar Finalists, individual high  schools do.
 
   State Record: 41 state championships in creative problem-solving
   competitions Destination ImagiNation and Odyssey of the Mind
 
 Yep.  And these programs are so great that every other private school 
 in the country participates in them, right?  Ever been to their 
 websites?
 
 
   World Record: Winners of the Global Finals of Destination 
  ImagiNation, and
   more top-ten finishes than any other school in the world
 
 
 
   First Place: American High School Math Exam, Iowa Division, four 
  years in a
   row
 
   First Place: Five first-place finishes, Iowa State History Fair, 
  Senior Division
 
   First Place: Ten first-place finishes in the senior division of the 
  Eastern Iowa or
   Hawkeye state science fairs
 
   Grand Champions: Eight grand champion awards in the past decade in 
the
   junior division of the Eastern Iowa Science and Engineering Fair
 
 
 
   First place: Twice winner of the state spelling bee
 
 
 
   State Record: Most Critic's Choice State Banner Awards for speech in 
  the past
   decade (16)
 
   National Champion: Bravo Cable Channel High School Theater 
Competition
 
 
 
   State Record: Congressional Art Competition, An Artistic Discovery, 
  grand
   prize three years in a row
 
 
 
   First Place: Iowa Poetry Association's high school contest
 
   First Place: Iowa Young Writer of the Year award
 
 
 
   State Champion: Iowa Junior Chess Championship
 
   First Place: Iowa Educational Media Association (Photography)
 
   Grand Prize: International Photo Imaging Education Association 
  competition
 
 
   State Champions: 16 boys' state tennis championships,
   tying for the most in Iowa history
 
   State Champion: Girls' state singles tennis
 
   State Record: Tennis Triple Crown winner two years in a row
 
   State Record: Boys' track 800 m
 
   State Champions: Golf team and individual
 
   ESVN
 
   *  The End School Violence Now (ESVN) and Students Creating Peace
   Network (SCPN) has given presentations on radio stations, 
  participated in
   Youth Development in the 21st 

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread lurkernomore20002000
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 The attributes of a survivor and what makes Anon exceedingly
 successful in his profession.

Which is?

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[FairfieldLife] Re: Was:The supposed Emotional Healing of Tom Pall, Now: Pity Party

2005-12-09 Thread lurkernomore20002000
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 --- Tom Pall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bostonbob53
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   I'm sorry, but I just don't get it.  Anon or Tom
  Pall, these posts are
   obviously his. What the hell?  Does he think he's
  fooling anyone or
   that anyone still cares?   
  
  They still care enought to attack him.  To state
  categorically that he
  is forever doomed because development stops when
  abuse begins.
 
 Your ridiculous pity party is becoming absurd,Tom.
 Everybody is sorry that some really nasty shit
 happened to you growing up, but to play it over and
 over again in order to justify your rage towards
 others is getting very old, very quickly. And these
 inferences you come up with from others' posts that
 you turn into statements that you then claim they made
 against you is asinine. Butch up, man. Deal with your
 shit, don't pathetically smear it all over a
 newsgroup. You need professional help to deal with
 your past trauma. No amount of yagyas will help you as
 evidenced by your posts! Yeah, I know. You have
 contacted the authorities, my employer and have
 lawyers on retainer that will sue me for everything.  
 
 
  My guess is that Tom wants to have the last
   word and even up all his imagined slights.  So
  okay Tom.  You win.  We
   all love you.  Happy now?
  
  
  That is absolutely what Tom wants.  He wants sincere
  apologies from
  the people who derided him over and over.  He want a
  detailed, sincere
  apology from the Dr. who said that Tom would
  always be his nigah.
 
 You stupid liar. I said no such thing and you know it.
 GROW UP baby boy.
 
  
  Tom is working day and night to get FFL deleted.  He
  wants the slams
  made against him and encouraged by others undone. 
  He'll eventuall
  shame the hatemongers into apologizing or better
  yet, make FFL not be
  there when you next go to visit it.  So he won't
  have to see more
  ganging up against him to slam him for the fun of
  it.
 
 You are a pathetic whiner. If you don't like FFL, then
 LEAVE. Nobody is making you stay, are they?
 
  
  And he wants the So okay Tom. You win.  We all love
  you.  Happy now?
  turned into sincere words.  Not of we love you but
  we've been some
  really immature louts.  If it's too tedious for you
  to do so, then
  just keep your wise ass Happy now? comments out of
  it.  You have
  added to the flames.  Happy now?
 
 Why do you continue the abuse, Tom? You set
 yourself-up so people post comments like the one I'm
 making and the emotional abuse continues. Ever heard
 of a repetition compulsion? You interact with people
 to draw out their ire and then you scream Foul!
 Unfair! Look how horrible people are towards me! I was
 abused! You really need help. You don't need to
 act-out your rage in a newsgroup. Good bye. Go. Leave.
 Nobody cares anymore. Go crap on somebody else. We're
 no longer interested. Have someone else change your
 dirty diaper. Pathetic. Are you happy now that I've
 posted this? Isn't a post such as this exactly what
 you want so you can now pout and become outraged
 against the injustice of these comments? Look at what
 you're doing. But unfortunately the odds of that are
 the same as the pundits arriving.

Dr. Pete, you know you're just saying this,...cause IT'S 
TRUE!!

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Re: [FairfieldLife] MSAE record, was Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 9, 2005, at 6:14 PM, feste37 wrote:

You are so intent on denigrating the achievements of others that you can see 
 nothing but faults and failures. Successes should also be acknowledged, in 
 my view.

I agree.  Got any?  I mean real ones,  with specifics. 

 That doesn't mean that the school is perfect, or without serious 
 problems, but its successes are undeniable to any reasonable observer.

Really?  Is that why, with a few exceptions, most parents take their kids out at some point, usually for at least a year or two if not several.

 Nor are these successes all in the past. If you were to look at the University Report, 2004-05, you would see full details of awards won, with names of competitions and students. (I don't think it's available online;

How convenient.

 it's sent to 
 donors.) Here's just one example: Maharishi School students won more first- 
 and second-place awards than any other school in the world at the 
 Destination ImagiNation world competition held in Knoxville, Tennessee. 

 I don't expect to convince you of the merits of the school, nor do I care to, 
 since you appear to be more interested in venting your anger and cynicism 
 than in pursuing the truth, but I hope there are others on this forum who are 
 capable of reaching more accurate, balanced and informed conclusions than 
 you are. 

Doubtful. :)

Sal


[FairfieldLife] Re: Was:The supposed Emotional Healing of Tom Pall, Now: Pity Party

2005-12-09 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 
 
 --- Tom Pall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bostonbob53
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
   
   I'm sorry, but I just don't get it.  Anon or Tom
  Pall, these posts are
   obviously his. What the hell?  Does he think he's
  fooling anyone or
   that anyone still cares?   
  
  They still care enought to attack him.  To state
  categorically that he
  is forever doomed because development stops when
  abuse begins.
 
 Your ridiculous pity party is becoming absurd,Tom.
 Everybody is sorry that some really nasty shit
 happened to you growing up, but to play it over and
 over again in order to justify your rage towards
 others is getting very old, very quickly. And these
 inferences you come up with from others' posts that
 you turn into statements that you then claim they made
 against you is asinine. Butch up, man. Deal with your
 shit, don't pathetically smear it all over a
 newsgroup. You need professional help to deal with
 your past trauma. No amount of yagyas will help you as
 evidenced by your posts! Yeah, I know. You have
 contacted the authorities, my employer and have
 lawyers on retainer that will sue me for everything.  
 
 
  My guess is that Tom wants to have the last
   word and even up all his imagined slights.  So
  okay Tom.  You win.  We
   all love you.  Happy now?
  
  
  That is absolutely what Tom wants.  He wants sincere
  apologies from
  the people who derided him over and over.  He want a
  detailed, sincere
  apology from the Dr. who said that Tom would
  always be his nigah.
 
 You stupid liar. I said no such thing and you know it.
 GROW UP baby boy.
 
  
  Tom is working day and night to get FFL deleted.  He
  wants the slams
  made against him and encouraged by others undone. 
  He'll eventuall
  shame the hatemongers into apologizing or better
  yet, make FFL not be
  there when you next go to visit it.  So he won't
  have to see more
  ganging up against him to slam him for the fun of
  it.
 
 You are a pathetic whiner. If you don't like FFL, then
 LEAVE. Nobody is making you stay, are they?
 
  
  And he wants the So okay Tom. You win.  We all love
  you.  Happy now?
  turned into sincere words.  Not of we love you but
  we've been some
  really immature louts.  If it's too tedious for you
  to do so, then
  just keep your wise ass Happy now? comments out of
  it.  You have
  added to the flames.  Happy now?
 
 Why do you continue the abuse, Tom? You set
 yourself-up so people post comments like the one I'm
 making and the emotional abuse continues. Ever heard
 of a repetition compulsion? You interact with people
 to draw out their ire and then you scream Foul!
 Unfair! Look how horrible people are towards me! I was
 abused! You really need help. You don't need to
 act-out your rage in a newsgroup. Good bye. Go. Leave.
 Nobody cares anymore. Go crap on somebody else. We're
 no longer interested. Have someone else change your
 dirty diaper. Pathetic. Are you happy now that I've
 posted this? Isn't a post such as this exactly what
 you want so you can now pout and become outraged
 against the injustice of these comments? Look at what
 you're doing. But unfortunately the odds of that are
 the same as the pundits arriving.

I'm calling this Exhibit A for the Dr. Pete School of Tough Love.  
You stamp out this kind of advice, you stamp out real progress on 
dealing with your issues.

lurk

Funny story:  I had a paranoid schizophrenic working for our small 
company as a delivery driver.  He was super smart, high IQ, the 
usual.  But the voices were always there, and he didn't take his 
medication, but was generally a great worker.  After he had missed 
work a few days and put us in a real bind, I called him aside and 
gave a brilliant talk about the spirtual path, dealing with issues, 
facing your demons etc., I was sure that I had given the impetus 
to turn the corner.  WRONG.  It had no effect (that I could see).  
Luckily he quit on this own a few months later.  He and the mafia 
that tormented him every day.

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[FairfieldLife] MSAE record, was Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 No, it's not changed. Although the brutally cynical posters on 
this board will 
 never acknowledge it, MSAE has a remarkable record of significant 
 achievement. See the list compiled below, which I have taken from 
the MSAE 
 website. 

Okay, maybe I'm shooting from the hip cause I'm jumping in on this 
thread, but is it so difficult to train or inspire kids to be high 
achievers?  I always had the impression that MSAE and the MIU 
community had something to prove with MSAE.  That even though we 
were fringe, we could out-achieve, out-perform the traditional 
segment.  And that this was a kind of mission.  Here's the true 
test.  How well adjusted are these kids?

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[FairfieldLife] Re: Fidel Castro and TM

2005-12-09 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Eustace [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 Several years ago TMO had considered Fidel Castro the 
personification
 of the Invincibility principle, or something like that. It was 
quite
 appropriate given the more than 400, if I remember correctly,
 assassination attempts against his person organized by the CIA and 
the
 Miami mafia...




Too bad they didn't get him like they did that other mass-murderer 
Che Guevara.

Castro is responsible for about 50,000 deaths and enslaving 11 
million Cubans.







 Anyway, if you do a search on a recent speech he gave:
 
 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0512/S00120.htm
 
 you will find that he uses several time the verb meditate, once
 meditation, and once transcendental (in a context where the 
use of
 the word was kink of artificial and certainly not necessitated). A
 reasonable explanation would be that the efforts of TMO to reach 
him
 had, after all, some effect, at some (conscious or unconscious) 
level.
 I think people in the TMO should know about this. I don't think 
that
 suggesting that Cuba organize a group of yogic flyers would be 
such a
 good idea... It takes a lot of believing for the uninitiated and 
has
 not worked even in much richer countries. But Cuba has excellent
 medicine. Maybe some research project could be proposed that the 
Cuban
 doctors would be interested to participate in or carry out...
 
 It would be great if they would couple their El pueblo/ unido/ 
jamas
 sera vencido! (The people united will never be defeated) with
 Yogastah kuru karmani.
 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
   wrote:
  snip
The Shiva Sutras 
 
 Just happened to find a PDFile of Shiva-suutras on my 
 Desktop. Suutra I 18 might refer to (bidirectional)M-effect:
 
 lokaanandaH samaadhi-sukham (his bliss of samaadhi is [a cause
 of?] happiness of the world - or vice versa: in Sanskrit  
 word order is rather free, so both samaadhi-sukham and
 lokaanandaH can be considered the subject or topic, or whatever).
 
Well that is heartening to hear. It isn't something I really ever 
think about, because I am never aware of it- this bidirectional 
effect of enlightenment. It makes sense though, that as we realize 
the world and ourselves as One, that all of those false boundaries 
between us and 'them' are dissolved, and in a profound way, service 
to the world is rendered; the world is more easily able to know 
itslef and thus more easily fulfill its purpose. That must account 
for all the 'support of Nature' we experience after enlightenment. 
As you sow, etc. Though as I said I rarely if ever give it a second 
thought. 

Perhaps the elimination of boundaries renders the world as were are 
to such an extent it is seamless. I was buying chocolates in a 
chocolate store today and I remarked to the woman behind the counter 
that the store smelled so good. Then I asked her if she could smell 
it after being there all day, and she said no. Then she added that 
even when she gets there in the morning and walks in, it no longer 
smells like chocolate. Same thing.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Fidel Castro and TM

2005-12-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Eustace 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 
  Several years ago TMO had considered Fidel Castro the 
 personification
  of the Invincibility principle, or something like that. It was 
 quite
  appropriate given the more than 400, if I remember correctly,
  assassination attempts against his person organized by the CIA 
and 
 the
  Miami mafia...
 
 
 
 
 Too bad they didn't get him like they did that other mass-murderer 
 Che Guevara.
 
 Castro is responsible for about 50,000 deaths and enslaving 11 
 million Cubans.
 
So, about the same as some of our recent Presidents? Johnson with 
his ~73,000 Vietnam War dead (American deaths only) came to mind. 
Though I don't recall specifically the dictators he supported under 
his administration so I can't correlate the 11 million enslaved.

And Bush the first killed roughly 100,000 Iraqis during the first 
war, and then allowed Sadaam to remain in power, enslaving roughly 
25 million.

Oh, and Reagan propped up quite a few central american dictatorships 
during his terms, easily surpassing the '11 million enslaved' 
number. 

Damn, you're making Castro out to be some kind of wimp or something! 
No wonder we hate him so much, he doesn't even kick ass like we do! 

And so un-American of him to unilaterally kick out the US 
corporations and Mafia who were actually enslaving his country. 
Bastard! At least he could've allowed them by proxy as Sadaam and 
the South African apartheid governments did! Geez!





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Re: [FairfieldLife] MSAE record, was Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/9/05 7:07 PM, lurkernomore20002000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 No, it's not changed. Although the brutally cynical posters on
 this board will 
 never acknowledge it, MSAE has a remarkable record of significant
 achievement. See the list compiled below, which I have taken from
 the MSAE 
 website. 
 
 Okay, maybe I'm shooting from the hip cause I'm jumping in on this
 thread, but is it so difficult to train or inspire kids to be high
 achievers?  I always had the impression that MSAE and the MIU
 community had something to prove with MSAE.  That even though we
 were fringe, we could out-achieve, out-perform the traditional
 segment.  And that this was a kind of mission.  Here's the true
 test.  How well adjusted are these kids?

Compared to kids in general? I guess you'd have to collect honest data on
drug use, arrest records, sexually transmitted diseases, etc., presuming
those indicate poor adjustment, as well as positive measures, and compare
them with the larger population of kids of similar socio-economic status. My
guess is that there wouldn't be a dramatic discrepancy, but I may be wrong.
I was still high school age when I learned TM and it had a tremendously
healing influence. It amazes me that kids who grew up meditating would still
enjoy drugs and not find their effect distasteful.




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[FairfieldLife] MSAE record, was Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread feste37
Can't you read? I gave you an example of one success (one out of many, I 
might add) but you're incapable of seeing it, which pretty much proves my 
point about where you're coming from. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 On Dec 9, 2005, at 6:14 PM, feste37 wrote:
 
  You are so intent on denigrating the achievements of others that you 
  can see
   nothing but faults and failures. Successes should also be 
  acknowledged, in
   my view.
 
 I agree.  Got any?  I mean real ones,  with specifics.
 
   That doesn't mean that the school is perfect, or without serious
   problems, but its successes are undeniable to any reasonable observer.
 
 Really?  Is that why, with a few exceptions, most parents take their 
 kids out at some point, usually for at least a year or two if not 
 several.
 
   Nor are these successes all in the past. If you were to look at the 
  University Report, 2004-05, you would see full details of awards won, 
  with names of competitions and students. (I don't think it's available 
  online;
 
 How convenient.
 
   it's sent to
   donors.) Here's just one example: Maharishi School students won more 
  first-
   and second-place awards than any other school in the world at the
   Destination ImagiNation world competition held in Knoxville, 
  Tennessee.
 
   I don't expect to convince you of the merits of the school, nor do I 
  care to,
   since you appear to be more interested in venting your anger and 
  cynicism
   than in pursuing the truth, but I hope there are others on this forum 
  who are
   capable of reaching more accurate, balanced and informed conclusions 
  than
   you are.
 
 Doubtful. :)
 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Hagelin sez 2000 student university in DC immediately

2005-12-09 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  we are immediately establishing a group of 2,000 meditating students 
  in Washington, D.C.,
  
  http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=11339834121142172
 
 
 TMO-speak for wouldn't it be nice if...?

(as he detects the subtle fragrance of fund raising in the air...)

It may be TM speak for, show me the money. Or maybe they're figuring
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Hagelin sez 2000 student university in DC immediately

2005-12-09 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
  
   we are immediately establishing a group of 2,000 meditating 
students 
   in Washington, D.C.,
   
   http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?
art=11339834121142172
  
  
  TMO-speak for wouldn't it be nice if...?
 
 (as he detects the subtle fragrance of fund raising in the air...)
 



 It may be TM speak for, show me the money. Or maybe they're 
figuring
 up the proceeds from all those trademark infringment cases ;-)





The TMO will never see any money from infringment cases, but lawyers 
agree that you have to protect your trademark even when it seems 
silly:

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=1390867





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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Dr Pete: writes
The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically
states that you become realized only through your own
effort, nothing else.

Tom T:
from the shiva sutras as posted here two years ago by Michael Goodman

Shiva Sutras
Translated by Sage Vasugupta

First Awakening

1. Universal Consciousness is one's own nature.

(Swami Lakshmanjoo: Supreme consciousness is the reality of everything.)

2. Knowing the individual consciousness as one's own nature and not
knowing the Universal Consciousness as one's own nature is bondage.

(Swami Lakshmanjoo: Knowing differentiatedly is bondage and not
knowing undifferentiatedly is bondage.)

3. Differentiated perception and the field of individual activities
are also bondage.

[Editor's note: #2  #3 seem to refer to rishi, devatta, and chhandas
in their non-samhita, differentiated, individual state.]

(Swami Lakshmanjoo: Mayiyamala and karmamala are also bondage.)

[Mayiyamala = yonivargah, differentiated knowledge, intellectual dis-
crimination between pairs of opposites.Karmamala = kalashariram, the
embodiment of action as separate action.]

4. This threefold bondage is attributable to and commanded by the
Universal Mother while She remains unknown. Hence the field of
ignorance comes into existence through Her and not through any other
agency.

(Swami Lakshmanjoo: The Universal Mother commands this triple knowledge.)

5. To get rid of this triple bondage, such effort constitutes (the)
means,which is identical with Bhairava [Lord Shiva].

(Swami Lakshmanjoo: That effort, the flashing forth of active
awareness that instantaneously makes universal consciousness shine, is
Bhairava.)

6. With deep contemplation on the wheel of energies, the whole
differentiated universe comes to an end.

[Editor: Transcendental Consciousness.]

(Swami Lakshmanjoo: By establishing and meditating on the wheel of
energiesthe differentiated universe comes to an end.)

7. Such a yogi, who has accomplished this stage, experiences Turiya
(Tran-scendental God Consciousness) in the other three states also -
jagrat (wake-fulness), swapna (dream) and sushupti (deep sleep).






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[FairfieldLife] MSAE record, was Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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It amazes me that kids who grew up meditating would still
 enjoy drugs and not find their effect distasteful.

Have kids ever NOT rebelled.  I have always enjoyed that quote that 
talks about kids being disrespectful, eating too fast, rebelling 
against their parents, and then finding it was attributed to Socrates 
2500 yrs. ago. (or whenever his era was)

lurk






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[FairfieldLife] HaHo9?

2005-12-09 Thread cardemaister

Is Hanuman Hoffman Nine a (former) TMer?






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