[FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma

2011-07-26 Thread Ravi Yogi
Thanks Denise, sounds good !!! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans wrote: > > Touche (there is supposed to be an accent on that "e"). Â It is not my intent to judge or criticize you...we all have the right to worship the belief system and/or spiritual leader that resonates with us.

[FairfieldLife] Your Call (was Re: Maharishi's Sandals)

2011-07-26 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" raviyogi@ wrote: > > > > Barry I have read your message and I disagree with > > everything you say :-). > > Ravi, that is your right, and I encourage you to > continue doing so. :-) Compa

[FairfieldLife] Re: alternative theory regarding MZ

2011-07-26 Thread Ravi Yogi
Jim, thanks that's beautiful. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > The key word is "story". As far as I can tell, all living things attempt to continuously solve problems, like a spider spinning a web to increase its capability to feed itself, or a cheetah sprinting at 70

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > Thanks, Xeno, but I'm not playing, for a couple of reasons. > > Just for one thing, I don't think it's an accident that > > you've picked the female side

[FairfieldLife] ZomGas 3 - A Reverse Zombie - (was Zombie in My Gas Tank)

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Price
Sal, I hope you realize, besides MZ, you're the only one I would do a reverse Zombie for.   And I guess I can't insist on anything as civilized as using the Proust Questionnaire (the heart and soul of Zombie) to provide questions to my answers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proust_Questionnair

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > I wasn't suggesting a shorter or more concise version > of what you wrote. I was just suggesting that, as an > experiment, Judy rewrite the article in a way that > she felt comfortable with without direct reference to

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Thanks, Xeno, but I'm not playing, for a couple of reasons. > Just for one thing, I don't think it's an accident that > you've picked the female side of this long-running dispute > to characterize as having a "large emotional componen

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Sandals

2011-07-26 Thread authfriend
OK, Curtis, I'm glad you've come clean, finally. You've acknowledged that you used trickery more than once in this exchange. That doesn't surprise me; what does surprise me is that you did it so deliberately. I had been willing to assume that you were so angry you weren't consciously aware of most

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
I wasn't suggesting a shorter or more concise version of what you wrote. I was just suggesting that, as an experiment, Judy rewrite the article in a way that she felt comfortable with without direct reference to you, just playing with the ideas. That would not necessarily reflect what you intend

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reincarnation

2011-07-26 Thread Buck
Jai Guru Dev, the sales of our CD are going fabulously well. Thank you Fairfieldlife! Once we have the square toot of one percent of the population listening to our CD, we hope to have our pilot study in place to research the wider benefits of the spiritual practice of listening to our Throne of Gr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Resume/A Job

2011-07-26 Thread whynotnow7
Do you have your profile on www.linkedin.com Mark? I have probably gotten 10-15 interview requests from them over the past two years. Also I'd recommend joining any active professional association focused on accounting, and attend the conferences. Also, get in touch with some contracting firms f

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Bitching

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > Ah the seasonal return of the bitching about > > bitching post... > > emptybill: > I totally reject the inference that I'm > trying to bitch slap anyone on this forum. > I have only the greatest respect for bitches > since they provide us with such distinguished > German shorthaired poin

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread emptybill
Willy, look at how it is spelled. "Shamballa" is standard Theosophical spelling and Agni Yoga is an offshoot of Theosophy. Trungpa's org was Vajradhatu and his son reorg'd it all under the Sanskrit name "Shambhala" as found in the Kalachakra Tantra. Notice the difference in spelling? That anther

[FairfieldLife] Re: Resume/A Job

2011-07-26 Thread obbajeeba
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau wrote: > > Not too sure about protocol here yet (is there any?), but I thought I'd let > you know. > I lost my job June 6 as Accounting Manager for a high tech consulting firm in > charge of AP, AR, payroll and responsible for many other things

[FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > Everyone knows all about your guru, Trungpa, > > the founder of the Shambhala Mountain Center, > > so just cut the crap - it's old news. > > Vaj: > Trungpa was not my guru, > Whatever, just cut the crap. Everyone knows that Trungpa died from riotous living. Everyone knows that Trungpa

[FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread emptybill
So you're saying Vag has Meth Sex with himself in the bathroom? That must be a special Nath technique he learned from his Nath guru, DJ Wahl Ghoul. Maybe he teaches this stuff for a fee it at the Masonic Lodge after drinking with the guys. However, I hear that Meth Sex and liquor don't mix well.

[FairfieldLife] Resume/A Job

2011-07-26 Thread Mark Landau
Not too sure about protocol here yet (is there any?), but I thought I'd let you know. I lost my job June 6 as Accounting Manager for a high tech consulting firm in charge of AP, AR, payroll and responsible for many other things. I just put my resume up (not too professionally) on my web site. If

[FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > I spent two week in Ojai listening to K on two > > occasions. I have nothing but respect for him. > > A very snappy dresser. > > wgm4u: > Having spent a couple of weekends with him under > the oak trees in Ojai myself, I would have to > agree, he was indeed, "a very snappy dresser". > Was

[FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread whynotnow7
The last time Vaj had sex (with himself, of course) was during one of his "dark retreats", huddled in the bathroom, door locked, sitting in the bathtub with the lights out -- "I'll be out in a minute honey! What?...nothing, I'm just doing yoga...no, of course not, I don't do that anymore since y

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-07-26 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jul 23 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat Jul 30 00:00:00 2011 589 messages as of (UTC) Tue Jul 26 23:46:20 2011 47 authfriend 41 Vaj 39 whynotnow7 30 Mark Landau 29 turquoiseb 29 Bhairitu 28 Ravi Yogi 27 nablusoss

[FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price wrote: > > Have you read this book about Krishnamurti's sex life?  > > > http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Shadow-Krishnamurti-Radha-Sloss/dp/0595121314/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top > > > > As a child Krishnamurti treated the author like a daughter. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: FairfieldLife] ZomGas 1 (was Zombie in My Gas Tank)

2011-07-26 Thread azgrey
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:31 PM, azgrey wrote: > > > Dear Mr. Price, > > > > Seeing as how Sal's intelligence, good humor, and wisdom > > is exceeded only by her beauty, > > Now you're talkin'. > > > I was wondering if you might > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Bitching

2011-07-26 Thread Vaj
On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:47 PM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: > > > The Judy's List Team > > > > obbajeeba: > > If this were to be true to occur, it may be best > > to know that Radha's Vag., Viagra induced, would > > pretend to be a cub on a Judy's list. > > > Well, I guess Vaj pretty much prove

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread Vaj
On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:43 PM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: > > > > It's not about sex or no sex... > > > > Vaj: > > Did your parents drop you a lot as a child? > > > Well, it's just that I figure as long as you > want to discuss other people's private sex life, > why not start with your own,

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
emptybill: > Wiki Wiki. Just as I thought. You made it up. > "The Monad, the Soul and the Personality form the synthesised expression of a greater life which is in the process of being revealed..." Meditation - The Shamballa School: http://www.shamballaschool.org/Agni/Agni1.htm > > > The S

[FairfieldLife] Re: What I'm "against"

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > All you have to do is hit the ENTER key after > > about ten words. > > > > Why is that so hard to understand? > > > > You might also consider using a double space to > > break up paragraphs - that would make these long > > post a lot easier to read. Forget the rich text, > > who cares about t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Bitching

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > The Judy's List Team > > obbajeeba: > If this were to be true to occur, it may be best > to know that Radha's Vag., Viagra induced, would > pretend to be a cub on a Judy's list. > Well, I guess Vaj pretty much proved David Fiske's point. Good work, Vaj! Vaj really came through on this Jud

[FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > It's not about sex or no sex... > > Vaj: > Did your parents drop you a lot as a child? > Well, it's just that I figure as long as you want to discuss other people's private sex life, why not start with your own, or lack thereof? Don't be a hypocrite fer chrissakes! You don't REALLY know

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Bitching

2011-07-26 Thread obbajeeba
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Jul 26, 2011, at 1:29 PM, David wrote: > > > I am wondering whether Rick wouldn't like to start a new site called > > Fairfield Life Bitching for those who wear their egos on their sleeves and > > like to snipe at each other. Often a

Re: [FairfieldLife] My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread Vaj
On Jul 26, 2011, at 1:50 PM, emptybill wrote: > It's not about sex or no sex. > > It's about K.'s long-term duplicity in bedding married women and disguising > it from their husbands, some whom were close friends. With one of them he > went to > court to try and stop him from revealing the tr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visualizing the US national debt

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
Bhairitu: > Congress is loaded with Republican terrorists. > So much for toning down the 'culture of hate'! > > So, where is the President's plan to reduce > > spending and bring down the national debt? > > Stop the wars was what he originally said. > Maybe I missed it, but where in Obama's n

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread emptybill
Wiki Wiki. Just as I thought. You made it up. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardwillytexwilliams" wrote: > > > > emptybill: > > The Sanskrit word "jiva" doesn't translate into the > > English term "soul-monad". > > > "In Hinduism and Jainism, a jiva is a living being, or > more spec

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fairfield Bitching

2011-07-26 Thread Vaj
On Jul 26, 2011, at 1:29 PM, David wrote: > I am wondering whether Rick wouldn't like to start a new site called > Fairfield Life Bitching for those who wear their egos on their sleeves and > like to snipe at each other. Often a good series of posts begin around a > spiritual experience or ide

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Bitching

2011-07-26 Thread emptybill
I totally reject the inference that I'm trying to bitch slap anyone on this forum. I have only the greatest respect for bitches since they provide us with such distinguished German shorthaired pointers. ……… --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
emptybill: > The Sanskrit word "jiva" doesn't translate into the > English term "soul-monad". > "In Hinduism and Jainism, a jiva is a living being, or more specifically, the immortal essence of a living organism (human, animal, fish or plant etc.) which survives physical death..." http://en

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/26/2011 12:47 PM, turquoiseb wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: >> My question to you would be why do you expect people to >> have the time to read it? > My question to you would be, "What part of 'I write > for FUN' did you not understand?" I *don't* expect > peo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Bitching

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
David Fiske: > I am wondering whether Rick wouldn't like to start a > new site called Fairfield Life Bitching for those who > wear their egos on their sleeves and like to snipe at > each other... > David, it's a good idea! You've heard of 'My Space'. And, you've heard of 'Facebook'. My new socia

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I'm "against"

2011-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/26/2011 01:59 PM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: > > Bhairitu: >> Willy must still be stuck in the 1970s? >> > All you have to do is hit the ENTER key after > about ten words. > > Why is that so hard to understand? > > You might also consider using a double space to > break up paragraphs - th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visualizing the US national debt

2011-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
So where are the "responsible citizens?" I sure don't see any. Just a bunch of Republican terrorists who want to destroy the country so their bankster cronies can buy it for pennies on the dollar. Can't wait to see the chickens come home to roost (i.e. karma) on that one. On 07/26/2011 01:15

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visualizing the US national debt

2011-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/26/2011 01:43 PM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: > > Bhairitu: >> Maybe when we get Wiemar Republic food price >> inflation will they begin to pay attention... >> > Maybe so, but there have been very few revolutions > in history because the people didn't have any food. French and Bolshevik r

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread emptybill
Soul monad? MMY was not conversant with Gottfried Leibniz's Le Monadologie, much less with the parlance of Gottfried de Purucker's Theosophical books. If he actually used the term then it was one he got from his SRM days with Charlie Lutts. However, I think MMY did not use the term. The Sanskri

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread authfriend
Thanks, Xeno, but I'm not playing, for a couple of reasons. Just for one thing, I don't think it's an accident that you've picked the female side of this long-running dispute to characterize as having a "large emotional component." I decline to cooperate with that perspective. For another thing, y

[FairfieldLife] Re: What I'm "against"

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
Bhairitu: > Willy must still be stuck in the 1970s? > All you have to do is hit the ENTER key after about ten words. Why is that so hard to understand? You might also consider using a double space to break up paragraphs - that would make these long post a lot easier to read. Forget the rich t

[FairfieldLife] Re: What I'm "against"

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
Xenophaneros: > The messages on this forum go through quite a > number of different software applications, and > Yahoo's own software on the forum is inconsistent > in the way it handles spacing etc. Its rich-text > editor has some surprising screw-ups. The screen > size on which a message w

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visualizing the US national debt

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
Bhairitu: > Maybe when we get Wiemar Republic food price > inflation will they begin to pay attention... > Maybe so, but there have been very few revolutions in history because the people didn't have any food. Being hungry and weak actually makes people more dependent on the government, not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FairfieldLife] ZomGas 1 (was Zombie in My Gas Tank)

2011-07-26 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:31 PM, azgrey wrote: > Dear Mr. Price, > > Seeing as how Sal's intelligence, good humor, and wisdom > is exceeded only by her beauty, Now you're talkin'. > I was wondering if you might > consider reversing your format and provide 20 answers to > which Sal can produce the

[FairfieldLife] Re: FairfieldLife] ZomGas 1 (was Zombie in My Gas Tank)

2011-07-26 Thread azgrey
Dear Mr. Price, Seeing as how Sal's intelligence, good humor, and wisdom is exceeded only by her beauty, I was wondering if you might consider reversing your format and provide 20 answers to which Sal can produce the questions? We may find some kinda ZombieTantric develop. Thank you for your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visualizing the US national debt

2011-07-26 Thread authfriend
So Barry's a Tea Partier. Who knew? Willytex and Mike Dixon will be thrilled to have him on their side. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > This graphic does what numbers simply cannot; it gives > us a feeling for what the term "national debt" means, "Feeling" is right. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visualizing the US national debt

2011-07-26 Thread John
The unemployed and those in financial distress are looking for a new job and financial assistance. The national debt and the budget deficit are the last things in their mind. On the other hand, the responsible citizens should be the ones who would lead the country to the best direction financi

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > My question to you would be why do you expect people to > have the time to read it? My question to you would be, "What part of 'I write for FUN' did you not understand?" I *don't* expect people to read it, especially those with as short

[FairfieldLife] Re: alternative theory regarding MZ

2011-07-26 Thread RoryGoff
* * Oh, this is so beautiful, Doug. Many thanks; you have given us the keys to the Kingdom! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > Oh yes, The files will get you to an amazing web page that has these digital > files of hymns. Go to their home page and you'll see a lin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visualizing the US national debt

2011-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
The problem with the pubic is that the only people who seem to care are those who are unemployed or having a tough time financially. The "presently employed" seem to care less unless they are worried about being one pay check away from disaster. They avoid focusing on economic and political i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reincarnation

2011-07-26 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: Dear Robin I am sure all of us who are in receipt of your lengthy replies are most flattered. I for one am not used to it. Like many here I usually push my shit out to be greeted mostly by silence. To puff myself up a bit in the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
My question to you would be why do you expect people to have the time to read it? I guess you feel most FFLers are unemployed and don't do anything but hang out on FFL all day. I have to meter my reading here. Most of the time I have to scan through your posts to see what the hell you're ram

[FairfieldLife] Re: RC, MUC, and RUC

2011-07-26 Thread RoryGoff
Right, that's why I said, *ultimately* all states of consciousness are voluntary. This is not at all evident when one believes (mistakenly) one is solely an ego or soul stuck inside a Reality not of one's own making. Then we are identifying solely with the "creature" end of our creator-creature

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
An interesting idea, Xeno, but if I were you I wouldn't count on me being surprised if someone comes of with more concise or shorter ways of expressing that or any of my "cafe posts." The one you mention took me less than 15 minutes to write. I started at the beginning and whipped through it non-st

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visualizing the US national debt

2011-07-26 Thread John
Excellent graphics. That should get the message through the public. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > This graphic does what numbers simply cannot; it gives > us a feeling for what the term "national debt" means, > and why there might just be a resistance to increasin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I'm "against"

2011-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
Willy must still be stuck in the 1970s? Even in the 1980s we had word wrap in message panes. No one should have to do any special formatting for a regular message here. I use email and Thunderbird to read and post. Not sure it if is Thunderbird or Yahoo but people will sometimes complain if

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reincarnation

2011-07-26 Thread Buck
Friends, You can sample some of these song at our web page. But Friends, sampling is not enough. You really should buy a copy. Buy it to hear it entirely. Buy it to appreciate and learn from its whole entirety. Listening's a technique in spiritual experience in itself, just to hear it in its

[FairfieldLife] Can You Travel Back in Time?

2011-07-26 Thread John
NO, say scientists from Hong Kong. Nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light. http://news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-scientists-show-time-travel-impossible-150026913.html However, if one includes the effects of dark energy, matter at the edge of the universe can reach the spee

[FairfieldLife] Re: alternative theory regarding MZ

2011-07-26 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > Abiding and un-abiding unity as Varying apertures in experience. Great > > thread here. Last month Rick Archer put up some audio files of Adyashanti > > here acknowl

[FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread whynotnow7
"And my mind at times throws up the question: Does such an encounter leave some kind of a `seed' in one, or is it just another awesome experience?" I can't comment on your question of "spiritual insemination" (yikes!), though I can say that you had to be a willing conduit for the cosmic energy y

[FairfieldLife] Re: RC, MUC, and RUC

2011-07-26 Thread sparaig
The mistake of the intellect isn't called a mistake because it is voluntary... L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "at_man_and_brahman" > wrote: > > > > The responses to my post about Robin Carlson were interesting. They re

[FairfieldLife] Re: alternative theory regarding MZ

2011-07-26 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: [...] > If the requirement is true, then the current evidence is everyone has > failed miserably to attain enlightenment. Thus SRM, the world plan and > its successors are a total failure. > Why is that? Development of worl

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Bitching

2011-07-26 Thread whynotnow7
I am recommending a 100% FULL REFUND of the FFL entrance fee for David. Wait...what? There isn't one? :-0 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Ah the seasonal return of the bitching about bitching post... > > I question the concept of you getting "mired" in anyth

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
I think Barry's writing is more nuanced than you give him credit for. He does have a definite style, but within that style there is a lot of variety. Sometimes I find Barry's mode of expression really annoying, but he is not the cause of that annoyance, it is a projection of my own mind. We al

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Bitching

2011-07-26 Thread obbajeeba
.bhaa..hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Sorry, all the words I can think of as a response^, to share with a post bitching about bitching. : ) Unless the tile "Fairfield Bitching," refers to a notice of females in heat looking

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visualizing the US national debt

2011-07-26 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > This graphic does what numbers simply cannot; it gives > us a feeling for what the term "national debt" means, > and why there might just be a resistance to increasing > it. > > It starts with one $100 bill, and then contrasts that >

Fw: [FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread emptybill
It's not about sex or no sex. It's about K.'s long-term duplicity in bedding married women and disguising it from their husbands, some whom were close friends. With one of them he went to court to try and stop him from revealing the truth. This is just more proof that there is no "enlightenment"

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Bitching

2011-07-26 Thread curtisdeltablues
Ah the seasonal return of the bitching about bitching post... I question the concept of you getting "mired" in anything you are not choosing to read. The concept of "hogging so much space" is misapplied in the context of forum such as this. You see contrary to some of our government leader's c

[FairfieldLife] Fairfield Bitching

2011-07-26 Thread David
I am wondering whether Rick wouldn't like to start a new site called Fairfield Life Bitching for those who wear their egos on their sleeves and like to snipe at each other. Often a good series of posts begin around a spiritual experience or idea and soon the usual suspects start in on each other

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reincarnation

2011-07-26 Thread RoryGoff
* * HA! Quite right, Jim. Addicts R Us! Lord love a duck. Very good. Very good... :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > He wouldn't have much of an audience if they weren't. No need for "rehab".:-) > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > >

[FairfieldLife] Visualizing the US national debt

2011-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
This graphic does what numbers simply cannot; it gives us a feeling for what the term "national debt" means, and why there might just be a resistance to increasing it. It starts with one $100 bill, and then contrasts that visually with $10,000, $1 million, $1 billion, $1 trillion, and finally wit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Sandals

2011-07-26 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > OK, let's take it from the top... > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > Fun to watch Curtis (and Edg, but to a lesser exte

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reincarnation

2011-07-26 Thread whynotnow7
He wouldn't have much of an audience if they weren't. No need for "rehab".:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" > wrote: > > > > > The RC/Catholicism story reminds me of Bernadette Roberts, who had a > > non

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reincarnation

2011-07-26 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" wrote: > > The RC/Catholicism story reminds me of Bernadette Roberts, who had a nondual > awakening and then proceeded to box herself back into her old Catholic > perspective. It weirds me out that people could be blessed with a taste of

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread whynotnow7
Why play word games? For example, I am no fan of hypocrisy. Or according to your way of thinking, I am for being against hypocrisy, which is against being for double standards. WTF? Instead why not culture your consciousness so that it is naturally uplifting and unattached? You remember, alter

[FairfieldLife] Re: alternative theory regarding MZ

2011-07-26 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > Abiding and un-abiding unity as Varying apertures in experience. Great > thread here. Last month Rick Archer put up some audio files of Adyashanti > here acknowledging and talking about this in the way that Adyashanti teaches. > > >

Fw: [FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Price
Sorry,  - Forwarded Message - From: Bob Price To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:48:03 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti   And average Willy's hate the subject of sex.  From: richardwi

[FairfieldLife] Re: What I'm "against"

2011-07-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
The messages on this forum go through quite a number of different software applications, and Yahoo's own software on the forum is inconsistent in the way it handles spacing etc. Its rich-text editor has some surprising screw-ups. The screen size on which a message will display is also an un

[FairfieldLife] For Masked Zebra

2011-07-26 Thread Vaj
One of the most precious family relics passed down in my family is an old, 1749 copy of Der Martyrer Speigel, The Mirror of the Martyrs, which details many of the deaths and the torture of the "non- resisters" - non-Catholic Christians who rejected war and violence and demanded separation of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Price
And average Willy's hate the subject of sex.  From: richardwillytexwilliams To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:24:22 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti   > > My meeting with J. Krishnamurti > > Bob P

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reincarnation

2011-07-26 Thread maskedzebra
Masked Zebra responds to Pal Gap: Dear Robin, > It would have been better for me to just admit that in > the most profound sense I feel and intuit it is a lie. That's fine Robin - but our intuitions differ. RESPONSE: That poses an interesting question: is there any way by which one could

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reincarnation

2011-07-26 Thread Buck
Friends, we have recorded the definitive modern album of old hymns on this subject. Songs of the great transition, hymns of the Bardo. Songs of Summerland. Songs of comforting hospice for the weary pilgrim of life. http://fairfolk.org/throne Right now, for only $15 you can share in and be

Re: [FairfieldLife] One in five American men don't work: Where's the outrage?

2011-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
We might just boil it down to "there's no ditches that need to be dug." Maybe that will make the point clear to the OO's (outwardly oblivious). The revolution started a while back. So far it is mostly online. Plant memes and see where they go. Others will pick them up and carry them elsewh

[FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > My meeting with J. Krishnamurti > > Bob Price: > Have you read this book about Krishnamurti's sex life?  > Oh crap, I knew this was coming up any minute! "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

[FairfieldLife] My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Price
Have you read this book about Krishnamurti's sex life?  http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Shadow-Krishnamurti-Radha-Sloss/dp/0595121314/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top As a child Krishnamurti treated the author like a daughter.  Her real father, Rajagopal, was the Indian gentleman who managed K's business

[FairfieldLife] Huge Crop Circle in Wiltshire reported today

2011-07-26 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2011/windmillhill2/windmillhill2011b.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reincarnation

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
Mark Landau: > And Christianity likely carried over it's understanding > of reincarnation via the Judaic idea of the Gilgulim > (×'ל×'ולים), or "the cycles (of souls)"... > Judaism is a monotheistic religion, so it's difficult to square this with the reincarnation belief in a dualism. Th

[FairfieldLife] Your Call (was Re: Maharishi's Sandals)

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Price
Has everyone heard the story   Milarepa used to explain  resentment to his devotees?  Three Repa monks (with control of their inner heat) were meditating on the top of a mountain of ice. They wore nothing but light cotton and sat on rough wool blankets. After 10 years of meditating through blizz

[FairfieldLife] Re: My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread authfriend
Nice piece, J. Thanks for posting it. Since you wrote it, have you come any closer to an answer to the question you pose at the end? Any sense of a "seed" beginning to sprout? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "J" wrote: > > > Hello, > Since I have noticed some dialogues on J. Krishnamurti,

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > But one of the things that I can wholeheartedly > > recommend is that the minimal effort expended to > > prefer Self to self-importance in activity might > > be worth the expense... > > authfriend: > As a practitioner of this technique, do you really > think that the behavior you exhibit,

[FairfieldLife] My meeting with J. Krishnamurti

2011-07-26 Thread J
Hello, Since I have noticed some dialogues on J. Krishnamurti, I would share the following. The article (which I have written some years ago) was published in 'The American Yoga Journal', at their request and a Krishnamurti-teachings related magazine. Regards, JB '''

[FairfieldLife] Re: (alternative theory regarding MZ) Krishnamurti & Maharishi

2011-07-26 Thread J
Hello, Short,, done TM 1968-1973, met Maharishi in Spain, he gave me a mantra... also met J. Krishnamurti in 1979.- Conc. your "There is the case of Krishnamurti of whom Maharishi said was 'too far gone in unity'."...: If M. meant JK. was too far gone, I wonder then why, when they met on a fligh

[FairfieldLife] Re: More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > I'm "for" trying to occasionally self-monitor, and when you > find that the self has slipped into a lower mindstate, one > involving outrage or anger or a feeling of defensiveness or > strong attachment, coming back to more balanced min

[FairfieldLife] Re: What I'm "against"

2011-07-26 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
turquoiseb: > Having done "What I'm for" recently, I figure it's > only fair to spend some time rapping about what > I'm uh...less for... > Well, I am against posting un-formatted, word wrap, messages that exceed one line. They are much too much work to read when displayed edge-to-edge on a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reincarnation

2011-07-26 Thread Mark Landau
Dear, dear Robin, It's my understanding (IMU?) that, in this: And Christianity likely carried over it's understanding of reincarnation via the Judaic idea of the Gilgulim (גלגולים), or "the cycles (of souls)". Vaj is quite right. I'm not a scholar but I've thought I've know for a long time that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma

2011-07-26 Thread Denise Evans
Touche (there is supposed to be an accent on that "e").  It is not my intent to judge or criticize you...we all have the right to worship the belief system and/or spiritual leader that resonates with us. I am glad that you take what you like and leave the rest...in the end, so did I.  That says

[FairfieldLife] Re: alternative theory regarding MZ

2011-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > There's actually a diversion that takes place at the subtle > > > level that damns sidhi practitioners f

[FairfieldLife] More "for"

2011-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
The Subject line, for those who might have been tempted to read it aloud to themselves, is not a play on "MoFo." That's an acronym for a longer phrase describing guys who may have a tad too much Oediphus in their personalities. It's merely a description of me sitting down in yet another cafe and po

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