[FairfieldLife] The Existence of Nothing
Here's a discussion about nothing. And, it turned out to be a complicated subject than it appears. One scientist stated that our universe could have just started for no reason at all. Now I'm beginning to understand what MMY was saying in the past in that knowledge is different at the various levels of consciousness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLz6uUuMp8
[FairfieldLife] Hacking The Brain
Remember the movie Limitless? And the drug that turned Bradley Cooper into such a superbrain? Who knew that it was based on a real drug? http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/modafinil-2013-4/
[FairfieldLife] Word Aversions
It's confirmed...they're phobias. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/04/word_aversion_hate_moist_slacks_crevice_why_do_people_hate_words.single.html
[FairfieldLife] Pluto/Uranus -square!
As a dilettante astrologer I might well state, that from the Western Tropical POV, one of the reasons for e.g. the situation in the Korean peninsula, or whatever, seems to be, at least partly, the approaching exact square between Pluto (Capricorn) and Uranus (Aries). I wonder what could be the cause from the Jyotish POV? That square lasts, I think, up to 2016 (more or less accurate). It probably causes also a major stock market crash, perhaps already during 2013, as it did e.g. 1929!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Feedback to the TM Movement
Thanks for the connection, and thanks for the post. I appreciate it very much. Thanks again! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Nice post Wayback, JTowbridge, I did send the link to your FFL letter earlier this morning directly over to Dr. John Hagelin right after you posted it on FFL. He responded back to me immediately too before I went to the Dome. I'm just in from the day's farm work now. The work is going long in the fields with spring upon us now. I stopped earlier and meditated along in time with the large group tonite while I was on my tractor. Frankly the New TM Movement is incorporating more over-sight and process within its workings. It's dynamic and changing. Things started changing from back before and around when Maharishi died. There are different elements within it still including some strict preservationists who obstruct change but things are also progressive. I would say from talking with folks inside that some yet are essentially afraid to be more transparent in process because they fear someone like MJ coming along and being negative. But in a direction of more transparency is coming. The strict preservationists have nothing to fear but fear itself. I think your paper is a good common-sense advocacy for better management practices that are actively being figured out more by committee process as J Hagelin has been setting about engaging people in that kind of process. They are also waiting for a few more people to die off as there is an active preparing of a younger set going on to take over. These are very exciting times within TM. It is in re-set. I agree, may the Unified Field save the group meditation. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote: I too really enjoyed your post, Mr Trowbridge. It was genuine and so right on. Loved your points about conflict. In the name of being positive, so much has been overlooked, not dealt with, and repressed. At every level. And for those whose very livelihood revolved around all this for some years, it took a real toll. The frustration of trying to get a problem dealt with was incredible - because the person was considered to be unstressing or negative. A really unhealthy system evolved. Anyway, you said it all so well and I thank you for that. I suspect that in posting it here on FFL, it will be read by the people you are talking to. My guess is that the big issue on the inside is whether to try and mimic exactly how MMY ran the TMO or whether to modify that so as to appeal to more people. Not modify the teaching, but the organization, how it is run, the way rules are enforced, how to handle conflict. I think a lot will depend on how that unfolds now and in the next decade as Bevan and John and the rajas begin to retire. Not that the TMO needs to become a corporate place, but it is all so very fuzzy and odd and seemingly going to end with our generation unless things change. Too much garbage being dragged along to interest the younger generation. But TM is pure gold for you? Lucky guy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jwtrowbridge johnwtrowbridge@ wrote: Thank you, a beautiful response, and I will carry on. I go by my own experiences. This has always been my guide, and my experiences daily have been magnificent. The program is pure gold. Thanks, --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Thanks John, beautiful post in it's positivity. And unique on this forum because you are one of perhaps only 5 posters here altogether that does TM regularily and have a non-agressive take on the TMO. So your idea of sending it here was perhaps a bit too enthusiastic, it will unfortunately only fuel more vile attacs on the TMO from the regulars here, most of whom have not done TM in decades. Aside from that it is impossible to disagree with you on any point, except for perhaps the most important; your idea that the The goal of this organization is not to appeal to a particular leader or person, but to the widest possible audience who will appreciate and practice the TM program in its purity. and reach the widest possible audience who will appreciate and practice the TM program in its purity. This is the goal. This is what the TM organization is about. This is a widespread misunderstanding due largely to being stuck in Maharishi's old thinking or having been exposed only to this timeframe of Maharishi's philosophy on video, strategies that were perfect until about 1985. As the Age of Enlightenment grew and became an irreversible process the old thinking based on the individual was
Re: [FairfieldLife] Uh-oh...Oprah's off the program
My calving will be reserved for if and when she meets and greets the Scientology folks, grin and chortle. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 12:58 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Uh-oh...Oprah's off the program Here she is hangin' with Thich Nhat Hanh, one of them dreaded Buddhists. Nabby will have a cow. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Fairfield, v1.0
After man invented the extensive use of electricity etc. less than 200 years ago, or so, life has become much more entertaining. It's understandable that before movies and all that, life was extremely boring and dark so man had to come up with all kinds of stoopid stuff like Yogic Flying and Gods and stuff, just to entertain themselves?? :D --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Excellent. That's *real*, and a celebration of the little things in life that make life worth living. No one had to change the world, no one had to be all enlightened, and no one seemed in need of deeper meaning or importance. Just as you say about a balsamic reduction, the Law Of Nature of a good life reduction seems to be to just simmer life slowly, without adding all that other crap like spirituality and self-importance. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: Despite being the laziest person on the planet, overeating at Rory and Rena's Easter potluck, sleeping like crap, and dragging my sorry carcass out of bed at 7am, I actually had a very productive day. First project: I decided to upgrade the iMac that serves up http://alex.natel.net/ from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. And rather than simply running the downloaded upgrade app, I extracted the install data from the download and used it to create a bootable USB flash drive. That way, I always have bootable media from which to reinstall the OS, even if the hard drive shits the bed. Second project: Putting together an EP-960 Teeter Hang Up inversion table. The written instructions that come with it are worthless, and just as I was about to call up the company and rip 'em a new one, I remembered the DVD that came with it. So, I fired it up, and sure enough, the DVD has a chapter that perfectly demonstrates proper assembly. Duh. Getting back to the potluck... Law of Nature: The positively absolutely unmistakably *BEST* way to cook boneless skinless chicken breast is sous vide at 140 deg F for 3 hours. My favorite source of external validation is cooking outstanding food for potlucks, and potlucks chez Rory and Rena are great because they are a meat-friendly household. So, on Saturday morning, I cooked a couple organic chicken breasts at 140 deg F for 3 hours and then popped the bag into the fridge until Sunday morning. I then made some balsamic vinegar reduction, using a recipe I found online that called for balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, and brown sugar. Big mistake. Law of Nature: The *ONLY* ingredient in a balsamic vinegar reduction is balsamic vinegar. The soy sauce and sugar ruined it, so I tossed it down the drain and made a fresh batch in accord with Natural Law. Rena was going to make roast lamb, and I suggested she buy some Crosse Blackwell mint sauce, which is a vinegar based mint sauce, instead of that godawful, radioactive green, jelly crap. She couldn't find any, so I made my own version of it. I made a cider vinegar reduction, sweetened it with jaggery, and infused mint leaves in the hot reduction. I woke up Sunday morning and did my usual Sunday ritual: had my coffee, turned on the far infrared sauna, and watched CBS Sunday Morning from inside the sauna. After that, I hit the kitchen. First task: make lime-ginger flash pickles. Inspired by this video: http://youtu.be/yuDFFJ2mazg I make a pickling liquid from either fresh squeezed lemons or limes and then use a vacuum canister and the vacuum port on my foodvac to vacuum infuse the liquid into the cucumber slices. This time, I used limes, and for the first time, used the single-gear juicer to make fresh ginger juice to add to the citrus. In the future, I won't add quite so much ginger, as the pickles were a bit medicinally bitter. I almost didn't bring them to the potluck, but I'm glad I did because people LOVED them. Second task: make the chicken breast hors d'oeuvres. I cut the chicken breast into neat little rectangles and topped them with fresh basil and/or fresh tarragon and half a cherry tomato, with a toothpick holding them together. Then I drizzled them with the balsamic vinegar reduction. I tried one and was totally blown away... unbelievably delicious. What's great about cooking chicken at 140 degrees is that very little liquid separates out; it's fully cooked, and any microorganisms are destroyed, but the meat is not subject to higher temperatures where the proteins contract and express out all the moisture. At the potluck, the chicken breast was a HUGE hit; people raved about it, and they polished off the entire platter.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pluto/Uranus -square!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: As a dilettante astrologer I might well state, that from the Western Tropical POV, one of the reasons for e.g. the situation in the Korean peninsula, or whatever, seems to be, at least partly, the approaching exact square between Pluto (Capricorn) and Uranus (Aries). From a purely scientific perspective, Pluto, having been demoted from planet to dwarf planet, no longer has the astrological influence that it used to.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Being Special
If TM has failed you, has anything else taken its place and succeeded in whatever it is you are aiming at? Techniques and practices have a lifetime. Like a multi-stage rocket, where the lower stages fall away to get the payload in orbit, at some point spiritual machinations wear thin. But by then one should be close to a significant result. Well, I have done other meditations but I have decided that enlightenment as defined by Marshy and even by the vedas is a bit of a fantasy - so I have no spiritual goal as such except to behave well in life, which my parents taught me anyway so... From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 10:21 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Being Special --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Some time ago I posed the question that if, as Marshy always claimed, TM is better, superior to all other meditations, how can that be so, what makes TM special? In addition to being reviled for supposedly setting up a condition which would allow me to take shots at the TMO, I was told that it was not the mantras that are successful, but rather the fantastic instruction on how to use said mantras. Complete horseshit. If that were the case, then you really could use any word as long as you used it the way Marshy told everyone to use his mantras. And we know that ain't right. The mantras are as good as any others but even you true believers have said the mantras are not superior to others, its the WAY they are used. But if its the instruction, then any word should do, so why have the mantras at all? So with TM being special, it has to either be the mantras or the way you use them or a combination - I don't see the instruction as being all that special - its not much different than other meditations including Deepak Chopra's Primordial Sound meditation and others where you are told to just not pay attention to thoughts and bring the awareness back to whatever when you notice you are on a thought. Thus we can see quite clearly that the idea that TM is a superior meditation, or as Marshy put it, the jet plane to enlightenment is complete nonsense, or to be more precise, a lie. Now of course if one believes Mark Landau, then one knows that mantras are repeated to actually receive the blessings of whatever goddess the sound is associated with - in other words its about doing a practice to git something, its about accrual of power, not transcending to gain enlightenment. Oh and Richard W, we all know the blabbity blab blab about all things TM coming from some Buddhist temple or other so no need to repeat it. And I was not setting up a situation to enable me to revile the Movement - I can do that all on my own. As I have said before, I am willing to believe anything, but not without evidence. Thus far, the evidence I have collected has shown me that Marshy was a liar, perhaps well intentioned in the beginning but soon after he left India he allowed himself to be seduced by the blandishments of the ego. The evidence I have also shows me that TM is a decent meditation, but no more special than anything else available and yet most of the claims made for it are false, such as enlightenment accruing from said practice and ability to fly etc, also all claims made of TM Sidhis are false (like world peace). The evidence is that TM has caused many problems on multiple levels for thousands of people, and that thousands of others have ceased the practice due to many reasons. Other evidence is that long term practice doesn't lead to any kind of superlative behavior as demonstrated by the TMO leaders and managers. Given the downside of TM, the evidence is that other meditations are far superior to TM since few of them have the kind of baggage that TM has. If TM has failed you, has anything else taken its place and succeeded in whatever it is you are aiming at? Techniques and practices have a lifetime. Like a multi-stage rocket, where the lower stages fall away to get the payload in orbit, at some point spiritual machinations wear thin. But by then one should be close to a significant result.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Fairfield, v1.0
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Excellent. That's *real*, and a celebration of the little things in life that make life worth living. No one had to change the world, no one had to be all enlightened, and no one seemed in need of deeper meaning or importance. No one had to be in Paris, either. ;-) Just as you say about a balsamic reduction, the Law Of Nature of a good life reduction seems to be to just simmer life slowly, without adding all that other crap like spirituality and self-importance. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: Despite being the laziest person on the planet, overeating at Rory and Rena's Easter potluck, sleeping like crap, and dragging my sorry carcass out of bed at 7am, I actually had a very productive day. First project: I decided to upgrade the iMac that serves up http://alex.natel.net/ from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. And rather than simply running the downloaded upgrade app, I extracted the install data from the download and used it to create a bootable USB flash drive. That way, I always have bootable media from which to reinstall the OS, even if the hard drive shits the bed. Second project: Putting together an EP-960 Teeter Hang Up inversion table. The written instructions that come with it are worthless, and just as I was about to call up the company and rip 'em a new one, I remembered the DVD that came with it. So, I fired it up, and sure enough, the DVD has a chapter that perfectly demonstrates proper assembly. Duh. Getting back to the potluck... Law of Nature: The positively absolutely unmistakably *BEST* way to cook boneless skinless chicken breast is sous vide at 140 deg F for 3 hours. My favorite source of external validation is cooking outstanding food for potlucks, and potlucks chez Rory and Rena are great because they are a meat-friendly household. So, on Saturday morning, I cooked a couple organic chicken breasts at 140 deg F for 3 hours and then popped the bag into the fridge until Sunday morning. I then made some balsamic vinegar reduction, using a recipe I found online that called for balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, and brown sugar. Big mistake. Law of Nature: The *ONLY* ingredient in a balsamic vinegar reduction is balsamic vinegar. The soy sauce and sugar ruined it, so I tossed it down the drain and made a fresh batch in accord with Natural Law. Rena was going to make roast lamb, and I suggested she buy some Crosse Blackwell mint sauce, which is a vinegar based mint sauce, instead of that godawful, radioactive green, jelly crap. She couldn't find any, so I made my own version of it. I made a cider vinegar reduction, sweetened it with jaggery, and infused mint leaves in the hot reduction. I woke up Sunday morning and did my usual Sunday ritual: had my coffee, turned on the far infrared sauna, and watched CBS Sunday Morning from inside the sauna. After that, I hit the kitchen. First task: make lime-ginger flash pickles. Inspired by this video: http://youtu.be/yuDFFJ2mazg I make a pickling liquid from either fresh squeezed lemons or limes and then use a vacuum canister and the vacuum port on my foodvac to vacuum infuse the liquid into the cucumber slices. This time, I used limes, and for the first time, used the single-gear juicer to make fresh ginger juice to add to the citrus. In the future, I won't add quite so much ginger, as the pickles were a bit medicinally bitter. I almost didn't bring them to the potluck, but I'm glad I did because people LOVED them. Second task: make the chicken breast hors d'oeuvres. I cut the chicken breast into neat little rectangles and topped them with fresh basil and/or fresh tarragon and half a cherry tomato, with a toothpick holding them together. Then I drizzled them with the balsamic vinegar reduction. I tried one and was totally blown away... unbelievably delicious. What's great about cooking chicken at 140 degrees is that very little liquid separates out; it's fully cooked, and any microorganisms are destroyed, but the meat is not subject to higher temperatures where the proteins contract and express out all the moisture. At the potluck, the chicken breast was a HUGE hit; people raved about it, and they polished off the entire platter.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Feedback to the TM Movement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: They are also waiting for a few more people to die off...  Excellent strategy to avoid conflict.  Yes, Buck has used this term and this concept more than once here. Maybe it is just a natural inclination, you know, with all the exposure to the life and death cycles of farm animals. He just sees the rest of us, unless we meditate in the dome, as expendable - and the sooner we are on our way the better. From: Buck dhamiltony2k5@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 8:33 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Feedback to the TM Movement  Nice post Wayback, JTowbridge, I did send the link to your FFL letter earlier this morning directly over to Dr. John Hagelin right after you posted it on FFL. He responded back to me immediately too before I went to the Dome. I'm just in from the day's farm work now. The work is going long in the fields with spring upon us now. I stopped earlier and meditated along in time with the large group tonite while I was on my tractor. Frankly the New TM Movement is incorporating more over-sight and process within its workings. It's dynamic and changing. Things started changing from back before and around when Maharishi died. There are different elements within it still including some strict preservationists who obstruct change but things are also progressive. I would say from talking with folks inside that some yet are essentially afraid to be more transparent in process because they fear someone like MJ coming along and being negative. But in a direction of more transparency is coming. The strict preservationists have nothing to fear but fear itself. I think your paper is a good common-sense advocacy for better management practices that are actively being figured out more by committee process as J Hagelin has been setting about engaging people in that kind of process. They are also waiting for a few more people to die off as there is an active preparing of a younger set going on to take over. These are very exciting times within TM. It is in re-set. I agree, may the Unified Field save the group meditation. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote: I too really enjoyed your post, Mr Trowbridge. It was genuine and so right on. Loved your points about conflict. In the name of being positive, so much has been overlooked, not dealt with, and repressed. At every level. And for those whose very livelihood revolved around all this for some years, it took a real toll. The frustration of trying to get a problem dealt with was incredible - because the person was considered to be unstressing or negative. A really unhealthy system evolved. Anyway, you said it all so well and I thank you for that. I suspect that in posting it here on FFL, it will be read by the people you are talking to. My guess is that the big issue on the inside is whether to try and mimic exactly how MMY ran the TMO or whether to modify that so as to appeal to more people. Not modify the teaching, but the organization, how it is run, the way rules are enforced, how to handle conflict. I think a lot will depend on how that unfolds now and in the next decade as Bevan and John and the rajas begin to retire. Not that the TMO needs to become a corporate place, but it is all so very fuzzy and odd and seemingly going to end with our generation unless things change. Too much garbage being dragged along to interest the younger generation. But TM is pure gold for you? Lucky guy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jwtrowbridge johnwtrowbridge@ wrote: Thank you, a beautiful response, and I will carry on. I go by my own experiences. This has always been my guide, and my experiences daily have been magnificent. The program is pure gold. Thanks, --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Thanks John, beautiful post in it's positivity. And unique on this forum because you are one of perhaps only 5 posters here altogether that does TM regularily and have a non-agressive take on the TMO. So your idea of sending it here was perhaps a bit too enthusiastic, it will unfortunately only fuel more vile attacs on the TMO from the regulars here, most of whom have not done TM in decades. Aside from that it is impossible to disagree with you on any point, except for perhaps the most important; your idea that the The goal of this organization is not to appeal to a particular leader or person, but to the widest possible audience who will appreciate and practice the TM program in its purity. and
[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Fairfield, v1.0
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Excellent. That's *real*, and a celebration of the little things in life that make life worth living. No one had to change the world, no one had to be all enlightened, and no one seemed in need of deeper meaning or importance. No one had to be in Paris, either. ;-) You got it. And no one had to be smirked at, belittled or denounced. Just as you say about a balsamic reduction, the Law Of Nature of a good life reduction seems to be to just simmer life slowly, without adding all that other crap like spirituality and self-importance. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: Despite being the laziest person on the planet, overeating at Rory and Rena's Easter potluck, sleeping like crap, and dragging my sorry carcass out of bed at 7am, I actually had a very productive day. First project: I decided to upgrade the iMac that serves up http://alex.natel.net/ from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. And rather than simply running the downloaded upgrade app, I extracted the install data from the download and used it to create a bootable USB flash drive. That way, I always have bootable media from which to reinstall the OS, even if the hard drive shits the bed. Second project: Putting together an EP-960 Teeter Hang Up inversion table. The written instructions that come with it are worthless, and just as I was about to call up the company and rip 'em a new one, I remembered the DVD that came with it. So, I fired it up, and sure enough, the DVD has a chapter that perfectly demonstrates proper assembly. Duh. Getting back to the potluck... Law of Nature: The positively absolutely unmistakably *BEST* way to cook boneless skinless chicken breast is sous vide at 140 deg F for 3 hours. My favorite source of external validation is cooking outstanding food for potlucks, and potlucks chez Rory and Rena are great because they are a meat-friendly household. So, on Saturday morning, I cooked a couple organic chicken breasts at 140 deg F for 3 hours and then popped the bag into the fridge until Sunday morning. I then made some balsamic vinegar reduction, using a recipe I found online that called for balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, and brown sugar. Big mistake. Law of Nature: The *ONLY* ingredient in a balsamic vinegar reduction is balsamic vinegar. The soy sauce and sugar ruined it, so I tossed it down the drain and made a fresh batch in accord with Natural Law. Rena was going to make roast lamb, and I suggested she buy some Crosse Blackwell mint sauce, which is a vinegar based mint sauce, instead of that godawful, radioactive green, jelly crap. She couldn't find any, so I made my own version of it. I made a cider vinegar reduction, sweetened it with jaggery, and infused mint leaves in the hot reduction. I woke up Sunday morning and did my usual Sunday ritual: had my coffee, turned on the far infrared sauna, and watched CBS Sunday Morning from inside the sauna. After that, I hit the kitchen. First task: make lime-ginger flash pickles. Inspired by this video: http://youtu.be/yuDFFJ2mazg I make a pickling liquid from either fresh squeezed lemons or limes and then use a vacuum canister and the vacuum port on my foodvac to vacuum infuse the liquid into the cucumber slices. This time, I used limes, and for the first time, used the single-gear juicer to make fresh ginger juice to add to the citrus. In the future, I won't add quite so much ginger, as the pickles were a bit medicinally bitter. I almost didn't bring them to the potluck, but I'm glad I did because people LOVED them. Second task: make the chicken breast hors d'oeuvres. I cut the chicken breast into neat little rectangles and topped them with fresh basil and/or fresh tarragon and half a cherry tomato, with a toothpick holding them together. Then I drizzled them with the balsamic vinegar reduction. I tried one and was totally blown away... unbelievably delicious. What's great about cooking chicken at 140 degrees is that very little liquid separates out; it's fully cooked, and any microorganisms are destroyed, but the meat is not subject to higher temperatures where the proteins contract and express out all the moisture. At the potluck, the chicken breast was a HUGE hit; people raved about it, and they polished off the entire platter.
[FairfieldLife] TMSP again
Well, Buck I did the TM Sidhi minus flying again today - not as blissful as yesterday, but I do understand why you like to do it - hope the lambing and calving and planting is going well.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Just found this extra inspiring
And wonderful courage too, thanks for posting From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 10:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Just found this extra inspiring I think she has quite a gift for speaking http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2013/02/04/malala-s-new-life.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: TMSP again
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Well, Buck I did the TM Sidhi minus flying again today - not as blissful as yesterday, but I do understand why you like to do it - hope the lambing and calving and planting is going well. That is great, don't anguish over it. A lot of people do it like that. No mantra, no thought is also correct meditation without even doing the sidhis. Just be mindful, i mean, simple. It's more about the 'field effect' of the Unified Field when you sit to activate the subtle system in transcending. It's about Ved and physiology, whatever you call that. The more important thing than just doing the TM-sidhis is to take the time. A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
[FairfieldLife] Re: TMSP again
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: Well, Buck I did the TM Sidhi minus flying again today - not as blissful as yesterday, but I do understand why you like to do it - hope the lambing and calving and planting is going well. Yep, Zen Calendar April 2: I and the ten thousand things are of One Root. -Wan Shi That is great [about meditating], don't anguish over it. A lot of people do it like that. No mantra, no thought is also correct meditation without even doing the sidhis. Just be mindful, i mean, simple. It's more about the 'field effect' of the Unified Field when you sit to activate the subtle system in transcending. It's about Ved and physiology, whatever you call that. The more important thing than just doing the TM-sidhis is to take the time. A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
[FairfieldLife] Amoda Maa Jeevan: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 04/02/2013
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Re: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama
Jeffrey Smith the food activist here in FF is giving a free presentation tonight about recognizing genuine organic food in local stores. I bet the auditorium will be packed. I'm planning to grow baby bok choy (-: noozguru, your item about the Chinese and the movie industry is quite alarming. What came to mind was how brilliant Maharishi was to have MUM forge alliances with Chinese universities. But oy, how will I ever learn Madarin? In your joke about Holi and colored powered, I don't know who DHS is. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama Probably better the US government get shutdown than for the asura Monsanto to poison the world. On 03/30/2013 07:36 AM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, and anyone else, what about the point that if Obama hadn't signed the bill, there would be no budget and the fed govt would have shut down for a week? Is that true? How the heck did the Monsanto aspect get put into the budget aspect? Do you think the Dems allowed the situation to avoid taking a stand against Monsanto? From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 5:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama People are pissed that Obama is a shill for Monsanto. Glad to see the public reacting. Makes Michele's efforts for organic farming a bit phony. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57576835/critics-slam-obama-for-protecting-monsanto/ Do samyama on Destroy Monsanto.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just found this extra inspiring
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27 steve.sundur@... wrote: I think she has quite a gift for speaking She was shot in the left side of her head, so she was very lucky that the bullet missed her speech centers-- especially given the role she has taken on of speaking out about Taliban abuses and in favor of girls' education. She has a remarkably good English accent. They didn't need the subtitles in the video at all. http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2013/02/04/malala-s-new-life.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama
My organic gardening is limited to my apple tree and trying to keep the pests out of it. This year I got the coddling moth traps out early and there were no moths caught until a week or so ago and by early I meant early February. And that was only possible because I had a trap left over from last year. Otherwise the stores run out early because you want to put these up before the tree buds because the moths lay their eggs on the buds and then you wind up with wormy apples. However we've had colder weather than usual and the moths haven't been around until lately. Frankly not sure that trying to maintain an apple tree is worth it because you may wind up paying more to maintain the tree than you will just buying bags of organic apples. The lemon tree takes care of itself with occasional pruning from the gardening service. Gardening is not my hobby. As for planting crops the soil is too rocky for that. There was a similar experience with the remake of Red Dawn and the Chinese. You'd think the movie producers would learn. They should have made the source of the pandemic a biotech company but then maybe Monstersanto would have thrown a tantrum. In a 1970s movie it would have been a US government experience going awry. DHS = Department of Homeland Security. On 04/02/2013 08:47 AM, Share Long wrote: Jeffrey Smith the food activist here in FF is giving a free presentation tonight about recognizing genuine organic food in local stores. I bet the auditorium will be packed. I'm planning to grow baby bok choy (-: noozguru, your item about the Chinese and the movie industry is quite alarming. What came to mind was how brilliant Maharishi was to have MUM forge alliances with Chinese universities. But oy, how will I ever learn Madarin? In your joke about Holi and colored powered, I don't know who DHS is. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama Probably better the US government get shutdown than for the asura Monsanto to poison the world. On 03/30/2013 07:36 AM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, and anyone else, what about the point that if Obama hadn't signed the bill, there would be no budget and the fed govt would have shut down for a week? Is that true? How the heck did the Monsanto aspect get put into the budget aspect? Do you think the Dems allowed the situation to avoid taking a stand against Monsanto? From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 5:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama People are pissed that Obama is a shill for Monsanto. Glad to see the public reacting. Makes Michele's efforts for organic farming a bit phony. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57576835/critics-slam-obama-for-protecting-monsanto/ Do samyama on Destroy Monsanto.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Word Aversions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: It's confirmed...they're phobias. Actually, it's not confirmed at all. The article makes a major point about how zero research has been done on word aversion. One person is quoted in the article as *speculating* that it's similar to phobias. That's it. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/04/word_aversion_hate_moist_slacks_crevice_why_do_people_hate_words.single.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.05
Go back and read what I wrote. Did I mention anyone by name? If anyone reacts -- or more accurately, given this forum, overreacts -- to what I wrote, it seems to me that they are projecting their *own* self-importance and narcissism into what I wrote. I wrote generically. Those who react as if they had been personally insulted have responded almost as if -- almost -- their own sense of self-importance leads them to believe that what I wrote was ALL ABOUT THEM. authfriend: PSSST, Barry, Susan was the only one who reacted to that paragraph. And she's one of your biggest fans (of the few you have left). Ooopsie! Hey! Barry, we have cafés down here too. LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Hackers
Reuters - A computer hacker was sentenced on Monday to three years and five months in prison for stealing the personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc iPad users, including big-city mayors, a TV network news anchor and a Hollywood movie mogul... 'U.S. computer hacker gets three-and-a-half years for stealing iPad user data' http://tinyurl.com/c72z58j
Re: [FairfieldLife] Hackers
On 04/02/2013 09:20 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Reuters - A computer hacker was sentenced on Monday to three years and five months in prison for stealing the personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc iPad users, including big-city mayors, a TV network news anchor and a Hollywood movie mogul... 'U.S. computer hacker gets three-and-a-half years for stealing iPad user data' http://tinyurl.com/c72z58j And your point is? I just tried to post a comment on a news site that uses DISQUS. Usually if my avatar is showing when I enter a comment I'm logged in. The avatar was showing and when I clicked post this red banner shows up about authenticating. Annoying. So I go to a link where I authenticate through Yahoo. This usually works but today it throws an error. I hate DISQUS and I think it is lazy web sites that use it. I'm beginning to wonder if they are spies for DHS.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Word Aversions
Surely this is an April Fool prank. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: It's confirmed...they're phobias. Actually, it's not confirmed at all. The article makes a major point about how zero research has been done on word aversion. One person is quoted in the article as *speculating* that it's similar to phobias. That's it. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/04/word_aversion_hate_moist_slacks_crevice_why_do_people_hate_words.single.html
[FairfieldLife] PLANET X DOCUMENTARIES DiNardo youtube documents Nibiru (Planet X), Nemesis (T
PLANET X DOCUMENTARIES DiNardo youtube documents Nibiru (Planet X), Nemesis (The dark subdwarf star Nibiru goes round), the murder of NASA astronomer Harrington for going public with Zecaria Sitchin about Nibiru and Nemesis, the hidden government's hiding of Hubble documentation of Nibiru and Nemesis and much more. Watch this youtube and evaluate the actual evidence for yourself. 85 percent of global warming's due to the nearing of Nemesis and the tightening of the inner solar system's orbits around Solaris. Click it and dig it http://enkispeaks.com/2013/04/02/planet-x-documentary-articles-by-david-j-smith-and-dr-sasha-lessin-youtube-by-john-dinardo/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Word Aversions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: Surely this is an April Fool prank. Assuming your comment isn't itself prankish: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4389 Many more along these lines. It's a real phenomenon of considerable interest to language mavens. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: It's confirmed...they're phobias. Actually, it's not confirmed at all. The article makes a major point about how zero research has been done on word aversion. One person is quoted in the article as *speculating* that it's similar to phobias. That's it. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/04/word_aversion_hate_moist_slacks_crevice_why_do_people_hate_words.single.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Feedback to the TM Movement
Just in for a quick lunch and catching up. Beautifully explained, Nablusoss. Thanks. A taliban's version of the New TM Movement. Very tight, I like the last two paragraphs that really catch the ultra-tru-believer's element in this for perspective. Many are the interested elements in this community. It is hard to say any one thing about meditators or the movement. It's a bit of a three-ring circus to watch. -Buck out standing in his field. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: Thanks John, beautiful post in it's positivity. And unique on this forum because you are one of perhaps only 5 posters here altogether that does TM regularily and have a non-agressive take on the TMO. So your idea of sending it here was perhaps a bit too enthusiastic, it will unfortunately only fuel more vile attacs on the TMO from the regulars here, most of whom have not done TM in decades. Aside from that it is impossible to disagree with you on any point, except for perhaps the most important; your idea that the The goal of this organization is not to appeal to a particular leader or person, but to the widest possible audience who will appreciate and practice the TM program in its purity. and reach the widest possible audience who will appreciate and practice the TM program in its purity. This is the goal. This is what the TM organization is about. This is a widespread misunderstanding due largely to being stuck in Maharishi's old thinking or having been exposed only to this timeframe of Maharishi's philosophy on video, strategies that were perfect until about 1985. As the Age of Enlightenment grew and became an irreversible process the old thinking based on the individual was replaced with the concern for groups, and ultimately the whole world. Already in 1980, after having prevented the WWII during the winther of 1979, Maharishi said From today no more meditators are necessary. Thus Maharishi's focus shifted and the TMO as we know it became in many ways obsolete, left unattended also by it's own Founder simply because it had no more function other than being the safekeeper of the purity of the teaching. No small task, but the real job of securing permanent world peace was given to the Rajas and the Vedic Pundits, a responsebility that remains theirs to this day. So my advice to you would be to stay calm and carry on. Continue with your beautiful programme, knowing that some obstacles like bad smell or bad food or whatever will be thown into the mix at regular intervals, they don't matter much. Forget about the mismanagement of the TMO, it is irrelevant for you. Forget that the TMO must become in better shape to save the world, they won't and their task isn't. Let them do their bit as you do yours, life is too short to waste on such small things. One last thing; please see as many as possible of Maharishi's newest tapes that are available on youtube. Perhaps what I've stated above will be clearer. Thank you again for your well meaning post. Jai Guru Dev
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gay man deserves credit for so much of TM success
Thanks for letting us know Merv was gay...that's so important. Really quite life-changing in fact. I'll never meditate again ;-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Word Aversions
Well, that reads like a hoax, too. Hilarious! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Surely this is an April Fool prank. Assuming your comment isn't itself prankish: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4389 Many more along these lines. It's a real phenomenon of considerable interest to language mavens. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: It's confirmed...they're phobias. Actually, it's not confirmed at all. The article makes a major point about how zero research has been done on word aversion. One person is quoted in the article as *speculating* that it's similar to phobias. That's it. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/04/word_aversion_hate_moist_slacks_crevice_why_do_people_hate_words.single.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gay man deserves credit for so much of TM success
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi martyboi@... wrote: Thanks for letting us know Merv was gay...that's so important. Really quite life-changing in fact. I'll never meditate again ;-) I assumed it was meant as an ironic comment on TMO homophobia. Merv wasn't out, but it wasn't exactly a big secret during his lifetime that he was gay, and it became public knowledge after he died in 2007. On the other hand, the U.S. movement certainly gives Merv huge credit. The burst of initiations in the mid-'70s is typically referred to as the Merv wave.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Word Aversions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: Well, that reads like a hoax, too. Hilarious! I don't have any of the aversions mentioned in either piece. The two words that set my teeth on edge are breakfasts (just the plural) and slather (because it's associated with the oft-repeated and deeply annoying instruction Always slather on sunscreen before you go out, which nobody does unless they're headed for the beach). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Surely this is an April Fool prank. Assuming your comment isn't itself prankish: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4389 Many more along these lines. It's a real phenomenon of considerable interest to language mavens. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: It's confirmed...they're phobias. Actually, it's not confirmed at all. The article makes a major point about how zero research has been done on word aversion. One person is quoted in the article as *speculating* that it's similar to phobias. That's it. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/04/word_aversion_hate_moist_slacks_crevice_why_do_people_hate_words.single.html
[FairfieldLife] Late Easter Joke
A man and his ever nagging wife went on vacation in Jerusalem . While they were there, the wife passed away . The undertaker told the husband, You can have her buried here in the Holy Land for $150 or we can have her shipped back home for $5,000 .The husband thought about it and told the undertaker he would have her shipped back home .The undertaker asked him, why would you spend $5,000 to have her shipped home when you could have a beautiful burial here, and it would only cost $150The husband replied, Long ago, a man died here, was buried here, and three days later, rose from the dead . I just can't take that chance! Editors Note: Can work with either sex. (-:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Word Aversions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Well, that reads like a hoax, too. Hilarious! I don't have any of the aversions mentioned in either piece. The two words that set my teeth on edge are breakfasts (just the plural) and slather (because it's associated with the oft-repeated and deeply annoying instruction Always slather on sunscreen before you go out, which nobody does unless they're headed for the beach). Maybe it's regional but even educated Iowans mangle a few phrases. Most annoying: I have went... I kid you not. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Surely this is an April Fool prank. Assuming your comment isn't itself prankish: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4389 Many more along these lines. It's a real phenomenon of considerable interest to language mavens. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: It's confirmed...they're phobias. Actually, it's not confirmed at all. The article makes a major point about how zero research has been done on word aversion. One person is quoted in the article as *speculating* that it's similar to phobias. That's it. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/04/word_aversion_hate_moist_slacks_crevice_why_do_people_hate_words.single.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Feedback to the TM Movement
Thus Maharishi's focus shifted and the TMO as we know it became in many ways obsolete, left unattended also by it's own Founder simply because it had no more function other than being the safekeeper of the purity of the teaching. No small task, but the real job of securing permanent world peace was given to the Rajas and the Vedic Pundits, a responsebility that remains theirs to this day. So who had responsibility for securing world permanent world peace between 1979 when Nabby claims Marshy lifted his middle finger to the Movement and many years later when he began using the pundits and later the rajas? From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 2:13 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Feedback to the TM Movement Just in for a quick lunch and catching up. Beautifully explained, Nablusoss. Thanks. A taliban's version of the New TM Movement. Very tight, I like the last two paragraphs that really catch the ultra-tru-believer's element in this for perspective. Many are the interested elements in this community. It is hard to say any one thing about meditators or the movement. It's a bit of a three-ring circus to watch. -Buck out standing in his field. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: Thanks John, beautiful post in it's positivity. And unique on this forum because you are one of perhaps only 5 posters here altogether that does TM regularily and have a non-agressive take on the TMO. So your idea of sending it here was perhaps a bit too enthusiastic, it will unfortunately only fuel more vile attacs on the TMO from the regulars here, most of whom have not done TM in decades. Aside from that it is impossible to disagree with you on any point, except for perhaps the most important; your idea that the The goal of this organization is not to appeal to a particular leader or person, but to the widest possible audience who will appreciate and practice the TM program in its purity. and reach the widest possible audience who will appreciate and practice the TM program in its purity. This is the goal. This is what the TM organization is about. This is a widespread misunderstanding due largely to being stuck in Maharishi's old thinking or having been exposed only to this timeframe of Maharishi's philosophy on video, strategies that were perfect until about 1985. As the Age of Enlightenment grew and became an irreversible process the old thinking based on the individual was replaced with the concern for groups, and ultimately the whole world. Already in 1980, after having prevented the WWII during the winther of 1979, Maharishi said From today no more meditators are necessary. Thus Maharishi's focus shifted and the TMO as we know it became in many ways obsolete, left unattended also by it's own Founder simply because it had no more function other than being the safekeeper of the purity of the teaching. No small task, but the real job of securing permanent world peace was given to the Rajas and the Vedic Pundits, a responsebility that remains theirs to this day. So my advice to you would be to stay calm and carry on. Continue with your beautiful programme, knowing that some obstacles like bad smell or bad food or whatever will be thown into the mix at regular intervals, they don't matter much. Forget about the mismanagement of the TMO, it is irrelevant for you. Forget that the TMO must become in better shape to save the world, they won't and their task isn't. Let them do their bit as you do yours, life is too short to waste on such small things. One last thing; please see as many as possible of Maharishi's newest tapes that are available on youtube. Perhaps what I've stated above will be clearer. Thank you again for your well meaning post. Jai Guru Dev
[FairfieldLife] Re: Late Easter Joke
That was bad. :) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27 steve.sundur@... wrote: A man and his ever nagging wife went on vacation in Jerusalem . While they were there, the wife passed away . The undertaker told the husband, You can have her buried here in the Holy Land for $150 or we can have her shipped back home for $5,000 .The husband thought about it and told the undertaker he would have her shipped back home .The undertaker asked him, why would you spend $5,000 to have her shipped home when you could have a beautiful burial here, and it would only cost $150The husband replied, Long ago, a man died here, was buried here, and three days later, rose from the dead . I just can't take that chance! Editors Note: Can work with either sex. (-:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Feedback to the TM Movement
Not sure if that's All Maharishi Videos on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE230C9585F4DD8AC http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE230C9585F4DD8AC Guru Dev and Maharishi Audios and Videos http://www.spiritualregeneration.org/ http://www.spiritualregeneration.org/ http://ayurveda-florida.com/articles_ayurvedic_medicine_diet_lifestyle_d\ hanvantari_ayurveda_center_ayurveda_education_programs/Hinduism/guru_dev\ _and_maharishi_audios_and_videos.htm http://ayurveda-florida.com/articles_ayurvedic_medicine_diet_lifestyle_\ dhanvantari_ayurveda_center_ayurveda_education_programs/Hinduism/guru_de\ v_and_maharishi_audios_and_videos.htm seems the Spiritual Regeneration (SR)revealing-light to be gone slide down the sky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3PefHHXxJ0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3PefHHXxJ0 See the SR star slide down the sky, Blinding the north as it went by, Too burning and too quick to hold, Too lovely to be bought or sold, Good only to make wishes on And then forever to be gone. So you should taste the filtered light and work your way toward wisdom with no personal covering. Oh prisoner of time, Oh secret treasure of kindness and generosity, You wish this treasure to be known, Create a mirror: its shining face- the heart; It'll darkened back,-the world; (Even the back would please you if you've never seen the face) Has anyone ever produced a mirror out of mud and straw? Yet clean away the mud and straw, A mirror might be revealed. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Thanks John, beautiful post in it's positivity. And unique on this forum because you are one of perhaps only 5 posters here altogether that does TM regularily and have a non-agressive take on the TMO. So your idea of sending it here was perhaps a bit too enthusiastic, it will unfortunately only fuel more vile attacs on the TMO from the regulars here, most of whom have not done TM in decades. Aside from that it is impossible to disagree with you on any point, except for perhaps the most important; your idea that the The goal of this organization is not to appeal to a particular leader or person, but to the widest possible audience who will appreciate and practice the TM program in its purity. and reach the widest possible audience who will appreciate and practice the TM program in its purity. This is the goal. This is what the TM organization is about. This is a widespread misunderstanding due largely to being stuck in Maharishi's old thinking or having been exposed only to this timeframe of Maharishi's philosophy on video, strategies that were perfect until about 1985. As the Age of Enlightenment grew and became an irreversible process the old thinking based on the individual was replaced with the concern for groups, and ultimately the whole world. Already in 1980, after having prevented the WWII during the winther of 1979, Maharishi said From today no more meditators are necessary. Thus Maharishi's focus shifted and the TMO as we know it became in many ways obsolete, left unattended also by it's own Founder simply because it had no more function other than being the safekeeper of the purity of the teaching. No small task, but the real job of securing permanent world peace was given to the Rajas and the Vedic Pundits, a responsebility that remains theirs to this day. So my advice to you would be to stay calm and carry on. Continue with your beautiful programme, knowing that some obstacles like bad smell or bad food or whatever will be thown into the mix at regular intervals, they don't matter much. Forget about the mismanagement of the TMO, it is irrelevant for you. Forget that the TMO must become in better shape to save the world, they won't and their task isn't. Let them do their bit as you do yours, life is too short to waste on such small things. One last thing; please see as many as possible of Maharishi's newest tapes that are available on youtube and are available here: http://www.youtube.com/user/maharishichannel Perhaps what I've stated above will be clearer. Thank you again for your well-meaning post. Jai Guru Dev
Re: [FairfieldLife] Hackers
Maybe they're spies for the Chinese too. And the Illuminati. They all want to know what we're up to (-: I just assume that if I post or email, anybody who wants to see it, can see it. Makes life simpler that way. But really, all those spies need to a GET A LIFE! From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Hackers On 04/02/2013 09:20 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Reuters - A computer hacker was sentenced on Monday to three years and five months in prison for stealing the personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc iPad users, including big-city mayors, a TV network news anchor and a Hollywood movie mogul... 'U.S. computer hacker gets three-and-a-half years for stealing iPad user data' http://tinyurl.com/c72z58j And your point is? I just tried to post a comment on a news site that uses DISQUS. Usually if my avatar is showing when I enter a comment I'm logged in. The avatar was showing and when I clicked post this red banner shows up about authenticating. Annoying. So I go to a link where I authenticate through Yahoo. This usually works but today it throws an error. I hate DISQUS and I think it is lazy web sites that use it. I'm beginning to wonder if they are spies for DHS.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pluto/Uranus -square!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: As a dilettante astrologer I might well state, that from the Western Tropical POV, one of the reasons for e.g. the situation in the Korean peninsula, or whatever, seems to be, at least partly, the approaching exact square between Pluto (Capricorn) and Uranus (Aries). From a purely scientific perspective, Pluto, having been demoted from planet to dwarf planet, no longer has the astrological influence that it used to. Anyhoo, the next exact squares take place, IMO, May 16th and November 1st. Wouldn't it be cool, if the next stock market crash happened very near of either of those dates...? OTOH, October 29th, 1929, the orb was over 11 degrees!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Hackers
I actually got a reply back from DISQUS support and they mentioned that third party cookies need to be enabled. Which they were. I think there was some problem with DISQUS this morning because when went back to the news item there were no additional comments from the time I was there. Also trying to relink with DISQUS through Yahoo threw a bug and still does this afternoon. Thing is rather than just set up an account with DISQUS I want to continue using the way I've been posting since I can't transfer the old one into a new DISQUS account. On 04/02/2013 02:33 PM, Share Long wrote: Maybe they're spies for the Chinese too. And the Illuminati. They all want to know what we're up to (-: I just assume that if I post or email, anybody who wants to see it, can see it. Makes life simpler that way. But really, all those spies need to a GET A LIFE! From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Hackers On 04/02/2013 09:20 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Reuters - A computer hacker was sentenced on Monday to three years and five months in prison for stealing the personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc iPad users, including big-city mayors, a TV network news anchor and a Hollywood movie mogul... 'U.S. computer hacker gets three-and-a-half years for stealing iPad user data' http://tinyurl.com/c72z58j And your point is? I just tried to post a comment on a news site that uses DISQUS. Usually if my avatar is showing when I enter a comment I'm logged in. The avatar was showing and when I clicked post this red banner shows up about authenticating. Annoying. So I go to a link where I authenticate through Yahoo. This usually works but today it throws an error. I hate DISQUS and I think it is lazy web sites that use it. I'm beginning to wonder if they are spies for DHS.
[FairfieldLife] The Immortality Project
John Fischer, a philosophy professor at UC-Riverside, has been awarded a $5 million grant from the Templeton Foundation to fund essays and empirical research projects related to immortality. Fisher himself doubts there is such a thing, but he thinks studying the possibility from various angles (including beliefs about it) will be relevant to the way we live our lives at present. http://www.sptimmortalityproject.com/ Here's an excerpt from a recent interview with Fischer about the Immortality Project (Xeno, I wrote my posts to you before reading this): Q: Is it conceivable that there's a version of immortality that exists as something outside the limits of the known universe, or do you have to be religious to believe that? A: I guess you wouldn't have to be religious. You could believe that there are forces or energies or features of the physical universe which we haven't yet identified or can't yet fully describethat there was a kind of [true] immortality that wouldn't have to be religious. That's possible. It's kind of an abstract possibility that we can't really grasp concretely right now. But I think it's possible and there's lots that we don't know. If you think about quantum mechanics and string theory and you try wrap your mind around the possibility that there are many, many dimensions to reality, not just three or four, it starts becoming very hard to comprehend. We have certain concepts of present, past, future, causation, physical objects, acceleration, velocity, location. We apply those ordinary concepts to our ordinary lives and they work pretty well, you know? But once you start thinking about quantum mechanics, string theory, the ordinary concepts just don't apply anymore. And maybe there is a kind of immortality that we have genuinely as part of the physical universe that we can't yet understand. Q: Or even beyond the physical universe A: Yeah, beyond the physical universe that we know about. There are philosophers who are dualists who think that the mind is not identical to the brain. Or, if they're property dualists, they think that mental properties are non-physical properties of our brains. And if you think that maybe the universe has non-physical properties, maybe immortality is somehow related to those. Q: Is there a basic incompatibility between free will and immortality? And I mean true immortality, not putting my brain in a jar for extreme longevity. A: Well, I'm going to answer another question first, then I'll get back to your question. I definitely think that immortality in the sense of living forever and not dying is completely consistent with free will. Now, if you add that determinism is true or that god exists then it might rule out certain kinds of freedom but I think it's still consistent with other kinds of freedom and it's consistent with moral responsibility. Now, true immortality, especially as conceptualized in a religious viewI don't think that's typically thought of as involving free will. If you think about the standard Christian picture, in which you've been virtuous in life and you go to heaven and you have eternal union with god, that's typically not a context in which you have freedom of the will. You're in a blissful union with god forever, but you don't have the freedom to choose evil. You're not conceptualized as planning and acting in accordance with your plans. http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-immortality
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Late Easter Joke
John, if you're still looking to get married and have children, I wouldn't share this joke on a date. Unless the jyotish compatability is really really good (-: From: John jr_...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 2:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Late Easter Joke That was bad. :) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27 steve.sundur@... wrote: A man and his ever nagging wife went on vacation in Jerusalem . While they were there, the wife passed away . The undertaker told the husband, You can have her buried here in the Holy Land for $150 or we can have her shipped back home for $5,000 .The husband thought about it and told the undertaker he would have her shipped back home .The undertaker asked him, why would you spend $5,000 to have her shipped home when you could have a beautiful burial here, and it would only cost $150The husband replied, Long ago, a man died here, was buried here, and three days later, rose from the dead . I just can't take that chance! Editors Note: Can work with either sex. (-:
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Immortality Project
Judy, thanks for posting this and the links. More to read. From: authfriend authfri...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 4:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Immortality Project John Fischer, a philosophy professor at UC-Riverside, has been awarded a $5 million grant from the Templeton Foundation to fund essays and empirical research projects related to immortality. Fisher himself doubts there is such a thing, but he thinks studying the possibility from various angles (including beliefs about it) will be relevant to the way we live our lives at present. http://www.sptimmortalityproject.com/ Here's an excerpt from a recent interview with Fischer about the Immortality Project (Xeno, I wrote my posts to you before reading this): Q: Is it conceivable that there's a version of immortality that exists as something outside the limits of the known universe, or do you have to be religious to believe that? A: I guess you wouldn't have to be religious. You could believe that there are forces or energies or features of the physical universe which we haven't yet identified or can't yet fully describe—that there was a kind of [true] immortality that wouldn't have to be religious. That's possible. It's kind of an abstract possibility that we can't really grasp concretely right now. But I think it's possible and there's lots that we don't know. If you think about quantum mechanics and string theory and you try wrap your mind around the possibility that there are many, many dimensions to reality, not just three or four, it starts becoming very hard to comprehend. We have certain concepts of present, past, future, causation, physical objects, acceleration, velocity, location. We apply those ordinary concepts to our ordinary lives and they work pretty well, you know? But once you start thinking about quantum mechanics, string theory, the ordinary concepts just don't apply anymore. And maybe there is a kind of immortality that we have genuinely as part of the physical universe that we can't yet understand. Q: Or even beyond the physical universe… A: Yeah, beyond the physical universe that we know about. There are philosophers who are dualists who think that the mind is not identical to the brain. Or, if they're property dualists, they think that mental properties are non-physical properties of our brains. And if you think that maybe the universe has non-physical properties, maybe immortality is somehow related to those. Q: Is there a basic incompatibility between free will and immortality? And I mean true immortality, not putting my brain in a jar for extreme longevity. A: Well, I'm going to answer another question first, then I'll get back to your question. I definitely think that immortality in the sense of living forever and not dying is completely consistent with free will. Now, if you add that determinism is true or that god exists then it might rule out certain kinds of freedom but I think it's still consistent with other kinds of freedom and it's consistent with moral responsibility. Now, true immortality, especially as conceptualized in a religious view—I don't think that's typically thought of as involving free will. If you think about the standard Christian picture, in which you've been virtuous in life and you go to heaven and you have eternal union with god, that's typically not a context in which you have freedom of the will. You're in a blissful union with god forever, but you don't have the freedom to choose evil. You're not conceptualized as planning and acting in accordance with your plans. http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-immortality
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Re: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama
The fruit trees sound wonderful and also that you've learned so much about those moths. So you got apples for vata, lemons for pitta. Now you just need something to vitiate kapha. How about some watermelons? (-: It is interesting how movies tend to have the bad guys du jour. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama My organic gardening is limited to my apple tree and trying to keep the pests out of it. This year I got the coddling moth traps out early and there were no moths caught until a week or so ago and by early I meant early February. And that was only possible because I had a trap left over from last year. Otherwise the stores run out early because you want to put these up before the tree buds because the moths lay their eggs on the buds and then you wind up with wormy apples. However we've had colder weather than usual and the moths haven't been around until lately. Frankly not sure that trying to maintain an apple tree is worth it because you may wind up paying more to maintain the tree than you will just buying bags of organic apples. The lemon tree takes care of itself with occasional pruning from the gardening service. Gardening is not my hobby. As for planting crops the soil is too rocky for that. There was a similar experience with the remake of Red Dawn and the Chinese. You'd think the movie producers would learn. They should have made the source of the pandemic a biotech company but then maybe Monstersanto would have thrown a tantrum. In a 1970s movie it would have been a US government experience going awry. DHS = Department of Homeland Security. On 04/02/2013 08:47 AM, Share Long wrote: Jeffrey Smith the food activist here in FF is giving a free presentation tonight about recognizing genuine organic food in local stores. I bet the auditorium will be packed. I'm planning to grow baby bok choy (-: noozguru, your item about the Chinese and the movie industry is quite alarming. What came to mind was how brilliant Maharishi was to have MUM forge alliances with Chinese universities. But oy, how will I ever learn Madarin? In your joke about Holi and colored powered, I don't know who DHS is. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama Probably better the US government get shutdown than for the asura Monsanto to poison the world. On 03/30/2013 07:36 AM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, and anyone else, what about the point that if Obama hadn't signed the bill, there would be no budget and the fed govt would have shut down for a week? Is that true? How the heck did the Monsanto aspect get put into the budget aspect? Do you think the Dems allowed the situation to avoid taking a stand against Monsanto? From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 5:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama People are pissed that Obama is a shill for Monsanto. Glad to see the public reacting. Makes Michele's efforts for organic farming a bit phony. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57576835/critics-slam-obama-for-protecting-monsanto/ Do samyama on Destroy Monsanto.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Immortality Project
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Judy, thanks for posting this and the links. More to read. The project Website doesn't have much up yet other than laying out the nuts and bolts--it's just starting out-- but it links to a bunch of media reports about the project. The ones I looked at are surprisingly (to me) respectful. Here's a bit from an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about Fischer and the project that gives more of the rationale: Mr. Fischer, who describes himself as not a religious person, stresses that the Immortality Project will avoid trying to prove or disprove whether an afterlife exists. Rather, he says, it will chip away at the problem by studying what we can studypossible subjects like whether brain structures predispose people to believe in an afterlife, or whether people who believe in an afterlife are more likely to behave morally. Immortality is one of the oldest of human questions. But Mr. Fischer points to a fresh impetus for studying it now: the increasing interest in possibilities for extending human life through science. He notes the work of thinkers like Ray Kurzweil, who predicts that humans and computers will merge, and Kenneth Hayworth, who studies mind uploading. Part of it is motivated by the fact that there are advances now in longevity that naturally raise the question of whether immortality is possible and whether it would be desirable, Mr. Fischer says. Those questions are of interest to philosophers. Immortality curmudgeons, as Mr. Fischer calls them, have argued that death gives meaning to life. Immortality optimists feel they take too dim a viewthat endless life may well be rewarding and attractive, he says. I'm on the side of the immortality optimists. http://chronicle.com/article/Intimations-of/133287/ From: authfriend authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 4:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Immortality Project  John Fischer, a philosophy professor at UC-Riverside, has been awarded a $5 million grant from the Templeton Foundation to fund essays and empirical research projects related to immortality. Fisher himself doubts there is such a thing, but he thinks studying the possibility from various angles (including beliefs about it) will be relevant to the way we live our lives at present. http://www.sptimmortalityproject.com/ Here's an excerpt from a recent interview with Fischer about the Immortality Project (Xeno, I wrote my posts to you before reading this): Q: Is it conceivable that there's a version of immortality that exists as something outside the limits of the known universe, or do you have to be religious to believe that? A: I guess you wouldn't have to be religious. You could believe that there are forces or energies or features of the physical universe which we haven't yet identified or can't yet fully describeâthat there was a kind of [true] immortality that wouldn't have to be religious. That's possible. It's kind of an abstract possibility that we can't really grasp concretely right now. But I think it's possible and there's lots that we don't know. If you think about quantum mechanics and string theory and you try wrap your mind around the possibility that there are many, many dimensions to reality, not just three or four, it starts becoming very hard to comprehend. We have certain concepts of present, past, future, causation, physical objects, acceleration, velocity, location. We apply those ordinary concepts to our ordinary lives and they work pretty well, you know? But once you start thinking about quantum mechanics, string theory, the ordinary concepts just don't apply anymore. And maybe there is a kind of immortality that we have genuinely as part of the physical universe that we can't yet understand. Q: Or even beyond the physical universe⦠A: Yeah, beyond the physical universe that we know about. There are philosophers who are dualists who think that the mind is not identical to the brain. Or, if they're property dualists, they think that mental properties are non-physical properties of our brains. And if you think that maybe the universe has non-physical properties, maybe immortality is somehow related to those. Q: Is there a basic incompatibility between free will and immortality? And I mean true immortality, not putting my brain in a jar for extreme longevity. A: Well, I'm going to answer another question first, then I'll get back to your question. I definitely think that immortality in the sense of living forever and not dying is completely consistent with free will. Now, if you add that determinism is true or that god exists then it might rule out certain kinds of freedom but I think it's still consistent with other kinds of freedom and it's consistent with moral
[FairfieldLife] Seems that Holland is having some economic problems too
Eh tu, Turq? Maybe there is another reason to be in France? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-02/holland-economy-brink
[FairfieldLife] Re: Word Aversions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Well, that reads like a hoax, too. Hilarious! I don't have any of the aversions mentioned in either piece. The two words that set my teeth on edge are breakfasts (just the plural) and slather (because it's associated with the oft-repeated and deeply annoying instruction Always slather on sunscreen before you go out, which nobody does unless they're headed for the beach). Funny how many people's pet peeve words have the 's' sound in them. Come to think of it pet peeve drives me crazy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Surely this is an April Fool prank. Assuming your comment isn't itself prankish: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4389 Many more along these lines. It's a real phenomenon of considerable interest to language mavens. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: It's confirmed...they're phobias. Actually, it's not confirmed at all. The article makes a major point about how zero research has been done on word aversion. One person is quoted in the article as *speculating* that it's similar to phobias. That's it. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/04/word_aversion_hate_moist_slacks_crevice_why_do_people_hate_words.single.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Late Easter Joke
Share, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: John, if you're still looking to get married and have children, I wouldn't share this joke on a date. Unless the jyotish compatability is really really good (-: From: John jr_esq@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 2:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Late Easter Joke  That was bad. :) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27 steve.sundur@ wrote: A man and his ever nagging wife went on vacation in Jerusalem . While they were there, the wife passed away . The undertaker told the husband, You can have her buried here in the Holy Land for $150 or we can have her shipped back home for $5,000 .The husband thought about it and told the undertaker he would have her shipped back home .The undertaker asked him, why would you spend $5,000 to have her shipped home when you could have a beautiful burial here, and it would only cost $150The husband replied, Long ago, a man died here, was buried here, and three days later, rose from the dead . I just can't take that chance! Editors Note: Can work with either sex. (-:
[FairfieldLife] Re: President Barack Monsanto Obama
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: The fruit trees sound wonderful and also that you've learned so much about those moths. So you got apples for vata, lemons for pitta. Now you just need something to vitiate kapha. How about some watermelons? (-: This is how we differ - I just figured it out. I would have said, So you got apples for homemade apple pie, lemons for fresh lemonade. Now we just need something to satisfy Uncle John. How about some watermelons? Then I would leave out the smiley face. It is interesting how movies tend to have the bad guys du jour. Is that anything like the soup du jour? From: Bhairitu noozguru@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama  My organic gardening is limited to my apple tree and trying to keep the pests out of it. This year I got the coddling moth traps out early and there were no moths caught until a week or so ago and by early I meant early February. And that was only possible because I had a trap left over from last year. Otherwise the stores run out early because you want to put these up before the tree buds because the moths lay their eggs on the buds and then you wind up with wormy apples. However we've had colder weather than usual and the moths haven't been around until lately. Frankly not sure that trying to maintain an apple tree is worth it because you may wind up paying more to maintain the tree than you will just buying bags of organic apples. The lemon tree takes care of itself with occasional pruning from the gardening service. Gardening is not my hobby. As for planting crops the soil is too rocky for that. There was a similar experience with the remake of Red Dawn and the Chinese. You'd think the movie producers would learn. They should have made the source of the pandemic a biotech company but then maybe Monstersanto would have thrown a tantrum. In a 1970s movie it would have been a US government experience going awry. DHS = Department of Homeland Security. On 04/02/2013 08:47 AM, Share Long wrote: Jeffrey Smith the food activist here in FF is giving a free presentation tonight about recognizing genuine organic food in local stores. I bet the auditorium will be packed. I'm planning to grow baby bok choy (-: noozguru, your item about the Chinese and the movie industry is quite alarming. What came to mind was how brilliant Maharishi was to have MUM forge alliances with Chinese universities. But oy, how will I ever learn Madarin? In your joke about Holi and colored powered, I don't know who DHS is. From: Bhairitu noozguru@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama Probably better the US government get shutdown than for the asura Monsanto to poison the world. On 03/30/2013 07:36 AM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, and anyone else, what about the point that if Obama hadn't signed the bill, there would be no budget and the fed govt would have shut down for a week? Is that true? How the heck did the Monsanto aspect get put into the budget aspect? Do you think the Dems allowed the situation to avoid taking a stand against Monsanto? From: Bhairitu noozguru@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 5:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] President Barack Monsanto Obama People are pissed that Obama is a shill for Monsanto. Glad to see the public reacting. Makes Michele's efforts for organic farming a bit phony. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57576835/critics-slam-obama-for-protecting-monsanto/ Do samyama on Destroy Monsanto.
