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So you're saying that an enlightened person loses the ability to descriminate
between a flower and a duck?
Or loses the ability to name things because they see the fundamental unity in
the diversity?
That reads like you've
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The question for 'spiritually'
There are some who might suggest that Judy realizing her fantasy of hooking up
with Robin in Toronto would *BE* JR's predicted horrible accident. :-) :-)
:-)
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Well said Barry - and I agree with every word
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Well said Barry -
Lawson, there's a wonderful tape in which someone asks Maharishi if in Unity a
person could marry anyone. Maharishi laughs and then explains that differences
don't disappear in Unity. It's just that they no longer dominate awareness.
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 10:43 PM,
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Well said Barry - and I agree with every word
--- turquoiseb@... wrote :
It's NOT that I'm saying that seeking spiritual experiences ISN'T valuable. I'm
just pointing out that almost no one in history has ever stepped up to the
plate and made an
When thinking about why people value certain experiences and do certain
activities, I like Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a guideline. IOW, once
certain basic needs are met, then a person seeks to satisfy additional needs.
Which might not be higher but which might simply involve activating more
On 10/23/2014 3:33 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
**
For me as time went on such experiences tended to damp out, everything
kind of flattened out, until one day on a walk there was this shift in
which the world, as it always had been, was identical with what I had
On 10/23/2014 5:04 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Well said Barry - and I agree with every word
/You failed to answer Barry's main question: what is the value of the
spiritual life?/
Well said Barry - and I agree with every word
On 10/23/2014 5:59 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
It's NOT that I'm saying that seeking spiritual experiences ISN'T
valuable. I'm just pointing out that almost no one in history has ever
stepped up to the plate
You are very good at quoting scripture and contents of text books (and there is
a value to that), but when you look to the honesty of your moment to moment
experience - What do you find? Put aside traditions and ancient wisdom - they
are not relevant today - today its What are you bringing to
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I don't have much in the way of movies to recommend this month because
most all I have been watching have been horror films. That's because I
hang out with a group on a forum that tries to watch a horror film each
night in October
On 10/23/2014 7:14 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Could it be that we're simply compelled by neural pathways in our
brain that want to be activated?
/According to MMY it is the nature of the mind to want to enjoy - it's
only natural for anyone to want to be free
On 10/23/2014 9:02 AM, inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
You are very good at quoting scripture and contents of text books (and
there is a value to that), but when you look to the honesty of your
moment to moment experience - What do you find?
/Teachers and textbooks are like
Richard, your posts remind me of how much I appreciate David Deida and other
teachers who suggest that the old ways of liberation are best suited to
masculine physiologies.
He also compares a soul to the light coming in from a stained glass window,
which is the body. Via yoga practices we
Richard, I also appreciate Maharishi's distinction between and enlightened
person and an enlightened teacher. The person maybe popped into enlightenment
while eating a strawberry. So then he or she teaches the strawberry eating
technique.
OTOH, an enlightened teacher has such a perspective
I think you hit on something here I never considered. Social interaction. I do
not think there is any objective measure by which one considers such
experiences valuable. There are certain things I like, certain things I do not,
and I go for the ones I like. While I do not know why, those things
Richard, aha! Me and Sam, both over simplifiers (-:
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On 10/22/2014 4:08 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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On 10/23/2014 9:05 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
I thought Lost Pines burned down a couple years ago durring the drought.
/Yes, unfortunately there was a fire at the Lost Pines at Bastrop, but
there was no fire in the main Piney Woods, which is about 100 miles
The title of the article was quite inflammatory, as usual, being HuffPo and
all. It used the fact that many Americans don't understand Marginal Tax Rates
to create hysterical click bait. Later in the article they fessed up.
This article might help:
Can moving to a higher tax bracket
On 10/23/2014 9:29 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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Richard, your posts remind me of how much I appreciate David Deida and
other teachers who suggest that the old ways of liberation are best
suited to masculine physiologies.
He also compares a soul to the light
Richard, is he saying something similar to: the Self alone unfolds the Self to
the Self? That's what it sounds like to me. I think the whole thing is a big,
fat paradox!
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I think you
On 10/23/2014 10:09 AM, marty...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
The title of the article was quite inflammatory, as usual, being
HuffPo and all. It used the fact that many Americans don't understand
Marginal Tax Rates to create hysterical click bait.
/There are very few average
Yep. I was curious about that when he said it, as I wasn't sure what sort of
perceptual change would occur, perhaps even through the senses. It is actually
the introduction of an ever deepening and abiding silence, inside and out,
which unifies all the diversity, and even softens any negative
On 10/23/2014 10:36 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Two travelers are on a road, looking for Ixtlan.
They ask a passing bird for directions.
He gives them, then flies off.
Do the travelers go in the direction he pointed them to, or not?
Whatever their choice, do
When the working class have less money to spend the economy goes into
the dumps. That's why Mike's solution won't work. A lot of US
businesses are having problems like McDonalds, Coke and even Starbucks
keeps trying to get it's customers to come spend more. It's easy to
see these signs of
That was a great read, thanks!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote :
I think you hit on something here I never considered. Social interaction. I do
not think there is any objective measure by which one considers such
experiences valuable. There are certain things I
Fleetwood, I had an experience of Unity once. But it wasn't so much about
silence. It was so subtly about familiarity. Everything I was perceiving seemed
so familiar to me. Not because it was known in the usual sense. But because it
was as familiar to me as I am to myself. Very very subtle, yet
A lot of European horror has a dark comedy spin. US made films not so
much. Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, a US film, is a comedy of errors.
Elmore Leonard's shtick was to show how dumb both crooks and cops could
be. The same shtick works well for horror. Too much intense suspense
can be a
And when you tax TF out of businesses and or the rich, they have less money to
expand or modernize businesses( remember the steel industry back in the 70'S)
or to give raises to their employees. You end up with fewer jobs and smaller
tax base, less revenue and so the government barrows more
I guess you just like to live in a world where you bow down to the
landed gentry. That's where we're headed now. I'd rather stick a
pitchfork in them.
On 10/23/2014 12:15 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
And when you tax TF out of businesses and or the rich, they
Regarding textiles, take a look at the price of underwear. Hanes and
Fruit of Loom cost about twice what they did a few years back. But this
is a job that could go to automation. Paying slave wages to people in
third world countries to make these things is a bit retro and cruel. We
now
WRT TM, I never got a snow job or a hard sell. In 1972, I was student teaching
in a non traditional high school. One of the other student teachers explained
the bubble diagram to me. Also during this time, my husband and I were doing
marijuana approx 3 times a year. I wished that I could have
That's called *biting the hand that feeds you*. Thou shalt not covet! You stick
a pitchfork in them and what are you left with? Nothing but a bloody pitchfork.
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Everything is going up! I just got back from shopping at Academy for cloths.
Those people in third world countries probably don't consider their wages as
*slave* wages, considering they are about the only jobs they've ever had,
unless it was scrubbing some other man's floors. Those jobs have
yeah, that is what I call silence, or bliss, I don't know what else to call it
- it has a lot of attributes, and you use a great word for it - familiarity.
That being the case, knowledge automatically follows attention; there are no
boundaries to formally navigate, between subject and object,
Like you Share, I really did not pay attention to the selling points as I had
had experiences prior to TM, I was just looking for an easy way to meditate, a
natural consequence of being lazy.
The sell was there in the introductory and preparatory lectures and in
available chart books
Oh wow. That makes me happy.
I sent her a query via the only email address I have and never got a response.
If she responds further, please say hi.
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote :
Probably the majority of Americans don't work for the rich. They work
for small businesses. The people who run those aren't rich enough for a
pitchfork. No biting of hand that feeds in this case. And in a
networked world you don't need big businesses anymore. We're basically
living in a
Well, maybe, maybe not.
Pure consciousness during TM seems to be very closely aligned with EEG of the
preliminary aspect of creativity found in non-meditation research on
creativity, and the EEG found in really-long-term TMers (especially those
participating in the Invincible America course)
The late Skip Alexander, who used to head the Psychology Dept at MUM, co-edited
a book that examined post-maslow development.
He wrote the chapter on Vedic Psychology, and prominent
mainstream-psychologists wrote chapters on post-Maslow, -post-Piagetian, etc.,
psychology.
_Higher Stages
A slight nit:
in the 40 years that Benson has been publishing his book he never, not even
once, published a head-to-head study of TM vs his Relaxation Response.
In fact, the criticisms that were leveled against Keith Wallace's first study
apply equally well to Benson's research.
And
Funny you mention this word. When a journalist in Vlodrop asked who are you
really Maharishi, he simply said; I'm just a normal human being. Whereupon
Bevan afterwards remarked; today we got a new understanding of what it means
to be normal :-)
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
I do understand why people object to Barry's toxic behavior, but that's who
he is and what he does, and it has not changed. So, why keep reacting to an
energy creature who seeks reaction?
It's a sign of sanity
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, j_alexander_stanley@... wrote :
Ok,
On 10/23/2014 2:21 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
I guess you just like to live in a world where you bow down to the
landed gentry. That's where we're headed now. I'd rather stick a
pitchfork in them.
You want to stick a pitchfork in your landlord instead of
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On 10/23/2014 11:37 AM, curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
That was a great read, thanks!
/It was intersting to see how Xeno tried to enable Barry, by leaving out
of the discussion all the interesting stuff Barry believes in - like
karma and reincarnation. //
//
//What
It is the closest word I can think of, that describes a life of enlightenment,
normal. :-).
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :
Funny you mention this word. When a journalist in Vlodrop asked who are you
really Maharishi, he simply said; I'm just a normal
BBC - The Why Factor: Karma
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/whyfactor/whyfactor_20141017-1845a.mp3
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/whyfactor/whyfactor_20141017-1845a.mp3
Millions of people believe in Karma around the world. What impact does this
belief have
Om No, MJ you misrepresent me here. I likened you and the nature of your
extreme hate and behavior to be like Hamas and said I could empathize with
Obama in his having to dealing with ISIS and that level of such threats for
instance. I can 'understand' his position. Groups certainly have some
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote :
On 10/23/2014 11:37 AM, curtisdeltablues@... mailto:curtisdeltablues@...
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
That was a great read, thanks!
It was intersting to see how Xeno tried to enable Barry, by leaving out of the
discussion all
You're rationalizing.
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Probably the majority of
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote :
D: Om No, MJ you misrepresent me here. I likened you and the nature of your
extreme hate
M: OK, he speaks his opinions about the movement freely here...
D: and behavior to be like Hamas
M: His behavior is to speak his
--- punditster@... wrote :
It was intersting to see how Xeno tried to enable Barry, by leaving out of the
discussion all the interesting stuff Barry believes in - like karma and
reincarnation.
What happened - I thought you guys all read Sam Harris' book. Go figure.
Xeno didn't even
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