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[FairfieldLife] Jeannie Zandi: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 05/28/2017

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating in the Dome

2017-05-29 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
FW:  
 The desire and idea heard most from people, especially recently, to bring our 
community closer together, and stop the growing political tension and entropy 
in our country, is for our Movement VIPs/leaders to come to Program at least a 
little.


 *** To effect this it is not necessary for any one vip to come all the time or 
even often.***


 If even one different leader were at most Programs, that would be enough to 
deeply and beautifully help transform our Sidha community. Perhaps more than 
any other single action that could be done. And - it costs nothing. 


 If there are 60 men leaders or VIPs, and 60 women, each person would only need 
to come to one program per month - not a lot to ask or suggest. A few leaders 
and donors are already coming regularly, including several graduates of Raja 
Raam's course, and Enlightenment Course graduates. 


 Just as leaders can join together to raise funds, leaders can join together to 
raise consciousness, unity, and harmony. 

 

 The IAA Grant situation is not just about funding - nothing is only about 
funding. Funding is a function of support of Nature, plus individual creativity 
and initiative. Nature support will be greatly enhanced by higher Super 
Radiance attendance, and by Sidha community unity and morale. I am hearing 
repeatedly from a variety of responsible people that the single best thing that 
could be done to increase community unity and morale, and increase IAA 
participation, 
 is for more leaders to be together at Program. No one expects any leader to 
come all the time or even often. 


 If opinion leaders and role models don't do something, guess what is going to 
happen to that program eventually?


 Even a smaller sub-group of leaders who organize to do this would have a large 
effect, if that group is large enough. Not all leaders need participate, but a 
sufficient number.

 

 A Raja told me recently that he is not aware of any instructions from 
Maharishi to Rajas in general or Enlightenment Course graduates to not to come 
to Group Program, it's just that it would take a little adjustment. An 
adjustment on even rare occasions by a sufficient number of leaders could be a 
turning point for our community unity, morale, and IAA participation. 


 Thank you very much for helping to uphold our Movement. 

 

That we have got the separated and disenfranchised old ™ movement meditators 
here out sitting in Fairfield’s cafes and coffee shops during the group 
meditation times is bad enough but these Raja and the movement apparatchiks who 
defend the Raja standing in the way of remediating what obviously needs be done 
is itself counter-revolutionary. Quite evidently it is the Trustees, Raja and 
their apparatchiks themselves who need to be taken out and re-educated by the 
best of the science on the Meissner-like effect of meditating in groups.  How 
could it have got so bad for the Dome meditation numbers? It is terrible how 
bad they have let the administrative state of it get and evidently keep at it 
by their inaction on what has become the status quo of decline. 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 There is a crisis of leadership here at the top. 

 In our case here at the Dome the sheep herders mostly don't meditate in the 
group at the Domes.
 

 Communal Critical mass?
 

 It is way past time to re-draft the national guidelines that regulate 
membership for inclusion in the group meditations.  There are way too many 
“non-compete” clauses that remain in the guidelines, still. Clauses that 
exclude capable meditators from the collective of the group meditations.  It is 
sinful what the Rajas have continued to abide in excluding people. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Given all that we do know about the power of group meditation and what we do 
have here to facilitate a group in meditation we must have new and brilliant 
leadership on this now to wield the power of our group meditators meditating 
here. The leadership must move immediately from their narcissisms to 
magnanimity.  The status quo of 37 years spent separating people from the 
movement and the group meditation is not good enough.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 

 It is terrible that the Trustees and Rajas and those who defend them have let 
it get so bad with the meditating numbers here. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Yep it seems a frightened flock of meditators now.
 A best thing you hope for as a sheep shepherd is a leader-sheep in the flock 
who has a steady eye with enough bravery and inner wisdom to gather up and lead 
a flock with you. 
 

 You look for the sheep with courage to step up and lead and then give them 
enough calmness and encouragement to come forward.  That part takes being a 
good human being in character.  Those guys of the Patterson-Morris 
administrative state of

[FairfieldLife] Re: A 5pm Weekday Group Meditation also for Fairfield No-badge-nik Meditators

2017-05-29 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 

 This "unaffiliated" group meditation...is not really wise.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 FW:  This "unaffiliated" group meditation at the church downtown on the 
Fairfield Square advertised in the Weekly Reader is not really wise. It sends 
the wrong message. Sure, the Quakers had something cool going on, but was it 
pure consciousness? Was it truly Vedic science? Did it reflect true indigenous 
culture?  Maybe, maybe not.
  
 But we *do* have someone who *did* reflect the deepest principles, and who did 
maintain an authentic,indigenous tradition, and, moreover, provided a way for 
the average human to experience these profound principles: Maharishi. Again, we 
don't want to mess with it. The deepest thinkers and philosophers of history 
struggled with this, and here Maharishi gave it to us in a neat, ready-to-use 
package: Transcendental Meditation. This knowledge is far too important, and 
too delicate. History has taught us, particularly in India, how far off-base 
people can get in their misinterpretation of this experience, an experience 
that is critical to the health of humanity. -
 

 Hi Friends 
 In support of the collective need for peaceful influences in our lives/world 
we are offering opportunities for a silence-based group meditation.

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 You are welcome to sit for all or any part of the hour in silence.  
 
 Simply quietly enter, meditate and leave accordingly.
 


In the interest of providing time and space for an unaffiliated, silent, group 
meditation, a Fairfield society of meditating Friends is facilitating a time 
and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit furnishes a space for a weekday silent 
meditation from 5 to 6pm Monday through Friday. 
 

 wleed3 writes:

 THANKS 4 this post next time in town will avail my self of such  THANKS

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation for all meditators who are without current Dome badges to 
practice silent meditation together,
 continues on weekdays, 5pm
 at 51 N. Court in Fairfield, Iowa
 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 

 Compatible in silent practice? 
 Surely a lot of silent meditations can be respectfully practiced together in 
peace.  
 

 :Yogananda silent meditation, Chopra meditation, Oprah’s , Oneness, Sahaja, 
Mindfulness, Zen, Centering Prayer, others, even ™.   This particular 5pm group 
meditation in Fairfield, iowa happens to be a facilitated silent time for 
people to silently practice their meditation in a group with others.
-JaiGuruYou
 

 

 

 rajawilliamsmith writes:

 

 TM and Quaker meetings don't go together, when we sit down using TM
we use a mantra, learning TM we learn how to use that, we can meditate on bus 
or anywhere, but we are ignoring the outside noise. At a quaker meeting the, 
impulse to speak is defined  as the word of god.  If they want me to go to the 
Dome and give a speech during mediation, than maybe we can go to a Quaker 
meeting and tell them we are meditating.
The silents we have during a Quaker meeting is drawn deeper with the impulse to 
speak the word of god. but once someone says something its starts to be drawn 
away.  If they had to rename the Quaker meeting they should call them spiritual 
hacks.
 





---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 

 Actually it seems you would like our Fairfield Quaker Meeting of meditators.  
Quaker Meetings can vary by character of the people in the meeting. Our 
Fairfield Quaker Meeting is a silent meeting.  A vocal satsang that often does 
go on mostly happens afterwards and it can be quite informing, spiritual and 
inspired in the words of it.  During the meeting itself the old adage regarding 
speaking out during meeting is that it is okay to an extent that speaking may 
add to the silence of the meeting.
  
Some number of years ago someone attended here who had come from meetings in 
San Francisco. In larger times of conflict Quaker Meetings can experience an 
influx of people new to the Society of Friends coming because of the social 
activism that Friends have been known for. Like, for the Friends peace and 
anti-war testimony. This occurred during the Gulf wars and before during the 
Vietnam war. This meditator who attended SF meetings before would come to our 
silent Fairfield meeting and proceed to use it as a forum to soapbox, coming in 
attendance with prepared notes to speak from.  This earnest attender was dealt 
with kindly by an old Hicksite Quaker who came to meditating in Fairfield from 
an old East coast Quaker meeting. 

 More to come on cultivating compassion, spirituality, and social-justice 
activism..  


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 What?? People speak "the Word of God" during silent Quaker meetings?  That's 
news to me (and a good reason for why I wouldn't