Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
So, are there any black and white videos on YouTube that show MMY praising Hitler or Mussolini? On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:39 PM, wrote: > > > Anartaxius; Lack of stability, not necessarily. You are making that up > and projecting it. As a meditating Iowa livestock man I got my spiritual > fe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Siddha Tradtions

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
"Auspicious Wisdon" The texts and traditions of Srividya Sakta Tantrism in South India. by Douglas Renfrew Brooks SUNY 1992 p.95 On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Richard Williams wrote: [image: Inline image 1] > > MMY and Swami Venkatesananda Saraswati at Rishikesh > > Ac

[FairfieldLife] Cowboy Breakfast

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
The largest cowboy breakfast on the planet! [image: Inline image 1] Photo By Billy Calzada/San Antonio Express-News Volunteers cook up breakfast Friday January 24, 2014 at the annual Cowboy Breakfast at the parking lot of Cowboys Dancehall. The event unofficially kicks off the San Antonio Stock

[FairfieldLife] Re: Popular Music Greats

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for "Games People Play" and was again nominated for the award in 1972 for "Rose Garden". Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_South On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Fleetwood Mac > > Fleetwo

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Great Country Classics

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] Two Of A Kind Working On A Full House - Trey Laymon cover http://youtu.be/eX0JcMWgENg On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Garth Brooks > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Two Of A Kind Working On A Full House > http://youtu.be/xIaU

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Great Country Classics

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
atles, and the second best selling artist of all time, behind only Elvis Presley. Brooks has won two Grammy Awards, and seventeen American Music Awards." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Brooks On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Merl Haggard >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
m/default/article/S-A-Symphony-delivers-glowing-Dvor-k-Seventh-5158227.php> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Antonin Dvorak > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Carnaval Op 92 Ouverture Zubin Mehta > http://youtu.be/KREp0VTtKMk > > Symphony No.9 -

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
> Kashmiri Trika is not and never has been influenced by Shankara's Kevela Advaita. > Kashmere Trika was incorporated into the Madukya Upanishad, Gaudapada and Shankara. In fact, many of the terms used in Kashmere Shaivism mean the very same thing as in the Gaudapada's karika and in Mandukya Upanai

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
emptybill: > As usual, you are really only interested in spouting > off what you have read. However, what you have read is > not deep and comprehensive and it shows in your > amateurish identifications of the influences between > separate traditions. > Get back to us when you get some time for read

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Rock Hits of the Past

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
t;http://music.yahoo.com/video/robert-palmer-girls-today-003611538.html> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > The Zombies > > [image: Inline image 1] > > She's Not There - Live 1965 > http://youtu.be/aBdrDu9nq7Q > > Paul Atkinson > Chri

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Death Watch

2014-01-23 Thread Richard Williams
authfrined: > Wonderful piece, Michael, beautifully done. > Much better than the short story he told about eating the "spotted dick and the dead baby." LoL! On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:37 PM, wrote: > > > *Wonderful piece, Michael, beautifully done.* > > I have told some funny stories, all true,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Most obese professions

2014-01-23 Thread Richard Williams
TurquoiseB: > You sit on your ass all day and eat junk food as you drive, what can you expect? > You mean like sitting on your ass all day at a computer in your bedroom eating French food? LoL! On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:40 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > *http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-23 Thread Richard Williams
Thanks for posting the information,but you failed to point out the similarities: Shankara's Advaita claims to be based on the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Sutras, but many scholars such as Sharma and Raju have noted that Shankara shows many signs of influence from Mahayana Buddhism

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Russel Brand on Sex with 2 girls with rubber, the lovely mother of Kathy Perry and Transcendental Meditation

2014-01-23 Thread Richard Williams
s3raphita: > Richard Williams thinks that Katy Perry and Howard Stern are role models for his children! > So, what's wrong with Katy Perry? On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:00 PM, wrote: > > > Let's be clear: Russell Brand is a total creep. His excuse is that he's >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
Jason: > there was a two way, crossflow of influence between > Hinduism and Buddhism, for thousands of years. Thus there > are some similarities... > According to Vaj, the Advaita Vedanta of Shankara is largely a Vedic purist reaction to the teaching of Nagarjuna. In fact, Shankara was accused of b

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Russel Brand on Sex with 2 girls with rubber, the lovely mother of Kathy Perry and Transcendental Meditation

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
not me!" > > But I do know a complete ass when I see and hear one, and Brand certainly > fits that bill. But he like David Lynch are PERFECT spokespersons for the > TMO - as in do what I say, believe what I say, not what I do. > > On

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Russel Brand on Sex with 2 girls with rubber, the lovely mother of Kathy Perry and Transcendental Meditation

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
complete ass when I see and hear one, and Brand certainly > fits that bill. But he like David Lynch are PERFECT spokespersons for the > TMO - as in do what I say, believe what I say, not what I do. > > On Wed, 1/22/14, Richard Williams wrot

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reversing The Flow -- Writing AS Spiritual Experience

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
TurquoiseB: > was trying to rap about the "high" that you can get from > writing creatively, and in a spiritual context... > You are going to have to excuse me, Barry, but I must have missed most of your "spiritual" writings. Maybe that's because most of the topics you write about are secular in na

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reversing The Flow -- Writing AS Spiritual Experience

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
Judy: > I pointed out that some folks may have plenty of spiritual > experiences but simply not want to write about them on this > forum. > Let's see, how many times did I ask Barry about what it felt like to witness Rama's levitation event? That would surely be an earth-shaking spiritual experienc

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
h emptybill about it. Otherwise, I don't have much > to say about it. > > > > > On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:30 AM, Richard Williams < > pundits...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have already provided a scholarly synopsis of the real differences > between &g

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
n Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: > > > you know, I never thought about it that way before, but I guess back in > the 70's and 80's, TM WAS my religion. > > On Sun, 1/19/14, Richard Williams wrote: > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Russel Brand on Sex with 2 girls with rubber, the lovely mother of Kathy Perry and Transcendental Meditation

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
Well, I figure MJ was mostly interested in the first part. It's so refreshing to read a post by a common guy like MJ on obscure sex acts and not commenting on some pseudo-scholarly report about Shankara's Advaita Vedanta and the meaning of the term maya. LoL! On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:30 AM, nabl

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
> I have already provided a scholarly synopsis of the real differences between > Shankara's Advaita and Vijñanavada Buddhism... > You cited zero Vedantic scholars in the synopsis in this thread. And, you failed to cite any common ideas between Shankara's Advaita and Vijñanavada Buddhism. And, you e

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
veil; but when sat guna > dominates, maya is actually a means to ultimate reality. > What do you think? > > > On Monday, January 20, 2014 9:40 AM, Richard Williams < > pundits...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > A popular view of Advaita Vedanta (sometimes an accusation)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
Maharishi's > SBAL: > ...identification is not bondage. What is bondage is inability to maintain > Being along with identification while indulging in experience and activity. > pg 238 > > > > On Monday, January 20, 2014 9:50 AM, Richard Williams < > pund

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
There is nothing absurd about any of my citations and they have not been refuted by any scholars that I know of. If you have any sources you'd like to cite, please list them so we can read them for ourselves. mAyA - illusion , unreality , deception , fraud , trick , sorcery , witchcraft magic RV;

Re: [FairfieldLife] Bollywood Movies

2014-01-21 Thread Richard Williams
skip over those and turn it into a 90 minute movie. The dance > scenes add nothing to the story. > > Hulu has a larger selection of Bollywood movies than Netflix. There are > some classics there as well as a bit of kitsch junk. > > On 01/05/2014 06:07 PM, Richard Williams wrote

[FairfieldLife] Games People Play

2014-01-21 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] We used to play video games on a TV set. Then we got an Atari game console. Then, there's the XBox, SONY Play Station and the Nintendo Wi game console. But these days kids and adults want to play games on their smartphone or tablet. Go figure. "Pong (marketed as PONG) is o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-21 Thread Richard Williams
To reiterate - the term "maya" in Advaita Vedanta is not real, yet not unreal; it is neither both nor neither. Maya in Advaita Vedanta is real in the sense that it is presented to us, but not real in the absolute sense. According to Shankara, maya is a superimposition on the real. Apparently there

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Rent is Too Damn High!

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
y the beach and the vibrant Beat community, with the artist Wallace Berman at its core, that gathered regularly at Brittin’s apartment for impromptu parties..." Read more: 'The Untrained Eye' http://steffienelson.com/2011/04/18/the-untrained-eye/ On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:58 AM,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jobs That Suck

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
ne, just didn't come back, never called. Just like that - sweet! They probably wondered what happened to me. Go figure. [image: Inline image 1] In the basement of Pacific Life with the printers 1965. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > One time I interviewed fo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
Share: > This brings to my mind Maharishi's teaching that knowledge is > different in different states of consciousness... > Things and events - phenomena - are not real, yet not unreal either. They are like an illusion in that they are not exactly as they appear to be, yet they are real in the sen

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
> A popular view of Advaita Vedanta (sometimes an accusation) > is that it is Maya-vada... > Maybe you lost them, but you have to begin with a definition of the term "maya" - which I already posted: maya is neither real nor unreal, nor both, nor neither. Maya is not an illusion or something that is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
Buck: > For Me the best sutras I got out of the TM-siddhis > were the ones about the discernment/distinction o > Bhuti a Purusha. > For most TMers, the esoteric teachings are the most important aspects of their practice - the knowledge and the mechanics of the Sri Vidya and the Kashmere Trika theo

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: HP: Windows 7 is back

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
It all depends on what you mean by "nerdy". A computer is too technical for most people. What is needed is a simple device like an old-fashioned radio. Back then the radio was a device the whole family could use - it had to be very simple: you turn it on or off with a switch; you change stations wi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Best and Worst Car Values

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] 2014 Chevrolet SS (Holden) "The 2014 Chevrolet SS is the first Chevrolet to take SS as a model name rather than a trim designation, and the first rear-drive Chevy sedan since the 1996 Impala SS." '2014 Chevrolet SS drive review' http://www.autoweek.com/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Williams
tly English tack store asking where to buy cowboy boots because > Victoria doesn't have anywhere that sells them. Next time I'll send them to > Texas. > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Cavender's Boot City > > [image: Inline image 2] > > Tony Lama, Justin,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Williams
The Target Corp. data breach that has hurt its sales and has made many consumers skittish about using their cards has been traced to a Russian teenager who authored the malware used in the security breach, according to a cyber-intelligence firm. [image: Inline image 1] IntelCrawler said BlackPOS

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Williams
We went to this place yesterday - they have some boots for sale. [image: Inline image 1] Cavender's Boot City [image: Inline image 2] Tony Lama, Justin, Lucchese, Laredo On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Today, we went to this place: > > [image:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Football

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Williams
Championship Predictions: Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. The question is do the Patriots plan to stop Peyton Manning? Peyton Manning and Tom Brady square off for the 15th time, in Denver. And the San Francisco 49ers at Seattle, where Russel

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Great Country Classics

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
Merl Haggard [image: Inline image 2] We saw Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson at the Wells Fargo Center, Santa Rosa, CA located at 50 Mark West Springs Road, on Apr 2, 2009. My daughter lives in Santa Rosa and is a big country music fan. He has played Austin on several occasions. Live in Aust

[FairfieldLife] Popular Music Greats

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac is one of the greatest popular music bands of all time. We saw this performance of Fleetwood Mac on June 4, 2013 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. [image: Inline image 3] This is just an AWESOME live performance by Fleetwood Mac - World Turning. This is one o

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
Share: > What I reject is the idea that we are defective in our core, by > our very nature. I guess that makes me apostate! > Well, it looks like it's settled then: MJ and the TurqoiseB were the real True Believers, whose religion was TM - - the only apostates left on the forum. It looks like nobo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For all romantics out there

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
me All the good love when we're all alone Keep it up, girl, yeah ya turn me on I-I-I, I'm hooked on a feelin' I'm high on believin' that you're in love with me." On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > [image: Inline image 1] > &g

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
Today, we went to this place: [image: Inline image 2] On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > > > > > *> I read through this post, bemused by it, but I didn't notice > until > I'd gotten almost all the way to the end of it that part > of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classic Rock Movies

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
n Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Streets of Fire - A Rock & Roll Fable > > [image: Inline image 2] > > Nowhere Fast 1984 - Video > http://youtu.be/251zlGliwOQ > > Movie Trailer: > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088194/ > > Starring: Michael Oa

[FairfieldLife] Classic Rock Movies

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
Streets of Fire - A Rock & Roll Fable [image: Inline image 2] Nowhere Fast 1984 - Video http://youtu.be/251zlGliwOQ Movie Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088194/ Starring: Michael Oare, Diane Lane, Williamd Dafoe, Amy Madigan, Rick Moranis, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Elizabeth Daily Directo

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Great Country Classics

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
Waylon Jennings [image: Inline image 2] Live in Austin, Texas - April 1, 1989 - Austin City Limits http://youtu.be/nZvqQMeOEd8 Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) Live http://youtu.be/3dXR5Dk8YNw [image: Inline image 1] We went to this place - Luckenbach, Texas, USA Good Hearted Wo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Essential Jazz

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
iki/Herbie_Mann On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Charles Mingus Jr. > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul - Track One, from the album "Mingus Ah Um" - > Vinyl > http://www.youtube.com/<http://

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
*> Did Rama leave a suicide note?* *>* What you need to understand about Rama is that he believed in reincarnation and karma. Rama's suicide note is contained in his own writings. According to Rama, the spirit doesn't die when the body dies - your spirit goes into the Tibetan Bardo state for a few

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
ciousness" cycle from those kinds of experiences > into egoic focus that includes often enough the idea that > since everything is a play of awareness, it doesn't make > a tinker's damn what they do with and to people, cuz it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
Ann: > I guess my point here is that it takes enablers to allow certain individuals > to spiral out of control. When you put someone on some sort of pedestal > it can really screw them up, whether they are "holy men" or "holy women" > or the Justin Biebers and Miley Cyrus' of the world. Feed the eg

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
Michael Jackson: > I do think some folk have done it like maybe good old Saint Joseph of > Cupertino and am willing to believe Rama may have done, as the Brits > say. > So,if anyone could really demonstrate levitation, the event would probably be on the cover of every science magazine, on TV and in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
emptybill: > Robin never was interested in a classical Vedantic assessment > of his so-called “enlightenment”. > That's because MMY didn't present TM in a classical assessment of enlightenment. MMY's sadhana is based on yoga practice. If it was Vedantic MMY would have emphasized the Vedantic notion

[FairfieldLife] Re: Technology

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
, Richard Williams wrote: > Twitter at 3:00 AM > > "The activity column shows you what everyone you follow on Twitter is > doing. It will tell you if someone just favorited a tweet or followed > someone new in a constantly moving stream. But if you follow a lot of heavy > Twitt

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread Richard Williams
Well, I thought fer sure you'd say that Rama was a con man and a fake and had sexual relations with his students, like you said about MMY. Maybe you've changed your mind about that. It looks like you've changed your mind about the bun-hopping-levitation too. >From what I've read, Rama left several

[FairfieldLife] Re: Technology

2014-01-17 Thread Richard Williams
'There Are Things You Do On Twitter That Should Only Be Done At 3' AM' http://www.newstimes.com/technology/business/insider/http://www.newstimes.com/technology/businessinsider/article/There-Are-Things-You-Do-On-Twitter-That-Should-5143067.php> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Ri

[FairfieldLife] Re: Technology

2014-01-16 Thread Richard Williams
msung-I9250-Galaxy-Nexus-Unlocked/product-reviews/B005ZEF01A/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1> > > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Richard Williams > wrote: > >> Example of abandoned technology: >> >> [image: Inline image 1] >> >> >> On Fri, O

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-16 Thread Richard Williams
On 1/16/2014 2:21 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > it'll push my hot buttons the same way me saying things about MMY pushes theirs, > So, you got your buttons pushed. Now you're throwing Rama under the bus just like you threw MMY under the bus. You spent almost half of your adult life studying with these t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Seriously, was Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-15 Thread Richard Williams
Seriously, it looks like nobody takes anyone seriously on this forum except Judy. She seems to take this all VERY seriously. At least seriously enough monitor every single post while she's at work and to read all the massages and reply to most of them. Go figure. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:11 AM,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Information Technology Systems

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
violation, and possibly unconstitutional." 'I Spent Two Hours Talking With the NSA’s Bigwigs. Here’s What Has Them Mad' http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/nsa-surveillance/ On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Cyber Security > > One of the l

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
It's like a Zen koan: [image: Inline image 1] "Gutei raised his finger whenever he was asked a question about Zen. A boy attendant began to imitate him in this way. When anyone asked the boy what his master had preached about, the boy would raise his finger. Gutei heard about the boy's mischief.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
What's worse than filing your taxes? Having an identity thief steal your return check. "Identity theft is already a serious problem—the No. 1 complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, and tax-related identity theft is a growing part of this crime spree. In 2010, about 15 percent of all identity t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Black Hats and White Hats

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
and roads are full of potholes... 'U.S. data thefts turn spotlight on Romania' USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/credit-card-hacking-romania<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/13/credit-card-hacking-romania/4456491/> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Richard Williams wr

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: What People Eat

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
27;s not complicated. > > Ingredients: Vegetables > > onion > carrots > celery > cabbage > green beans > zucchini > olive oil > tomatoes > filtered water > > 1. Cut up the vegetables into small cubes with a knife > 2. Cook the vegies in a large wok or fry

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
So, let's review what we know about the Jyotirmath succession controversy: [image: Inline image 2] Swami Vasudevanand Saraswati, of Jyotirmath I've also pointed out previously that the mere possession of the Jyotirmath property in the succession dispute has no great bearing on who the real Shanka

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
Would you give a thief direct access to your checking account? '4 Risky Places to Swipe Your Debit Card' ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/debit-card/<http://abcnews.go.com/Business/top-riskiest-places-swipe-debit-card/story?id=21489159> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:04 AM,

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Shamans and Don Juan Matus

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
Shamanism It might be a good idea for you to check the definition of 'shaman'. According to Mircea Eliade, shamans don't have anything to do with South Asian 'meditation' or Yoga techniques. A 'shaman' is someone who is supposedly concerned with communication with the spirit world and communicate

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation: It's Not What You Think

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
him or his pupils." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Karpatri On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > You can define meditation as a type of prayer. According to MMY, > meditation is like prayer, except on a very subtle level. > > In a recent visit to Sonoma in C

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: MMY's Adwaita

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
sekar. On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > > Because there has to be duality before a "subject" (you, for example) > > can speculate about an "object". The One has to divide for that to > > happen; and so the One + the subject + the object

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
"The issue stems from the recent decision of the Congress government to declare a lockout on the Jyotirmath premises in an apparent bid to oust Swami Vasudevanand, a move allegedly chalked out by Swami Swaroopanand.Soon after the lockout on February 16 this year, Swami Vasudevanand got a reprieve f

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
"Wind flag, mind moves, The same understanding. When the mouth opens All are wrong." - Mumon On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Zen, Dzogchen and TM > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Inside the Shambhala Meditation Center, Boulder CO > > A

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
"Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else."- Will Rogers On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: > On 1/7/2014 6:01 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > > "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky > tire." - Will Rogers >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What People Wear

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
designed to make you look like > a pile of leaves gonna fit in and fade into the background in the *city*, > ferchrissakes? I got curious, so I Google-Imaged "urban camo" and got > these: * > > > > > > > > > *:-)* > > > On Monday, December 23,

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

2014-01-13 Thread Richard Williams
> You also forget that I have a Vajrayana Tantric and Dzogchen > teacher. Certainly different practices but when he first saw > my altar he pointed to the traditionally carved shiva lingam > and commented “original Tantra”. > You two are comparing apples to oranges, but I'm practicing tantra with a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

2014-01-13 Thread Richard Williams
"Leaked search warrants suggest Sabu wasn't the only LulzSec hacker who helped the FBI take down the infamous hacktivist group. The unredacted search warrants for "Sabu" and "LulzSec" refer to involvement of three different informants in the investigation, at least two of whom it is implied were me

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

2014-01-13 Thread Richard Williams
emptybill wrote: > he also imparted much of the Vedika view of values. > According to him, the Tantrika view was that the > universe was actualized by limitless shakti-s that > structured its being, patterns and interactions. > Your teacher may have been confused. As a Buddhist tantric you would be

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-13 Thread Richard Williams
to "Just sit." This sitting IS enlightenment. The point is that you can call your technique anything you want to, TM, Dzogchen or Zen, or anything else, however, any technique which provides the opportunity for transcending is a meditation that is transcendental. Meditation is just what in

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Islamization of America in 2013

2014-01-13 Thread Richard Williams
> > As you know, I had a ritvikâcharya teach me mahârudrâbhishekam. > > Over a period of 5-6 years > > Ann. > Well, whatever it is you have been taught or think you know, what > good is it if you continue to take yourself so seriously? I mean, > really, all this "teaching" you have subjected yourse

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Greatest Artists of Punk Rock

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Williams
The New York Dolls were a glam group and pre-punk. The roots of punk may go back to Iggy and the Stooges, but real punk started with the Ramones in 1974, according to some music historians. Classic punk is based on the DIY garage band - T-shirted, motorcycle jacketed, and blue jeans wearers like ro

[FairfieldLife] Re: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Williams
da held in 1990. Work cited: "The Jyotirmath Sankaracharya Lineage in the 20th Century" by Vidyasankar Sundaresan - at the Indology Web Site: http://indology.info/papers/sundaresan/ On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > *An attack by some naked Naga sadhus in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Information Technology Systems

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Williams
;Target payment card data theft highlights lagging U.S. security' http://www.reuters.com/target-security-lagging<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/22/us-target-security-lagging-idUSBRE9BL06X20131222> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Data Center -

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

2014-01-11 Thread Richard Williams
Let's put it this way: nobody here knows anything about the Shankaracharyas. The only member of this list that knows anything about the Shankaracharyas is Vaj, and he's no longer posting anything. All you need to know is that Swami Vasudevananda Saraswati is the successor to SBS at Jyotirmath and h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Information Technology Systems

2014-01-11 Thread Richard Williams
://groups.yahoo.com/FairfieldLife/368898<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/368898> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Internet Alley > > [image: Inline image 1] > > "In recent years, the influx of technolog

[FairfieldLife] Why Do Smart People Do Dumb Things?

2014-01-10 Thread Richard Williams
The Obama IRS scandal makes Christie's bridge caper look like a mere jaywalking incident. Apparently the IRS targeted conservative groups in order to help Obama win the last election. And, it looks like Chris Christie can't even manage a bridge. Go figure. "At least some residents cheered him as h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Greatest Artists of Punk Rock

2014-01-08 Thread Richard Williams
2, the Ramones were ranked the second-greatest band of all time by Spin magazine, trailing only The Beatles." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > The Sex Pistols > > [image: Inline image 1] > > God Sav

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

2014-01-08 Thread Richard Williams
in Dvorak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Johann Sebastian Bach > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Toccata And Fugue In D Minor - Kurt Ison, Sydney Town Hall > http://youtu.be/ipzR9bhei_o > > "

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

2014-01-08 Thread Richard Williams
NEW DELHI - In a bid to achieve its wider goal of unifying the Hindu society, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has embarked on its most arduous task yet -- that of bringing some semblance of order to the institution of Shankaracharyas. For the first time, the VHP has convened a meeting of the Kendri

[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation

2014-01-08 Thread Richard Williams
He has been described as the best-known contemporary Indian musician." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Shankar On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > [image: Inline image 1] > > George Harrison - "Wonderwall Music" > http://yout

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles

2014-01-07 Thread Richard Williams
"No one is listening until your mouth gets ahead of your brain.' - Will Rogers On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > "Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I > may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either. Just leav

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

2014-01-07 Thread Richard Williams
"Nine years after being charged with criminal conspiracy in the murder of a temple manager in November 2004, Kanchi sankaracharyas Jayendra Saraswathi, 78, and Vijayendra Saraswathi, 44, were acquitted by a Puducherry court on Wednesday. Twenty-one others who were accused along with the pontiffs w

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About the Fighting Ascetics of India

2014-01-07 Thread Richard Williams
KANCHEEPURAM - Judicial magistrate G Uttamraja on Friday sent Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi to a three-day police custody. Earlier in the day, the Shankaracharya was brought to the magistrate’s court in a police van the Vellore Central Jail at 10.30 am. The magistrate arrived at 11.25 a

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Marshy and Religion

2014-01-06 Thread Richard Williams
s simply AWSEOME! On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > > I would like to know how so many other skin boys > > saw and heard that which Jerry did not. > > > We've only heard from about three skin boys so far, and none of them said > they saw any

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Marshy and Religion

2014-01-06 Thread Richard Williams
> I would like to know how so many other skin boys > saw and heard that which Jerry did not. > We've only heard from about three skin boys so far, and none of them said they saw anything with their own eyes. From what I've read, MMY used to have an open door most of the time with a TMr guard at the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Security, Cigars and FUD

2014-01-06 Thread Richard Williams
R tell anyone that your security > cameras are not real cameras. Repeat after me: NEVER. > > [image: Inline image 1] > > > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:56 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard Williams wrote: > > > > Our

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Ideal Home Office

2014-01-05 Thread Richard Williams
awoelflebater: > This guy doesn't sound like a nerd he sounds like he's economically > disadvantaged; in other words - poor. > The Nerd's home office is located in the back of his house, out by the alley. He lives with his wife in the main house, which is quite nice and homey. They both work at a c

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Security, Cigars and FUD

2014-01-05 Thread Richard Williams
Inline image 1] On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:56 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard Williams wrote: > > > > Our next door neighbor installed several expensive security cameras all > > around his house, with some motion detectin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Security, Cigars and FUD

2014-01-05 Thread Richard Williams
pping). Works great. Oh and you can't use it to open other > cars. > > We the people need to declare war on the snoopy sector. Find anyone > snooping in your smartphone smash their nose in. > > > On 01/04/2014 10:51 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > > > Our next door

Re: [FairfieldLife] Bollywood Movies

2014-01-05 Thread Richard Williams
s. Netfilx does have some of those. I have a few award winners and > some just curiosities I purchased used at the local Indian grocer. > > > > On 01/05/2014 04:12 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > > > [image: Inline image 1] > > There are several Bollywood movies th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Our Spiritual Tradition

2014-01-05 Thread Richard Williams
Ati-Rudrabishek - Pandits with Shankaracharya Vasudevanand Saraswati. [image: Inline image 1] On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Our Spiritual Tradition in Sanskrit Narayanam Padmabhavam Vasistham > Shaktim cha Tatputra > Parasharam cha Vyasam Shukam Gaudapadam

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