Re: [FairfieldLife] Essential Jazz

2013-12-16 Thread Richard Williams
ack and White' by Gene Lees Da Capo Press, 2001 pp. 55–57 On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Rahsaan Roland Kirk > > [image: Inline image 1] > > We Free Kings - 1961 > http://youtu.be/Mk0mSclnUQQ > > Roland Kirk - Tenor Saxophone, Manzello, Fl

[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation

2013-12-16 Thread Richard Williams
Riley Lee [image: Inline image 1] Photos taken at Strybing Arboretum Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Three Meditations - From the album Oriental Sunrise http://youtu.be/u3VAqPfZjgI On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Pandit Hariprasad Chaura

Re: [FairfieldLife] Essential Jazz

2013-12-17 Thread Richard Williams
This CD, Conga Blue, by Pancho Sanchez is just amazing. I've got my old stereo system set up out back on the patio and I play it on weekends, real loud, so the whole neighborhood can hear it. From what I've read, Sanchez is a protege of Cal Tjader, another of my favorites. Check out these selection

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

2013-12-17 Thread Richard Williams
In addition to Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick, I also cited Heart with Ann and Nancy Wilson in this thread. Previously, I cited Suzi Quatro in my thread entitled "For all you romantics out there". So, I'm posting this Suzi Quatro session from 1973. "Suzi is the first female bass player to become

[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation

2013-12-18 Thread Richard Williams
t; On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Riley Lee > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Photos taken at Strybing Arboretum Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park, > San Francisco. > > Three Meditations - From the album Oriental Sunrise > http://youtu.be/u3V

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

2013-12-18 Thread Richard Williams
We went to this place today, and almost every day this year and last year, to exercise: [image: Inline image 1] On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Share Long wrote: > > > Richard, speaking of that time of year, I've also been Christmas shopping > and sending out Christmas cards. Even though it f

[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation

2013-12-18 Thread Richard Williams
tern U.S. and in 1998, inside the Potala Palace inLhasa, Tibet: "Journey to the Roof of the World." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Horn<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Horn_%28musician%29> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Tony Scott >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation

2013-12-18 Thread Richard Williams
Japanese and really >> nothing like jazz, they do actually improvise pretty much throughout the >> entire set." >> >> Read more: >> >> http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tony-scott<http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tony-scott-mn129778> >> >> >> O

[FairfieldLife] My Guru, the Lama

2013-12-18 Thread Richard Williams
We first met the Lama in 1968 in Marin County with Vajrabodhi (Neville-Pemchekov-Warwick). The Lama had established an American branch of the Arya Maitreya Mandala in San Francisco and I and my second wife, Kathleen Harris, were one of his first U.S. students. Kathleen became an associate of Warwic

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: What People Eat

2013-12-18 Thread Richard Williams
Better ingredients, better pizza? We used to eat pizza all the time. Up in Austin, there's a place called Conan's - they have what they call "deep dish" pizza - Chicago style, with whole wheat crust if you prefer and with the cheese built right into the crust. Also in Austin there is the Brick Ove

Re: [FairfieldLife] Essential Jazz

2013-12-18 Thread Richard Williams
Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > This CD, Conga Blue, by Pancho Sanchez is just amazing. I've got my old > stereo system set up out back on the patio and I play it on weekends, real > loud, so the whole neighborhood can hear it. From what I've read, Sanche

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

2013-12-19 Thread Richard Williams
We live in the country, out by Hot Wells. SAKS Fifth Avenue isn't in a strip mall, it's located at one of the largest inside malls in the U.S. Today the mall was packed with shoppers: [image: Inline image 1] On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:33 PM, wrote: > > > I think you need to get out into the cou

[FairfieldLife] Re: My Guru, the Lama

2013-12-20 Thread Richard Williams
opened by this experience, which transcends the limits of mundane thought." Work cited: 'Way of the White Clouds' by Lama Govinda Shambhala, 1970 P. 234 'Creative Meditation and Multi-dimensional Conciousness' by Lama Anagarika Govinda Theosophical Publishing House, 1976

RE: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Zen Macro (was Re: ...Share finally repliesabout Ann's tree photo)

2013-12-20 Thread Richard williams
You are close, hit the delete key to clear the message from your email inbox. -Original Message- From: "authfri...@yahoo.com" Sent: ‎12/‎20/‎2013 10:11 AM To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Zen Macro (was Re: ...Share finally repliesabout Ann's tree pho

[FairfieldLife] Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-20 Thread Richard Williams
It looks like business is booming at the Duck Commander Headquarters. I mean it's not like nobody knew about the Robertson family before the GQ interview - a family of duck hunters all dressed in camo and praying at the dinner table and reading from a Bible and quoting scripture. What was A&E think

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

2013-12-22 Thread Richard Williams
We looked at this place today, but it will need a little fixing up: [image: Inline image 1] On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > We live in the country, out by Hot Wells. SAKS Fifth Avenue isn't in a > strip mall, it's located at one of the largest inside

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: What People Wear

2013-12-23 Thread Richard Williams
You'll see people wearing Duck Dynasty camouflage clothing all over the place around here. Pants, T-shirts, and jackets. They probably get them at Walmart - there is also some Duck merchandise at the Cracker Barrel too. And, at Old Navy. I have a pair of camo cargo pants that I got at Old Navy. So

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

2013-12-23 Thread Richard Williams
or some buyers' http://news.yahoo.com/health-plan-sticker-shock-ahead-buyers-160838205.html On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Taking care of all these cars can really keep a guy busy. There are > maintenance costs; keeping them garaged; make sure they are clean inside > a

[FairfieldLife] Fliegenpilz!

2013-12-23 Thread Richard Williams
According to the Bible, wise men came bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The Bible doesn't say how many wise men or how many gifts.The Bible doesn't say where the wise came from. Gift giving may be a universal practice, but in Europe and thus in the Americas, it's all about the shaman,

[FairfieldLife] Classical Masterpieces

2013-12-23 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] Night on Bald Mountain - Ludwig Symphony Orchestra http://youtu.be/XyR-poMsSWI Pictures at an Exhibition - Vienna Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev, http://youtu.be/fiv2i-25wZ8 Modest Mussorgsky: "Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-23 Thread Richard Williams
Yeah, just look at those guys and their families, laughing all the way to the bank. LoL! [image: Inline image 1] These guys look like some hippies I used to know out in California, except the wives of these guys are gorgeous! That really sets up some cognitive dissonance, fer sure. And, they are

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: for Emily & Bob, to thank Richard, Share finally replies about Ann's tree photo

2013-12-23 Thread Richard Williams
You are the gift that just keeps on giving, Emily. Thanks. Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad http://youtu.be/xMtuVP8Mj4o 4. Flippin -a word used as fuck or frick -used in napoleon dynamite 'flippin idiot, gawd!' http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flippin On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:33

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

2013-12-23 Thread Richard Williams
Ludwig_van_Beethoven On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > [image: Inline image 1] > > Night on Bald Mountain - Ludwig Symphony Orchestra > http://youtu.be/XyR-poMsSWI > > Pictures at an Exhibition - Vienna Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev, > http://y

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

2013-12-23 Thread Richard Williams
posed from the age of five and performed before European royalty." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > [image: Inline image 1] > > Beethoven Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' - D

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

2013-12-23 Thread Richard Williams
s also considered 'one of the major musicians' of the 20th century." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram_Khachaturian On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > [image: Inline image 3] > > Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Andante (2nd &

Re: [FairfieldLife] Mahamantra, by Krishna Das

2013-12-23 Thread Richard Williams
I am glad to hear that you are listening to the great bhajans sung by my old pal Krishna Das. He is indeed an amazing artist. Speaking of Das, you might recall from one of my previous post that several of us became students of Neem Karoli Baba in the late sixties. My old pal Bhagavan Das and I vis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Black Hats and White Hats

2013-12-24 Thread Richard Williams
of a firmware update that would have targeted computers > apparently linked to the US financial system, rendering them pieces of > junk." > > Read more: > > 'NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report' > The Guardian: > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Mahamantra, by Krishna Das

2013-12-24 Thread Richard Williams
as been to FF twice, said civic center had best acoustics ever. This > morning I've already listened to his Hanuman Chalisa, good for Tuesdays. > His voice resonates and his stories of Neem are wonderful. > > > On Monday, December 23, 2013 11:24 PM, Richard Williams < > p

[FairfieldLife] Great Rock Hits of the Past

2013-12-24 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another (12" Extended Mix) Vinyl http://youtu.be/wu9DKYQrGBI The Fixx are an English New Wave band formed in London in 1979. They hit number 4 on Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. with One Thing Leads to Another from the album Reach the Beach, in

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

2013-12-24 Thread Richard Williams
With emptiness all around And if you won't come back to me Then make them bring the curtain down. Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again? Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?" On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:15 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLif

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Rock Hits of the Past

2013-12-24 Thread Richard Williams
ove, Texas Population 1,179 Interview: http://texaspublicradio.tumblr.com/post/19738945943/ On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > [image: Inline image 1] > > The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another (12" Extended Mix) Vinyl > http://youtu.be/wu9DKYQrGBI > > &

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Rock Hits of the Past

2013-12-24 Thread Richard Williams
A-Gadda-Da-Vida is among the world's 40 best-selling albums, selling more than 30 million copies. Iron Butterfly is also notable for being the very first group to receive an RIAA platinum award." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Butterfly On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Ri

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Rock Hits of the Past

2013-12-24 Thread Richard Williams
r_Overdrive<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachman%E2%80%93Turner_Overdrive> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > [image: Inline image 1] > > In a Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly > http://youtu.be/ZCkHanF4v1w > > Iron Butterfly formed in San Diego, Califo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Merry Crimble from the Beatles, 1963

2013-12-24 Thread Richard Williams
Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff http://youtu.be/10qLYy6hiFQ On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Share Long wrote: > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrnZSLwfzVs > > > On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 2:07 PM, Richard J. Williams < > pundits...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Go ahead, just shoot me! >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

2013-12-25 Thread Richard Williams
On 12/22/2013 8:59 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > > > > Is that in Sonoma? > > On 12/22/2013 06:48 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > > > We looked at this place today, but it will need a little fixing up: > > [image: Inline image 1] > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

2013-12-25 Thread Richard Williams
n Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913). Stravinsky was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the century." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Ri

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

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Williams
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 California it seemed like almost the entire northern half of California meditates using various breath awareness techniques or various yoga tech

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Williams
ottomless, topsy-turviest doggerel of sound I ever endured the deadliness of,that eternity of nothing was the deadliest." Work cited: 'Lives of the Musical Greats' by Victor Borge Doubleday-Tarcher, 1971 p. 119 On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Igor Str

[FairfieldLife] Adventures in Mind Science

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Williams
The research referred to was co-funded by Mind Science Foundation and featured in September of 2006 in the premier scientific publication in the United States, Science, as well as the Wall Street Journal and CNN. "I regard the creation of the Mind Science Foundation as the most important undertaki

[FairfieldLife] Re: Information Technology Systems

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Williams
nd preparing to hit him with 30 years of Espionage Act charges." Read more: 'Obama's Epic Fib About the NSA' http://reason.com/archives/2013/12/24/obamas-epic-fibs-about-the-nsa On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > The ObamaCare disaster is not ju

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Williams
waltz in Vienna during the 19th century. Some of Johann Strauss's most famous works include The Blue Danube, and Tales from the Vienna Woods." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Strauss_II On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Richard Wagner > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Williams
Rockpile [image: Inline image 1] Pet You And Hold You http://youtu.be/1RT2-JdxV6Ie Teacher Teacher - Live TV 1980 http://youtu.be/BpWCS-iFeDg Heart - Billy Bremner http://youtu.be/otoxobp6NUE "Rockpile was a British rock and roll group of the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for their strong

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Williams
eauty, and Marche Slave." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Johann Strauss II > > [image: Inline image 1] > > The Blue Danube Waltz - Vienna Philharmonic - Vals del Danubio Azul >

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Williams
Chuck Berry [image: Inline image 1] Johnny B-Goode http://youtu.be/rVT65M4mRnM You Can't Catch Me - 1956 http://youtu.be/bcblXxc4oqo Maybellene - 1955 http://youtu.be/LvKDr8AgvK8 Rock and Roll Music - Toronto, Canada - 1969 http://youtu.be/1U_hRhImaBU Nadine http://youtu.be/Cm8ktxzaumg "Berr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Rock Hits of the Past

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Williams
age show mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, and mordantly satirical social commentary." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > [image: Inline image 1] > > "Takin' Care Of Busin

[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Williams
n Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Cream > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Cream Live in the Royal Albert Hall Part 1: > http://youtu.be/nIKfECOE7GI > > > [image: Inline image 2] > > "Along with the Beatles, they gave those of us entering th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Rock Hits of the Past

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Williams
list of 500 greatest albums of all time." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(band) On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Devo > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Whip It (Video Live Fridays) > http://youtu.be/bQidM91CkXE > > "Dev

Re: [FairfieldLife] Essential Jazz

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Williams
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/ [image: Inline image 2] Sue's Changes - Live At Mont

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Revelation and Conversion

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Williams
On 12/27/2013 10:56 AM, Share Long wrote: > I hope you're noticing that Bob is often putting little comments along > with his links now as you requested. > Now that's better! The reason I don't open any of those YouTube links is not because I don't like Bob - it's because I'm too busy opening my o

[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Williams
k and Roll Music." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Berry On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Chrissie Hynde > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Back on the Chain Gang - Live in London > http://youtu.be/okvl-9svtS0 > > Middle Of The Road -

[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Williams
ing being ranked fifth on their 2004 list of the 100 > Greatest Artists of All Time.[6] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs > that Shaped Rock and Roll included three of Chuck Berry's songs: "Johnny B. > Goode," "Maybellene," and "Rock and Roll Mus

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Rock Hits of the Past

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Williams
but good-looking young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 50s rocker, and in death he achieved an iconic status." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cochran On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Blondie > > [image: Inline

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Rock Hits of the Past

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Williams
Blue Caps, "Be-Bop-A-Lula", is considered a significant early example of rockabilly. He is a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Vincent On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > E

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
. His most famous work is the Toccata And Fugue In D Minor." Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky > > [image: Inline image 1] > > 1812 Overture - Leningrad Ph

[FairfieldLife] What Men Want to Do

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
"For a long time, women have fought -- and are still fighting -- to overcome gender roles and expectations. However, it's important to remember that rigid ideas about what men and women "should" or "shouldn't" do isn't just bad for women." Read more: '11 'Girly' Things Men Wish They Could Do With

[FairfieldLife] Re: Black Hats and White Hats

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
ly linked to the US financial system, rendering them pieces of >> junk." >> >> Read more: >> >> 'NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report' >> The Guardian: >> >> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/d

[FairfieldLife] What Women Want to Do

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
"Women who complain that their hookup partner did not care enough to bring her to orgasm should understand that they can’t have it both ways. Blame it on evolution." Read more: 'In Hookups, Inequality Still Reigns' http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: What People Eat

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
lt or seasoning to taste 7. Let the mixture steep for ten minutes 8. Serve in bowls and eat with a spoon On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Better ingredients, better pizza? > > We used to eat pizza all the time. Up in Austin, there's a place called >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Taking the pernicious unkind FFL Ankle-biters Off-list

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
On 12/28/2013 6:29 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: > Actually it is perfectly easy to post directly to other members of FFL within > Yahoo-Neo. Just push the reply button, then push that faint rectangular box > next to the X that shows, then hit the drop down arrow in the 'to' address line > to

[FairfieldLife] Re: All About Shankara

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
According to Shankara, scriptural knowledge of the Vedas (vidya) concerning the nature of the Being vis a vis the conditioned state, can bring one to a state of liberation (moksha) that is, freedom from suffering. However, in this day and age hardly anyone can read and understand the Sanskrit scrip

[FairfieldLife] All About Zen

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 2] Bodhidharma It's all about wall gazing, mental activity cessation, and rounding. Like a Bodhidarma (Jap. Daruma) of old MMY brought TM-Sidhis to the West, as did the Daruma who took Dhyan pu-kuan to China. One brown-eyed, the other blue, both bearded, sitting quietly facin

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY's Buddha

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
Woven cadences as a subtle map for the inner journey. [image: Inline image 1] There is no path, no steps on a path, and 'concentration' is not a way to transcend, according to the Maharishi and Sri Buddha. Transcending is a middle way between relative and absolute, called subtle by the wise, a st

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

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] There are lots of worse things than getting stuck on a deserted island with a beautiful woman like this! Huey Lewis & The News - Happy To Be Stuck With You http://youtu.be/-8b0IKQxx2k On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > [image: Inline

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Rock Hits of the Past

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
27, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Gene Vincent > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Be-Bop-A-Lula - Video > http://youtu.be/AH4qCNjpY_k > > "Vincent Eugene Craddock (February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971), known as > Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneer

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
m the Eagle Ford Shale. [image: Inline image 1] On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > We saw this place today, out by George Strait's ranch. The house in the > photo belongs to a wealthy land owner in Pleasanton. The owner of the > houses daughter's spouse&

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
We went by this wind farm up by Abilene last Saturday - it's one of the largest wind farms on the planet. [image: Inline image 1] On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Last Saturday we to see this place up by Dad's place. This is one of his > oil wells u

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
t but Rita pointed out that we'd have to drive 245 miles just to get to the nearest Whole Foods Market and so we would be stuck buying supplies at Petty's Grocery Store down the street. Go figure. [image: Inline image 1] On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > What you

[FairfieldLife] The Wallah Sutras

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
The Wallah Sutras 1-5 on Be and Cause *1.1 "xper, trace-guns, cert, cuz this, that, ordo, no streamy dos, no bod gross, feel hole, jus b, go, retread not." * (Experience for yourself without any trace of the three gunas and you can be certain because you can be That and do without identifying wit

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: MMY's Buddha

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
> Om, have either of you earned a real PhD from a real university > or are you just pretty well read in spiritual things? > Most of what I know I learned from my teachers: MMY, Suzuki Roshi, Lama Govinda, and Chogyam Trungpa. After learning how to meditate I was interested in learning exactly what

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: MMY's Buddha

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
re for myriads of lifetimes. He saw that he would suffer in being reborn, going through old age, and dying, over and over again. Work cited: 'Inner Revolution' by Robert Thurman, Ph.D. Riverhead Books, 1998 p. 322 On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > >

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

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
pressed! I think we should rush over to get a new work truck before they sell out, except: The rent is is too damn high! http://www.kbb.com/ http://www.bjorns.com/ http://www.ancirachev.com/ On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > "Increasingly, experts in he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
driveway. So, I told him that the robbers were probably going to get him when he stepped out of the truck to unlock the gate, not when he was already inside the house. He didn't like that. Go figure. On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > We went by this wind farm up by Abil

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
*> 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 my mind was still saying, "What's a car?" :-)>*You probably don't even need a car over there - in fact, it would be a problem. Over, here a car is just another tool

[FairfieldLife] Re: Information Technology Systems

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
o load when a computer is turned on." Read more: NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware' http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/29/5253226/nsa-cia-fbi-laptop-usb-plant-spy On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Arrest him and book h

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
Arthur Lee [image: Inline image 2] My Little Red Book - from the first album Love - Monaural vinyl LP http://youtu.be/PnFBZcsFQmQ Hey Joe - from the first album - Love http://youtu.be/wbr7vpIIb3I Forever Changes - Full album - Vinyl LP http://youtu.be/Q1L11Y0I5E0 Da Capo - Full album - Vinyl L

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Mon 30-Dec-13 00:15:08 UTC

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
PostCount wrote: > > > > Fairfield Life Post Counter > === > Start Date (UTC): 12/28/13 00:00:00 > End Date (UTC): 01/04/14 00:00:00 > 260 messages as of (UTC) 12/30/13 00:12:31 > > 58 Richard J. Williams > 31 Share Long > 26 awoelfl

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: MMY's Buddha

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
; and all things change due to the change in other things - > in short, for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It's > the law of physics: co-existent determination. Shakya realized that all > things are relational and momentary. There's not a single thing in thi

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: MMY's Buddha

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
ited: 'Commentary on Bhagavad Gita' by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi V: 27; p. 220 On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > The term "Nirodha" in Sanskrit means cessation: an experience of > epistemological reflection. According to some scholars, the most

[FairfieldLife] MMY's Gunas

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] The Bhagavad Gita is concerned with three constituents: sattva, rajas and tamas. The idea is to transcend these three qualities. According to MMY: "The authorship of action does not in reality belong to the "I". It is a mistake to understand that "I" do this, "I" experience

[FairfieldLife] MMY's Enlightenment

2013-12-29 Thread Richard Williams
The man seemed to be on a perpetual high. "Then he launched into praise for those leading his ayurveda initiative and the promotion of its value, holding that the fundamental strength of ayurveda lay in its ability to prevent illness. He was in particularly good form, his delivery bubbly and enthu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Schumi: Pluto in the 8th House...

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
Rita and I really wanted to attend the Formula One Grand Prix race up in Austin, but the tickets are pretty pricey. The rent is too damn high! [image: Inline image 1] Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 08:20 "Some of Friday's 58,276 anticipatory fans were greeted by unusually heavy fog during the first practi

[FairfieldLife] MMY's Darshan

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
Galaxy of Fire: Journey to an ancient spiritual world. [image: Inline image 1] "Why is he here? How did he get in? The men were all clean shaven and had their best suits on. Worst of all, there couldn't have been more than fifteen Westerners, all total; the very top of Maharishi's Western organiz

[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
at Kirwani" 10. 19:47 "Dream Scene" 11. 25:15 "Party Seacombe" 12. 29:51 "Love Scene" 13. 34:09 "Crying" 14. 35:28 "Cowboy Music" 15. 36:58 "Fantasy Sequins" 16. 38:50 "On the Bed" 17. 41:13 "Glass Box" 18. 42

[FairfieldLife] Re: Information Technology Systems

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
od. I wondered what was at its heart. And how far into its center I could go." 'Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet' by Andrew Blum Ecco, 2012 On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > It's almost breath taking in it's scope! > > Im

Re: [FairfieldLife] Mahamantra, by Krishna Das

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
in Beverly Hills: Growing Up Crazy in Hollywood' by Ned Wynn William Morrow, 1990 Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavan_Das<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavan_Das_%28yogi%29> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Krishna Das - Radhe Shyam

[FairfieldLife] MMY's Adwaita

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
First came One. It's a leap of metaphysical theorizing to imagine that there is more than One real. Let's be logical: If there were three or more reals instead of One, there would be three or more truths, three or more ultimate realities, and three or more Selfs. But, what do you suppose would cau

[FairfieldLife] MMY's Yoga Asanas

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] http://www.rwilliams.us/yoga/ MMY prepared a Six Month Course, followed by a Second Course of One Year, in Yogas Asanas, which he termed "...a reliable practice from the ancient tradition of Yogis." According to Yogi, Asanas are idealy suited to the fast tempo of modern li

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
authfriend wrote: > I don't believe Mary Magdalen was "the first > to see the Jesus rise up into the sky," either. > Maybe it's time to get all our ducks in a row: Mary Magdalene was the first person to see the risen Christ. On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:03 PM, wrote: > > > I don't believe Mary Mag

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: MMY's Adwaita

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
> If you're trying to rebut the Christian idea of the Holy Trinity, > it would be good to study up on it first so you don't find yourself > setting up straw men to knock down. > No, I have no intention of comparing apples to oranges - that discussion might better be left to Robin. But, I believe I

Re: [FairfieldLife] MMY's Adwaita

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
s structured in > consciousness. Meaning, unless one's words have a huge amount of shakti, > it's pointless to tell a person in duality that it's all one. That simply > creates cognitive dissonance. > > OTOH, I have been experiencing that big T Truth can move mountains. O

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY's Darshan

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
lly in Brahman Consciousness and that is the greatest experience of all." He was laughing when he finished saying this. We were all moved to hear Maharishi share his personal experience with us you could have heard a pin drop in the room. No one was struggling anymore - the competition for atte

[FairfieldLife] MMY's Rapture

2013-12-30 Thread Richard Williams
As it is written: "Ecce enim regnum Dei *intra* vos est" (the Kingdom of Heaven lies within you). The Incarnation is the human form of God's celestial Word, the first thought, the primeval expression of divine intelligence by which our Male Father created the universe with his spiritual seed. In o

[FairfieldLife] MMY's Soma

2013-12-31 Thread Richard Williams
*Warning!!!* Do not read this if you're averse to either natural or organic mind-food; otherwise - enter at your own risk. The price of admission: your mind. (This essay has been updated and edited for easy reading.) [image: Inline image 1] Introduction The sacramental basis of the Vedic Religio

[FairfieldLife] Re: Information Technology Systems

2013-12-31 Thread Richard Williams
#x27; by Andrew Blum Ecco, 2012 p. 238 Other links of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center Performance Cloud Servers: http://www.rackspace.com/ On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Richard Williams wrote: > Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet > > Tubes, by Andrew Blum, look

[FairfieldLife] Secret Doctrines

2013-12-31 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] Lama Yongden All scriptures are based on desire, wanting, and what to do about it; what it does to you, and what you do back. It is natural for those who are reflective to want to understand the parables found in World Scripture concerning desire and to compare these with

[FairfieldLife] All About the Heavenly Pantheon

2013-12-31 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] The Heavenly Pantheon is a complete family affair! Daniel Lazare notes in a recent report in Harper's that the discovery of monotheism "was no small feat of imagination, and its consequences were enormous. Monotheism's attempt at a unified field theory--a single explanatio

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard Williams
Let me make myself clear: Mary Magdalene was the first person to see Jesus after the crucifixion when He had risen up out of His tomb, hovering in the air. The Ascension into heaven came later. Mary Magdalene was the first person to see the risen Christ. All the four gospels agree on this: Matthew

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Female Rock Stars

2013-12-31 Thread Richard Williams
Thanks, Turq, for the links - it brings back a few memories. And, I don't blame you for not doing a search using NEO - it sucks as a search engine. I saw Mother Earth perform at Chet Helms' Family Dog, opening for Janis Joplin, who I knew from Austin. This was before Tracy married Travis Rivers, al

Re: [FairfieldLife] World Boogie-Woogie Championship, 2012

2013-12-31 Thread Richard Williams
Around here this dance style is called "Fast Western", "Fast Texas", or sometimes "hillbilly" dancing", "swing" dancing or just "rock n' roll" dancing. It follows a six beat pattern according to our dance instructor. The name "boogie-woogie", according to Dr. John Tennison, a famous musicologist an

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

2013-12-31 Thread Richard Williams
Rock Chicks' by Alison Stieven-Taylor Rockpool Publishing, 2007 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Richard Williams wrote: > Jefferson Airplane > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit 1967 > http://youtu.be/WANNqr-vcx0 > > In this song you can hear

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