Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
e: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good One key word: entertain. Which in this context means to dwell on, to wallow in, even to take delight in, negativity. Plus, I never heard Maharishi speak about other spiritual pat

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
rs and Talking about that Good The only time I saw something like this was when Maharishi confronted the CIA guy. ____ From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, Novembe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
and Talking about that Good What is "absolute proof" in this context? Are you offering "absolute proof" about what Maharishi said on TTC about other systems? From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com&

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
boys) told me in a phone conversation I had with him that Marshy in private was openly contemptuous of all religions other than Hinduism and at times was disparaging towards his own loyal followers. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [Fairfi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Takes a Hit in the Netherlands

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Wonder how come the Marshy Effect didn't prevent such a ruling?? English translation: ANBI status Transcendental Meditation foundation can be withdrawn 27-10-2014 13:13 • UN Today The Administration has rightly withdrawn ANBI st

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: nablusoss1008 I've said The Dolly Lama is "just a politician". And you said that because *Maharishi said it*, in exactly those words. Do you call this "never entertaining negativity?" Sounds to me as if Maharishi was just JEALOUS. And with good reason -- the Dalai Lama was and stil

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
and Talking about that Good What is "absolute proof" in this context? Are you offering "absolute proof" about what Maharishi said on TTC about other systems? From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: &qu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Son,... How old are you, "Buck?" I'll bet I'm older than you are. ...as a transcendentalist I well know the reality of my inner experience with this and for that I am quite a satisfied customer of the transcending meditation experience.

[FairfieldLife] Non-Intelligent Biology (was Re: Non-biological Intelligence)

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I really hate to be the person to have to explain this to you, JR, but the Bhagavad-Gita, the Old Testament, and the New Testament are all FICTION. You don't "win" philosophical discussions by invoking them, any more than if you had invoked the Harry Potter books.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Married . . . with Children

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ann, The power of the feminine is recognized in Christianity. The Catholic Church considers the Virgin Mary as the Mother of God and the Queen of Heaven. What else do you want? Female Bishops? The ability to make their ow

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Married . . . with Children

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Share, IMO the church is saying that all women have a choice. They can have sex and children which is perfectly acceptable and human. Or be a virgin like Mary which is acceptable as well if that is their preference. What they are NOT free to do is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 3:36 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good Well, really there is a much

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Intelligent Biology (was Re: Non-biological Intelligence)

2014-11-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Barry, Humans are limited and conditioned beings.  Enlightened beings who have understood Being have to show the rest of us in concrete words and deeds the experience of the unified field.  Philosophy and its fancy words and ideas

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Intelligent Biology (was Re: Non-biological Intelligence)

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Salyavin, You should study jyotish, particularly the Nadi Astrology system.   NA can show you why certain things happen even though on the surface it looks brilliant.   Specifically, a person may have a strong 9th house which gives

Re: [FairfieldLife] Netherlands: the crime of questioning

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
While I may agree that trying to stifle free speech is a bad idea, it's good for people to know that this particular Ass Clown has as much credibility in the Netherlands as the now-dead leader of the Westboro Baptist Church did in America. When he supposedly innocently asked "Do you want more Mo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Intelligent Biology (was Re: Non-biological Intelligence)

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"   Barry,Humans are limited and conditioned beings.  Enlightened beings who have understood Being have to show the rest of us in concrete words and deeds the experience of the unified field.  Prove to me that there is or ever has been such a thing as

[FairfieldLife] Why there is probably no hope for mankind

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
They don't understand how true this is.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-biological Intelligence

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You realize, do you not, that you have just described yourself in a way that any psychiatrist in the world would diagnose as psychotic. When most people look at another person for a short time, the other person does not "disappear." Have you considered just having your vision checked?  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-biological Intelligence

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I don't actually *have* a guru. But as we all know, Nabby does. To find out how *he* stacks up against the "choosing to live in a fantasy world believing his guru is respected" criterion, I searched for the most common tags applied to any reference to him on the Internet and found: Benjamin Cre

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why there is probably no hope for mankind

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Her ass is so big that the European Space Agency has already sent a mission to try to land on it. (Posting the link rather than the photo so that Buck doesn't have a heart attack and Alex doesn't have to take it down to keep FFL family-friendly): https://mobile.twitter.com/adjwilson/status/5325

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-biological Intelligence

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" What Nabby is describing is called retinal fatique, prolonged staring at an object without the eyes moving exhausts the chemistry in the retina responsible for the detection of light. Exactly. But they can't feel all self-important and "speci

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fw: Turquoise treasure hunts; a star returns to Santa Fe

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Looks like Share has turned into a stalker, too. :-) From: "Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 1:39 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fw: Turquoise treasure hunts; a star returns t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Killer robots should be strictly monitored

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
There's no need to worry about them if their warranty is the same as Ahnold's... :-) From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 1:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Killer robots should be strictly monitored The

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Intelligent Biology (was Re: Non-biological Intelligence)

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No comment on Anartaxius' comment, but I do wish that if Nabby is going to make up shit about me, he at least take a course in remedial math before doing so. He was off by quite a few years in calculating when my first enlightenment experiences were, placing them only a couple of years after I s

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Game, set, and match. From: "curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 8:13 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others

Re: [FairfieldLife] Meet Bob: The Man Who Teaches Meditation To Middle-School Students, Celebrities, And The Homeless Alike

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nothing appears under this Nabby post. It's probably an article about Bob Roth. I wonder how the parents of these middle school students feel about having their kids taught meditation by the creepy preacher from "Poltergeist?" :-) From: nablusoss1008 To: F

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others + Finding Something Good in Others and Talking about that Good

2014-11-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This story from the Puranas is the very reason for my Do Not Read List. My stalkers are free to pick up any of my qualities that they wish to by focusing so intently on their hatred for me, while by ignoring them and not even reading what they write I pick up nothing from them. Win-win. :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Nice to hear from you, Rish...sorry to learn you weren't enlightened"

2014-09-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Nice to hear from you, Rish...sorry to learn you weren't enlightened" As to company, I am looking forward to going

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Ideal India, Lighthouse of Peace on Earth' by Maharishi ~ Excerpt

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As you often do, Rick, you posted this without comment. So what do YOU think of this quote? To me it's one of the clearest revelations of Maharishi's often-hidden Hindu Supremacy agenda ever. Not to mention his superstition and devotion to Woo Woo. "Secularism" is bad, but "devatas" and "yag

Re: [FairfieldLife] "Nice to hear from you, Rish...sorry to learn you weren't enlightened"

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think he would see. Me, I'd go for "both/and" -- Maharishi was WRONG about what happens after dying in enlightenment AND he was never enlightened. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reading or Not Reading Posts

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" What I was implying was, say someone is extremely passive, a spiritual type, and you really bore down on him with taunts and insults etc., that person may just suddenly explode at you because you have triggered some normally

[FairfieldLife] Tapas

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No, not that silly practice that wannabee yogis perform when they want to feel all self-important for abstaining from doing something they'd rather be doing than abstaining from. Tapas, the cuisine from Spain. I felt like having some today, and fortunately in Leiden one can find pretty much any

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Has Rick decided to kill the Group? ("Nice to hear from you, Rish...sorry to learn you weren't enlightened")

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
"both/and" -- Maharishi was WRONG about what happens after dying in enlightenment AND he was never enlightened. --- wrote : Jerry Jarvis has spoken his final words to you for his entire life. And since you believe in dissolving after life, I guess that's it. This Post c

[FairfieldLife] Advaitan self inquiry, as performed by Cheech and Chong

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
"Self? Self's not here, man." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxK_hGLTN4&feature=youtu.be :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Important Question for Sal

2014-09-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Alright Sal, we all know that in a few days the Scots will vote on whether or not to form their own country. Now forget all the nonsense about whether the country will prosper by itself. The real question is: if the Scots c

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sam Harris Book

2014-09-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I've been away in Amsterdam for a bit, but while there found this book myself. I'm enjoying it a great deal. Not having read Sam Harris' books before (only many of his online articles or interviews), I'm finding that I really like his writing style. And not just the clarity of it...I really l

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sam Harris Book

2014-09-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "waybac...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" It was delivered to my doorstep the other day and just a few pages I enjoy his writing style - he is clear and articulate and really nails things. I will read it this weekend. And Barry, as you know, he says there is no self (ha, we have been t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sam Harris Book

2014-09-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" I've been working on taxes today and had to delay continuing with the book, but the clarity is welcome after the lax mental sprawl that has become FFL of late. Harris really has a gift for organising material. If you have gotten to the part in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: My anger is my proof

2014-09-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I don't read any of 7th ray's posts any more, so I don't know what he might have said, but I sure recognize the vibe you're discussing. Something happened at some point and he became really nasty. I've written him off. From: "waybac...@yahoo.com [FairfieldL

[FairfieldLife] Good quote from Sam Harris' new book passed along from a former FFL poster

2014-09-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Seems like everybody's reading this book, except the people here on FFL who assume they already know everything and don't need to, that is. :-) This is a great quote that I'll pass along because 1) my friend already did all the typing so I don't have to, and 2) I love the simple and perfect wa

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi keeps his promises (was Why MMY's Bhagavad Gita will never be a classic.

2014-09-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" My read folder Ann, contains certain posters who tend to not just post one liners or irrelevant comments. Edg is in the read post. Another criterion for this folder is a person does not post excessively. As you now have yo

[FairfieldLife] A whole scifi film in 14 minutes 30 seconds...

2014-09-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
...and better than most films that take 2+ hours to watch: Today's Must-Watch Short Film: 'Entangled,' From One Of The Writers Of 'Orphan Black' Today's Must-Watch Short Film: 'Entangled,' From One Of... Do we love sci-fi? Yeah, we do. But admitting our personal bias is the firs

[FairfieldLife] Rumours Of Glory

2014-09-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I recently wrote positively about a book that hadn't come out yet, my "review" more of an intuition than anything else, just "gettin' a hit" on how cool an upcoming book was going to be. That book was Sam Harris' "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion," and it now seems to be being

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good quote from Sam Harris' new book passed along from a former FFL poster

2014-09-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Steve, You do need to pay attention to what other people say about enlightenment, otherwise there are no markers as to whether you have made progress or not. But then, who has the 'right' markers? There are lots of descriptions of enlightenment

[FairfieldLife] Waking Up - the art of pitching meditation to skeptics

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I finished Sam Harris' new book, and am up for discussing any parts of it with people here who have also read the book. It should go without saying that in addition to the folks whose posts I never read period (none of whom are likely to have the attention span or humility to read this book anyw

[FairfieldLife] Sam Harris on choosing a guru :-)

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
So how does one of the world's great atheists and opponents of religion discuss the concept of gurus? Pretty well, actually, probably because he's been exposed to more of them than most people on this forum. Having realized that he was advising people to learn how to meditate and thus possibl

[FairfieldLife] Mindfulness practice on FFL

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
There was one section of Sam Harris' new book that resonated with me, because it described a type of mindfulness I've found myself practicing lately in the context of FFL -- screening out anger, so as no longer having to deal with that low mindstate, and get sucked into it. What he wrote was ori

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris on choosing a guru :-)

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : So how does one of the world's great atheists and opponents of religion discuss the concept of gurus? Pretty well, actually, probably because he's been exposed to more of them than most people on this forum. Having realized

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris on choosing a guru :-)

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" "those who, while still human, seemed to possess so much compassion and clarity of mind that they were nearly flawless examples of the benefits of spiritual practice" Name them please. Read the book. Or better yet, find them yoursel

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sam Harris on choosing a guru :-)

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
ly should come with warning labels. Because they do not, approaching a guru with guileless innocence seems like a recipe for disaster. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Tue

Re: [FairfieldLife] Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Great find, Geez. It's quite an experience watching this and listening to Maharishi and many people I know personally, just after reading Sam Harris' new book. Bevan's so insane it hurts to look at him. I love the Australian announcer's way of putting things...it's very dry and witty and S

Re: [FairfieldLife] Book Reviews

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The Bible reviews made my day. :-) From: "Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" ; Yahoo! Groups Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 8:58 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Book Reviews As we have b

[FairfieldLife] This looks like THE film event of the year

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Almost makes me want to be in New York to attend. Almost. :-) New York Film Fest: Top-Secret Edward Snowden Doc Added to Lineup New York Film Fest: Top-Secret Edward Snowden Doc A... The New York Film Festival is entering its 52nd year, but never before, in its long and rich hi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Excellent find, prison boy! That "reporter" came in all arrogant, and muck-raking, wanting to do his hit piece, and Maharishi tells him basically to fuck off, and leave the building! Priceless! Watched it twice. I disagree that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendentalism: Established in Being, live your life

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Om, there's a town here full of old meditators who meditate and who don't have a relationship with the TM movement. Lot of meditators would say, "Yes I am a meditator but not that." Waving a hand in the general direction of ca

Re: [FairfieldLife] Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Re "I found it quite entertaining but this is not serious journalism. It's a hatchet job, anyone can see that. I thought Bevan handled the reporter's questions very well, actually. ": Yes, it's a hostile interview but that's what happens out there

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Bevan Morris comes across as a one-man circle jerk. This has my vote for "FFL One-Liner Of The Month." :-)

[FairfieldLife] Elsewhere in cult news...

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I don't know whether anyone here noticed the recent U2 debacle, but it's worth paying attention to. I've liked some of their music and not liked other of their music, just like everyone else, but while doing so it has not escaped my attention that the members of the band are all pretty strong ev

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Bevan Morris comes across as a one-man circle jerk. This has my vote for "FFL One-Liner Of The Month." :-) In fact, I hereby nominate this one-li

Re: [FairfieldLife] Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Established in Being, let anger take over Yep, a hack. He came in dismissive and ignorant of the material science and the reality of

Re: [FairfieldLife] TM and the Media, was Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Back in the day, I got to use up about 30 seconds of my Warholian "15 minutes of fame" on NBC Nightly News. I don't remember the year, but it was post-Beatles and possibly post- or during-the-Merv thang. At any rate,TM was Big News, and of all the stations in L.A., NBC got there first with their

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM and the Media, was Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nice version of the Taco Belle Canon. Even if it's not really a canon, musically. From: "Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLi

[FairfieldLife] Sass

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
My favorite Paris blogger continues her visual meditation on the concept of sass. How sassy of her. Preserved Moments of Historical Sass (Vol. 8) Preserved Moments of Historical Sass (Vol. 8) I haven't done one of these for a while and I think it's about time we got the serie

Re: [FairfieldLife] My take on "Waking Up" by Sam Harris

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" I have been following the excellent comments on this topic with delight. I loved this book, especially where it helped me draw my own belief lines by disagreeing with it. My feelings exactly. Thanks for taking the time to put some of your

Re: [FairfieldLife] thoughts on samskaras and enlightenment - CC to UC

2014-09-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]" MIndfulness and concentrative practices disrupt the Default Mode Network of the brain, which is highly involved with self-referral processing and sense-of-self. Written "authoritatively" by someone who has never in his life experienced mindfulness

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Bevan Morris is such a joke that I don't know how *anyone* possibly takes anything he says seriously. But I really did enjoy one indication of his cluelessness in the video clip. The announcer asks whether *he* hops, *obviously* incredulously, given Bevan's horrific, bloated, bulk. And Bevan do

Re: [FairfieldLife] TM and the Media, was Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
to go to a big-assed church in Pacific Palisades one night when they were having a "TM is really a cult" rally and "stand up for TM." And I even did it. THAT was pretty interesting...far much more so than my brief media drive-by on NBC Nightly News. Oh, please, please gi

[FairfieldLife] The selflessness of flow state vs. the selflessness of meditation

2014-09-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Curtis' "take" on Sam Harris' new book was great in many ways, but one of the things he said has left me still tripping on it some time after writing my first reply. It strikes me as a good "writing prompt," and possibly an interesting topic to discuss. That is, Curtis mentioned (and I hope I

[FairfieldLife] For Salyavin -- "Independence Day: the Remake" :-)

2014-09-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] TM and the Media, was Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
18, 2014 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] TM and the Media, was Established in Being, let anger take over Thanks, that's an interesting story. Wonder why Jerry didn't go himself? ____ From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLif

Re: [FairfieldLife] Gee or Yeah?

2014-09-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I thought everybody has known that ever since Christopher Moore published "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend." It's in the Bible -- "'Hallowed' be Thy name." From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "Fairfield

Re: [FairfieldLife] Gee or Yeah?

2014-09-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSIKBliboIo From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Gee or Yeah? Hal fo

Re: [FairfieldLife] thoughts on samskaras and enlightenment - CC to UC

2014-09-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm not Curtis, but I'll provide my short answer to Nisargadatta below: From: Duveyoung To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:16 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] thoughts on samskaras and enlightenment - CC to UC Curtis,

Re: [FairfieldLife] My take on "Waking Up" by Sam Harris

2014-09-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Barry, Thanks for taking the time to high five me on points we shared and showing me where you may be drawing different lines. I especially appreciated how your articulated the creative flow state as it applies to writing. I hadn't thou

Re: [FairfieldLife] thoughts on samskaras and enlightenment - CC to UC

2014-09-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Richard, I'm really glad I practice TM. Mindfulness seems like a heck of a lot of work, tracking the rising and continuing of thoughts! Hardly. The simple fact is there are many different types of mindfulness, some are easier

[FairfieldLife] The real reason Scots said "No" to independence

2014-09-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
They would have had to watch more Scottish TV: Armando Iannucci's Description Of Scottish Heaven And Hell Is Very Funny Armando Iannucci's Description Of Scottish Heaven And... Thanks to the man himself for reminding us all of this gem from 2001. Yes, before his days as the mult

Re: [FairfieldLife] Photo: ShShRSh!

2014-09-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That's actually pretty cool. Like old high school photos of rock stars. :-) For the record, this is not a slam. I missed SSRS's drive-by of the TMO completely, and have no feelings about the man one way or another. I know Doc Pete and some others I've met here at FFL like him, and I have no opin

[FairfieldLife] Spiritual Seeking

2014-09-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
When you think about it isn't all spiritual seeking a lot like those bumper stickers that start "I'd rather be..." Wherever they'd rather be whatever they'd rather be driving or sailing or doing or being it isn't here and it isn't now Whereas what they're really seeking is :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The real reason Scots said "No" to independence

2014-09-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Boiled beef might suffice for the pup. As to my push to get vastu banned, I imagine you are right about there being resistance. So I decided that when people begin to realize vastu ved needs to be reigned in, we will just requi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Beatles in India: The Retreat That Reverberates Across the Universe

2014-09-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The Maharishi Song / Pre-Sexy Sadie The Maharishi Song / Pre-Sexy Sadie View on www.youtube.com Preview by Yahoo From: nablusoss1008 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 10:29 AM Subject: [FairfieldLi

[FairfieldLife] Stripping the Gurus

2014-09-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Stripping the Gurus The Sixth Beatle Stripping the Gurus The Sixth Beatle CHAPTER VIII THE SIXTH BEATLE (MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI) View on www.strippingthegurus.com Preview by Yahoo I stumbled across this while doing a Google search for a completely different teacher (see li

[FairfieldLife] The Ig Nobel Prizes are back!

2014-09-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And no, I didn't notice any overtly TM-related winners this year (eat your heart out, Hagelin!), but there were a few worthy of our interest here on FFL. (I personally think there would be a big market for the toaster that allows you to take a selfie and have it appear on your morning toast -- t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Wonder how that one turned out?

2014-09-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Gotta agree with Edg here. This is not new, and not particularly shocking. Shocking was Maharishi telling Jerry Jarvis (then head of the US TM movement) not to pay th legal firm that had defended the TMO unsuccessfully in the "Is TM a religion?" court case the hundreds of thousands of dollars

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: My experiences of higher states of consciousness

2014-09-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Tragicomedy in one scene: One Hyperbole Over the Line "Rhoda darling did I tell about eating my cereal this morning." "You told me yesterday David, and the day before and the day before." "No but today it was even more amazing! At first the m

[FairfieldLife] Interesting -- and compassionate -- article about narcissism

2014-09-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is your brain on narcissism: The truth about a disorder that nobody really understands This is your brain on narcissism: The truth about a disorder that nobody really understands The term "narcissist" gets thrown around more and more often these days. But almost everyone's g

Re: [FairfieldLife] ! Celebrating a 14th year of FairfieldLife, FFL !

2014-09-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'd "Like" this, except that some of the things that haven't changed in all that time are minds. :-) From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 12:44 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] ! Celebra

Re: [FairfieldLife] look up look down

2014-09-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The whole appeal of Facebook may have been that it allowed people who'd never been part of a cult to do so. Heck, they can even turn themselves into a cult. :-) From: merudanda To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 1:15 PM Subjec

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Holy Man Claims He Has Not Eaten Or Drank Anything In 70 Years!

2014-09-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Steve, I like what you're saying here which is that we don't yet know all the laws governing gravity. And I think this is a very scientific attitude. I bet we don't know all the laws about anything yet! Including how human bodie

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A little cult movie 4 you

2014-09-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I didn't ignore your mention of "The Sacrament," Bhairitu. I duly looked it up on IMDB and decided I didn't want to spend 90+ minutes there. :-) Just differences in where we wanna spend our time, not a judgment per se. As for "The Blacklist," however, I watched the teaser they made to suck peop

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Holy Man Claims He Has Not Eaten Or Drank Anything In 70 Years!

2014-09-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 --In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : As usual, you miss the point Sal. I believe the expression for what you do,is, "leading from behind" Just a bittoo timid to go beyond the orthodoxy of present day science. And seemingly threatened as well. Gosh, you really are

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi: When one starts TM, cruder values are replaced by finer values, speech is less sharp

2014-09-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" EMPATHY: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. If you have empathy, then you ought to be able to understand and share the feelings by MJ and Turq, and see their point of view as a valid expression

Re: [FairfieldLife] Three funny TMO experiences

2014-09-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Your stories are great, Rick, but the story from the UK guy had me on the floor. Now THAT is the art of having the right line at the right time. :-) From: "'Rick Archer' r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife Sent: Wednesday, September 24,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi: When one starts TM, cruder values are replaced by finer values, speech is less sharp

2014-09-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
ernal criticism *points out* these very doubts is to "circle the wagons" and become even *more* of a True Believer, at least on the surface. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yaho

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The missing element in FFlife seems to be

2014-09-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: netineti108 You are correct that references to the Divine are sparse in FFL. Shanah Tovah I find it a beautiful timing that Rosh Hashanah and the beginning of the Hindu festival Devi Navaratri, the nine days of Mother Divine coincide. Lunar calendar rules... Curious as to what

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The missing element in FFlife seems to be

2014-09-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: netineti108 Could it not be that all the chatter on FFL is nothing but a waste of time? Could it be that life itself is a waste of time, except that time doesn't really exist? :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Black Holes Don't Exist

2014-09-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Beautiful video, Salyavin. I know too little hard physics to be dangerous at it, but I just *love* the concept of black holes, especially the notion of the "event horizon." That's the point at which if you get too close to a black hole, it's all she wrote. You've passed the "point of no return"

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Black Holes Don't Exist

2014-09-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
My bad. I should have referred to Hugh's second violin solo below, starting at about 5:40. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Wednesday, September 24,

[FairfieldLife] Almost Like The Blues

2014-09-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
For those who might be interested, Leonard Cohen's new album "Popular Problems" was released today. This appears to be a song from it: Leonard Cohen - Almost Like the Blues (Audio) Leonard Cohen - Almost Like the Blues (Audio) View on www.youtube.com Preview by Yahoo

[FairfieldLife] Nevermind

2014-09-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A better cut from Leonard Cohen's new album: Leonard Cohen - Nevermind ( Popular Problems ) Leonard Cohen - Nevermind ( Popular Problems ) View on www.youtube.com Preview by Yahoo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi: When one starts TM, cruder values are replaced by finer values, speech is less sharp

2014-09-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It seems to me that the best thing you could do with "quitters" is to (dare I say it) QUIT reading them. I don't know about MJ and Salyavin, but I'm not here "selling" anything. I write for the fun of it, and to express my opinion. I don't much give a fuck whether you share my opinion or hate

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