“We were members of the SRF before starting TM in 1967 and were frequent
visitors to the Mt. Washington center in L.A.. The meditation is very similar
to TM practice and includes the use of a mantra called the hong sau as well
as being aware of the sound current. It is a reliable yoga practice
This is what we all have to look forward to when they get here and get in
power.
The Genocide of Banu Qurayza - WikiIslam
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/The_Genocide_of_Banu_Qurayza
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/The_Genocide_of_Banu_Qurayza
The Genocide of Banu Qurayza - WikiIslam
You are all under-educated about Islamic history - especially of the actual
deeds of the prophet. These are all faithful Muslims who are doing exactly what
their prophet did - and in the same way.
If possible (Allah willing as they say), they will do it to all of us. Death by
beheading or by
Yep - that worked so well for Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. The Tibetans must
certainly agree with you. But then what else to expect out of Oakland?
The real problem is Semitic Monotheism, whether Jew, Christian or Muslim.
Messianic Communism was simply an offshoot of Marxist Historical
Whatever happened to the 14 yr old boy that the Vajra Regent knowingly
infected with AIDS. Is he still living?
Yogananda had nothing close to TM. His techniques were all directed
attention. His OM meditation at the ajña-chakra was far away from TM.
Who is the Vajra Regent?
The Vajra Regent was Chogyam Trungpa’s personally chose successor. Original
name Thomas Rich later named Ösel Tendzin.
During the controversy, Pema Chödrön (the so-called monastic) used to hold
meetings where she would say “We can’t judge … we should just do our
You are supposed to be intelligent before you try and act intelligent.
Dan, don't assume.
I was initiated into Yogânanda's first Kriya in Dallas by Brother Anandamoy.
Much later I was initiated into a form of Kriya by Hariharananda's successor
Swami Prajñânananda.
Some benefit there but nothing like TM and TM sanyama.
Adi Shankara’s guru was not Gaudapâda, who lived about 100-200 years earlier by
scholarly estimates1. Shankara’s guru was Govinda Bhagavatpâda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govinda_Bhagavatpada, whom he met on the banks of
the Narmada River.
A number of works are ascribed in manuscripts to
You all all severely under-educated about Islam.
There can never be an Islamic Enlightenment like what happened in European
history. That is because Islam is not adaptable to any other way of life. If
Islam appeared more moderate at various times, it was only because it was
“diverted” by
The Achilles' Heel of the West
ACHILLES WAS invincible, so the story goes. He was strong and lightning fast,
and in every battle he was undefeatable. But when he was shot with an arrow
through the back of his heel, he was momentarily disabled, and that gave his
enemies enough time to finish
Willy sez,
According to Raju, Gaudapada lived and taught during the 7th century CE.
Gaudapda adopted the Buddhist doctrines that ultimate reality is pure
consciousness.
Willy, you were given the references necessary to know better than this.
Apparently, you only scanned Michael Comman’s
Yep, you studied Sufism with Hazrat Khan and Sufi Sam.
You musta done this while also studing Zen with Suzuki Roshi and Tibetan
Buddhism with Ernst Hoffmann - aka Lama Govinda.
What a guy. Too bad Hazrat Khan died in 1927. You musta received his teachings
through clairvoyant samâdhi.
Sufi
Willy sez,
According to Madhyamaka all phenomena are empty of substance or essence
(Sanskrit: svabhava) because they are dependently co-arisen. Shankara does not
even address this point. And, Gaudapada in fact adopted this doctrine from
Buddha. Go figure.
Willy,
You were given the
Willy
Thank you for your reply. It is so clarifying. No prob if you don't understand
Comans book although that is hard to understand if you can also read scholars
discussing Tantra.
Since you don't understand Comans or unwilling to spend the $$ (I spent $128 –
twice your price), much less
Yep it all makes sense. Yer just a shill for the Cuban anti-American
intelligence service.
So got some Habanos Cohibas you wanna get rid of soon?
Only totalmente a mano, tripa larga will do.
Now that's communism worth paying for.
Those crappy Detroit autos were realigned by the Japos - not by some commie
commissar like you.
After WWII (the last one we one), the Japos figured out that manufacturing
power meant real power. So they learned directly from
William Edwards Deming how to accurately and successfully institute
It is called Kurma-nadi (tortoise tube) based
upon the physically observable similarities.
That is the method the ancients used so they
could make a visual image-connection obvious
to the common yogin. That way the yogin would
understand what was being described.
---In
This pact complicates the scenario in fighting ISIS. Its probably not a good
idea to arm the so-called friendly rebels at this time.
Doesn't matter.
Islamic State will attempt to convene an Islamic Caliphate to establish
regional lordship over Muslim countries. They will then come back home
AND I'M STILL PENT UP ENOUGH TO SLUG SOMEONE WITHOUT FORMAL NOTICE. Where's the
beef? We were promised MAGNIFICENT PERSONALITY EVOLUTION.
It's the fault of someone else. You are not responsible for your acts or your
choices. Free will is an illusion. Yer just a monkey leashed to a three-strand
Dr. Ron Hira, professor of public policy at Howard University, argued that the
tech industry supports executive action by President Obama on illegal
immigration in order to depress wages, which he stated amounts to a war on the
middle class on Thursday’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox
What I Have Learned Since 9-11
I was on my way back from a vacation when the first plane hit the World Trade
Center. My wife and I were listening to music on a CD and enjoyed our ride
home, and knew nothing about it. When we got home, we listened to our messages.
The first two were from
This was not written by me - although I wish it was. I decided to strike out
the identifiers so that readers here could read the piece as is without
looking up the website to know if they should first agree or disagree.
Unfortunately that happens here - all too often.
The missing final
Even without TOR, you can use an anonymizing software. What is unknown is just
which anonymizing programs are in bed with the NSA, fucking anyone who comes
through the door.
Such b.s. ...
Nothing is realized except illusion.
Nothing is transmitted except ignorance.
That which is real never comes to be.
That which is unreal never ceases to be.
That which is real doesn't need something or someone to reveal it.
It reveals itself by itself, just like you
This sounds like a quiz or a koan, but in fact may be a secret mantra.
Hey don't reveal everything.
Let Richard retain his claim as the Gomâyin Extraodinaire.
Michael slays:
... as we common folk in the South like to call it ...
Since yer a Southern boy, how come you haven't taken Jesus into your heart like
you shoulda? Instead you played with the hindoo demons and were shafted by the
TMO. No doubt you were unique in that regard.
Why won't you just
So sorry Michael but Herr Schicklgrüber not only gets heaven but a fine seat in
front of YVHV. All he had to do was ask Haysoos to forgive him for his sins -
including the millions he fried. I'm sure those millions of Yews will be
applauding as YVHV says ... Why sure - come on in.
Not even
Share,
Reproduction was a function of biology and was regulated by the
society/civilization surrounding its citizens.
In ancient Rome, women and slaves were people who could not exercise free will.
Women were legally under the rule of their fathers first and husbands later.
Most slaves were
Sir Richard Head a.k.a. Pudit Çur a.k.a. MahaGomâya claims he's a tantrika.
Gosh ... what will come next?
Great to know he applies all these tilaks everyday before he leaves home.
No doubt everyone at the college is impressed by such ardor.
Got gomâya?
You gotta love it when a fool pontificates.
Brahmarishi Devarata said that ii.m was the pranava of the rig veda, the bija
mantra of Indra, which reveals the hidden nature of the vedic mantras.
He said that om is the principle mantra of Shiva, the supreme deity of the
yajur veda.
He also
We are still technologically primitive. We don't even have a reasonable
sub-light drive (say 10% of light-speed) to map out our local system.
The more interesting question is:
Have they detected us and what are they going to do about it?
This essay about the values of Buddhist Work is utterly Westernized bullshit.
He used the very same Western conceptual framework that he claims to escape and
carjacks into the disusscion a fantasized, academic Mahayana that does not
exist and has never existed.
Guess he thought people
So much media b.s. ...
Impeachment, a Bridge Too Far - Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website
http://buchanan.org/blog/impeachment-bridge-far-6570
http://buchanan.org/blog/impeachment-bridge-far-6570
Impeachment, a Bridge Too Far - Patrick J. Buchanan -...
Why that's no lie!
Come from Venus means microbes born of a Vagina.
Witney's bottom means microbes born from Uranus.
Proly, in reality, the aliens are massively formless, circulating swarms of
Microbiomes - new Mahayana Buddhas looking for suffering microbes to save.
Got sufferings?
Oh yeah ... endless repetition of bija-s - sometimes coordinated with the
in-breath/out-breath or both together. That is what passes as Tantric
meditation.
Nowadays, after MMY, all these Tantric gurus have been pushing effortless
observation of the mantra as the meditator goes Japa Japa
Balkanization Beckons
Speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Albuquerque in 2001, George W.
Bush declared that, as Mexico was a friend and neighbor, “It’s so important for
us to tear down our barriers and walls that might separate Mexico from the
United States.”
Bush
He appears bitter, jaded, sarcastic, cold and otherwise pretty miserable. Maybe
he needs to go out and get his stagnant blood flowing, take a big whiff of
something pungent or down a bottle of Gewurtztaminer.
♫ I am woman ... hear me bore ! ♫
I you proly hoot as you hover your broom - shriek
Dear Pandita Çur,
It ain't the broom or the bitch that is shrieking.
It is the effing cedilla in front of your pseudonym.
Or is that your colorectal-nym?
Yer not show much in the way of inventiveness. Finger it out phuul.
These traditions usually allow for one to become an acharya. However it is
doubtful that Maharishi ever even attained that status himself. Otherwise he
would have made swamis of teachers and we would have had the opportunity to
learn mantra shastra and thus set up our own meditation programs.
Yer an arrogant and sophomoric phuull - no matter how someone spells it.
Fairfieldlife Phuuls is just the place you should be.
Velcome homy.
Says the guy who claims the tantric master he met wouldn't initiate him because
he had renunciate proclivities. :-D
You shouldn't have found someone who would initiate you. What's learned from
books stays in books.
I don't know who this Tantric master yer talking about would be. WTF?
You
“The mantra is usually in Sanskrit, but George Harrison has stated that his is
an English word included in the lyrics of the Beatles' song I Am the Walrus.
I've listened to the walrus song but can't pick it out. See if you have better
luck . . .”
We have to listen phonetically to realize
“The mantra is usually in Sanskrit, but George Harrison has stated that his is
an English word included in the lyrics of the Beatles' song I Am the Walrus.
I've listened to the walrus song but can't pick it out. See if you have better
luck . . .”
We have to listen phonetically to realize
Perhaps Judy went into the bardo and has been viewing the mind-set of some
participants here. That in itself would give rise to renunciation.
Then again, viewing human life in general, with its endemic forms of coersion
and violence (expressed through countless types) would give pause to
That's a kârana upachakra not a mahâchakra. Doesn't count.
You are consigned to go back to the end of the food chain.
You either get sick and can't stand the mental-emotional state of I'm for -
I'm against or Yer a vicious, lying axe-murderer or you are dying and can't
be bothered.
Take yer pick.
Everyone is wasting time directing comments to Michael that go on and on trying
to contextualize his constant complaints or add comments that defend TM. The
fact is that many TM teachers were unjustly dealt with by the TMO. All you have
to remember is ATR - how it was promised to teachers,
Neti sez:
What did Adi Shankara say was the fastest method to Liberation in this Kali
Yuga?
Well Neti, you can’t even get a straight answer to a simple question.
You might note the comments upon your question. Not one of them quotes
Shankara directly because they only know about his
D.Ham sez:
But oh-oh: ..he worked extensively to refute the idea that the performance
of Vedic rites was necessary or even accessory to the realization of
BrahmÂtman.
What Adi Shankara does not do is declare the Vedic rites to be spiritually
useless. That was the claim of Gautama Buddha
dura oy' vey
Yeah, I hold it against him still -- might explain a few things, eh?
Yes, I can be petty.
Don't worry, you'll have the rest of this half-kalpa to indulge in your petty
inconsequencial smallness.
Be satisfied though - you'll have all that time to condemn everyone else,
Certainly,
Willy sez:
... just be aware of being aware.
You Can't Experience Awareness
You Can't Experience Awareness
You Can't Experience Awareness
http://www.shiningworld.com/top/files/satsang-1/%2831%29%20You%20Can%27t%20Experience%20Awareness.pdf
I was in Kansas City recently and saw a listing posted on a bulletin board in a
church there of places that are open to group meditations in the general
cross-border Kansas-Missouri region.
The Lady who got this going full bore is Janet Taylor. She is a student of
Surya Das and a former
Lawson sez:
L: In order for perception to be perception, there must be a physical nervous
system.
This is contradicted by the Vedanta and Yoga darshana-s, which both assert the
casual priority of the subtle body (sukhma sharira). That means there is
preservation and continuity of a
Pundit Prairie Dog Çur:
There are only foxes in foxholes.
Go figure.
Remember how W. and Chaney lied because there never were WMD's in Iraq? Heh
Heh.
Didn't you read the NYT article? They found over 5000 individual bombs and
artillery shells with mustard gas and sarin gas. They were NOT all found much
less destroyed before Barack Hussein Ebola ordered US
Good points Willy.
Over 5000 bombs and artillery shells with Sarin and Mustard gas found - so far.
Now owned by ISIS - the compassionate, the merciful.
Apparently that constitutes a Lie for this shill of the appeasers.
That also is true for thisshill of the TMO. Once a shill - forever a
Judicial Watch: Obama Plans to Transfer Ebola-infected Foreigners to U.S. for
Treatment
Washington, DC – Judicial Watch has learned that the Obama administration is
actively formulating plans to admit Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens into the
United States for treatment. Specifically,
Barry 2 opines:
My POV is that god and the universe(s) is just one big machine that we're
all a part of. And we're just along for the ride and button pressed to start
the ride in this amusement park was pressed billyuns and billyuns of years
ago. Sorry you can't change the route the ride
Go read the NYT article. It is a very good piece of writing that discloses the
testimony of numerous soldiers chemically exposed while trying to decommission
some of those WMD's. Most of what was found was mustard gas but some was Sarin
or VX gas. Many of the dual-mix chemicals in the canisters
More BS ...
Advaita Vedanta repudiates Vijñanavada and it's tenets. We have gone over this
before.
Kashmiri Shaiva teachings deviate from the Kevala Advaita of Shankara. They are
Tantra teachings only and although theoretically interesting, they lack the
uncompromising directness of
In 1995 I paid big $$$ for a TMO Shiva Yajña. It was for gittin Litemint.
I didn't feel much at the allotted time. Sure enough though, I'm now so fuckin
Litend, I'm like a Tantrik legend in my own mind.
Guess I must be the epee-tomee of an Litend Westerner. I'm even thinking about
changing my
You're such an angry and violent poster.
Last life you musta been a brown shirt in the Sturm Abteilung. To bad you
didn't survive the Night of the Long Knives. No wonder your lost faith.
Guess yer still missing those cobblestone streets and the glory they held. You
seem like you must still
Chan and Zen are not the same - as Willy should know but does not.
Chan is Chinese, Zen is Japanese and they each reflect the assumptions of
their own cultures. However, Chan is not only Chinese but is the distillation
of millennia of syntheses with other Buddhist traditions. Zen, on the other
The so called parallel between the results of practice means little because it
lacks specifics. That is the usual TMO mode of generalization, based as it is
upon proselytizing, but in this forum we are not the usual wide-eyed
suchophants. We would think that you could do better but as a
By the libertarian Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
http://www.foxnews.com/archive/andrew-napolitano
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/05/15/dog-whistle-to-left/?intcmp=obnetwork
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/05/15/dog-whistle-to-left/?intcmp=obnetwork
Barry practices the Viagrayana as described in the Second chapter of the
retranslated Shiva Slutras. It is the only vehicle (ekayana) he can grasp that
still has a stick that slots. Maybe that is why he gushes about it when it
works. It's not Buddhist though but that doesn't really matter
So good of you to give us the ultimate final revelation of who is at fault for
all the problems in this world. Gosh, I was s styoopid not to realize that
you were giving us the secret all along ... corporations.
No wonder the TMO is such a poison ... it is a corporate secret illuminatie
What B.S. Everyone dies suddenly and alone. One breath comes in and then it
goes out. When it doesn't return then we say that's it.
No matter how wonderful or how wreched you life, no matter how many beloved
family members surround you, you will be torn away from them agaist your will
and
Thank you for demonstrating my point so elegantly. I should print my post along
with your reply … it is indeed the very epi.toe.mee of an immortal.
“What me die? Lose everyone? Nah … never happen. Besides, you only go around
once – just like I’ve said before. Yep, get it while you can …
Don't worry. The elimination bots will clean out the organics. Other dozer bots
will push the rotting corpses into mass canyons dug just for them. It will be
more sanitized than the techniques of the einsatzgruppen. You could claim to be
a bot yourself and there certainly are folks here on FFL
You seem uneducated about the differences between an anagarika, a shamanera and
a bhikshu – even in the Theravada lineage.
Also, I seen no evidence that Govinda lived in retreat for 3 years, 3 months,
3 days to complete the traditional ngondro preparatory practices of 100
thousand
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
http://www.judgenap.com/index.php?post=another-week-of-government-lawlessness
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
http://www.judgenap.com/index.php?post=another-week-of-government-lawlessness
What if the federal government is shameless? What if it personifies the adage
of
Mindfulness is just a form of continuous mental recollection of the field of
subjective experience – whether sensations or mentations, whether body, senses
or mind. It can be quite exhausting as you suggest and probably is exhausting
for many beginners. As a method for repeated refocusing of
Judy you are quite correct.
This was how I was using the term: as in the Latin term recollctus.- gathering
back again or bringing back to conscious mind the previous point of attention.
This is really quite old stuff in the Roman Catholic contemplative tradition,
based as it is upon the
Judge Napo is a libertarian. If that makes him a fascist then you are a
neo-marxist terrorist. I need to give DHS your nom de guerre here on FFL to
the FBI so they can visit with you. You are probably on their
watch list anyway. Apparently they need to know you better ... as in the
biblical
The blog link on TM Mental Sinking is a hoot. Is is straight Gelugpa ideology
where fear of losing the object of attention causes them to try to grip it
tight and never lose it. This fear drives their practise of mantra-japa and
demonstrates why dhyana-samapatti is so admitedly difficult for
Mindfulness versus Vedantic awakening - the difference
Here is a discussion by James Swartz about the difference between the practice
of Buddhist Vipassana and its relationship to the Vedanta teachings about
awakening to one’s invariant witness-awareness.
Hope this helps clarify our
No doubt Barack Osama bin Halal is proly sending his FBI dicks to pick me up
show me the people's justice. However, I'll be hard to find since I'm in
Texass.
If they do find me I'll just shout out I know Bari2 from FFL. I'm sure their
faces will contort in fear when they hear your non de
So where did you learn practice Shikan taza for how long?
Apparently none of the posters on this thread read the short article by Swartz
about the difference between mindfulness and awakening to the innate awareness
that makes us what we are.
The actual discussion by James Swartz was about the difference between the
practice of Buddhist Vipassana
Welcome to our own Professor Prairie Dogus - scion of depthless, arrogant and
ill-informed knowledge. Why arrogant? Because someone who presents themselves
as knowledgeable without recognizing the temporality and incompleteness of
their presentation is either stupid or self-important.
In the Yoga Sutra-s, Patanjali clearly demarcates two equal realities.
Purusha and Prakrti are natively separate and don't require more separation to
clarify them. They are inherently unmixed and eternally unmixable.
Ashtanga yoga is the practice designed to foster viyoga - cognitive
I read parts of it in a bookstore a long time ago, in a reality far, far away.
I found it interesting to read but decided to not to purchase it. After 10
years of training, I was familiar with most of the ideas since they only
require unbiased examination of our physical and social environment
And only a guy with no sense of humour would have taken my idea seriously. Now
put 'em up.
I've been asked this question/statement/claim many times. As a comprehender of
the obvious, I hope you own a 12 gauge or 20 gauge pump shotgun, - for personal
safety sake. Of course there isn't any crime
Thanks for the heads-up.
I'm actually in Texas on FMLA Leave for two months. A family member was
involved in a head-on crash and fortunately survived without life-threatening
injuries. However, they need someone to be a care-giver for a while. I am
therefore staying here to help. That means I
As MMY used to point out:
Recollecting the mantra (boing, boing) is simple, natural remembering and does
not require some special or applied effort at recall. Therefore, the first
shift of attention from thinking/feeling/sensing is effortless because
remembering the mantra is
Authfriend:
Gee, in my understanding, you get only one bija mantra when you're initiated.
The advanced techniques aren't new bija mantras, they're actual Sanskrit words
that you use with your original bija mantra. Am I wrong? I have only one
advanced technique, and that was the case for me.
The superstitious are easily frightened. The ignorant readily terrified.
1. Barry's just has opinions ... that is all.
2. He makes stuff up just so he has topics to write about (this is his idea of
a rap.)
3. Barry, self-admittedly, lacks the capacity to discriminate truth from
fiction since in his opinion everything experienceable that can be described is
the
Very funny since you are one of the most arrogant posters here.
You continually interject your critiques of other people's posts and then
devise and attribute your chosen explanation about the poster's mal-intent.
You laud those you like, heckle those you don't and censure those who point out
No explanation for your persistent aggression except that it's my fault!
Finally - now it can be told ... you only post your incessant heckling toward
so many posters because I'm such an unpleasantly angry person.
Such power I feel.
Guru-Shmuru blah blah blah.
The word ‘Guru’ just signifies a spiritual mentor in Sanskrit based lineages.
There are ways to qualify a traditional guru in Indian and Tibetan lineages
(sampradaya-s) and training with a traditional spiritual mentor is an important
part of that definition.
Although called the religion of peace, al-islam is actually the religion of
submission. Islam is an Arabic word meaning submission and in the religious
context means submission to the will of God. Islam is derived from the
triliteral Arabic word sal’m which literally means peace
Unless you
I solemnly declare it to be true that there is no such thing as Truth.
I unconditionally, absolutely declare that only relative truth can be
declared or known.
Barry is aware. We possess the evidence here on FFL.
He may attempt to discredit that evidence by claiming that we cannot authentic
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