It is amazing what outrages are expressed on this forum in mindless,
knee-jerk judgments. Peter made a casual, facetious remark, followed
by more of the same after he could see his manifest results -
writhing egos, red faces and flapping lips. He must be laughing his
ass off at the
is also found in the
Tibetan Vajrayana (originally called Mantrayana) and was discussed by
Lama Khenchen Thrangu, Tibetan Khempo and tutor to HH the 17th Karmapa.
emptybill
westerners feel more at ease or as if there is no form corresponding
to the sound (of the bija) that they'd have to worry about.
Emptybill says:
So Vaj help me out. Are you simply saying that Bronte's explanation
accords with Aurobindo and the TMO? Because saying it accords with
Vaishnava explanations
emptybill wrote:
Over the years I have heard an argument professed by
some former TM meditators who stopped practicing because
they claimed they were deceived about the meaning
of mantra-s.
Empty again:
Baba Hari Dass is an impeccable yogin possessed of vairagya and
dispossessed of any
not sure if I've seen that yet.
Good job. Hope more folks around here can pick up on it.
Emptybill
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uh, no. You mean Shankara, of course, not
Patanjali.
In any case, a penchant for debate about the
validity
, as an editor, might find this mode of
presentation to be contra-instinctual for a trained English reader.
However, rather than just dismissing it, tell me why you might find
it confusing or irritating.
emptybill
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
YS III. 18:
By bringing into direct perception the subliminal-impressions, there
is knowledge of the earlier births.
translation of the Yogasutra-s by T.S. Rukmani for the
Yogavarttika of Vijnanabhiksu and the Yogasutrabhasyavivarana of
Shankara
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Functionalist Buddhist Tantra or Structuralist Hindu Tantra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mystical Sadhu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have descriptions of experiences, perceptions resulting
from
raising the kundalini through the various chakras?
Classic descriptions as well
Here he is again, our Lard - and him crucified.
Yep, it's comforting for me to know that he not only took away all
our sins (even though we are damnable abominations in his eyes) but
he is Himself the Great Abortionist.
Since spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) comprise about 10-50% of
all
Many times we speak here on FFL from our conceptual assumptions, much of
which we carry around based upon reading books about spiritual theory
and practice. The obvious fact is that we are not scholars. No reason we
should have to apologize for that fact but on the other hand our
assumptions can
About YS III.37 -
Card: please note that the sutra in question is #37 not 38. All my
translations are the same in the numbering sequence. You apparently have
an extra sutra in your edition, either by addition or bifurcation.
YS III.37: te samaadhaav upasargaa vyutthaane siddhayaH
They
Hi Trinity,
Welcome back to krodha-dama.
We get to hear claims here from time to time about lineages - along
with various references to yogic insider knowledge. Most of it is
nothing but mere claims, usually based upon a favored explanation given
by some teacher who is rooted in a particular
Card,
What is this all about?
Gaudiya Vaishvavas are well known for their virulent and doctrinare
theological views. Not all are like that although most are like that
only times x 2.
Thus your point is??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@
wrote:
It has been brought up before that all too often people attempting
to view their past lives will conclude that they were someone famous.
Emptybill:
This generalization is an old but undeserved criticism because it is
nothing
Vaj claims:
He (Maharishi) took it away from himself when he declared that TM was
NOT effortless
it is easy but then so are many, many other
meditation methods.
Any real yogi familiar with Patanjali will be well aware that as long as
there are supports (alambanas) there will always be some
Erik wrote:
SaaMkhya-suutras: any takers?
Anyone know, why are saaMkhya-suutras thought to be written as late
as 14th or 15th century A.D?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Willytex:
Sage Patanjali, who compiled the 'Yoga
TurqB
I can appreciate your feelings of frustration about the gossamer-like
quality of moral/ethical choice.
However, as a side note, your definitions for morality and ethics and
your contrast between them seems to be the reverse of the usual
attributions of these terms to human behavior. You
An absurd story for gullible westerners by other sentimental
westerners. If MMY wanted to follow his guru in death all he had to
do was jump into any funeral fire or any sacred river to perform
sadhu-sati. Just remember the story of how shocked Alexander the
Great's troops were when the Indian
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Empty wrote:
An absurd story for gullible westerners by other sentimental
westerners. If MMY wanted to follow his guru in death all he had to
do was jump into any funeral fire or any sacred river to perform
Vaj:
In some practitioners of the TMSP, what yogins are finding is
exacerbation of the karmic nadis and entrapment in non-bindu
resolving routes. Left unresolved and not re-routed to the central
channel the prognosis is for lifetimes of suffering, and a downward
turn on the wheel of samsara is
If you go back and follow your link to the wiki page, then go down to
the last three (3) lines just above the references section at the
bottom, you will see the following information:
According to 2002 data:[14]
· The number who have ever been born is 106,456,000,000
· The world
Helen Wambaugh did a lot of data gathering using a simple
recollection technique in large groups over a couple of years. She
obtained past-life recall memories for 30,000+ people. The
overwhelming response she catalogued does not fit our usual
prejudgments bases upon the self-deluded musings
Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati was a renunciate in Adi-Shankara's
monastic order - known as dashanami sampradaya. The name sampradaya
dasha-nami means lineage of ten names, each name refering to a
specific designation. Paramahansa Yogananda's guru, Sri Yukteshvar was
a dashanami with the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure it was 30,000 people, more like 1,000,
at least from what I found on the Web.
In any case, her findings were quite striking in
a number of respects. She had apparently set out to
*disprove*
Rime Shedrub Ling Tibetan Buddhist CentersAnd Younge Khachab
RinpocheWarmly welcome you to attend our annual summer Dzogchen
RetreatJuly 13th 17th, 2007 in Madison, Wisconsin Ka Gye Deshek
Dupa
The transmission of the Eight Vidyadharas
And teachings on the Seven Nails of Shri Singha
The Ka Gye
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did a process through the art of living (SSRS) that
helps you unstress impressions from previous
lifetimes. It was pretty interesting.
I have not done SSRS's eternity process although I have talked with
teachers who have
Help me Obewan.
I was reading through a few posts and since I'm new to the forum I
just couldn't figure out who this swami-g was. I clicked on a link
provide by a sidha7001 and it took me to a website with a picture
of some pujari doing an agni-hotra. The pujari's ritual looked nice
but I was
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:52 PM, emptybill wrote:
Fact is, folks here are householders and therefore are not very
knowledgeable about how both men and women monastics view themselves
and the world. Swami g-spot is taking advantage of this to make her
proclamations. Swami
How about this from your flesh-cowl?
Om Bhaishajye Bhaishajye Maha-Bhaishajye
Bhaishajya-rajaya samudgate swaha
At that time, wishing to put an end to all these
various sicknesses and sufferings, and to supply whatever those
beings sought after, the World Honored One entered a samadhi
Dangerous to you perhaps - except that you are saved through the
weakness of wishful thinking from your own malice.
See message 142401 for a dharani mantra and a better way.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tertonzeno [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
My recommendation: work with energy fields
Vaj is a bomb thrower and just thinks this will stir up someone here.
Funny how he invokes a materialist to give rationalistic arguments
as a kick against a straw dog like vedic science. There are many
Indians in the US trained in the medical field who think like this
and blindly accept a hard
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi e-Bill:
On Jun 29, 2007, at 7:21 AM, emptybill wrote:
Vaj is a bomb thrower and just thinks this will stir up someone
here.
Vaj replied:
Curious you would have so much aversion to the topic so as to see
even aspire to enlightenment - their goal is seva and
devotion to a Personal God, not liberation from God
while yet living. Bhaktas aspire to Brahma-loka when
they die.
Emptybill:
After Shankara's Gita commentary, devotion was not discussed much in
advaita literature until Madhusudhana
Does just hearing the words five to seven years get you raging?
Feeling that your head was cut-off just before you got your sip o' soma?
Want to smash some shiva lingams when hearing the word mantra?
Tired of being solicited by anti-cult therapists on FFL for your final
thou$and?
No longer do
(= every) form having those (elements) as condition.
(end of quote)
Emptybill claims there's no ness in emptyness.
Cardmaister
Why are you still using Taimni's old english translation rather than
the newer more accurate ones of Feuerstein or T.S.Rukmaini?
Any particular reason?
Just wondering.
emptybill
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
II 33
vitarka
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@
wrote:
Empty, I have been catching up on your posts. I like them.
This topic is intersting. Some cosideration:
1) Yogananda wrote of his teacher returning
Barry,
Just to let you know, I really enjoyed reading your vignette about
searching in the dark alleyways of your medieval town. However,
rather than emailing you in the normal timeline, I have been waiting
to send a thank you. You did send me a teethy little reply to some
post I wrote a week
snip
SSRS said a couple of things that stuck with me. Paraphrasing Don't
take life too seriously. It all doesn't matter Sort of a nihilistic
approach -- but in a good way :) Also Don't Strive! Just drop it
Thus perhaps leading to a conclusion that there is not meaning in life
-- life is
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, qntmpkt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
---thanks, so overall; what are some advantages of Buddhism over
Shankara, if anything?
I think you have been around long enough to know that you must answer
this for yourself.
However, you might also consider a
This is not a definition but rather an interpretation.
Try faithfulness' ... a present-tense definition of shraddha.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
I've found an interesting alternative definition:
Willingness to surrender to dharma
--- In
The Shank tradition for Vaj is Vidyaranya.
But he claim to be a dzogchen yogi so it doesn't
matter who he says is an authority. He reads books
and goes to webinars and teachings of Tibetans.
He has no guru-s or sampradaya.
He thinks of himself as the nor'easter Eckhart Tolle.
He makes this shit
Angels are merely a Semitic notion.
There are no angels in the Veda-s, Purana-s or Tantra-s.
Angelos means messenger in Greek, in other words
a news-bearer - not even a messenger of a god.
In Hebrew, mal'akh yhvh means messenger of yhvh.
That is all.
Fergit the notion that deva-s are angels.
Vaj:
Give me some Don Juan Matus anytime over becoming
the latest self-proclaimed Super-Rishi or Raja.
Vaj quotes a fictional character from the Canteñada books
to nail down his arguments. So is this guy a bull-shitter or not?
I think troll sums it up.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj
Erhe Heisst Treue - My Honor is my Loyalty.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
This is not a definition but rather an interpretation.
Try faithfulness' ... a present-tense definition
A mahaa-mantra like om namaH Shivaaya or om namo naraayanaaya
would be simple. However it is the instructions for use that require
interactions with a teacher.
This is true even for a simple mahaa-mantra.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:
On 06/07/2011 04:12
say some prayers.
Maybe you won't just fade to nothing.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:00 PM, emptybill wrote:
Vaj:
Give me some Don Juan Matus anytime over
and claimed he had
charged them
with shakti so they would work by someone just reading it. I suspect
the majority that tried a mantra out of a book though found it boring
after a few repetitions and never tried it again.
On 06/07/2011 08:48 PM, emptybill wrote:
A mahaa-mantra like om namaH Shivaaya
Let's see ... who could this point to here on FFL? Hmmm ...
Brahma-Rakshasa are fierce demon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon
spirits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit , as per Hindu mythology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_mythology . It is actually the
spirit of a Brahmin
Jah vohl ... und vie haf vays to make yu talk!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote:
Hey Curtis, my responses below:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
Rather try the Outer Kalachakra Tantra with the commentaries of Dolpopa.
He was also the founder of Tibetan ShenTong Madhyamaka tradition.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote:
IMO, the human physiology is the living system
that reflects the effects of the
You're talking stupid conjecture again Willy.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote:
IMplicit in MMY's theory of 7 states of consciousness is
the fact that there's no end-point to growth, and therefore
there's no such thing as the 7th state...
Radhanath Swami holds a position on the ISKCON GBC the governing
board of the Hari K's.
While what he opines is somewhat less doctrinaire than other members, in
truth he can still only spout ISKCON`s brand of Gaudiya theology.
His responses are comparable to someone at a high level in the
Slavery is the Highest Enlightenment: the story of O mmm.
by Anarkhia Philosophos, Hierodule Publications, 2009
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@... wrote:
Any good reading suggestions for the summer - fiction or non?
Discriminations and exclusions are acceptable for religious
institutions, since many are privately funded.
There is wiggle room in the definitions for exclusions.
MIU is not described as a religious institution.
However, who has the $$$ to challenge it anyway?
Who even cares?
--- In
Yeah, right on!
Like J.F. K. or somethin'!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:
Certainly not if he starts WWIII shortly. What the hell does he think
he is doing in Libya? He's breaking the law. If it were Bush
everyone
would screaming. And if Obama starts
Can we take our own future enlightenment as our ishta-devataa
(meditation deity) in this lifetime?
One of the definitions of final enlightenment (samyak.sam.bodhi) is
omniscience (sarva-jñana) and supremacy over all states of existence.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 3.49 says:
Only one discerning
?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:
On 06/16/2011 08:18 PM, emptybill wrote:
Can we take our own future enlightenment as our ishta-devataa
(meditation deity) in this lifetime?
One of the definitions of final enlightenment (samyak.sam.bodhi
It's been that way in Catholic monasteries in the US for 25-30
years. I found this out back in the late 90's when I went on a forum
of ex-monastics from different traditions. Apparently many monstics (not
all) believed that as long as there was no penetration then it was not
sex. Men and women
You're so right. Why try and change TM'ers?
You would be happier posting on some other forum.
Find another one where some one will care what you say.
Here you just a buffoon typing your meaningless opinions.
Remember? ... You're a self-professed bullshitter.
It's all just opinions and
Effort ... isn't that what TM-Sidhi practice finally amounts to in
reality?
American Heritage Dictionary: Definition of effort ...
1. The use of physical or mental energy to do something; exertion.
2. A difficult exertion of the strength or will.
3. A usually earnest attempt.
4. Something done
It's because you live in a republic, rather than a state.
Since you might take your republic back from the
un-United States, their only defense is to make fun of Texas.
I say plant land mines along the border about a 1/4-mile
inland and let the lost chihuahau-s sort it out with the coyotes.
thoughts that he takes to be real.
He does not doubt himself, so it is all just a form of
performance theater.
By your definition that would make him a true bull-shitter.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill
Thanks for posting the link. Interesting story.
However, you scared the FFL immortals.
Morbidity is for the illusioned.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote:
TUK THAM: Living on in the body after having died:
So how were the beds - Vaj?
Self-inflating under high pressure?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:59 AM, maskedzebra wrote:
I think everything to do with Werner extremely problematic, and the
effect on the mind of his seminars (now
All the major commentaries define II.47 as the release of effort and
tension once a posture is attained. Posture is the context for this
sutra and includes Patanjali's discussion of meditation upon ananta
(the endless) as another means to actualize the settled state of asana.
Vyasa, Shankara and
Sanskrit bija mantras are based upon recitation of the
Sanskrit alphabet with its five points of articulation.
The bija mantra OM is not contained in the rig-veda,
so it must be totally invalid.
OM was obviously a contraction of OMG, which is why Patanjali
considered it the originary root-sound
technique for mere $300-500. However, MMY wanted
the money.
Imagine that.
.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
What you may be missing is that the practice of sanyama
What BS you are talking Chaim. That life is over, so start over.
Your not on your stage any more.
Baba Haridas performed them when he need something done,
like using the strength sutra in samaapatti before
helping the laborers move large rocks while building temples.
He now lives and teaches in
Chaim yer takin' b.s. again. Are you still on stage?
Your statement about the West is obstructively Euro-centric (and Roman
Catholic at that). Get out your prayer shawl `cause them goy-s is
tired of your Ashkenazi theologizing.
There is more to the Western culture than you seem to
Vaj is a concern troll posting here to convert us styoopid TM
meditators so we will take up his brand of cross-eyed joka.
WTF? Why expect something else?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
On
All you Texas bashing bigots ... wake up and 'rouse about.
The dawn of Brahman Consciousness, as a trans-conceptual
unity of opposite states, was not revealed by MMY.
It was unconcealed in fullness in 1952 in Texas as a footnote to the
Brahma Sutra-s.
Let the record stand corrected.
Read it
I sent an email reply to your return address as suggested.
However, since you don't check it much, I'm noting it here
just to let you know.
Nothing too special, just some follow-up.
emptybill
This is just a styoopid paraphrase of Arnaud Amaury famous quote during
the crusade against the Albisengian Cathars - i.e. when his men could
not
distinguish between the Catholics and Cathars.
He commanded: Kill them all, God will know his own.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer
Willy, can't you do better than this?
It is full of the usual generalizing platitudes and says nothing about
the approaches of Soto and Rinzai, much less about Mo-Zhao versus
Kung-An practice. You don't even explain the differences.
Actual practitioners of sitting-zen (zazen) seem to find a
A loka is a world, a place of unified experience for all the
inhabitants.
A dwipa is an island, and represents the various geographic and
cosmological zones our brahmanda surrounded by different strata
of substances in the purana-s.
Jana loka is considered a rebirth location for beings with
Yep, them ol' hindoo demons are out to destroy us all. Why, if you say
one of their man-truh names jus' once they'll seize yer soul.
It's only the luckiest souls that will get to join the demons as
their slaves in hell. The other souls, weakened by concupiscence, will
be sucked dry and perish
While they may in fact require no more strenuous practice than
TM'ers re-introducing their mantra to their mind.
Yep, we're getting so old that it's no longer good enough that
we were introduced to our meditation mantra way back when.
Yep, we can't be practicing correctly if we simply remember
Yep, nice set of questions and assertions.
However, it is even more convoluted than that because Aquinas was an
Aristotelian. He depended upon that particular type of externalized
thinking and could therefore declare everything else to be a matter of
subjective experiences of a natural order.
These posts are a hoot.
It's a mental midget's attempt to define
the real nature of mantra, Mahayana,
meditation, transcending, and reality itself.
Gotta laugh at the hubris.
Keep 'em going, Willy.
We gotta be entertained by somepin'.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Vaj has no explaining to do at all.
Since he makes this stuff up, there is no explanation.
He cannot cite his guru-s or sampradaya. He has none.
He reads books and apparently goes to webinars for his ideas.
Here a 2005 FFL post about Vaj:
Vaj is interested in many things, TM obviously not
reading it.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardjwilliamstexas
willytex@... wrote:
emptybill:
It's a mental midget's attempt to define
the real nature of mantra, Mahayana,
meditation, transcending, and reality
itself...
So, where does the tradition of meditation
on 'bija
:
emptybill:
Bija mantra-s are the phonemes of oral,
chanted Sanskrit.
So, we are agreed.
Each of these phonemes has the appropriate
anusvara added to it (which if chanted like
Brahmana-s do in the appropriate manner)
turns it into a bija-mantra. If you had the
time/place in the past
Oh so sorry but you're been given the con's own definition.
There is no transcending defined in Buddhist meditation - which is the
source lineage for Alan Wallace's concentration training. The Sanskrit
word used by Buddhism is shamataa, from Sanskrit shama or calm plus
the Sanskrit word ending
Judy,
You would be spinning your wheels like the other speculators here. There
is no relationship, whether actual or imagined between the various
strata of the Vedic system and any form of Christian theology.
Christian theology developed as various layers of Hellenic polytheism
were grafted
Oh so sorry but you're been given the con's own definition.
There is no transcending defined in Buddhist meditation - which is the
source lineage for Alan Wallace's concentration training. The Sanskrit
word used by Buddhism is shamataa, from Sanskrit shama or calm plus
the Sanskrit word ending
, at 6:04 PM, emptybill wrote:
Oh so sorry but you're been given the con's own definition.
There is no transcending defined in Buddhist meditation - which is
the source lineage for Alan Wallace's concentration training. The
Sanskrit word used by Buddhism is shamataa, from Sanskrit shama
?
..
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jul 9, 2011, at 8:25 PM, emptybill wrote:
You're just a bullshit con here, Vag.
Thanks for the ad hominem, it add SO much to already non-existent
logic!
The words sama-dhi and sam-aa-dhi are different
in your
pretend vast expanse.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:36 PM, emptybill wrote:
You are wasting our time Vag.
Another ad hominem. Sheesh.
I'm beginning to think emptybill is really an empty person
Amusing Chaim. You say Who?
but also who cares about such things ...
That only means I don't care about such things.
Why not just say that?
Aren't you still trying to get people to search for
the rabbit you appeared to pull from your top-hat?
The Palace of Occultism is destroyed.
Your former
, there is nothing that makes you what you are but quaint
chimeras.
Welcome to life-never-lasting.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:36 PM, emptybill
in both Theravada
and in the standard Tibetan Mahayana shamataa of Asanga.
..
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardjwilliamstexas
willytex@... wrote:
emptybill:
Calmness is not the same as state of least
excitation...
It's Tibetan, Bill, from the Tantras, not from
Judy,
I don't know about you but I don't get paid very much to talk to Barry.
Seems like his posts are too transparently ego-bound to be very
significant to anyone but a few posters. I only get $5.00 per post for
him but, then again, I think you are using most of the available funding
for having
:
On Jul 10, 2011, at 7:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:36 PM, emptybill wrote:
You are wasting our time Vag.
Another ad hominem. Sheesh.
I'm beginning to think emptybill is really an empty person.
I'm
willytex@... wrote:
emptybill:
I have practiced Trungpa's style of shamataa and was
not impressed when compared to TM dhyana...
So, we are agreed.
The Sakyong Mipham uses bija mantras in the Shambhala
training. Maybe when you were there, the Trungpa
thought you were to advanced already
Quite funny
good shot!
But you'd think with a rupee to dollar exchange rate of 44 to 1 and the
cell-phone video technology so cheap he could get some Dravidian
hierodules to emulate the apsaras. You know
the old Hey,
let's play Kamasutra tonight.
.
--- In
The smell of shit was obviously enough to attract you.
Guess you are just a shit-eating maggot.
Loving it like you do, why worry about the bardo?
Isn't your own shit good enough anymore?
Guess the shit always smells better in the other
pile.
You are a real philosopher.
Heh. Heh.
--- In
Bill
Yours is a natural question for anyone trying to understand what a
meditation mantra actually is.
However you have cited only one attempt to explain how to produce the
sounds of these bija mantra-s. Even if you cited many different people,
without knowing how to pronounce Sanskrit this
. You may find it a mere iteration of what you already know but it
never hurts of hear it again.
Now I think I'll go have a beer.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, William Parkinson ameradian2@...
wrote:
Richard and Emptybill: Given my rudimentary knowledge
To bad for you.
You missed Plotinus and the other Platonists that
followed him until Justinian closed the academy.
No wonder you don't believe in this stuff.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, William Parkinson ameradian2@...
wrote:
Now I understand!! Well, my own
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