[FairfieldLife] Transcendence

2011-06-20 Thread Irmeli
I have been reading a newly published book on TM: Transcendence http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripboo\ ksfield-keywords=transcendencesprefix=transcendence , by Norman E. Rosenthal, a twenty year researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health in USA, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mental sinking and TM

2010-03-12 Thread Irmeli
in a feeling level to his emotions by intellectually distancing himself. More than anything else he would probably need to start seeing a psychotherapist, who could help him feel into his emotions in a healing way. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mental sinking and TM

2010-03-12 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Mar 12, 2010, at 6:02 AM, Irmeli wrote: Adam's description makes me think that he maybe incapable of naturally in a healing way contain the emotional releases TM- practice has activated in him. Through his

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mental sinking and TM

2010-03-12 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Irmeli wrote: The basic TM-technique is a rather gentle technique. If someone gets problems from paracticing it 20 minutes twice a day for a while, I find it likely that the person has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-02-02 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: Another

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-02-01 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Wilber's vertical-vs.-horizontal development scheme also makes excellent sense

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-02-01 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: Another conceptually more accurate way of understanding or conceptualizing this is that the more we can surrender our ego to the Self, the more we

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-02-01 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 waybac...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: Whose model of development are you using? I have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-01-31 Thread Irmeli
or classes only because an authority figure says so. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-01-31 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: Your ideas in this discussion are well intentioned. But there must be a reason why MMY insisted on practicing these siddhi techniques. I don't doubt this. Certainly there was a reason for it. An important one is that it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-01-31 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: There was in Grand Duchy of Finland (then part of Russia) a strange feller called Kuikka-Koponen (Abel Koponen, 1833 - 1890). It is told that some people saw him get *inside* a horse through its arsehole. He was claimed

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-01-31 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 waybac...@... wrote: Whose model of development are you using? I have for years now had keen interest in Ken Wilber's philosophy, and also other spiritual teacher's and scientists' thinking in those circles. I'm a member of Integral

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-01-31 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Wilber's vertical-vs.-horizontal development scheme also makes excellent sense to me, especially the notion that they aren't necessarily coordinated, i.e., that one can be further along in vertical development than one is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-01-30 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Personal insights, in one's own words, were always welcomed by the TM teachers I had. MMY's words were often cited, but never in the context of putting down a personal insight. Occasionally a personal insight would not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-01-29 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: John: Established in Yoga perform actions. Irmeli: This is of course deep

[FairfieldLife] Disengaging (was Re: Fwd: Vote for Consciousness-Based Education at Change.org)

2010-01-29 Thread Irmeli
perspectives you can contain and own in yourself. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Disengaging (was Re: Fwd: Vote for Consciousness-Based Education at Change.org)

2010-01-29 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Are you asserting that -legitimate- states of higher consciousness including God Consciousness and Unity Consciousness can be obtained with total disregard for the principles of Dharma? I don't fully get what you mean

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-01-28 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: Established in Yoga perform actions. This is of course deep wisdom, and MMY's intepretation of it is great. The problem is that these type of wisdom statements are not alone enough. Mostly not even, when combined to regular

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani

2010-01-27 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Established in bowing to authority, perform justifications. _ _ _ The question of whether *the actions of the authority figure in question* ever lived up to his *teachings* is never to be addressed. Like all

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on Raja Ram

2010-01-24 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Cool, I guess. If what you are looking for in a leader is someone who allows himself to be dressed up like a Ken doll in a dress and crown, be called the king of an imaginary country, and feels it necessary to hide

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on Raja Ram

2010-01-24 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: Irmeli, if I am not mistaken, you long ago divorced yourself from the TMO. So, your admiration seems a little hollow. I think those who have committed their lives to this knowledge, likely feel differently

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on Raja Ram

2010-01-24 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 waybac...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: As to the Global Country of World Peace I do perceive a referent to it in the very subtle domains. If you feel free to say so, exactly what

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on Raja Ram

2010-01-24 Thread Irmeli
Hmm. I didn't realize this was such a subtle thing. For me it's just a shift in perception, like deciding to tune in on a different conversation while at a noisy party. I've always called it the party line, a reference to the time when telephony was very expensive. An entire

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on Raja Ram

2010-01-23 Thread Irmeli
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_re...@... wrote: This is wonderful news, he's getting closer and closer to leading a normal life. If he could extend his daily routine with a trip to a local cafe with his family, or maybe descend into the subway and rub shoulders with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dan Brown's next novel is based on the TM movement

2009-10-29 Thread Irmeli
signs of own independent thinking. They are shamed by being relegated down in the hierarchy, by being put Off The Program. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bliss

2008-06-15 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
or other said about bliss being bondage merely shows that they have never experienced the bright white purifying fire, and they think it is a game. If they ever encounter it in reality, they will likely go mad because they are not ready for it. I agree with this. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bliss

2008-06-15 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
are capable of receiving at each moment. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bliss

2008-06-14 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
energetically easy, but I claim that it would have been impossible had I not had consciously available plenty of subtle energies sensed as bliss. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Dogma ?

2008-05-18 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
voted for him, and now you are responsible for the consequences? This is what I understand you to be explaining here. Irmeli --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Who here still believes

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Dogma ?

2008-05-18 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
authorship for this war, he will get to heaven for so dutifully obeying God's will? Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Dogma ?

2008-05-18 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
be spontaneously morally, emotionally, and psychosexually much more responsible persons. I personally don't consider a person enlightened if he/she is not spontaneously capable of responsible behavior of high standards. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Elevated Eye Pressure

2008-05-16 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
read at age 57 even tiny texts without glasses. Irmeli

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-11 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
I agree fully with what you write below. However that is not the perspective I want to bring forth here. It is useful to look at complex issues from many perspectives. If we can hold simultaneously many perspectives, we get closer to the truth. Irmeli --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-06 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Irmeli, your question is right on the money. Hitler was schooled in Le Bon's 1895 The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. It is still a good source for how social engineering is done. Young Dove recently

[FairfieldLife] FW: A university where everyone meditates.

2008-03-06 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
A university where everyone meditates. If you are having problems viewing this email, please click here to view the web version. Be sure to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to your address book list to ensure future email deliveries. Enjoying this note? Please forward it on!

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hagen J. Holtz hagen.j.holtz@ wrote: Irmeli said: Practically every time

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: Hi Angela! I also know personally some Muslims or former Muslims, who have come as refugees to Finland, and they are truly fine people. E.g

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-05 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
, but it is hugely better than in the east. It is worst in the Muslim culture, but not much better in India, China, Tibet etc. The Tibetan word woman, means 'born low'. The Purusha men probably have been in their attitudes been strongly influenced by the Indian culture. Irmeli --- In FairfieldLife

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-04 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
does to their girls, even if he does not accept this doing. This is truly convoluted reasoning. In every interview so far I have perceived some similar sort fundamental errors in their conceptual reasoning. Did you ever discuss these kinds of matters with those young men? Irmeli

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-04 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hagen J. Holtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Irmeli said: Practically every time they (the nuslims) publicly say something, they make themselves just ridiculous, and show that their capacity to formal operational thinking, or abstract conceptual thinking

Irmeli: (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium)

2008-03-04 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
truths of the doctrine.The same problem is in other religions. Although questioning is in them usually easier. The sanctions of doing it are not so horrifying. Irmeli --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, Irmeli, I have discussed female mutilation

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium

2008-03-03 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu buttsplicer@ wrote: Its a fantastic tool to understanding how people come to religion. Why

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium

2008-03-02 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
not read any books of Marx. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium

2008-03-02 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
of her father’s resistance. Now I understand better why there has been in Iran demands to lower the age, when girls can get married, to 9 years! I think it is at present 13 years, although I’m not quite sure. Even that means to us westerners pedophilia! Irmeli --- In FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium

2008-03-02 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
they are in their cognitive development. And I consider their beliefsystems to be the cause of their backwardness. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion as Opium

2008-03-02 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
but described them very differently. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Religion as Opium

2008-03-01 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
the important function of a helping us to connect to our depth, or the collective depth and creating values to follow. But this area has also severe defects and pitfalls. The most severe of them is the intense fight against opening their own box of worms of ultimate truths to inquiry. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter to NPR re Commentary on Maharishi's Death

2008-02-10 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
, although focusing mainly on his relationship with the Beatles. Today in the local newspaper there was a beautiful picture from the funeral at Vlodrop. Irmeli --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Jim Greenfield: I just sent the following email to NPR

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi drops the body

2008-02-06 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
! This is interesting. A baby son, their first born, was born to my older son and his wife yesterday Feb 5, 2008 in the afternoon Finnish time. Irmeli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi drops the body

2008-02-06 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Angela Mailander wrote: A man

[FairfieldLife] Re: I Hate 55%off FFL Posts by Three Posters. Give them time-outs?

2006-09-22 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
that would interest me. Apparently I cannot use the new system of following the threads effectively. For example for this thread I didn't easily find the starting post I'm now responding to. Irmeli To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-18 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: I just cannot see the speech as offensive. The quotation becomes offensive only, when it is taken out of the context of the whole

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intellect

2006-09-18 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
to be objective and in charge, when really it's just a lackey for the heart. Irmeli: Intellect is not lying, we lie if we use it to cover up something. Intellect just IS as you point out in the end of your writing. However there are huge differences in our capacity to use the intellect. It is very

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
to be fine. I have never before read a speech by a pope, and got very positively surprised. I'm not a Christian. Irmeli To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:31 AM, Irmeli Mattsson wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: The current conflict continues as long as the West thinks that by killing enough

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: snip In my opinion the pope addresses this issue in the speech relatively tactfully by a quotation of the issue that he sees

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Imagine the wrath of Christians if a non- Christian were

[FairfieldLife] The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-15 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html Irmeli To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group

[FairfieldLife] Re: Question on suitability of experiences

2006-08-23 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: From the idea that enlightened states of consciousness

[FairfieldLife] Re: Question on suitability of experiences

2006-08-23 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: From the idea that enlightened states of consciousness are STATES

[FairfieldLife] Re: Question on suitability of experiences

2006-08-23 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson

[FairfieldLife] Re: Question on suitability of experiences

2006-08-22 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
deteriorate, when they get old. MMY's behavior has for some time shown clear signs of his deteroriating brainfunctioning (which is of course natural considering his respectably high age). Irmeli To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name//now - The threat of Bliss

2006-07-04 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: Well, I may not be enlightened, but due to Maharishi's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name//now - The threat of Bliss

2006-07-04 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: When I read your responses, I get now, as I have got earlier too the impression, that you work very hard internally, to not to understand

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name//now - The threat of Bliss

2006-07-03 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
in spite of its weaknesses. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-22 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Again, I'd suggest that what you're calling hair- splitting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-22 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip One more time: You might want to ask yourself why you feel

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-21 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-20 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Judy:I can think of quite a few people that I don't understand

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-20 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: snip P.S.When I read your posts I have quite often got the impression that you excersice hairsplitting to divert attention away from

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-20 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
they are frobidden in Indian caste system. When people from different cultural backgrounds marry more challenges are to be expected than usual. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-20 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
to be crucial to a society. And as societies evolve we are getting away from suppressive dominator hierarchies. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-20 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
tendencies. Also democracy works much better, when people in general are well educated. Good educations provides better means of making one's own judgements. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor

[FairfieldLife] Love Chooses You (was Re: Illusion of individuality; labels; true bhakti; the s

2006-03-19 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
to speak your truth here, for all to see. You are great. And no one ridiculed Jim for doing that. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-19 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: snip MMY says here: Those who do not know, they can say anything. Like a mad man, they can say anything. I think he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-19 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: snip he clearly is getting old and senile. Usually the nearest

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-19 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-18 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
. Usually the nearest people protect the elderly person from this kind of humiliation. I guess MMY has no one near him, who really cares about him. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope

[FairfieldLife] Re: Self-doubt and cynicism vs. profound trust - the role of surrender as the fo

2006-03-13 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
is, I have never felt myself to be suffering during this journey. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Self-doubt and cynicism vs. profound trust - the role of surrender as the fo

2006-03-13 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I still believe that it owes a lot to Buddhism... That's a stretch. Many translations of the First Noble Truth have it as Life

[FairfieldLife] Re: Self-doubt and cynicism vs. profound trust - the role of surrender as the fo

2006-03-13 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
to the University Hospital and there they immediately realized it was the medication that caused his suffering. They stopped the medication and after one week he was much better, and after two weeks again at home. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern

[FairfieldLife] Re: Self-doubt and cynicism vs. profound trust - the role of surrender as the fo

2006-03-13 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk claudiouk@ wrote: The really problematic dimension of suffering is not personal (if one can indeed become detached from internal desire or aversion

[FairfieldLife] Re: Self-doubt and cynicism vs. profound trust - the role of surrender as the fo

2006-03-13 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: One emotion there is however that I don't easily experience and that is getting hurt of something someone says to me. Often I may

[FairfieldLife] Re: Self-doubt and cynicism vs. profound trust - the role of surrender as the fo

2006-03-12 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
of realization I had at age 16, that I have described more in details many times here at FFL Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA

[FairfieldLife] Re: Self-doubt and cynicism vs. profound trust - the role of surrender as the fo

2006-03-12 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
as perfect, because he is trying in that way to make his dream of being perfect to be true. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA

[FairfieldLife] Re: Self-doubt and cynicism vs. profound trust - the role of surrender as the fo

2006-03-12 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: snip Although I think that also God makes mistakes and learns through and from them. Question on this one point: By what standard can

[FairfieldLife] What is art? (was Re: What is Spirituality?)

2006-03-10 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bhakti is that thing that t3rinity thinks that Michael Dean Goodman practices, and that he blasted Irmeli for attacking when she criticized MDG's logic. The fact that, AFAIK, neither MDG or Irmeli ever used the word

[FairfieldLife] What is art? (was Re: What is Spirituality?)

2006-03-10 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
your dander up. :-) :-) :-) I just thought it might be too lengthy for me to bother to read it. Let's see now. At least earlier he has not had the same appalling problems of in communication as t3rinty has. irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Illusion of individuality; labels; true bhakti; the story of Guru Dev and hi

2006-03-10 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
. Irmeli --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THE STRUGGLE OF INDIVIDUALITY TO PERPETUATE ITS ILLUSION I feel compassionately sad whenever I meet those who still cling to the idea that their individuality (individual intellect) can guide them

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Course Fees and The Real Goals of the Movement

2006-03-09 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson

[FairfieldLife] Should Bhakti be beyond criticism? (was TM Course Fees and The Real Goals )

2006-03-08 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: snip Generally I dislike in this post the tone of idealizing one person's work, and the egoistic approach of trying to make his work

[FairfieldLife] Re: Should Bhakti be beyond criticism? (was TM Course Fees and The Real Goals )

2006-03-08 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Course Fees and The Real Goals of the Movement

2006-03-07 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
. Improving the position of women could do wonders. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beatles angels on earth

2006-02-20 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: You've browsed the CHopra website and approve of what you find

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beatles angels on earth

2006-02-19 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
is there I possibly couldn't accept, so I'll check it out. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beatles angels on earth

2006-02-18 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beatles angels on earth

2006-02-18 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: I think the vehemence is actually envy. Sparaig: Perhaps, or perhaps you're projecting your own feelings

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beatles angels on earth

2006-02-18 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
. But I appreciated a lot of the Vedic philosophy he, and his co-workers, brought out. The philosophy I have mainly felt to be fine. But not MMY's fundamentalist approach to it, neither his way of managing the movement. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Value of Tradition

2006-02-17 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
Irmeli: I also feel it to be quite appropriate to create your own combination of old traditions, by taking from different traditions, what you feel to valuable in them. Moose: Thats fine. Just be careful in not assuming the same terms mean the same things across traditions. Lots

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beatles angels on earth

2006-02-17 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
the movement treated him. I think the vehemence is actually envy. Irmeli Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM

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