[FairfieldLife] FYI - Dzogchen Direct Instructions

2009-09-05 Thread billy jim
October 23-25 New York City Younge Khachab Rinpoche Returns to New York City October 23rd through the 25th Friday 4-6pm 15 minutes Private Interviews with Rinpoche Friday October 23rd : 6-8pm Buddhism Beyond the Basics:  Free public talk -open to all Explore Buddhism philosophy and meditation

[FairfieldLife] Reality of the world

2009-07-29 Thread billy jim
Isha Upanishad: brahma satyam jagan mithya jivo brahmaiva na parahah brahma satyam - brahman is true jagan mithya - the world is fiction jivo brahmaiva -   jiva is brahman indeed na parahah -   not other That which is real always *is* - it never comes into being and it never ceases to

[FairfieldLife] Sri Aurobindo went into CC after 3 days of practice

2009-07-23 Thread billy jim
Aurobindo had no sat-guru. He did have a Vaishnava yogi as a upa-guru who gave him a most important technique. I paraphrase from memory from his Letters on Yoga. *This will be easy for you since you are a poet and are used to watching thoughts form out of stillness. Sit and watch these

[FairfieldLife] Hanussen

2009-07-20 Thread billy jim
There is biography about him, written in German, by an English scholar. There is also information about him in the diary of Joseph Goebbels and in To The Bitter End by Hans Gisevius. He is also a rather dark figure in Mel Gordon's autobiography of the stage magician Herr Steinschneider, aka

[FairfieldLife] Mahaparinirvana

2009-06-08 Thread billy jim
Billy - I agree with Vaj. Give it up. Even more scary, consider this. If Vaj and I agree on something like this then you should be afraid ... very afraid. It means that universal apocatastasis is almost here and your ass is soon to become a burnt offering to the gods. However, while

[FairfieldLife] Vajra-duta Natha-duta Yama-duta: many heads, numerous titles, abundant eminence

2009-06-03 Thread billy jim
Vaj: And Bill thanks for trying to elevate me to guru, but you have no clue what my credentials and authorizations are, because I've never discussed them with. So stop spreading lies about what you think my credentials and authorizations might be.   Well gosh Vaj. You mean you're not a

[FairfieldLife] More Palast des Okkulten

2009-05-31 Thread billy jim
Emptybill: So the Palast des Okkulten is in your back bedroom? Robert: Hey Billy, What the heck is a Palast des Okkulten? I have no idea what kind of person you think I am... We have never met, as far as I can remember... I had a horrible death last time around, so I had to heal up a

[FairfieldLife] Palast des Okkulten (was Marshy: All Hat, No cattle)

2009-05-30 Thread billy jim
Herr Babaji said: Last time around, I think I chose the name: Hanussen. Look it up!  I think is a weak way to propose that something is actual. What could be your basis other than sheer wishfulness? Although you call yourself babaji you don't stage yourself like a 20th Century Magician. So the

[FairfieldLife] Goodbuddy Vajraduta

2009-05-28 Thread billy jim
Vaj says- Interesting in that Mahesh's obsession with the southmay have had to do with him acting out his own unresolvedfear of death. For the yogin it is the south of the body--the anus and the legs-- that one wants to remain closed, and the aperture of brahman, the north, open. Externals

[FairfieldLife] Direction of the head

2009-05-27 Thread billy jim
To face East is to face the solar dawn and hence the source of light. The same for sleeping with the head pointing East. The South is the direction of Yama, the deva of death. This is why in India the corpse is turned with the head pointing toward the South - it is a signal for the Yamadutas,

[FairfieldLife] Vipassana Retreats

2009-05-26 Thread billy jim
This looks and sounds like the 10-day vipassana sourse of Goenka.   It demonstrates a typical style designed for retreats in Indo-China (ie: for semi-tropical weather). Thus the evening meal is absent in this schedule. However it is more necessary for cold climates. That it is forbidden here

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaladevi's maya

2009-05-20 Thread billy jim
Normal 0 Sorry to break it too you Nab but Kaladevi is an impersonation of that old cross-dressing Vaj. They are the self-same. Gives a new meaning to the Sanskrit word “advaita” (not-two-ness) doesn’t it? When Vaj gets short on posts he brings her out of the closet,

[FairfieldLife] Kaladevi's claims

2009-05-18 Thread billy jim
So kaladevi, dear. You portray yourself as knowing something. However, we have never talked, either in this forum or another. If you think you know so much about me then please present the message number or date/time of our conversation - anything where you can claim that you know me or

[FairfieldLife] For Barry, the French and compassion's claimants.

2009-05-17 Thread billy jim
!!! All the nations would praise us and we would finally be liked by the rest of the world. Barry: Uh, billy jim...I cannot help but wonder where this came from. Can you provide a cite of the Buddhist sutra on compassion you base it on? :-) I do Tantric sadhanas and Dzogchen Trekcho

[FairfieldLife] The Vedic Gods as Figures of Biology

2009-05-15 Thread billy jim
This sounds like the photocopy of a book I saw at Fiuggi Fonte, Italy in late April of 1972 during the so-called '2000' course. MMY had the SIMS dogs set up an SCI administration office in one of the hotels along with a few books - a sort of starter library. Somehow I got word of this text showing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic genitalia

2009-05-15 Thread billy jim
I always knew we would eventually get something worthwhile from Vaj. So now she can be revealed: The Vajra Yoni Sutras. Vaj discovered her in a cave (guha) back East. She called herself AdhiStrih nee Kunti. No wonder he rants like a man who makes it all up. This whole universe is made up. From

[FairfieldLife] Re: sahasraara maatrika

2009-05-13 Thread billy jim
Normal 0 Card According to Sanjukta Gupta (translator), Lakshmi Tantra - A Panchratra Text, the sanskrit *ara means either a wheel-spoke or a radius. Thus the rays of the sun are also sometimes call *ara. You might consider buying the Lakshmi Tantra since it is worth some

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now it can be told - the secret story behind Rishi, Devata, Chhandas, Swara

2009-05-12 Thread billy jim
Normal 0 Everyone wake up! Vaj is about to reveal what that devil Maharishi concealed from us. (All so he could bilk us of our hard earned cash.) At last, Vaj the Valiant will give us this secret knowledge (guhya-vidya) and will do so utterly for free, free, free …

[FairfieldLife] Re: Drinking and Cigars: a recognized religious rite and requirement

2009-04-13 Thread billy jim
Here Here - There There - Hare Hare Even Bhaktivedanta used snuff. It was an Indian gentleman's indulgence. Let us enjoy fine Dominicans, like Romeo Y Julieta. Let us enjoy fine British Empire indulgences, like kick in the door and shoot 'em all - Black and Tan. Let us enjoy fine Americans,

[FairfieldLife] The Gita mesage: kill 'em all - let god sort 'em out.

2009-04-07 Thread billy jim
Normal 0 What a nice fricative-guttural, finished off with the prime utterance. This must be part of the newly discovered american veda. Yep, it's a real sound of wonder - FuckAh! It make you want to become a cantor in the american vedic church doesn't it? In that old epic,

[FairfieldLife] Questions unanswered by Vaj

2009-04-07 Thread billy jim
Normal 0 Vaj: One of the fastest ways, if not the fastest way to generate nondual samadhi is to learn the practice of nondual compassion meditation. It actually generates the same neurological signatures as advanced Patanjali meditators in samadhi. Too imprecise. Give us

[FairfieldLife] Re: Questions about empathy for Judy (Re: Warning!)

2009-04-06 Thread billy jim
Normal 0 Too imprecise. Give us something substantive to consider. What do you mean by non-dual samadhi. Whose non-dual samadhi? Gaudapada in the Mandukya Karika’s? Shankara in his Bhagavad Gita commentary? Abhinavagupta? Longchenpa? Abn’Al-Arabi? St. Symeon the New

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gayatri, Buddhist mantra, HHDL on enlightenment

2009-03-15 Thread billy jim
Posted by: Kirk kirk_bernha...@cox.net tripura_kirk Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:24 am(PDT) Sounds kinda bookish. Who wrote all that? Who else? Moi. Sound too pedantic? Then you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-26 Thread billy jim
Yes I wrote it but I was occluded. I admit it. High sounding talk like that may seem pedantic but I figure meditating stoners will flip back and forth with it in a bardo of felt meaning. Who needs the immediacy of transcendence when you can have felt meaning? Reminds me of a sutra I heard

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj the devious

2009-02-19 Thread billy jim
Normal 0 Here are some thoughts for your consideration about using the term yogi: Definitions of these kinds of terms depend on the context in which such a term is used. Wiki definitions are often useful for a quick introduction to a topic. However they are sometimes

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Randy or Kirk

2009-02-18 Thread billy jim
Kirk, you need to check out your keyboard. You keep typing in navanath when you are obviously trying to hit naganath. The fact is that Vaj denied being a Gaudiya Vaishnava but not being a naga. It was very revealing. But then he has no sense of humor. In this way Vaj reminds me of Baptist

[FairfieldLife] Re:BSG

2009-02-14 Thread billy jim
I've mainlined it since it started. Love the questions it raises and refuses to answer in a doctrinare fashion. This is scifi at its best - glorifying ultimate questions in a high manner - torture, jihad, revelation, genocide, species annihilation, human nature as such. The list goes on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Website Gita

2009-02-10 Thread billy jim
This commentary on BG Chapters 8 and 9 definitely has the feel of MMY's earlier manner of thought and delivery.

[FairfieldLife] Re:Q: viraama-pratyaya?

2009-02-05 Thread billy jim
Normal 0 Feuerstein in The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali, Sutra I.18: The compound viraama-pratyaya means: viraama = ceasing or stopping (from vi + |ram ‘to stop’) pratyaya = an idea or notion (presented forth to consciousness) abhyaasa = practice puurva = former

[FairfieldLife] Re: A reply to Vaj about Mantras, Religion, etc.

2009-01-27 Thread billy jim
Normal 0 Re: [FairfieldLife] Mantras, Religion, etc Hi Billy Jim: On Jan 26, 2009, at 6:05 PM, billy jim wrote: Their fundamental claim is that a mantra is the name of a Hindu god. Vaj wrote: You might want to reread those claims. These aren't names per se

[FairfieldLife] Mantras, Religion and finally a statement from an liberated tapasin

2009-01-26 Thread billy jim
Normal 0 Recently I have read here on FFL an argument professed by some former TM’ers who stopped practicing because they claimed they were deceived about the meaning of mantras. Their fundamental claim is that a mantra is the name of a Hindu god. The claim is that a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Independent TM Teachers?

2009-01-22 Thread billy jim
Vaj - Tat Whale Baba and his successor both insist they be done in Sanskrit. They also insist the entire set be performed each day, and the requisite other techniques the sutras require (which are oral or upadesha instructions on inner yoga). Tat Wala Baba's status as a yogin

[FairfieldLife] Re: Independent TM Teachers?

2009-01-21 Thread billy jim
- or that the siddhi program doesn't use Sanskrit? I'm wondering where people got the idea that the various sutras should be used only in a Sanskrit form? Although trained as a TM teacher, I took my sutra training at a citizen siddha course. After receiving a couple of the sutras, a few of

[FairfieldLife] Re: abandoning thought

2009-01-13 Thread billy jim
Back in the mid-80's Korean Zen master Seung Sahn Nim, while guiding a retreat, was asked whether Master Hsuan Hua was a Zen Master. Seung Sahn Nim described him as a Tripitaka master. He considered him important for his role in inspiring young Americans to take up Dharma practice in a manner

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY's Interpretation of the Rig Veda

2009-01-12 Thread billy jim
Vaj ... My take on his whole Rig Ved spiel was it was what he purloined from the father-son Vedic chanting duo he used to hang with That was Mahapandit Brahmarshi Devaratji and his son. He was the pandit with the fan that had various devabijakshara on the fan folds. During the Tahoe Rig

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY's Interpretation of the Rig Veda

2009-01-12 Thread billy jim
I was not present. My description came from that same friend who was present at Tahoe for some of those recording. We had a discussion at the time about where Maharishi could have obtained his meditation bija-mantras. My friend and I knew something about mantra sourcing since we were both

[FairfieldLife] Re: SaaMkhya-suutras: any takers?

2007-11-27 Thread billy jim
Card sez: So, the first words seem to claim that 'prakriti is saamyaavasthaa of sattva, rajas and tamas'. Now we have to find out, what the heck that word means. (It seems to consist of 'saamya' and 'avasthaa'). sAmyAvasthA f. a state of equipoise (of the 3 constituent ingredients of

[FairfieldLife] Re: the pleasure of exercising power

2007-11-10 Thread billy jim
Angela, your view sounds rather familiar. Where did I hear this? Wait a minute … here it is. It’s an statement on the instrumentality of power from a friend of one of your mentors. Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Cardmaister: about the essays

2007-11-05 Thread billy jim
Card, At the moment I have about 20 more essays from major scholars. Most are around 10-12 pages long and I have 4-5 that deal with topics in the Yogasutras. Other topics include: the ontology of bhakti (Madhusudana Saraswati), theories of karma, causality in different traditions, tension

[FairfieldLife] The Flaming Edge

2007-10-29 Thread billy jim
Edg needs a serious alternative ... like Lithium. Maybe someone here can convince him (offline) to get a referral to a real professional. Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edg, after reading your posts of hate, venom and insult just today, it strikes me that

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Thought Crime Bill, Nazi Germany and the New Age

2007-10-29 Thread billy jim
2007 America is not the Weimar Republic. There will be no enabling law unless we have a WMD go off in a major city. If that happens we might actually need martial law. Also all these assertions about your privileged status as a witness to history sound rather fantastic. I don’t deny that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Shearer's translation?

2007-10-26 Thread billy jim
Alistair Shearer's version: I.18 After the repeated experience of the settling and ceasing of mental activity comes another samadhi. In this only the latent impressions of past experience remain. cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone's got Alistair Shearer's

[FairfieldLife] A parampara reply about Prabhupada's quote: On Genitals and Heavenly Nectar

2007-10-26 Thread billy jim
Thinking about the original Prabhupada quote, I didn't feel qualified to answer the post. So I talked with AlankarDas, a friend of mine who was among the first disciples of Prabhupad. Originally a student of Swami Satchitananda, he met Prabhupada when Prabhupad began teaching in New York City

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jews Turning Against Israel's Right Wing Zionist Policy

2007-10-25 Thread billy jim
Who cares? Let them all eat yellow cake. Better yet, while dining in the valley of megiddo. do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jewish Glasnost Update: Zionist Panic! Tony Karon Rootless Cosmopolitan, October 23, 2007

[FairfieldLife] Re: In TM, Samadhi requires long periods of silent meditation.

2007-10-23 Thread billy jim
In YS 1. 17 the vitarka, vichara, ananda, asmita levels of samaadhi are simply descriptive references. (vitarkavicaaraanandaasmitaanugamaat saMprajñaataH) However, YS 1.18 actually give the technique to use in samyama for entering asamprajnata. (viraama-pratyayaabhyaasapuurvaH saMskaarasheso

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: About the story The attentions of monks.

2007-10-21 Thread billy jim
into. Seems to me to be pretty deep as concepts go, and the contemplation of this can lead to your absorption into a station of being. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a nice story but it is not a monastic story. I'm thinking it first appeared

[FairfieldLife] Re: About the story The attentions of monks.

2007-10-20 Thread billy jim
This is a nice story but it is not a monastic story. I'm thinking it first appeared in the '65-68's and was recounted by Paul Reps. However, I may be overshadowed by brain fuzz on the orginal dates. In any case this is a story about two monks - which is not the same as a monastic

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hmmm... dharma-megha?

2007-10-01 Thread billy jim
According to Georg Feuerstein the sole source for this term is Buddhist sutra and shastra. There are no other instances of dharma-megha being used in the darshanas, epics or yogic literature prior to Patanjali's usage. I did look at Shankara's vivarana and will check out Vijnanabhikshu's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge -- say something true

2007-09-29 Thread billy jim
Thanks for the input. authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip However, I like it because it reinforces the recognition that these Sanskrit words (read Arabic for Houri) are provisional terms, not necessarily

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Kundalini Through The Chakras

2007-09-29 Thread billy jim
Sorry, also, but I don't understand what you are looking for here. You asked for classic descriptions as well as personal experiences. These classical descriptions are found in the yoga and tantric texts of early and medieval Hinduism and Buddhism. Your reply seems unusual. Are you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Shri Adi Shankara raises and answers Questions

2007-09-29 Thread billy jim
What Sanskrit text or texts of Adi Shankara were these quotes culled from when composing this list? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Shri Adi Shankara Raises and Answers Some Important Questions __ What is the best thing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge -- say something true

2007-09-23 Thread billy jim
OK Vaj, I'm going to enter the fray here. The way this conversation is preceding you’re going to get tired soon from the suffocating squeeze of the pythoness. (I actually mean this as a complement to Judy.) Then the conversation will attenuate into a final pair of mutual - “the pox on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge -- say something true

2007-09-23 Thread billy jim
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge -- say something true

2007-09-23 Thread billy jim
Worm. r - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that I should reply to you. You must be a devil since Sin is the better part of your name - and don't tell me its Sine. I think it's a sign. As far as Vaj is concerned, I wouldn't want to speak

[FairfieldLife] Am I an I or a Me?

2007-09-22 Thread billy jim
I'm always amazed at the things people say so unconsciously ... The Ego ,The Divine. In post-20th Century spiritual language it has become common to speak this way - putting an article before the word. I believe it started with the Freudians using this type of language to fortify their

Fwd: Re: [FairfieldLife] Vyaasa's comment on II 30

2007-09-22 Thread billy jim
Repost of my original email which did not appear on FFL: billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:49:17 -0700 (PDT) From: billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Vyaasa's comment on II 30 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com T.S. Rukmani's translation

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mantras, meditation and deities

2007-09-20 Thread billy jim
Herr Leo Fischer, the Austrian Sanskritist, was one of a handful of European academics to throw aside his scholastic robes and assume the robes of a Dashanami Swami. It was rather remarkable for his day but now, unfortunately, any California Hausfrau can do the same The text you quoted

[FairfieldLife] FFL Awaken - Rick, Erwache!! this is a nightmare not a movie.

2007-09-12 Thread billy jim
I hate it when reality mocks my prescience with such utter contempt: Rick, remember Message #148634, September 9th, 2007 - Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Furher ... Welcome to the world of Stazi informants. Need help to make it all work? Just go offline and turn it over to your

Re: [FairfieldLife] Bhojadeva: 2.5, Vyaasa: 22+

2007-09-12 Thread billy jim
All the weird stuff is straight out of various Puranas - which means from traditionally transmitted oral histories and mythologies later written down and expanded. The Buddhist Abhidharma cosmologies of Sumeru use similar or same sourcing. The confounding part for Westerners is that the

[FairfieldLife] Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Furher

2007-09-09 Thread billy jim
Rick, clarify this for members: Define gratuitous profanity and also help me understand non-gratuitous profanity. I want to be able to use non-gratuitous profanity (if I deem it important) without you censoring me or initiating an administrative reprisal. What comprises a sexist

[FairfieldLife] VOTE to change the rules and VOTE to ban two posters (was Re: Civil Speech and Behavior)

2007-09-07 Thread billy jim
Proposal to FFL members – Rather than endlessly discuss what we all know to be “all to true”, let’s vote to make a deliberate and permanent change in the mode of discussion here on FFL. What I am proposing below is not an attempt at humor but is dead serious: I am proposing to ban two

[FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Reincarnation in Judaism

2007-09-03 Thread billy jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem here is that Judaism doesn't teach reincarnation. _,_._,___ Empty Bill opines - Here is an interesting counter-point for your consideration. His book is especially interesting for those who were there and then.

[FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Re: Remote Diagnostic Demons

2007-09-02 Thread billy jim
Yup, see below. authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Unlike you, in her reply to me, Judy merely called me a nitwit. It was a bit unimaginative for my tastes. Nitwit means dull and stewped but can mean

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Remote Diagnostic Delusions

2007-09-02 Thread billy jim
Curtisdeltablues said: Posting here is a place to unwind from professional identities New morning said: Yes, it must be great to get outside of that Blues/rocker superstar dross. To get rid of all those damn long-legged blonde groupies. Empty: What could I add to that other

Re: [FairfieldLife] Remote Diagnostic Delusions

2007-09-01 Thread billy jim
new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gee, you sure nailed me, bill. You and Peter must be psychic to see others' inner states so clearly. Ever notice how close psychic and psychotic in spelling? Does the definition of psychotic include the syndrome of those who believe they can know via

[FairfieldLife] Dai Gohonzon (was Re: Lahiri Mahasaya on CC)

2007-08-31 Thread billy jim
. The foregoing is not intended to make sense. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how many of you inhabit you? Please explain. Message #146579 August 15th, 2007 - --- Tertonzeno wrote: --Thanks, I'm a Buddhist and don't accept Patanjali as an Authority

Re: [FairfieldLife] Dai Gohonzon (was Re: Lahiri Mahasaya on CC)

2007-08-31 Thread billy jim
is heretical to me since I have low blood sugar and have to eat continually throughout the day. I had such pre-noon meals with him on a number of occasions. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know much about Nichiren. Dai Gohonzon sounds like a Japanese

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Remembering the Life of Mahatma Gandhi'

2007-08-30 Thread billy jim
If you'll check the source you'll see that this statement was made by suziezuzie (msilver1951) and that my contribution was to follow with an article discussing Gandhi's passifist views about the Jews. It was Martin Buber who answered Gandhi publicly. Anyone reading Gandhi's comments can see

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lahiri Mahasaya on CC

2007-08-30 Thread billy jim
So how many of you inhabit you? Please explain. Message #146579 August 15th, 2007 - --- Tertonzeno wrote: --Thanks, I'm a Buddhist and don't accept Patanjali as an Authority. Message #145659 , August 16th, 2007 Tertonzeno wrote: ---Thanks, on Buddhist

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Remembering the Life of Mahatma Gandhi'

2007-08-29 Thread billy jim
suziezuzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard that Gandhi in his philosophy of passifism once commented that the jew of Germany should have sat quietly in silent protest while Hilter exterminated them. Has anyone else heard anything about this? Empty Bill helps out boys and

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: What Fairfield and Fairfield Life Could Become

2007-08-29 Thread billy jim
To paraphrase a Japanese poet: Such piercing chill I feel My dead guru's sandal at his altar under my heel heh heh Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jim_flanegin Sent:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Blue Pearl in the Guru Gita

2007-08-28 Thread billy jim
I remember reading the controversy between FreeJonny and MukBab back in those days. The real question between them was about the means to enlightenment and the contentions of MukBab that Shankara believed in the sushumna and the blue pearl and that this particular tantric process was the model

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Blue Pearl in the Guru Gita

2007-08-28 Thread billy jim
, quoting Issac of Nineveh and drinking Johnny Walker Black. Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 28, 2007, at 9:57 PM, billy jim wrote: The Kriya-Yoga lineage of Kriya Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Yukteshvar Giri and Yogananda has fully preserved both the yogic ascent-descent

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shankara on the Two Paths

2007-08-26 Thread billy jim
to know anyway. Interesting question though. tertonzeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---How about the Blue Pearl? What does Shankara say about that? In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem here is in characterizing Shankara's views

[FairfieldLife] Shankara on the Two Paths

2007-08-25 Thread billy jim
The problem here is in characterizing Shankara's views only in terms of his commentary on the Brahma Sutras. It is well established that the Brahma Sutra-s deal with bridging the variant perspectives found in the major Upanishads. Shankara's Brahama Sutra commentary is concerned with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Upanishads: Two Paths - Sun and Moon

2007-08-23 Thread billy jim
The preeminent explanatory text for these ideas is The Symbolism of the Stupa by Adrian Snodgrass. Published in 1985 it is now selling for about US $30-35. It describes the principle ideas and symbolism of the solar path starting with the homology between the mandala of the solar year and the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Huen Tsiang on Uddiyana

2007-08-19 Thread billy jim
Huen Tisang was as real/unreal as you or me. Uddiyana was as real/unreal as the USA. The muslims jihadists who murdered everyone and turned uddiyana into a wasteland were as real/unreal as the murdering jihadists today. What other real/unreal uddiyana are you referring to in your

Re: [FairfieldLife] Swami G chating with ex purusha about MMY

2007-08-19 Thread billy jim
How pitiful. How lost. This is what happens when you don't know anything but what the TMO tell you. Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 18, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Ron wrote: Tomas Yes I understand that but how to do it I tried with meditation for 30 years A purusha who lived

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoni Puja

2007-08-18 Thread billy jim
Don't get it. You meant oddiyoni? Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alot of what goes on around here. - Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.

[FairfieldLife] Grave dwelling Hsuan Hua (was Re: Mud puddle buddhism)

2007-08-18 Thread billy jim
Buddhist Guru is Hsuan Hua; whom I used to visit during the 70's: http://www.drba.org/dharma/hsuanhuabio.asp The fact that he's no longer physically alive doesn't diminish our relationship. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yah Billy. Lots of people like to claim

Re: [FairfieldLife] Dalai Lama Quote

2007-08-08 Thread billy jim
Dalai Lama states - The continuum of an impure substratum will later cease, not existing in Buddhahood, whereas a pure substratum's continuum of similar type will exist right through Buddhahood. Would any of you actually envisage yourself speaking or writing this way? Even in a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Missouri or Kansas?

2007-08-05 Thread billy jim
According to Joseph Smith, the Garden of Eden's physical location was not in the Levant but in the new world - it's actual placement in the area now encompassed by Jackson County, Missouri, which is now part of metropolitan Kansas City. The City of Independence, Missouri is considered the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Enlightenment occurs at the 6th chakra......MMY.

2007-08-03 Thread billy jim
With all due respect, Peter, your reply is meaningless - simply another interjection of opinion (doxa) without any context (or content for that matter). Have you taken secret offline lessons from TurkB in expressing your dis-approvals? At least your style is more terse. I've heard SSRS

Re: [FairfieldLife] Enlightenment occurs at the 6th chakra......MMY.

2007-08-03 Thread billy jim
to a unlocalized Self. It takes some time for the mind to shift in its thinking. I've heard this expressed as old mental habits that change over time. I've never heard it terms of very subtle physiology. Great food for thought. I'd love to hear SSRS's exact words...important guru speak here. --- billy

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi-What he did, and why he did it!

2007-07-30 Thread billy jim
authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given his very different understanding, of course MMY would not have taught mastery of the yamas and niyamas as a prerequisite to samadhi, even to the most religiously devoted Hindu practitioners; it would have been counterproductive, in his view. He

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is the TMO part of the Shankara tradition?

2007-07-28 Thread billy jim
Not a single part of Swami Rama's statement is based upon Shankara's actual written works or upon his transmissions to his disciples. Scholars of Shankara would consider the claims written below to be typical hindu nonsense. empty Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Peter's post= what is EN.- sidhananda response

2007-07-27 Thread billy jim
Hi Vaj. Yes Vaj. Their mythos just is expansive enough to talk extensively about channels of mind-body coordination (nadi), internal life-energy flows (prana-vayu )and point-essences (bindu). You don't believe this kind of mythos do you Vaj? Let's see - Tsa-Lung-Tigle - isn't that a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi-What he did, and why he did it!

2007-07-27 Thread billy jim
Poor Arjuna. He was a warrior and was instructed by Lord Krishna to follow his dharma and fight. That means he could not follow Patanjali's practice of non-harming (ahimsa) without regard to time, place or intent. Nor could any of the other warriors for that matter. Although many of them

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi-What he did, and why he did it!

2007-07-27 Thread billy jim
would be proud. empty Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Krishna's teaching is from and within a different context than Patanjali. --- billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Poor Arjuna. He was a warrior and was instructed by Lord Krishna to follow his dharma and fight. That means he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Claims to enlightenment

2007-07-26 Thread billy jim
they've tended to treate the declarations of their teachers. And while that's one way of addressing life, and making one's Way through it, I'd kinda prefer to spend my time with others who don't run that particular act. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vaj

[FairfieldLife] Claims to enlightenment (Re: Is Byron Katie's the work a form of moodmaking?)

2007-07-25 Thread billy jim
Vaj, I'm wondering what criteria they used? Please see if you can find out or at least get a trackable reference. There is conflict at times among the Tibetans about the relationship between siddhis and jnana. Their term for siddhi ,“abhijna”, reflects this. I'll ask YKR when he gets here

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Byron Katie's the work a form of moodmaking?

2007-07-24 Thread billy jim
We buddhists? What is this about? empty TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Right, but Byron Katie is a Neo-Advaitin, and if we go too far into that realm, there's no karma, no people, no suffering

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TurquoiseB made me see - praise Iesus.

2007-07-16 Thread billy jim
Yep, you've hit upon something. By choice I prefer to be a two-fisted soma drinker at the banquet of the gods. However upon suitable occasions I sip earthly distillations. I'll probably still be able to enjoy something like it in hell with lucy since I can't really cover myself with the blood

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shankara on Yoga Sutras

2007-07-16 Thread billy jim
Vedanta! There is no Being in God - the Transcendental Person is an illusion, Brahman is a nothing. And the Marshy is a left-handed, tantric basket weaver. Go figure. Billy-Jim wrote: Have you read Shankara's vivarana on Patanjali's sutras dealing with Ishvara? Bill - You

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shankara on Yoga Sutras

2007-07-15 Thread billy jim
by Advaita AshramaThis book is available at: Vedanta Press and Catalog www.vedanta.com t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read your link. I agree with you entirely. The link in the link is worth reading. So

[FairfieldLife] MadhusUdhana Saraswati (was Re: Shankara on Yoga Sutras)

2007-07-15 Thread billy jim
PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read your link. I agree with you entirely. The link in the link is worth reading. So, as an information to Judy, the following might be instructive: 'As an aside, these authors are quite aware

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shankara on Yoga Sutras

2007-07-15 Thread billy jim
: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An FYI for Trinity, (and anyone else) The best translation is: Madhusudana Sarasvati Bhagavad-Gita: with the annotation Gudhartha-Dipika Translated by Swami Gambhirananda 1038 page quality hardback for $19.95

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sat Guru's growing on trees- defining the word Maharishi

2007-07-15 Thread billy jim
Ronnytanmay You are such a diligent worker for gspot. You must love this slave-uh you perform for her - trawling the forums for potential disciples. However this is just not working very well here on FFL. You don't seem to be getting the necessary bites to pay for the ideative disdain

Prof Nelson and Advaita Bhakti (Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shankara on Yoga Sutras)

2007-07-15 Thread billy jim
the ness is like Loch without the ness - it's sheer Lochless Help me o' nessy! - without you it's emptyless new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An FYI for Trinity, (and anyone else) For those

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Distinction Between- Light of God Lucifer's Sparkle'

2007-07-15 Thread billy jim
Iesus - as in Jesus and Satan, fictions created for the control of roman women and their slaves. And now look at them - hypostasized into mythic figures so realistic that even Yogananada treated them yogically. Poor Billy G. - without Yogananda what could he say about the blessed lard - and him

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