Yes...just not as hunky.
My friends are all talking about a UFO connection.the entire plane was
beamed up
On my siddhis course (20+ years ago) the administrator said the grinding rocks
were analogies for the two hemispheres of the brain.
Ah!
A = not
AA = not not or, definitely not as in quite the opposite of unhappy etc.
This interpretation is very helpful.
Nature did make them homosexuals - possibly based on their past choices. MMY
taught that every state of consciousness has physiological correlates... so
yes, "they" were born that way.
Everyone has a huge, infinite storehouse of karma..therefore, judging others
for their peccadilloes is kind
Young horny boy practicing abstinence visits "helpful older minister"...I don't
think the movie will end well.
Shouldn't he have just gone back to the mantra?
Everyone's having these experiences, yes? is it easy? Now let's just close our
eyes and return to the mantra, just like any other thought.
On a serious note, I think he had a profound encounter and is now living out
his interpretation of what it m
I wasn't defending anything. Just saying what I thought he was doing and why he
did it. Sorry you are so angry.
40 years ago I read a document in the TM center about "The Absolute Theory of
Greatness." In this document various people from history were mentioned. The
premise, as I recall (and I could have this all wrong, due to time) was that
from the perspective of the absolute, a person's impact on the w
If he had used the language of GD, there would have been no movement.
Translating GDs teachings for the west is what MMY was doing...He did a fairly
good job of it...but it could only go so far. The idea that all the teachings
could be explained in "the language of science" probably created limi
All farming damages the environment. Growing pot is illegal in California. If
if were legal, these hidden pot farms could be moved to ordinary farm land and
regulated and less damage would occur. Additionally, legalizing the use of the
non-high-inducing relative hemp would save our forests, prod
Travon Martin was a minor...that would have made him suspicious the person
following him was a perverted pederastand therefore not a homophobic bigot
- simply a young man who was frightened. Teens shouldn't fight pederasts off?
But in any case, this argument is based on argumentum ad ignoran
I think the list is helpful in a general way: like little mirrors to help you
see your own blind spots. The problem is you might start to think you've
handled all your "stuff" and can now finger point issues for people who don't
"see life as clearly" as you do.
11.) Don't develop the spiritual
When I was younger I used to be self conscious about going to the movie theater
alone...like everyone's eyes are on me and they know my social life is a
complete disaster. I enjoy going alone now just to get away from my other half.
About ten years ago while vacationing on Vashon Island, which i
The perfection of voice-to-text technologies, coupled with the inevitable
acceptance of simplified English (like u, ur, etc.) and anticipatory word
selection (from a limited corporate-approved dictionary) may eliminate even the
two-finger technique and change what acceptable written text looks a
I've seen programs on stone blocks cut in South America also. Some are so
perfectly linear and flush that you can't slide paper between them.
We seem to be unable to replicate this precision using the tools we believe
they had available. It will be interesting to find out how they did it.
How did they build the great pyramid around the tools without using the tools?
Or is there a second set of tools in another pyramid somewhere? Or is there an
infinite succession of pyramids, each hiding the tools of the previously-built
pyramid?
If they only used one set of tools and then stas
I think you would might find this interesting:
http://blog.ted.com/2013/04/22/texting-as-a-miraculous-thing-6-ways-our-generation-is-redefining-communication/
Consensus reality is probably more accurate than the word "Cult" which actually
means something like subculture. When you make statements like: "everyone is
crazy", or "everyone is in a cult" - you reduce the meaning of words "Crazy" or
"Cult" to logical absurdities that renders them useless as
I clearly remember being told 5 to 7 years to attain "CC" at some point after
1973. I don't remember who said it.
Later someone else (I believe it was MMY on a tape) said that "CC begins as a
sense of wholeness in one's life." I think it's fairly easy to have a sense
wholeness growing even aft
That was the moderator "kiki" talking about himself...
The main reason Sbucks is in trouble is that young people think it's where
gramps goes to get a cup o' joe. The current trend is privately-owned, coffee
shops with free super fast wifi - which is a probably good thing. Most don't
seem to really care what the coffee tastes like as long as the jo
Reduced systemic inflammation = increased blood flow and increased testosterone
level (usually experienced as warmth) and more efficient metabolism. Enjoy!
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> One of the most curious phenomena after I started gluten-free diet
> has been sw
Thanks for letting us know Merv was gay...that's so important. Really quite
life-changing in fact. I'll never meditate again ;-)
I already own a small remote-controlled helicopter with a built in video
recorder. $80 dollars from Fry's Electronics. A fairly fun toy.
Being homosexual isn't a plight - it's a beautiful gift from the Creator.
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> > Yet, western culture remains ignorant. Whether it be Mozart, Liberace, or
> > (the current outrage,
Actually those kinds of threats increase the behavior...
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> You must never have traveled to a country where being known to be gay can be
> a death sentence
>
This is quite hyperbolic and written with the intention of justifying disdain
for one of the world's main religious faiths. I think that Islamic people are
probably as diverse in their predilections as everyone else. I suspect your
intentions with this series of posts on Islam is fear-based and
Nice to see some apparent graciousness from a politician, though I'm not
believing it. I think he's just being practical.
My impression was that he knows who holds the purse strings...and delayed
funding for restoring his state will affect his electability in the future.
He is probably also
Sorry for lurking, but damn - that's hilarious
>
> From the title of your post , I was expecting somebody beating up fellow
> workers with wooden shoes.
>
Get a grip - warmest September ever recorded
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/warmest-september-ever-2012_n_1967398.html
"refined sugar (is) for (people with) refined consciousness."
Maybe what he meant is that you could eat lots of refined sugar after you
already had refined consciousness/physiology and were producing soma and all
that.
(Problem is many (most) people think they are much more "evolved" than they
My experience is that organizations are more alike than different - because the
human need for conformity and belonging creates such bizarre behavior that
emerges from the desperation to belong.
Christ's organization produced people like Judas...
I get that Judas was actually the most importan
Google has been teaching mindfulness practice for years. They have an advanced
engineer/instructor, Chade-Meng Tang whose official title is "Jolly Good
Fellow." The course is one of the Company's most popular. His new book is
"Search Inside Yourself." I am currently reading it.
Apple products are very, very well thot out. However, I've played extensively
with both the Apple and the Galaxy S3 - and the S3 is a very nice phone...it is
rather large though - like it want to be a IPad. The navigation is extremely
well functioning - and of course it uses Google maps which is
I agree this is big news and I'm quite enthusiastic about it...but many of my
associates show little interest.
Seems like it's getting very little play in the media...perhaps the Olympics
overshadows it a bit...or landing rovers on Mars has become so 2004?
When the high quality image stream sta
Unfortunately, in California, that figure is barely enough to raise a family.
That's an easy one:
http://naturalhealthdossier.com/2011/04/the-economics-of-obesity-why-are-poor-people-fat/
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> > Billy - *access* to healthy food for low-income populations
http://beyondgrowth.net/spirituality/authentic-spirituality-and-the-double-binds-of-power/
Also has a great post about the world "not" being your mirror.
I got picked on in high school by a bully or two. As a freshman, I was the
second shortest guy in the school. The shortest guy used to feel better when he
picked on me. I knew what he was doing, so I just let it be.
The first day of school he pushed me against the wall and called me
names...th
At least he wasn't beating up other students...
This tree is also called horseradish tree in many places. The leaves, roots and
pods are prepared and eaten in different ways. I ate quite a lot of this plant
when I was in traveling around the Philippines (PI). There, it is often served
with steamed/boiled fish, sort of like spinach - and is si
If they appear to "spin backwards" and then pop out of existence, I think what
you are seeing is prana. If you go to the countryside on a warm day, it can be
very thick. Just my opinion on what they are.
Yeah he would...if you are very lucky, he makes you gay. Otherwise, you spend
your life merely hetero.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wrote:
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> Do you think a fair and just God would make some people homosexual and some
> not?, where's the fairness in that? No, everything is gover
He also said something like: be careful, you become what you hate.
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> > Remember the story of the Demons who became enlightened because they
Remember the story of the Demons who became enlightened because they hated
Krishna? Spent so much time pissed off and thinking about him, they got
enlightened.
So which one of the three genders, described in the Vedic literature, are you
gonna be next time around?
You Said:
Right, and Mozart was just 'born that way'! What a scam by the Gay lobby left!!
Nyuk!
Mozart was just born that way, as a result of previous incarnations
Scam and Nyuk? Those words seem to imply anger, which is the opposite of
Compassion. Who are you having this argument with anyw
I believe you are correct. He was born "gay" as a result of previous decisions
and behavior is previous life times.
I also believe he was born at this time, in this generation, to show people (on
"the right" perhaps) that there are many things about themselves they are in
denial about...to he
I know a gay couple who recently adopted a five-year old child. The child was
given away by his parents because he exhibited a preference for feminine
behavior. The parents tried to "pray away the gay", but when informed by a
"shrink" that "he was born that way," they opted for giving him away.
The world is as you areMMY
...well that explains a lotI wonder if they spend all their time on-line
after they drink? ;-)
It was a sarcastic response to the recent legislation - by male legislators -
that interferes with women's reproductive health choices.
I'm quite sure that is the case.
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "martyboi"
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> I was going to
You make a cogent point, surrounding oneself with adoring sycophants is very
dangerous - it destroys company presidents, ministers, college professors -
nobody is immune because adoration is intoxicating. The classic case in this
generation could be Michael Jackson.
I hung around AOL for a whil
At my company's Christmas dinner, I went to pick up my napkin, and much to my
horror, instead grabbed a pile of hair in my lap. I realised it was the
adjacent women's hair extension. I covertly slipped it to her and she made a
mad dash to the restroom to repair the situation. The scene repeated
...Sounds like they are stuck in the don't-ask-don't-tell military shower
scenario that made everyone so nervous... (and titillated?)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "martyboi" wrote:
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> &g
Perhaps a better question to ask is: "Will homophobes go to heaven or hell?"
When reality is no longer perceived in terms of duality, the light dawns.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wrote:
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> "The light of the body is the eye, if therefore thine eye be single, thy
> whole body shall be full of light." Matthew 6:22
>
Stockton's used to be a lively town and due to its inland port it was one of
the shipping and manufacturing hubs of California and the USA. Steel mills,
flour mills etc.
I stopped there recently in the middle of the night to get gas. The streets
were filled with homeless-looking people milling
Funnily enoughI do all of those things...
Your prejudice knows no bounds.
http://www.galva108.org/Tritiya_prakriti.html
According to the Vedic Literature there are three genders. One of which was
designed -created by God - to prefer same gender relations.
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> --- In Fairfie
Your words seem racist and bitter...have you ever been unemployed?
MMY:
...the parental role of government, which is to prevent problems for the
nation."
A perfect man will be naturally harmonious within himself and will naturally
radiate that harmony into his surroundings.
--- In Fairfi
http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/forum/index.php?topic=6313.0
http://tiny.cc/xl2r2
Nice, thanks for posting.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote:
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> This video from the small Yupiq Eskimo Village of Quinhagak, Alaska, was a
> school computer project intended for the other Yupiq villages in the area.
> Much to the villagers' shock, over a half million pe
Q: Dear Guruji, I have never been a spiritual or a true religious person. How
can I learn to let go and believe?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You don't have to label yourself- I am spiritual,
religious person etc. No need for it. Just be natural, beautiful, good human
being. That's it!
If someone is
Dude, is that coffee shop a little smokey this morning?
Are you saying that religious people are usually dicks?
> Hear hear. Either that or religion is the condom and
> spirituality is the dick.
>
> Religions that involve a lot of costumes and dress-up
> are like French ticklers.
>
> :-)
>
I believe it to be a Trojan Horseit's probably sniffing and listening as we
speak.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
"Religion is the banana skin and spirituality is the banana. The misery in the
world is because we throw away the banana and are holding on to the skin."
You've been had!
>
> You don't have a soul.
> You are a soul.
> You have a body.
> - C. S. Lewis
>
New Theory:
They actually saw Phil Donahue.
DYOR
Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. (July 6, 1925 August 12, 2007)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv_Griffin
I've been on retreats with a few different groups. Most have similar dynamics
and similar personalities:
1.) Your ass-kissing sycophants
2.) Self-styled -new age guru wannabees
3.) Movement police types
4.) Spiritually greedy - take every course they can find
5.) Permanently unhappy complainers
Thanks for answering.
That's very interesting to know. I still think something would have been found
by now. We have ground-penetrating satellites that can determine below-soil
objects. We have Google earth displaying pictures of the entire globe - with
thousands of eyes looking for stuff. We h
Dude, nobody in "Cali" smokes doobies anymore...everyone is vaporizing. That is
to say, they "vape."
Just in case anyone doesn't know... A vaporizer heats the "contents" to a
specific temperature that allows you to determine (by temperature) which
aspects of the contents you would like to imbi
I have had three, they are not really that uncomfortable and they can save your
life. They found two large polyps during one of mine and removed them during
the procedure (I didn't feel a thing.) If they had not removed them, big
trouble might have shown up later. Think of it as "preventing the
You've certainly provided me with something to ponder. Fascinating!
Seems like they would have found metal pieces or remnants of crafts built 3000
to 5000 years ago by now. Or at least they would have found their version of
the "Lockheed Skunk Works" as it would have required huge factories to build
and maintain them.
The Vamana descriptions are very intrig
Actually, we were quite alone in the atrium...not that it matters..it was just
cool to know that the bigwigs take an afternoon once in a while to chill too! I
call them "mental health days."
My boss and I have a code. When I say I am having "eye problems", he knows I
mean..."I" don't want to
After the movie Avatar had been released for about a week or so, I decided to
cut out of work early and watch it at a local IMAX theater. The theater is
located in a failing shopping mall in Cupertino, and the thought is that the
theater is going to help revive it. The theater is well attended -
Here's MUM's latest course honoring the "Buddhist" universe...might help.
http://www.tm.org/emailing/2011_09_05.html
> Relax. He is only projecting the disturbing "facts" of nonsense he finds in
> his "Buddhist" universe. He can't help it.
>
Here's MIU latest course honoring the "Buddhist" universe...might help.
http://www.tm.org/emailing/2011_09_05.html
> Relax. He is only projecting the disturbing "facts" of nonsense he finds in
> his "Buddhist" universe. He can't help it.
>
Just sayin'
http://www.rense.com/general12/believe.htm
That false part of "me" that experiences itself as a "me" and is in reality
something I can't locate anymore in the vastness of my not-self ...foolishly
finds this hilarious!
>
> I'm writing this post from the nurse's station in
> the psychiatric wing of the Betty Ford Centre in Rancho Mirage.
I agree, the population is not really a random distribution, it is a collection
of smart people who will usually have smart kids.
Having said that, on a personal level, I feel that meditation refined and
enhanced my intellect and contributed to my scholastic achievements. The main
reason for th
I tell myself this all the time : -)
Do you think the self-narrative is gone or just ignored?
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> If there is no self-narrative, there can be no belief. Even identified
> realistically as formlessness, we continue to operate in the world
>
> That's part of what struck me about martyboi's story of
> the restaurant encounter. We'll never know what was going
> through his head, of course, but if *he* was thinking that
> his smile was a "gift," it might have been an unwanted one.
>
It appeared to me to be an ordinary, natural moment
I felt a real integrity and naturalness at that moment. His smile made me
happy! So I stole it form myself.
Here's what I observed.
I saw him in a local burrito place with his wife. He is a very noticeably
healthy in person...that is he appears to have a lot personal vitality the way
an athlete might.
I watched him go up to the soda fountain to get a drink. He arrived at the
fountain at the same ti
tive experiences that are important to me now.
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> > Answers interleaved:
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> > > This may be your own construction. Do you feel the same thing about
>
Answers interleaved:
> This may be your own construction. Do you feel the same thing about voodoo
> ceremonies? How about about a rasta smoke-in? A religious ritual involving
> killing a goat? A human?
Yes it might be my own construction - but its equally possible it is not.
Never been to
I don't know the answer to that, Curtis! Actually, I don't know the answer to
most important questions
However I think you are right, we all project our own "stuff" on our experience
and that influences how we interpret it. Isn't the whole world our own
construction?...perhaps I subconsciou
Though not strictly a TM meditator, I tend to believe in the ME. I have often
noticed an intense internal enlivening of "grace" in around spiritual groups of
various sorts.
I find this "enlivening" everywhere in so many settings - Christian churches
and monasteries, Buddhist venues and Hindu t
I think the election of Kennedy (Catholic) and Obama (mixed ethnicity) has
shown that the electorate can deflate the common "wisdom" about the kind of
person that is electable: making the future quite unpredictable. Romney's
religious orientation vis-a-vis Obama's "socialism" may be perceived a
When I was on staff at Cobb (1980), we had a lot of CP's (course
participants)who had great truly experiences - others not so much.
Sometimes we would have group meetings where individuals would share their
experiences.
On one occasion a CP proudly proclaimed they could see stars through the
Squid - marinated in it's own black ink sauce nothing compares!
Sorry, my previous post was sort of a joke. I do find some to be
materialistic..like most well-compensated silicon valley types. However, I
really like the quality of simplicity and generosity that I experience with AOL
people and Indians in particular.
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