yep (-:
From: awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Ritam Bhara Pragya and world
peace
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
A man walked by a pond and noticed a scorpion in it, drowning. He lifted the
scorpion out of the water and the scorpion stung him. Why did you do that, the
man asked. Because it's my nature to sting, replied the scorpion.
The perfection of the scorpion performing within its true dharma.Beautiful.
From: authfriend@... authfriend@...
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 12:35 PM
Subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Ritam Bhara Pragya and world peace
Well, there you go, Ann. See how we underestimate Share? She understood exactly
what you were asking and responded with a profound insight that spoke directly
to your question: It's a very big universe having plenty of room for all kinds
of paths and lifestyles and ways of living, of being in the world. And she
followed up with a brilliantly relevant teaching of Maharishi's: The dharma of
another brings danger.
Now aren't you glad you asked her to contribute?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Ann, I think it's a very big universe having plenty of room for all kinds of
paths and lifestyles and ways of living, of being in the world. Better one's
own dharma than the dharma of another, though higher. The dharma of another
brings danger.
From: awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@...
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: RE: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Ritam Bhara Pragya and world peace
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Yes. I was halfway kidding, but it was the only way I could think of to pose
the question, which was legitimate: if you acquire some physical object via
Ritam, where does it come from? Is it created out of thin air just for you? Or
did it already exist somewhere and was just brought to you?
Another example they used was if you want an apple, you'll find one in your
hand. I was tempted to ask if you'd get a specific variety of apple--Macintosh,
Golden Delicious, e.g.--or if it would be a sort of generic cosmic apple. But
given that they ignored my question about the phone book, I figured they either
didn't know or had no interest in the details.
Gimme a break, I'd only been meditating for around six months!
I think it's great. I love asking really literal questions when you get the big
spiel on things like ritam or other rather grandiose purported phenomena
possibilities. It is perfectly natural to ask the questions you did and it also
makes these people have to think a little and analyze how the thing might
actually work beyond some airy fairy 'fact' that it does. More people should
have taken the route you did instead of sitting there like numbskulls nodding
their fool heads in wonderment. (Share?)
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
you're kidding, did you really ask if someone somewhere wold be missing a page?
From: authfriend@... authfriend@...
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 9:13 AM
Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Ritam Bhara Pragya and world peace
FWIW, as a mere meditator, I first heard about Ritam in either late 1975 or
early 1976, on a residence course at which the teachers gave a lecture on the
TM-Sidhis.
Among the examples of Ritam they gave was the guy who needed to know a phone
number, who would find in his hands the appropriate page of the phone book. I
asked whether the page would have been generated de novo, or whether there was
some poor shlump somewhere who would then have a phone book with a missing page.
As absurd as the example was, I think it was actually a good theoretical
question. After all, we were hearing about Ritam for the first time and had no
idea what the mechanics involved. The teachers apparently assumed I was
unstressing and ignored it.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
My old friend Edmund Taylor who now lives in North Carolina claims that it was
in response to a question from him that Marshy first spoke of ritam - he says
there's a tape of it in the TM archives - it had to be in the 1970's cuz that's
when he did TTC - dunno if its true but that's what he claims
From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@...
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:44 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ritam Bhara Pragya and world peace
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