[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: snip There is no theory for why the Moon is so precisely positioned to cover the Sun exactly -- just a happenstance, not a certainty of the Earth-Moon formation process. In fact, it's a miracle. And, as was shown in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-27 Thread Duveyoung
authfriend wrote: Just one such arrangement between a star, a planet, and the planet's satellite might be chalked up to happy coincidence. But *two*? Astronomers tell us the orbit of the moon isn't eternally fixed, but drifts slowly; that this precise alignment wasn't the case eons

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: authfriend wrote: Just one such arrangement between a star, a planet, and the planet's satellite might be chalked up to happy coincidence. But *two*? Astronomers tell us the orbit of the moon isn't eternally

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-27 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: I'm not up on optics, but I believe that if the Moon covers the Sun from an earthly POV, then the Earth MUST cover the Sun from a lunar POV. So you can't have one, but must have two equal POVs, so then that would mean it's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-27 Thread Duveyoung
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity no_re...@... wrote: Sometimes I can weird myself out by thinking: How did all this come together so perfectly that now I am sitting in a condo on Mustang Island enjoying the internet? Then again, I can think of all the things that didn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-26 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: The eclipse may look spectacular. But in jyotish, an eclipse is not good for the country where the shadow is cast. Maharishi used to refuse to enter rooms in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: The eclipse may look spectacular. But in jyotish, an eclipse is not good for the country where

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-26 Thread Peter
Did you write that, emptybill? --- On Thu, 2/26/09, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: From: emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 12:40 AM In outer yoga, sun

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-26 Thread Vaj
On Feb 26, 2009, at 3:17 AM, John wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: The eclipse may look spectacular. But in jyotish, an eclipse is not good for the country where the shadow is cast.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-26 Thread Vaj
On Feb 26, 2009, at 12:40 AM, emptybill wrote: Or you could just smoke some weed and call it enlightenment. Other stoners will agree and this certainly will confirm it forever. Don't smoke too much.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-26 Thread Vaj
On Feb 26, 2009, at 3:33 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: For practitioners of the TM-Siddhi, their samyama about the Sun sutra should reveal to them the meaning of the eclipse, and how it affects the world as a whole. Is there anyone who can share this knowledge with the group? The fact that you would

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-26 Thread authfriend
All this discussion about eclipses of the sun in Vedic and tantric lore is very interesting. But the link in the initial post in the thread is to a video of an eclipse of the sun by the *earth* as seen from the *moon*, not an eclipse of the sun by the moon as seen from the earth (as the thread

[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: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim emptyb...@... wrote: 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-26 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: All this discussion about eclipses of the sun in Vedic and tantric lore is very interesting. But the link in the initial post in the thread is to a video of an eclipse of the sun by the *earth* as seen from the *moon*, not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-26 Thread Duveyoung
Maybe you don't know what you're losing when an eclipse happens. I posted this paragraph awhile ago, but it pertains: New concept: Once I took a Majorcan moonlight stroll with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -- along with about 200 others trailing him, and I don't remember his words, but his concept was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-25 Thread John
The eclipse may look spectacular. But in jyotish, an eclipse is not good for the country where the shadow is cast. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Spectacular video of the earth eclipsing the sun from Japan's Kayuga lunar orbiter:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-25 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: The eclipse may look spectacular. But in jyotish, an eclipse is not good for the country where the shadow is cast. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Spectacular video of the earth eclipsing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-25 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: The eclipse may look spectacular. But in jyotish, an eclipse is not good for the country where the shadow is cast. So I guess we'll be hearing bad news from the moon shortly, then, eh? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-25 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: The eclipse may look spectacular. But in jyotish, an eclipse is not good for the country where the shadow is cast. So I guess we'll be hearing bad news from the moon shortly, then, eh? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-25 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: The eclipse may look spectacular. But in jyotish, an eclipse is not good for the country where the shadow is cast. snip As with a lot of this stuff, if you believe it, you are stuck with it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-25 Thread Vaj
In inner yoga, the unification of the sun and the moon is the goal: samadhi. On Feb 25, 2009, at 8:24 PM, John wrote: The eclipse may look spectacular. But in jyotish, an eclipse is not good for the country where the shadow is cast.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-25 Thread emptybill
In outer yoga, sun and moon progressively illuminate the fields of outer and inner activity and define the phases of expansion and decrease. In inner yoga the unification of sun and moon means placing them together (samadhi) into a state of equal balance. In innermost yoga, the sun and moon

[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth eclipses the sun

2009-02-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: The eclipse may look spectacular. But in jyotish, an eclipse is not good for the country where the shadow is cast. Maharishi used to refuse to enter rooms in which chairs had been placed upside down. I assume you believe that is a