[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-16 Thread Buck
> > > > > "Maybe one day the TMO will schism into two sects, the rationalists >and > > the bhaktis," > > > > Well yes, the schism has happened. Have a look at the 'oldest' FFL messages > using that 'oldest' button under messages, this stand-off with the > President's Office and meditators

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-16 Thread Buck
> > "Maybe one day the TMO will schism into two sects, the rationalists >and the > bhaktis," > Well yes, the schism has happened. Have a look at the 'oldest' FFL messages using that 'oldest' button under messages, this stand-off with the President's Office and meditators gets chronicled thro

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So, the birthday celebrations could be meditator events, and open > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > So, the birthday celebrations could be meditator events, and open to > > > > > everyone. WIsh you could have gone. > > > > > > > > > > Having said t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread curtisdeltablues
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > So, the birthday celebrations could be meditator events, and open to > > > > everyone. WIsh you could have gone. > > > > > > > > Having said this, I think it is rather interesting that your next post > > > > is about viewing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
> > > > > > So, the birthday celebrations could be meditator events, and open to > > > everyone. WIsh you could have gone. > > > > > > Having said this, I think it is rather interesting that your next post is > > > about viewing Braco! Whether watching Braco online qualifies as "seeing > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
This stand-off that the President's Office makes with meditators, keeping them out of the high guru celebrations at January 12 and guru purnima in the summer, goes back nearly 20 years. To the early 1990's. > > It is interesting that the President's Office here is nursing this legacy of > the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread futur.musik
Perhaps they ran out of *carob cake* and had to limit the audience somehow. Dumb PR move. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Ditto, Susan. Although I wouldn't want to endorse it, I > can sort of grasp the rationale for not letting folks > who might conceivably be a ris

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread authfriend
Ditto, Susan. Although I wouldn't want to endorse it, I can sort of grasp the rationale for not letting folks who might conceivably be a risk for using non-MMY techniques to participate in program in the domes. But MMY's birthday celebration is not a matter of doing program, so what conceivable ra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread obbajeeba
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > > > > > > So, the birthday celebrations could be meditator events, and > > > open to everyone. WIsh you could

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Susan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > > > > So, the birthday celebrations could be meditator events, and > > open to everyone. WIsh you could have gone. > > > > Having said this, I think it is rather interesting tha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > > So, the birthday celebrations could be meditator events, and > open to everyone. WIsh you could have gone. > > Having said this, I think it is rather interesting that your > next post is about viewing Braco! Whether watching Braco > onl

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Susan
Doug, I am really sorry you could not attend Maharishi's Birthday event in the Dome. I think you hit upon the way for the Raja's to extricate themselves form the problem they face (ie not letting people who have seen other saints in the Dome, and yet wanting to include everyone in certain celeb

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread merudanda
REINCARNATION AS FAMILY BUSINESS: since you had been in this kind [:D] of business Film Review: ..acquainted American audiences with the Tibetan Buddhist belief that the souls of great lamas are reincarnated in newborns (which means that perhaps in Buddhism, unlikeHinduism, one can progress from

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
It is interesting that the President's Office here is nursing this legacy of theirs still, that they can't just host a meditator's celebration. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > yep, not open or welcome to them neither. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
Yeah, I got neighbors down the road here who were with Maharishi in California in the early 60's on courses with him too all along. 50 years meditators and they can't go to movement celebrations for lack of a program badge neither. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > Yup, a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
yep, not open or welcome to them neither. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > Yeah, I got neighbors down the road here who were with Maharishi in > California in the early 60's on courses with him too all along. 50 years > meditators and they can't go to movement celebratio

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
Yup, a bunch of my meditation courses were led by Maharishi himself. My relationship to him goes back a ways that way. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > I was 17 when I was first on a course with Maharishi. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
I was 17 when I was first on a course with Maharishi. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > Yep, I'm an old long-time Iowa meditator an not included no more for lack of > a badge. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
Yep, I'm an old long-time Iowa meditator an not included no more for lack of a badge. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "futur.musik" wrote: > > > > > > > > A

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "futur.musik" wrote: > > > > > > A very clear thinker - from this comes a movement which provides millions > > > wit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-14 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "futur.musik" wrote: > > > > A very clear thinker - from this comes a movement which provides millions > > with a technique for realization. Happy (belated) Birthday to Maharishi! > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread merudanda
"the best"? no postal or editing service necessary. Judy (ourfriend).. What'd he have to say? He has been said to have said that it will take the world 400 years to understand what he was saying- so take your time. We are organizing yagya on this occasion too. The price of the yagya for one day

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: > > ..is it not more convenient to be reincarnated into a dog? > --easier to recognise the old outworn rag [:D] All this reminds me of a great sig line used years ago on a forum called alt.buddha.short.fat.guy by a poster who called himsel

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread merudanda
..is it not more convenient to be reincarnated into a dog? --easier to recognise the old outworn rag [:D] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: > > > > lol > > and you as a dog owner please consider this(really

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread futur.musik
I was surfing around on my pc out in the studio and I remember his voice. Not out loud or anything, but in my head, kind of like the subtle sight only it works with all of the senses. I was surprised and then through the same process of thought I began speaking with him. Nothing memorable, just

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread obbajeeba
It is Friday the 13th! The 12th was very nice and special. The small group was auspiciously adhered with more than one and smaller than five, a very enjoyable and delicious celebration of simple foods. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogro

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "futur.musik" wrote: > > I found myself speaking with him the other evening. Must've > been the cognac...;-) How's he doing? What'd he have to say? If you talk to him again, please give him our best. (Well, the best of *some* of us, anyway!) > > --- In F

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread futur.musik
I found myself speaking with him the other evening. Must've been the cognac...;-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "futur.musik" wrote: > > > > A very clear thinker - from this comes a movement which provides millions >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "futur.musik" wrote: > > A very clear thinker - from this comes a movement which provides millions > with a technique for realization. Happy (belated) Birthday to Maharishi! > > Thank you again for the life changing techniques of TM and TMSP, and the > e

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread futur.musik
A very clear thinker - from this comes a movement which provides millions with a technique for realization. Happy (belated) Birthday to Maharishi! Thank you again for the life changing techniques of TM and TMSP, and the engineering ability to take this fragile technique and spread it world wide

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread merudanda
hilarious wouldn't Mu. or Woof. give your dog instant enlightment? ---Mu-so the scriptures says BTW You do teach your dog how to read?do you..? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: > > > > lol > > and you as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread merudanda
hilarious wouldn't Mu. or Woof. give your dog instant enlightment? ---so the scriptures says BTW You do teach your dog how to read?do you..? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: > > > > lol > > and you as a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: > > lol > and you as a dog owner please consider this(really did mean no > disrespect): > Regarding dogs reincarnating. Can a dog come back in another > life, and will it come back to its current owner? According > to the website, many pe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread merudanda
lol and you as a dog owner please consider this(really did mean no disrespect): Regarding dogs reincarnating. Can a dog come back in another life, and will it come back to its current owner? According to the website, many pet owners hope this is the case. Reminds of A.S. King's novel, The Dust

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread turquoiseb
That's hilarious. Great find. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: > > Reincarnation Bank was originally set up for Elliott Trevesk who > has now decided to give the banking facility to all believers of > reincarnation... So would the "password check" involve a simple passwor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread merudanda
Reincarnation Bank was originally set up for Elliott Trevesk who has now decided to give the banking facility to all believers of reincarnation Reincarnation Bank still rocks Gibraltar The name said it all. There was the Reincarnation Bank asking the public to deposit their valuables with them

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-13 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > Happy January 12th > > Maharishi's Message to Peaceless and Sufferings > > (Handwritten text on the inside cover of "Beacon Light of the > Himalayas" published in 1955) > > Oh ye of the peace less and suffering humanity! > > My ha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > As a teacher I admired once said so aptly, "It'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > As a teacher I admired once said so aptly, "It's > > a DOS planet." > > Maharishi as Steve Jobs, aka "Reality Distortion Field?" Maha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> > >> Exactly what I have been saying, the carrot and the stick routine. > >> > > > > Better to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Letter from Mother Divine lady: > > > > > A glorious capital is being established there in > > the center of India to radiate an influence of peace to > > the whole world. Pictures of plans for this new Capital

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-16 Thread Peter
And who will read the funeral rights over the TMO? --- wayback71 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I bet in about 10 yrs the tmo will be marketing > some kind of program > > "to ensure an auspicious

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-16 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I bet in about 10 yrs the tmo will be marketing some kind of program > "to ensure an auspicious birth" next time around. snip > Bingo! I can imagine several things: yagyas for before you actually die,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-16 Thread a_non_moose_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Letter from Mother Divine lady: > > > > > > > > A glorious capital is being established there in > > > the center of Indi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-16 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/16/06 12:53 PM, markmeredith2002 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I bet in about 10 yrs the tmo will be marketing some kind of program > "to ensure an auspicious birth" next time around. Most of us started > when the central teaching was that tm was all that was necessary and a > 5 yr plan fo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-16 Thread Vaj
On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Alex Stanley wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly what I have been saying, the carrot and the stick routine. Better to be the carrot than to chase it. Rather be the carrot, the chaser and the space in between as a non-dual tot

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-16 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Exactly what I have been saying, the carrot and the stick routine. Better to be the carrot than to chase it. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-16 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 1/16/06 1:05:14 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I bet in about 10 yrs the tmo will be marketing some kind of program"to ensure an auspicious birth" next time around.  Most of us startedwhen the central teaching was that tm was all that was ne

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I bet in about 10 yrs the tmo will be marketing some kind of > program "to ensure an auspicious birth" next time around. Either that or some kind of Bardo teaching borrowed from the Tibetan in which one ha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-16 Thread Premanand Paul Mason
Since nature doesn't seem to be guided by morality, but by urge and by force, what on earth does 'in accord with total Natural Law' mean? It seems instead merely to be a euphemism meaning to agree with whatever MMY is saying at any one time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-16 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Letter from Mother Divine lady: > > > > > A glorious capital is being established there in > > the center of India to radiate an influence of peace to > > the whole world. Pictures of plans for this new Capital >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-16 Thread TurquoiseB
> Letter from Mother Divine lady: > > A glorious capital is being established there in > the center of India to radiate an influence of peace to > the whole world. Pictures of plans for this new Capital > were extremely inspiring and beautiful. Doesn't this just say it all? "Pictures of plan