[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-22 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fflmod fflmod@... wrote: I have not been in Fairfield in the last eleven years and so have not seen him in a while, but I can tell you the author of that letter used to listen to Rush Limbaugh on the radio every chance he got and used to go to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-22 Thread fflmod
I shop at Trader Joe's every week. I have a friend who moved to Beverly, MA from Denver and said one of the many things his wife likes about the move is is she can shop at Trader Joe's again. There are eight Traders Joe's stores within 2 to 8 miles of me. Maybe you need to spend more time going

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fflmod fflmod@... wrote: I shop at Trader Joe's every week. I have a friend who moved to Beverly, MA from Denver and said one of the many things his wife likes about the move is is she can shop at Trader Joe's again. There are eight Traders Joe's stores

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-22 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fflmod fflmod@... wrote: I shop at Trader Joe's every week. I have a friend who moved to Beverly, MA from Denver and said one of the many things his wife likes about the move is is she can shop at Trader Joe's again. There are eight Traders Joe's stores

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fflmod fflmod@ wrote: I shop at Trader Joe's every week. I have a friend who moved to Beverly, MA from Denver and said one of the many things his wife likes about the move is is she

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-22 Thread Ravi Yogi
My favorite grocery store was Trader Joe's as well. My love affair started in Seattle and continued for a long time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-22 Thread whynotnow7
I have found Safeway and even Lucky's have a much better selection than TJ's. I go to TJ's to buy Oregon Chai for my wife, but have noticed some of their in-store brands aren't very good, like much of the prepared food, TJ-branded frozen food, the sushi, and their odwalla-like protein drinks -

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-22 Thread Denise Evans
This is from 2006 on immigrating.  True? http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1067418.html --- On Mon, 8/22/11, turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-21 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fflmod fflmod@... wrote: What I want to know is how many sidhas were at the state fair or Trader Joe's instead of in Fairfield spreading their bliss. :) * * Ha! My first time experiencing both of these paradises today, and both were a very great joy

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-21 Thread Vaj
On Aug 21, 2011, at 1:06 AM, fflmod wrote: I have not been in Fairfield in the last eleven years and so have not seen him in a while, but I can tell you the author of that letter used to listen to Rush Limbaugh on the radio every chance he got and used to go to the course office to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-21 Thread emptybill
Wiki it Willi. Transcendentalism is based upon Kant and German Idealism. The Vedas and Upanishads are based upon Shruti - the self-revealing utterance of Vac. Another alternative meaning for transcendentalism is the classical philosophy that God transcends the manifest world. As John Scotus

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-21 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
Of course, all the teachers of the Upanishads were transcendentalists. Why do you think they all made reference to Brahman, the Transcendental Person? emptybill: Transcendentalism is based upon Kant and German Idealism. Indian idealism came long before German Idealism. All Indian

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-21 Thread emptybill
According to Shankara, citta-vritti nirodha by itself cannot lead to knowledge of Brahman. Only someone who has received the instructions (mahâvakya) pointing directly to Atman, as found in the whispered lineage of the Upanishads, will be able to generate correct knowledge (samyag-jñana).

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-20 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:29 AM, cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:36 PM, obbajeeba wrote: This is the most stupidest thing I have ever read

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-20 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Taimni: Nirodha pariNaama is that transformation of the mind in which it becomes *progressively* permeated by the condition of nirodha which intervenes *momentarily* [kSaNa-ically - card] between an impression which

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-20 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: snip Many-pointedness[es] [and] one-pointednesses[?*] decay [and] rise [is] mind's samaadhi-transformation (or stuff). *How does one write the possessives of words ending in double-s correctly?? Apostrophe-s:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-20 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
So, you think you or your sour grapes Patañjali guru-s know better than e.g. Vyaasa and Bhojadeva, what is the antecedent of the pronoun 'te'? LoL! Vaj: Vyutthana-samskaras will cause your consciousness to behave in a certain way. Says who? LoL! It is clearly stated in the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-20 Thread Vaj
On Aug 20, 2011, at 5:12 AM, cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:29 AM, cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:36 PM, obbajeeba

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-20 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
Nirodha pariNaama is that transformation of the mind in which it becomes *progressively* permeated by the condition of nirodha... Vaj: It's the natural result of the failure to maintain samadhi. Rinse-repeat-rinse-repeat… Cut out the monkish bull-shit. Nirodha just means

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-20 Thread Vaj
On Aug 20, 2011, at 10:53 AM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: Nirodha pariNaama is that transformation of the mind in which it becomes *progressively* permeated by the condition of nirodha... Vaj: It's the natural result of the failure to maintain samadhi.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-20 Thread emptybill
Great to know that the Upanishad Rishi-s had tri-kala-drishti, a clear view of the past/present/future. They were able to read Ralph Waldo Emerson and understand him (although written in English) and were suitably inspired to compose their consequent insights. Great job, Ralph. Willy Sez: All

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-20 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
emptybill: Great to know that the Upanishad Rishi-s had tri-kala-drishti, a clear view of the past/present/future. They were able to read Ralph Waldo Emerson and understand him (although written in English) and were suitably inspired to compose their consequent insights. Great job,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-20 Thread fflmod
I have not been in Fairfield in the last eleven years and so have not seen him in a while, but I can tell you the author of that letter used to listen to Rush Limbaugh on the radio every chance he got and used to go to the course office to complain that so-and-so was not doing his part to save

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-20 Thread fflmod
What I want to know is how many sidhas were at the state fair or Trader Joe's instead of in Fairfield spreading their bliss. :) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: * * Wow. I am (almost)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: This is the most stupidest thing I have ever read on FFL. IMHO It sure does cast a new light on MMY's Do nothing and accomplish everything and Damn democracy statements, doesn't it? No need to vote. Just sit on your butt and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread whynotnow7
Yes, let's get in that Time Machine and re-test the straw vote, only have the voting sidhas go to the dome instead. Well...what are we waiting for?? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: This is the most stupidest thing I have ever read on FFL. IMHO --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread Vaj
On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:36 PM, obbajeeba wrote: This is the most stupidest thing I have ever read on FFL. IMHO Interesting to see how sheltered some TB's still are. It's been known for decades that ME research is BS. Sounds like someone needs to get outside their own mindset a little more

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: Yes, let's get in that Time Machine and re-test the straw vote, only have the voting sidhas go to the dome instead. Well...what are we waiting for?? Dear Whynotnow; From the individual level on a communal scale, A

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread obbajeeba
If someone who is allowed, into the domes, has that kind of mindset, (the writer to the ledger about the Ron Paul/Domes escape haha) that is the type of person who should be looked at as being removed from the domes, add that mindset to the list of those kicked out, lol, and add back to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread whynotnow7
Hi Buck, I could not agree more. Grace surrounds and infuses every aspect of life. I am not necessarily buying into the specifics of what the writer is claiming though. It does not strike me as a particularly *graceful* letter. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread martyboi
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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:36 PM, obbajeeba wrote: This is the most stupidest thing I have ever read on FFL. IMHO Interesting to see how sheltered some TB's still are. It's been known for decades that ME research is BS.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi martyboi@... wrote: 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread Duveyoung
And then there's this experiment: http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-63912.html Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi martyboi@ wrote: Though not strictly a TM meditator, I tend

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread Vaj
On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:29 AM, cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:36 PM, obbajeeba wrote: This is the most stupidest thing I have ever read on FFL. IMHO Interesting to see how sheltered some TB's still are. It's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread Buck
knowledge v belief. Knowledge is self-evident and the other (belief) argument in faith. The distinction between belief and what we know is something that people like the doubters and haters here are not willing to grant because they evidently don't have the experience to know. Is hard to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread Buck
Yep. But, welcome, to the 21st Century where science and spirituality are approving each other in a way coming that has public policy implication for the whole community. Like it or not. Om and so sorry too for our meditation-quitters lurking here who could have been helping things but

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread martyboi
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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread martyboi
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 a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread curtisdeltablues
Thanks for the answers. This is a false polarity: I dunno Curtis, just because you bought the whole stinkin' enchilada for many years doesn't mean the opposite of everything you learned in the movement is the truth...dive for the pearls...they are there. This is not the intellectual dynamic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread martyboi
Apparently we are in a similar place...sounds like my resume. I am 55, initiated at 17. Did sidhis, lived on Staff at Cobb, hung out with Sri Sri and some Yogananda people. I always kept an emotional distance from the movement due to homophobia (theirs and mine) and which I now see as a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread curtisdeltablues
The greatest decade yet man! Thanks for the response. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi martyboi@... wrote: Apparently we are in a similar place...sounds like my resume. I am 55, initiated at 17. Did sidhis, lived on Staff at Cobb, hung out with Sri Sri and some Yogananda

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread whynotnow7
Jane Fonda was on Charlie Rose last night and she was talking about studies that show how people in their fifties are happier than those younger, because at 50+, they have been through all of the ups and downs of life. She said when we are younger, all of that future knowing stretches out

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 19, 2011, at 3:32 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: Jane Fonda was on Charlie Rose last night and she was talking about studies that show how people in their fifties are happier than those younger, because at 50+, they have been through all of the ups and downs of life. She said when we are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-19 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
curtisdeltablues: Thug hash smokers from Northern India... The 'Thugs' were worshippers of Kali, from South India. (the original assassins)... There is no historical evidence that the Muslim 'assassins' smoked hash. Sources: 'The Strangled Traveler' Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-18 Thread RoryGoff
* * Wow. I am (almost) speechless. To quote a movie I never saw, I weep for your species... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: Sidhas should have focused on Paul By Kelly Kirkpatrick, Fairfield | Aug 18, 2011

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-18 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: * * Wow. I am (almost) speechless. To quote a movie I never saw, I weep for your species... If I, an ex-Sidha, had gone to Ames, Rory Goff would have received one vote instead of none. But, regardless, Rory is still

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-18 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: * * Wow. I am (almost) speechless. To quote a movie I never saw, I weep for your species... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: If I, an ex-Sidha, had gone to Ames, Rory

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-18 Thread Buck
Yep, Kelly's one like the last of the Mohicans. Native, wild, untamed and original. Frankly, I'm with him. The problem is with these people who don't meditate. He's right. We don't just believe this, we know it. Like, who would just go off on some bus tour to Ames(?) It makes me

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-18 Thread obbajeeba
This is the most stupidest thing I have ever read on FFL. IMHO --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: Sidhas should have focused on Paul By Kelly Kirkpatrick, Fairfield | Aug 18, 2011

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-18 Thread jpgillam
Did you see Jon Stewart make fun of the fact that the media are treating Ron Paul like the 13th floor in a hotel? http://bit.ly/ovhmDI As a Ron Paul detractor, I enjoy the fact that he's being marginalized, but still... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

2011-08-18 Thread Robert
Well, it's because he advertizing himself as the 'Original Tea Party Guy'... And the Tea Party Folks...well, they are regarded by the main stream press as 'Crazy'...so... Plus the fact that they wanted the U.S. Govt. to default... And so he isn't really taken seriously, besides he has no charisma