[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter/link to original posts

2008-02-25 Thread george_deforest
itsstevemartin@ wrote: Where is a link to the Chopra letter? Steve Go to Huffington Post where Chopra writes regular columns. Link to Huffington Post/Chopra: http://search.huffingtonpost.com/search/?sp_a=sp100395aasp_k=sp_p=all\ sp_f=ISO-8859-1sp_q=Chopra his Blog also appears on

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-24 Thread itsstevemartin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boyboy_8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got to read it today. I was shocked and dumbfounded. I could not Where is a link to the Chopra letter? Steve help but feel how very sad this was for Deepak and yet how through it all he expressed an undying love that

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter/link to original posts

2008-02-24 Thread deepaconn
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, itsstevemartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boyboy_8 no_reply@ wrote: Where is a link to the Chopra letter? Steve Go to Huffington Post where Chopra writes regular columns. Two pertaining to Maharishi include: The

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-23 Thread Tom
I wonder it that kind of thing didn't happen a lot. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: OK, Lurk, now I'm curious--what was it that happened that caused you to leave? The story, please. :) Nothing

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thing is, Chopra decided that he had better judgement than MMY and could do more. Which is certainly his choice, but raises an interesting question: if he really thought that MMY was enlightened, as he now claims, why

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: Thing is, Chopra decided that he had better judgement than MMY and could do more. Which is certainly his choice, but raises an interesting question: if he really thought

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
Lawson, the thing is, at some point you realize you have given your all. You have been given assignments, and you have fulfilled them. Sometimes beyond expectations. And then something happens which doesn't make sense, and you realize that it may be time to leave. At least that is my story.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-17 Thread lurkernomore20002000
Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, Lurk, now I'm curious--what was it that happened that caused you to leave? The story, please. :) Nothing earth shattering. I had some pretty good successes teaching in the midwest. Teaching many people, setting up events, celebrations,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-17 Thread boyboy_8
Thank you for your notes. NO, I have yet to read the other posts you refer to. I suppose I should. I do hope it is not a case of he said, no he didn't, yes he did, you were not there, he lied, etc. That would just turn my stomach and I'd just lose interest in this discussion very quickly. AS I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-17 Thread boyboy_8
Thank you for sharing that. All I was saying, I think, was that I am aware of how lost I feel (from time to time). The Chopra letter for some reason just knocked the wind right out of my gut. Perhaps there are still some ideas left in me, beliefs, that I had harbored that need to be examined

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Feb 17, 2008, at 10:38 AM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: OK, Lurk, now I'm curious--what was it that happened that caused you to leave? The story, please. :) Nothing earth shattering. I had some pretty good successes teaching in the midwest. Teaching many people, setting up events,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-17 Thread abutilon108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boyboy_8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are correct though, perhaps I just have to live with the puzzles and accept them for what they are, rather than try to sift and winnow. I could do that for the rest of my life and not really know for sure. Seeking

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-17 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, abutilon108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW -- About what did or didn't happen with Chopra and Maharishi -- I don't think it's possible to establish exactly what happened in any event in the past. The perception we had at the time was selective or

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-16 Thread lurkernomore20002000
boyboy_8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More and more I pray to God that I come to know what is true and what is false, regardless of how I will feel about it. Just want to know the truth. Fred, please spare us the dramatics. Grow up! You're play acting a jilted lover, and it is boring, I'm

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-16 Thread boyboy_8
I'm sorry my words gave you those feelings. I accept how you feel. Fred --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: boyboy_8 no_reply@ wrote: More and more I pray to God that I come to know what is true and what is false, regardless of how I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boyboy_8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got to read it today. I was shocked and dumbfounded. I could not help but feel how very sad this was for Deepak and yet how through it all he expressed an undying love that penetrated the personal highs and lows of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-16 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: authfriend jstein@ wrote: ...As I was told, the meeting between Maharishi and Chopra was very strained. Maharishi was grim and Chopra was insistent. Chopra made his case by saying I am an

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-16 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Rilke wrote, Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and learn to love the questions themselves. Wise words. I truly love the grand mystery.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-16 Thread lurkernomore20002000
authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...As I was told, the meeting between Maharishi and Chopra was very strained. Maharishi was grim and Chopra was insistent. Chopra made his case by saying I am an intelligent human being and I see that what these people under you are doing is wrong. I can

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-16 Thread lurkernomore20002000
boyboy_8 no_reply@ wrote: Just want to know the truth. FWIW Fred, I think many of us start with this simple desire. At at some point, assuming you don't capitulate to someone else's story, we realize it's not as easy a quest as we figured. I, and many others could go on and on about

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-16 Thread lurkernomore20002000
sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thing is, Chopra decided that he had better judgement than MMY and could do more. Which is certainly his choice, but raises an interesting question: if he really thought that MMY was enlightened, as he now claims, why would he assume his judgemnt was better

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-16 Thread tertonzeno
--Right, but being En. doesn't automatically imply good judgement. - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: authfriend jstein@ wrote: ...As I was told, the meeting between

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Chopra Letter

2008-02-16 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tertonzeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Right, but being En. doesn't automatically imply good judgement. the same as saying that just because it is a tree doesn't mean the branches will grow in a way that will please me. wassamatta you don' like trees or