[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a friend: A guy told me at lunch that Maharishi went a bit off when a NY Times reporter asked why he didn't offer TM free. We didn't see it but plan to tune in to a replay although it may be edited. Apparently

[FairfieldLife] Yffing and aasana, draft version

2006-03-18 Thread cardemaister
There are only a couple of suutras dealing with /aasana/ in /Yoga-darshanam/. The most obvious is II 46: sthira-sukham aasanam (steady-comfortable aasana) II 47: prayatna-shaithilyaanantasamaapattibhyaam Taimni: By relaxation of effort (pryatna-shaithilya) and meditation on the 'Endless'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread defenders_of_bhakti
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonyff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing is, if Maharishi is so enlightened, then all of his actions are guided by Nature and the responses of Nature to his actions, which are guided by Nature, are also guided by Nature. This would mean that the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is TM dhyaanam?

2006-03-18 Thread Dharma Mitra
We all, some times, withdraw naturally when we're consciously ensconsed in deep thought, motivated by love, passion, compassion, lust, we focus dearly upon the object of our ideation and all too often we forget about surroundings, natural pratyahara. Taking these delights into our attitude

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
He can't go to the US or India, from what I understand, for various legal reasons. Maybe a couple of other countries. You mean you really hadn't heard about the subpoenas over here? Sal On Mar 17, 2006, at 10:57 PM, gullible fool wrote: > why MMY is banned > from so many countries, and on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonyff anonyff@ wrote: The thing is, if Maharishi is so enlightened, then all of his actions are guided by Nature and the responses of Nature to his actions, which

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread defenders_of_bhakti
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonyff anonyff@ wrote: The thing is, if Maharishi is so enlightened, then all of his actions

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
Yeah, asking MMY perfectly obvious questions about his 4 most famous followers is really pushing the poor guy around. I mean, who could have predicted he'd ask that? That awful reporter pushed so hard it's a wonder MMY didn't just fall right off the brink at that point. Why you and the other

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonyff anonyff@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread defenders_of_bhakti
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course not Barry.It just means believing that nature runs things, and that, if I am not mistaken is the scientific paradigma. About evaluations, I am surprised you don't recognize tongue-in-check. Maybe,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread defenders_of_bhakti
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No thanks. I'm in the middle of a good book right now. I know that you have no choice about what to read, because nature makes all those kind of decisions for you, but since I do, I'm going to stick with the one I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry, as you seem to be so obsessed with this topic... I'm poking fun at *your* obsession. From my point of view, you are hand-picking science that just happens to support a belief you already hold. But it's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: No thanks. I'm in the middle of a good book right now. I know that you have no choice about what to read, because nature makes all those

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/18/06 12:31 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, just a simple question for those who have actually seen the videotape. Were these reporters in the same room with Maharishi, or was he talking to them via a video feed? Video feed. Yahoo!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread defenders_of_bhakti
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, asking MMY perfectly obvious questions about his 4 most famous followers is really pushing the poor guy around. I mean, who could have predicted he'd ask that? That awful reporter pushed so hard it's a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference on 3/18/06 5:52 AM, Sal Sunshine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, asking MMY perfectly obvious questions about his 4 most famous followers is really pushing the poor guy around. I mean, who could have predicted he'd ask that? That awful

[FairfieldLife] Caste system

2006-03-18 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Caste system Question - - - - - - - - - - In your vedic system, India establish caste system. If so, is this most harmful for society? Maharishi - - - - - - - - - -(Laughs) Caste is not harmful. That is what which makes a society. Caste. Mango is one caste. Apple is one caste. Banana

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY answers ?s from Brit reporter

2006-03-18 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante no_reply@ wrote: Maharishi's Weekly Press Conference Wed 8 March 2006 Including questions from David Jones, Daily Mail reporter England Thanks for

Re: [FairfieldLife] MMY and NY Times, CNN

2006-03-18 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 3/17/06 8:45:13 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MMY: Comes from the role of the parent to nourish the children. It is beyondyour understanding to appreciate this. Don¹t waste my time. I love it! MMY has caught on to the American Media!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, asking MMY perfectly obvious questions about his 4 most famous followers is really pushing the poor guy around. I mean, who could have predicted he'd ask that? That awful reporter pushed so hard it's a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-18 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question - - - - - - - - - - In your vedic system, India establish caste system. If so, is this most harmful for society? Maharishi - - - - - - - - - -(Laughs) Caste is not harmful. That is what which makes a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, asking MMY perfectly obvious questions about his 4 most famous followers BTW, the questions weren't so obvious. He started with a question about celebrity, apparently suspecting, correctly, that MMY would say

[FairfieldLife] Re: a spirit reader at an ashram who believes he can contact Lennon ...

2006-03-18 Thread lurkernomore20002000
The ex-Beatle, who was murdered over 25 years ago, is the latest subject of a pay-per-view seance arranged by the producers of a 2003 attempt to contact the dead Princess Diana. That show made money but was slammed by critics as hitting a new low in television tastelessness.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti no_reply@ wrote: Of course not Barry.It just means believing that nature runs things, and that, if I am not mistaken is the scientific

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March Attachment Test :-)

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonyff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Just for the record, Michael has done his share of picking on in the past--big-time, in fact. I can't recall whether you were ever on TMNews or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Why you and the other TBs here are always so annoyed by questions about the Beatles or even any references to them is beyond me, since without them it's unlikely most others would ever have heard of MMY. Sal,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonyff anonyff@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March Attachment Test :-)

2006-03-18 Thread mrfishey2001
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Dean Goodman I've never met him, so I have no idea what he's like in person. I have seen him behave online in ways I found quite repellent. But if you can look past the goody-goody tone of his long

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March Attachment Test :-)

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Michael Dean Goodman I've never met him, so I have no idea what he's like in person. I have seen him behave online in ways I found quite

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-18 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question - - - - - - - - - - In your vedic system, India establish caste system. If so, is this most harmful for society? Maharishi - - - - - - - - - -(Laughs) Caste is not harmful. That is what which makes a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March - Hackle

2006-03-18 Thread tazarmfune
(Good question. What *is* a hackle??) Definitions of Hackle on the Web: * a feather, usually from the neck area of a chicken; can be any color (dyed or natural); hackle quality, such as the stiffness of the individual fibers and amount of web, determines the type of fly tied with the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-18 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/18/06 10:15 AM, Irmeli Mattsson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MMY has been successful in surrounding himself with yes-men. That success has however created a situation were he can get no critical assessment and he is totally free to publicly humiliate himself, when he clearly is getting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Caste in India is a rigid system of social classes based on birth. This rigidity brings with it awful, unnatural tensions. I wonder what he means when he says, We want to eliminate all the different caste.

[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Why does T/M cost so much] TM mantra

2006-03-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: snip you are correct in stating that *Nothing* in life is more special or closer to the transcendent than any other. However, it doesn't follow

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is TM dhyaanam?

2006-03-18 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is TM dhyaanam? on 3/17/06 3:19 PM, Dharma Mitra at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We all, some times, withdraw naturally when we're consciously ensconsed in deep thought, motivated by love, passion, compassion, lust, we focus dearly upon the object of our ideation

[FairfieldLife] Amma's N. American Tour

2006-03-18 Thread Rick Archer
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Caste system

2006-03-18 Thread Ingegerd
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: Question - - - - - - - - - - In your vedic system, India establish caste system. If so, is this most harmful for society?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March Attachment Test :-)

2006-03-18 Thread mrfishey2001
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, hmm, you haven't read it yet, I gather. My definition of poly is a little bigger than what a number of people think it is. Poly means 'many.' Amory means 'love.' We don't say polysexuality. We don't call

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is TM dhyaanam?

2006-03-18 Thread Dharma Mitra
Hello Rick, Thanks for the clarification. The culture is not my original. It's part of our Western tradition, at least since Josephus and probably before, to be exact in the facts and that the facts last eternally. In the tradition of shastra, a story may morph, including its attributions,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March Attachment Test :-)

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mrfishey2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Oh, hmm, you haven't read it yet, I gather. My definition of poly is a little bigger than what a number of people think it is. Poly means

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 16, 2006, at 10:11 PM, bbrigante wrote: didn't see the tape with NYT reporter, but last week I watched MOU live (I don't know the date of the press conference) with a reporter in the MOU studio from

[FairfieldLife] McPheever!

2006-03-18 Thread cardemaister
Whoa! She's got that hot (well, perhaps a bit 2) eaves arse, and I still think she might be a mild incarnation of Elvis the Pelvis! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: Yeah, asking MMY perfectly obvious questions about his 4 most famous

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: [snip] Why you and the other TBs here are always so annoyed by questions about the Beatles or even any references to them is beyond me,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: Yeah, asking MMY perfectly obvious questions about his 4 most famous followers BTW, the questions weren't so obvious. He started with a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
Methinks you protesteth *way* too loudly, Judy. Sal On Mar 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, authfriend wrote: Not true, at least of the post (mine) Sal was commenting on.  Not only am I not a TB, but I wasn't in the least annoyed at the reporters' questions on the Beatles, and there was *nothing* in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
What a bizarre picture. Sal On Mar 18, 2006, at 2:00 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Why you and the other TBs here are always so annoyed by questions about > the Beatles or even any references to

[FairfieldLife] Purusha housing going up in Vlodrop

2006-03-18 Thread Rick Archer
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[FairfieldLife] Raja of Switzerland interview (in German)

2006-03-18 Thread bbrigante
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[FairfieldLife] Photo-mosaic of MMY

2006-03-18 Thread Vaj
 http://www.tinyurl.com/cmay6 -    "Things are not as they seem,     nor are they otherwise"                             --a Buddhist Sutra To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Methinks you protesteth *way* too loudly, Judy. Don't you just wish, honey buns. You screwed up, twice, and you're too chicken to admit it. Sal On Mar 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, authfriend wrote: Not true,

Re: [FairfieldLife] [was Re: Why does T/M cost so much] TM mantra

2006-03-18 Thread Vaj
On Mar 18, 2006, at 12:23 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: I remain unconvinced. I still think that people believe this because they were told that it was true, in many cases by those who were selling these better vehicles. Saying it doesn't necessarily make it true. The analogy I think is

[FairfieldLife] 'Maharishi's Recent Interviews'

2006-03-18 Thread Robert Gimbel
My feeling with both the English interviewer and the New York Times interviewer, were the same. Both interviewers were questioning the validity of Maharishi's teaching, either by re-hashing the past, Or by criticizing how much is being charged for starting TM, and the current structure of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Peace Rally on Square Sunday March 19 Noon-1pm Jimmy Moore Concert

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just returned from a large rally here in Walnut Creek in the East Bay of the San Francisco area. It is undoubtably the largest rally they had so far well over 1,000 in attendance. At the rally Congressman George

Re: [FairfieldLife] Purusha housing going up in Vlodrop

2006-03-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
Sure beats the MD trailers. Sal On Mar 18, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Rick Archer wrote: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/7105

[FairfieldLife] 'Lennon's Last Interview'

2006-03-18 Thread Robert Gimbel
I remember listening to, John Lennon's last interview, given the night before he was struck down. He spent quite a bit of time discussing Maharishi and his feelings towards him. He seems apologetic, saying that he felt he had been too harsh toward him. And said something about looking to him

[FairfieldLife] MMY's fortune-cookie Geneva

2006-03-18 Thread qntmpkt
--You decide: which would be a better place to live in: 1. The old Geneva, or MMY's proposed new Geneva? Click on to the Raja Felix homepage and then to Reconstruction of Geneva. http://tinyurl.com/rrvle --- End forwarded message --- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY's fortune-cookie Geneva

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, qntmpkt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --You decide: which would be a better place to live in: 1. The old Geneva, or MMY's proposed new Geneva? But the new one is so nice and *straight*! Click on to the Raja Felix homepage and then to Reconstruction of

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY's fortune-cookie Geneva

2006-03-18 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, qntmpkt qntmpkt@ wrote: --You decide: which would be a better place to live in: 1. The old Geneva, or MMY's proposed new Geneva? But the new one is so nice and *straight*!

[FairfieldLife] Love Chooses You (was Re: Illusion of individuality; labels; true bhakti; the story of Guru Dev and his cave

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Dean Goodman
jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Dean Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THE STRUGGLE OF INDIVIDUALITY TO PERPETUATE ITS ILLUSION Hi Michael, it took me awhile to get around to reading this. Thanks again for a brilliantly written piece. Dear Jim, You are very welcome! It's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Love Chooses You (was Re: Illusion of individuality; labels; true bhakti; the story of Guru Dev and his cave

2006-03-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Mar 18, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Michael Dean Goodman wrote: So our individual intellect may find that to express this devotion through finite words and linear concepts, it speaks of devotion to Guru Dev, the individual form, the personality, etc., because that's all it can deal with.  But the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March Attachment Test :-)

2006-03-18 Thread mrfishey2001
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen him behave online in ways I found quite repellent. But if you can look past the goody-goody tone of his long dissertations, he has a real genius for explaining MMY's teaching, I think. Huh, I guess we must

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Maharishi's Recent Interviews'

2006-03-18 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My feeling with both the English interviewer and the New York Times interviewer, were the same. Both interviewers were questioning the validity of Maharishi's teaching, either by re-hashing the past, Or by

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Why you and the other TBs here are always so annoyed by questions about the Beatles or even any references to them is beyond me, since without them it's unlikely most others would ever have heard of

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Maharishi's Recent Interviews'

2006-03-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Robert Gimbel wrote: Maharishi predicted that within six months or so, the effect would become visible to the press. Boy, does this ˆ sound familiar. Robert, please do me a favor and mark your calendar for September 18, 2006, at which time I'd like you to report the good news in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread gullible fool
I am familiar with the subpoenas, but being banned is a whole 'nother story. --- Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He can't go to the US or India, from what I understand, for various legal reasons. Maybe a couple of other countries. You mean you really hadn't heard about the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
OK, maybe that was the wrong word. I have heard he won't come for fear of being subpoenaed. Sal On Mar 18, 2006, at 9:20 PM, gullible fool wrote: I am familiar with the subpoenas, but being banned is a whole 'nother story.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread anon_astute_ff
Well, TM was officially banned in Indonesia in the mid 70's (during/just after Mario and Gabby Urtsin (sp), powerhouse german teachers, taught there). I assume it is still banned. And assume that it is banned in any number of other Islamic countries. I am guessing it would not be an easy sell in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, TM was officially banned in Indonesia in the mid 70's (during/just after Mario and Gabby Urtsin (sp), powerhouse german teachers, taught there). I assume it is still banned. And assume that it is banned in any

[FairfieldLife] Shrine in Varanasi, India, is considered holy by Hindus and Muslims alike

2006-03-18 Thread anon_astute_ff
Braids of Faith at Baba's Temple: A Hindu-Muslim Idyll, NYTimes By SOMINI SENGUPTA Published: March 17, 2006 VARANASI, India — They came to banish ghosts, find a cure for eczema, seek succor for a cheating husband or an unruly child. Their feet bare, their heads covered, the believers, both

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: Well, TM was officially banned in Indonesia in the mid 70's (during/just after Mario and Gabby Urtsin (sp), powerhouse german teachers,

[FairfieldLife] Love Chooses You (was Re: Illusion of individuality; labels; true bhakti; the story of Guru Dev and his cave

2006-03-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Dean Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THE STRUGGLE OF INDIVIDUALITY TO PERPETUATE ITS ILLUSION Hi Michael, it took me awhile to get around to reading

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Maharishi's Recent Interviews'

2006-03-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel babajii_99@ wrote: snip he is concentrating on creating the effect, and setting up in countries which he is adopting( one being Switzerland), which the groups of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Maharishi's Recent Interviews'

2006-03-18 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 jyouells@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel babajii_99@ wrote: snip he is concentrating on creating the effect, and setting up in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 3/18/06 12:31 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, just a simple question for those who have actually seen the videotape. Were these reporters in the same room with Maharishi, or was he talking

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Maharishi's Recent Interviews'

2006-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's always six months Right. He does this to break our attachment to external 'rescue', and to become Self motivated. He does this for the same reason that software companies sell futures by touting the

[FairfieldLife] Re: John Nash

2006-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine went to a residence course Charlie Donahue gave at the Swiss Meadows facility in western MA in January of probably 1976 and later told me Andy Kaufman was on the course doing his foreign man act

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Maharishi's Recent Interviews'

2006-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My feeling with both the English interviewer and the New York Times interviewer, were the same. Both interviewers were questioning the validity of Maharishi's teaching, either by re-hashing the past, Or by

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purusha housing going up in Vlodrop

2006-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
If you were a reporter, listening to someone who is talking about raising money for world peace, and you had just walked past a construction site on which housing is being built for millionaires with the money that has been raised so far, would not a few questions arise in your mind? --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: [snip] Why you and the other TBs here are always so annoyed by

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a bizarre picture. Sal ...it was the Sixties...and fish lens were all in vogue then... On Mar 18, 2006, at 2:00 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Maharishi's Recent Interviews'

2006-03-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I think the difference, Robert, is that the reporters actually *live* in that world. Maharishi doesn't. The reporters deal with the wire feeds from around the world, every day, and with seeing its problems in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, asking MMY perfectly obvious questions about his 4 most famous followers is really pushing the poor guy around. I mean, who could have predicted he'd ask that? That awful reporter pushed so hard it's a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Robert Gimbel
(snip) Why you and the other TBs here are always so annoyed by questions about the Beatles or even any references to them is beyond me, since without them it's unlikely most others would ever have heard of MMY. Maharishi's message was not at all clear, as translated by the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread anon_astute_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe its different with the generation I understand you belong to - that big spoiled, lard-assed congregation of whining no-gooders born just after WWII, whose sole accomplishment was to roll in the mud at Woodstock

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: Yeah, asking MMY perfectly obvious questions about his 4 most famous followers is really pushing the poor guy around. I mean, who could have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread Ingegerd
With all that Damn the Democracy and Scorpioland and Caste systems, where women is less worth than men, he may be wished welcome in Islamic Countries. Ingegerd --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, TM was officially banned in Indonesia in the

[FairfieldLife] Combining Several FFL Favorite Topics

2006-03-18 Thread anon_astute_ff
Iraqi cleric wants gays killed in most severe way 03.16.2006 12:00 AM EST In the midst of sectarian violence that threatens to drag Iraq into civil war, the country's influential Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has issued a violent death order against gays and lesbians on his Web

[FairfieldLife] Women Spreading Their Eggs

2006-03-18 Thread anon_astute_ff
Women touting their bodies to sell dream of the perfect child From James Bone in New York THE unnamed women post their photographs and vital statistics on the internet to sell their services. No 844, a 26-year-old aspiring banker of English descent with a 34in bust, straight brown hair and high

[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest press conference

2006-03-18 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz peterklutz@ wrote: Maybe its different with the generation I understand you belong to - that big spoiled, lard-assed congregation of whining no-gooders born