[FairfieldLife] Re: Morning Meditation

2012-04-29 Thread Buck
Om, Visit Thy plantation, Grant us Om, a gracious rain! Om, revive us! Om, revive us! All our help must come from you! Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit, because He is in all hearts. The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Morning Meditation

2012-04-29 Thread Buck
All will come to desolation, Unless Thou return again. Om, revive us! Om, revive us! All our help must come from you! Om, Visit Thy plantation, Grant us Om, a gracious rain! Om, revive us! Om, revive us! All our help must come from you! Heart is merely another name for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Morning Meditation

2012-04-29 Thread Buck
Keep no longer at a distance, Shower upon us a graceful rain. Om, revive us! Om, revive us! All our help must come from you! All will come to desolation, Unless Thou return again. Om, revive us! Om, revive us! All our help must come from you! Om, Visit Thy plantation,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Morning Meditation

2012-04-29 Thread Buck
Lest for want of Thy assistance, Every plant should droop and die. Om, revive us! Om, revive us! All our help must come from you! Keep no longer at a distance, Shower upon us a graceful rain. Om, revive us! Om, revive us! All our help must come from you! All will come to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Morning Meditation

2012-04-29 Thread Buck
Om, revive us! Om, revive us! All our help must come from you! Lest for want of Thy assistance, Every plant should droop and die. Om, revive us! Om, revive us! All our help must come from you! Keep no longer at a distance, Shower upon us a graceful rain. Om, revive

[FairfieldLife] Re: Morning Meditation

2012-04-29 Thread Buck
Om, Return Again. Om, revive us! Om, revive us! All our help must come from you! Lest for want of Thy assistance, Every plant should droop and die. Om, revive us! Om, revive us! All our help must come from you! Keep no longer at a distance, Shower upon us a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness

2012-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
The world is an old perv dressed as a monk who molests young women and pretends to be a guru? We know you're a fibber, but do you have to be a hypocrite as well, Vaj? Everyone knows you just posted an article from your guru Trungpa's Shambhala Sun - the paper that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness

2012-04-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
turquoiseb: MailOnline not only got pranked... Yeah, you pranked the world with your Rama 'American Buddhism', now you're reduced to a frequent fibber on FFL! Between your guru, Rama, and Vaj's guru, Trungpa, you guys probably set back the Buddhist movement by at least fifty years! Rick

[FairfieldLife] People have really missed the point...

2012-04-29 Thread turquoiseb
...of sippin' liquors. A good tequila, a good Scotch, a good vodka...you don't *mix* these spirits with things. You sip them, for their own flavor and taste. They are standalone pleasures. What you *don't* do is chug them to get quickly drunk. That's what mixed drinks are for...to fool you

[FairfieldLife] Re: People have really missed the point...

2012-04-29 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: ...of sippin' liquors. A good tequila, a good Scotch, a good vodka...you don't *mix* these spirits with things. You sip them, for their own flavor and taste. They are standalone pleasures. What you *don't* do is

[FairfieldLife] Re: People have really missed the point...

2012-04-29 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: That said, this is a collection of the worst flavored liquors ever. If you've ever been a sippin' liquor kinda guy or gal, they will probably horrify you, as they did me.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Follies -- If the present isn't cuttin' it, show 'em the future

2012-04-29 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I understand completely. I am now involved in a family viewing of Downton Abbey, with the aforementioned ex. And unlike the previous two forays into her TV taste, I'm thoroughly enjoying this one, so I'm often

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness

2012-04-29 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams richard@... wrote: turquoiseb: MailOnline not only got pranked... Yeah, you pranked the world with your Rama 'American Buddhism', now you're reduced to a frequent fibber on FFL! Between your guru, Rama, and Vaj's guru,

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Follies -- If the present isn't cuttin' it, show 'em the future

2012-04-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: snip In this season of all things Titanic, the best thing I saw was on the National Geographic channel: Titanic: Case Closed. Have you been to NG mag's Titanic Web site? http://ngm.com/titanic I'm not a Titanic maven, but

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Follies -- If the present isn't cuttin' it, show 'em the future

2012-04-29 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: snip In this season of all things Titanic, the best thing I saw was on the National Geographic channel: Titanic: Case Closed. Have you been to NG mag's

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Follies -- If the present isn't cuttin' it, show 'em the future

2012-04-29 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: I understand completely. I am now involved in a family viewing of Downton Abbey, with the aforementioned ex. And unlike the previous two forays into

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Morning Meditation

2012-04-29 Thread Emily Reyn
An Old Celtic Blessing May the blessing of light be on you— light without and light within. May the blessed sunlight shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire. From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Follies -- If the present isn't cuttin' it, show 'em the future

2012-04-29 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: I understand completely. I am now involved in a family viewing of Downton

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Follies -- If the present isn't cuttin' it, show 'em the future

2012-04-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: snip In this season of all things Titanic, the best thing I saw was on the National

[FairfieldLife] Sexual abuse in the Transcendental Meditation movement, was Mahamudra and...

2012-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2012, at 12:39 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: In your opinion, are there more child abusers and rapists amongst the tibetan Buddhist abbottery than in the Catholic glergy ? Apparently, child abusers are involved in the Transcendental Meditation community in Fairfield, IA and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Morning Meditation

2012-04-29 Thread turquoiseb
New (I've never seen them before, and I'm a fan) translations of some of the poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama, also known as The Turquoise Bee. Dude had a fascinating life. The former Dalai Lama, the Great Fifth, had died without leaving the explicit instructions as to how to find his next

[FairfieldLife] Re: Oprah TM, the morning after...

2012-04-29 Thread Buck
Better Days Coming The glorious times is rolling on when sinners are come flocking back to the domes. Oh there's better days coming will you come along with me and there's better days coming and we'll sound the jubilee! I long to hear the joyful sound, 'oh the dead's alive and the lost are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sexual abuse in the Transcendental Meditation movement, was Mahamudra and...

2012-04-29 Thread Susan
From what I can see, there are child abusers and rapists in all cultures and traditions. They don't seem to congregate in a few spots. Kind of like most diseases - mental illness, heart disease. You can try to cure them, but mostly child abusers and rapists etc don't change much no matter

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sexual abuse in the Transcendental Meditation movement, was Mahamudra and...

2012-04-29 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
It would seem there is enough hormonal disruption in the lives of spiritual teachers world-wide to go the round of just about every tradition. Chasing tail in the search for the infinite is an established tradition in the universe. The universe, in the eye of non-dual philosophies at any rate,

[FairfieldLife] Movie Re-Review 11-11-11

2012-04-29 Thread Bhairitu
Turq reviewed this last fall and it finally made it's way to NF discs and Redbox. NF chose not to send me the disc this last week and I rented it at a nearby Redbox instead. I'll have to agree with Turq this wasn't any great film. But since I had access to the extras (making of, deleted

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sexual abuse in the Transcendental Meditation movement, was Mahamudra and...

2012-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Susan wrote: From what I can see, there are child abusers and rapists in all cultures and traditions. They don't seem to congregate in a few spots. Kind of like most diseases - mental illness, heart disease. You can try to cure them, but mostly child abusers

[FairfieldLife] Clean yourself from beep bugs!

2012-04-29 Thread cardemaister
esaud #8207; @esaud Reply Retweet Favorite · Open @BenThePCGuy @NokiaUS @NokiaInnovation @nokia @windowsphone the Best and cool way to clean your self from AndroidBugs #CaptionThatLumia https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23captionthatlumia

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sexual abuse in the Transcendental Meditation movement, was Mahamudra and...

2012-04-29 Thread Susan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Apr 29, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Susan wrote: From what I can see, there are child abusers and rapists in all cultures and traditions. They don't seem to congregate in a few spots. Kind of like most diseases - mental

[FairfieldLife] Re: Clean yourself from beep bugs!

2012-04-29 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: esaud #8207; @esaud Reply Retweet Favorite · Open @BenThePCGuy @NokiaUS @NokiaInnovation @nokia @windowsphone the Best and cool way to clean your self from AndroidBugs #CaptionThatLumia

[FairfieldLife] Don't drop the soap!

2012-04-29 Thread cardemaister
http://tinyurl.com/d5byojt

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sexual abuse in the Transcendental Meditation movement, was Mahamudra and...

2012-04-29 Thread Susan
I really enjoyed reading the Jim Manganiello blog. Thanks. I had seen the oher link before - someone posted it here maybe a year ago. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: It would seem there is enough hormonal disruption in the lives of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sexual abuse in the Transcendental Meditation movement, was Mahamudra and...

2012-04-29 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Apr 29, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Susan wrote: From what I can see, there are child abusers and rapists in all cultures and traditions. They don't seem to congregate in a few spots. Kind of like most diseases - mental

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sexual abuse in the Transcendental Meditation movement, was Mahamudra and...

2012-04-29 Thread Susan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Apr 29, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Susan wrote: From what I can see, there are child abusers and rapists in all cultures and traditions. They don't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oprah TM, the morning after...

2012-04-29 Thread Emily Reyn
Cold Mountain is one of my favorite soundtracks.  Nice post, Buck in the dome From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 12:01 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oprah TM, the morning after...   Better

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sexual abuse in the Transcendental Meditation movement, was Mahamudra and...

2012-04-29 Thread Emily Reyn
Dr. Jim Manganiello states what I've been thinking exactly of late.  There is a need to separate guru divinity and lineage from practice or teaching in cases where the guru has compromised his/her principles or, by virtue of his/her position is unable to maintain the unreasonable standards of

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2012-04-29 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Apr 28 00:00:00 2012 End Date (UTC): Sat May 05 00:00:00 2012 66 messages as of (UTC) Sun Apr 29 23:59:13 2012 8 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 7 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 7 Vaj

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Libertango

2012-04-29 Thread Emily Reyn
Well, both pieces project and echo through my house beautifully.  I adore the Scarborough Fair one.absolutely wonderful; brings big love with it:) From: cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 28,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness

2012-04-29 Thread emptybill
Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche (CNR) – CNR : Thought is samsara. Being free of thought is liberation. Emptybill: If being thought free is liberation then even the beings absorbed in prakriti (prakriti-laya) or those beings absorbed in unconscious cessation (asamjña-nirodha) would be liberated.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness

2012-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2012, at 8:36 PM, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche (CNR) – CNR : Thought is samsara. Being free of thought is liberation. Emptybill: If being thought free is liberation then even the beings absorbed in prakriti (prakriti-laya) or those beings

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness

2012-04-29 Thread Emily Reyn
To quote Xeno: I thought the title Vaj used 'Thought-Free Wakefulness' is a bit misleading because it is not a matter of having thoughts or not, it is the identification with thoughts that is the problem. One can have thoughts but the context of experience can be much greater, and the thoughts

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV Follies -- If the present isn't cuttin' it, show 'em the future

2012-04-29 Thread Emily Reyn
The NG description itself is worth reading for the language and the words employed, if nothing else. From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 11:06 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV Follies -- If the

[FairfieldLife] From Laurie (TM Free blog).

2012-04-29 Thread wgm4u
On my TM Teacher Training Course, one of our instructors broke the news that we don't experience...pure consciousness until the last stress is gone. What we experience before that is purer consciousness, a less excited state of consciousness - that is, if our instructor was telling us the

Re: [FairfieldLife] From Laurie (TM Free blog).

2012-04-29 Thread Emily Reyn
This quote is from one of the comments.  I don't quote this to indicate anything about said person, but is this what unstressing is?  I've got this down pat :)  Music creates oneness within me - that and exercise and _ and __.  But the stress always returns, along with the aches and

[FairfieldLife] The Revolution of the Unified Field in History

2012-04-29 Thread Buck
So, Maharishi was a reformer too? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWMWpgyqmto The SRM?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Revolution of the Unified Field in History

2012-04-29 Thread Buck
Yep, I'm impressed with similarities of the underlying spirituality conflict aside from the particulars of the grievances of papistry. But add too to the list, James Monroe and Jefferson waging separation of religion from the spirit of secular state life too. Elias Hicks and Ralph Waldo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Oprah TM, the morning after... Better Days Coming

2012-04-29 Thread Buck
Yeah, Tim Eriksen he consulted that music of the movie, Cold Mountain. I got to sing with him last night. Tim Eriksen came to Iowa City invited by the U. of Ia. school of music giving a workshop this week on early American music. This song 'Better Days Coming' is on his latest CD and when I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness

2012-04-29 Thread emptybill
Bullshit. He uses the phrases interchangeably both in the article and in the book. It is confusing for many people and reinforces the view that Buddhist yoga and meditation is cultivation of a blank state of mind. Thinking is thought. Thinking is not the thought-free state. It is the identity