noozguru, I've heard that where the wind is really strong all the time, the
trees send their roots deep, deep, deep into the earth. I feel like one of
those trees and I feel really really really lucky. I wish everyone could be so
blessed...
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:45 PM, Bhairitu
Oh shucks! I was all wrong as to the pronunciation of 'uh'. At least as per
Google Translator.
Thot it would rhyme with 'duh'! ROFLOL!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi@... wrote:
Ah!
Bhairitu wrote:
'There's that old saw: before enlightenment you chop wood and carry water and
after enlightenment you copy wood and carry water.'
'I find it interesting to watch the world falling apart. Our old systems no
longer work and the unenlightened materialistic elite are
Does anyone recall my saying I had changed my mind about not talking to Xeno
until he apologized for calling me a liar?
No? I don't either. Wonder why he thinks I did.
Post numbers? (So we can read them) You must have recalled some of these
things you wrote and about when you wrote
You said you would not have a discussion with me, but did attempt to respond by
making a 'comment', once. It is not necessary to have a discussion with me to
provide data; all you have to do is post references and remove any content that
I wrote, borrowed, or stole. I have been attempting to
Do you have Spare the Air days back there? We get them here in
California and now they are irritating people because they can't burn in
their fireplace to make up for the unusually cold weather. If they do
burn then they are subject to a fine. A little wind usually calls it
off though.
Amazing. He still doesn't get it. Somebody might think about suggesting that he
ask another person to pose the question he did. Then I'll explain why the
question is disingenuous and hostile, just like those he asked me on Sunday
(which of course he will disingenuously deny). No surprise, of
Oh, you are so right, Share, it was Buck. My bad! Well, everything else I said
about Barry's comments on that post is still on target.
Sorry about that.
Judy, I've never written a spiritual essay. I think it was Buck who wrote
that post but I'm going to check now.
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I got such a good laugh out of the I am ignoring Buck part!
On Wed, 1/22/14, anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reversing The Flow -- Writing AS Spiritual
Experience
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Considering the [Maharishi] Meissner-like Effect of Increasing Coherence in
systems.
“Sudden sharp changes from relatively disordered to much more ordered states
may be considered 'phase transitions' as described in the physical sciences.
For instance, water changes from a less orderly
On 1/22/2014 1:39 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
BTW, Barry, how's your novel about the Cathars coming along?
Barry doesn't want to talk about the Cathars because he is afraid
someone might bring up the Gnostics. Hopefully Barry learned a few
things about the Cathars from Kater and Klaus
The phenomenon of a powerful influence of harmony spreading through a whole
community or nation when a small fraction of the population practices the
Transcendental Meditation technique is known as the Maharishi Effect [ME].
Considering the [Maharishi] Meissner-like Effect of Increasing
Jason:
there was a two way, crossflow of influence between
Hinduism and Buddhism, for thousands of years. Thus there
are some similarities...
According to Vaj, the Advaita Vedanta of Shankara is largely a Vedic purist
reaction to the teaching of Nagarjuna. In fact, Shankara was accused of
The influence of orderliness generated from the state of infinite correlation
experienced during the Transcendental Meditation technique is so powerful that
even one per cent of the people in society practicing the Transcendental
Meditation technique is sufficient to neutralize negative
Thanks Wleed,
I am going to drag this paragraph over to have it go with that quote by the
Pope on a distinction between consciousness cultivation and morality in life.
Well, obviously there is virtue and there is vice and there are our spiritual
practices of discipline to free the soul
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:
Amazing. He still doesn't get it. Somebody might think about suggesting that
he ask another person to pose the question he did. Then I'll explain why the
question is disingenuous and hostile, just like those he asked me on Sunday
TM it seems never really quite equates expansion of consciousness with
development of morality necessarily. There is some assertion about improved
moral reasoning from the science research but not really moral development. TM
seems to stay away from that equation. After this (1974) TM
Let's be clear: Russell Brand is a total creep. His excuse is that he's bipolar
- but Stephen Fry is also bipolar and Stephen remains a fully-paid up human
being - intelligent, warm-hearted, witty. That fact that Brand is a popular
celebrity tells you just how far contemporary society has lost
George Harrison:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjWTFlg2Er0
But Benjy Creme says Brand is a saint.
On Thu, 1/23/14, s3raph...@yahoo.com s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Russel Brand on Sex with 2 girls with rubber, the
lovely mother of Kathy Perry and Transcendental Meditation
To:
In Tibetan Buddhism, Nagarjuna is the most important philosophical figure. It
is like Thomas Aquinas for Roman Catholics. Madhyamaka is the basis for
understanding Buddhism and Vijñanavada is a close correlate.
Contrary to the Tibetans, Madhyamaka is not given the same exalted status in
the
Bio of Hsuan Hua. Had a vision in which he was told by the 6-th Patriarch to
come to the West and spread the Buddhist Dharma.
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwC9U9henIU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwC9U9henIU
Lecture by Hsuan Hua:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgPGKPEiFTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgPGKPEiFTE
As the transcendental meditators generally arrived in Fairfield, Iowa during
the mid and late 1970's and throughout the 1980's the Fairfield group
meditations then were large and inclusive of the whole TM meditating community.
The group meditations once facilitated in the 1980's by the TM
Since no one followed up on this post, I guess I will, and comment a bit
on why I suspect they didn't. It's all about content.
If you worked in the world of Internet, you'd probably have caught wind
of a major debate/discussion that's been taking place there. Many are
concerned over statistics
Meanings of Sanskrit prefix 'aa' according to Macdonell:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66867356@N02/12082596363/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66867356@N02/12082596363/
So, in an interview of 33 minutes you find the rectal mention in 5 seconds the
most interesting :-)
By Gavin Edwards http://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/gavin-edwards
January 21, 2014 10:10 AM ET
For his 68th birthday last night, director David Lynch threw a party
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-lynch-foundation-honoring-ringo-starr-with-tribute-concert-20140107
for Ringo
nanda m. joy, happiness, a son (as the chief object of joy);
ananda mfn. joyless , cheerless ; (%{As}) m. pl.N. of a purgatory Up. [25,2]
aananda m. happiness , joy , enjoyment , sensual pleasure RV. AV. VS. R. Ragh.
c. ; m. and (%{am}) n. ` pure happiness ' , one of the three attributes of
turq, I woke up the other morning feeling extra grateful and actually thoughts
running that enumerated for what: my comfy bed and warm room, the sunshine of
the previous day, being alive, etc. I think of this as a spiritual experience.
Hope you have a sweet afternoon and evening.
On
thanks, Carde, this is a gem of knowledge I didn't know.
On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 5:36 PM, cardemais...@yahoo.com
cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote:
FWIW, Wikipedia:
Tamas is also a Guna or Quality that is much needed to counter Evil, as an
example Bhairava Incarnation of Lord Shiva is
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote:
turq, I woke up the other morning feeling extra grateful and actually
thoughts running that enumerated for what: my comfy bed and warm room,
the sunshine of the previous day, being alive, etc. I think of this as a
spiritual experience.
So
Yesterday I read your chapter called Fun from Road Trip Mind - felt more
Energy than I had with any of the other chapters - felt at peace, felt like
many of the disappointments from my TM days evaporated. Felt sort of like the
Universe was having a totally content day through me. It was as near
yeah, well since the rest of it was all about what a wowie zowie guy he is with
women, the first 40 secs really reveals his true nature and about all the real
substance he (and David Lynch) have to offer
On Wed, 1/22/14, nablusoss1008
well since the rest of it was all about what a wowie zowie guy he is with
women
No it wasn't. Which shows that you didn't even bother to listen to the
interview you commented on.
Like the Americans say: Go figure
Barry Wrote:
But then AIDS came along. And suddenly the old fears came with them.
And the world changed again, but this time in a more restrictive, more
fearful direction.
--- awoelflebater@... wrote:
I think much of the fear around AIDS has faded away and I think a lot
of this has to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote:
Yesterday I read your chapter called Fun from Road Trip Mind - felt
more Energy than I had with any of the other chapters - felt at peace,
felt like many of the disappointments from my TM days evaporated. Felt
sort of like the
There is nothing absurd about any of my citations and they have not been
refuted by any scholars that I know of. If you have any sources you'd like
to cite, please list them so we can read them for ourselves.
mAyA - illusion , unreality , deception , fraud , trick , sorcery ,
witchcraft magic RV;
We are not getting much help from emptybill, or anyone else on the list,
for a definition of the Sanskrit term maya and what it meant for the
Shankara tradition of Advaita Vedanta, so it looks like it's up to me to
post the explanations. Maya is in fact, indescribable, a superimposition on
--- doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote:
I think absent any social codes, the difference in sexual promiscuity
between males and females comes down to consequences. Prior to birth
control, if a female had sex with a male, she could be literally
burdened with offspring. Not so for the male.
I have already provided a scholarly synopsis of the real differences between
Shankara's Advaita and Vijñanavada Buddhism. Many times I have also explained
how and why Shankara refuted the same.
You answer has always been the same - Yeah, but ... and then you continue
onward without
Share:
I've heard that when tamas guna dominates, maya is a covering over reality
Vedanta is all about how to pierce the veil of maya in order to know the
transcendent truth. Maya is a perception as fact - the appearance of
phenomena through the constituents of nature, the three gunas. In the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
I have already provided a scholarly synopsis of the real differences
between Shankara's Advaita and Vijñanavada Buddhism. Many times I
have also explained how and why Shankara refuted the same.
You answer has always been the same - Yeah, but ...
Jesus, Barry, CHANGE THE DAMN RECORD. How many times do we have to read this
same rap from you?
This may be way too intellectual for you to grasp, but it seems to me not
having any spiritual experiences may not the only reason folks don't write
about them here. It's also entirely possible
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
Since no one followed up on this post, I guess I will, and comment a bit on
why I suspect they didn't. It's all about content.
If you worked in the world of Internet, you'd probably have caught wind of a
major debate/discussion
I have already provided a scholarly synopsis of the real differences
between
Shankara's Advaita and Vijñanavada Buddhism...
You cited zero Vedantic scholars in the synopsis in this thread. And, you
failed to cite any common ideas between Shankara's Advaita and Vijñanavada
Buddhism. And, you
Richard, I am interested. And admit that the Vedic aphorism: Brahman says, My
indestructible maya completely resonates with me and acts as a koan for me,
letting my whatever settle to deeper fathoms. But sometimes I enjoy your back
and forth with emptybill about it. Otherwise, I don't have much
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Sent: 1/21/2014 11:12:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Fwd: [FairfieldLife] Re: New meaning for Keseyapos;s Are you on
the bus or off the bus?
GOOD
Well, I figure MJ was mostly interested in the first part. It's so
refreshing to read a post by a common guy like MJ on obscure sex acts and
not commenting on some pseudo-scholarly report about Shankara's Advaita
Vedanta and the meaning of the term maya. LoL!
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:30 AM,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Jesus, Barry, CHANGE THE DAMN RECORD. How many times do we have to
read this same rap from you?
Pay attention, folks. This is the sound of someone panicking. :-)
She knows that she cannot compete on a spiritual playground in which the
players have
Well, it looks like it's settled then: MJ and the TurqoiseB
were the real True Believers, whose religion was TM - - the
only apostates left on the forum. It looks like nobody else
on FFL ever considered TM to be their religion. You can't
be apostate from something you don't believe in.
On 1/22/2014 8:43 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/We've all heard people repeating stuff they were told about Advaita,
or stuff they've thought up about it in their heads. If we spent any
time around the TM movement, we're pretty much sick to death of people
parroting dogma and repeating stuff they've
On 1/22/2014 8:43 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/So what does Advaita *feel* like? What's it like to experience it
personally? How does it manifest itself in your daily life? We'll
wait.../*
We are anxiously awaiting your post telling us what it *felt* like
personally composing your little treatise
Barry carefully deleted the rest of what I wrote because it panicked him. I
pointed out that some folks may have plenty of spiritual experiences but simply
not want to write about them on this forum. A bit of logic that interferes with
his pronouncements throws Barry for a loop.
Some
Share:
Otherwise, I don't have much to say about it.
According to Barry, Advaita is all you people talk about up there at the TM
center. But, I don't think Jerry Jarvis would approve of talking about
Advaita in any TM introductory lecture. From what I've read, MMY didn't
even mention Advaita
Judy:
I pointed out that some folks may have plenty of spiritual
experiences but simply not want to write about them on this
forum.
Let's see, how many times did I ask Barry about what it felt like to
witness Rama's levitation event? That would surely be an earth-shaking
spiritual experience!
I don't pretend to know a damn thing about all the esoteric ancient Indian
mumbo jumbo which as I said in a previous post I believe to be the legacy of a
bunch of guys who hung out in the forests and jungles cuz they didn't want to
do any real work, had a lot of wild things happen with their
Richard, you say: The goal of TM spiritual practice is the *isolation* of the
Purusha from the prakriti and the knowledge and ability to distinguish between
them
by the experience of Pure Consciousness.
I agree with this. However, I think the TMSP has a very different goal, the
goal of
On 01/22/2014 12:21 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/But almost no one writes about the spiritual experiences they have
on a daily basis. /*
Perhaps because they aren't narcissistic enough to want to brag about them?
Or do you really want to read a bunch of noise about silence? :-D
Perhaps those
TurquoiseB:
was trying to rap about the high that you can get from
writing creatively, and in a spiritual context...
You are going to have to excuse me, Barry, but I must have missed most of
your spiritual writings. Maybe that's because most of the topics you
write about are secular in nature -
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:
Judy:
I pointed out that some folks may have plenty of spiritual
experiences but simply not want to write about them on this
forum.
Let's see, how many times did I ask Barry about what it felt like to witness
Rama's
A = not
AA = not not or, definitely not as in quite the opposite of unhappy etc.
MJ:
I do know a complete ass when I see and hear one
Well, fer sure Russell Brand getting Katy Perry or Howard Stern getting a
million dollars for a radio show can't begin to compare to any of your
accomplishments! LoL!
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Michael Jackson
Dear Turqb; I often find the process in composing of the short non-fiction
spiritual essay to be very spiritual contemplative transcendentalism in
exercise; cultivating of Rishi, Devata, and Chandas values of the whole
spiritual field within the human form having thoughts and feelings rise out
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Jesus, Barry, CHANGE THE DAMN RECORD. How many times do we have to read this
same rap from you?
Pay attention, folks. This is the sound of someone panicking. :-)
Reaaay.
MJ:
I don't pretend to know a damn thing about all the esoteric ancient
Indian mumbo jumbo which as I said in a previous post I believe to be
the legacy of a bunch of guys who hung out in the forests and jungles
cuz they didn't want to do any real work...
Yeah, but you sure did get a lot of
Emptybill, there was a two way, crossflow of influence between
Hinduism and Buddhism, for thousands of years. Thus there
are some similarities.
According to Nagarjuna of the Mahayana school, Nothing can
arise independently on its own. Everything arose
co-dependently along with you. Therefore,
what you may fail to understand and something Barry has written about is that
small everyday things can sometimes spark the greatest experiences in
consciousness - just because a lot of FFLifers don't like Barry doesn't mean
one cannot experience some aspect of a wider reality from reading some
If I have to become like Stern or Brand to be wealthy, I am happy to remain a
man of modest means
On Wed, 1/22/14, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Russel Brand on Sex with 2 girls with rubber,
the lovely
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
I reiterate what I said earlier: Barry isn't interested in others'
spiritual experiences, he's interested in having something with which to
browbeat the people he doesn't like--even though he has to use the same
rap he's hauled out so many times
12 January 1972 Maharishi inaugurated the World Plan to “eliminate the age-old
problems of mankind in this generation.”
Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a
small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation
technique
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
On 01/22/2014 12:21 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/But almost no one writes about the spiritual experiences they have
on a daily basis. /*
Perhaps because they aren't narcissistic enough to want to brag about
them?
Or do you really want
It more looks like you got so excited when Russel Brand was talking about
rectal activities that you simply skipped the rest of the interview.
Which btw. was about a nice variety of interesting topics all of which you
missed because you got stuck in the rectal stuff.
There's a word for
As early as,
“In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation
program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and
harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one
percent- of a population practiced the
Jerry Seinfeld on ‘Night Guy’ vs. ‘Morning Guy’
http://blog.siriusxm.com/2014/01/21/jerry-seinfeld-on-night-guy-vs-morning-guy/
http://blog.siriusxm.com/2014/01/21/jerry-seinfeld-on-night-guy-vs-morning-guy/
http://blog.siriusxm.com/2014/01/21/jerry-seinfeld-on-night-guy-vs-morning-guy/
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Dear Turqb; I often find the process in composing of the short
non-fiction spiritual essay to be very spiritual contemplative
transcendentalism in exercise; cultivating of Rishi, Devata, and Chandas
values of the whole spiritual field within the
Well, I figure MJ was mostly interested in the first part.
It's so refreshing to read a post by a common guy like MJ on obscure sex acts
and not commenting on some pseudo-scholarly report about Shankara's Advaita
Vedanta and the meaning of the term maya. LoL
Funny and true :-)
This is about the level of Barry's mental functioning these days: I took
checker training at least a decade before I got on the Internet in 1994. Boy,
that's some foresight I had, isn't it?
(And I never checked anybody because I never got certified; something, can't
remember what, got in
This is one of the main reasons folks don't want to write about their spiritual
experiences on FFL:
I see. You prefer to write about stuck-in-your-head intellectualisms about
other people's experience. No problem. I was just trying to sort out who was
who here on FFL.
As I pointed out,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
And I never checked anybody because I never got certified; something,
can't remember what, got in the way of my attending the certification
appointments, as I've said here a number of times. Gee, not much of a
story in that, is there?
Gee, could it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
This is one of the main reasons folks don't want to write about their
spiritual experiences on FFL:
Please note that Judy carefully snipped what I was replying to, which I
think most people would recognize as stuck-in-one's-head
intellectualisms
He can't stop himself now. He has a real shitload of hatred and resentment he
has to let loose. So spiritual, isn't he? (Notice he can't bring himself to
acknowledge the incredibly stupid whopper in his previous post.)
You didn't answer my question about your Cathar novel either, Barry. I'm
Actually Share's post was about her own experience of writing spiritual essays.
And she might have been willing to try to describe how it felt to her if you
hadn't immediately and very nastily stepped on her (not even having read what
she wrote carefully enough to see what she was talking
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pos...@poseur.com wrote:
He has a real shitload of hatred and resentment he has to let loose.
Projection, honey-bunch. I'm just enjoying watching you squirm. :-)
*I*, after all, am not the person who has been unmasked as the person
with the *least*
As more and more cities rose to one percent of the population practicing
Transcendental Meditation, scientific research found that not only did crime
decrease, but accidents, sickness, and other negative trends also decreased,
and positivity increased. Research scientists named this phenomenon
Barry, sweetie-poops, I've actually written quite a bit here about my spiritual
experiences. You're the guy who's squirming because I unmasked your pose of
being interested in such experiences (with a lot of inadvertent help from you,
actually). You can't un-post your, er, contributions to this
Well, I'd say the relationship between 'a' and 'aa' is *almost* like
that between English 'uh' (~ a) and 'are' (~aa). I.e., 'aa' seems to
be by no means derived from 'a'...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi@... wrote:
A = not
AA = not not or, definitely not as in quite
On 01/22/2014 11:29 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
On 01/22/2014 12:21 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/But almost no one writes about the spiritual experiences they have
on a daily basis. /*
Perhaps because they aren't narcissistic enough to want
I think Russell Brand would even agree that he is where he is due to
karma. He would know very well that there are a lot of talented people
in the world who will NEVER be recognized for their talents and will not
become rich and famous. In some cases they don't want to be and are
happy to
Ah!
noozguru, I'm with you on this. And I'm not claiming to be enlightened. I'm
just saying that I think all of human life is about spirituality, whatever else
it's about, whether it be art or weather or politics or food, etc. Or sports. I
just watched 42, The Jackie Robinson Story. Now that's
Absolutely. One such man is Abraham Lincoln. According to Mr. Benjamin Crème he
is now employed by the US-Government working in Washington. It appears he is
well aware about his former incarnation and details about how he passed on no
one else could know about but has no need for any kind of
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:
noozguru, I'm with you on this. And I'm not claiming to be enlightened. I'm
just saying that I think all of human life is about spirituality, whatever else
it's about, whether it be art or weather or politics or food, etc. Or
There's that old saw: before enlightenment you chop wood and carry
water and after enlightenment you copy wood and carry water.
I find it interesting to watch the world falling apart. Our old systems
no longer work and the unenlightened materialistic elite are trying to
hold on to these
Judy, I've never written a spiritual essay. I think it was Buck who wrote that
post but I'm going to check now.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
On 01/22/2014 12:21 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/But almost no one writes about the spiritual experiences they have
on a daily basis. /*
Perhaps because they aren't
Post numbers? (So we can read them) You must have recalled some of these things
you wrote and about when you wrote them.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:
Barry, sweetie-poops, I've actually written quite a bit here about my
spiritual experiences. You're the guy
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Dear Turqb; I often find the process in composing of the short non-fiction
spiritual essay to be very spiritual contemplative transcendentalism in
exercise; cultivating of Rishi,
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