Apple products are very, very well thot out. However, I've played extensively
with both the Apple and the Galaxy S3 - and the S3 is a very nice phone...it is
rather large though - like it want to be a IPad. The navigation is extremely
well functioning - and of course it uses Google maps which is
Google has been teaching mindfulness practice for years. They have an advanced
engineer/instructor, Chade-Meng Tang whose official title is "Jolly Good
Fellow." The course is one of the Company's most popular. His new book is
"Search Inside Yourself." I am currently reading it.
My experience is that organizations are more alike than different - because the
human need for conformity and belonging creates such bizarre behavior that
emerges from the desperation to belong.
Christ's organization produced people like Judas...
I get that Judas was actually the most importan
"refined sugar (is) for (people with) refined consciousness."
Maybe what he meant is that you could eat lots of refined sugar after you
already had refined consciousness/physiology and were producing soma and all
that.
(Problem is many (most) people think they are much more "evolved" than they
Unfortunately, in California, that figure is barely enough to raise a family.
I agree this is big news and I'm quite enthusiastic about it...but many of my
associates show little interest.
Seems like it's getting very little play in the media...perhaps the Olympics
overshadows it a bit...or landing rovers on Mars has become so 2004?
When the high quality image stream sta
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
"Religion is the banana skin and spirituality is the banana. The misery in the
world is because we throw away the banana and are holding on to the skin."
I believe it to be a Trojan Horseit's probably sniffing and listening as we
speak.
Dude, is that coffee shop a little smokey this morning?
Are you saying that religious people are usually dicks?
> Hear hear. Either that or religion is the condom and
> spirituality is the dick.
>
> Religions that involve a lot of costumes and dress-up
> are like French ticklers.
>
> :-)
>
Q: Dear Guruji, I have never been a spiritual or a true religious person. How
can I learn to let go and believe?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You don't have to label yourself- I am spiritual,
religious person etc. No need for it. Just be natural, beautiful, good human
being. That's it!
If someone is
Nice, thanks for posting.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote:
>
> This video from the small Yupiq Eskimo Village of Quinhagak, Alaska, was a
> school computer project intended for the other Yupiq villages in the area.
> Much to the villagers' shock, over a half million pe
http://tiny.cc/xl2r2
http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/forum/index.php?topic=6313.0
Your words seem racist and bitter...have you ever been unemployed?
MMY:
...the parental role of government, which is to prevent problems for the
nation."
A perfect man will be naturally harmonious within himself and will naturally
radiate that harmony into his surroundings.
--- In Fairfi
Your prejudice knows no bounds.
http://www.galva108.org/Tritiya_prakriti.html
According to the Vedic Literature there are three genders. One of which was
designed -created by God - to prefer same gender relations.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote:
>
>
>
> --- In Fairfie
Funnily enoughI do all of those things...
Stockton's used to be a lively town and due to its inland port it was one of
the shipping and manufacturing hubs of California and the USA. Steel mills,
flour mills etc.
I stopped there recently in the middle of the night to get gas. The streets
were filled with homeless-looking people milling
I've been on retreats with a few different groups. Most have similar dynamics
and similar personalities:
1.) Your ass-kissing sycophants
2.) Self-styled -new age guru wannabees
3.) Movement police types
4.) Spiritually greedy - take every course they can find
5.) Permanently unhappy complainers
DYOR
Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. (July 6, 1925 August 12, 2007)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv_Griffin
New Theory:
They actually saw Phil Donahue.
You've been had!
>
> You don't have a soul.
> You are a soul.
> You have a body.
> - C. S. Lewis
>
When I was on staff at Cobb (1980), we had a lot of CP's (course
participants)who had great truly experiences - others not so much.
Sometimes we would have group meetings where individuals would share their
experiences.
On one occasion a CP proudly proclaimed they could see stars through the
I think the election of Kennedy (Catholic) and Obama (mixed ethnicity) has
shown that the electorate can deflate the common "wisdom" about the kind of
person that is electable: making the future quite unpredictable. Romney's
religious orientation vis-a-vis Obama's "socialism" may be perceived a
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 t
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 subconsciou
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
tive experiences that are important to me now.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "martyboi" wrote:
> >
> >
> > Answers interleaved:
> >
> > > This may be your own construction. Do you feel the same thing about
>
If they appear to "spin backwards" and then pop out of existence, I think what
you are seeing is prana. If you go to the countryside on a warm day, it can be
very thick. Just my opinion on what they are.
This tree is also called horseradish tree in many places. The leaves, roots and
pods are prepared and eaten in different ways. I ate quite a lot of this plant
when I was in traveling around the Philippines (PI). There, it is often served
with steamed/boiled fish, sort of like spinach - and is si
At least he wasn't beating up other students...
I got picked on in high school by a bully or two. As a freshman, I was the
second shortest guy in the school. The shortest guy used to feel better when he
picked on me. I knew what he was doing, so I just let it be.
The first day of school he pushed me against the wall and called me
names...th
http://beyondgrowth.net/spirituality/authentic-spirituality-and-the-double-binds-of-power/
Also has a great post about the world "not" being your mirror.
That's an easy one:
http://naturalhealthdossier.com/2011/04/the-economics-of-obesity-why-are-poor-people-fat/
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wrote:
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>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn wrote:
> >
> > Billy - *access* to healthy food for low-income populations
Here's what I observed.
I saw him in a local burrito place with his wife. He is a very noticeably
healthy in person...that is he appears to have a lot personal vitality the way
an athlete might.
I watched him go up to the soda fountain to get a drink. He arrived at the
fountain at the same ti
I felt a real integrity and naturalness at that moment. His smile made me
happy! So I stole it form myself.
>
> That's part of what struck me about martyboi's story of
> the restaurant encounter. We'll never know what was going
> through his head, of course, but if *he* was thinking that
> his smile was a "gift," it might have been an unwanted one.
>
It appeared to me to be an ordinary, natural moment
I tell myself this all the time : -)
Do you think the self-narrative is gone or just ignored?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote:
>
> If there is no self-narrative, there can be no belief. Even identified
> realistically as formlessness, we continue to operate in the world
I agree, the population is not really a random distribution, it is a collection
of smart people who will usually have smart kids.
Having said that, on a personal level, I feel that meditation refined and
enhanced my intellect and contributed to my scholastic achievements. The main
reason for th
That false part of "me" that experiences itself as a "me" and is in reality
something I can't locate anymore in the vastness of my not-self ...foolishly
finds this hilarious!
>
> I'm writing this post from the nurse's station in
> the psychiatric wing of the Betty Ford Centre in Rancho Mirage.
Just sayin'
http://www.rense.com/general12/believe.htm
Here's MIU latest course honoring the "Buddhist" universe...might help.
http://www.tm.org/emailing/2011_09_05.html
> Relax. He is only projecting the disturbing "facts" of nonsense he finds in
> his "Buddhist" universe. He can't help it.
>
Here's MUM's latest course honoring the "Buddhist" universe...might help.
http://www.tm.org/emailing/2011_09_05.html
> Relax. He is only projecting the disturbing "facts" of nonsense he finds in
> his "Buddhist" universe. He can't help it.
>
After the movie Avatar had been released for about a week or so, I decided to
cut out of work early and watch it at a local IMAX theater. The theater is
located in a failing shopping mall in Cupertino, and the thought is that the
theater is going to help revive it. The theater is well attended -
Actually, we were quite alone in the atrium...not that it matters..it was just
cool to know that the bigwigs take an afternoon once in a while to chill too! I
call them "mental health days."
My boss and I have a code. When I say I am having "eye problems", he knows I
mean..."I" don't want to
Seems like they would have found metal pieces or remnants of crafts built 3000
to 5000 years ago by now. Or at least they would have found their version of
the "Lockheed Skunk Works" as it would have required huge factories to build
and maintain them.
The Vamana descriptions are very intrig
You've certainly provided me with something to ponder. Fascinating!
I have had three, they are not really that uncomfortable and they can save your
life. They found two large polyps during one of mine and removed them during
the procedure (I didn't feel a thing.) If they had not removed them, big
trouble might have shown up later. Think of it as "preventing the
Dude, nobody in "Cali" smokes doobies anymore...everyone is vaporizing. That is
to say, they "vape."
Just in case anyone doesn't know... A vaporizer heats the "contents" to a
specific temperature that allows you to determine (by temperature) which
aspects of the contents you would like to imbi
Thanks for answering.
That's very interesting to know. I still think something would have been found
by now. We have ground-penetrating satellites that can determine below-soil
objects. We have Google earth displaying pictures of the entire globe - with
thousands of eyes looking for stuff. We h
When reality is no longer perceived in terms of duality, the light dawns.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wrote:
>
> "The light of the body is the eye, if therefore thine eye be single, thy
> whole body shall be full of light." Matthew 6:22
>
Perhaps a better question to ask is: "Will homophobes go to heaven or hell?"
...Sounds like they are stuck in the don't-ask-don't-tell military shower
scenario that made everyone so nervous... (and titillated?)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "martyboi" wrote:
> >
> &g
At my company's Christmas dinner, I went to pick up my napkin, and much to my
horror, instead grabbed a pile of hair in my lap. I realised it was the
adjacent women's hair extension. I covertly slipped it to her and she made a
mad dash to the restroom to repair the situation. The scene repeated
You make a cogent point, surrounding oneself with adoring sycophants is very
dangerous - it destroys company presidents, ministers, college professors -
nobody is immune because adoration is intoxicating. The classic case in this
generation could be Michael Jackson.
I hung around AOL for a whil
I'm quite sure that is the case.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "martyboi"
>
> I was going to
It was a sarcastic response to the recent legislation - by male legislators -
that interferes with women's reproductive health choices.
...well that explains a lotI wonder if they spend all their time on-line
after they drink? ;-)
The world is as you areMMY
I know a gay couple who recently adopted a five-year old child. The child was
given away by his parents because he exhibited a preference for feminine
behavior. The parents tried to "pray away the gay", but when informed by a
"shrink" that "he was born that way," they opted for giving him away.
I believe you are correct. He was born "gay" as a result of previous decisions
and behavior is previous life times.
I also believe he was born at this time, in this generation, to show people (on
"the right" perhaps) that there are many things about themselves they are in
denial about...to he
You Said:
Right, and Mozart was just 'born that way'! What a scam by the Gay lobby left!!
Nyuk!
Mozart was just born that way, as a result of previous incarnations
Scam and Nyuk? Those words seem to imply anger, which is the opposite of
Compassion. Who are you having this argument with anyw
Remember the story of the Demons who became enlightened because they hated
Krishna? Spent so much time pissed off and thinking about him, they got
enlightened.
So which one of the three genders, described in the Vedic literature, are you
gonna be next time around?
He also said something like: be careful, you become what you hate.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wrote:
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>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "martyboi" wrote:
> >
> > Remember the story of the Demons who became enlightened because they
Yeah he would...if you are very lucky, he makes you gay. Otherwise, you spend
your life merely hetero.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wrote:
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> Do you think a fair and just God would make some people homosexual and some
> not?, where's the fairness in that? No, everything is gover
IAHV was started with the Dali Lama. As I understand it, the "books"
are open to the public.
> Bait and Switch?
>
> Seems he had a good teacher.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2bwkhp
>
I had terrible migraine headaches during my teen years. They always
started with a black and red checkerboard pattern obscuring the left
side of everything in my visual field. Next, the pattern would go
away, and I would only be able to see the right-hand side of faces. No
matter how I tuned my hea
The problem with the word "cult" is that it is a highly loaded term:
it casts an irrevocable pejorative connotation on the person with whom
it is being associated and it therefore not factually descriptive of
this particular situation. In today's lexicon, it is invoked for
manipulative not desc
> Actually, in politics the phrase "cult of personality"
> has a specific meaning that is only distantly related
> to the common meaning of "cult."
>
Words and phrases are created and modified with different
implications, meanings and intents based on historical events and
social phenomenon -whi
We all know when you point a finger at someone, three fingers are
pointing back at yourself.
I find that people often forget how to have fun (including me). I
notice this frequently happens as people begin to pass middle age. But
it can happen to young people too. If you take your job, spiritual
l
I find that many people who do TM and other types of meditation often
look very young for their age. I think there are a variety of
practical lifestyle factors that account for this.
1.) Taking time out to reduce stress on a regular basis.
2.) Emphasis on proper diet and exercise. Lots of veggies
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sez the man who has never had to take an ailing child to the hospital...
>
According to SSRS, your children are your primary and most important
self-development program. Everything else is secondary. Sorta makes
sense t
WOW! Thanks for capturing a wonderful moment.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"
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> http://alex.natel.net/misc/sunrise1.jpg
>
> http://alex.natel.net/misc/sunrise2.jpg
>
I was walking down a street in SF once when I came upon a clutch
(gaggle, swarm, school?) of her sisters walking towards me. I heard
they were running an AIDS hospice in the neighborhood. It seemed to me
that they were doing a walking meditation as they appeared to have an
interior focus and were m
True, but they probably don't get a boner while condemning the spinach.
>
> Having an *aversion* or feeling *discomfort* about something doesn't
> constitute a phobia. Look up the definition of the word. If one
doesn't like crime
> and averts it, is that irrational? If one doesn't like spi
Awesome post,
Call me simple, but this post clarified some recent experiences in a
major way.
Thanks Billy!
>
> Correct, and to embellish...
>
> When the 'chitta' becomes, "like a lamp which does not flicker in a
> windless place" MMY Gita 6vs19, it reveals the 'undistorted' beauty of
> its'
"The world is your mirror." MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The other day there was some religious dude handing out fliers about
how
> evil Halloween is and how Satan is taking over the world, blah, blah,
> blah. I heard the spiel as I walked
Taking Responsibility For Your Feelings
Often people think caring, being compassionate, means catering to the
emotional needs of another person. They think they need to say, "Oh,
how are you feeling? You are sad today? You are depressed? Oh, just
tell me what is it." They sit, listen and console
The world is waking up, care to lend your voice?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2347wh
Ok, If I might chime in.
I once had a parakeet that lived 15 years. That's a very long time for
a parakeet. Well, when he was about eight years of age, his partner
died, and I could see him go into a huge depression. So, I decided to
get him a new partner. My concern was that if I got him a young
Seems like they avoided the actual catalyst for most premature death,
which is unresolved personal hostility toward other humans,
institutions, or countries - leading to high personal stress, systemic
societal stress, and eventually war.
> Journal of Medicine, Dr Schroeder quotes a famous stud
A good video to play when you think you've got it all figured out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o7bMdAyPes
Actually, he reminds me of my CEO, who has pushed projects through to
completion, regardless of the negative reaction from almost everyone
around him.
Yeah he's also a narcissist, but so what? 200 + families get fed
everyday because of it!
I also find it interesting how everyone is fascinated by
The prohibition against aum for women doesn't necesarily prohibit men
from using shri does it?
BTW, I wasn't trying to turn up the FFL snarl meter, just trying to
add historical context to a previously discussed topic.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Barry's ego puts on a show of pretending that it has a handle on itself.
>
Good insight, but I would question if Barry's ego is the only ego
doing this? Seems to be lots of it going around.
MMY teaches us in the gita that: The self is conquered by the
Self...alone.
IMO, before the wholeness of Self predominates -the field of opposites
(maya) holds sway over the intellect. Good, bad, legal, illegal.
When opposites are held in contempt rather than being viewed as
complimentary aspect
I know someone who claims he is sometimes aware of living several
lives simultaneously right now - and sometimes there's even a little
leakage, so that he has trouble keeping it all sorted. Did that
event happen to the me in this body, or to the me in another one of
the bodies?
So perhaps, wha
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I heard SSRS use these very words.
> I've often found that the highest practices are often the most simple
> practices.
>
200% of life -perhaps that means 100% human along with 100%
enlightenment. I wonder if enlightenment is more simple than our
projections?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I find this to be very strange for MMY to give such
> power to the shape and orienta
I built one in 1972...sort of. Here's how
I created a parabolic dish with a focal length of two feet using
marine plywood left over from a sail-boat my father and I were
building. It looked sort of like an octopus. I then cut a large mirror
into one-inch squares and hot glued the pieces to the fra
> A lot of people like you had an aversion for Charlie. I felt the same
> way about Jarvis whom I considered a shallow, phony and opportunistic
> human being who placed high value in his position in the TMO pecking
> order.
>
I attended a four-day residence course with Jerry, after he was
already
I once heard SSRS say that Maharishi was capable of the deepest,
longest and most profound meditation of any Saint he ever met.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Interesting post.
>
> On Mar 23, 2007, at 4:38 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
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> > What if Maharishi w
> Interesting story. Dhyana (meditation) is great, but samadhi is
> something altogether different. It's not unusual for someone to be
> able to sit in meditation for many hours and not have samadhi.
Like most of us do
I am not sure that I could/would speculate on whether anyone else doe
yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "martyboi" wrote:
> >
> > I once heard SSRS say that Maharishi was capable of the deepest,
> > longest and most profound meditation of any Saint he ever met.
>
&g
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The ME is not a robust effect by any standard of
> measure. It is a PR tool of the TMO.
>
>
"The ME is not a robust effect"
If you look deep inside you will realize their is no "me." : )
I recall seeing a tape on a residence course of Maharishi discussing
this very subject. I am sure other people have seen it also. He
claimed is was a serious miscalculation. Anyone else recall the tape.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Duv
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's a very good think Maharishi said there. If he would have told
> the truth, how many would have started and had good results ?
>
I once heard Maharishi state that CC started as just "a sense of
wholeness" By th
Here is what many people are participating in during July (including
Deepak), I think it might interest you.
http://www.firethegrid.com/eng/home-fr-eng.htm
> we move into Pluto conjuncting the galactic center for the month of
July it
> becomes even more important.
> Lsoma.
>
>
>
>
IMHO, this site has been vastly improved by the five-post limit. It is
now more readable, individual's ideas are easier to follow, and it has
eliminated much of the annoying bickering. The only improvement I
could suggest is a one-post-per-day limit. In this way, a person would
really, really, real
Wow, 3000 square feet for the price of a small condo in the Bay
Area...Nice!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Were the house $425,000 for 3,000 square feet, like
> the first ones sold here?
>
> --- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
I am wondering if this particular cargo ship was actually being used as bait to
enable US involvement in the situation. I saw them interviewing a Naval officer
last night, and he basically said the solution is not shooting the pirates, but
destroying their ability to launch any boats at all from
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