[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
seraphita, I think koans are great ways to get beyond the intellect. But lots of times humor or humour is an even better way. From: s3raph...@yahoo.com s3raph...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:40 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East Yes, those koan stories are fun but they tend to appeal to intellectual westerners, ie, people who realise they're screwed because they think too much! Re Joshu said: 'Then you had better wash your bowl.' At that moment the monk was enlightened!: bully for him. But I ain't enlightened! --- In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: There are many koans presented by MMY and the Zen Masters. A monk told Joshu: 'I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.' Joshu asked: 'Have you eaten your rice?' The monk replied: 'I have eaten.' Joshu said: 'Then you had better wash your bowl.' At that moment the monk was enlightened! Joshu Washes the Bowl: http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/gateless-gate/7.html
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
That's a classic double-bind. Lawson has posed a riddle, somewhat like a zen koan. s3raphita: A Zen koan! You're making my point for me. The term 'Transcendental Meditation' is itself a koan. Meditation means to 'think things over' but transcendental means to 'go beyond thinking'. Go figure. Another term that is a koan is the term 'enlightenment' - because a 'light' does not come from somewhere outside yourself - it comes from within you. There are many koans presented by MMY and the Zen Masters. Dogen, the founder of the Soto Zen sect in Japan, compiled many koans in the Shobogenzo. According to Shunryu Suzuki, a Soto master, the main practice of Zen is 'just sitting'. This just sitting IS enlightenment. That's it! A monk told Joshu: 'I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.' Joshu asked: 'Have you eaten your rice?' The monk replied: 'I have eaten.' Joshu said: 'Then you had better wash your bowl.' At that moment the monk was enlightened! Joshu Washes the Bowl: http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/gateless-gate/7.html http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/gateless-gate/7.html
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Re For Iranitea, the main reason I replied to this post . . . people reporting that they never found themselves thinking the mantra . . . At the time, we were told to remind them that there is a difference between TM and unfocused daydreaming, in which one sits there lost in thoughts and never meditating.: If I was sitting on my sofa daydreaming and someone were to tap me on the shoulder and call my name I would lazily open my eyes and yawn and ask what's up? If I was sitting on my sofa meditating (and lost in thoughts) and someone were to tap me on the shoulder and call my name I would have a very unpleasant sensation of being suddenly dragged back to everyday consciousness. Doesn't that indicate the two experiences are very different? Not to me. Your hypothetical person is lost in thoughts either way. As you described it, there is no difference, except that in the latter case you display a little more attachment *to* the thoughts you're lost in. The issue is NOT someone *else* coming and tapping you on the shoulder. That tends not to happen. The issue is YOU becoming aware that you are sitting there lost in thoughts. When that happens, what do you do? If you react by -- as you were taught -- effortlessly coming back to the mantra, that's TM, and meditating. If you react by *preferring* the thoughts you're lost in, and continuing to sit there dwelling on them (or even having a very unpleasant sensation at being dragged away from them), then in my book you're daydreaming. Given what I experienced on TM courses, and what I saw other people experiencing while teaching such courses, I think that a LOT of people have developed the habit of sitting there lost in thought and *perpetuating* the situation by *continuing* to sit there lost in thought, when they have the opportunity to meditate instead, and come back to the mantra. I believe that TM -- as taught -- may have some minor positive benefits for its practitioners. I believe that daydreaming on a regular basis is not. Maharishi gave a clear definition of how the two practices differ, one that I think practitioners of daydreaming are trying to obfuscate with their talk of subtle levels of thinking. If they're sitting there thinking, they're sitting there thinking. End of story.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
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Buck, forget emailing. Have him visit FF for Dec 7 Art Walk. As George somebody, former Redskins coach said, the future is now. Your brave enthusiasm and still makes me smile just about every day (-: From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2012 11:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reducing Tension in the Middle East --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Buckyball A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law ... If this is true then it is not transcendental but rather a supporting ground. In other words, it is prakriti/pradhâna/avyakta (an unmanifest). It is nature, but not transcendent. Bill, Yep I know what you mean, that's my experience too. As I was editing that piece I chose to stick with the western language and stay away from the Vedic so as not to confuse the ignorant lurker here.Going with the 'Transcendental' field was good enough for the release posted here. Best Regards, -Buck I went to a lecture at the U. of Ia. in Iowa City the other nite given by a visiting classicist professor and went out to dinner with him after. In discussing Fairfield he broke from what we were saying at a point and declared he could not understand what Utopia could possibly be. That he lives in the past and present but could not understand what I was saying about a future Utopia this way. It was not the time to say anything more but we are e-mailing. It is a challenging thing to communicate. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law, which can be directly accessed as the silent transcendental level of the human mind. Hundreds of studies have shown that experience of transcendental consciousness breaks the chain of conditioned reflexes coming on from past behavior, as seen in reduced addictive behaviors of all kinds, decreased prison recidivism, and reduced behavioral problems in inner-city children. Now there is hope because a proven technology of consciousness to create peace is available. This novel approach establishes a filter of coherence and order in collective consciousness in the present, which is capable of transforming the flow of negativity from the past into a more harmonious future. Meditation is certainly the answer, -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
It is interesting, that most people out in the world, even educated people, have no idea what is going on here let alone the gravity of it. We should all be unperturbed by their general old-age ignorance of it though and rigorously just attend to our meditations. Great is our method and science of peace here. The New Jerusalem is coming, -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Buck, forget emailing. Have him visit FF for Dec 7 Art Walk. As George somebody, former Redskins coach said, the future is now. Your brave enthusiasm and still makes me smile just about every day (-: From: Buck To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2012 11:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reducing Tension in the Middle East  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Buckyball A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law ... If this is true then it is not transcendental but rather a supporting ground. In other words, it is prakriti/pradhâna/avyakta (an unmanifest). It is nature, but not transcendent. Bill, Yep I know what you mean, that's my experience too. As I was editing that piece I chose to stick with the western language and stay away from the Vedic so as not to confuse the ignorant lurker here.Going with the 'Transcendental' field was good enough for the release posted here. Best Regards, -Buck I went to a lecture at the U. of Ia. in Iowa City the other nite given by a visiting classicist professor and went out to dinner with him after. In discussing Fairfield he broke from what we were saying at a point and declared he could not understand what Utopia could possibly be. That he lives in the past and present but could not understand what I was saying about a future Utopia this way. It was not the time to say anything more but we are e-mailing. It is a challenging thing to communicate. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law, which can be directly accessed as the silent transcendental level of the human mind. Hundreds of studies have shown that experience of transcendental consciousness breaks the chain of conditioned reflexes coming on from past behavior, as seen in reduced addictive behaviors of all kinds, decreased prison recidivism, and reduced behavioral problems in inner-city children. Now there is hope because a proven technology of consciousness to create peace is available. This novel approach establishes a filter of coherence and order in collective consciousness in the present, which is capable of transforming the flow of negativity from the past into a more harmonious future. Meditation is certainly the answer, -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
Now there is hope because a proven technology of consciousness to create peace is available. This novel approach establishes a filter of coherence and order in collective consciousness in the present, which is capable of transforming the flow of negativity from the past into a more harmonious future. Meditation is certainly the answer, -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law, which can be directly accessed as the silent transcendental level of the human mind. Hundreds of studies have shown that experience of transcendental consciousness breaks the chain of conditioned reflexes coming on from past behavior, as seen in reduced addictive behaviors of all kinds, decreased prison recidivism, and reduced behavioral problems in inner-city children. Now there is hope because a proven technology of consciousness to create peace is available. This novel approach establishes a filter of coherence and order in collective consciousness in the present, which is capable of transforming the flow of negativity from the past into a more harmonious future. Meditation is certainly the answer, -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
Friends, Are we as nations to go on like rats trapped in a conditioning cage, reacting the same way decade after decade? Or shall we step out of the cage into the transcendental level of our own consciousness and grow up into enlightened human beings, rather than continuing to resort to destroying and killing? This is the choice we have right now. Our deep experience and the science is persuasive, The only viable choice is, Come to Meditation, -Buck in the Dome A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law, which can be directly accessed as the silent transcendental level of the human mind. Hundreds of studies have shown that experience of transcendental consciousness breaks the chain of conditioned reflexes coming on from past behavior, as seen in reduced addictive behaviors of all kinds, decreased prison recidivism, and reduced behavioral problems in inner-city children. Now there is hope because a proven technology of consciousness to create peace is available. This novel approach establishes a filter of coherence and order in collective consciousness in the present, which is capable of transforming the flow of negativity from the past into a more harmonious future. Meditation is certainly the answer, -Buck in the Dome Are we as nations to go on like rats trapped in a conditioning cage, reacting the same way decade after decade? Or shall we step out of the cage into the transcendental level of our own consciousness and grow up into enlightened human beings, rather than continuing to resort to destroying and killing? This is the choice we have right now. Our experience and the science is persuasive, The only viable choice is, Come to Meditation, -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
Buckyball A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law ... If this is true then it is not transcendental but rather a supporting ground. In other words, it is prakriti/pradhâna/avyakta (an unmanifest). It is nature, but not transcendent. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law, which can be directly accessed as the silent transcendental level of the human mind. Hundreds of studies have shown that experience of transcendental consciousness breaks the chain of conditioned reflexes coming on from past behavior, as seen in reduced addictive behaviors of all kinds, decreased prison recidivism, and reduced behavioral problems in inner-city children. Now there is hope because a proven technology of consciousness to create peace is available. This novel approach establishes a filter of coherence and order in collective consciousness in the present, which is capable of transforming the flow of negativity from the past into a more harmonious future. Meditation is certainly the answer, -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Buckyball A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law ... If this is true then it is not transcendental but rather a supporting ground. In other words, it is prakriti/pradhâna/avyakta (an unmanifest). It is nature, but not transcendent. Bill, Yep I know what you mean, that's my experience too. As I was editing that piece I chose to stick with the western language and stay away from the Vedic so as not to confuse the ignorant lurker here.Going with the 'Transcendental' field was good enough for the release posted here. Best Regards, -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law, which can be directly accessed as the silent transcendental level of the human mind. Hundreds of studies have shown that experience of transcendental consciousness breaks the chain of conditioned reflexes coming on from past behavior, as seen in reduced addictive behaviors of all kinds, decreased prison recidivism, and reduced behavioral problems in inner-city children. Now there is hope because a proven technology of consciousness to create peace is available. This novel approach establishes a filter of coherence and order in collective consciousness in the present, which is capable of transforming the flow of negativity from the past into a more harmonious future. Meditation is certainly the answer, -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reducing Tension in the Middle East
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Buckyball A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law ... If this is true then it is not transcendental but rather a supporting ground. In other words, it is prakriti/pradhâna/avyakta (an unmanifest). It is nature, but not transcendent. Bill, Yep I know what you mean, that's my experience too. As I was editing that piece I chose to stick with the western language and stay away from the Vedic so as not to confuse the ignorant lurker here.Going with the 'Transcendental' field was good enough for the release posted here. Best Regards, -Buck I went to a lecture at the U. of Ia. in Iowa City the other nite given by a visiting classicist professor and went out to dinner with him after. In discussing Fairfield he broke from what we were saying at a point and declared he could not understand what Utopia could possibly be. That he lives in the past and present but could not understand what I was saying about a future Utopia this way. It was not the time to say anything more but we are e-mailing. It is a challenging thing to communicate. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law, which can be directly accessed as the silent transcendental level of the human mind. Hundreds of studies have shown that experience of transcendental consciousness breaks the chain of conditioned reflexes coming on from past behavior, as seen in reduced addictive behaviors of all kinds, decreased prison recidivism, and reduced behavioral problems in inner-city children. Now there is hope because a proven technology of consciousness to create peace is available. This novel approach establishes a filter of coherence and order in collective consciousness in the present, which is capable of transforming the flow of negativity from the past into a more harmonious future. Meditation is certainly the answer, -Buck in the Dome
