[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anonyff writes: snipped > I have had the experience, over the long years, of becoming very > unboounded and, as it says in the 9th mandala, "liquid, loveable, and > wise." It never lasted more

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-04 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "anonyff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMO this whole notion of non-attachment is merely a concept and who > knows if anyone here truly even understands it and even if they could, > could they really explain it in such a way that the listener would a) > be

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-04 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- tom traynor wrote: > > > > > > > > What ever they attempt is

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-04 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Anonyff writes: snipped I have had the experience, over the long years, of becoming very unboounded and, as it says in the 9th mandala, "liquid, loveable, and wise." It never lasted more than maybe five minutes. During those moments I experienced what I can only describe as an infinite flow, a know

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/3/06 10:37 PM, anonyff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > FYI I have been reading and contributing to FF LIfe for at least 2 > years and probably more like 3+ (how long has it been around?). Since Sept. 5, 2001 - 6 days before 9/11 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread anonyff
Tom (anonyff replied): Sorry for the *tone* of my previous post, although I did mean it, in that moment, exactly as I said it. FYI I have been reading and contributing to FF LIfe for at least 2 years and probably more like 3+ (how long has it been around?). I just changed my name and use the anon

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Anonyff writes: snipped Personally, I think there are as many forms of enlightenment as there are people, I think that people still get angry, hungrly, lonely, tired, irritable, sick, and that they act just as spontaneously as anyone/everyone else and that all this constant intellectualizing is a f

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- sparaig wrote: > > > > --- Gillam wrote: > > > > > > --- tom traynor wrote: > > > > > > > > What ever they attempt is easy and > > > > simple as it just flows. How it unfolds is not revelant. > > > > > > So

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread anonyff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- sparaig wrote: > > > > --- Gillam wrote: > > > > > > --- tom traynor wrote: > > > > > > > > What ever they attempt is easy and > > > > simple as it just flows. How it unfolds is not revelant. > > > > > > So I

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- sparaig wrote: > > --- Gillam wrote: > > > > --- tom traynor wrote: > > > > > > What ever they attempt is easy and > > > simple as it just flows. How it unfolds is not revelant. > > > > So I may need to change my belief that Maharishi is > > acting the way any entrepreneur would, expecting >

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- tom traynor wrote: > > > > > > > > What ever they attempt

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- tom traynor wrote: > > > > What ever they attempt is easy and > > simple as it just flows. How it unfolds is not revelant. > > So I may need to change my belief that Maharishi is > acting the way any entrep

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > judy writes: snipped > And if he didn't, was it because the state of > enlightenment makes everything seem easy and simple > *when it really isn't*? Is it possible that the > "easy and simple

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "anonyff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > > "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" > > wrote: > > > > > > judy writes: snipped > > > And if he didn't, was

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread a_non_moose_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "anonyff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" > wrote: > > > > judy writes: snipped > > And if he didn't, was it because the state of > > enlightenment makes everything seem easy and simple

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread anonyff
Personally, and in all seriousness, I still believe it is ALL conjecture and overall, I'm sorry I spent so much of my life believing in this stuff. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "anonyff" wrote: > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "anonyff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm sorry, with all due respect I'm going to take great exception to > this answer and to all answers that seem to reduce the > life/mindset/emotional state of the "awake ones" to these kinds of pat > answers. >

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread anonyff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > judy writes: snipped > And if he didn't, was it because the state of > enlightenment makes everything seem easy and simple > *when it really isn't*? Is it possible that the > "easy and simple"

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" > wrote: > > > > --- tom traynor wrote: > > > > > > What ever they attempt is easy and > > > simple as it just flows. How it unfolds is not revelant. > > > > S

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" > wrote: > > > > --- tom traynor wrote: > > > > > > What ever they attempt is easy and > > > simple as it just flows. How it unfolds is not revelant. > > > > S

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- tom traynor wrote: > > > > What ever they attempt is easy and > > simple as it just flows. How it unfolds is not revelant. > > So I may need to change my belief that Maharishi is > acting the way any entrep

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- tom traynor wrote: > > What ever they attempt is easy and > simple as it just flows. How it unfolds is not revelant. So I may need to change my belief that Maharishi is acting the way any entrepreneur would, expecting his products and services to be lapped up by a hungry public. If MMY were

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I guess that's another question: Did he or didn't > he know how tough it was going to be? > > And if he didn't, was it because the state of > enlightenment makes everything seem easy and simple > *when it really i

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-03-03 Thread Vaj
On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Patrick Gillam wrote:--- Vaj wrote: In the 80's, I was invited by three close friends--an old TM teacher,   an MIU grad and a Sidha, to confront Robin Woodsworth Carlsen who was   then living in an apartment in Washington DC. It was actually my   first time at debunk

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
judy writes: snipped And if he didn't, was it because the state of enlightenment makes everything seem easy and simple *when it really isn't*? Is it possible that the "easy and simple" sense applies on some level other than the practical one of achieving a goal, but that the person who is enlight

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-03-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Vaj wrote: > > > > In the 80's, I was invited by three close friends--an old > > TM teacher, an MIU grad and a Sidha, to confront Robin > > Woodsworth Carlsen who was then living in an apartment > > in Washi

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-03-03 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Vaj wrote: > > In the 80's, I was invited by three close friends--an old TM teacher, > an MIU grad and a Sidha, to confront Robin Woodsworth Carlsen who was > then living in an apartment in Washington DC. It was actually my > first time at debunking a claim of enlightenment So Vaj, you'v

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Vaj wrote: > > Gillam wrote: > > > --- Vaj wrote: > >> > >> dying is easier than I thought :-) > > > > Now there's an ability that may come in handy someday. > > All the better reason to practice dying now :-). I've pursued enlightenment in hopes it would make life easier. Funny that its u

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" > wrote: > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread Vaj
On Mar 3, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Patrick Gillam wrote:--- Vaj wrote: dying is easier than I thought :-) Now there's an ability that may come in handy someday. All the better reason to practice dying now :-). To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- authfriend wrote: > > > > Is that sense of "easy and simple" ever misleading? > > I'm thinking of MMY, and wondering whether that's why > > he assumed most everyone in the world would take to > > TM as soon

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > > Is that sense of "easy and simple" ever misleading? > > > I'm think

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > Is that sense of "easy and simple" ever misleading? > > I'm thinking of MMY, and wondering whether that's why > > he assumed most everyone in th

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > wrote: > > > Much more becomes available, simply by placing the attention on it. > > No doubt sidhis and such powers are more easily expressed in such a >

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread Patrick Gillam
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[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: > > Is that sense of "easy and simple" ever misleading? > I'm thinking of MMY, and wondering whether that's why > he assumed most everyone in the world would take to > TM as soon as they heard about it, that governments > would leap at it, and so on. It's extremely common fo

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > Is that sense of "easy and simple" ever misleading? > > I'm thinking of MMY, and wondering whether that's why > > he assumed most everyone in th

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > Just look at the cross- > > > cultural range of spiritual experiences -- do Native > > > Am

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > Just look at the cross- > > cultural range of spiritual experiences -- do Native > > Americans cognize Shiva and Brahma when they have > > visions? Do people

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity wrote: > > > > Another man I met had an appearance of Shirdi Sai Baba. > > Again he had never seen a picture of him, had nothing to > > do with Hinduism, and only recogn

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just look at the cross- > cultural range of spiritual experiences -- do Native > Americans cognize Shiva and Brahma when they have > visions? Do people brought up Catholic cognize > Krishna when they have visions? No,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another man I met had an appearance of Shirdi Sai Baba. > Again he had never seen a picture of him, had nothing to > do with Hinduism, and only recognized him when he saw the > picture later in a Sai Baba center (while

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's interesting to hear that the power of persuasion might > be at work here, as I had a series of experiences early on > in my "career" that showed me a text book step-by-step > evolution, clearly deliniated sta

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What really impressed me about the teachings is an experience of the > veda I had once, very powerful and definately real as I couldn't have > imagined it if I'd tried. The thing is, the only veda I knew of at > the

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To bring up Suzanne Segal again, that's an admonition she > > hammered toward the end of her book -- "seeing things > > as they really are." But she never elaborated on it. > > > > Sometimes I think the work of B

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" > > wrote: > > > --- jim_flanegin wrote: > > > > --- Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Se

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-03 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:30 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > As far as I can tell, Vaj is misinterpretting/over-interpretting some > > text taht talks about how even a nail driven into one's hand won't > > takethem out of samadhi. But

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" > wrote: > > --- jim_flanegin wrote: > > > --- Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > > > > Seems to me that enlightenment is a matter of seeing > > > > things clearly.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is that sense of "easy and simple" ever misleading? > I'm thinking of MMY, and wondering whether that's why > he assumed most everyone in the world would take to > TM as soon as they heard about it, that governments

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Much more becomes available, simply by placing the attention on it. > No doubt sidhis and such powers are more easily expressed in such a > state, but oddly enough, living a non-dual reality, where we are no > lo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/2/06 8:48 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> on 3/2/06 5:46 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> I used to receive a hand-typed newsletter from someone on Purusha >>> and he also described a

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- jim_flanegin wrote: > > > > --- Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > Seems to me that enlightenment is a matter of seeing > > > things clearly. It doesn't mean you're Superman. > > > > > That's as good and elegant a

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- jim_flanegin wrote: > > > > --- Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > Seems to me that enlightenment is a matter of seeing > > > things clearly. It doesn't mean you're Superman. > > > > > That's as good and elegant a

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 3/2/06 5:46 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I used to receive a hand-typed newsletter from someone on Purusha > > and he also described a similar story with M. albeit that this > > would take place over

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:25 PM, Rick Archer wrote:on 3/2/06 5:46 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Mar 2, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Rick Archer wrote:No. I’m sure such things are possible. There are stories in the Puranas too. My only point is that I’m not convinced that such an ability is an essential p

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- jim_flanegin wrote: > > --- Rick Archer wrote: > > > Seems to me that enlightenment is a matter of seeing > > things clearly. It doesn't mean you're Superman. > > > That's as good and elegant a definition as I've heard-- seeing things > clearly. Plain and simple. To bring up Suzanne Segal ag

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness on 3/2/06 5:46 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Rick Archer wrote: No. I’m sure such things are possible. There are stories in the Puranas too. My only point is that I’m not convinced

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Rick Archer wrote:No. I’m sure such things are possible. There are stories in the Puranas too. My only point is that I’m not convinced that such an ability is an essential prerequisite for enlightenment. But that’s really just an opinion based on my current knowledge a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness on 3/2/06 3:53 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick, wasn't it you who shared the story of M. and the meeting with another meditation teacher whose students could go into an insensate samadhi? Yes, I told

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:30 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > As far as I can tell, Vaj is misinterpretting/over-interpretting some > > text taht talks about how even a nail driven into one's hand won't > > takethem out of samadhi. Bu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Rick Archer wrote:on 3/2/06 1:38 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well let's not take these two items out of context. The nail story of Vimalananda refers to a person who claimed the ability to be in a certain type of samadhi. The fact that he did experience pain in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:30 PM, sparaig wrote:As far as I can tell, Vaj is misinterpretting/over-interpretting some  text taht talks about how even a nail driven into one's hand won't  takethem out of samadhi. But that's the definition of CC. Screaming  isn't relevant to witnessing. Actually the quot

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 3/2/06 3:30 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > As far as I can tell, Vaj is misinterpretting/over-interpretting some > > text taht talks about how even a nail driven into one's hand won't > > takethe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/2/06 3:30 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As far as I can tell, Vaj is misinterpretting/over-interpretting some > text taht talks about how even a nail driven into one's hand won't > takethem out of samadhi. But that's the definition of CC. Screaming > isn't relevant to witnessing

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 3/2/06 1:38 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Well let's not take these two items out of context. The nail story of > > Vimalananda refers to a person who claimed the ability to be in a certain type >

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 2, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > but I have a hard time > > believing that people like Eckhart Tolle and Bernadette Roberts are > > not > > enlightened merely because they couldn't be oblivious to ha

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 3/2/06 11:57 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > perhaps I felt it in bad > >> form to talk of my own pointing-out and recognition, brag about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness on 3/2/06 1:38 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well let's not take these two items out of context. The nail story of Vimalananda refers to a person who claimed the ability to be in a certain type of samadhi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Vaj
On Mar 2, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Rick Archer wrote:but I have a hard time believing that people like Eckhart Tolle and Bernadette Roberts are not enlightened merely because they couldn't be oblivious to having a nail driven through their foot or that they cast a shadow. I think he's raising the bar to

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 3/2/06 12:45 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I don't think it's like that. I don't think it's *ever* > > been like that. Shankara farted and shat just like > > everyone else does. > > I read that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/2/06 12:45 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't think it's like that. I don't think it's *ever* > been like that. Shankara farted and shat just like > everyone else does. I read that he had an anal fistula that bled and caused him a great deal of discomfort. ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems to me that enlightenment is a matter of seeing > things clearly. It doesn't mean you're Superman. > That's as good and elegant a definition as I've heard-- seeing things clearly. Plain and simple. -

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/2/06 11:57 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perhaps I felt it in bad >> form to talk of my own pointing-out and recognition, brag about it > in >> public or discuss the details of how the View was tested a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness

2006-03-02 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness on 3/2/06 11:14 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you like to see the scar on my ass?  I'd love to show that to you! :-) Reminds me of Forrest Gump and LBJ. To subscribe, send a message to: [

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > so who regularly disses who for what claim of experience or non- > > experience? My own take on people who claim to be in full-blown > > brahman conscious

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so who regularly disses who for what claim of experience or non- > experience? My own take on people who claim to be in full-blown > brahman consciousness is that MMY has, from what Ihave heard, said > that someone who

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread Vaj
On Mar 1, 2006, at 10:53 PM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 1, 2006, at 5:39 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer wrote: on 2/28/06 10:32 AM, wmurphy77 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YOu would be correct

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 1, 2006, at 5:39 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer > > wrote: > >> > >> on 2/28/06 10:32 AM, wmurphy77 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> > >>> YOu would be correct if you we

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
Which only speaks to YOUR experience and not that of some other person, of course. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would hasten to point out that I have also experienced satsangs > which were very positive and evolutionary in my mere opinion. The > p

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 1, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Patrick Gillam wrote: > > > --- Rick Archer wrote: > > > >> > >> jim_flanegin wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Just curious Rick if you would elaborate on "the Robin Carlson > >>> legacy". Thanks > >>>

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" > wrote: > > > > "I don't know if this is true about the Travis studies, but it used to > be policy at MUM that any study reg. higher states could only

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 3/1/06 10:02 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer > > wrote: > >> > >> on 3/1/06 9:06 AM, authfriend at jstein@ wrote: > >>> > >>> FWIW, I've neve

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer > wrote: > > > > on 3/1/06 9:06 AM, authfriend at jstein@ wrote: > > > > > > FWIW, I've never encountered it in TM, to the > > > contrary. What I've observed has

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 3/1/06 9:06 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > FWIW, I've never encountered it in TM, to the > > contrary. What I've observed has been a > > tendency to be deferential to those who > > claimed or

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:05 PM, purushaz wrote: > > > ---Statement below (Enlightened person has an option to stop pain) is > > incorrect. Enlightenment does not imply particular (or any) Siddhis, > > which have to do wit

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In F

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "purushaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ---Statement below (Enlightened person has an option to stop pain) is > incorrect. Enlightenment does not imply particular (or any) Siddhis, > which have to do with relative endeavors.. Why stop with control over > pa

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:48 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > >> > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > >> wrote: > >> > >>> --- In FairfieldLif

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > In other words, when someone claims to be enlightened, > > > > > we should just accept it without question? > > > > > > > > > > > > If I say I have brown hair, why is that so much easier to accept, > > > > than

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:48 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > >> > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > >> wrote: > >> > >>> --- In FairfieldLif

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" > > > wrote: > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 2/28/06 11:40 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> > >>> > >> > >> Yes, many would rather wallow in the inertia of their 'seeker'  > >> > >> > >> identity, proclaiming enlightenment can't be so, because

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity wrote: > > > > > > That's it. That was also Papaji's point stating too many > > > are hanging around a

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer > > > > wrote: > > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer > > wrote: > > > > > > on 2/28/06 10:32 AM, wmurphy77 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread Vaj
On Mar 1, 2006, at 5:39 PM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote: on 2/28/06 10:32 AM, wmurphy77 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YOu would be correct if you were talking about the Gita where MMY talks about many 'births' to realize Being, that i

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In a conversation I had with a priest in a Tamil temple he suggested > that dong the Sidhis can burn off 7 lifetimes of Karma in one liftime. > Go figure. Makes some sense to me. Tom T > One c

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer > wrote: > > > > on 2/28/06 10:32 AM, wmurphy77 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > YOu would be correct if you were talking about the Gita where MMY > > > talks

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness..

2006-03-01 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > on 3/1/06 10:57 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> I would hasten to point out that I have also experienced satsangs > >> which were very positive and evolu

[FairfieldLife] Re: 7 lifetimes to reach Cosmic Consciousness...

2006-03-01 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 2/28/06 10:32 AM, wmurphy77 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > YOu would be correct if you were talking about the Gita where MMY > > talks about many 'births' to realize Being, that is death to > > materiality an

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