[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-28 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory: How do you know this is impossible, Judy, if you haven't tried it? Judy: Oh, for heaven's sake, of course I've tried

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-28 Thread TurquoiseB
Judy: I plan to let it happen whenever it's ready to happen. Rory: How will you know when it is ready to happen? I won't know until it happens. How are you going to let it happen if you won't know until it happens? Who do you think is going to do this for you?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-28 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Judy: And what on earth leads you to think that it's something you *make*? Rory: If not you, then who? Emphasis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-28 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Judy: And what on earth leads you to think that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-28 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Judy: And what on earth leads you to think that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-28 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-28 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-28 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory: How do you know this is impossible, Judy, if you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-28 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] My only criterion, for instance, is not to be overshadowed. Thinking about that thought, paraphrasing, I just don't want to be oveshadowed

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom T writes: No matter how radical that all sounds it is possible to be able to hold all that in the awake mind. akasha_108 wrote: Then it must be possible to be able to hold all that in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory wrote: Right; no real difference between ignorance and enlightenment, or between being asleep and being awake -- though oddly enough, as we have seen, only the experientially awake appear generally

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom T writes: It is both, it is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread Vaj
On 9/27/05 12:51 AM, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: into what always is, has always been, and always will be, the (non)radiant emptifulness of (not)self itself... Ah, you took that Simuladvaita class. Was it good? ROFLOL! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread eptfnj
What's amusing is the idea that the citation of a particular person's thoughts is always a manifestation of the authority thing, as if it could only be an attempt to trump other thoughts. The real amusement is that you are saying this. I recall you to be one of the core quoting parrots of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy: Well, that could be the last experience you need to have to wake up, no? Depends on what you mean by wake up. In general one gains the View, the living, breathing experience and certainty as to what the state of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, eptfnj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's amusing is the idea that the citation of a particular person's thoughts is always a manifestation of the authority thing, as if it could only be an attempt to trump other thoughts. The real amusement is that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I suggest, that while you brought up the phrase in your post, that the phrase can also transcend your own particular situation. And

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I suggest, that while you brought up the phrase in your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] My only criterion, for instance, is not to be overshadowed. Akasha108 writes: Thinking about that thought, paraphrasing, I just don't want to be oveshadowed gets funnier and funnier the more it is contemplated and considered. Its like a perfect jeweled Russian

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy writes: I don't know what it's like to be realized; I do know what it's like to be ignorant, in other words. Tom T: no difference Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. I think you're suggesting that it's something of an infinite regress, that one can be overshadowed by the desire not to be overshadowed. But that's the nature of the beast, part of why ignorance is so sticky.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/27/05 9:38 AM, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/26/05 10:52 PM, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Akasha: I rather look directly into the projector from 3 away. Rory: That explains a lot :-) When you are the screen, you can drink life from a firehose. Akasha Sutras VI:23:07 Yahoo!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy writes: I don't know what it's like to be realized; I do know what it's like to be ignorant, in other words. Tom T: no difference You've forgotten what it's like to be in ignorance.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread Vaj
On 9/27/05 2:15 PM, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy writes: I don't know what it's like to be realized; I do know what it's like to be ignorant, in other words. Tom T: no

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy writes: I don't know what it's like to be realized; I do know what it's like to be ignorant, in other words. Tom T: no difference Judy writes; You've forgotten what it's like to be in ignorance. Tom T: Actually I have not forgotten but I can no longer ignore what is really going on.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy writes: I don't know what it's like to be realized; I do know what it's like to be ignorant, in other words. Tom T: no difference Judy writes; You've forgotten what it's like to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy writes: I don't know what it's like to be realized; I do know what it's like to be ignorant, in other words. Tom T: no difference You've forgotten what it's like to be ignorant.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom T writes: No matter how radical that all sounds it is possible to be able to hold all that in the awake mind.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy writes: I don't know what it's like to be realized; I do know what it's like to be ignorant, in other words.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/27/05 2:15 PM, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy writes: I don't know what it's like to be realized; I do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, yes! it must be enlightenment - I-I understand all [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Amazing Yup. But at the same time, it's not the kinda conversation you necessarily want to add your name to in the list of credits.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy writes: I don't know what it's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Especially from somebody who admits he isn't enlightened. But I lie. Don't you remember? :-) Yup. You said I had lied when I said

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, yes! it must be enlightenment - I-I understand all [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Amazing Yup. But at the same time, it's not the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Especially from somebody who admits he isn't enlightened.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Don't take this all so seriously, Judy. I don't know about these other guys, but I'm just majorly amused tonight at you pretending not to be enlightened, and striving so hard to keep up the pretense. You keep

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Don't take this all so seriously, Judy. I don't know about these other guys, but I'm just majorly amused tonight at you pretending

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. I think you're suggesting that it's something of an infinite regress, that one can be overshadowed by the desire not to be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Don't take this all so seriously, Judy. I don't know

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. I think you're suggesting that it's something of an infinite regress, that one can be overshadowed by the desire not to be overshadowed. But that's the nature of the beast, part of why ignorance is so

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So long as we do *not* appreciate *this* moment as a god-given gift we have not yet fully unwrapped and understood -- that long do we find it to be shrouded in darkness, ignorance, fear, suffering, and so on: the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So long as we do *not* appreciate *this* moment as a god-given gift we have not yet fully unwrapped and understood -- that long do we

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So long as we do *not* appreciate *this* moment as a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-27 Thread Rory Goff
Rory: How do you know this is impossible, Judy, if you haven't tried it? Judy: Oh, for heaven's sake, of course I've tried it. Rory: Yes? With whom? I hope you had company. Most people find it far easier and more effective the first few times if they are accompanied by a guide, rebirther

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars in Aid for...

2005-09-26 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, by the way, all those wonderful works that you cite above? Your local Catholic Church has been doing that in your very own neighbourhood for the past several hundred years...and without the hugging and the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars in Aid for...

2005-09-26 Thread Vaj
On 9/26/05 9:40 AM, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, by the way, all those wonderful works that you cite above? Your local Catholic Church has been doing that in your very own neighbourhood for the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars in Aid for...

2005-09-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 9/25/05 11:34 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/25/05 12:55 AM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't Amma's org have financial statements? Probably does. I don't know anything about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars in Aid for...

2005-09-26 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, by the way, all those wonderful works that you cite above? Your local Catholic Church has been doing that in your very own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars in Aid for...

2005-09-26 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/26/05 9:40 AM, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, by the way, all those wonderful works that you cite above? Your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars in Aid for...

2005-09-26 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These nuns were like tireless angels. Despite all the bad press the Catholic church has received in recent years, they still carry on an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars in Aid for...

2005-09-26 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These nuns were like tireless angels. Despite all the bad

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars in Aid for...

2005-09-26 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/25/05 11:34 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/25/05 12:55 AM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TorquoiseB writes: I think I picked it up in New York. It always seemed to capture the Zen of certain paradoxes for me, like the one you cite above. The coex- istence of seeming opposites, the irresolvability of the paradox, and all that. It's like how a Zen master from the Bronx should talk:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TorquoiseB writes: I think I picked it up in New York. It always seemed to capture the Zen of certain paradoxes for me, like the one you cite above. The coex- istence of seeming opposites, the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Tom T writes: It is both, it is either and it is neither all at the same time. Tom Judy writes: Or none of the above... Tom T: Which part of all possibilities isn't clear? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom T writes: It is both, it is either and it is neither all at the same time. Tom Judy writes: Or none of the above... Tom T: Which part of all possibilities isn't clear? Um, I was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Tom T writes: It is both, it is either and it is neither all at the same time. Tom Judy writes: Or none of the above... Tom T: Which part of all possibilities isn't clear? Judy: Um, I was invoking Nagarjuna. TomT: OK explain please. What has that to do with all possibilities.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom T writes: It is both, it is either and it is neither all at the same time. Tom Judy writes: Or none of the above... Tom T: Which part of all possibilities isn't clear? Judy:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread qntmpkt
--How about Brahman is the Absolute AS the relative? - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom T writes: It is both, it is either and it is neither all at

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy responds: The bottom line being that there is nothing that can be said about Brahman, positive or negative, of which the opposite is not also the case, because Brahman is One without a second. All possibilities is one way of putting it, but it doesn't quite convey how radical the Advaita

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, qntmpkt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --How about Brahman is the Absolute AS the relative? You'd have to ask Nagarjuna. ;-) I suspect it would come under ...not both the relative and the Absolute, though. - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy responds: The bottom line being that there is nothing that can be said about Brahman, positive or negative, of which the opposite is not also the case, because Brahman is One without a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy responds: The bottom line being that there is nothing that can be said about Brahman, positive or negative, of which the opposite is not also the case, because Brahman is One without a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy responds: The bottom line being that there is nothing that can be said about Brahman, positive or negative,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip [Akasha108 wrote:] Tom T writes: No matter how radical that all sounds it is possible to be able to hold all that in the awake mind. Then it must be possible to be able to hold all that in the unawake

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom T writes: No matter how radical that all sounds it is possible to be able to hold all that in the awake mind. Then it must be possible to be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom T writes: It is both, it is either and it is neither all at the same time. Tom Judy writes: Or none of the above... Tom T: Which part of all possibilities isn't clear? Huh?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom T writes: It is both, it is either and it is neither all at the same time. Tom Judy writes: Or none of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom T writes: It is both, it is either and it is neither all at the same time. Tom Judy writes: Or none of the above... Tom T: Which part of all possibilities isn't clear? Judy:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip [Akasha108 wrote:] Tom T writes: No matter how radical that all sounds it is possible to be able to hold all that in the awake

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Let's say we don't get attached. Let's say we've never *been* attached. Let's say human beans have always been realized. How

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread Rory Goff
Rory wrote: Right; no real difference between ignorance and enlightenment, or between being asleep and being awake -- though oddly enough, as we have seen, only the experientially awake appear generally able to appreciate this to any visceral extent, while the self- diagnosed

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] My only criterion, for instance, is not to be overshadowed. Thinking about that thought, paraphrasing, I just don't want to be oveshadowed gets funnier and funnier the more it is contemplated and considered. Its like a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Let's say we don't get attached. Let's say we've

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread Rory Goff
Tom T writes: No matter how radical that all sounds it is possible to be able to hold all that in the awake mind. akasha_108 wrote: Then it must be possible to be able to hold all that in the unawake mind too. All Possibilities. Rory wrote: Right; no real difference

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] My only criterion, for instance, is not to be overshadowed. Thinking about that thought, paraphrasing, I just don't want to be oveshadowed

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars

2005-09-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom T writes: It is both, it is either and it is neither all at the same time. Tom Judy writes: Or none of