Living richly. Edg, this i think is a fascinating story about the meditating community in FF.
There are certainly folks here who have set their lives up to have enough resources to have the time for the serious spiritual practice that can be done here. This is very much an intentional community that way. Very utopian and very American at the same time that way. People have done this on their own terms in different ways on the scale socio-economics. & often it is un-celebrated success in life this way. Part of the story is that there are (many) people who do actively & intentionally scale their lives differently to pull it off to be here. Intention and a lot of self-control that way here. I know lots of people who live quite well here with that and some of those who are great communitarians too. & having a lot of fun or pleasure in their spiritual life here here this way too. Is a great life to be had here that way and there are many people having a great time with life here that way. This is a back story to the backbone of how it has been done by many here. The quiet ones are different from some of the more celebrated wreckage of ones who have lived above themselves trying to buy their access to sit on the stage or up front. Yet, there are lots of really lit quiet ones sitting in the crowd that you'd never know of unless you ask. It has been this way all along. Look around and weigh who is around in the domes or in the many other active spiritual practice groups and you can see it. The successful ones at it, I see them and think and know of them as the 'quiet ones'. Living richly by any standard. A lot of intentional simple living and high thinking. This very much is in the community here. is very fun to see too. -Doug in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > I don't think I would be a very nice rich person either; unless, maybe > I'd survive it if I went underground and wore old clothes and drove a > beater and had only superficial relationships, but also had an ear to > the ground for places where a splash of coin could do some measurable > good. Stealth giving might be the formula to keep the ego in check, > cuz once you're spotted on the poor's radar, they shift their POV > about you, and there goes intimacy, trust, etc. And you will be > praised consistently until your ego is a blimp. > > I've been the recipient of a rich person's stealth from afar. This > person heard about my plight during one of my lowest financial moments > in life. Cut a $1,000 check and gave it to a friend of mine and swore > him to secrecy, and he wouldn't tell me who gave the money. So it > does happen out there. These are the kind debts that one can only pay > by passing it forward, yes? > > Edg >
