Good post Turquoise,
I live in a pueblo of 150,000 people with a beautiful climate, good economy (no
extreme poverty) and low prices, and am one of only 3 persons from the U.S.
(who were born in the US). It causes a lot of attention to be focused on me,
but that is mostly a good thing because these people are not nearly so racist
fearful and hating as I knew people in all parts of the US to be. The extra
dose of attention that I get from people is a tool that helps me to refine my
senses of what is really real of the invisible spiritual energetic world, which
I am doing completely on my own with my own personal experience, after years of
simply reading and hearing the words of others. And that are the lines of
attention which are the basis of all of our awareness, but first of all
recoginzed in common situations, like when one feels that another is looking at
them, and through subtle analysis can be discerned the thoughts and life
experience of others.
As far as all the talk about following others, and worrying about what so and
so organization would feel about it, it all seems so juvinile and limited that
I can't imagine how any of those people are fufilling their prime objective,
which is to pay honor to their personal spirit and intuition of what to do and
when. One should be more like a pirate and do things for personal objectives,
and so long as one is not hurting anyone, to hell with anyone who would tell us
to otherwise. Anything is worth a try, but don't place yourself in a trap
which is purely for the benefit of others. Nobody else is going to make you
enlightened. If you can't do it on your own and put it in your own unique
words based only on personal experience, that is to rightly claim the knowlege
and take credit for it, then it can't be of much value.
BTW, don't waste your attention worrying about the world. It's going to hell
in a handbasket and to think that one can do anything substantial about it is
masturbating in self importance, which is what the Maharishi was doing. That
is why he was half blind to energetic realities.
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From: TurquoiseB <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, June 29, 2010 1:42:22 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: No one starting TM or "Dome-ing"? Rewrite the
sales brochure.
Ya know that Edg has reached the bottom of his
already-small intellectual barrel when he has to
try the "shame the ex-pat for running away from
his country" routine. :-)
Anyone who still identifies with nationalism and
thinks of themselves in terms of loyalty to the
patch of dirt they were born on and the glory of
staying on it deserves the life they get. Others
travel, and identify only with what travels with
them -- their selves and the Self.
If one were to treat their pronouncements as some
kind of rule or truism, then Edg Duveyoung and
Judy Stein and Willytex -- the ones who have so
often repeated this tired old misplaced jealousy
of those who got the hell out of Dodge represent
with their lives and the way they walk *their*
walk the "happiness karma" of nationalism and
"staying put" in one's country of birth. You do
the math.
Mark Twain said, "Travel is fatal to prejudice,
bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." I wouldn't go so
far as to say "fatal," but it sure can put a dent
in the armor of prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-
mindedness in my opinion. Others feel that they
should stay at home and polish their armor. Again,
use your assessment of their own happiness levels
to judge the effectiveness of their stay-at-home
philosophy.
As input for those of the Edg-Judy-Willytex School
of Just Stay Put And Glory In Being American as an
excuse for why they're too lazy to see the rest of
the world and experience what it might be like to
live there, I pass along the information that the
Americans who actually *do* travel are regarded
these days by people in the rest of the world as
a curious anomaly, and one worthy of interest and
potential friendship. It is so rare to see a real,
live American living in so many places in the world
that the presence of one indicates that this is
someone who has chose to Find Out For Himself
rather than sit at home in front of the TV and the
computer and claim that they know what the elephant
of the world is like by feeling the screen.
"Six wise, blind elephants were discussing what humans
were like. Failing to agree, they decided to determine
what humans were like by direct experience. The first
wise, blind elephant felt the human, and declared,
'Humans are flat.' The other wise, blind elephants,
after similarly feeling the human, agreed." :-)
Edg, you'd do better to stick to trying to demonize
me as an unrepentant sexual predator than as a cowardly
American ex-pat. More people in the world mindlessly
agree that the former is evil these days than the latter,
which is actually regarded as an indicator of sanity. :-)
Or, you could be honest for once and try to diss me for
what is really causing the bug up your ass -- the fact
that I laugh at the imaginary friend you call God, and
at you for still needing one at your age.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> Judy, if Barry gets to rail about me "projecting," and asserting that it must
> be my broken personality that does so, then, hey, goose/gander time, sez moi
> -- if Barry's "walk/talk law" is upheld then he's projecting HIS own
> criticism of himself.
>
> Byron Katie time. Cue snare drum.
>
> And ain't it just the truest thing about him -- that he cannot be held to any
> talk if it requires him to walk it?
>
> Onliest walking he ever has done is away from his country, his gurus, his
> cultural values, his integrity, his sense of decency, his birth karma (ran
> away from the goal/challenge of being a life supporting American,) and let's
> not forget his familial roots.
>
> Edg
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I have written before on the difference between talking
> > > the talk of one's spiritual path and walking the walk of
> > > it. And yes, as some have said, I have written about it
> > > enough that they claim to find it boring. I think that a
> > > larger reason than "boring" for the people saying this
> > > might be "I couldn't find a way to refute it the first
> > > time and I can't find one now, so I'm going to call it
> > > 'boring' in hopes that he'll stop saying it." :-)
> >
> > Actually, I called your raps (not just this one by any
> > means) "repetitious," not "boring." Interesting that
> > you felt you needed to escalate the criticism, but I
> > guess "repetitious" didn't work so well with your
> > fantasy about the "larger reason" for the criticism.
> >
> > The whole point of "repetitious," of course, is that
> > your trademark "raps" have been *repeatedly refuted*.
> > You keep bringing them back, in slightly different
> > clothing, in the hope that this time they'll pass
> > muster.
> >
> > Sorry, Charlie. The new outfit for the "rap" in
> > question suffers from the same poor workmanship in
> > its current iteration as all the other times you've
> > inflicted it on us.
> >
> > The question is, why on earth did you think you were
> > the only one aware of the difference between "talking
> > the talk and walking the walk"? It's a *cliche*, Barry.
> > It was a cliche long before you ever attempted to
> > preach it here. And it doesn't get any more original
> > or insightful with repetition.
> >
>
