--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > Share, .,Now again it is special to come out after the Dome meditation and > drive back home towards the farm listening to the local radio show reading of > verses from his Bhagavad-Gita. It's all a pretty Utopian context. Someone > asked of me at this conference I was at in New York State a couple weeks ago, > "How do you live in Fairfield?". I laughed. "Simply and richly", I answered. > -Buck >
"How do you live in Fairfield?" Simply and Richly, like Old Quakers. I wrote a longer answer to the Professor who was asking the question and sent it around to several others who were listening: <> You asked a question while we were chatting at the annual meeting that I both paused at and chuckled at. You asking, "How do you live in Fairfield?" For a people who are spending hours of a day in spiritual practice of meditation a lot of us ask that question of ourselves. First off Fairfield is a good place to live inexpensively. Housing and property taxes are relatively cheap. Second people figure out employment to accommodate their meditation. That might mean working for meditating employers or creating your own employment that allows the flexibility to spend as much time as some do in the community meditating. That is all part of the history story-line of coming to Fairfield as meditators. For instance initially I moved to Fairfield coming with a job from outside the local economy as an outside salesman with a Chicago based corporation. I did that for 12 years and have since been self-employed within the local meditator economy at various things. For others getting a flow of income from outside of the Fairfield fish-bowl in brokering services or commodities has been their formula for existence here. The interesting demographic change now in the meditating is that a significant portion of people now doing the long daily meditations in the domes, having learned TM back in the 60's and 70's, are now of age collecting social security retirement benefits and meditating. How is that for spiritual retirement! Another element of how people live here is that they scale their life accordingly living simply intentionally. There are people you see here who live high or have an appearance that way. But the more interesting people are the ones living great lives here that you don't really see. I know them and I call them the 'quiet ones' who live the good life here. But going back to the first point, Fairfield being a small mid west town is an easy place to live a very good life in a vital community cheaply. At this point in my life I don't think I could afford to live anywhere else as well as we live here. When you asked the question "How do you live in Fairfield?", I laughed inside and thought to myself the answer, "We live like old Quakers". Like old Quakers in their ashrams in their days doing the same spiritual thing as they were doing, meditating in groups. Their communities worked for a long while for them that way [simply and richly] until cultural things changed inside and outside in their communities and their vivacity of a shakti dropped out of their groups. But the comparison is apt. -Buck in the Dome
