He who knows he has enough is rich.
-Buck Te Ching
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
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> > 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
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> "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:
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> <> 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.
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> 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
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