On 6/21/2014 8:03 AM, TurquoiseBee [email protected] [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Doug, I can confirm that the housing in this town -- much of which
dates back several centuries and is not about to concern itself with
such trivia as which direction its main entrance faces -- does not
give a shit about Vastu. Nor should anyone who wishes to ever be
considered sane. My suggestion if that you wish to become "rectified,"
you should visit your proctologist. It will cost less than its TMO
counterpart, and will be less invasive. :-)
>
Vastu is all about placement. If you don't have any photos to pin up or
furniture to arrange in your house, you could use the mirror in the
bathroom as your main object of positioning.
Almost everyone in Europe has a family photo or a photo of one their
children or a relative hanging on their wall or above the mantle and
fireplace. Which wall will you hang a photo of Fred Lenz on? You
probably have at least a wallet sized print, right? Assuming that you
have an available wall in your bedroom; and assuming you get a bedroom
of your own.
>
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*From:* "[email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Saturday, June 21, 2014 2:57 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Vastu and the moving experience
Om. Dear Turqb; Did you get the new place, rectified? You know,
Spiritually fixed. Does it have an East entry or something less
auspicious? Does Rental and housing price in the Netherlands fluctuate
according to the direction of the home entry? -Buck
---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Some people hate moving. Packing up their belongings and moving to a
new house is a major trauma event in their lives.
Me, having done it so often, I kinda look upon it as a blessing. But
then I've moved almost fifty times in my life, so I'm kinda used to
it. For me, it provides not a trauma, but an *opportunity*. You get to
go through your STUFF, and figure out how much of it deserves to
become STUFF in your new house. It's a major opportunity for "STUFF
maintenance."
Before the MGC starts rejoicing and saying, "Great -- he's finally
been thrown out of the Netherlands and has to move somewhere else,"
this particular move is only across Leiden, to a new house here. The
owners of the house we currently rent are ending their tenure as
diplomats in China and want to come back, so we've found another,
nicer house about a kilometer away, still within the Leiden Centrum.
And the new place is definitely nicer -- it's got a garden, a solarium
in which to have "outside dinners" even on rainy days, and more usable
space. We'll be happier there.
But first comes the packing. And yes, that's sometimes a bitch, but
I'm looking at it this time as an opportunity to divest myself of
STUFF that has outlived its usefulness. My DVD collection, for
example. I kept a few true collector's items, but either gave away or
sold the rest of them. Movies are just too *available* online these
days for me to have the need to carry around a bunch of boxes of DVDs.
I just got back from biking a huge load of old, dead computers and
electronics to the Recycle Center as well. After all, I still had two
old computers of my own and three that used to belong to IBM but died
on me, so they didn't want them back. I lugged them to the current
place during our last move, just in case they changed their minds, but
there is no need to do so again. So I wiped the hard disks (the IBM
computers still had proprietary AI source code on them that I didn't
want falling into the wrong hands), and dropped them into the Recycle
Bin.
Between the DVDs and the old-and-in-the-way electronics, I feel about
100 pounds lighter, and that weight might actually be accurate. Next I
start on the books, and my other possessions. My "rule" is that if I
haven't worn it or used it in the current house, I'm certainly never
going to use it in the next one. I'm finding it almost a spiritual
exercise, like using mindfulness to "throw out" old, outdated samskaras.
