Seems like this quip is using a blanket spiritual putdown on some quite experienced meditators who would continue to sit in meditation. Quite evidently though even the awakened continue to meditate. Yes, like calling on taxis that take you further on.
Rick has a good conversation on Batgap with someone talking about the awakened coming in to realization and actualizing it as embodiment in life. Human life being exploration of the embodiment of the transcendent where meditation can have its place, even for the enlightened who have the transcendent on tap. It is an honest conversation about this. You might like the conversation around it. 282. Hameed Ali (A. H. Almaas) - 2nd Interview - Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com/hameed-ali-a-h-almaas-2/ https://batgap.com/hameed-ali-a-h-almaas-2/ 282. Hameed Ali (A. H. Almaas) - 2nd Interview - ... https://batgap.com/hameed-ali-a-h-almaas-2/ A. Hameed Ali was born in Kuwait in 1944. At the age of eighteen, he moved to the USA to study at the University of California in Berkeley. Hameed was wo... View on batgap.com https://batgap.com/hameed-ali-a-h-almaas-2/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote : Meditation is like taking a taxi to get somewhere. Once you're there you don't need the taxi anymore. Same with meditation, once you have the transcendent on demand you don't need to call a taxi. This happens with some people but apparently not all? On 01/11/2016 11:51 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: We do have a bunch of people here in Fairfield, Iowa who work at meditating, who are ‘paid’ in income support to meditate long hours in the group meditation. It is about 80 people who are still paid to be meditating in the long meditations daily, morning and evening, in the group meditation here. The ‘stipend’ is about $800 per month per person now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote : Nearly a century ago, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that American productivity and the age of abundance would mean less toil for workers. And until the 1970s, the average workweek was shrinking. Why Do Americans Work So Much? Why Do Americans Work So Much? The economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a society so prosperous that people would hardly have to work. But that isn’t exactly how things have play... View on www.theatlantic.com Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote : The Doors open for group meditation daily at 7am and again at 5pm in Fairfield, Iowa ..in 1930. Over the next century, he predicted, the economy would become so productive that people would barely need to work at all. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote : How will we all keep busy when we only have to work 15 hours a week? That was the question that worried the economist John Maynard Keynes when he wrote his short essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” in 1930. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote : Some places, like tech companies, employees feel it it as "badge of honor" to put in long hours. My boss said it was probably more a sign of incompetence. And HP study back in the 1990s showed that working anymore than 50 hours a week was counter productive. I knew someone who worked at Microsoft who was "salaried" (in California it's called "exempted") and if it took him one day to finish his part of the project for the week then it was okay for him not to come in the rest of the week. Computer programming is more like working on a piece of art and productivity comes in spurts not 9 to 5. On 01/10/2016 11:42 AM, mailto:emily.mae50@yahoo.comemily.ma...@yahoo.com mailto:emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: As a salaried employee, this was much more my experience....(40 to 60, but paid for 40). The "40-Hour" Workweek Is Actually Longer -- by Seven Hours The "40-Hour" Workweek Is Actually Longer -- b... Adults employed full time in the U.S. report working an average of 47 hours a week, almost a full workday longer than what a standard five-day, 9-to-5 schedu... View on www.gallup.com http://www.gallup.com ! Preview by Yahoo ---In mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.comfairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:noozguru@...<noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : Of course work is not the purpose of life. That was an industrial age piece of propaganda to keep the chickens busy. There are lots of things to do other than work. On 01/10/2016 05:07 AM, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: In 1930 the average workweek was 47 hours. By 1970 it had fallen to slightly less than 39. How will we all keep busy when we only have to work 15 hours a week? The Dome doors open for meditation at 7am in Fairfield, Iowa. -JaiGuruYou!
