[FairfieldLife] Re: Humiliation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: At any moment I could be out of a job. Fortunately, because I live frugally and have no debt, I'm a couple of years away from living on the street, not a couple of months, but basically I am in the same position as an auto worker who fears being laid off or anyone else who fears that their source of income will dry up. And does this worry me, does it sometimes erode my self confidence and get me down? Betcher booties, as someone here likes to say. :-) Shake off that faint heartedness, oh TurquoiseB! Nistroi Gunjo etc. You an old TM initiate, you especially have a safety net. A safety net. Return to the program full-time and you can earn $700 per month, working for the upliftment of all Natural Law and Order. Return ye ransomed non-meditator. Takes only getting your meditation checked and the world would statistically be a whole lot better place for you and everyone. You are being served your return from Exile. Jai Guru Dev. It is beautiful how things work out. We are so happy for you. Jai Guru Dev. The domes here could use a few more disciplined meditators. We look with joy on your return to home. We all look to welcome you back, brother. Jai Guru. At the same time, when this happens I try to remember the Latin origin of the word humiliation and remind myself that this is all a Good Thing, something that is reminding me of my *real* importance, or lack thereof. I'm ORDINARY. The Laws Of Nature do NOT necessarily support me. God is NOT necessarily on my side. The system is NOT necessarily going to take care of me. If the shit hits the fan, I'm going to be as covered with shit as everyone else. And that helps to remind me to be a little more humble. But it *also* serves to remind me that I AM NOT ALONE. People who consider themselves the Lords of the Uni- verse or having the support of Nature often tend to be egoistic loners. They don't really NEED other people, because things are going so well for them *without* other people. It's often only when the shit hits the fan that we realize that other people -- our friends and fellow seekers -- are a far more important resource than that paycheck. If we avoid the psychic depression that accompanies an economic depression, most of us can remember our strengths, and find some new way to put those strengths to use, and with a little help from our friends, not only get by, but do so with some grace. One of the reasons I have enjoyed this thread is that it bucks the trend of the TMO, and of many spiritual and social structures. So *MUCH* of the TMO mindset was about not *admitting* that we got depressed from time to time, or that our job security was precarious. In a way, it was like that old L.A. joke. Guy says to another guy, What do you do for a living? He says, I'm an actor. First guy says, Oh...what restaurant? That joke is a joke because it reflects the sad reality of being an actor -- most of them are out of work most of the time, but none of them are ever *allowed* to admit that they're not working as actors right now. Similarly, in the TMO people were generally not *allowed* to admit that they were less than the perfect members of the perfect society, all of which was work- ing quite perfectly, thank you. I think it's a step forward that we can both *admit* that sometimes not everything works perfectly, and step forward to help our friends and fellow seekers when that happens. There is *humility* in both sides of this equation, and not an ounce of humiliation in its degraded modern meaning.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Humiliation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: At any moment I could be out of a job. Fortunately, because I live frugally and have no debt, I'm a couple of years away from living on the street, not a couple of months, but basically I am in the same position as an auto worker who fears being laid off or anyone else who fears that their source of income will dry up. And does this worry me, does it sometimes erode my self confidence and get me down? Betcher booties, as someone here likes to say. :-) Shake off that faint heartedness, oh TurquoiseB! Nistroi Gunjo etc. You an old TM initiate, you especially have a safety net. A safety net. Return to the program full-time and you can earn $700 per month, working for the upliftment of all Natural Law and Order. While the irony of that, and the ability to be a Bad Influence in Fairfield appeals to me, 1) I doubt very seriously whether the TMO would give me a dome badge, and 2) I'd much rather live in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass. :-) Return ye ransomed non-meditator. I've always been a meditator. Still am. Just not a TM meditator. While I understand that many see not a TM meditator as equivalent to not a meditator, and that Nabby probably sees not a TM meditator as equivalent to a demon that deserves to be thrown in a hole so that I can cover him with dirt, not everyone sees things that way. :-) Takes only getting your meditation checked and the world would statistically be a whole lot better place for you and everyone. I reserve the right to disagree with either of those two statistics. One can do a great deal of good for the world from a cardboard box. :-) You are being served your return from Exile. Jai Guru Dev. It is beautiful how things work out. We are so happy for you. Jai Guru Dev. The domes here could use a few more disciplined meditators. Disciplined? Are we talking regular spankings? :-) We look with joy on your return to home. We all look to welcome you back, brother. Jai Guru. No Dev? I guess I only deserve a Dev if I come back to the fold. :-) Doug, I fully understand that you are joking. But isn't it fascinating that pretty much the same email could have been written by people we know without an ounce of irony, either intended or perceived? It is my opinion that those who have come to believe that those who do not believe as they do are no longer home don't really have much of a home that anyone would want to come back TO. Any TMer would be welcome in my cardboard box anytime. If it's Je-Ru I might watch him carefully to make sure he doesn't steal me blind, and if it's Nabby I might watch him to make sure he doesn't try to cover me with dirt, but they'd both be welcome. :-) :-) :-) And, just as an example of support of nature, and to infuriate those who believe that such support just *should not happen* to Off The Program predatory scum such as myself, in the time between my earlier post and this one, I received word from IBM that my contract has, in fact, been renewed. So it looks as if the cardboard box is NOT in my immediate future, even though I had a perfect freeway overpass picked out for it, one with a view of the sea. Jai Guru Accounting Department
[FairfieldLife] Re: Humiliation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: I'd much rather live in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass. :-) Return ye ransomed non-meditator. I've always been a meditator. Still am. Just not a TM meditator. While I understand that many see not a TM meditator as equivalent to not a meditator, and that Nabby probably sees not a TM meditator as equivalent to a demon that deserves to be thrown in a hole so that I can cover him with dirt, not everyone sees things that way. :-) Hah, I just knew you are a meditator deep down! Yes, i always thot you were a meditator. Could just see it. Like, man you care way too much about real spirituality to not be one. A meditator, yeah like so many meditators around here so many in the domes. And, just as evidently not one of those meditators like up there. Obviously Not TM-TB'er. Evidently not the TM-cult type meditator nor TM Jersey Island crooked, like some up there. Om, oh they have let lots of meditators just like you in to the domes. Just got to know how to walk. You could proly easily be a meditator returned in the domes too. Don't count yourself out. You are a meditator like so many here still. Afterall, once a meditator always a meditator. Just not necessarily like one of those meditators like some up there. Actually, come out of your cardboard box you'd find yourself right at home in coffee shops here too with the meditating community as it is. Return the prodigal son.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Humiliation
Jai Guru Dev. The domes here could use a few more disciplined meditators. Disciplined? Are we talking regular spankings? :-) Nay, spiritual discipline as in the old meaning like the old Buddhist or Quaker sense. In, to have the discipline to sit up do the spiritual practice. Discipline. As in not just sleeping through but being awake to the practice. The practicality of working to show up, sitting up to practice not just to sleep. Doing the spiritual practice. Somewhat opposed to what has been that communal TM lassie-fare thing of `taking it as it comes' lying down to sleep as meditation. Yes, the Meissner Effect,(ME) always can use a few good meditators to balance the world. Good, as in disciplined meditators, are a lot of what makes a good group (ME) meditation. Is age old. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I'd much rather live in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass. :-) Return ye ransomed non-meditator. I've always been a meditator. Still am. Just not a TM meditator. While I understand that many see not a TM meditator as equivalent to not a meditator, and that Nabby probably sees not a TM meditator as equivalent to a demon that deserves to be thrown in a hole so that I can cover him with dirt, not everyone sees things that way. :-) Hah, I just knew you are a meditator deep down! Yes, i always thot you were a meditator. Could just see it. Like, man you care way too much about real spirituality to not be one. A meditator, yeah like so many meditators around here so many in the domes. And, just as evidently not one of those meditators like up there. Obviously Not TM-TB'er. Evidently not the TM-cult type meditator nor TM Jersey Island crooked, like some up there. Om, oh they have let lots of meditators just like you in to the domes. Just got to know how to walk. You could proly easily be a meditator returned in the domes too. Don't count yourself out. You are a meditator like so many here still. Afterall, once a meditator always a meditator. Just not necessarily like one of those meditators like some up there. Actually, come out of your cardboard box you'd find yourself right at home in coffee shops here too with the meditating community as it is. Return the prodigal son.
