Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LB Shriver 's Guru Dev Book

2013-07-02 Thread Ravi Chivukula
ly 1, 2013 11:40 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: LB Shriver 's Guru Dev Book --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com>, "Buck" wrote: > > [graphic showing rising life expectancy] > > So regardless, most people are dead before 80

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LB Shriver 's Guru Dev Book

2013-07-02 Thread Share Long
being compassionate toward me, something about my not being in a space, etc. From: authfriend To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 1, 2013 11:40 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: LB Shriver 's Guru Dev Book   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.

[FairfieldLife] Re: LB Shriver 's Guru Dev Book

2013-07-02 Thread Buck
These discourses from Guru Dev are an excellent way of checking one's priority in life. Like spiritual life insurance. I would recommend reading a discourse before meditation in the morning and again before mediation in the evening. Great practical lesson contained in them. All of us should

[FairfieldLife] Re: LB Shriver 's Guru Dev Book

2013-07-02 Thread Buck
Yes you got it. The article the graphic is from was discovering that too. But the more interesting practical thing for us *boomers* is this fact that very few people live to be older than 85 even if on average people may be living a little longer. The ten year census shows that most of us are

[FairfieldLife] Re: LB Shriver 's Guru Dev Book

2013-07-01 Thread authfriend
Ooops, in my previous post (hasn't appeared yet) I said the life-expectancy-at-birth figures were from 50-plus years ago; actually this chart has life expectancy at birth in 1990, so it's really just 23 years ago. But the principle is correct: the older a population is, the higher its average life

[FairfieldLife] Re: LB Shriver 's Guru Dev Book

2013-07-01 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > [graphic showing rising life expectancy] > > So regardless, most people are dead before 80 = make > use of your time while you are here. That's average life expectancy *at birth*, Buck. For most of us here, IOW, that was more than a half-c

[FairfieldLife] Re: LB Shriver 's Guru Dev Book

2013-07-01 Thread Buck
[graphic showing rising life expectancy] So regardless, most people are dead before 80 = make use of your time while you are here. > > > The book in manuscript is now online and can be read > at his wordpress site: > > http://lbshriver.wordpress.com/guru-dev-lectures/ > > "Rocks are Melting" >