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 Batg
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Well, one could make a thesis that the general lack of human contact with
domesticated large mammals in the post-modern era is an exacerbating element in
the evident current of incivility in humanity. Having the opportunity to
compose ones se
Well, one could make a thesis that the general lack of human contact with
domesticated large mammals in the post-modern era is an exacerbating element in
the evident current of incivility in humanity. Having the opportunity to
compose ones self to be successful around large mammals is always a
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
O, I thought he was a TM'er who expanded into other "lineages," or
something like that. I will try to pay more attention (smile).
Oh, he probably dabbled in TM, I haven't followed his life story close enough
to know for sure, but the arist
O, I thought he was a TM'er who expanded into other "lineages," or
something like that. I will try to pay more attention (smile).
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Ann, ignore him, he's just a "meany." I think he took seriou
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Ann, ignore him, he's just a "meany." I think he took serious offense at the
nickname Emptypants—who knows why? I could take a guess; his ego (I mean
manhood) has been challenged and he just can't past it. What I find very, very
amusing is ho
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Now that's my idea of personal hell. LOL, you'd have to tie me down and
tranquilize me.
You are personally unqualified even to contemplate this kind of practice. In
fact, you are unqualified to enter into any form of contemplative or medi
"can't get past it."
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Ann, ignore him, he's just a "meany." I think he took serious offense at the
nickname Emptypants—who knows why? I could take a guess; his ego (I mean
manhood) has been challenged and he just can't past it. What I find v
Ann, ignore him, he's just a "meany." I think he took serious offense at the
nickname Emptypants—who knows why? I could take a guess; his ego (I mean
manhood) has been challenged and he just can't past it. What I find very, very
amusing is how angry and fearful, Empty, as a meditator is. It
Now that's my idea of personal hell. LOL, you'd have to tie me down and
tranquilize me.
You are personally unqualified even to contemplate this kind of practice. In
fact, you are unqualified to enter into any form of contemplative or meditative
practice. No wonder you ended up following
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 da
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...@yaho
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 he
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?
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/i
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.
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How will we all ke
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
http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf” in 1930.
---In F
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 Mic
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
http://www.gallup.com/poll/175286/hour-workweek-actually-longer-seven-hours.aspx
http://www.gallup.com/poll/175286/hour-workweek-actually-l
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, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
In 1930 the average workweek was 47 hours. By 1970 it h
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!
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