Re: [FairfieldLife] Waking Up - the art of pitching meditation to skeptics

2014-09-16 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You need to get some smarts, Barry - NOBODY on FFL, that has a lick of sense, is going to pay $16.00 for a 256 page book so they can read what Sam Harris says about Buddhist meditation. Only a nerd would do that - because there is nothing new i

Re: [FairfieldLife] Waking Up - the art of pitching meditation to skeptics

2014-09-16 Thread Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
You need to get some smarts, Barry - NOBODY on FFL, that has a lick of sense, is going to pay $16.00 for a 256 page book so they can read what Sam Harris says about Buddhist meditation. Only a nerd would do that - because there is nothing new in his book to read - this is some pretty basic stuff.

[FairfieldLife] Waking Up - the art of pitching meditation to skeptics

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I finished Sam Harris' new book, and am up for discussing any parts of it with people here who have also read the book. It should go without saying that in addition to the folks whose posts I never read period (none of whom are likely to have the attention span or humility to read this book anyw