--- In [email protected], "rudrani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > akasha asked [[but are you wandering from place to place, with no > home, as is the practice of many sadhus? And thus maintaining no > artificial reference point)? thats my next step. I am paring down as > we speak.]] > ** almost. i have a room, a central place (lol .. my lil' cave). > im here usually about 4-5 days a week, but i travel. two weeks ago > i taught hatha at a local shala, last week i was at the ashram in > Palm Bay, next week house sitting, after that a lecture in MO, then > an ayurvedic retreat around the first of april. > > i do sessions (lectures & such) & massage for room & board. like i > said, im about 98% there.
> this is the deal as i see it so far: being an American saddhu is > tough in that there is no sociatal contruct to support the system. Its funny you use the term American Saddhu. In the back reaches of my mind, I had evisioned doing a book with that title, or alternatively American Sanyasi -- each title trying to capture that idea of giving up the concept and physicality of "home" and the core identities, reference points, karmas and stagnation, subtle or otherwise, that accrue from such. I opted instead for a naiscent blog "High Brains Drifter" which to me whimsically captures a flavor of a certain american drifter spirit (homage to sergio and clint) juxtaposed to technolgical and design opportunities that help enable a drifter / gypsy / nomad lifestyle. (And of course Peter has already furiously (as in rapidly) started a reply -- "Its a delusion to try to find 'freedom' by reshuffling relative layers of one's life. Freedom is in the domain of consciouness only. Lack of relative reference points has nothing to do with freedom. Consciousness has its own dharma, separate from the dharma of one's relative life." While that is acknowledged, I think there is a subtle chain of bondage that is unwound by giving up "home". And while as static analysis, experiantially Peter's view appears to articulate a truth, there are other experiential truths that indicate a seepage (if not rampaging floods at time) of consciouness into fuller and larger, and smaller and more microscopic, realms of itself. Rory, a past FFL poster, seemed particularly attuned to this phenomenon, of IT being integrated in to larger wholes, smaller crevices, the nooks and crannies of ones life, and in unexpected areas, even while the wholeness itself was undisturbed. The point being, unfolding relative chains has some value, to some at least. > this is the deal as i see it so far: being an American saddhu is > tough in that there is no sociatal contruct to support the system. True, but then why would a saddhu need a construct? :) And point being, there are structures out there, that can be recast, at least conceptually, as having the attributes needed to support a saddhu drifter life in America (but why limit it to america?) If and as more people choose that life, more manifest support systems will arise to support such. Perhaps a "chain" of drifter/sadhana safe houses spaced across the country -- rentals initially, later mortgages assumed by a collective foundation as certain critical masses arise -- where drifters can stay for a week, month, season, in a quiet, sadhanna oriented environment, WIFI enabled, with like travellers, all organized and managed decentrally on the web. Storage units, mailing addresses, local vehicles (bikes, small motor bikes), laundry, community kitchen, cookware, simple basic furnishings, collective gardens, etc at each location -- refining over time with the volunteer assitance of travelling co-op "members" / affiliates. Sadhanic co-op safehouses / hostels / missions / retreats in city and countryside locations -- perhaps starting in Fairfield, California, Colorado, Florida, NorthEast, North West, British Columbia and Baha California -- spreading to Asia (Bangalore, Chaing Mai, Katmandu, Darjaaling, etc) Europe, South America ... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
