--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> True on all counts except cows. Cows make excellent low hassle-high
reward pets. And the reward includes milk. Of course, you can't have
a cow on a suburban lawn, but the shepherd who taught me to meditate
kept a pet cow named Sybille, and she was one of the most intelligent
and loving creatures (including humans) I've ever met. But most cows
I've seen have been driven crazy--one look at their eyes and it's
obvious. a
When I was at MMY's crib in Switzerland I got a sense of what you are
talking about. I used to play harmonica for the cows who would all
crowd around to listen. They loved the real deep mournful blues not
the fast stuff that would spook them. They had a nice keeper who
cultivated the cow human relationship. Your point is a good one
because it is the investment in the interaction that makes the
relationship rich, not necessarily the animal itself. My cats are
trained like dogs and the training interaction developed the
relationship more deeply.
Of course kids are the highest hassle creatures of all but people who
raise them claim they are the highest reward of all.(I'll have to take
their word for it. I am like W.C. Fields who who once said '
Children? Sure I like children, girl children, between 18-20!'"
>
> curtisdeltablues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Isn't the checking point "Don't make an issue of the draining
> influence of animal"? Very clever way to make an issue of it for
> teachers.
>
> I think the problem you are talking about is that using cows as lawn
> mowers is not efficient. They are not pets but are livestock. The
> only way it makes sense to go through what farmers do is to eat or
> sell them eventually. This is like a city person's weird fantasy.
> I'll bet the guy would be ahead on energy if he used a non electric
> lawnmower and still be all Vedic up in the hizzi.
>
> When it comes to pets each one has a cost, time, hassle, to benefit
> ratio. I have owned a monkey, high hassle but high reward, dogs, high
> hassle if you don't live in the country but hight reward, ferrets,
> charming little elves but stinky, birds, too much mess but high
> interactive intelligence and affection, and finally my favorite and
> the winner of the cost hassle reward ratio: cats. The love and
> affection they provide for the tiny amount of work it takes (I even
> have a robot litter box) makes them the ultimate pet for me.
>
> As a life long animal lover, I always thought that MMY's animal
> aversion was more personal than yogic. I doubt Donald Trump takes a
> lot of time with pets either. Just not touchy-feely types. But
> living with critters is good for your health and fills your life with
> love. My life would be diminished without them.
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody know of M's views on keeping pets? I've heard him say
> that they
> > are a drain. I always thought he meant of some kind of spiritual
> energy, but
> > I'm beginning to believe he actually meant a drain of resources and
> time,
> > being a distraction from program.< I heard a story about a yogi that
> lived in a
> > hut in the forest doing his program and he only had two possessions,
> a couple
> > of loin cloths. One to wear , one to wash and dry for the next day.
> A rat
> > used to disturb him in meditation by scratching the cloth hanging
> to dry so he
> > got a cat to chase away the rat, then he needed a cow to have milk
> to feed
> > the cat. Then he had to raise grain to feed the cow. Before long
> the yogi was
> > tending a farm in order to not be distracted in meditation from the
> rat but
> > there was no time for meditation because of all the duties of the
> farm. In
> > short , the busy businessman story. The reason I'm asking this is,
> this story is
> > being manifested on TMO property as we speak. A care taker has been
> ordered
> > to build a fence to keep some calves who are supposed to be lawn
> mowers, so to
> > speak. The care taker is going to end up rising at 4 or 5 in the
> morning to
> > bottle feed the calves and tend to their needs during the day so he
> won't
> > have to mow the grass (this was not his idea). I've tried to lobby
> against this
> > venture without success as being *off the program* and also a
> liability to
> > the TMO. Poor fencing means cattle escaping and wondering off,
> perhaps on to
> > roads, causing accidents. The calves will be steers and serve no
> other purpose
> > than to eat grass and be pets. Any comments are welcome.
> >
> >
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