Rick Archer wrote: >on 6/6/05 7:00 PM, Bhairitu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Well I am also living in the San Francisco area and you are correct that >>many of the Indians are trying to emulate the western lifestyle >>(DESIs). However I know westerners who are known as Indiaphiles who >>don't truly understand what they are getting into. That's why I was >>kind of musing (like others here) why anyone would bother to pursue >>celibacy. >> >> > >We're all the same color of meat and bones beneath the skin. There are >probably as many successful celibates in the West as there are in the East - >and as many failures. > > > Yes but this in not about race it is about culture. Indians just refer to westerners as "white guys" and Indians themselves are Caucasian. In the documentary "Fierce Grace" Ram Dass makes a comment about westerners buying to Indian culture without having any idea about what they are buying into.
And then there is the theory espoused by some Indians that many of the souls who were killed after the Indian independence reincarnated in the west. Some Tibetans also buy into that. Personally I could care less about celibacy which I learned a long time ago is sort of a fallacy (phallusy --- :) ) since the semen gets passed in the urine anyway. If one has a good meditation technique (a guru mantra for instance) then the mind goes way beyond that physical realm and it does not become an issue (oops, another pun). 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/
