--- In [email protected], "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: authfriend <snip> > But if somebody told me, Well, you have a > choice: by doing program you can *either* > help the world *or* no longer be overshadowed, > I think--or I'd like to think--that I'd continue > doing program, because being able to help the > world is a pretty good compensation for being > overshadowed. > > I don't know if any of that makes sense... > My main point was that being able to > levitate has never been why I do program. > If it ever happens, it'll be a nice bonus, > but it ain't the main event. > > ----I agree. I never thought of it like that, but I guess that's what it is. For my whole life it was either you can have this but you have to give this up, or else. For instance, I can be a chef but I have to work 60 hour weeks until I'm burnt. Even if I do it then I'm in the pay range where I have to start making payments on my 100,000 dollars of student loans so basically I would be working the nenxt 30 years until I was seventy to just pay back my student loans with no money at this pay scale to even buy anything. That's being overshadowed. > > But I guess you mean overshadowed in the sense of clarity and > lightness of consciousness.
Yeah, in the TM jargon sense, i.e., the Self is not overshadowed by all the relative crap like financial problems, health problems, relationship problems--you know, so things don't *bug* you. > Well, so what I wrote isn't so far off the point because say I > really really wanted TM products and courses, then I would have > to work those hours to make the money to have enough left to do > those things. Either - or. Or else. Oor else what? Or else I sit > around and just do my dharma practices without any specific goal. If you're in a hurry to get un-overshadowed, you can get *really* overshadowed if you don't have the money or time or circumstances to take advantage of all the opportunities to do so...it can get a bit circular at times. > Why not do something else besides cook? Why why why. There's always > why. Why not just start here to be myself and work from that? From > here right now, I am working on not being snuffed out by > circumstances. I consider myself a test of what meditation can or > cannot do in the modern world. So far meditation hasn't beated > morphine or weed for me for getting through the day. > > But I'm hoping in this Sad Yuga I can turn it around and stay high > and sober. Oh, *please* do! > I understand the not being overshadowed part. Overshadowed is the > devil. Yeah, sucksville. 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/
