Share Long wrote:
> Ah, Richard, thank you and I LOVE LOVE LOVE that bit from Isha
> Upanishad expecially: one should enjoy it with renunciation.
> So yin/yang, so Shiva/Shakti, so light and shadow, etc.
>
As the saying goes: "Purman adah, Purnam idam"
"Om ! That (world) is a complete whole.
This (world) too is a complete whole.
From the complete whole only, the (other)
complete whole rose. Even after removing
the complete whole from the (other)
complete whole, still the complete whole
remains unaltered and undisturbed."
'Isha Upanishad'
http://www.vedarahasya.net/isha.htm
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*From:* Richard J. Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>
*To:* Richard J. Williams <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2013 7:54 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
On 9/23/2013 7:21 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
> The idea when you get older is you probably don't need and often want as
> much...
>
It's called 'down-shifting' - going back to the basics. All my life I've
been doing
the up-shifting. This is the mime speaking.
That's what I'm going to do - sell almost everything, the cars, houses
and the
boat, and move to the country. Live the simple life. Downshifting - a
move away
from materialism towards a simpler, more fulfilling life!
According to Suma Varughese, downshifting also known as "simple living" or
"voluntary simplicity", is a path I want to take, away from the land of the
shopping mall.
"The only thing we can do to downshift is to reduce our own wants and
cut loose
from the consumerist trap. What has already been seen to be the route to
individual happiness also becomes the route to that of the environment."
Some adopt the devotional approach. Nothing is ours, for all is God's
according
to Swami Shantanand Saraswati, 'The Man Who Wanted to Meet God':
"The Isha Upanishad says that the universe is permeated by the Absolute.
Whatever one sees in creation, whatever moves one should use it fully
and enjoy
this absolute everywhere, but one should enjoy it with renunciation. One
should
not try to hold it or covet it. One need not try to possess it.
Enjoy it and give it up."
http://www.lifepositive.com/writers/Suma_Varughese.asp
Nothing wrong with Social Security. But there is something wrong with
foolishly promising people a pension that pays the same as when they
were working. What were they smoking when they did that? it actually
isn't feasible. Times were booming and the idiots you elected
(regardless of the aisle they sat on) made those promises. The idea
when you get older is you probably don't need and often want as much.
You don't need a full pension.
When there are no longer full time jobs for everyone then you have to
divvy up the jobs. But that won't work for employers. So what are you
going to do, Mike? Tell people to crawl away and die? You know how
that will go down. They'll tell you to crawl away and die.
On 09/23/2013 02:39 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
We already have that *leisuresociety*. Ever heard of Social Security?
You pay into it for many years and at a certain age you get to join
that leisure society,. Get paid for not working. Many people don't
even have to pay into it. Just have something wrong that prevents you
from being able to work or just be the child of a parent that died
and had paid into it. Heck, you can even be a single mother and have
the government pay you to raise your kids. The government will find
you a place to live , feed you and your kids, give you a phone, free
medical care. There's an old saying, *if something is worth having,
it's worth working for*. The work in this case is learning how to
make do with a little.
*From:* Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> <mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2013 1:19 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] America the Beautiful
And the Fascist, I mean Repubicans, want us to work until we drop
dead. Doing what? How would you like a near aspergers like former
computer programmer waiting on you at Burger King? At that there are
not enough jobs for everybody. I push the new leisure society where
you pay people FOR NOT WORKING. Sound upside down? Bucky Fuller
suggested this over 50 years ago. Also many people with retirement
funds used them up after unemployment ran out while looking for a job
in their field. A friend who is a very competent software engineer
and college professor found himself taking Social Security at age 67
even though he wanted to wait until he could get the full amount at
age 70. America ain't Beautiful anymore. In fact it sucks. On
09/23/2013 12:46 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
A Christian nation:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/why-100-000-salary-may-yield-retirement-flipping-burgers.html
