Oh come on! Why are you so negative!?!
Don't you know that everyone who wants the world to be at peace, with every
man, woman and child living their dharma must start the day sipping a cup of
vedic java, after taking their morning spoonful of amrit kalash whilst staring
at their plastic vedic observatory?? Its for world peace for goodness sakes!!!!
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On Sat, 2/15/14, anartax...@yahoo.com <anartax...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 9:42 PM
As usual this coffee seems to have a premium price.
I can get Organic coffee 10oz for about $7.00 at the
local supermarket instead of 8 oz for about $13
for 'Vedic' coffee so it is more than double the
cost, a typical movement overcharge. Exactly what do the
Vedas say about coffee? I bet nothing at all. According to
Wikipedia '[t]he
earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or
knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the
15th century, in the Sufi Muslim monasteries
around Mocha in Yemen'. That is
long after all the Vedic liturature was written. So coffee
is not really associated with the term 'Vedic' at
all.
As for coffee interfering with subtle levels of
awareness, it sort of depends on how 'embodied' one
experiences things. When the mind thinks consciousness is
embodied, then how the body feels is strongly reflected in
what you feel. When you are not identified with the body so
much, coffee does not have that much effect on what is
thought of as subtle. Having 'subtle awareness' is
really a conceptual device to help one settle down, to
become aware of things that might interfere with meditation
etc. But when consciousness equals being in experience,
subtle really does not make much sense since everything has
that value so the differentiation between gross and subtle
is seen as not significant. But it can be very important for
people learning to meditate and for a number of years after
that. I tend to drink regular coffee and Irish breakfast
tea, which is pretty strong. Still caffeine can affect the
body, so lately I have been tapering down on the stronger
stuff in the evening, it just depends on whether I want to
shift into the sleep state at midnight or 3am.
