>
> sparaig wrote:
>
> >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>authfriend wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Last Sunday I went into my corner 7-Eleven to pick up
> >>>a few things. As I was paying at the counter, the
> >>>clerk--a friendly young Indian guy who likes to banter
> >>>with customers--asked me if I'd had a nice Easter.
> >>>
> >>>I'd forgotten. I said, "Was today Easter?" He looked
> >>>surprised, and I said, "I'm not religious." Then I put
> >>>on a pious _expression_ and said, "But I'm very spiritual."
> >>>
> >>>He chuckled. Then he said, "Do you meditate?" I said
> >>>yes, I did. He looked pleased. Then he said, "Do you
> >>>use OM?"
> >>>
> >>>I said "No, but I'm not going to tell you what my
> >>>mantra is."
> >>>
> >>>He responded, "Oh, they say meditation that doesn't
> >>>use OM can't be effective."
> >>>
> >>>I said I'd heard that too. He grinned and handed me
> >>>my change.
> >>>
> >>>That was the end of the conversation, but after I left
> >>>I thought how neat it was to connect, however briefly,
> >>>with a clerk in a convenience store on a relatively
> >>>sophisticated level of meditation lore.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>You may recall over on a.m.t that I suggested given that you are
in
> >>
> >>
> >New
> >
> >
> >>Jersey which has quite an Indian community to make the
acquaintance
> >>
> >>
> >of
> >
> >
> >>some of those folks. Try an Indian grocery next. They love to
> >>
> >>
> >have
> >
> >
> >>Americans visit them and chat.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >So none of them are citizens?
> >
> >
> >
> Some may still be waiting for citizenship. Others may have even
been
> born here but you can almost write them off about knowing much
Indian.
> I had tell one high school age Indian girl who was working at her
> parents store what Triphala was and she said she didn't know much
about
> the stuff they sold there. :)
>
> I also had another pleasant surprise today as there is an Indian
grocery
> just a block up from where I take my car to be worked on. Now it
has
> become an ayurvedic store (as well as Indian grocery). Now I will
be
> able to pick up some ayurvedic supplies (herbs, etc) without going
all
> the way over to Berkeley. They will even be offering panchakarma.
>
I'd be real leery of going to a hole-in-the-wall enema provider...
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