>--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>sparaig wrote:
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>>>--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
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>>>>authfriend wrote:
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>>>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>You may recall over on a.m.t that I suggested given that you are
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>in
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>>>New
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>>>>Jersey which has quite an Indian community to make the
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>acquaintance
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>>>of
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>>>>some of those folks. Try an Indian grocery next. They love to
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>>>have
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>>>>Americans visit them and chat.
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>>>So none of them are citizens?
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>>Some may still be waiting for citizenship. Others may have even
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>been
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>>born here but you can almost write them off about knowing much
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>Indian.
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>>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
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>about
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>>the stuff they sold there. :)
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>>I also had another pleasant surprise today as there is an Indian
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>grocery
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>>just a block up from where I take my car to be worked on. Now it
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>has
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>>become an ayurvedic store (as well as Indian grocery). Now I will
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>be
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>>able to pick up some ayurvedic supplies (herbs, etc) without going
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>all
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>>the way over to Berkeley. They will even be offering panchakarma.
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>I'd be real leery of going to a hole-in-the-wall enema provider...
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The practitioner is a westerner, not Indian. We chatted quite a bit
about ayurveda and know some folks in common. He's a student of one of
Vasant Lad's students.
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