--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vaj wrote: > > > > > On Aug 4, 2006, at 5:22 PM, new.morning wrote: > > > >> Well, since your yogic powers are not sufficient to breaktrough > >> Sony's superficial "protection" scheme, here is what S. said: > >> > >> "If people knew the real reason for using a deerskin to meditate on, > >> there would be a great shortage of deerskins". > > > > > > > > Here's the traditional qualities of a deerskin asana: > > > > It gives special siddhis, liberates from bondage and ensures one is > > never short of money. > > > > Also: > > > > -subjugation of the senses > > -sublimation of sensuality > > -achieving realization or a state of total awareness > > -siddhis > > -curing diseases caused by an aggravated mind and piita and blood > > diseases > > -increases individual magnetism > > > > Akashic Records, shelf 104890344329.99231 > > > > But I have to tell you, it always creeped me out seeing people who > > claimed to be vegetarians sitting on a dead deer hide. > > The best deer hide is supposed to be black deer. Since hunting deer is > illegal in India I suspect they get the hides from outside the country? > One probably could get black deer hides out of Tibet. The taxidermist I > got my deer hide from said there are some black deer in Texas. Deer > hides really shed even when properly treated. I understand that is why > antelope hides are frequently used instead. I also ordered online from > a deer farm in Canada but the hides didn't have the proper treatment and > really shed too easy.
Mine, from 1977, shed a lot, and split, tore, got quite woren, after years of sitting on it 9silk on top). I finally gave it a nice "send off". 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/
