--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I guess the REAL point of SV is that if humans
> > > > can't make their houses fit into nice neat rows,
> > > > then probably humans shouldn't be living on that
> > > > land...
> > >
> > > Wow.
> > >
> > > I just don't know how to react to this. Part of
> > > me hopes that you're kidding, and another part is
> > > horrified to consider the possibility that you're
> > > not.
> > >
> > > Do you honestly believe that you can realize
> > > enlightenment while trying to make your life fit
> > > into nice neat rows?
> >
> > That's the point. If you have to put effort into
> > community living, then its distracting you from
> > more important issues.
>
> Well said. We are agreed on this, then.
>
> I still think it's a "shut in" phenomenon, the kind
> of thing that only people who haven't left the rooms
> they live in for years would consider important.
>
> > Now, is it really effortful to live on wavey streets
> > instead of straight streets? I live on a semi-circle
> > and I have a hard time figuring out North, but that's
> > me. HOWEVER, the SV claim apparently is based on some
> > intuition about the interaction of devas with the land
> > and the users of the land. It's a religious thing...
>
> Yes it is. And it's being adopted by many people who
> will claim up one side of the issue and down the other
> that it's not, and would like to pretend that they're
> buying into it because of rational reasons.
>
> > ...obviously, unless some scientific basis can be found
> > for the claims.
> >
> > Are you criticizing the entire Hindu culture and religion
> > because their tradition says streets alligned with NS/EW
> > are better than streets that aren't?
>
> Yup, I guess I am. And I am doing so unapologetically.
>
> Presented as religious belief, the ideas are Ok.
> Presented as pseudo-scientific fact, I don't think
> they are. Especially, when these so-called "facts"
> go so strongly against every other tradition of
> geomancy that I know of on the planet, and against
> most people's intuitive feeling for what living in
> harmony with nature really means.
>
I find that whenever I want to just say one of those quick prayers
around the house, it just feels better to face east- also when
meditating, I'll do it facing east once in a great while, and it
feels a little smoother and a little deeper. Not that I'll take the
trouble to and make a big deal out of it 99.9% of the time. Most of
the time I meditate facing north because that's the way the
furniture is set up.
