--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2006, at 7:38 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > wrote: > >> > >> 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. > > > > For the record I have no problem with things like this. > > It's the unnatural grids and the doorways with bad Woo > > Woo Rays and the tearing down of existing buildings > > that is so crazy. Especially the grid thang. No one > > who has ever lived in the country and walked the land > > as it forms itself naturally could ever take such an > > idea seriously. > > And this is very clear in my posted picture: rolling countryside, > a forest following a certain grain, a monastery with it's own > pattern--and a starkly contrasting grid superimposed on the > grounds. Here's my picture from my 0900 post this morning again:
Your photos are being stripped out, but I've looked at the site on Google Earth and agree with you. I tend to prefer things laid out according to the flow of the land, not superimposed upon it by some town planner with a straight edge and a bad case of OCD. :-) But then this is the "grid pattern" of the village I currently live in, so I'm a little spoiled: http://tinyurl.com/t8f88 The village grew organically on the side of a mountain, beside a river, starting in about the tenth century. Maharishi would undoubtedly see any number of things "wrong" with it, and want to tear it down and build little boxes made of ticky-tacky. Fortunately, if he suggested that around here, he would be greeted with howls of laughter. Why wasn't that the reaction of the people in the TM movement?
