--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The information is enlightening. It speaks volumes in regards to > saying yes to every experience in life. > However, it is tough to live up to this in a capitalistic society > where you are expected to pay your rent or mortgage on time. If > your ideas don't sell then how can you pay your bills. When I > worked for Deepak Chorpra I saw his own struggle with this. He > is one of the best at selling ideas to the public that make book > sales improve in order to keep his contract with his publishers > and a working relationship with his agent. We have built a > financial world around us which doesn't allow for spiritual > development because we depend so much on others buying our > ideas.
I might suggest that this isn't precisely true, Lou. Those who *sell* their ideas and depend on the money they receive for those ideas to pay their bills may be concerned about whether those ideas sell. But what about the situation I mentioned in my little essay itself? When I taught meditation Rama-style, I did it FOR FUN, paying for all of the expenses myself. I supported myself at another career SO THAT I could have fun that way. It seems to me that it's only the model of *selling* one's spiritual ideas that is dependent on the "publish or perish" mentality.
