In a message dated 5/31/2007 10:34:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto: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. > You are correct. You can be spiritual, spontaneous, creative without the need to sell and still make money. But why have we created a situation where we need to think about earning money at all is my point. More often then not their is so much of the little ego involved with our economic system to control and manipulate others through our *ideas*. People in this world want to own others and will do anything to sell their ideas in order to have that power. You are very rare. Most people want money to buy them power. Many of our spiritual leaders who sell ideas are fallen souls who have settled for power at the cost of creating heaven on earth. Yes, one of them is MMY. The greatest seller of meditation in the world and the most frustrated master as he has tried to work with the system only to be controlled by the judgments and ideas of others who will not except his world plan. He will be much happier going back to the fifth dimension soon. Jai Guru Deva. Lsoma. PS. I believe you said that you didn't charge for meditation in your essay. How can you pay your bills by not charging? Even those who don't charge take donations. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
