Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yaqui Vastu

2014-05-31 Thread Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 8:16 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : Perfect, I'll be there next week to make an offer. This would make a great winter place for you and your family. It

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-12-28 Thread Richard Williams
We looked at this place last Saturday up by Rising Star on the way to Dad's place. It's an almost perfect example of a Yaqui Vastu house and it has an entrance facing east. The construction utilizes native sandstone and cedar posts. There is a pier and beam floor inside made out of oak planks

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-11-18 Thread Share Long
That last paragraph is beautiful, Richard. But it does seem to be about the senses! Anyway, yes, I was wondering about the cement used to hold the stones together. Any stress involved in creating that? On Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:27 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:  

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-11-16 Thread Share Long
Richard, I love that Yaqui Vastu principle of building with non stressed materials. But I have to wonder how sustainable that is. I mean, are there enough stones lying around? I wonder if straw bales would be acceptable. And before, you had mentioned cedar. But wouldn't cedar have to be

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-11-16 Thread Richard Williams
What you have to do is select a site that has most of the needed elements already at hand. That way, you don't have to dig into the earth very much - you just pick the ideal stones and carry them to the site. Ideally it should be no more than 10,000 feet to transport the stones. There should be a

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-11-15 Thread Richard Williams
The Sanskrit word 'vastu' means a dwelling or house with a corresponding plot of land. The word pertains to construction. Vastu is based in five elements: earth, air, fire, water, and space, all interrelated. Yaqui Vastu involves the awareness of how the ways of construction, orientation, and

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Williams
To the extent that the building embodies meanings conducive to an intellectual vision of the non-duality of principal Unity and manifested multiplicity, it functions as a symbol, that is to say, as a representation of reality on another. The belief that the building is capable of performing this

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-10-14 Thread Share Long
Richard, I really like feng shui and knew that it meant wind and water. But I didn't know the other details about that. And I never knew about the role of fire in geomancy. Very fascinating knowledge. Of course the Zone of Tranquility reminds me of the brahmanstan in vastu vidya. On

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Williams
By 6,000 B.C.E. the art of geomacy resulted in the megalith and mound culture of Europe and South India. By 4,000 B.C.E. we see communities emerge, of which the Indus Valley Civilization, with it's planned city streets, being a prime example. In the Fertile Crescent the city states of Mesopotamia

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-10-13 Thread Richard Williams
Inside the zone of tranquility, there should be a balance between wind and water. The art of Fengshui in its earliest recorded context specifically refers to the School of Forms. Terrestrial features serve to block the wind, which captures qi and scatters it, and channel the waters, which collect

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-10-12 Thread Richard Williams
It's all a matter of positioning and placement. Geomancy is at least half a million years old, dating from early Homo Sapiens. Images of 'Mater' dating from 30,000 B.C.E. were placed in small wall recesses in homes, in order to insure vitality and abundance. All traditional cultures have their