[FairfieldLife] Re: Re memories of times past
Yes, alas you are right, so many of them are so petty and all they have to offer the world is moaning and complaining, or talking about what movie they saw yesterday or repeating what all can read on the news. They are so fucking boring. Like old hags grinning at a hanging. They must be every young in a different way. Just look the other way. Yes, I knew a bit about the dark side and it sure did give balance, and then you know what is good. Try to tell them and they then ignore it all and carry on talking about fish and chips. He ho! :- ) Their time will come, none are left behind. Merlin of Exmoor --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Don Miller pod1...@... wrote: yes, exactly dick, People think that I like soaring in my paraglider because I do it often and have for 24 years. The fact is that I really loath flying. If always feels dangerious and hostile to me. What happens is that when I return to the mother earth, I give her a kiss, even if in spirit, and feel sooo gracious to be secure on the ground again... just like everyone else, except that others are petty. They feel bored and feel as if they have some god given right to whin and complain, whereas I just feel a warm gratefullness for whatever life dishes out in the moment. I had a back injury from my paragliding actvities a month ago. Excruciating pain in general, but when it lets off, even for a moment, a feeling of bliss and happiness of unusual intensity. But why, I am still the same self? The dark side- Freedom, the sky, outer space, the unknown, things dissolving, infinite sadness, and of course the secondary eddy currents of hatred and evil that arise in people. The light side- Gravity, mother earth, security, things comming together, unification, bliss. To think that one can understand or use the light side without a good understanding of the dark side is incorrect. The light side is the direction, yes, but he dark side should not be ignored, and even manipulated at times, but maintained out of the corner of the eye, like the rear view mirror. It is not the direction, but it contains essential important information that makes the light side everything that it has the potential to be. Saludos, Don From: rwr dick.richard...@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 6:59:19 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re memories of times past  Re memories of times past [ Yes! Great fun! More, more!!! Love, Hillary ] :- ))) That email brought quite a lot of feed-back.  I don't know, it is bloody amazing innit, you write about these off the beaten track experiences which reveal parts of us which are not too readily accessible yet profound and most pooh-pooh it all and laugh at it, and yet when writing about common daily events in ones life they want more :- ))) I doubt very much that my normal daily life is any more interesting than anybody else's, and some folks lives are far more interesting. The only biography that I can remember reading (because it was the only one I read) was Winni Churchill's.  I never liked the guy because he was a Capitalist and aristocratic bastard, but I did like him really, he was so funny, and he had the opportunity to do a few things. And he smoked a cigar whilst eating his dinner :- )  And during the war of course he did have what it took to motivate and inspire people â bit of a magician :- ) But as for us normal bods, well I don't know, it is all much of a muchness isn't it. Even if I began telling a story of past times to any of the children or grandchildren they would all run out screaming â boring boring boring ! :- )  Never once, ever, have any of them asked to hear about anything. I used to ask my gran what it was like living in that huge family of sailors back in the eighteen hundreds and I was dead interested.  Oh well ! But in one sense I tend to agree with the implication of what you are saying, in that I find normal daily life on earth to be MORE PROFOUND than swanning around in that transcendent paradesium. My vote, like my feet, are ON THE GROUND. I guess that makes me an odd odd-ball :- ) Unlike religionists I would not thank the forces that shape our being for what it is going to do but for what it has done, and not for paradise, but for the earth and FREEDOM.  I wonder if there is another odd odd-ball like me around :- ) I doubt it. I keep telling them that a day in the fields of gold with a lover is far better than paradise. They are both real, but one is in the flesh, and it is fleeting, and the other isn't.  No, let them have paradise I will have the earth. If there is anything `magic' in existence IT IS HERE AND NOW.  And it doesn't take money to love life and have fun.  They don't get it do they.  What do you want to hear about old mate? Dick Â
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re memories of times past
As far as living with the very life damaging concept of immortality, they are like most people, who waste their life and attention away with trivia, and a dose of invented worry and complaining on top, as if that were not enough, so that is nothing special. You might notice however another angle, that this is a guy thing, and it is a cultural thing. Women in most cultures have a generalized strength in that they are generally more supportive and loving to those around them, and a generalized weakness in that they are not assertive enough. Men in most cultures have a generalized strength in that they are more upfront and assertive, but a generalized weakness in that they indulge in behaviour that is not supportive and loving. A person developing on the spiritual path becomes more balanced in strength, and so the men become supportive like women, and women become more assertive like men. The distinctions between the two sexes become blurier in the spiritually advanced. Even in old couples, notice how often the old man becomes more reserved, and gradually takes on the more servile qualities of his wife, and the old woman becomes more clear and practical and even starts to wear the old guys clothes. As for myself, the path has lead to a certain efficency in life that causes me to avoid getting into things without clear purpose, things that waste my time and attention, but furthermore I have consciously adopted the practice of trying to be supportive and positive to those around me (unless the situation clearly calls for a more negative reaction), not unlike a mother is towards her children, in order to better balance and strengthen my spirit. I am willing to drop behaviour stereotypes if it will improve my energy level and interaction with others. As I mentioned in another post I was born deformed, without sense of humor. My somber presence I know for sure is rather maddening to some of my compadres who have to spend much time with me. But being, if possible, a little more kind, supportive, in essence more feminine, this takes the edge off, and makes me a bit more palatable, not just to others, but to myself. Cheers From: rwr dick.richard...@ymail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 8:55:31 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re memories of times past Yes, alas you are right, so many of them are so petty and all they have to offer the world is moaning and complaining, or talking about what movie they saw yesterday or repeating what all can read on the news. They are so fucking boring. Like old hags grinning at a hanging. They must be every young in a different way. Just look the other way. Yes, I knew a bit about the dark side and it sure did give balance, and then you know what is good. Try to tell them and they then ignore it all and carry on talking about fish and chips. He ho! :- ) Their time will come, none are left behind. Merlin of Exmoor --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Don Miller pod1...@... wrote: yes, exactly dick, People think that I like soaring in my paraglider because I do it often and have for 24 years. The fact is that I really loath flying. If always feels dangerious and hostile to me. What happens is that when I return to the mother earth, I give her a kiss, even if in spirit, and feel sooo gracious to be secure on the ground again... just like everyone else, except that others are petty. They feel bored and feel as if they have some god given right to whin and complain, whereas I just feel a warm gratefullness for whatever life dishes out in the moment. I had a back injury from my paragliding actvities a month ago. Excruciating pain in general, but when it lets off, even for a moment, a feeling of bliss and happiness of unusual intensity. But why, I am still the same self? The dark side- Freedom, the sky, outer space, the unknown, things dissolving, infinite sadness, and of course the secondary eddy currents of hatred and evil that arise in people. The light side- Gravity, mother earth, security, things comming together, unification, bliss. To think that one can understand or use the light side without a good understanding of the dark side is incorrect. The light side is the direction, yes, but he dark side should not be ignored, and even manipulated at times, but maintained out of the corner of the eye, like the rear view mirror. It is not the direction, but it contains essential important information that makes the light side everything that it has the potential to be. Saludos, Don _ _ __ From: rwr dick.richardson@ ... To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 6:59:19 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re memories of times past  Re memories of times past [ Yes! Great fun! More, more!!! Love, Hillary ] :- ))) That email
