Well, they clearly are behind the times and evidently slow to adopt more scientific and modern ways. But, you did not even Feng Shui the place? -Buck
turquoiseb writes: I can confirm that the housing in this town -- much of which dates back several centuries and is not about to concern itself with such trivia as which direction its main entrance faces -- does not give a shit about Vastu. Nor should anyone who wishes to ever be considered sane. My suggestion if that you wish to become "rectified," you should visit your proctologist. It will cost less than its TMO counterpart, and will be less invasive. :-) Subject: [FairfieldLife] Vastu and the moving experience Om. Dear Turqb; Did you get the new place, rectified? You know, Spiritually fixed. Does it have an East entry or something less auspicious? Does Rental and housing price in the Netherlands fluctuate according to the direction of the home entry? -Buck turquoiseb writes: Some people hate moving. Packing up their belongings and moving to a new house is a major trauma event in their lives. Me, having done it so often, I kinda look upon it as a blessing. But then I've moved almost fifty times in my life, so I'm kinda used to it. For me, it provides not a trauma, but an *opportunity*. You get to go through your STUFF, and figure out how much of it deserves to become STUFF in your new house. It's a major opportunity for "STUFF maintenance." Before the MGC starts rejoicing and saying, "Great -- he's finally been thrown out of the Netherlands and has to move somewhere else," this particular move is only across Leiden, to a new house here. The owners of the house we currently rent are ending their tenure as diplomats in China and want to come back, so we've found another, nicer house about a kilometer away, still within the Leiden Centrum. And the new place is definitely nicer -- it's got a garden, a solarium in which to have "outside dinners" even on rainy days, and more usable space. We'll be happier there. But first comes the packing. And yes, that's sometimes a bitch, but I'm looking at it this time as an opportunity to divest myself of STUFF that has outlived its usefulness. My DVD collection, for example. I kept a few true collector's items, but either gave away or sold the rest of them. Movies are just too *available* online these days for me to have the need to carry around a bunch of boxes of DVDs. I just got back from biking a huge load of old, dead computers and electronics to the Recycle Center as well. After all, I still had two old computers of my own and three that used to belong to IBM but died on me, so they didn't want them back. I lugged them to the current place during our last move, just in case they changed their minds, but there is no need to do so again. So I wiped the hard disks (the IBM computers still had proprietary AI source code on them that I didn't want falling into the wrong hands), and dropped them into the Recycle Bin. Between the DVDs and the old-and-in-the-way electronics, I feel about 100 pounds lighter, and that weight might actually be accurate. Next I start on the books, and my other possessions. My "rule" is that if I haven't worn it or used it in the current house, I'm certainly never going to use it in the next one. I'm finding it almost a spiritual exercise, like using mindfulness to "throw out" old, outdated samskaras.
