Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00142)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Ryan Rocheleau 
<eleblanc1982@y...> wrote:
> Netemara,
> 
> I think contentment is closely tied to your
> expectations. The people on the tracks don't watch
> TV, they don't read magazines, and they aren't
> bombarded by advertising. To them, their lifestyle is
> 'normal.' Their expectations from life are just very
> low.
> 

I would say yes and no to your response. But I also think that the 
understanding of karma and the cycle of rebirth is somewhere working 
in the back of their non expectations as you say. There is something 
cultural about it all and spritual that goes deeper than simply not 
having watched it on TV or been attuned to higher expectations by 
seeing other people who have more.

I have often thought that this is what is behind the unrest in 
richer countries and behind most of the CRIME here too, they figure 
they can get it one way or another, mostly the other way...LOL

I just wrote an essay at theosophy talks truth about my neighbors 
and how bloggers and readers can be watchdogs. I may have to turn 
them in because I think they are dealing drugs right next door and 
under everyone's nose! They bought a house they could not afford and 
are a young couple. So, that is the flip side of the coin my friend.

Netemara


> > Not to mention on the tracks. We had to walk over
> > people as they 
> > were just everywhere you looked. That I've not seen
> > in the States. I 
> > mean they are here but not everywhere you
> > walk...that is the 
> > difference. But the Indians seemed happy. I did not
> > want to say that 
> > because it might sound racist but that is what I too
> > noticed. Why?
> > 
> > Netemara
> 
> 
> 
> 
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