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Wonder if this guy is just looking to get some free advertising for these lots for sale? Because who in there right state of mind would buy land in Costa Rica off e bay? I just had a not great experience buying some used “mint” condition Titleist pro v1 golf balls! lol. Not quite what was advertised but in my case I gave them to a friends son.
David are you going back to the US to live? Would love to hear more unless it’s to personal of course.
I have seen better examples of prefabs than the one in the clip you posted CR. I think for a basic box/shelter the price is very very attractive, I am going to look at several companies when I get down there in August maybe I’ll submit my report to Scott..lol.
It’s a slippery slope, I hear you in regards to the ‘bureaucrats; but can you imagine (big) business policing itself 100%?
Bill,
I think this is a service that has been discussed on this site, I think the guys name is Russ? He may also moderate the american-european site?
http://autos.fijatevos.com/index.php?action=page_display&PageID=7
Yes Tolle’s books are wonderful, but it was Hawking’s “a brief history of time” that got the wheels turning and lead me to explore zen and dzogchen. More great reads are anything by Thich Nhat Hanh, Kabatt-Zinn and Suraya Das come to mind. The gnostic gospels are also compelling for a different twist on Christianity or what it could have been. But boy Jerry I never tire of reading “the power of now” for me personally it just resonated like nothing else I had ever read(and I’ve read a bit). The chapter on the “pain body” was life altering and I think his chapter on spiritual relationships is the best ever written on the subject. Just think…maybe you could actually be happy waiting in those long lines at banco national?
It does not have to be so black and white, and a quick 101 in physics is needed for these ideas you have about “time”. You are correct for most western educated people fear of our supposed annihilation fuels much of what ails us. But there never is annihilation, but that is the religion of consumerism/materialism. when we accept/understand that everything is connected and dependent on everything else to exist you achieve a calmness and that fear, that attachment-clinging starts to melt away. we do not need to achieve total self realization to start living in the present moment, but as we drift away just anchor yourself to your breath in whatever you may be doing; trading stocks or admiring a beautiful flower. Make this simple practice part of your life and and awareness will come to you, this is beyond mental concepts. we are all composed of the atoms that were present during the big bang, the same material that the stars are made of we do not “die” but that form that sprite thinks he/she is changes. we really are not who we think we are anyway,if our atomic material stopped vibrating at is special frequency we would simply spill onto the floor like so much sand…Contemplate this; the space between the atoms we are made of is more than the distance between the earth and the sun on a relative basis…amazing! A love this zen story; fundamentally a wave and water are the same thing, but as the wave started it’s journey across the sea it became filed with fear as it thought it would die when it crashed up on the beach. but then it realized it was the same as the water it was part of and it’s fear of “death” withered away and it was able to now move peacefully across the sea. we are like that wave. we don not need some religion to understand our relationship to the universe, to live with peace. You have the power to bring peace into your life right now by simply accepting the present moment. Not letting your mind tell you all this stories about death, all thoughts are empty but when you believe you are your thoughts yes this can lead to insanity. Embrace your thoughts make friends with them and recognize them for what they are…nothing and send them on there way. So simple…not! But with a little practice anything is possible. The complex world of past, present and future? Think about it..the past does not exist, the future does not exist either all there ever is is the present moment. Living in the moment is different than living for the moment, sure look back if you need to to learn something, and we don’t want to spend all our money wildly or neglect our bodies because there will be “future” ramifications. But for the most part staying anchored in the present will serve us best. Insanity by definition is not knowing your insane, accepting the changing nature of all matter is the sanest path you can possibly take, denying this is actually quite “insane”.
Don’t envy your animals, use your contemplative brain to learn from them. The present moment is all there ever is and resistance to it causes most of our problems.
You may want to consider a make that is more common in Costa Rica as well. Toyota, Nissan or Hyundai…
You have to keep checking for the the best prices, different days and times. Prices can really fluctuate http://www.kayak.com is good because they are not selling tickets just listing airfares. Flights from NYC and Chicago for December are under $400 round trip.
Scott I think your breakdown on why oil is $138 a barrel is on the money. Bodman does have an impressive education, but his background is primarily in chemical engineering I believe he ran a department at MIT. At some point he switched to finance and headed up Fidelity investments. By the time he started working for the Bush administration he already had made his “mark” in the world so to speak.
