--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a question that came up first on another forum > of which I am a member. The responses were interesting, > and members have since posted it on a number of other > forums -- Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, > atheist, Native American -- in which the responses were > equally interesting and even more varied. > > So I'm posting it here to see what the responses might > be on this primarily TM-centered forum. I think we all > know what Maharishi's answer would be to the question; > he has made it clear many times in the past. I'm just > curious to know what individual people here think. The > original question, posed by a Tibetan Buddhist monk, was: > > "If you knew of a spiritual practice that you were > *certain* produced beneficial effects to all who > practice it, and produced equally beneficial effects > for the world as a whole, and you had the ability to > legislate the practice and force everyone to do it, > would it be ethical to do so; that is, would such an > approach be in accord with the dharma?" >
You would tell everyone you could about it, and ensure that it would be available to as many people as possible. As for requiring everyone to do it... Its not possible to require people to practice TM, even if they sit still for 20 minutes. What practice IS it possible to force people to do? > Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
