--- In [email protected], "claudiouk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The very existence of words like selfishness and altruism points to > an important distinction. A psychopath would be at one extreme, a > Ghandi at another. Saying that love is all about feeding the self is > not something you'd want to teach children in school about - the > whole point of socialization and morality is to help people respond > to needs that are not entirely egocentric. So MMY's exposition, taken > at face value, seemed rather shallow and unhelpful, although I can > see that he was really trying to focus eventually on the self > expanding to the Self. > > And yes we have plenty of historical examples of religious > exploitation, Christian and otherwise - the more important therefore > to ensure such things don't happen again especially within an > organization one cares about.. > > Group meditators showing compassion? Not unless there was such an > intention, although maybe a knowledge that this activity might > simultaniously serve both individual and social interests makes it > both important and worthwhile. > > Perhaps I camea cross as too "critical"; was just sharing a response > to what I saw & heard, which also happened to resonnate with concerns > about TMO practices - they do sometimes seem less compassionate and > altruistic than ideally I'd like them to be. I also had in mind my > previous post about bullying and compassion..
God helps he who helps himself. Helping onself is the ultimate compassion.
