Well, yes that being more than fair would be 'virtuous', less than fair would 
rank 'sinful'.  That's classical and spiritually speaking in terms of Soul as 
self-evident,  " Man's free-will actions simply harmonize and strengthen the 
expressed essence of his soul perfection or weaken and degrade it into mortal 
enslavement." 

Support the FFL resolution on sin.

-Buck

--- In [email protected], "raunchydog" <raunchydog@...> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
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> > *To the extent that MMY made assertions about the
> > behavior of enlightened people--speaking the "sweet
> > truth" and such--he contradicted himself. I assume
> > he did so in an effort to encourage his students to
> > behave in the manner he described. This might make
> > for an interesting discussion if we could get off
> > the stupid dime here of charges and countercharges.
> >
> 
> Speaking the sweet truth is a behavioral rasayana. By following the 
> traditional values, of one's cultural heritage, Maharishi believed one's path 
> in life presented fewer roadblocks to well being, good health and 
> enlightenment. Behavioral rasyanas are universally fundamental to all human 
> beings in all cultures. The behavioral rasyana map of a well traveled road 
> describes the territory, not the consciousness of the traveler. 
> 
> Behaviors and attitudes to maximize:
> 
>     Love
>     Compassion
>     Speech that uplifts people
>     Cleanliness
>     Charity and regular donation
>     Religious observance
>     Respect toward teachers and elders
>     Being positive
>     Moderation and self-control, especially with regard to alcohol and sex
>     Simplicity
> 
> Behaviors and attitudes to be avoided:
> 
>     Anger
>     Violence
>     Harsh or hurtful speech
>     Conceit
>     Speaking ill of others behind their backs
>     Egotism * Dishonesty
>     Coveting another's spouse or wealth
> 
> http://www.mapi.com/ayurveda_health_care/newsletters/behavioral_rasayana.html
> 
> Behavioral rasyanas describe the basic rules of how we treat each other as 
> human beings. A society devoid of such behaviors descends into chaos. FFLife 
> is a chaotic antimatter smashing machine of behavioral rasyanas, cynically 
> obliterating, ridiculing, any sacred cow daring to lift its head from grazing 
> in the pastures of social convention. Other than no porn, you are free to be 
> as abusive and as childish as you like on one day and a warrior for truth, 
> justice and sacred cows the next day. 
> 
> I'm not holding myself up as a model of always treating everyone with 
> absolute fairness. I don't, nobody does. I prefer less chaos and more 
> fairness in how in how we treat each other on FFLife, I just don't expect it. 
> 
> IMO the folks who have a longer check list in the positive column of 
> behavioral rasyanas are more capable of speaking the sweet truth. They 
> consistently treat others fairly. Just as reliably, self-centered abusive 
> assholes with a long list of behaviors in the negative column don't give a 
> fuck about treating others respectfully and are incapable of speaking the 
> sweet truth. So sayeth raunchydog, not so sweetly.
>

Well, yes that being more than fair would be 'virtuous', less than fair would 
rank 'sinful'.  That's classical and spiritually speaking in terms of Soul as 
self-evident,  " Man's free-will actions simply harmonize and strengthen the 
expressed essence of his soul perfection or weaken and degrade it into mortal 
enslavement."   

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