--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 12/21/05 7:27 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > But if the beach is loaded with people throwing back starfish, > > and you know of an isolated cove that no-one goes to where a > > rare starfish makes its home, which is a better use of your > > time? Throwing back one in millions, or one in ten? > > Let's get explicit here. You're saying the TMO shouldn't or > doesn't have to spend its resources on helping people on a > relative level, because it's specialty is teaching meditation. > Right? > > I'm suggesting that the failure of the TMO to explicitly advocate > compassionate action as part of the spiritual path is glaringly > obvious in the personalities of the people who have been most > dedicated to it.
And that those people often go out of their way to find intellectual "justifications" for their lack of compassion, when someone points it out. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Dying to be thin? Anorexia. Narrated by Julianne Moore. http://us.click.yahoo.com/abEMxA/sbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
