--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 4/18/06 11:55 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "jyouells2000" <jyouells@> > > wrote: > >> > >> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > >>> > >>> --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> What MMY and the TMO holds up as a guide to the ideal form of > >>>> administration is The Ramayana, which recounts how Lord Rama > >>>> ruled at Ayodha for ~11,000 years some two million years ago. > >>> > >>> In other words, a fairytale. > >>> > >>> Figures. > >>> > >> Haven't seen any Lord Ramas around to provide enlightened > >> leadership. Even in the guru business, the enlightened have had a > >> tough time. And that's a limited leadership role. We've had > >> Muktananda, Maharishi, Swami Rama, Adi Da etc. They've tended to > >> crash and burn at some point as a group. Maybe term limits? Ya, > >> that's the ticket... > > > > Granting your point above--and others along the same lines > > having to do with the unlikelihood of practical implementation > > --it seems to me the original point Bob was making has been > > overlooked, which was that when MMY advocates "enlightened > > dictatorship," he may not have in mind anything even remotely > > resembling what we think of when we hear the word > > "dictatorship." > > But Maharishi praises Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe, and their ilk, > so what are we to think?
That he doesn't have a clear notion of what these guys have inflicted on their countries? Or possibly that he thinks their one *good* point is that they're in a position to require their citizens to learn TM, and that once they're all meditating, they'll get rid of their current rulers? "Thorn to remove a thorn..." That seems to have been what happened in the Philippines (although correlation does not necessarily mean causation, of course). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
