wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <fairfieldlife@>
> wrote:
> >
> > on 5/20/06 6:33 PM, shempmcgurk at shempmcgurk@ wrote:
> >
> > > Rick, with all due respect: You didn't need to join up with a
> > > hugging guru-ette in order to see all the above accomplished.
The
> > > Catholic Church has been doing all of the above for centuries.
> > >
> > > In fact, one of the reasons I was attracted to the TMO and MMY
was
> > > precisely because he wasn't being caught up in all that. It
> > > certainly has its place and is important of course but the
concept
> > > of that basic source of life being contacted and, naturally,
all
> > > else being added unto it does have an appeal.
> >
> > Appeals to me too, and I'm certainly familiar with the concept,
> > having expounded it in thousands of lectures for many years. But
> > did it pan out, in the lives, health, personalities, financial
> > success, etc., of TM followers or even of its founder? To an
extent
> > maybe, but not as fully and perfectly as we were taught it
should.
> > How come? Maybe because the approach is unbalanced. This verse
> > comes to mind:
>
> Well, Paul's exhortations are certainly warm and fuzzy.
>
> But the issue you had raised was why the *TMO* wasn't
> going around doing good works comparable to Amma's;
> that's what Shemp was responding to.
>
> As Shemp pointed out, there's nothing stopping a TMer
> from engaging in charitable activities in a non-TM
> context; one doesn't have to shift one's allegiance
> to a different guru.
>
Or have MMY as a guru in the first place.
Even better yet, join Amma or the Holy Roman Catholic Church and do
all the good works you want...but I suggest that if you meditate
twice a day those good works will be more effective.
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