>
> --- In [email protected], Rick Archer
> <fairfieldlife@> wrote:
> >
> > on 5/21/06 12:27 PM, authfriend at jstein@ wrote:
> >
> > > 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;
> >
> > Yes there is. There's a mindset, explicitly cultivated by MMY,
> that helping
> > people on a relative level is inferior to developing individual and
> > collective consciousness, so as to get to the root of all
> problems. By the
> > same token, MMY goes after the rich people so that they, in turn,
> will help
> > the less fortunate. Sort of a spiritual Reganomics, which hasn't
> worked in
> > either arena.
> >
> Imo, it is inaccurate to see Amma's work and Maharishi's work in
> opposition to one another, as you and Bob are doing. Each performs a
> critical function. Depends on our perspective which one we naturally
> support. No right or wrong.
>
And, why couldn't someone support the TMO *and* do good works, both as an individual,
and via chartiable contributions?
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