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> on 5/21/06 1:04 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > That should only stop you from failing to give your own
> > development priority. It shouldn't stop you from *also*
> > engaging in charitable activities.
>
> Shouldn't but does. Granted, there have been many projects in 3rd world
> countries where large groups have been taught for free. But there's an
> explicit doctrine in the TMO that "our role is to teach people to transcend,
> and that's the highest dharma. It's others' job to feed, cloth, house, them,
> etc." From that perspective, your money gets the most leverage if is donated
> to the TMO, and not to charitable organizations. Now if the TMO were to use
> all that money to do what it says it should be doing, there wouldn't be a
> problem. But because Maharishi has explicitly encouraged the attitude among
> his elite that they are superior, higher ups in the movement become haughty
> and egotistical, not more humble as you'll find in some spiritual
> organizations. When he sent the 108's on field projects, he told them not to
> fraternize with the local teachers, but to remain aloof and superior.
> Sometimes movement hotshots would come into town for a project and demand to
> be put in the best hotel it town, rather than the decent one reserved for
> them. This culturing of egotism is probably accountable for the squandering
> of millions of dollars, most notably among the Shrivastavas running the
> Indian movement.
>
It might be so, but I believe that there is an important psychological strategy behind all
that which may or may not have validity: encouraging a feeling of elitism is certainly a
time-honored way of encouraging loyalty to an organizational goal, and IF it is true that in
the long run, TM brings about the whole shebang that MMY says it does, the problems
that you mention that have apparently occured along the way are all, by the nature of the
thing, short-term.
Of course, from this perspective, "this lifetime" can be considered to be "short-term."
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