wrote:
>
> 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.
And if that makes sense to you, then give your money
and time to the TMO, by all means.
But as I said, nothing is *stopping* the individual
TMer from working for or donating to a non-TMO
charity.
What you go on to say is a different issue, or set
of issues. It doesn't address your initial demand
that the TMO's charitable works be cited in
comparison to Amma's, or Shemp's response that the
two organizations have different goals.
If you want to ask how well Amma's group has fulfilled
its stated goal versus how well the TMO has fulfilled
its stated goal, that's a reasonable question.
Demanding that the TMO match Amma's charitable works
or be considered a failure, in contrast, makes no
sense at all.
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.
>
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