<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. 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.
And in week-end-courses with WPA at the same place, the rules was
that Sidhas should not talk and eat or mingle with ordinary
meditators.
Ingegerd
>
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