>
> --- In [email protected], Rick Archer
> <fairfieldlife@> wrote:
> >
> > on 5/21/06 1:04 PM, authfriend at jstein@ 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.
For fear that the conversation would drift into discussions of sidhis experiences and
sutras, I believe.
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