--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 30, 2006, at 8:07 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > On the other hand--just hypothetically, now--if a > > person had an entirely genuine desire to enlighten > > the world, perceived that in order to do so it > > would be necessary to have a big movement that was > > run like a business--including accumulating money-- > > and himself had CEO-type inclinations in terms of > > his temperament, how would his actions look any > > different from what MMY is doing? > > > > In other words, how can you tell the difference > > between someone whose primary motivation is to > > run a business that accumulates money and uses > > a spiritual front to do so, and someone whose > > primary motivation is to spiritually regenerate > > the world and uses business techniques as a means? > > I would hope it would look like what Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is > doing: creating a "Woodstock of meditation" and initiating millions > on a donation basis and doing some important form of world-seva, > tirelessly. Goenka and HH the Dalai Lama might be other examples > of what I'd hope to see.
In other words, only the business models of which you approve are valid ones for someone with a genuinely spiritual motivation. > I think there's too much an avaricious tone to M.'s actions to > really fudge that as 'spiritual regeneration'. How and where, exactly, do you draw the line between making money to facilitate the spiritual regeneration of the world and being avaricious? How much money is actually needed to accomplish such a thing? However the PR they put out > is extremely well done and very, very convincing--almost seductive in > it's allure. Since the 60's generation in the west is the first > generation in history to be a green meme society, it's almost > predictable that as this new societal paradigm arose there would also > be those in place to intuit that and use minor siddhis (in this > case)--to exploit it and this new (and somewhat naive) trend. Hell he > even did one better: he created a Green meme city: Fairfield, Iowa. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
