--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I¹ve love to see a public announcement like the following from the > Department of the Development of Consciousness (the people who give > out the badges): > > Dear Fairfield Sidhas and Governors, > > First, we would like to publicly apologize for ever having > excluded from the domes anyone who wanted to practice > Maharishi¹s program there. We would like to welcome everyone > back on the condition that if you are in the dome, you > promise to practice what you have learned from Maharishi > no more, no less. In turn, we promise to never again judge > or exclude anyone for what they may choose to do with their > private life. We possess neither the wisdom nor the right > to do this.
Well said then, Rick, and still relevant today. What is fascinating to me is that today on FFL we have two different controversies running concurrently, BOTH in my opinion stemming from the same mindset, the thing you nail so perfectly in your last two sentences. Anyone who excludes someone else from spiritual practice by definition feels that he or she HAS THE RIGHT TO DO SO. These misguided souls believe that they have the RIGHT to judge other people, because their view of what is "right" and "wrong" is superior to that of the people they are judging. Similarly, anyone who chooses to attempt to keep people from seeing a television show that they don't like feels that he or she HAS THE RIGHT TO DO SO. *These* misguided souls believe that they have the RIGHT to judge these films and decide who gets to see them, because *their* view of what is "right" and "wrong" is superior to that of the people who they are trying to prevent from seeing the films that they have judged "wrong." In both cases, it is EGO at work, pure and simple. There's nothing spiritual about the judgementatlism in the first case and there is nothing noble about the attempted censorship in the second. It's only about people who are so lost in their own egos that they feel they have the right to make decisions that affect other people's lives, BECAUSE THEY KNOW BETTER than these other people. Hint: THEY DON'T. THEY NEVER HAVE. THEY NEVER WILL. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
