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<[email protected]>: Mail server for "yahoogroups.com" unreachable for too long --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Received: from [209.73.164.86] by n27.bullet.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Dec 2006 13:30:20 -0000 Received: from [66.218.66.68] by t8.bullet.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Dec 2006 13:30:20 -0000 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:30:18 -0000 From: "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Live and learn :-) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 72.200.119.171 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-compose Sender: [email protected] X-Yahoo-GPoster: mZDFjsKz041EDZhb --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to thank Jim Flanegin for his eye-opening and > informed writings on the nature of Tibetan Buddhism, > especially the parts in which he pointed out that as > a spiritual tradition it is a monumental failure, > largely because it failed to prevent the takeover > of Tibet by the Chinese. > > He has taught me the error of my ways. I simply don't > know what I was thinking before to actually *admire* > Tibetan Buddhism for actually walking its talk back > in 1950. The fact that it did so *clearly* demonstrates > its inferiority to TM and Maharishi's approach. > > For example, had the leaders of Tibetan Buddhism just > thrown away and ignored its core teaching of non-violence > and the non-taking of life, I'm sure that the Chinese > invasion would never have taken place. The core belief > of ahimsa is, after all, just a belief, a principle. And > everyone who's spent any time in the TM movement knows > that one should *never* allow a silly thing like a > principle to stand in the way of What Needs To Be Done. > The core belief ABOUT ahimsa according to MMY is that it is NOT a belief or= a practice, but an inevitable result of samadhi, and that it radiates from the enlightened = person to the rest of the world, and that there is an N^2 effect generated by group medit= ation. I think Jim is pointing out that if this is the case, than the fact that the entire= country of Tibet practiced the Tibetan meditation techniques should have made it invincible = because China simply wouldn't have wanted to invade (or seomthing).
