--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>  
> In a message dated 12/30/06 10:43:10 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> Actually, probably the best thing that any MD could
> > > >  ever do for her own evolution would be to go over
> > > > and clean  the pundits' toilets.
> > > 
> > > You know this  because...
> > > 
> > > Might not be a bad idea though. It's  called service and
> > > would be some what humbling for the  *goddesses*.
> > 
> > And why should they be humble? What does  humility have to
> > do with what their spiritual practice or lack  thereof?
> 
> I think the big mistake here is the notion that
> there is  some single, inflexible, objective standard
> of spirituality. There are as  many ways of being
> spiritual as there are people; and what is  spiritual
> for one person may be distinctly unspiritual for
> someone  else.
> 
> It's one thing to be truly humble; it's quite
> another to rub  folks' noses is how deeply humble you
> are. Performing humble tasks can be  just as much a
> function of egotism as avoiding them.
> 
> And perhaps one  of the least-humble behaviors
> imaginable is to criticize others for  being
> insufficiently humble.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ever see the movie Gandhi? Remember how he had his wife clean, rake and  
> cover the latrine like everybody else? The very reason she didn't want to do 
> it  
> was why she needed to do it. She thought she was too good for such work and 
> it  
> was beneath her, it was for untouchables. When she realized she was no better 
> or  worse than anybody else and did it with happiness and service in mind, 
> did she  rise above holier than thou attitude. Not everybody needs to go 
> through 
>  such exercises, but those that raise a fuss about  it probably  do.
>

Perhaps, but is that something that MDs generally raise a fuss about? Who 
cleans the 
bathrooms at the MD quarters?

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