--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
wrote:
> > >
> > > 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...
>
> I don't "know" it, but in most spiritual traditions
> that have ever flourished on this planet (with the
> exception of TM, of course), the most fundamental
> and essential prerequisite for spiritual advance-
> ment is *humility*. Few things develop humility
> faster and more effectively than cleaning someone
> else's toilet, especially in a group that has
> carefully been taught to consider themselves
> better than others (to the point of having
> "servants" themselves to do such things for them).
>
> So I'd be willing to bet that anyone who has been
> in such an artificial and *anti*-spiritual environ-
> ment (in terms of the development of humility)
> would benefit *greatly* from a session or two with
> Mr. Clean and a toilet brush.
>
> Besides, wouldn't it be a real hoot if one of the
> MD ladies decided to become an untouchable for
> the day and went over to the pundits' place to
> clean their toilets, and as a result got majorly
> enlightened? It would fuck with the entire paradigm. :-)
>
Except that there isn't any 'entire paradigm', Barry. Maybe this is
a belief for some ignorant people, that a+b=E, but it just isn't
true, and never will be. If you want to go clean a toilet, go clean
a toilet. There are no ways to act or things to do, to advance
spiritually, for everyone. To believe otherwise leans dangerously
towards religion, and as you quoted from your previous
teacher, "religion is the rotting corpse of true spirituality" (and
that includes Buddhism I assume). :-)
