--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > Dalit Buddhists killed because of their caste > > > > Why print this tabloid trash? It is just inflammatory and of no > > benefit, in my opinion. Are we supposed to conclude anything > > from it about either Buddhism or Hinduism? If someone from > > another race slanders you, do you then conclude the whole > > race is bad? Looks like bigotry here, my Buddhist friend, > > though I will not conclude that all Buddhists are bigots. > > It's all part of Vaj's campaign against MMY. > > Pathological.
Interesting that this assessment comes from the person who regularly defends Maharishi's defense of the caste system here. Feeling a little sensitive about things you've said to support the caste system in the past, are we? This isn't a Buddhist thang per se. Many Dalits were originally consigned to the untouchable caste by Hindus because they considered Buddhists beneath them, but after that it became hereditary. The point is that the upper castes in this village killed these people because they were getting uppity and didn't want their property taken away from them by the upper caste Hindus who wanted to build a road through it, and an untouch- able getting uppity and wanting to be treated like a human being is something the "more evolved" "upper" castes could not allow to happen. This is an example of what the caste system is *really* like, not what Maharishi and you present as an idealized picture of it. Maharishi's portrayal of what caste is all about in India today is as accurate as his portrayal of what life was like in India in Vedic times.
