--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 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. >
MMY talks about an *ideal*. Whether or not that ideal ever existed or can EVER exist isn't germane to what he says about the ideal. Now, you can take the stance, as a practical matter, that such a thing simply can't happen in the real world, but you never discuss things that way that I can recall...
