Re: [FairfieldLife] Why should being good and attaining enlightenment go together?

2007-03-12 Thread Bhairitu
jim_flanegin wrote: > Granted the world's great religions like Christianity, Buddhism, > Judaism, Hinduism, Taoism and Islam all preach being 'good' and > doing 'good'. Because most if not all of the spiritual teachers in the > world have had exposure to religion, they too profess being 'good' a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why should being good and attaining enlightenment go together?

2007-03-12 Thread Jonathan Chadwick
I once heard this guy defend the claim that mystics are ethical *par excellence* and, when I tried to argue with him after the lecture (I was probably 23 at the time), he trumped me out. Steven T. Katz 147 Bay State Road, Suite 301 Boston, MA 02215 T: (617) 353-8096; F: (617) 353-77

[FairfieldLife] Why should being good and attaining enlightenment go together?

2007-03-12 Thread jim_flanegin
Granted the world's great religions like Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Taoism and Islam all preach being 'good' and doing 'good'. Because most if not all of the spiritual teachers in the world have had exposure to religion, they too profess being 'good' as a condition for enlighten