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| Posted By: |
UT |
| Date: |
1-Jun-2005-09:17:26 |
| Subject: |
The Politics of Spiritual Belief |
Here's a question that came up first on another forum
of which I am a member. The responses were interesting,
and members have since posted it on a number of other
forums -- Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu,
atheist, Native American -- in which the responses were
equally interesting and even more varied.
So I'm posting it here to see what the responses might
be on this primarily TM-centered forum. I think we all
know what Maharishi's answer would be to the question;
he has made it clear many times in the past. I'm just
curious to know what individual people here think. The
original question, posed by a Tibetan Buddhist monk, was:
"If you knew of a spiritual practice that you were
*certain* produced beneficial effects to all who
practice it, and produced equally beneficial effects
for the world as a whole, and you had the ability to
legislate the practice and force everyone to do it,
would it be ethical to do so; that is, would such an
approach be in accord with the dharma?"
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