--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of authfriend > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 1:50 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Selfless Service (was Re: Deepak Chopra) > > > > --- In HYPERLINK > "mailto:FairfieldLife% 40yahoogroups.com"FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > <snip> > > Really, I am. The answer relates to a discussion > > here during the last week or so, about whether > > "doing good works" has a value. > > > > I say Yes. Ruth, as I remember, tends to agree. > > Some don't. They think that the idea of "selfless > > service" is some kind of mood-making if the sup- > > posedly good works don't spring automatically > > from the level of the "laws of nature" or some > > such hogwash. I don't agree. > > Wrong hogwash. The point is not that there's > anything wrong with doing good works prior to > enlightenment, but that the good works won't > help you get there. > > According to Shankara, Ramana Maharishi, Amma, and others, > they will. Maybe not directly, but as a way of attenuating > the ego.
Right. Barry had mischaracterized something I'd said earlier in a discussion with Ruth, so I was correcting him as to what my point had actually been.
