On Jun 15, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
Eh, so, make a choice: help a saint and don't go to the dome, or,
don't help a saint and go to the dome.
Which is more important and why?
[the question of should this be a criterion for keeping your dome
badge is another question entirely]
That’s the question that interests me. Another one is whether MUM
is hurting or helping itself with such policies. I say hurting.
Hundreds have been driven away by this silliness.
Unfortunately part of their reason for being and their underlying
philosophy is that they have people practicing the same precise
practices together to magnify the alleged effects of those practices
to the community and to the world. It's all for naught if you have
people visiting other gurus and then showing up to the domes and in
the secrecy of their own heads practicing "whatever". Because the
subjective world is by it's very nature, private, you have to develop
some set of rules to assure uniformity and compliance. The whole
thing will not work if it contaminated by other practitioners, no
matter how well meaning they might be.
