Salvijus

Here's a more esoteric way to answer the same thing. "you manifested the rising of the arms" the only way to manifest anything into existence is through the power of desire. You manifested your whole reality and experience by the power of desire alone. The entire universe is just a manifestion of God's desire. Desire alone creates. And desire is love. Desire is kundalini. Life is desire. All movement is desire. Desire is everything. Desire is love.

It's almost synonimous with desire. We intend to do something because we want something before the intention. That's impossible. Without a motivating factor. Without desire we can't even blink. There are many subtle muscles that we contract and release inside our body to fart. Every single muscle that we move is done by the power of desire. Nothing in life happens without the energy of desire. Or you can call it intention. But desire is even before the intention itself. Or it is synonimous with the word intent. Desire is the energy that runs everything. Even the heart beat, even the growing of a tree is done by the same power. It is the life force itself (it gets esoteric if we were to go deeper)

Actually here's a short proof of it. The only way to make any action is by the power of desire. Desire can take two forms. 1. desire to expand or 2. desire to contract. 1. desire to contract comes out of fear, because of ego trying to protect itself. 2. desire to expand is just our souls natural longing for God and infinity that is simply there all the time. These are the only two actions possible. Love or fear. Resistance or surrender. Control or trust. Smile or frown. Seek or allow. Letting go or holding tight.

The idea to rise your arms probably has arisen either as 1. an attempt to find a flaw in the theory or 2. to test the theory and dig deeper into it out of curiosity. 1. There could've been egoic resistance to accept opposing person's views. So ego out of fear not to be seen as weak/wrong and "less knowledgeable" makes an attempt to find a flaw in the subject just so it wouldn't need to accept the opposing views and could maintain its position and identity that it is used to. And that way we can see how a seemingly innocent action was actually motivated by resistence to accept something and behind resistance there will be fear always. Ooooorrrr 2. The seemingly innocent action could also boil down all the way to love. Perhaps there was a genuine curiosity and interest to expand the understanding of the subject. A genuine thirst to know more. And to explore it further. And the idea to rise arms was just an extention of a genuine desire to know more. Then it is driven by pure uncorrupted desire of the heart. (love). One thing's for sure. Nobody can perform an action without a motivating factor being there first. And there are only two motivating factors. Love and fear. But the actual proof why it is so would be quite difficult to write it down and would probably be very long. Maybe some day.

The practice of self-awareness that I like to do is whenever I experience any negative emotion (frustration, impatience, envy, discomfort, anxiety, attachment, avoidence etc.) I try to explain how it came into being and trace it back to its source. One thing that is helpful to know is that its source is always fear. So for example some information has triggered you, the game is, can you trace it back to fear that caused the trigger to emerge? . This practice has increased my understanding how the ego functions on a much deeper level. And it's very rewarding practice because you get to learn a lot about yourself aswell, and why you respond the way you do.

This word "narcissistic" is unnecessarily judgemental aswell. Just say "some parts of her leadership were ego driven, and some parts were actually done in good faith" or something like that. And also it's worth keeping in mind that there's hardly anyone on this planet who has not a sting of ego driven behavior in their psyche. So we are all cult leaders in our own right by that definition. "uni dressing is a cult behavior". Sloppy...

Every action that is driven by fear, ego, illusion, compulsiveness is not a product of infinite intelligence, peace, love, wisdom, wholeness. But lack thereof. One's depth and scope of awareness determines whether you will be a conduit and an expression of Truth and love. Or will you be an expression of falsity and ego. (Trying to formulate these ideas into a satisfying clean way)

Yea I find it very easy to believe that none are fully enlightened here on earth. It's almost an impossible achievement.

I like this quote. "there are no enlightened people, there are only enlightened and unenlightened actions" There are only two ways to perform an action, either from love or from fear, either from illusion or reality, either from inclusiveness or exclusiveness, either from compulsiveness or consciousness. The only way to act out of love is if your awareness is in alignment with love, is in alignment with Truth and wholeness and inclusiveness. And the only way to act out of fear, illusion, compulsiveness, exclusiveness is if your not aware. Not fully aware at least. That's why I would put all those examples you gave under one umbrella: "not fully aware" If looked at this purely from theoretical level I doubt there is anyone who can find a flaw in the reasoning above. I don't think there is one. It simply makes too much sense.

Love behaves very diferenetly then fear based ego. Love would never do what ego and fear tries to do. For it would no longer be love then and you could not call that an enlightened/truthful/conscious action anymore. In other words, you can't perform unconscious actions driven by fear, illusion and ego and claim to be conscious at the same time. Not sure what to say about those examples tho. They were not fully enlightened maybe would be the easiest explanation. Or there are missing pieces to the story. Or somebody misunderstood, misinterpret, misjudged a particular behavior etc.

Iabeling something as "cult" is so sloppy. It doesn't point to anything specific and yet comes with strong negative connotations. And the word comes often from the effort to tarnish someone's image which is a sign of sneaky ego at play. Better is to avoid that word entirely and be specific about what behavior exactly can be observed in a person or organization that was not healthy, that served ego and not the truth. And not be derogatory about it. But more like an innocent observation. That way the topic becomes much more rewarding and fruitful.

@UnbornTao @28 cm unbuffed Best friends forever. Group hug. Muahahaaha

Fear or discomfort of being seen as wrong, I would say. So you always paint the story in such a way that you come out looking a like good guy. I'm not sure if that was your question.

I don’t think there is an exception that only out of unawareness can someone perform an action that is out of alignment with truth and wholeness. I also believe how you respond to things define you and your level of awareness at that moment, without exception. I would rather question how accurate and credible are the stories of those supposed evil actions of a guru. And how correct was the judgement of the one who was interpreting a guru's behavior. Because a tainted eye tend to see evil when there is none. Or I would question their level of enlightenment. Maybe an example that is being scrutinized is not of a legit enlightened being to begin with.

deflection 101 Nothing is ever their fault. Whenever something goes wrong, they pass the blame to someone else.

This answer certainly makes you look like a good righteous person. But somehow i doubt the answer was truthful.

I'm kinda fired up to say more. All behavior hinges on your perception of reality. If your perception of reality is inacurrate it will make you behave a certain way that often gets labaled as uninteligent. If your perception of reality is truthful. Then your behavior and response to every situation will be in alignment with truth. And that behavior will be labeled as wisdom and intelligence. In conclusion, your behavior is a reflection of your level of awareness.

I would question this. All ignorance, immaturity, toxic behavior, close mindedness, self-deception, compulsiveness, animalistic tendencies. I would argue all that is just lack of self-awareness. It is only an unconcious person that can do stupid things. These two words stupidness and unconcious are literally sinonimous. And All the qualities of broadthinking, honesty, insightfulness, inclusiveness, compassion, wholesome living, are a result of high self-awareness and high ego transendence. All wisdom comes from awareness. And those who embody high awareness are bound to live in alignment with those qualities that reflect truthfulness This applies only if you’re following a sober path tho. On psychedelics it's a different story.

Why such a strong compulsion to mock/ridicule/belittle every response that you've concluded ineffective? @28 cm unbuffed

A purpose of an ad is to target a specific group of people. So the best celebrity match is the one that represents that specific group of people and is looked up to with great respect. (a more digested answer)

An advertisement is about targeting a specific group of people. So if you're selling sports shoes. You want someone who everyone looks up to as a great sportsperson say, "these are my favorite sport shoes". That creates an image that these particular brand of shoes are what great sportpeople wear. And if you wanna be as cool as jordon. You wear this brand. Everything else becomes inferior stuff. Similary with James bond. James bond has a reputation and an image in the world, he's like a symbol for being a super classy, sophisticated, amazing chick magnet. So if a super classy, sophisticated, chick magnet says "this is my favorite car" all those who want to create a classy, sophisticated, successful self-image will now think "this is the car for me"

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In my personal experience, I've always seen video games as something to be avoided. They suck you in, drain you, fill your mind with garbage, cause you to become more and more agitated, restless, ruins the sleep cycles... The list could go on and on. Tho I understand where the desire is coming from. I believe many gamers thought of creating a video game at least once in their gaming phase aswell. But I don't think it's smart from a big picture perspective.