PRACTICES AND PRIDE

PRACTICES AND PRIDE

Published 21.03.2024 | By Йосиф

PRACTICES AND PRIDE

While browsing the internet, I came across the following comment and wanted to share my thoughts on the matter:

“The guy I met said he doesn’t do sports or meditation because they inflate the ego.

Sports and practices (yoga, qigong) can cause pride if there is a predisposition to it.

But you can be proud of other things: high income, status.

And the reason is not in practice, but in pride. There are people who are not proud of making them.

And it is not yet known, which is better: to be without pride and without results or vice versa.

And even if pride appears, it may later disappear, and the results of the practices will remain.

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I have also noticed that complacency often occurs at low levels. For example, after the first run. But when the workload increases and the practice becomes a part of life, taken for granted, then pride, as a rule, goes away.”

http://espavo.ning.com/profiles/blogs/3776235:BlogPost:2267067

To begin, I will mention two basics that I have written about before, but I want to repeat them.
First, the dark age (Kali yuga) ends, during which there is a shortage of vital energy and an ego develops, i.e. survival habits and the struggle for the scarce resource, all of which gave rise to extreme competition and the dictatorship of the strong.
Second, truth is always multi-faceted/multi-meaningful. In short, it can be summarized as having a positive and a negative side. The one who wants to spit on something chooses the negative qualities, and the one who praises chooses the positive. When both opposites are presented objectively, they neutralize each other, and the truth is not conclusive, but highly contradictory (according to current human perceptions). Therefore, when strong persuasiveness is sought, the truth is presented one-sidedly, which is called propaganda or advertising, but is actually manipulation.
When a person lives in misery for thousands of years and experiences constant failures, he accumulates inferiority complexes, i.e. he does not trust his mental faculties, his ability to judge adequately. So he looks for an idol/authority/teacher to follow and refuses to think for himself. He who allows himself to have his own opinion is aware that the truth is contradictory and does not impose it on others, and the complexists, in practice, not allowing themselves to think, repeat like parrots the statements of their idols. And because the statements are one-sided and do not question them, they begin to believe them fanatically, because of their low self-esteem and the exaltation of the idol. That’s why you see people constantly arguing and proving their one-sided point of view, precisely because of the fanatical belief in some “authority”, and on top of that, they try to impose on everyone who does not share their opinion, looking down on them and trying to “reason” them. The complexer necessarily defends his point of view, because otherwise his self-esteem falls even more and can lead to the disintegration of the personality (as is the case with unsalvageable alcoholics and drug addicts).
When a person is sufficiently balanced and harmonious, he has dignity, and the complexer has the property of staggering to extremes, i.e. his ego assumes a haughty posture, demonstrating: “Look, I’m the most worthy – even if it’s not for others, it MUST be for me.” And dignity hypertrophies into pride (a mortal sin).
As a rule, the fanatical complexor follows some foreign rules, and when he succeeds in keeping them, he considers himself righteous, and the more effort he makes to follow the rules, the greater his pride. This phenomenon is observed in all areas of human life. For example, when a person does not have money, a car, a big business to be proud of and to suppress his low self-esteem, he invents some other saving grace – a telling phenomenon is the “hoorah-patriots” who are proud of their nationality or state affiliation. Like I said, they’re not critical of their idols, so they tend to support anyone who makes them proud, no matter what crap they do.
When a person realizes the true motives that drive him, he can very quickly change them and create completely different habits. Unfortunately, during the dark ages, few realize why they actually act one way or another – mostly they imagine they are doing the right thing – as the idol said! Therefore, people who allow themselves to have their own opinion are a rare phenomenon, the black sheep of society, and the other sheep/complexarians can easily follow them and abandon the shepherd who only scolds them and imposes them with a crook. And those who want power are very afraid of such people and kill them, for example, publicly, on the cross or at the stake, and most often, quietly, in some dark alley or in the prison/lunatic asylum. This creates additional fear in people and they want to be like others – not to have their own opinion, that’s why they become very easily controlled.
Watch your motives! Always aim for the golden mean and avoid extremes!
Yosif Yorgov