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E72 - Dr. John Demartini: The Hidden Purpose Behind Human Values & Judgement That Causes SUFFERING

Know Thyself

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The Journey from Judgment to Love and the Qualities that Influence Judgment

Exploring the journey from judgment to love and the qualities that contribute to our ability to judge others, including physical traits, actions, and character breakdowns. Discussing the illusions of pride, shame, and resentment and the importance of asking quality questions for liberation.

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The journey from jot is to love, man. Love, man. The journey from... Why not? It's the
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integration in the mind to make it happen. The transcendental spiritual experience is still a mental equanimity. It's equanimity of the mind. It's objectivity of the mind. It's synthesis and synchronous of the mind. It's the dialectic and it's simultaneous dialectic. No matter what we call it, no matter what our language is, it's still the synthesis of the mind because it's our mind that's giving us our experience.
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The journey from judgment to love, I've heard you speak to the kind of three qualities that make it even possible for us to judge, for example, an action or a trait. You want to speak into anything there as well? Because that's a very powerful reminder. Yeah. After going through
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millions of people taking them through the judgment process, we've narrowed it down to those three things. It's a physical trait. I admire or despise their big nose or their ears or their butt or their boobs or their this. There's physical traits that they go. When a guy and a girl meet each other, they're ruling people in and out based on these physical traits. That's a judgment. And I like those teeth. I don't like those teeth. I like those eyes. I don't like those eyes. There's a physical trait. Then there's also some action they did with their motor actions and inactions too much or too little of some motor action or inaction, commission, omission. We judge in law, commission, omission.
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So it's traits, actions, inaction, physical and psychological traits as well, right?
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Well, character, a breakdown character, it's one of those three. Your behavior is your behavior is a movement. It's a behavior. When you judge people, you have a false anytime you're proud, you have a false causality that you assume that with your actions, you have caused through somebody else's perception, more advantage and disadvantage, more positive, negative, more gain and loss, more, you know, advantage to them than disadvantage. The second you do, you have a false causality because they actually had both pain and pleasure in your action and they may not have seen it. You may not have seen it. You're both under illusion. You're going to, they're going to blame, oh, I'm so happy when I'm around that person, these people, oh, I'm so good. And these are delusions. And the same thing when you're ashamed, you're assuming that you caused them with your actions more pain and pleasure, more loss and gain, more negative than positive, more disadvantage and advantage. And if those people buy into it, you buy into it, you feel ashamed and they feel resentful. And these are all illusions. And all those can be neutralized by asking quality questions and hold you accountable. Accountability has been able to ask the questions and allow you to liberate yourself from those emotional bondages, those false causality, false attribution bias, which was called the karmic wheel in Buddhism. That's all the karmic wheel is, is the causality is that we falsely attribute to ourselves or from other people. And so when we actually see them simultaneously, and there's nothing but love there and they're perfectly balanced, we're on the Darmic path. That's the path of the Bodhisattva, the light, the path of wisdom.

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