What are the three qualities of a charismatic leader? Is charisma something you are born with, or is it something we can acquire?* Deepak Chopra addresses these qualities and how they manifest themselves in leaders like Bill Clinton.
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Deepak’ji.. U r Charismatic 🤗
Mini K H
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🐟 02. A BRIEF EXPLANATION FOR “LIFE”:
Everything, both visible and invisible, is what most persons call “God”.
REAL God is Impersonal Absolute Nothingness (otherwise called “Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, ”The Ground of Being”, et cetera).
“God” is One Reality, but just as a knife cannot cut itself, or fire cannot burn itself, “God” cannot know Himself (or at least EXPERIENCE Himself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Himself. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness.
Apparently, this phenomenal universe was “created” (within Consciousness) with the initial act (the so-called “Big Bang”), and from that first deed, every action that has ever occurred has been a direct or indirect result of it. Just as every particle of matter in the universe was once contained in the ’singularity’, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the Big Bang, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network.
“Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (‘all this is indeed Brahman’). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Consciousness, Peace!
Therefore, humans are a result of that initial manifestation. That is the real explanation for “karma” – everything was preordained from the initial spark (or to be more precise, preordained in ETERNITY).
Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors – our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning. Every choice ever made by every human (and non-human animal) was determined by those two factors alone, thus free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe.
Because we are temporarily residing within this dualistic universe, we experience both pleasure and pain.
Suffering and pain are NOT synonymous.
Suffering is due to a false sense of personal doership – the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts and deeds.
There are five manifestations of suffering:
1. Guilt
2. Blame
3. Pride
4. Worry/Anxiety
5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future/Attachment to outcomes
These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above – that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including us humans, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
The human organism is simply a biological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements and the three subtle material elements.
So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (supposedly) material universe, you are now able to be liberated from all forms of suffering, RIGHT?
WRONG! It is imperative to find an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning.
Even if you follow a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life (all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course). Furthermore, if it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to accept discipline from a truly enlightened master, and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts by practicing at least one of the four systems of yoga (religion) described in the Holy Scripture, “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”.
“The meaning of life is life itself.”
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“Gurus are very clever at putting you down, but they’re just trying to see how strong you are.
They’re testing you out to see if they can hoodwink you.
So long as they can, they’re going to go on doing it till they get you to the point where they can’t do it to you anymore.
Then you’ll graduate.”
Professor Dr. Alan Wilson Watts,
English Philosopher,
(06/01/1915 – 16/11/1973).
“What you seek is seeking you.”
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī,
Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic,
(30/09/1207 – 17/12/1273).
@Reverend Eslam Thank You.. Sir for Such a Sweet Explaination of Life.. I still hadn’t gone through the video yet.. but wrote that Comment for his Charismatic 🤗 ways n Appearence.. I am So Glad, U took out ur Precious Time to make me See.. what’s it… Regards
You should not listen to eslam. He is a misogynistic rightwing jackass. He believes the government should be a monarchy. He’s part of that mgtow bullshit. Check pressreader and you’ll see he once physically assaulted a woman. Do not listen to a word that idiot says.
Mini K H
To read the remaining twenty-nine chapters of “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, which are the most accurate spiritual precepts so far in human history, Email: [email protected] with the acronym “FISH” in the subject field.
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“The gateway to knowing is IGNORANCE”. 🤓
You are a fucking idiot.
Clinton was DEFINITELY gifted.☝️
However, perhaps not with great leadership skills and “WARMTH”. 😐
Up yours you fascist prick.
I just want to thank him . I listen to him daily (sutras) they really work. I can identify my thoughts their origin (I have signs of OCD) , meditation was a jewel which has to be used not as a cult but as a mental excercise for happy life to live in present.
Thank you so much Sir
Bill Clinton is a corrupt swine though. Not a “leader” as per the real definition of a leader. Simon Sinek, is a real leader for example. Sadghuru is another one. Integrity is key, corruption is not needed.
umm … are we just considering “charismatic” and totally ignoring the fact that although a leader, he is a close friend and associate of Jeffrey Epstein et al ?
What?? Mr Clinton?? He lied to the country!
Jay ho