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corboy
Mob mentality/powerfield is just another intoxicant of the sort we are warned to beware of in the Bodhisattva Precepts.
We are neither supposed to peddle intoxicants or darken mind and body of self and other with intoxicants--and yes, thrilling to charisma and powerfield are intoxicants.
Well, in the new version of the film trailer Nydahl talks about being liberated from disturbing emotions, but the origin of these emotions is conceptual delusion, whether they manifest in emotional disturbances or not.
The measure of conceptual delusion is whether one views appearances as being devoid of any substantial existence, seeing the impermanent nature of conditioned phenomena as mere empty appearance rather than taking them as reality. When Nydahl talks about his knowledge of his past life as a protector and the birthmark on his forehead as if they had some sort of significance he's practicing delusion and revealing his attachment to karma rather than liberation from it.
Maybe this relates to the idea of him being simply "a program" insofar as he's acting out what he conceptualises as being his karma, either way he seems to be missing the cornerstone of Buddhist motivation to be free from karma by practicing non-conceptualisation of the 3 spheres.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/2011 11:23AM by suenam.