When is doing something externally without inner feeling good and when is it bad?
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Thank you We are told sometimes that we should act humble and then we become humble but in one of your course you said that if we act holier than thou we will end up holier than no one answer is a matter of intention there is always a tension between our internals and externals our actions rarely live up to our aspirations but how what is our attitude towards that distance or difference is important at one level you can say culture or discipline or willpower means that we do the external while also seeking the internal when somebody has enraged us we don’t raise our voice at them and internally also we try to calm ourselves so that is such external restraint is actually the beginning of inner transformation the second we could say is simply ritual where we go through the external motions without even desiring the internal say some children come to teenage and their parents want them to go to a temple so they go they go to the deities but they have no interest in it they are going through the external motions just to get it over with that is unproductive the first is productive where it will, the external actions will lead to inner intentions being developed correspondingly the second is unproductive third is where the external intentions are a mask for inner opposite intentions, it is somebody acts very friendly with us but their sole intention is to actually deceive us exploit us, earn our trust and then maybe spill our secrets to the whole world or something like that so that is hypocrisy that is counterproductive so when we are told to act humble so that we develop that is externals with the desire for the internal that is recommended but when we act holier than thou that is usually not with a desire to become holier as a desire to parade how we are holier and and often we that will lead to counterproductive effect where eventually we will be internally contaminated because of our negative because of our facade that we are putting up