Notion of Growth

SR No.: 006735
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany
Total Pages: 202
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 8 MB

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APPLICATION
THE NOTION OF GROWTH
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select the one path leading to liberation from the many possible alternatives of daily life. This attitude makes us
naturally express truth in speech and action. 3 - The insight that all components necessary for reaching
liberation already exist in our own immediate environment. - It is the awareness that we only need to identify and understand these components to receive optimal support. - Once this is recognized, we experience that everything needed for our own development is always provided in abundance. - This insight automatically makes us realize that the desire for the possessions of
others is irrelevant and unnecessary. 4 - The intention to grow. - This is experienced as an in
tense desire for ever more comprehensive levels of understanding. It constitutes the main drive for our path to liberation. From the fifth stage of development onwards the intention to grow provides an additional energy that becomes stronger the more intensively we pur
sue this direction. 5 - The recognition that worldly (material) possessions play
no significant role on our path to liberation. - We experience matter more and more as only a partial aspect of life, whose influence on our growth-process is continuously diminishing. This does not mean to give up all possessions. We only recognize the decreasing importance of material components for our path and consciously support this development.
From the fifth stage of development onwards we perceive clearly that these five broad lines of action unfold higher levels of comprehension and will eventually produce liberation. This recognition causes the inflow of a previously un