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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THE NOTION OF GROWTH
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We calculate our strength and constitution to safely reach the other side - and also our readiness and capability to speed up should we have miscalculated. We calculate if we have to cross the street before the car, i.e. how far we are under time-pressure, - a contemplation that connects to even more complex psychological dimensions.
All this and much more we completely take in in the fraction of a second, weigh it against each other and make our decision with lightning speed and dreamlike assuredness. Sure - the accident-statistics show that some do miscalculate, but we succeeded to arrive here and now and this shows us how effectively we employ this ability - pramana.
If for once we recapitulate the huge number of multilayered situations we experience during the day: - the multitude of highly complex bodily decisions we subconsciously make almost every second; - the swift evaluations with which we judge power, disposition and strategy of communication partners and then instantly fine-tune our tactics; - the immediate recognition whether the outer and inner circumstances we confront conform with our deeper motives, ideas and values, and how we should react to this.
In all these decisions our intellect plays almost no role. Certainly, we consciously adopt well reflected and laboriously trained concepts and action-sequences, but we also experience quite often that pramana - our direct access to comprehensive knowledge - is far stronger than any mental calculation however logical. When speed of evaluation and decision is vital to our survival, we almost always revert to pramana - to the one ability that brings us so efficiently through life.