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HERMANN KUHN
SUTRAS
Many who strive for an expansion of consciousness believe that this should happen on a purely mental ('spiritual') level and therefore must be accompanied by some withdrawal from worldly activities. They usually maintain the idea that the more comprehensive the withdrawal, the faster their spiritual progress will be.
Convictions of this type often cause disdain for physical activities and the instrument of this activity - our body - while at the
me time all mental (spiritual) efforts assume a disproportionately high significance. In this frame of mind all action (and even the body itself) may be rejected as annoying, troublesome, obstructive and interfering with spiritual growth.
The sutra makes clear that activity is an inalienable factor in our growth. Only when we transfer our insights into action will we be able to access the more advanced dimensions of our consciousness. Any exclusively mental ('spiritual) occupation with esoteric contents - irrespective of how intensely and seriously we go about it - neglects one of the three essential factors of growth and is therefore unable to produce the optimal and stable unfolding of our consciousness.
Activity is an essential part of our life in the state of embodiment. Through activity we strive for fulfillment (realization) of the values and ideals we feel deep within ourselves. The emotional engagement with which we pursue these values acts like a magnet that attracts all components necessary for their fulfillment.
This emotional engagement allows us to experience the themes of our life until we gained optimal insight from them and our emotional attachment to the completed themes falls off.
Yet our emotional bond to unfinished themes of life continues to remain active even if we reject their transfer into activity. Without manifesting them in activity our life will continue to revolve around these unfinished themes - whether we like it or not - and
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