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- Consciously prolonging the duration of Total Perception (sthiti) - Initially this is a basic readiness to explore ever deeper dimensions of new insights as they arise. Yet as soon as our insights begin to last longer, we should focus on preventing the intake of new karmas. This is the fastest way to stabilize our insights into higher states.
The duration of an insight gives us concrete information which stage or phase of development we experience.
EXAMPLE: We observe that initially our state of awakening (our intuitive insight into the mechanisms of growth) appears only in very brief flashes. The descriptions inform us that this intuitive insight arises in the fourth stage of development (gunasthana) and that it has three phases: - Phase one is characterized by fleetingness. - We intuitively orient towards growth when all karma that previously prevented the shift of our awareness to level four becomes inactive (latent) for a short time. Though this awakening brings extraordinary clarity to our consciousness, our desire for experiences on level one is so intense that after a brief time (initially after only fractions of seconds, at most after 48 minutes) we fall down to level three, two or one.
When we experience these insights repeatedly and direct our attention towards them, this process loses its fleeting character. In consequence the initial strong contrast to the familiar hypnotic envelope of level one diminishes. We now begin to notice that we lose ourselves less and less in the actions we are involved in. The clarity in our life increases and we become able to steer it far more consciously. Eventually we exceed the maximum time we can stay in this phase and thereby automatically advance to phase two. - In the second phase some part of the karma that had only be
come inactive (latent) in the first phase, dissolves completely. We begin to see the limiting character of some of our attach
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