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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
- disgust, indignation, aversion - compulsion to search for (new) female sexual partners - compulsion to search for (new) male sexual partners - compulsion to search for (new) sexual partners of both genders. (9)
Intuitive orientation towards growth (samyag darshana)
Intuitive insight - darshana10 - is the intuitive weight we assign to experiences and information.
Intuitive orientation is a fundamental experience of our life. On the basis of intuitive understanding we select from the multitude of potential actions the one path that appeals to us as the most attractive. Our intellect plays hardly any role in this process. In the fast pace of daily life it is far too slow to consider all the complex consequences of our actions in advance.
Yet we also experience that our intuition may lead us astray at times, - we do not always get desirable results when we follow our intuition.
To exclude this uncertainty the Tattvarthasutra describes a variation of this mechanism: - a special type of intuition that is grounded in the orientation towards growth (samyag darshana).
When we orient towards inner growth, we neither experience doubt nor hesitancy that often accompany our usual premonitions or intuition. On the contrary, - we experience sudden understanding, a crystal-like recognition that the blockages are gone that only a second ago obscured our consciousness. It feels as if we finally step into the light, are finally able to see clearly. An immense freedom floods our heart, - an elation always accompanied by enlightening insights into a level of understanding that eluded us before.
10 The mechanics of gaining insight - darshana - as it is described in su
tra 7 are only a partial aspect of the process explained here. 'THE KEY TO THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE' (Chapter 1 of the Tattvarthasutra) deals extensively with the complete mechanism of darshana.
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