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In this fourth step we therefore examine how an object or event manifests in our present and how this actual manifestation mirrors its underlying 'durable' and comprehensive reality.
EXAMPLE: We purchase a telephone and talk to friends, relatives and other people who live far away.
We notice that this makes it easy to coordinate future events with others, that we receive information very fast etc. We eventually observe that the possibility of fast and easy communication (by telephone) significantly changes our life. We recognize that the machine's influence extends far beyond the content of any individual telephone call - as important as it may be.
'Wliat do we really experience now?' We are not interested in theoretical knowledge that may influence us in some future time, but only in the real effect we experience in the present - but this in all its depth.59
5 - Deepening the insight by verbally describing it (sabda)
After we found out what really effects us, we intensify this experience by verbalizing it.
EXAMPLE: We tell others how the telephone works and what kind of opportunities it offers. This makes us more aware of our relationship with the machine and the effect is has on our life.
'How can it be described?' One of the best methods to make us more aware of an insight is to express it in words. This process moves the insight right into the center of our awareness.
59 Only the present is able to connect us to the entire, rich foundation of
an event. Only the immediate present gives us access to the entire reality an experience is made up of.
Memories of past events always cover only a small spectrum of what really happened - and this spectrum gets even smaller the more removed an event is. What part of the past we are able to remember is further influenced heavily by our current mood and situation.
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