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APPLICATION
FIVE FREEDOMS
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ternatives of daily life the one path that leads to real freedom. This attitude makes us naturally express truth in all our speech and action.
3 - The insight that all components needed to reach freedom from
karmic limitations already exist within us and in our very own environment
It is the awareness that we only need to identify and understand these components to receive optimal support for our path. - Once we realize this, we experience that everything needed for our own development is always provided in abundance. - This automatically produces the insight that any craving for the pos
sessions of others is irrelevant and pointless. 4 - The intention to grow
This is experienced as a burning desire for ever higher dimensions of our consciousness. It is the main drive of our path to ultimate freedom. From the fifth stage of development onwards our intention to grow amplifies our efforts with an additional energy that becomes stronger the more intensely we pursue this
direction. 5 - The recognition that material possessions play no significant role for reaching ultimate freedom
We experience matter more and more as only a partial aspect of life, whose influence on our growth-process is continuously diminishing. This does not mean to give up all possessions. We only recognize the decreasing importance of material components for our path and consciously support this development. From the fifth stage of development onward we perceive more and more clearly that these five broad lines of action systematically unfold superior levels of comprehension and are essential for reaching ultimate freedom. This realization imparts an additional, invigorating energy that incites us to steer our life consciously along these five main lines.
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