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HERMANN KUHN
SUTRAS
At this point in time darslana decides whether a 'tendency towards the object' will arise in the first place. Here the selectionprocess takes place that allows only a few of the billions of stimuli presented to our senses and mind to get through to our consciousness. Here - on this highly fundamental level - it is determined whether a stimulus will develop into perception and possibly become an insight later.
darshana is influenced by all the concepts and patterns we installed between reality and our consciousness. This filter permits contact with only those events and objects that resonate in our consciousness. Everything else might well exist and might even meet our senses, but because of this filter will never reach our perception and is thereby closed out to our consciousness.
Here is the plane of selection (sthapana - see sutra 5) where we direct our consciousness towards only those contents and values we feel - positively or negatively - attracted to.
Yet we are not at the mercy of this selection-process. We can easily reduce the effect this filter has on us. We only need to modify our ideas and concepts what perceptions are acceptable to our consciousness. We achieve this by altering the content of our interactive karmic field. This rearrangement happens in two steps: - Step one is our earnest decision to give up ideas and activities - i.e. prejudice, ignorance, error, skepticism, strong negative feelings, laziness etc. - that erect boundaries around our consciousness - Step two is the transfer of this decision into action.
We alter or reduce the contents of our interactive karmic field instantly and automatically once we put the decision taken in step one into action.
It is essential to transfer our decision into action because only this activates the particular karmas that prevent us from perceiving more of reality. We need to activate these karmas, because this is the only way to experience and recognize their character
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