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Hermann Kuhn
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 change the effect this filter has on us by modifying our concepts and ideas (i.e. by altering the content of our interactive karmic field). This rearrangement happens in two steps: - Step one is the earnest decision to give up concepts
and activities that cause prejudice, ignorance, error, skepticism, strong negative feelings, etc. - Step two is the transfer of this decision into action.
The alteration or rather the reduction of our interactive karmic field takes place automatically when the decision taken in step one is put into action.
Transferring our decision into action is necessary because only this activates and dissolves (manifests) the respective karmas that block the perception of this part of reality in our consciousness.
As soon as darshana accepts an object or event as viable, it is immediately followed by the more or less clear perception (avagraha) which brings it to the attention of our consciousness.
EXAMPLE: Seeing a white object in the distance we know that it is white, but cannot determine yet what it
is.
2. Forming a first idea (iha) - The desire to know details
about an apprehended object causes us to form a first idea of what we perceive.
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