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Hermann Kuhn
Yet the features of samyag darshana (the notion of growth) described above are only the practical expression of this far more comprehensive term. The entire scope and depth of samyag darshana will become clear in the second sutra.
How to develop and expand our notion of growth is described in Sutra 3.
How to apply our notion of growth to access hidden parts of reality is explained in Sutra 15.
2 - Knowledge that makes us recognize and under
stand this unfolding of consciousness (samyag jnana) opens our awareness to those mechanisms that cause our potential abilities to become reality.
We generally assume that if we want to explore previously unknown areas of experience, we first need to acquire knowledge and then to apply it. Yet reality works exactly the opposite way. We first experience something new and then only begin to search - more or less intuitively and often subconsciously - for concepts that may explain our new experiences and connect them to our current understanding. This applies especially to any unfoldment of consciousness that radically transcends our familiar sphere of life.
Contrary to common belief most experiences of expansion of consciousness are hardly ever so vivid and clear that we immediately become aware of them. The majority of insights into different (new) levels of consciousness are so brief that they appear like highly fleeting, almost unreal apparitions. Since we mostly have no explanation for what we experienced, we usually store these events in the same place as all the
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