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Hermann Kuhn
The primary purpose of this description is to make us aware of the mechanisms that govern our actions. Once we know them, we will be able to employ them far more consciously and effectively.
Yet over and above that, the sequence of the described mechanisms makes us recognize a more fundamental dynamism that ultimately directs all our action towards the liberation from karmic obstructions.
- The mechanism by which a living being attracts karmic matter (asrava). These are the activities of body, speech and mind. Our own actions, words and thinking are the very origin of the attraction between our consciousness (jiva) and non-living - karmic - matter (ajiva).
This attraction to karma is what enables us to experience the state of embodiment in the first place. As long as we do not react to this attraction in a certain emotional way, it does not lead to a stronger bond to karma.
The tendency of our consciousness to experience embodiment is one of the foundations of our life. As long as this tendency exists, we do have the right to influence this state in such a way that we can manifest the values, ideals, and concepts we feel deeply within us.
At the very heart of each of our ideals there always is a positive impulse. At our very core we never strive for destruction, but always for expansion, for ways to manifest the greatness we feel deep within us.
We experience fulfillment when we accept the challenge to manifest our ideals of expansion within the framework of possibilities that the state of embodiment offers us.
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