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Hermann Kuhn
pramana is the direct connection to our consciousness. Its ability to understand the most complex circumstances instantly and comprehensively, gives us a taste of the immense potential of insights that still rests undiscovered deep within us.
The casualness with which we handle pramana in our daily life shows how natural and spontaneous our unfoldment of more comprehensive levels of insight will be; - we only need to direct this familiar ability towards new and more expansive goals.
The ease with which pramana unfolded in our life - from toddler to grown up - further demonstrates how playful any further unfoldment of this ability can be.
pramana is the irrefutable proof that even now we do have the ability to reach and develop new dimensions of consciousness. We only need to extend the range in which we use this ability,
The range of pramana - i.e. how much of reality we perceive by it and how clear our insight is - depends on the degree this ability has opened within us. Yet this opening cannot be reached by special training, but only by removing certain blocks that obstruct its functioning. 22
These blocks are caused by our very own preconceptions, errors and misunderstandings23. The blocks are the stronger, the more intensely we project prejudices, errors, etc. onto the real world and the more we reject (e.g. by neglect or laziness) to correct them. If we intend to ex
22 KARMA - THE MECHANISM describes extensively how to remove
these blocks. 23 i.e. by karmic mechanisms originally caused by our own actions,
thinking and speech
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