Notion of Growth

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany

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EXAMPLE: Many people experience the notion of growth (samyag darshana) as fleeting moments of intense wakefulness or as the sudden awakening from a daydreamlike state. Since they mostly cannot explain what they experienced, and because the event has been so fleeting, they usually ignore it.
Yet when we direct our attention towards these fleeting moments, they become more intense. We now know what to expect and at their next occurrence perceive these events with far greater clarity. Simply directing our attention causes these moments to become longer so we can observe them more clearly.
- Accepting the insights pramana provides as our own (svamitva) - means to become conscious of the fact that we really have mastery of a method of comprehending highly complex, multi-layered situations with lightening speed.
As long as we separate us from the events we perceive, we have no access to this instant and complete insight. We can only gain the ability to deeply penetrate the events and to explore all their dimensions when we remove the distance between us and the events we confront.
Once we fully accept that our consciousness is definitely capable of expanding - even if only for brief moments, - conscious expansion becomes part of our growthprocess.
Only this gives us the ability to detect all the dimensions and qualities our experiences stimulate within us and to explore them to their fullest. Only then do we really know what these brief insights mean to us and how
emotional level. This does not need to occur; it is mentioned here to prevent potential conflicts.