Where Nothing seems to be

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Hermann Kunh

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- being profoundly impressed by one's own suffering,
and lamenting this to others to garner their compassion. - Such behaviour just squanders energy and time on one's deficiencies. It certainly does not steer life towards greater inner freedom and sov
ereignty. - pursuing fruitless (transitory) aims which never produce actual results. And even if the society we currently live in mandates such activities and puts pressure on us to pursue these goals, this only
pleases society, but never stimulates our growth. - practicing anything that leads astray, - like useless
spiritual techniques, meditation, exercises, cleansings, rituals etc.
At the heart of all such practices is quantitative repetition. - Mantras, prayers, yoga postures, rituals, cleansings etc., are all to be repeated a specific number of times, for a fixed period, or at recurring intervals. Many believe the more regular they perform their technique, the faster they progress.
Yet how could our awareness expand by mindlessly repeating mantras, mechanically performing religious rituals, by ceremoniously handling mystic symbols etc. - i.e. by activities whose mechanism we. don't really understand and often do not even know what kind of outcome to expect, - or IF any effect would manifest at all, - or whether we even WANT something serious to happen in the first place.