Where Nothing seems to be

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Hermann Kunh

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Second Interlude
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Sure, - some techniques may make us 'feel good', more relaxed and calmer, yet 'feeling good, relaxed and calm' should not be confused with inner growth.
Real inner expansion is always an increase in QUALITY. It is a boost of our capacities, a sweeping breakthrough to more insight, superior understanding, more focused activities and greater command of life. Spiritual practices don't lead in this direction. They never 'produce' sufficient power to generate such burst.
- being dazzled by 'mental concepts, constructs,
belief-systems or philosophies' - whose knotty reasoning more often than not is only the attempt to mask the gross lack of real insight of their originators.
The more complicated a concept, the less its author himself understands what he is saying or writing. Unmasking such constructs and discarding the useless intellectual arrogance that often surrounds such theories frees the mind for deeper insight.
Genuine truth is always simple and easily understood by everyone. Yet voicing plain truth often takes considerably more courage than articulating incomprehensible, but suave intellectual nonsense.
The deeper the truth, the simpler and the more powerful it is.
- listening to those who never directly experienced
the Great Awareness - because their views lack all substance.