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Hermann Kuhn
FIVE FREEDOMS
"The Five Freedoms' are five specific lines of action. Once we reach the fifth stage of development (gunasthana), we recognize them as the five major types of activities that lead to liberation. The Five Freedoms are:
APPLICATION
1- Profound understanding of all living beings and the feeling of natural compassion towards them. - We recognize our own aspirations and path in other beings. - This automatically produces a growing awareness how our actions affect others. It leads to a way of life that takes care that our actions do not restrict the vitality and expression of other beings and naturally avoids injuring or killing them.
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2- An intense craving for truth. From the fifth stage of development onwards truth is perceived as all the mechanisms that lead from misconception and confusion towards liberation. This automatically produces the insight that communicating misleading information, false or unconfirmed rumors and vague statements is essentially damaging, since it promotes and maintains a state of deception in others. We realize that only by living and communicating truth do we create that refined aura of clarity around ourselves which enables us to intuitively
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