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In today’s world with science as the major world religion there seems to be no way around technology – meaning applied science. Everything related to . .  science has a bonus per se. If the tag says ‘scientifically proven’ it must be right, or so they say. Who is ‘they’?

First and foremost everybody who has an interest in keeping the position they already have or even improving on that. This includes everybody who is in charge, or better: in any position of power. And that in turn means all that is money (as in profit) related.  Big bucks heavily influence science in e.g. the pharmaceutical industry: if research is not promising a big future profit, it gets no funding. Never mind that the problem at hand may be a crucial humanitarian one. It has to have mass appeal. Mass appeal means safe profit.

There are many wonderful scientists who right now go after their most urgent quest – alas, they are underfunded, ignored or – if they rose to some prominence – openly hindered in their efforts if they don’t fit the powerstream of the pharmaceutical industry. The same is true for ingenious engineers who dedicate their investigations and ideas to serve humanity first (examples can be found from green tech, non gravity, homeopathic or energy medicine to electrical cars etc).  

It seems to be a good idea to find out how certain words like ‘technology’ or ‘technique’ are different from practice. .

Technology and technique share a close relationship to tools, craft, methods or systems. All of those can be applied. A human being can be trained to do the job apparently without further consequences for himself. Basically the execution of any such operation can be left to a more or less intelligently programmed robot or computer. Technology and technique are about functioning, thus they are related to machines and the only effect on the executioner may be a wearing out of his/her energy.  

Practice on the other hand is something by which a human being can influence a process in himself: humans practice something to learn or improve. Practice provides a human being with  – often immediate – feedback. That is its purpose. Practice is the means through which we evolve.

In the age of countless lawmakers ( laws of attraction, success, health and financial wellbeing abound) who claim not only earthly but cosmic validity for their comercially useful inventions, it seems kind of silly to humbly point out the validity of thousands of years of successful internal cultivation practices. Yet still today those practices deal with what is inside a human being . Either we discover it or we miss the point of our very existence.   

Continous intelli-gently applied practices let us evolve, not the newest ‘technique’. There is no shortcut to inner peace and fulfillment. Anybody who seeks to find something outside herself by means of technology of whatever kind doesn’t find the core of her being alive: love, creativity, peace, compassion. Without manifesting those inner talents which we all carry inside us there is no growing progress of individuals nor species. And the quality of our existence is defined by those talents.
 

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