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The speed of your Development depends on your level of Being and your level of Concentration. Train to rise your level of Concentration!

An analogy with moving a big pile of rocks: your Being determines how much you can carry and your Concentration determines how long you can keep going before you need to take a break. And of course you also need Understanding to be Doing the right thing. Otherwise you will be moving the pile of rocks to the wrong place!

Concentration: your ability to keep your focus and stay on a task without having your thoughts drifting away to other things, referring to both physical and mental activities. Mental activities require in general more Concentration to stay focused.

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To know what is Good for you to Do you need Understanding. Your Understanding can never be greater than your Being or your Knowledge, so they both need to be acquired and accumulated.

Knowledge: if you have the Knowledge of a cookie you have the recipe in your memory and can use it to bake that one specific cookie. But you do not Understand why you add the sugar.

Understanding: if you have some Understanding of cookies you can use the Knowledge of several recipes to create the cookies you want!

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We are here to Develop ourselves. The only sensible definition of Good and Evil is that Good things favor your Development and Evil things hinders your Development.

Development: is maybe best defined trough its effects: more relaxed, less fears, more focus, more power in your words and actions, less worry, more happiness, thought control, awareness, health... and so on. These are all undefined words but if you find the common denominator you will be pretty near bulls-eye!

Good: does not mean more money, unless you can use the money in favor of your Development

Evil: does not mean less money, unless it hinders you in your Development (not very likely).

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Before continuing there is actually a need for a "zeroth" Seed.

Without well-defined words any deeper philosophical discussion/text is pointless, and only serves as an example on how knowledge is lost.

This is because all words means different things for different persons. If person A says something including the word "consciousness", person B will interpret what he hears based on what he associates the word "consciousness" with. This is generally different from what A means, and thus it creates a misunderstanding.

In an attempt to avoid situations like that Seeds will, when necessary, be accompanied by a short glossary. This glossary is as important as the Seed itself. But not because it contains some absolutely correct definitions! Any definition is correct, as long as it is well-defined and followed consequently.

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You have to Be to Do. Most people are not Being, they just exist. Therefore they can not Do, things just Happen.
Happening: This is just action and reaction, cause and effect. You drop a stone and it falls down. Someone yells at you and you yell back, cause and effect. Most of the time your reaction comes from your previous experiences.
Doing: This is the opposite of Happening. Doing is not a reaction based on your environment and/or previous experiences. Doing is something you Consciously Create yourself at the moment of the action.
Being: The more you are Being the more you can Do, consequently less things just Happen. The difference in Being between two humans can be greater than the difference in Being between a stone and a dog.