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The Four Mainstays lifestyle aligns us with the singular reality.
The singular reality described in the first sentence is the nature of reality,
because that is all that’s going on, folks: the spontaneous self-release of the here-and-now.
There isn’t a single person anywhere that can prove to me any kind of here and now
existed in some kind of frame of reference of a past,
or anything that’s going to happen in terms of a frame of reference of a future.
There’s no one who can prove any of that to me or to you or to anyone else.
The time is a vast expanse that includes both time and timelessness.
It subsumes all extreme ideas time, timelessness
all-inclusive, all-encompassing, all-pervasive of time and timelessness.
So where does that leave us? The-here-and now
which isn’t really a part called “a moment.” There isn’t any such thing in a vast expanse.
There isn’t a part called a moment. Everything pools in equalness;
in equalness everything pools in complete equalness
and so there aren’t any parts called moments in reality,
and that’s what we’re talking about today.
Because this reality is so much different than the one we’ve been trained up in for most of us,
we need to do the same thing we did to get the reified intelligence:
to live as open intelligence, that’s all. We do the same thing.
The first Mainstay is open intelligence and practicing that if needed in short moments,
repeated many times in whatever way is perfectly beautiful for you.
That is equivalent to training yourself up
in all the ideas you have about yourself, all the data streams,
believing in all the data streams that you might have about yourself
or all people might have about themselves or all beings might have about themselves.
The teacher is equivalent to all the people that we’ve allowed
into our education in the nature of our mind,
and we have accepted their ideas as valuable, and then we’ve trained up in those ideas.
We have to take full responsibility that in fact we are the one who have
trained up in these data streams; no one made us do it.
And even if we have undergone something totally harsh,
abusive, awful horrific and never should have been done
that kind of thing that we know from the very beginning
that we have a choice, that we take responsibility for the way we live
in relation to those circumstances, whatever they are.
No matter how horrific the circumstance, to revisit that circumstance as open intelligence.
To open its definition as open intelligence brings so much healing power and relief,
that no matter how horrific the circumstance, it is received as blessing, as a blessing.
In the true profound meaning of that word “blessing,”
it is received as a profound blessing
when revisited as open intelligence.
In the Empowerments, you see, this is the approach.
The training: we’ve been our own teacher essentially,
in that we’ve allowed ourselves to believe certain data streams
about ourselves, and then a lot of other people have been our teachers too.
We had to make the choice to take on the ideas, and that is so essential,
because then we know we have the choice for open intelligence.
If we realize and take the responsibility for the choice for reified intelligence,
then we know we have the choice for open intelligence.
Everyone has this choice;
it’s a civil right, a human right and everything else.
It is the birthright of everyone to live as open intelligence,
and we are the pioneers of the great Era of Benefit
in which people actually live as they are capable of living,
rather than continuing to diminish themselves.
It’s just such an honor and privilege for me to see all of you
and to see all of you exalt yourselves. To me that is just,
it’s much better than Disneyland or any kind of entertainment!
That was supposed to be a joke! It is just the most beautiful way to live,
and everyone on the live stream already knows that,
so I realize that too. It’s just the most beautiful way to live.
It’s affirming and confirming, so the more we live as open intelligence,
the more affirming and confirming it is, until we have absolute authority and conviction.
Absolute authority and conviction: another phrase for that is “indestructible pride.”
Indestructible pride. It is indestructible pride.
Of course there are data streams of pride and arrogance
that need to be blown open, need to be exalted,
need to be their counterpart of indestructible pride.
Through confidence and trust in the Four Mainstays,
we develop indestructible pride; we simply live as we are,
and we have no doubt whatsoever that all data are a vast expanse
of open intelligence. It’s just so clear,
yet we’re just humming along an ordinary life here.
It’s ordinary life and extraordinary life and incomprehensible life.
Every single moment, which isn’t a part remember?
Every single moment is a moment of exaltation and great, great glory.
This is just the way it is,
and so the Four Mainstays align us with the singular reality.
There is only one reality: open intelligence’s great benefit.
That is self explanatory. Only one reality; there aren’t multiple realities;
there is only open intelligence’s great benefit
the fundamental reality, pervasive of all data streams,
including all other paradigms, world views, cosmologies and realities.
I’m sure there is a whole list of other terms that could be applied.
There are a multitude of data, yet there is only one reality.
The multitude of data is outshone as one reality.
We no longer experience every single data stream
as some big deal that we have to attend to,
like we’re watching over the chickens in the chicken coop
or something like that. The data streams are shining
their names just turn into shining and potency,
and we’re just happy to be.
No matter how tortured and awful and horrific
our reified intelligence might have been, it just isn’t that way anymore.
So, here we are, more and more of us all the time, and it’s just really great.