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Let's take a social pause here. Let's look at ourself
and see what is the most basic education that is so essential to our lives as human beings right now.
What is the most basic education? Okay, it's not the brushing the teeth one.
It's even not getting a degree. It's first of all getting to know the nature of our mind. Whoo-hoo!
Nature of our mind! You know, what is the nature of mind and what does it mean to be a human being?
What is the purpose of us being here together?
Is it to blame, criticize, complain, gossip and more of these kinds of things?
And, you know, competition and power struggles? Is this really why I was born to this world?
And these are questions I really ask myself from a very young age like, "What's happening?"
You know? And I tried different things, you know.
I tried to stretch myself to different directions.
I read books, I went to workshops and I isolated myself, and I flew here and there,
and what I really wanted is education in the nature of mind. Give it to me.
And this is, this was my attitude from a very young age.
I want to know it and stop bullshitting me, I really want to know the answer.
I want to know the answer and I will pay million tickets to every place around the world.
I'll run marathons. Just give me the answer.
So, with Balanced View it's so simple. You don't need to run a marathon,
you don't need to pay million dollars on plane tickets, to learn a different language.
What you need to see is, basically, just go to a website or come to a meeting,
or listen to a talk, or find another friend
who is relying already on the Four Mainstays of Balanced View
and recognize, "Wow! That's what I want, exactly that.”
The stability, the clarity, the elegance
and maturity of a human being recognizing themselves as open intelligence,
as this beneficial potency rather than someone who is continuously,
constantly choosing to be a victim of their data streams.
So, that's a choice, you see.
We can choose to be a victim of our data streams, means constantly accessing and analyzing
what's going on in our beautiful mind, our clear and vast mind: all of our emotions—the same.
I mean, wow, I did it for almost twenty-five years.
Twenty-five years of analyzing my thoughts and emotions. That was totally not necessary.
I mean, I reached some great conclusions that changed after a second, but really,
you know, if I want to get real and I want to live life with great open-heartedness,
relate to people regardless, if I know their name, their religious,
their background, how much money they have in their bank,
if they have a bank account, you know, all of these:
are they married or not, gay or straight, right, left wing?
All of these things, they are subsumed in the total beneficial potency
that unites all of us as human beings. And, why to complicate it?
And I know many of us have the tools of
sharp thinking, what seems to be logical thinking and it's not.
And, so we try to analyze and think about,
“Wait. Why? Okay, short moments while I'm dancing,
but not short moments while my heart is about to break, because I received a really sad news.”
Or, "I'm again, again, and again having a panic attack."
You know? Or, "I fear public speaking or anxiety, depression."
That's where we jump into the open intelligence view.
You know, we really go there completely and say, "Okay, I choose not to be a victim any more.
I choose not to blame myself for having a certain data.
I choose to rely and rest as open intelligence."
So we said, short moments repeated many times, right? This is the practice.
So while you find yourself in your bathroom,
or while walking to the shops, or making sandwiches with avocadoes,
and you’re thinking about, “Oh wait, this afflictive state,
hmm... and these short moments, it's good here, when I'm here but not there.”
Take a short moment, and also in other daily activities.
Take a short moment to simply allow the data to be as they are,
like you would allow this almost clear blue sky to be as they are,
without needing to change anything, because our natural state,
that we are restored to by relying on open intelligence, repeated many times,
is totally perfect, so perfect, perfect, really perfect, amazing.
Nothing needs to be changed.
No one told me about it when I was born, I mean, I got the unconditional love for my mother,
and that's great instinctive recognition of open intelligence.
But no one repeatedly told me that I have the power of the universe and I can use it in usable way,
and that everything rests in total natural perfection, like in nature.
So now we tell it. Now we speak about it bcause we don't want to waste our time,
we don't want to waste our life in diminishing ways
of victims relating to victims, and trying to look smart while doing so.
Yeah? What we are trying to do is look at each other as we are,
totally empowered, totally cool, beneficial, regardless of hair styles, hair and clothing.
Another beautiful thing that I came to see, and it was hard in the beginning,
is that my perfect set of data stream is really perfect for me,
me, exactly as I am, to recognize open intelligence in my everyday life.
Because in the beginning we're like, “Oh wow, if I had the trainer's data stream
then for sure I would be like on the open intelligence....
Or if I had his or hers, you know, he's definitely not so afflicted as I am.”
You know? So I have good news, I'm so endowed with afflictions
that I'm really unafraid any more to be afflicted.
Because, you can be afraid for twenty-five years. That was my limit.
And then I said, "No, no I don't want to be afraid anymore."
And I got the support of the Four Mainstays.
So, you might be sixty and you're still afraid of your data streams
but there has to come a point where you say,
"Regardless of what comes up for me, I'm choosing to be empowered,
and I have the support of the Four Mainstays.”
So, you see, it's not like a solo journey of someone who went through life and suffered a lot,
and maybe that's your story. But he did it by himself or herself.
No, it’s like, okay some people come here to Bristol for the first time,
or to India or to Sweden, where we have a beautiful center.
And I always love to think in the eyes of a newcomer.
They come and they see a room full of people relying on open intelligence,
people that are, they're immediately... so many friends
without even needing to do anything, you know?
And many of us who came, I came six years ago, there weren't so many.
The rooms, they weren't so full, and of course people who came before me.
So what it took is courage and commitment, and now it's so easy.
Okay, I mean if I was a newcomer and I would come here, I was like, “Okay, what...?"
You know? I got it! That's the best life ever. Can I be a friend? Yes, okay. Openness, great!
When is the next, I don't know, social event, men's night?" You know?
People are moving together even before they took a short moment,
and that's the magnetism of open intelligence.
It's magnetizing. It's a great force. It's the uniting force. I love it!
I travel all over the world and I see my own dream and the dream of everyone coming true.
But what's happening here, if you take a moment to recognize it
rather than think about it and rationalize it,
we are creating world peace for the first time in a most simple way.
It's so simple that sometimes it's unbelievable.
I come from the center in Sweden, an amazing place,
an amazing environment for people to empower themselves.
Before that I was in Israel, we have a small community.
I was before that in India where we have an amazing center that we run for four months.
Thousands of people are coming and getting to know the nature of mind.
And before that in Italy and I'm soon going to Amsterdam, you see?
It's not just here, it's everywhere.
So you, with your data streams, make a choice, and make a commitment and choose your lifestyle.
That's also something really good, choose your lifestyle.
I chose this lifestyle because it really fits me.
It fits me well. I have a great trainer, an amazing trainer,
dedicated his life to support me and so many others, and a great example.
I have texts that I love to read both in English, Hebrew, and now in Spanish.
Also, we have now on the website with different languages, so we are reaching more people.
See. Writing down the text or I love listening to talks.
As I wake up I listen to Candice, love it.
Now I can wake up from a nightmare and...
And before, you know, "Okay, where do I need to fly? Which workshop should I take?
Which food should I eat? Should I become raw food eater?
Should I stop eating sausages?
Should I change a partner? Should I wear thongs or shoes?
All of these big life questions,
they become clear by taking short moments and actually using the support.
Really friends, use the support rather than think about it;
so many of you have completed the Empowerments. You have a trainer.
Use it wisely, it's a person who's totally devoted to your own empowerment.
It's amazing. So if people sit there,
“Oh yeah, I have a trainer, he was nice in 2009.”
And you never connected to them. Do it, you know, do everything.
Jump on them, respectfully, and say,
and say, “I want to be supported, and I'm open.”
You know, once a year I remind my trainer and he knows it already, but I remind myself,
and I say, "Please let me know if you see anything. I'm so open. I'm open like I was never before.
Please let me know if you see anything.
I just want to be my best, and I want to serve to the best of my ability.”