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Just for this very moment, stop thinking.
Pause all of the descriptions
and recognize
there’s something about us that is just unchanging.
This basic alertness is clear and bright.
Our minds are inseparable from this crystal-clear sky.
What a relief to know our mind as inseparable from sky-like clarity.
And this is already the case.
We’re not coming here to manage our way into this being the case.
We recognize in this very instant
just for a short moment, a short moment of open intelligence.
Open intelligence is synonymous
with clarity, alertness, this basic cognizance.
So, we recognize short moment after short moment after short moment.
We repeat it spontaneously, many times throughout our day.
And I love the questions about organization
and things like activism.
And I know it’s very popular in these parts, right?
I think. I don’t know. I hear anyway.
And it was very popular and is very popular in my life as well
these ideas of raging against the machine and all of these ideas
you know, there’s these patterns and behaviors in organizations
that’s just not working in this life and I really wanna change something.
I can really relate to just wanting to change something
and seeing how many, many things just do not work
and they just really do not work.
And this fury and this, maybe anger, frustration, disappointment
disgust over all of these things that are taking place
is really the potent energy for lasting and permanent change
lasting and real solutions.
And now, what is a real solution?
We need to look at this in our direct experience.
We need to look at that really clearly in our direct experience.
We need to look at what really works for us
and to start here, with us, right now.
And that start is with this short moment of open intelligence
this introduction to the nature of mind.
We’ve gotta get the groundwork done first
before we can really make those profound and lasting changes
that I have dreamed about in my life.
I was really frustrated, you know
because I had all of these ideas
and I had all of this energy to contribute
and I just saw time and time again
that I was repeating the same old mistakes
that were being repeated for thousands of years.
Mistakes in my own life, in relationships like
arguing with someone over something really petty
and not knowing how to stop myself in doing that.
You know, I thought “Wow, if I can really understand
why that is in myself to begin with
then maybe I can actually understand why it doesn’t work as a whole
in these large organizations
in this worldwide organization that we all are
this worldwide culture.”
And so, again, it starts with me, and how did it start with me?
This change came about through a standardized solution.
So, we’re not going to these extremes of just nothing or everything.
There’s really some kind of a powerful support network in place
to know ourselves exactly as we are with no ***.
There’s a powerful solution and support network in place
to know ourselves exactly as we are, and it’s really radical.
It’s really radical because it’s one practice.
It’s not all of these, “Interesting”, “Making things new every day
you gotta do this practice now
and then you’ve gotta change this about yourself and…”
You know, it’s repetitious, short moments many times, nothing else.
Try that out, this short moment, right now.
This is completely radical.
Never wavering from this message. Never wavering.
I tried to make my trainer waver from this message, you know
getting in on something else
“Maybe give me the special technique that you’re not telling me about”
Short moments.
“No way!
I’ve got such, my conversations, you know
my relationships, they’re so messy.
I yell at my partner or I’m angry at this person.
You know, my anger is really, really large.
Short moments, that’s not gonna do anything.”
Yes, short moments, right now.
Directly recognize the nature of your mind right now as clear and alert.
And here we are, perfect just as we are
whatever data is coming up.
Now that’s a great revolution that I’m signing up for.
That’s the greatest activism that I wanna be a part of.
So if we have all of these disgusting data streams
the data streams that tell us that we hate ourselves or other people
great, allow them to be as they are.
That’s the incredible solution.
To allow everything to be as it is.
Short moments of open intelligence, repeated many times
and be supported by a framework, the Four Mainstays
short moments, a trainer, a training
and a wonderful community, a powerful community.
Okay, things got a bit serious for a Sunday morning.
We should be talking about, I don’t know
bacon and eggs and sleeping in.
But it’s great.
We’re talking about anger, we’re talking about hate
we’re talking about love, we’re talking about shaking things up
being spontaneous, you know, being wildly spontaneous.
I want that in my life, being wildly spontaneous.
And I’ve totally found it in the incredible repetitious
and the incredible supportive
relentlessly supportive structure of the Four Mainstays.
You know, this is the incredibly comfortable place
for me to just explore life, just as it is.
Completely as it is like I’ve always wanted to do
but just never really knew how
I had all of this energy and just did not know where to direct it to.
And so we may find ourselves getting more energetic
getting more angry, wanting to do more things
getting more passionate, getting more desirous.
Great, really great. This is amazing.
Because what we’re supported to do is see this energy as the basic
incredible energy, the incredible dynamic energy of open intelligence.
Just simply that.
When we allow all of the descriptions to be as they are
we’re left here as a perfectly powerful,
incredibly clear and capable human being.
And this was just a really, the great way that I could find
that I could make those changes in my relationships
that I really, really wanted to
where I could trust myself again, basically.
I could really trust myself again
because I saw that I could actually allow everything to be as it is
and I need never be a victim to any thought that arises.
And we just don’t need to be a victim
to anything that comes up in our experience as well.
And we’re supported relentlessly to do that,
again and again and again.
If we find ourselves being a victim to those data streams again
and acting on them in ways that you don’t want to
what’s the next step?
Not to continue that, “Oh now I’m gonna be a victim about being a victim.”
Short moments, many times. It cuts the root of all of that.
Completely.
It gets right to the heart of the matter.