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Each short moment of open intelligence is a building block of wisdom.
You can see in yourself that with each short moment
There is such a force of immediate benefit in that
there is so much benefit in that
and it is a benefit that extends beyond that moment.
Say, you’re jealous
all of a sudden you’re inflamed with jealousy about something and you decide
“Well
short moments, that’s what it’s going to be.
It’s not going to be any other action.”
So, the short moment comes about.
Just that short moment
can
do everything, from give relief in that particular moment
to completely end jealousy forever in your life.
One short moment
say related to jealousy
might not stop the jealousy
but it could end some kind of memory that’s been haunting you
for all of your life—some kind of memory you can’t get rid of.
It just keeps coming up again and again, a bad memory.
And this is just the way open intelligence is
it’s the way it works and it’s the way wisdom works.
But with each of these moments there’s an enormous expansion of wisdom
and an enormous expansion of benefit
because all of that energy and attention is released from reifying
whatever is going on
and it’s all opened up into beneficial energy.
You feel better, you look better.
You want to live.
and you really, really get a sense that you can help the world
not just yourself.
Feeling the power of benefit within yourself
ensures that you see
the power of benefit in others.
If you can see it in yourself, then you know it exists in others.