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The importance of the Four Mainstays is that usually when we start out
for some people there’s immediate recognition
immediate instinctive recognition
but that is very rare, and even people with immediate instinctive recognition
are very benefitted and supported by trainings
that expand their idea of who they are
particularly in relation to their beneficial potencies.
And so starting out, to have the practice of short moments
to have the trainer, the training itself, the worldwide community
we have twenty-four hour live chat
with a certified trainer on our website
so people can always be in touch.
The Four Mainstays are an algorithm
and an algorithm always leads to a specific result.
An algorithm is a detailed explanation of something
that leads to a specific result, but there isn’t any one thing
within that algorithm that can be identified as the thing that led to the result.
So you know, an algorithm always leads to a specific result
detailed levels of explanation
that are used in information theory and computer science
to analyze problems and find solutions to them.
Until now, education in the nature of mind
has only been examined through levels of abstraction.
Levels of abstraction never lead to a result
they just lead to more levels of abstraction.
And they are intellectual, so we can read great philosophers or writings
and we see the truth written therein
but there’s no road map, there’s no comprehensive map
we can touch in for a moment, we can see that that’s true about ourselves
but we really don’t have a support system
an educational system built into society
for the most important education there is.
This is the first and foremost of all education.
If we don’t have this education, we won’t be able to make sense of anything else we learn.
By getting to know ourselves as open intelligence
everything we already know is expanded greatly and inexhaustibly
and we’re able to see things we never thought possible
we’re able to do things we never dreamt imaginable
and we are not limited or restricted in any way
this is what we see through the Four Mainstays lifestyle.
It is a lifestyle of community, of full-on community,
just like we can see all the people in Sweden
there are countless individuals coming in through Google Hangout
we have all the people here in Boulder
a worldwide community, a worldwide movement
based on the actual identity of what a human being is
grassroots movement, it’s where we as a human society
take control, we take authority for who we are.
We no longer rely on the authority of authorities and institutions
and we look at ourselves and see who we are,
and we all speak out about that: who we are.
And because open intelligence is inexhaustible
together, within the Four Mainstays, we enjoy this exploration
of a new frontier, an inexhaustible new frontier,
we enjoy this exploration together
with a common terminology where we can all talk about it and enjoy it.
When we rely on open intelligence and our sense ourselves really expands
then we become very spontaneous
and so our responses to time, place and circumstance
become spontaneous rather than contrived.
You know like the long process of making a decision
“Oh, is this the right decision?”
And then it’s made and then, “Oh, was that the right decision?”
All of that is subverted.
And so by the power of open intelligence
skillful means are immediately, spontaneously available
according to time, place and circumstance.
And because each time, place and circumstance is unique
the skillful means for that time, place and circumstance will be unique.
There’s no rulebook of how to handle this or how to handle that
it’s all within the expansive knowledge of open intelligence, our own open intelligence,
the skillful means to be entirely beneficial
to be potently beneficial, to not hold back at all.
And I was talking with a woman last night and she said
“Well, I have all these friends, and all they want to do is talk about data
and all the problems and negativity, and this, that and the other thing”
and she said, “I really don’t know what to do.
I don’t want to really hang out with these people any more.”
And we choose our lifestyle; we choose the lifestyle we want to live.
Balanced View is a lifestyle for all the world’s people,
it’s a common lifestyle for all the world’s people,
it’s a powerful movement changing the world
changing the very way that human beings think about themselves
giving human beings the power they are endowed with.
And allowing... we decide for ourselves who we are
rather than relying on all these ideas
made up by certain individuals that we never even knew
and we might even know just a little bit about what they wrote.
Instead, we rely on our own direct experience
of open intelligence, within the Four Mainstays
and this allows us.... everything we need.
This is the algorithm, the algorithm with a 100% guarantee.
One of the things we’re trained in, is restraint and holding back.
So all these things we try to do to our data
to indulge them, avoid them or replace them
these are modes of restraint, restraining our natural beneficial potency
and our devotion to the benefit of all.
And when we rely on open intelligence we let go of restraints
and we experience total release from restraint, automatically it kicks in
we don’t have to learn that we have beneficial potency:
in the moment of recognition of open intelligence
that is beneficial potency. What could be more potently beneficial
than the recognition of open intelligence in that moment?
So this is where we see from the very beginning
that we are endowed with the skillful means of beneficial potency.
We give this great gift to ourselves
and then we can share it with everyone.