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Open intelligence, opening intelligence, will outshine all these trained, limited definitions
we have about ourselves and other data,
like the sun is outshining the planets and stars during the day.
That’s how natural it is, nothing complicated.
So we do that through the short moments,
through our own instinctive experience of how every data,
no matter if it’s positive, negative or neutral for us,
will self-release when we simply allow it to be as it is.
And that way, we, in us, we know that there is no separation,
that data: all our thoughts, emotions,
everything we have as memories, all our fears, all our hopes,
everything, is pure intelligence. It's not reified.
It doesn’t have a substance, and it can’t harm us.
And all data are okay. All data are absolutely okay as they are.
You don’t need to change any of them. That takes some time to really believe in.
You can hear that, and hear that, and hear that, and still we come up with things like,
“But, I think other people are like this and I am that, is that okay?”
And some people like to be more alone than others, I like to spend a lot of time alone.
And it’s completely fine. So we can completely stop to compare ourselves with others.
And the truth is that many times it’s just our data about what we think how other people are,
and more and more allow ourselves to fully, completely, be real,
to be as we are, allow our data,
and more and more, when we do so, the data is not anymore our main identification,
so it loosens up.
So, we are not anymore limited to be this person that likes to be alone
or is feeling separated, or whatever.
More and more we re-identify ourselves as this stable open space that we name “open intelligence”,
that is indivisible from everybody and everything, inexhaustible, beneficial power.
And then, it becomes easier and easier to allow our data to be as they are,
because we know, instinctively know, that that is not what we are,
and we know that they are appearing like holograms in space
and don’t have a substance by themselves.
So nothing in our data needs to change. For me, that was such a relief.
Also, to know that, no matter what have been so far in my life,
you know, different experiences, painful or pleasant, whatever,
nothing has made anything to my basic nature.
So, I never made wrong, nobody else ever made wrong
in that way that anything has changed my birthright
to live my full potential, to have this stability, to have this experience of myself
as inexhaustible beneficial power, and to know my true nature.
For me one of the most painful things when I was growing up
was to feel different, to feel separated,
to have fear for how people are acting towards each other,
harming each other; not even wanting to be a human,
and that is completely resolved. I’m so grateful now, to have this opportunity.
And data is not anymore enemies,
in fact, data are the only, really, only place where we can,
or where we can recognize the treasure that we are.
So that’s really a shift and it’s so beautiful: this gathering,
I’ve heard it several times from you, how you’re not anymore afraid of afflictive states,
even sometimes looking forward to them. And this is still so new,
and that’s a big shift in just a couple of years, to have so many people together that can say that
and laugh about it, and know that it's true,
to not anymore have to escape, or want to change, avoid, replace the data that are appearing,
and to share that together, that experience. And to be able to support each other in that,
inspire each other, and to share the Four Mainstays lifestyle together.
Wow! It's really wow. Just to be here already
and to know that it just will increase.
And when we have somebody, like in your question about the Grandma, that we know
it’s no use to try to convince her to believe in open intelligence: you can demonstrate that.
So that’s the beauty, no matter what situation we are in and no matter what data we have
and if it is people that are relying on open intelligence or not,
we have the choice that we can relax and allow our data in that situation,
and then it doesn’t matter really if you are silently listening
or talking small talk. You will know in that situation spontaneously what to do.
But that’s not the important matter.
The important and really magic opportunity is that when you allow your data in that situation,
can be irritation, can be whatever; and tap into your stability and peace,
there will be only love, love for yourself, love for her, no separation.
And that’s the biggest gift we can give also to our surroundings:
to give others that they are okay as they are, that everything is well.
And, about this with resting and being in the Balanced View
and start to try out drugs and drinking,
I mean, it’s not what we recommend. What we recommend is to really test it out:
to take short moments with all desires, to blow them open,
to see that in each data, in each datum,
and in everything that we do, the basic force and fuel is the wish to be of benefit.
And if we don’t test that out, we don’t know. It’s so simple, we have to test it out.
And then we can make any choices in life:
how to live, what to do, what to eat and drink, and what to be,
how to act. But we can do it from stability,
and not as victims of our data, where we just follow impulses.
So that is what I would recommend, for sure.