Becoming Genius 0: Introduction
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This video is about how to learn skillfully: the science of study. If you duplicate and apply these methods in your study of Skillful Living, you will get much more out of the materials. Most schooling deliberately teaches you the wrong way to learn. First, you should not approach a subject because someone else is making you study it. You should approach it because you want to learn it and put it into practical use in your life. In other words, you should learn to acquire skills. The first necessary skill in the art of Skillful Living is how to learn skillfully.
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Becoming Genius 0: Introduction
- 1. Becoming Genius 0: Introduction — The Esoteric Teaching — dharmasar@gmail.com
- 2. Being and Becoming What most people think: Having Doing Thinking Knowing Being How it really is: Being Knowing Thinking Doing Having Becoming is the process of changing your Being. How important is Being in learning and life in general? Being is senior to everything else. Change your Being, change your life.
- 3. The dictionary defines Becoming as follows: Become: verb Begin to be; grow to be; turn into; (of a person) qualify or be accepted as; acquire the status of:‘she wanted to become a doctor’. What is Becoming? The Buddha defines Becoming as follows: “Kamma is the field, consciousness the seed, craving the moisture.The consciousness of living beings ... is tuned to a refined property.Thus there is the production of renewed becoming in the future.This is how there is becoming.” — Bhava Sutta (AN 3.76)
- 4. Genius: noun—Exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability.A person who is exceptionally intelligent or creative, either generally or in some particular respect: ‘a musical genius’. What is Genius? Now we can define Becoming Genius as follows: Becoming Genius utilizes concepts derived from the teaching of the Buddha and other spiritual disciplines, as well as advanced concepts in science, education, ontology, semantics, software and systems theory, to master any subject so thoroughly that it results in a permanent change in Being, so that whatever you master becomes your spontaneous, natural self-expression.
- 5. Mastery is far more than mere mechanical or technical proficiency.When you master something it becomes your being—who you are, your natural self-expression—not something you merely know about. Whatever you master becomes effortless to use; you don’t need to remember and apply it. It becomes your spontaneous natural self-expression—without thinking or calculation. This level of mastery comes from our unique ontological model and experiential methodology.The model of being and becoming used in our courses is derived from the Buddha’s theory of Dependent Origination (paticca-samuppada). The Meaning of Mastery
- 6. Becoming Genius will not be easy, because we will critically question your habitual ways of learning and point out what is holding you back.You need full participation to get the promise of Becoming Genius: you have to make it part of your experience. We offer a radically different approach to Learning.To get the full value of this, you must discover for yourself the experience of what we present.This experiential method is designed to provoke you to transform yourself into the genius you potentially can be. Experiential learning is not merely knowing about a subject, but transforming your being into a Master of the subject: a Genius. Experiential Learning
- 7. Dependent Origination 1st & 2nd Noble Truths: Suffering & its Origin Ignoranc Suffering Fabricatio Consciousne Name & Contact Feelings Craving Clinging Six Becoming Birth Aging & Nibbana Convictio Cessation Release Dispassio Dhamma Samadhi Pleasure Serenity Disenchantm Rapture Contentme Unbinding 3rd & 4th Noble Truths: Cessation of Suffering & Noble 8-fold Path
- 8. What is Becoming? Becoming: Dependent Origination Ignoranc Suffering Fabricatio Consciousne Name & Contact Feelings Craving Clinging Six Becoming Birth Aging & Nibbana Convictio Cessation Release Dispassio Dhamma Samadhi Pleasure Serenity Disenchantm Rapture Contentme Unbinding
- 9. What is Becoming? Fabricatio Consciousne Name & Contact Feelings Craving Clinging Six Senses Becoming Birth For applications like Learning and Leadership, we are especially interested in this part of Dependent Origination.We can call this The Process of Becoming. For the purpose of investigating Learning as a process of Becoming, we will divide the stages a little differently.
- 10. •Duplication: Making an exact copy of the source •Understanding: Systems thinking through logic •Analysis: Contemplation of abstract relationships •Metacognition: Realization of new state of being Four Stages of Becoming Genius For any given subject:
- 11. •Duplication: Mental level (words & symbols) •Understanding: Intellectual level (modeling) •Analysis: Ontological level (meaning) •Metacognition: Ontic level (being & action) Four Stages of Becoming Genius For any given subject:
- 12. Becoming skillful is a cycle with three stages: • Practicing: causing something to arise or to happen. • Increasing: developing it by repetition. • Investigating: observing and reflecting upon the practice. Investigating is by far the most important stage of developing skillfulness. It means observing one’s experience, taking it to heart and reflecting on it wisely until you understand and perceive clearly all the phenomena involved in each step of the practice. Becoming Skillful
- 13. The process of becoming skillful should especially be applied to foundational knowledge. Skillful Living provides foundational knowledge of human life and beingness, as well as techniques for developing that knowledge to a high degree of skillfulness. Foundational knowledge is defined as follows: •It aims at the extinction of the suffering, unsatisfactoriness and imperfection of every experience or state of being in the world. •It has an intrinsic truth that you can see and experience for yourself without having to rely on authority, tradition, logic, philosophy, hearsay and rumor, common sense, preconceived ideas, the social status of the presenter or because you consider yourself a student of the presenter. What is Skillful Living?