Everything and everyone, regardless of description, is the shining forth of beneficial potency. The distinction comes in whether that is recognized or not; that’s the only distinction. Many of us are trained from birth to not recognize; we’re trained in data reification. Usually we have a glimmer that something else might be the case, but we’re not really hearing that from anyone, and so we continue on because we like to belong with the common understanding, the ordinary and conventional understanding of what life is, what human life is.

1. Open
Intelligence’s
Beneficial
Potency
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5.11.13
(12
mins)
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Everything
and
everyone,
regardless
of
description,
is
the
shining
forth
of
beneficial
potency.
The
distinction
comes
in
whether
that
is
recognized
or
not;
that’s
the
only
distinction.
Many
of
us
are
trained
from
birth
to
not
recognize;
we’re
trained
in
data
reification.
Usually
we
have
a
glimmer
that
something
else
might
be
the
case,
but
we’re
not
really
hearing
that
from
anyone,
and
so
we
continue
on
because
we
like
to
belong
with
the
common
understanding,
the
ordinary
and
conventional
understanding
of
what
life
is,
what
human
life
is.
No
matter
how
much
we
have
practiced
data
reification—the
belief
that
data
have
an
independent
self-­‐created
nature
of
their
own—no
matter
how
much
we
have
come
to
believe
in
that,
no
matter
how
much
we
have
come
to
train
in
that
through
the
Four
Mainstays
of
data
reification
which
are
the
introduction
to
the
whole
conceptual
framework
that
data
have
an
independent
nature,
we
then
practice
that
in
short
moments
repeated
many
times.
We
have
many
trainers
in
data
reification—the
whole
community
of
human
beings.
And
then
maybe
we
have
some
special
trainers
as
well
who
have
special
ideas
about
data
reification
that
we
adopt.
We
read
and
write
and
listen
to,
hear
and
adopt
all
of
these
ideas
through
all
kinds
of
training
available
to
us.
One
of
the
hottest
these
days
would
be
cable
news
of
whatever
variety
anyone
may
like,
from
extreme
conservatism
to
flaming
liberalism
and

2. everything
in
between.
No
matter
how
much
and
no
matter
how
rigorously
we’ve
trained,
and
we
can
all
see
how
rigorous
that
training
is
in
our
own
experience,
because
it
is
the
very
essence
of
what
we
feel
to
be
suffering,
and
no
matter
how
much
we
have
trained
in
suffering,
we
are
always
looking
for
the
relief,
but
the
result
is
always
suffering.
No
matter
how
much
relief
any
kind
of
reification
may
give
us—the
thrill
of
a
wonderful
philosophy
or
whatever
it
is—no
matter
how
much
of
a
rush
we
might
get,
it
always
ends
in
suffering.
It
goes
away
and
we
have
no
way
to
maintain
what
we
know
to
be
true
in
the
instinctive
recognition
everyone
recognizes
from
birth.
Once
the
introduction
to
open
intelligence
takes
place,
in
a
true
transmission
of
what
open
intelligence
is
beyond
conceptual
frameworks,
once
that
introduction
takes
place,
then
there
is
the
confirmation,
the
nailing
down,
the
sealing
open
of
all
reified
ideas
in
open
intelligence.
And
then
moment-­‐
to
moment
we
just
go
about
acclimating
to
that,
acclimating
to
the
reality
of
what
we
are.
Finally,
what
we
are
has
been
completely
confirmed;
that
is
what
the
introduction
is,
it
is
a
complete
confirmation
of
reality,
a
complete
confirmation,
the
complete
confirmation
of
our
identity—primordially
pure
open
intelligence.
In
that
instant
it
is
sealed
open
forever,
beyond
any
kind
of
words
we
can
use
to
describe
it.
From
then
on,
any
training
is
merely
the
continuing
transmission
of
the
complete
confirmation.
Because
we’ve
been
relying
on
data
many
times
to
give
us
some
kind
of
intellectual
understanding
of
what
life
is
from
the
point
of
view
of
reification,
it
usually
requires
short
moments,
like
I
said,
of
acclimating,
simply

3. acclimating
to
the
reality
of
what
we
are
once
it
has
actually
been
introduced
in
an
authentic
way.
That
means
too
that
any
teachings
that
occur—prior
to,
during
and
after
that
introduction—any
teachings
never
veer
in
any
way
from
the
reality
of
that
introduction.
In
other
words
there
are
no
dualistic
concepts
that
are
interjected
anywhere.
All
of
what
the
training
is,
is
unerringly
completely
confirming
open
intelligence’s
primordial
purity
as
the
reality
of
all
identity,
of
all
data.
Any
kind
of
datum
we
might
think
of
to
verify
our
existence
as
a
human
being,
if
we
think,
“Oh
my
name
is
Sebastian,”
or
“Oh,
my
name
is
Mia,”
or
whatever
it
is,
we
rarely
have
any
kind
of
thoughts
like
that
where
we
are
honing
in
on
some
kind
of
self-­‐identity.
It’s
more
an
atmosphere,
a
condition,
that
is
easily
dispelled.
So,
the
introduction
dispels
that,
and
then
it’s
a
matter
of
adjusting
to
it.
“Okay,
this
is
my
identity.
I’m
saluting,
I’m
acknowledging
my
actual
identity:
open
intelligence’s
primordial
purity,
inseparable
from
beneficial
potency.
We’ve
been
corralling
all
of
our
qualities
and
activities
of
mind,
speech
and
body
around
data
reification.
“I
am
so
and
so.
I
am
Candice,
this
is
my
identity.
I
am
a
woman
or
a
girl,
and
I
am
the
daughter
of
so
and
so,
and
I
live
in
such
and
such
a
place,
and
when
I
grow
up
I’m
supposed
to
do
this,
that
and
the
other
thing,
and
when
I’m
a
little
girl
I’m
meant
to
do
such
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such.”
Well,
that
never
worked
for
me,
because
I
was
always
being
scolded
for
having
ideas
that
veered
completely
from
the
norm.
That
continues

4. to
be
the
case,
except
the
scolding
is
increasingly
public!
I’ve
had
a
lot
of
experience
with
being
scolded.
In
terms
of
potency,
once
the
introduction
takes
place
then
potency
is
obvious
immediately.
Immediate
benefit
takes
place
in
the
introduction,
and
so
we
no
longer
have
to
look
for
benefit.
This
is
very
important
to
recognize.
Immediate
benefit
takes
place
in
the
introduction,
and
so
we
have
a
direct
realization
of
beneficial
potency
in
that
moment.
We
have
a
direct
realization
of
open
intelligence’s
beneficial
potency
in
that
moment,
and
we
never
veer
from
that
from
then
on.
We
can
never
forget
the
introduction
to
open
intelligence.
Say,
we
are
introduced
to
open
intelligence
and
then
we
decide
that
we’re
not
going
to
practice
or
we’re
not
even
going
to
acknowledge
that
we
had
the
introduction.
Still
it
will
linger;
it
will
be
working,
and
at
the
moment
of
death
we
will
remember
the
introduction
to
open
intelligence;
we
won’t
be
able
to
avoid
it.
This
is
how
powerful
the
introduction
is,
the
true
introduction.
As
we
acknowledge
open
intelligence,
inseparable
from
its
beneficial
potency,
this
pervades.
Without
any
possibility
of
veering
from
the
pervasion,
it
pervades
everything
we
think
of
as
mind,
speech,
body,
qualities
and
activities.
We’ve
probably
become
accustomed
to
thinking
our
mind,
speech,
body
and
qualities
and
activities
are
within
the
skin-­‐line;
however,
the
more
we
acknowledge
open
intelligence
as
our
mind,
the
vastness
of
mind
becomes
incredibly
clear.
Just
like
the
vast
sky
is
clear
and
our
mind
is
no
longer
locked
inside
the
skin-­‐line.
Its
vastness
is
obvious;
from
that
our

5. speech
is
informed.
No
longer
are
we
locked
inside
the
skin-­‐suit.
We
see
that
the
power
of
our
mind
is
vast.
That
informs
our
speaking
our
thinking
our
writing,
all
forms
of
expression,
and
so
the
beneficial
potency
shines
forth
as
mind
and
as
speech.