The document discusses the concept of open intelligence as a comprehensive intelligence that transcends conventional understanding, encouraging individuals to rely on brief moments of open awareness instead of solely on data. It emphasizes the inexhaustible benefits of embracing open intelligence in our lives, leading to wisdom, prosperity, and altruism. Ultimately, it calls for a collective shift towards utilizing open intelligence for personal and societal benefit, moving beyond the constraints of data-focused thinking.

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We as human beings have entered the
inexhaustible Era of Great Benefit. Our role
in this era is as the creators of open-ended
knowledge and of benefit. This is a lifestyle
based on creating wisdom and wealth—an
all-abundant life of benefit.
This naturally occurring wisdom and wealth
come about by acknowledging open
intelligence for short moments. Every single
moment is more and more powerful, and there
is never an end to the stream of benefit,
prosperity and generosity. Every single
moment is more enlivened, more filled with
liveliness and the potency of open
intelligence. There is the feeling that it can’t
get any better than this—but then it always
does get better! That is the life that open
intelligence presents to us in the Era of Great
Benefit.
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We are gathered here to talk about our
intelligence, our very own intelligence—the
powers of benefit that course through our mind,
our speech, our body, our qualities and activities.
We are trained throughout our lives to try to
accumulate as many data (thoughts, emotions,
sensations and other experiences) as possible and
to structure ourselves into a closed system of a
perfect person with the perfect data. We may have
controlled, avoided, become attached to or reacted
to people, places, things and circumstances in an
attempt to find success, stability and happiness.
No matter what we did, we may not have found
the relief that was sought. We may have found
that emphasizing our data provides only
temporary relief and never provides a permanent
solution. Now we see that it is possible to gain
open intelligence assurance and to rely on its
inherent wisdom, love and happiness, rather than
relying on data.
What is a short moment of open intelligence? It is
powerful open intelligence, regardless of
circumstances. To introduce open intelligence
very directly, stop thinking—just for a moment.
What remains? A sense of alertness and open
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7. intelligence remains—powerful open intelligence
and alertness that is open like a cloudless sky.
Whenever you seem to forget what open
intelligence is, it will be easy for you to specify it,
until it becomes obvious and primary all the time.
The next statement is a very crucial key point: The
state of having no thoughts is fueled by open
intelligence, and thoughts are fueled by open
intelligence, too. Open intelligence is in no
thoughts as well as in thoughts. Open intelligence
is a more comprehensive type of intelligence; it
contains both thoughts and no thoughts. By
relying on open intelligence for short moments,
we are trained up to use open intelligence as our
basis, rather than to rely only on thinking or not
thinking. Relying on open intelligence opens up a
wide and balanced perspective within human
intelligence.
Just as a rainbow appears within space, all
cognitive, sensory and emotional events—
thoughts, emotions, sensations and other
experiences—appear within alert open
intelligence. Just as space and a rainbow are
inseparable, thoughts, emotions, sensations and
other experiences are inseparable from open
intelligence.
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Open intelligence is the most comprehensive level
of intelligence and of reality, and open
intelligence aligns us with fundamental reality.
Everything about a human is based in this open
intelligence reality itself. Our own intelligence has
open intelligence as its foundation, and this open
intelligence supersedes with a new intelligence
the kind of intelligence we are currently utilizing.
Every single area of human knowledge is exalted
by open intelligence. We’re able to see things that
have never been done before but which can be
done, and we’re able to know what has never been
known before. It is so self-affirming when we see
these things actually happening in ourselves.
Open intelligence is the platform of reality and of
the entire universe and of everything we see and
don’t see. “Data” is a term that includes everyone
and everything—everything that everyone knows,
thinks, does, feels, senses and experiences. Data
are the dynamic energy of open intelligence.
Using the term “data” to include everything and
everyone makes it easier to understand how very
great complexity comes out of great simplicity.
Emphasizing data, while forgetting open
intelligence, distracts us from open intelligence.
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8. When we do this, we feel we must control the
kinds of data streams we have, and we spend
much of our time trying to do so. This process is
often stressful and confusing. It is always this
emphasis on data that keeps us from relying on
open intelligence.
Because of the habit of emphasizing data, the
initial brief moments of open intelligence may not
last long at first. In other words, there may be no
real continuity. Open intelligence may almost
immediately slip away. That is why we rely on
short moments, repeated many times, until it
becomes automatic. Rather than practicing open
intelligence for long periods once or twice per
day, it is better to enjoy spontaneous open
intelligence for short moments throughout the
day, repeated again and again.
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Open intelligence is reality itself and the
knowledge that corresponds to that reality.
Exposure to open intelligence results in the
obviousness of it as the fundamental basis of our
own intelligence. Exposure to open intelligence is
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inseparable from open intelligence and benefit.
The inexhaustible totality of data constitutes an
open source intelligence, an expanse of the most
comprehensive order of intelligence indivisible
from spontaneous altruism. All data are the single
expanse of open intelligence, vast and unending.
Open source intelligence is naturally and vitally
present, with data shining forth as its own
dynamic energy, just as the sun shines forth
sunlight.
Anyone who takes a natural liking to open
intelligence and undertakes its practice will obtain
the most comprehensive order of intelligence,
coupled with its inseparable companion—
spontaneous altruism. Mind, speech, body,
qualities and activities are pervaded by the ways
and means of these indestructible spontaneously
present attributes.
“Clarity,” “the view” and “open intelligence” are
synonymous. They are simple ways of talking
about who we are and how we can empower
ourselves so that we don’t live in the old ways
handed down to us that are based on
misinformation and pseudo-information.
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9. Relying on open intelligence and its powers of
great benefit through the Four Mainstays is only
the beginning of connection with fundamental
reality, which is by nature beneficial. Thus the
Four Mainstays lead, ultimately, to inexhaustible
benefit.
In Balanced View we have a worldwide
movement where people can learn about the
power of open intelligence—the power of their
own open intelligence to inform their mind, their
speech, their body, their qualities and activities
and that the way and means of doing that is very,
very simple. The direct user interface is simply to
rest deeply in those powers of great benefit, to
rely on short moments of open intelligence,
repeated many times, until it becomes automatic,
and to rely on the other of the Four Mainstays: the
trainers, the training media and the community
members of the worldwide movement.
These Four Mainstays can really support us and
all of humankind too. They are very simple and
very straightforward—allowing human beings to
be empowered; allowing human beings to be
exalted like we really are; allowing us to use the
incredible intelligence we actually have, rather
than continuing to demean ourselves with all
kinds of semantic descriptors that do not apply to
what a human really is.
Balanced View is basically the empowerment of
all of human society with open intelligence
power. This requires specialized training,
intelligence and perseverance as well as a
profound connection with a potent trainer,
community and training media through the Four
Mainstays. The sum of this potent set of
instruction in the Four Mainstays creates the
opportunity to relax into the power of open
intelligence and its beneficial qualities and
activities.
The Balanced View training reports astonishing
results from people who have adopted open
intelligence. Through two scientific studies called
the “Satisfaction with Life Scale” and the
“Flourishing Scale,” our research team has found
that the Balanced View training is the model to
achieve life satisfaction and flourishing, clarity,
complete mental and emotional stability, profound
insight into the nature of existence, increased
intelligence, spontaneous altruism, morality and
ethics, superb skillfulness and consistent power to
fulfill creative intent of benefit to all.
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Open intelligence is instinctive intelligence, a
comprehensive order of intelligence far beyond—
many orders of magnitude greater than—the
intelligence that most human beings use today. It
is the built-in ease of everything as it is. Open
intelligence is the most basic kind of knowing
possible. It informs all knowledge whatsoever. It
simply means the most fundamental knowing
possible.
Human intelligence is an open intelligence. It isn’t
a closed system of individuals; it’s an open
networked intelligence of a collective. We see this
open intelligence as expansive and direct in our
own experience. It is a decisive experience that
we have of this open intelligence. If we stop and
think about it for even a minute, we see that the
power of this intelligence is inexhaustible; in its
openness it is entirely inexhaustible. We go from
thinking about ourselves as an individual with an
intelligence locked within an individual skin line,
and we open up to embrace an open intelligence
in which everything is interactive, interoperable,
portable and scalable.
We live in a very interesting era. We live in an era
of profound scientific and technological
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advancement. This scientific and technological
advancement is very much related to the
philosophy of the mind and the body and the way
that those relate to information and to the
informational systems we are building. As we
build these informational systems, what we find is
that we are actually an open intelligence.
These are enormous advances in human
comprehension and understanding, and it’s really
important for us to pay attention to what’s
happening and to use it for our own benefit and
the benefit of all. To be worthwhile, intelligence
must be committed to the benefit of all; otherwise,
it’s just intelligence for the sake of intelligence,
and it can go awry in many different ways.
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The creation of innovative knowledge—new
knowledge creation, open-ended knowledge
creation and open-ended benefit creation—is
located at the coincidence of open intelligence and
data.
Generally we sort all the information that is
shining forth within our vast open intelligence
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11. into positive, negative or neutral data, and then
with that data we decide to do one of four things:
one, we can indulge the information, whatever it
is; two, we can avoid it; three, we can replace it,
or four, data are clarified in and by open
intelligence, and open up as the power of great
benefit. As a datum appears, its instinctive open
intelligence is allowed to be spontaneously
obvious, empowering its benefit and placing its
reified aspects in perspective. Data vanish
naturally, without a trace, just as one part of clear
sky seamlessly and indivisibly blends with all of
sky. The sky is inseparable. Similarly, data cannot
be found to have an independent nature, power or
influence, like sky in sky. Open intelligence is
continuous. Assurance in open intelligence dawns
bright, like sunlight filling sky. There is direct
crossing from data intelligence to vast open
intelligence and its splendid array of spontaneous
beneficial qualities and activities of mind, speech
and body at all times.
We rely on the power of great benefit in short
moments of open intelligence to allow things to
open up and see everything as it is—to open up
data and to see what’s really there. What we find
is that we don’t find anything! When we leave the
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data point as it is, it opens up, and we find that it
doesn’t have a nature independent of open
intelligence.
Again, our profound natural human intelligence is
at the coincidence of open intelligence and data.
Here we find something very, very interesting.
We find that it is in the inseparability of open
intelligence and data that there is open-ended
knowledge creation and open-ended benefit
creation. This is where we find it. We have
basically spent our entire life focused on the data,
and now what we want to be predominant in our
space of intelligence is the openness of the
intelligence itself.
Its obvious presence is what we want to be
running. We want to be running its indivisible
power and its interoperability. In order to do that
we need to use the means at our disposal: to no
longer focus on the data, and instead to allow the
open intelligence—the view—to flourish within
the data. When we allow ourselves to flourish
through a short moment, then we can’t help but
continue to rest naturally, potently and
powerfully.
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12. We realize that we are not a closed system; we
realize that human intelligence is an everexpanding intelligence, an inexhaustible
expansive intelligent entity within a vast open
intelligence. Within that vast open intelligence,
everything is filled with data of all kinds—
whatever kind you could imagine and whatever
kind of information it could be formed into.
Everything is comprised of data, and whether the
data are junky or noisy or whether they are really
incredible and wonderful, they have truth-value.
They have truth-value because they exist in, of, as
and through open intelligence.
We begin to move away from ideas where we
think truth-value is dependent upon selecting
certain positive data. We no longer think that
those positive data alone will have truth-value.
We see that all data have truth-value and that the
arrival of real truth and real knowledge isn’t only
in positive data.
We have to find out—in our own direct
experience—about our power to be of benefit.
Just like many people have found that out for
themselves, in your own experience you have to
see how there is a simple structure that can be
looked at in order to very directly understand the
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nature of your own reality and how powerfully
beneficial you truly are.
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When we feel instinctive truth in our hearts, when
we really feel instinctive truth in our hearts, then
we know we are in the right spot in relation to
ourselves. Each one of us has to live our human
life; no one else is going to do it for us. How do
we do that? We do it one day at a time: ODAT.
That’s the acronym. “One day at a time.” ODAT.
or, “one moment at a time”: OMAT. ODAT and
OMAT—that’s easy to remember, isn’t it?
The spontaneous self-release of the here-and-now
is guaranteed: a 100% guarantee, one moment at a
time. OMAT, OMAT, OMAT, OMAT. There is
no way to grab OMAT or nail it down. OMAT
can’t be made into a thing; it is here and gone,
never to be duplicated again.
An example of how OMAT works is when we
have physical pain. There are all kinds of things
we could do to deal with the pain, but among the
many possibilities we have are our OMAT and
ODAT. So, within the context of OMAT we are
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13. going to deal with this physical pain one moment
at a time. If we spend all day focusing on our
physical pain and thinking about all the data
associated with our physical pain, then by the end
of the day we’d also have psychological pain. We
would feel pretty depressed about this physical
pain, because we would have thought about all the
different things the physical pain could be, from
cancer that’s going to kill us within a month to a
disability that will keep us from doing something
we want to do.
It’s important with these powerful data to let them
be as they are. By focusing on all the data, we
confirm their power. We can’t really understand
the data stream or any kind of response that we
might need to take to it without open intelligence.
There is no practical reason whatsoever in terms
of logic and reason to pay attention to the flow of
data. The only good information you want is
going to come from open intelligence. So, open
intelligence is what you want to rely on within
yourself.
Press the open-intelligence button again and
again, and it will become automatic. Pressing the
data button again and again throughout our lives,
all the data-referencing had become automatic,
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button—boom!—open intelligence becomes
automatic at all times. OMAT, ODAT!
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Soothingly we rest in the power of very great
benefit. This great benefit is what a human really
is, and this is what a human really does.
Through short moments we retrain our mental and
emotional capacity to encompass the life with
open intelligence; we completely encompass
everything we think about ourselves—including
the physical—with the view of open intelligence.
You and every other human being house the
intelligence of the universe in a usable way at this
coincidence of open intelligence and of data. You
as a human being are the only intelligent entity
that we know of who has this power of housing
within it the knowledge of the universe in a usable
way. When you allow everything to be as it is and
you allow open intelligence to be as it is—
allowing the open intelligence to be predominant
simultaneously within the data rather than
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14. continuously focusing on the data—the data open
up into new knowledge creation.
We are able to think outside the box. Due to the
openness of our open intelligence we are able to
look into any data set and see all kinds of things
about it that no one else would ever see. Say
you’re working on an engineering problem, and
you’ve always looked at this engineering problem
in a certain way, just as it’s been looked at by
everyone else. By relying on open intelligence
you can look at exactly the same problem, and
you can see all kinds of parallels to the problem in
other fields of knowledge that open up the
engineering problem into a solution that no one
has ever thought of.
When we are introduced to open intelligence, we
are introduced for the first time to spontaneous
altruism. Spontaneous altruism means that
inseparable from open intelligence is the passion
for the welfare of everyone, no matter who that
might be. It doesn’t mean thinking about it or
trying to feel that way or trying to do it once in a
while, but actually having that embedded in every
single thought, emotion, sensation and experience.
The welfare of all is predominant; it is
pronounced, it is never not there, never not
available.
This is quite different from cultivated compassion.
Cultivated compassion can be taken away at any
time, because it is only a neutralization of data.
The outshining of data turns on spontaneous
compassion and altruism that are always on.
When that is our stance, we see a lot of happy
faces, including our own! We find that we are by
nature spontaneously altruistic. Altruism is a word
that basically means caring about the welfare of
others, and caring about the welfare of others
means us too. We are not excluding ourselves.
Spontaneous altruism means that in open
intelligence, naturally spontaneous altruism is the
natural and inseparable companion of open
intelligence.
As our intelligence opens up, we feel more and
more spontaneously altruistic. In a natural way,
we care more. We love more. We are capable of
tremendous intimacy that has never been known
before within human society. There is a childlike
excitement every day, an excitement, energy and
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In all of human society there is the emergence of
open intelligence as the basis of society—open
intelligence that’s pervasive, where no one is
separate. The sense that nothing and no one is a
stranger is true cognition of unity. It’s not some
mental state or an idea. It is the beating heart of
open intelligence itself—openhearted open
intelligence. Truly, no one is a stranger; this is just
the way it is.
What’s happening right now is an explosion from
within, an organic emergence from within, such
that we are able to see the world in which we live
in a new way. We look up at the sky and we see
that we can relate our intelligence more to the
vastness of the sky and the vast expanse of space.
Our intelligence is like that; it’s not shut down in
a closed system. It’s expansive. It’s an open
system forever, and it always has been.
We are going through a shift—and I cannot
emphasize this enough—where living in open
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intelligence is how human society will live in the
future. Some are living this way now, but in the
future everyone will live this way. This is
absolutely coming about, and it has begun.
Through a number of means, it is going to come
about. What that means is that everyone living, no
matter who they are, will be living from
spontaneous altruism; that will be the basis of
their life.
Living from spontaneous altruism means that we
have opened our intelligence to the degree that we
can do many things that we’ve never been able to
do before, like providing food, shelter, clothing,
education and health care for everyone—
everything that is needed. In fact, to resolve all
problems of health care completely, for everyone
to have a strong physical body and everyone to
have complete mental and emotional stability—all
of this is available to everyone right now through
the power of open intelligence, and open
intelligence will make this possible for more and
more people. This is very important to know.
We started mis-describing ourselves a long time
ago, but now that has stopped, and it will never go
back to the old way. We might as well go with the
new program, because it’s not going back to the
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and benefit value which is self-affirming. This is
what human beings want, and this is what human
beings know themselves to be.
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What I get to see year after year in country after
country is that people are changing completely. I
see people change from needing to search, first of
all. They stop the search about how to do
something with their data stream, and they let the
data be as they are. The searching stops
completely, and when the searching stops, all the
power that was used on the searching becomes
spontaneous altruism. All the power that was
formerly directed towards being hard on yourself
and telling yourself you weren’t doing it the right
way is used for spontaneous altruism.
“Spontaneous” means that you don’t have to try to
do it; it simply is as it is.
This is very important. It is what you can count on
without fail. I can tell you this: wherever you go,
there you are. So, wherever you find yourself to
be, the power of great benefit is there with you.
This is you. Every cell in your body is vibrating
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with the power of great benefit. Any energy
sensations you feel in your body are the dynamic
energy of open intelligence, and there is no sense
in calling it anything else. Even if it may have
other aspects that you need to look into, you want
to look into it from open intelligence. You might
as well start from looking at the situation from
open intelligence, rather than from the definition
of some measly datum.
All of the data, no matter what they are, are superintelligent from the beginning. Whatever the
momentary event is, it is best left as an emanation
of open intelligence. Whatever the data are, they
are best left as an emanation of open intelligence.
From that vantage you have a comprehensive
view of all data. You can look at the data with
absolute distinctness, because you are not caught
up in them. You’re looking at them from the
comprehensive view.
There is no fear anywhere about what will be
found within any datum. Thus, we are able to see
all kinds of new things about the way the world
works and the way it fits together. We are able to
see new and better ways of innovating and being
spontaneously altruistic.
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17. This brilliant open intelligence we have is very,
very powerful—the guardian potency for the
entire multiverse.
This is a remarkable intelligence, an
inconceivable intelligence, and it’s our very own
intelligence. We house the knowledge of the
universe in a usable way: all the knowledge of the
universe—past, present and future—is within us.
We already have within our own intelligence an
exact explanatory model of all the workings of all
knowledge that has ever existed, is existing now
or will exist in the future. That is what we have—
an exact model of the intelligence of the universe
in our own intelligence. If we’re spending our
time searching, we’ll never see all of the
incredible insights that are available to us from
housing the intelligence of the universe in a
usable way.
Obviousness is one of the pervasive aspects of
open intelligence. It is obvious at all times,
spontaneously and obviously present at all times.
Open intelligence is not a place we are trying to
get to or a destination to be achieved. Open
intelligence—the great clarity expanse—is
completely inexhaustible. That means it will never
end. It doesn’t have a traceable beginning, and it
doesn’t have a traceable end.
When we instinctively recognize this obvious
presence of open intelligence, it’s our own
intelligence that is recognizing that. It isn’t some
other intelligence we are recognizing, like
something out there away from us that’s doing it.
We are recognizing with our own intelligence;
open intelligence is recognizing itself. It is
making the claim, “This is who I am. I am
instantiated in this person right here.”
This is the way it is: there are seven billion people
or more in the world, and open intelligence is
instantiated as every one of them. If this is what
we learn about ourselves—instantiated open
intelligence in every human body, spontaneously
altruistic by nature—then, wow, what kind of
human society will we have based on that?
We are at an incredible transition. Every single
moment of human life today is completely
different from what has gone before, and we will
never revisit that past again. More and more we
will live in the spontaneity of the here-and-now.
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actual intelligence of this open, sprawling,
dynamic, vast expanse of intelligence.
In this Era of Great Benefit, the individual person
is an indestructible vehicle of this altruistic
intelligence—an indestructible commando-vehicle
living as that every single day. What’s happened
here is that we as human beings have launched an
inexhaustible Era of Great Benefit. That is quite
an accomplishment. We didn’t need any big fundraising schemes or organizations or anything like
that. Just from within human society at the
grassroots, all over the world we decided that we
were going to look at ourselves in a much
different way—a reality-based way, based on
what we are learning about the world we live in.
There is a quantum leap in the way we look at
ourselves. We go from looking at ourselves as an
individual and as a bunch of data to 24/7
instinctive recognition of open intelligence, where
that is predominant at all times. That is really easy
to do through the opening up of the obvious
presence of open intelligence itself. It’s not a great
struggle or hurdle at all. It’s so obvious; it
couldn’t be difficult or challenging. Regardless of
your willingness to cooperate, it’s always going to
be obviously present anyway, although it may not
be directly usable if it’s ignored.
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You can live whatever kind of lifestyle you
want—from living a 100% open intelligence
lifestyle to living a 100% data-based lifestyle; but
these are two completely different types of
intelligence. It’s up to you what you will choose.
Of course we absolutely want to do the best we
can for ourselves and for everyone else. It’s just
like if you have a laptop, and one is really old and
clunky and barely works, but the other one is a
new laptop with an enormous monitor and all the
kinds of equipment you could possibly want. Both
are at your disposal, so which one would you
choose? This is a way to bring it down to practical
terms.
If you were to find out that you had a tremendous
new skill that you never knew you had, it would
be up to you whether you used it or not. For
example, maybe you didn’t do that well in school,
but then you found out that you had an IQ of 180,
and you said, “Wow! I had no idea I’m so smart!”
This brings some new challenges. You have to

19. decide whether you will do something with it,
then once you do, you have to decide what you
will do with this power that you didn’t know you
had.
By committing to open intelligence, your life will
be altogether different than it would be otherwise.
Your life will be of a different quality in ways that
count. Those quality ways that count are that you
will live a life of benefit to yourself and others;
you will have a natural, cheerful disposition, and
you will have a deep connection with other human
beings of friendship and unity. It is not just with
other human beings, but with anyone or any
creature that might exist anywhere. It’s a natural
affection for everyone and everything.
When we focus on the data, all we get are data
and an intelligence related to data. The life of
focusing on data is very self-focused; it’s all about
me and mine, my problems, this, that and the
other thing. However, when we rely on open
intelligence, our primary identity opens up. This is
a very special way to live that isn’t self-focused at
all. Our attention slips away from all the selffocus and self-concern—the “I, me, and mine”
and the “who did that to me” and the “what is
going to happen in the future?” All the memories
from life that seemed to be such a focus of
attention slip away, and all that remains is the
spontaneity of the moment with no reference
point. That is a lot more expansive and lot more
interesting than thinking about one’s self-concerns
all the time.
This is what open intelligence is: it does not have
reference points for its power; for its potency—for
its at-once soothing potency. At-once soothing
and potent, it is the forever receding horizon,
which means it is completely inexhaustible. It
provides an era of inexhaustible great benefit.
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In open intelligence you have a life of complete
enjoyment and a life of complete connection, no
matter what the situation. Say a situation came up
that was unexpected and really rather unpleasant
and upsetting; you would still have a life of
complete enjoyment within those occurrences.
You would have the complete enjoyment due to
understanding the exact nature of all the data
coming up in that upsetting situation. You would
be able to be within those data—shining brightly

20. as open intelligence, outshining all the distinct
terms of the data. You would be able to see all of
the data, even the most hideous and unpleasant
ones that would have been avoided, ignored,
replaced or indulged before. You just let
everything be as it is from the comprehensive
view of open intelligence.
This is how you give yourself a life that can’t
even be imagined at present. Sometimes this is
called a life of pure pleasure, but it isn’t pure
pleasure in the way we ordinarily think of
pleasure. We might think of pleasure as getting
high, having an orgasm, going out for some
entertainment or food, buying a new outfit, or
having blissful states. It isn’t like that at all. True
bliss is to instinctively recognize the exact nature
of all data as open intelligence.
In this day and age you can be whoever you want
to be, even if you live in a country where there is
very serious censorship. Maybe you had to leave
the country surreptitiously, and now you are going
back to your country that is laden with censorship.
No matter where you are, open intelligence can
never be shut down. It can’t be censored. Not
ever. It has no enemies anywhere and it
overcomes all. It is the sovereign ruler of all.
Wherever you are and whatever rules might be in
place by any government or police state or any
other kind of heinous circumstance that we human
beings find ourselves in, all of these are
completely overcome by the comprehensive view
of open intelligence that is instantiated in every
single moment. The strength of that is always with
you in every single moment.
No matter what would ever happen, nothing
whatsoever would happen to open intelligence.
Nothing would happen to you. You remain as you
are. We have this idea about ourselves as being
ruled by birth, life and death, waking, dreaming
and sleeping, but that’s only part of the story.
It is crucial to rest naturally, to rest profoundly, to
rest potently and deeply in the powers of great
benefit. This energy that you feel in your body is
what that is: it is the power of great benefit. No
matter what else it has been named, who you are
and what that energy is, it is the dynamic energy
of open intelligence—every sensation you have,
every thought you have, every emotion you have
and every experience you have. This is made clear
in a flash instant. Why is it made clear in a flash
instant? Because it is so obvious!
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Just as surely as the pioneers journeyed across the
United States to California 150 years ago to find
and claim their stakes of gold, just as surely we
are claiming our stake in open intelligence. As
pioneers of that reality, we claim that reality. This
is who we are.
We are really the first generation of people in
human history to open up to ourselves as
inseparable from and interoperable with the open
intelligence of the universe. The open intelligence
of the universe is embedded in us as intelligent
entities, and we ourselves as intelligent entities
can expand our openness of that intelligence in
inexhaustible ways. There is no limit to it. It isn’t
like feeling like we’re only made of physical and
mental stuff, where we’re locked down in some
kind of a skin suit and we’re always inside there.
All the knowledge that has been discovered, is
being discovered now and is to be discovered in
the future is all located within the intelligence of
the universe. As we are an exact explanatory and
mathematical model of that intelligence, we have
access to it at all times.
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By beginning with a simple identity practice of
relying on open intelligence—where we rely on
open intelligence rather than all the selfdescriptions of the data that we have learned—we
begin to open up our sense of identity. We open
up into an open source identity, where we can
identify as we wish. We can have one identity or
we can have multiple identities. Many people
today have multiple identities on the Internet; one
could call them “multi-modal identities.” We can
choose whatever identity we wish, and we can use
that identity to be a source of spewing all kinds of
data. However, it can also be used just as well to
be a source of incredible benefit—many identities,
all being of benefit to all.
Even if we have discovered some great things in
human life, the discoveries we will make in the
future based on open intelligence will be ones that
make discoveries up until now look limited in
comparison. Our power to bring benefit,
generosity and prosperity to all inhabitants of all
multiverses is tremendous, and we train up this
power in ourselves when we rely on open
intelligence rather than the old ideas about who
we have taken ourselves to be.
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22. Human beings are at a critical juncture. We have a
unique occasion right here where we can go
beyond the outdated ideas we have about
ourselves. All the open problems that are facing
humankind, the planet we live on and all its
inhabitants are solvable. However, they are not
solvable from the current way we think. The
current way we think created the problems, and so
we need a new way of thinking. We need a more
realistic way of thinking—one that is attuned to
the way we actually are.
For the first time here on planet Earth we live as a
global human culture and we are globally united.
The terms and conditions that seemed to divide us
don’t divide us as much as they once did. The
religious terms and the terms that refer to
nationality, race, gender and other biases do not
hold as much sway as they once did, even though
they still raise their ugly head here and there.
The only way to overcome all negativity of all
kinds, completely and forever, is through open
intelligence. This is the only way we can live
without bias. First we must live without bias
within ourselves. We must be able to look within
ourselves at all the data and instinctively
recognize that, as open intelligence, they are
without bias. Inherently we are un-prejudiced.
Isn’t that amazing? The great open intelligence
that unavoidably binds everything together is
completely unbiased, holding everything together
exactly as it is. No need to change it or tweak it
here and there to make it any different. We simply
let everything be exactly as it is.
It’s really important to settle into your power and
to rely on it. It is important to get used to all the
energy in your body being the power of great
benefit and claiming that as it is, rather than
claiming all of these other things. In this way you
grow true and strong. With the friendship of the
Four Mainstays you have a powerful citadel that
you rest within. You rest comfortably in this great
citadel of open intelligence with countless other
human beings—countless because more and more
join in every day. Open intelligence is irresistible.
It’s the irresistible integrated framework for
global human culture and for multiversal culture.
We each have different strengths, gifts and talents,
and whatever our strengths, gifts and talents are,
we will exalt them due to the power of open
intelligence. We will see what they are, and we
will have the courage to carry them out. This is
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stand straight and strong and to know that it’s
possible to contribute to all of human existence in
a very profound way through the message of open
intelligence.
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We have the power to change the world with short
moments of open intelligence, and that is
occurring right now. The whole world is
undergoing change. Human culture is undergoing
a change that will forever exalt it. This is not just
another change for the sake of change, but a
change that will exalt human culture and its
relation with all beings forever.
Seize the power of your mind right now! This
open intelligence power belongs to you; it is your
birthright. The pervasive spread of open
intelligence is equal and even, everywhere. There
isn’t a single solitary creature whatsoever that is
not endowed with the pervasive spread of open
intelligence.
Open intelligence is so powerful, and no one is a
stranger to it. Everyone is the beloved. By relying
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on open intelligence, these are the eyes we are
looking through: there isn’t anyone who is a
stranger anywhere. Everywhere where we look,
we feel right at home. We may have all kinds of
data flowing by, but we still feel right at home and
connected. Our data don’t get in the way
anymore. We’re not looking through the eyes of
the data description. Instead, we’re looking
through blazingly beneficial open intelligence
eyes that cast their gaze on everything and then
come to a beneficial conclusion.
As open-ended benefit creators, what our eyes see
is a world full of solutions. All that people might
need is a little bit of training to see that they are
indeed open-ended benefit creators. I saw at some
point that there wasn’t the instruction available to
create open-ended benefit creators, and so, what
to do: Great Freedom, Balanced View, the Four
Mainstays. You have got to create it! You are an
open-ended benefit creator; you have to recognize
the knowledge and step into its space. You can
see it in yourself, and you can see it in each other.
You see how well it works; there isn’t any more
convincing to do.
You see that it’s much easier and much more
pleasant to live a life of mutual respect and
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