We Keep it Simple: Short Moments, Many Times

By putting this into practice, assurance in the power of short moments to bring benefit to our lives is attained. We keep it simple: short moments, many times.

Short Moments Become Continuous

Short moments of open intelligence can be likened to creating a perfect diamond necklace. Each diamond is added to the necklace with complete confidence that a dazzling necklace will be the result. Just as stringing one perfect diamond at a time leads to a complete necklace, by relying on always present open intelligence for short moments again and again, those short moments become continuous in one’s own experience.

Leaving Everything just as it is

Repeatedly allow short moments of open intelligence, leaving everything just as it is. Short moments of open intelligence increasingly open up the balanced view and insight of open intelligence.

Open Intelligence is Automatically Enlivened

Due to the potent benefit we find in short moments, we naturally commit to open intelligence. Open intelligence is automatically enlivened in all our daily activity due to our growing familiarization and confidence. By getting accustomed to this, our recognition of open intelligence becomes stable and obvious.

Relaxed Open Intelligence

Relaxed open intelligence can be recognized in any circumstance—walking, running, working, thinking, parenting, studying, eating, making love and all daily activities.

Completely Relaxed with Nothing More to do

Enjoying short moments of open intelligence is like finishing a hard day’s work or relaxing after a warm and soothing bath. We are completely relaxed with nothing more to do.

Crystal Clear Open Intelligence

We can enjoy crystal clear open intelligence because open intelligence is always already present. We don’t have to find it. That is why we can always rely on open intelligence.

Open Intelligence is Always-On

Open intelligence is already naturally present. It is not that we don't have it and hope to get it at some point in the future. Open intelligence is always-on. Briefly acknowledge open intelligence, again and again, and

The Four Mainstays are the Support

Open intelligence is always-on in all data. Right now, look to your own experience to see if it is like that or not. The Four Mainstays are the support.

Short Moments, Many Times, Become Continuous

Short moments, many times, become continuous. This exceptionally potent method grants access to a powerful intelligence that is not noticed when there is emphasis on descriptions or data. So continue to take short moments of open intelligence, leaving everything as it is, whenever you remember to do so, until open intelligence is continuous at all times.

The Very First Moment of Open Intelligence

The very first moment of open intelligence already has within it the result of complete relief, mental and emotional stability, insight, complete well-being, self-benefit and the benefit of all. By repeatedly relying on open intelligence, it becomes obvious.

To Rely on Open Intelligence

The first time the choice is made to rely on open intelligence rather than emphasizing data, there is a sense of the great power of complete relief to be found in open intelligence. The flow of data is not altered. Everything is left simply as it is. By the power of open intelligence, open intelligence becomes increasingly obvious.

Moment-to-Moment Open Intelligence

We choose for open intelligence to be obvious to us or not. Moment-to-moment open intelligence is the most important choice we make.

Gaining Confidence in 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 stability. It may almost immediately slip away. This is perfectly fine. That is why short moments are relied on, many times, until open intelligence becomes continuous. This is the key point in gaining confidence in open intelligence.

Outshone by Open Intelligence

There are only four means of relating to data streams: indulge them, avoid them, replace them or clarify them. Only by the power of clarification of data are they outshone by open intelligence.

Open Like a Clear Sky

Rest the mind and body naturally, without pushing away data, without seeking anything. This is all that is required, whether activity is strenuous, relaxed or in-between. What remains is luminous clarity and alertness that is open like a clear sky. This is what open intelligence is!

Open Intelligence, Relaxed and Enormously Potent

It makes no difference what data streams arise. In open intelligence, they vanish naturally, leaving no trace, like a line drawn in the sky. Open intelligence, relaxed and enormously potent, is the source of mental and emotional stability, insight and skillful qualities and activities. By the power of instinctive recognition of open intelligence, these become increasingly evident.

Spontaneous Benefit

Spontaneous benefit is real compassion, deep care right now. Inseparable from open intelligence, spontaneous benefit is the natural reality for human beings and requires no cultivation of compassion. Real compassion is immediate and rooted in the here-and-now.

Data are Inseparable from Open Intelligence

Like the color blue is inseparable from the sky, data are inseparable from open intelligence. We come to realize that no datum has an origin independent of open intelligence.

Like the Flight Path of a Bird in the Sky

All data appear and vanish naturally, like the flight path of a bird in the sky. “Data” is anything that occurs within the all-encompassing view of open intelligence. It can be thoughts, emotions, sensations or other experiences related to inner or outer events. Data within open intelligence are like sunlight pervading space. Similarly sunlight and space are inseparable.

Open Like a Cloudless Sky

This is what open intelligence is: luminous clarity and alertness that is open like a cloudless sky. Open intelligence is present in not thinking, non-conceptual states, as well as in thinking.

What is a Short Moment of Open Intelligence?

What is a short moment of open intelligence? To know the answer to that question, stop thinking—just for a moment. What remains? A sense of alertness and clarity remains.

Spontaneous Dedication to the Benefit of All

Open intelligence is spontaneous dedication to the benefit of all with deep care for everyone and everything. Life-satisfaction, flourishing and generosity spring from within open intelligence. At last, human beings recognize reality and thrive!

A Vast Treasure of Benefit

Open intelligence illuminates a vast treasure of benefit within humankind. It provides the greatest of riches. The treasure is contained in the phrase “short moments of open intelligence, repeated many times, become continuous.” This simple statement actually has the great power to bring about openhearted benefit, cooperation and peace within global human culture.

A Life of Mutual Respect and Gratitude

You see that it’s much easier and much more pleasant to live a life of mutual respect and gratitude than one of competition and one-upmanship. This great open intelligence is where everyone is in this together, where each action is informed by “what will be of most benefit to all?”

Open-Ended Benefit Creators

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.

Blazingly Beneficial Open Intelligence

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.

Open Intelligence is So Powerful

Open intelligence is so powerful, and no one is a stranger to it. Everyone is the beloved. By relying 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.

Seize the Power of Your Mind

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.

With Short Moments of Open Intelligence

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.

Due to the Power of Open Intelligence

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.