Courage

courage |ˈkərij; ˈkə-rij|nounthe ability to do something that frightens one : she called on all her courage to face the ordeal.• strength in the face of pain or grief : he fought his illness with great courage.ORIGIN Middle English (denoting the heart, as the seat of feelings): from Old Frenchcorage, from Latin cor ‘heart.’Courage is what makes someone capable of facing extreme danger and difficulty without retreating (: the courage to confront the enemy head-on). It implies not only bravery and a dauntless spirit but the ability to endure in times of adversity (: a mother's courage in the face of her loss).

I searched for the word courage today on my laptop and the dictionary definition popped up. It touched me deeply as I recognised the experience of relying on open intelligence and the Four Mainstays in the midst of raging afflictions as the greatest of courage. Sometimes it feels completely frightening to let our data rage, and to stay open and ask for support when everything we've learned tells us we need to protect ourselves, hide out and run. Yet it is in doing this; relying on the Mainstays just when we want to 'go it alone' that I have experienced the greatest unfolding of love and power within me. Only by relying on the Four Mainstays in the midst of fear, without rejecting or hiding out from it, has it become clear to me that there nothing to hide from, nothing that needs protecting, there is only pure open benefit within each and every data, even that which I most fear. Thank you to my teachers, the Balanced View community and all the Mainstays for the transmission of courage and support for me to stay put in the midst of raging data-streams, and to stay open, available and to continue on, prioritising benefit for all in all I experience. I am so happy not to be living within conventional ideas about what suffering is - only by facing our suffering completely without shying away do we see there is no suffering anywhere. There is only ever love, compassion and great peace within every single perception.I am endlessly grateful and blessed. Thank you Candice, Kathy and all dear friends committed to open intelligence for the benefit of all.

‎"By the power of open intelligence, we shift in emphasis from self-centredness to the openness and beneficial power of open intelligence. We empower our beneficial nature. Open intelligence returns us to reality. It aligns human intelligence with reality. Open intelligence is reality itself."

Thank you Balanced View for opening my heart and mind to the reality of my human life as an endless flow of clear and direct love and kindness for all and revealing the tools and capacity to make a lasting contribution to peace on earth. ♥

Keep it simple

Open intelligence is the knowing quality of every experience. It is what is looking through your eyes right now. Whatever thoughts and emotions you have, however you label them, they will not leave a trace or mark on sky-like open intelligence and you cannot hold them in place. Open intelligence is your fundamental identity - the only thing constant about you; always pure, always luminous and always naturally present. Check it out and see if it is so.

Gentle love everywhere

To get real with all our data in open intelligence is to find gentleness, intimacy, kindness and love everywhere, in all experiences. This cuts the root of needing to cling to that special person, place or thing. We find what we were always seeking in and as ourselves - each here and now as open intelligence. Gaining confidence in open intelligence creates the space to really enjoy everything and everyone fully without needing anything in return. What a beautiful gift and investment for life! What a magical way to live - the reality of real unconditional love and service in every single moment. This is what is possible for each and every one of us.

Humility

When we see ourselves as an isolated individual who is better than others and who doesn't 'need' support, we shut ourselves off from the incredible love of open-hearted reality. We live our lives in the tension of trying to hold our identity in place, and in fear of criticism and rejection. The humility of open intelligence is the reality of knowing everyone everywhere is exactly the same as us, that its safe to be supported, and we can relax completely exactly as we are.

I am so grateful to my trainer and the Four Mainstays for providing me a space where I can be fully supported to let all data be as it is without replacing it with 'being strong' or 'being fine'. Without this support it would be impossible to settle into my intrinsic stability, completeness and safety as open intelligence, naturally present in all data - even in insecurity, sadness, weakness and vulnerability. Wow! What power and open-hearted tenderness it is to not need to be strong, but to find our natural state is indestructible all on its own.

Thank you Balanced View!

Wholly beneficial

The cure for all the things we don't want to feel, is to feel all the things we don't want to feel. Letting ourselves be as we are in the safety and love of the Four Mainstays we allow benefit to become obvious in every experience, every aspect of ourselves that we have feared. The clear, relaxed and free open intelligence that is sensing everything is naturally present as all of us with nothing left out.

How incredible to be able to be 100% ourselves and to know everything about us empowers more and more benefit for ourselves and all when we let it be.

I am so grateful to the Four Mainstays for showing me this tenderness, care and kindness towards myself. What a wonder to share it with all.

Effortless power wtihin all data

Your power is not in controlling points of view or in efforts to be successful in any way, but instead in the spontaneous, natural and effortless presence of who you already are. Clear and potent open intelligence, shining as the appearance of all data.

Your power is in letting yourself be 100% you - 100% open intelligence, inclusive of all of your data - even feeling weak, unstable and sad. All of this is your power and complete open love when you let it be as it is.

Short moments of peace

Short moments of instinctive recognition of sky-like open intelligence within positive, negative, and neutral thoughts, emotions and experiences reveals the already present peace, stability and benefit within every single moment, no matter what we label it.

Complete as we are

Allow yourself to be fully 100% you by letting all your data be just as it is, one moment at a time. There is nothing about you that is wrong or evidence of failure. Short moments of open intelligence and the Four Mainstays show us directly that we are totally 100% inseparable from pure and perfect love. The search is over - we are always where we've always wanted to be.

Unstained

Every single thought, emotion and experience naturally vanishes like the flight path of a bird in the sky, and you - vast open intelligence - always remain open, clear, unstained, with nothing to protect or uphold and effortlessly flooded with energy to be of benefit to all. This is my experience of life. Short moments of open intelligence repeated many times become continuous. Thank you Balanced View!

Natural beneficial changes

Attempts to change our experiences to find well-being or peace or stability are always fruitless and serve to substantiate the belief that peace and stability are found in a certain data-set. No data can be held to - just like the here and now can not be held to, and we end up seeking and exhausted trying to hold our wellbeing in place. Changes that we make based on rearranging data to find ease perpetuate our belief that we are flawed and unstable in the first place.
When we look to Open Intelligence for our peace and stability we find our ever present ease and we shift spontaneously from self-focus to the open context of benefit. Here behaviours change naturally and effortlessly, with no rule book or 'perfect conduct' required. All actions, experiences, thoughts and emotions are seen to be equal expressions of Open Intelligence and always without exception a platform of profound benefit.

Stop fixing!

Nothing needs to change about you. Instead of describing all of your thoughts, emotions and experiences - notice the open clear lucidity which is naturally present in each moment just as it is. You - the clarity view - are always flawless. Give up trying to fix yourself, and you'll find your natural perfection.

Open-Hearted Clarity

When we relax as clarity and allow everything to be just as it is we see that no point of view has an independent nature. Everything, absolutely everything we experience is already clarity. There is no division or split - just seamless clarity. Wow - we are so powerful when we rest like this, as the unchanging basis of everything. Here we can face everything fully, open-hearted and clear. No longer anything to avoid in ourselves, anything to avoid in the world we live in and nothing to chase after either. Simply open-hearted power in every moment, living fully, completely and bursting with energy to love and benefit.

The power of short moments cuts through clinging to, or avoiding, any conventional activity to micromanage points of view, and releases us to the natural explosion of benefit - right here in the inseparability of clarity with all experience whatsoever.

Immense gratitude

This evening I sat with an old friend and considered how just a few years ago points of view seemed to have so much power. So much was felt - so much frustration, anger and sadness about the world and the destruction and unbeneficial activity I saw all around me and in me, and I had no solution for it. I felt helpless and was exhausted.

Shortly after I reached a point of total hopelessness, I was offered the opportunity to rely on clarity for short moments, many times. With the training and support offered, now all my sadness, frustration, anger and all moments whatsoever have been transformed into a single stream of raw open beneficial energy. The assumption that points of view had an independent nature and power over my wellbeing is outshone forever as indivisible clarity becomes increasingly obvious. Only peace and energy to contribute to the world remains. I feel the solution for the first time to the crisis I saw and see around me, and I know deeply that as a human race it is possible for us to create world peace together.

I am so indescribably grateful to have been offered the toolkit of the Four Mainstays to recognise my actual identity as pure, unchanging benefit in all experiences. I can only express my gratitude for what I have been given by giving back a million fold to others. If every aspect of my life can be transformed into ever expanding and ever powerful love and benefit then the same is true for every single human on this planet. Why settle for anything less than a new era of pure peace and unconditional love for all of humankind?
Out of destruction and breakdown can come pure benefit and breakthrough. It's up to us.
Thank you everyone who takes a stand for clarity.
Kat

Simple clarity

Keep it totally simple for yourself: clarity or points of view. What are we going to focus on?
Try it out, and see what feels better!

Everything is free

There are no experiences to be free of. All experiences are already free! Try and hold on to a thought, or an an emotion, or any moment at all. Everything self-releases like a line drawn in water. Instead of trying to change points of view, relax as open clarity and enjoy the always beneficial intelligent flow of experience - free, in and of itself. www.greatfreedom.org

Everything is at rest.

Everything is already at rest. Look into each moment and see for yourself, all experiences are inseparable from sky-like clarity, like light is inseparable from space. There is nothing to resist or push away. All points of view are your total gift for noticing this is so.

Clarity

Our stability; our sense of ease, well-being, relaxation, our self assurance; the complete openness and power to do whatever is needed to be of most benefit to everyone is found in clarity.