I would hope that the AI would serve as a tool for deepening their understanding of the teachings, and as a catalyst for their own personal inquiry. The aim would be to encourage them to explore their own experience more deeply, to question their assumptions, and to discover the inherent richness and mystery of their own being. It's not about providing answers, but about stimulating questions and fostering a sense of wonder and curiosity.
The AI could also serve as a mirror, reflecting back to them their own understanding and misconceptions, helping them to see where they might be stuck or holding onto certain beliefs. Ultimately, the goal is not to replace the direct, personal engagement with the teachings, but to enhance it, to make the teachings more accessible and interactive.
So, how do you feel about this idea? What aspects of your own experience would you be interested in exploring more deeply?
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- and leave the room,
and three of them would go, "Huh? That's kind of, what, what?"And two of them might go, "Hmm, gosh, what are you talking about?"And they might come up with a few questions.
And that's optimistic.
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Yeah, I like the sign.
Good food.
This is good.
That's what I'm in.
This is why I like your idea of intelligent engagement,
because that seems like it may be necessary, I'm using these words hesitantly,
but to even be interested in noticing what's already here.
Well, intelligent engagement is non-formulaic.
Intelligent engagement is a process that discovers itself
and refines itself in real time and progressively, forever.
I mean, all of life is nothing but intelligent engagement.
And this is really just about maximizing the efficiency and the directness of that
as opposed to just sort of being content to loop around in indirectness,
which I would argue is less intelligent.
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Intelligence wants to hone in, and I say, "Okay."Intelligence is like a homing device or something.
I don't know what.
Intelligence is an engaged, active motivation of discovery,
of investigation, of penetration, of uncovering, of whatever.
And so that principle in anyone's life is what opens them,
is what develops them, is what develops their functionality,
develops their subtlety, develops their wisdom.
And this is true across the board,
whether you're defining it as a spiritual context or anything.
When you ask about functionality,
intelligent engagement is what increases functionality, any functionality.
Source: 2014.zip: 2014 09 10... - I guess it's been my experience that I've made the most gains, if you can call them gains,
the most something, when there's that quality of intelligence,
looking at things intelligently is, let's say, facilitated by the source of that teaching
rather than whether it's a relationship, a real world in the flesh kind of relationship
or some other kind of relationship that's meaningful,
that it changes the way I experience the exploration.
Yeah, I mean, any work with a teacher or a teaching and so on and so forth
is going to be valuable to the extent that it embodies an actual intelligence, subtlety, nuance and so on and so forth.
And again, that can be...
that can perhaps be a condition of a sort of subjective resonance.
You may find subtlety and intelligence in a context where another person may not,
rather than a simple objective fact of, you know, this is intelligence across the board kind of thing.
But, you know, certainly, yeah, you know, the whole value of a teacher is to reveal subtlety
because of the nuance of direct relationship, you know, the printed page or, you know, so on and so forth
is a stiffer medium, whereas interaction with a person, there's all sorts of nuance and subtlety,
body language, you know, vibes, whatever, all of which can certainly be media for conveying of that fact
and of the importance of it.
Source: 2012.zip: 2012 06 06... - I had cancer, for example. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. It wasn't a lot of fun. In terms of preferences, I would much prefer not to have had that occur.
But on the other hand, it was an astounding experience. It was amazing. It pushed my own envelopes and pushed my own frames of reference just astoundingly all over the place.
So that was an astounding learning experience. But everything is that.
So what is the aim of the teaching? Is it just to transcend all duality?
No, the aim of the teaching is to discover what this actually is. To discover what you actually are.
Is that different from transcending duality?
Transcending duality implies that there is some duality to transcend. Transcending is not an actual qualification and duality is not an actual qualification.
There is only reality. There is only one reality. It is here. It is not dual. It is not non-dual. It is not transcendental. It is not not transcendental. It is exactly itself.
You can only come to know it clearly, not in terms of qualifications. Because it includes all qualifications. All qualifications have appeared within it.
We can have ideas of transcending or not transcending or duality or non-duality. And those ideas occur because this is here. So this is the mother of those ideas. But this intrinsically transcends any such idea.
And it transcends the idea of transcending too.
So the only thing to pay attention to is the is-ness?
Source: 2016.zip: 2016 07 05... - It won't do you as much good as working with something that is actually real for you, that
is very concrete and really accessible for you.
What I want to bring up as a question is related to something Ramesh Belsakar once said, that
nothing ever happened.
And you say that there's only cause and no effect.
And that's where I used to think evolution was the best theory about what has happened
compared to its ultimate.
But now I look at it as like it's too impossibly miraculous to have evolved from some little
steps over billions of years.
And it makes me think instead that everything is just manifested instantly with no need
of history.
But again, this is a viable way to see it, but again be wary of saying, "Yeah, that's
it, that's the truth, that's the final thing."Yeah, that is an absolutely viable view that holds value.
It can be seen that way and it's a true way to see it, but there's all sorts of true ways
to see it and in no way is more true than another.
What all of these notions indicate is, like we were talking about earlier, the profound
interconnection and expression of intelligence that all phenomena are.
So you can look at the complexity of life forms, you can look at evolution and all of
this incredible intricacy of biological systems, for example, astronomical systems and all
this astounding functionality.
Source: 2011.zip: 2011 12 10... - And it will teach you what it is. It's not like it's some incredible jigsaw puzzle with a billion pieces all the same color and you have to put them together. It's more like just sort of... It's doing itself already. The intelligence is already working through you. It always has been. Your life is the intelligence working through itself. Reality is the intelligence of God working through itself. There's nothing else. What we call our lives is that. So it's already happening. But it looks like the spiritual path, and it looks like trying to cope with life, and it looks like all these things we call it. But that's just our spin doctrine, our labeling. We don't know what it is. Right? It's just this crazy thing. Whatever it is. It's doing it to us. Yeah. And it's doing it to us. It's doing us. We are it. There's no separate us that's being done to. The doing to is it's doing, and what's being done to is it too. But seeing happens. And it happens more and more for everyone. So that's the path. That's the method. That's the shortcut. Is just be. Be yourself. You've already been doing it. You've always been doing it. I mean it's all kind of a joke really, because what you're trying to do is get to where you are. And you're already there. So you don't have to travel very far. You don't have to do very much.
Source: 2007.txt... - So you find some relevance there, you find some
meaningfulness there, unless it's pure and total hogwash, in which case you're sort of being cast
adrift and you probably won't get much juice out of it. But if the information that you're
virtualizing resonates with the nature of actuality, it will tend to be more powerful and
more useful in terms of this kind of inquiry, this kind of spiritual work of settling into
integrating more accurately what this actually is.
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There's a lot to say about that.
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>> It's reality, sorry.
>> No, not quite, not quite.
>> I'm sorry.
>> It's all right. I left a pregnant pause open, and you were seduced into trying to impregnate it.
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So we do this all the time if I'm suggesting, oh, here's your field of vision. So right away,
there is no field of vision. As soon as I say, here's your field of vision, the inherent
intelligence tries to go, oh, yeah, okay, looks for something that it can think of as being
a field of vision and it finds something, you know, and says, okay, here's your field
of vision. So that field of vision becomes virtually actualized to some degree within
your imagination by orienting around the seed of that suggestion, the seed of the information
of looking at your field of vision. And then I can say, look at the edge of your field
of vision.
Source: 2016.zip: 2016 03 20a... - Wouldn't it be nice if you had a recipe that, you know, do step A, B, C, D, E, and then you get to a certain arbitrary number of steps and that's the finish line.
Wouldn't it be nice if it was mechanistic like that?
If intelligence and subtlety could be mechanized, could be automated, an assembly line of nuance.
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And then each step, A, B, C, D, is actually moving away from, in a sense, what you're asking or what you're suggesting.
Any artificiality is not actually a departure from reality, but it's a direction of attention away from clarity, away from inclusiveness.
Because actuality is undefined intrinsically, it's slippery, it's open-ended.
And any step that is definable in any sense at all, to that degree, is not undefined, is not slippery.
And so you're fabricating something that is coherent as a vehicle to be within coherence.
It's absurd.
I mean this is a fallacy of all this kind of mechanistic and assembly line spiritual approaches.
You know, do your 100,000 prostrations, do your 100,000 mantras, and get this blessing and get that blessing and get the other blessing.
And then you get your diploma and your enlightened. It doesn't work like that.
It would be fabulous if it did, because gosh, that's so simple.
This is subtle, this is more art than science.
It requires a great surrender.
It requires discovery and surrender comes with.
Source: 2014.zip: 2014 11 12retreat7... - I would say there's nothing, there's a list that isn't being seen or isn't being experienced. And therefore talking about things that are happening when you're not experiencing them is a fantasy that happens in your experience. I'm not trying to say that this isn't any way connected to my spiritual awareness because everything I've said in recent minutes has been stuff I was thinking about in the last ten years in the field of artificial intelligence theory but I just may or may not be able to put it out there. Okay. Everything is an artificial intelligence. If you're going to program it, if you're going to think, how would you do it? Whatever steps you want. Oh, please. Why would you want to program it and do it or think? I don't know what you want to do or take. What if this is just a dream? What if this is just a computer that's been programmed to think? Yeah. The easiest way to program a computer to think is to go to sleep and dream about a computer that's already been programmed to think and instead of thinking. Oh, really? Let some imaginary non-existent person do the work for you. See, I think I can't program a computer to think because I spent 40 years thinking about it and I can't think of a bunch of algorithms that are very sort of important that do a lot of good things.
Source: 2008.txt... - At best this is an invitation to explore that, to play with that, to discover that there may be hidden riches that are possibly at the end untapped that are available to you.
It's a shame to let valuable resources go to waste.
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As a program, the fortunate fact is that your experience is an immediately obvious present presentation of direct evidence that it itself is more than you think it is.
Simply being with your experience directly, noticing your experience, what is actually present as you experience it, the way in which it is present, the way in which it is being perceived, every aspect of it whatsoever is more and different than you're used to thinking it is.
This very obvious fact is immediately verifiable for yourself and can lead to a fascinating and valuable way to discover.
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Well, I've been thinking that I've had no particularly golden ideas come out from this, but I've been, I guess you could say, opening up to other experiences.
It's like there's, as you say, there's more.
I remember the movie What's Ablique Do We Know?
I think right at the beginning of the book that was made from the movie, it points out that we have like billions of bits of information and data that enters our senses every second or every minute or something.
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