intentional persistence
readiness idiocy
attention : readiness for movement
intention : readiness for a sensation
memory : readiness for the movement of sensation
imagination : readiness for the sensation of movement
One overriding human imperative is to name or identify things, and thus to know them, for the sake of exploiting (enjoying) them or for the sake of avoiding (controlling) them.
This identifying of things involves remembering them and remembering the intention one "should" have toward them -- a state of fixation that gets carried from generation to generation, that piles up and that ultimately becomes foolishness and stupidity as conditions change and yet we still compel ourselves and others to behave that way.
Identity: a complex of readiness states associated with a name or location of self
THE SYMBOL OF READINESS
stress patterns
readiness for action
avoidance of unreadiness
blind spots
various compulsive idiocies
behavioral idiocies
linguistic idiocies
retrogressive behavior
involuntary emotional responses without intelligence
lack of understanding necessary to recognize the need for transcendence
lack of means of transcendence
Readiness is a lie.
no one is ever ready
no one know how they will respond: the interaction is ALWAYS with an unknown
declarations of readiness are bravado
declarations of readiness are a "go ahead" without certain foreknowledge
means of transcendence
education
cultural artifacts
regulation or wise self-regulation
conditions
create balance as preparation
undermine intentional persistence
ambient education
course correction
restate elimination problem
restate solution
provide means
I think this can be clarified into a kind of simplicity.
Let's use some of the terms He used:
~~ power of repetition
~~ being uncomfortable
~~ the programming
~~ the secret workings
~~ garbage softwares
~~ supersophisticated nervous systems:supermachines
"Power of repetition": alludes to memory. Memory is repetition. It's not merely mental memory; it's the persistence of ANY and ALL forms. In computers, memory refers to the persistence of electrical charges in semiconductor chips. The Universe is a scenario of materialized memory, persistent and yet perpetually changing, as memories do.
Among living beings on Earth, humans are the ones so memory-intensive. The memories have to do with living. They evolve from generation to generation -- but humans don't just substitute new memories for old ones, from generation to generation. Humans have very little control of memory, in the current form of humanity. Humans accumulate memories mostly automatically -- and otherwise with great effort.
Memories pile up automatically from generation to generation, passed both subliminally -- implicitly -- and overtly (explicitly) -- but humans, for the most part, have no capacity to dissolve memories. Thus, "The sins of the fathers are passed on to the children to the fourth generation."
"I'm impressed, newly impressed, with the insanity of human beings! Animals, plants, inert things are much more intelligent. They are simpler, more pure." (talk, Walking the Dog)
The pile-up of way-of-life memories, memories that have their use in their own generation, but that have piled up in this "late time" generation -- that pile-up produces a kind of massive, subconscious-and-conscious confusion -- "garbage softwares" -- that we experience as dilemma and discomfort.
Not all of it is garbage software, in any current generation. Some of it is functional, such as the "software" that maintains physiology or the "software" that produces the sophisticated technology of which He spoke. It exists in "nested" form, with some softwares (such as physiological softwares) supporting others (such as technological creativity). The supporting softwares are the "secret workings" that work in and for all generations.
The creative ones in any generation are those who are free of the binding effects of previous generations' softwares and so capable of originating something new. Their freedom lies in their freedom to remain "current", rather than mired in the past (memory).
Their freedom to create, the ability to recover comfort, the freedom from ego-patterning (idiotic programs of existence) comes from transcendence of the binding force of memory. "Transcendence" doesn't exclusion; it means to remain intelligently present to the content of experience without being bound by or to it..
The discomfort comes from the clash of obsolete memory-software programs that no longer function in harmony either with each other or with currently evolved conditions. The "pile-up discomfort" generates the sense of dilemma and leads to a kind of desperation that most people attempt to handle by acquiring new knowledge in the form of "solutions".
But those "solutions" become part of the mass of memory that causes the discomfort. Seeking solutions is exactly the wrong direction; therefore, conditional seeking is also exactly the wrong direction.
What is needed is transcendence of the binding force of memory.
The missing program, for the most part, is the "transcendence program."
The transcendence program emerges as people come to confront their interiority, their uninspected programming. At first, it occurs in a piecemeal fashion, as uninspected assumptions (memories) surface to attention from out of the background of life's automaticities.
Prior to that emergence, those programs operate outside of the reach of attention, hidden by their very familiarity, their, "the way things are", veneer -- the "memory program", itself. Then, programs operate as automatic intentions and imaginings confined by the force of memory to things close to what is familiar because of memory.
Later, commonalities of insight emerge. It is discerned that all programming involves FOUR fundamental programs:
Memory
Imagination
Attention
Intention
Those four fundamental programs are, in themselves, inherently "empty" or without inherent form. They are transcendental. They are the "superprogram" of the "superintelligent machine". They are "the first emergence".
They are made "immanent" (or experienceable) by self-definition -- the modifications of consciousness that persist as memories of function. They become defined, local, active and persistent. They become the flavor of "defined selves" and "defined experiences" in all of their forms.
As long as any or all of the Four operate outside of the reach of attention, conditions and conditionings (programs) persist, along with chronic discomfort and the "garbage" quality of experience (frustration). Experience is binding (bondage).
But an odd thing happens when all Four aspects of any event in consciousness surface and become recognizable: events in consciousness (forms of experience) soften, begin to mutate, and then, when all four are balanced and integrated, there emerges a sense of "encompassing" (containing) experience, rather than being contained by experience; the free-Witness position becomes intuitively obvious -- and then the event loses its form to the degree of disappearance. The intuition of a kind of "forceful radiance" appears, one with very consciousness, formless, but present.
The awakening and integration of The Four is the "transcendence program". It is the experience of consciousness awakening to its four-fold nature, paradoxically experienced as Emptiness or Formless Potentiality -- Conscious Light.
Thus, the Four, inherently empty, are also the substance of all experience. Emptiness is form.
Thus, creative life is entirely compatible with free consciousness. "Not-two". Creative life EXPRESSES the free condition in all its forms.
Thus, I have accounted for a bunch of stuff, including:
~~ power of repetition
~~ being uncomfortable
~~ the programming
~~ the secret workings
~~ garbage softwares
~~ supersophisticated nervous systems:supermachines
~~ transcendence
This is not a matter of an intellectual exercise on my part, some sort of mere analysis. I can speak so clearly of this only because I can refer to the intuition of it as a matter of direct experience.
The transformation is progressive, even as the fundamental intuition of this dynamic play is what it is, from the beginning.
Did that "ring your bell of intuition"?
(I've been poised upon writing all that up, for a while, under the prospective title, "Humanity Has an Elimination Problem. This post was the provocation that got me to write it. I wrote it in one quick pass, and made a few tweaks and additions upon the first reading of it, aloud.)
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