Genius: One of the Many Paths
Posted on Mar 26th, 2006
by 
Rob
Rob
Now, to begin, let us be clear that genius and high IQ are not the same phenomenon. --at least not in this context. While a high IQ might reflect a vastness of experience and inherent ability to calculate and discern based on observable factors, genius is much simpler. Genius is doing exactly what is most appropriate in any given situation. Anyone can be a genius. Not everyone can have a soaring IQ. It's not uncommon for a genius to live out on the countryside, living very simply. A genius doesn't try harder than is necessary, nor does a genius waste energy on laziness. The beauty of the path, is that it draws one into Prescence. Being in prescence is what is most approriate in any given situation. Making calculations based on past memory and future expectation is not prescence. When one's attention is not on 'what is' he is not present in the Now. Now is the only chance anyone ever has to do anything, and the genius lives this truth. Genius only works with that which is tangible. The present reality is the only tangible thing at anyone's disposal. Being in prescence is the only access that one has to any of it! So one might ask then, "without consideration for past or future, how can one do the most appropriate thing?" Consider the nature of the question... What answer does it seek? It seeks a future where one can do the most appropriate thing! It comes from a past where appropriate action perhaps was not always the case. A question from the past; about the future. In prescence, there is no question, and no answer! --only what is appropriate. As soon as one begins to view it as either a question or an answer, he's no longer the moment! just a perspective of the moment. The unfolding of existence as experienced on the edge of that unfolding is prescence. At this point, the paths of the heart, of the mind, of surrender and of negation, all merge into one. 'Process' dissolves into beingness. From here, there is only the service of Grace. -Rob
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Do you believe that you are a person who does the most appropriate thing at all times?
Who is the judge of what is most appropriate? You?
What do you consider “the sevice of Grace” ?
Who are you to tell us for that matter?
It’s a path, not a chalice.
The key to doing what is most appropriate is to do, not to judge. When one is busy judging, he is not in the Now…not doing what is most appropriate. No question, no answer. Just what is.
Asking what “the service of Grace” is, is the service of Grace. The question and the answer are the same. There’s no list of absolutes that says ‘this is what one must do to serve Grace, and this is what one must not do’. To indulge in the vanity of knowing is serving the self. Asking the question though, is wonderful ;-)
And pay no heed to the messenger. It doesn’t matter who I am. Dissect the message…search for Truth. Searching for illusions, you tend not to find anything but more illusions.
In Peace,
-Rob
Whether you call it Genius, Flow, Living your Christ Role, Awakened Doing, Surrendering to what IS, Laying your self down for your Self and acting out that (non)drama, Open Aliveness, Humble Hopeful Openness, Surprised Action, Grateful Operation or whatever I’m down like a clown in a monkey training academy for hobos. (even though all those things aren’t quite the same… they might be like the same candy with a different flavor.)
I continue to be a huge fan, Rob. Yes, Rob a fan of YOU! Your message and YOU! And not just the causal ultimately (not) One not Two YOU, and not the messenger YOU, but YOU YOU. However I don’t heart you brokeback style. lol. Does clarifying that cheapen the message? A little. It matters not. I love….
Brian David.
much Love, brother Brondu….much Love…
-Rob
Is there a need for questions?
Is there a need for answers?
They are the same thing…opposite sides of the equation with the same inherent value. Understand what the question is, and you have the answer.
-Rob
Amen to that!
-Rob
I appreciate your writing very much and will leave this one comment in response to 2 of your entries. (Will read further back sometime too)
I very much like your exposition of how the question = the answer in terms of the field from which the question arises suggests the answer to the question. For example, we only wonder if we are better than someone else when we are already in a state of pride. Even if the answer comes back as “no” in our minds, generally that just flips us to the other polar extreme of shame. But shame is just a form of pride in which the aggression is turned against the self rather than the other. Nice, clean form for bringing this out. Thank you for that contribution. Is it your own creation or is it borrowed to be shared, and if borrowed, from what source?
As for the post to which this comment is directly linked, again, thank you. I also believe that simplicity is the home of genius while complexity is the home of intellect. The intelligent man wishes to be surrounded by books and music and people with whom to converse so that he may display his intelligence. The genius wished to be surrounded by nature and the embrace of silence, so that he may experience himself, uncluttered.
I am in a process myself of learning to make peace with nature, to not be such a city girl, afraid of every bug and at war with dirt. It's not easy. I live in Hawaii, in a Eucalyptus forest, and all my friends are such nature bunnies, yet if you came to my house you would think you were in a very successful artist's loft in San Francisco. I love it here, especially on very warm days like today, but I also see how it reflects my current state of consciousness. I am still not quite at rest, still not quite at peace with the present moment. No regrets, just an observation. I see a movement more deeply into simplicity on my horizon and am trying to balance that with a role I currently enjoy of hosting lamas and teachings in my beautiful but expensive home. We'll see what unfolds. Thanks again for the affirmation of a perception we seem to share on this issue.