Why is Common sense key for Enlightenment? | From Shivas Circle

[00:00:09] So the education system has taught you to need to be told what to do. [00:00:20] There's no kind you you're not supposed to work it out for yourself. [00:00:24] You follow the boxes, you follow the lines, and you do the multiple choice, and you remember everything and you repeat it. [00:00:34] And you do that for a decade. [00:00:36] And then if you go to university, you do it for another few years. [00:00:40] The result is you you lose your faculty to see and make simple things work. [00:00:53] And obviousness disappears. [00:00:56] Simplicity can disappear and you just live in a layers and layers of thought and waiting to be told how to be and how to do things, and your initiative disappears. [00:01:10] And of course you're gonna your mind's gonna tell you you're ripping and you've got it all sorted and you're a superstar or you might have a bad day and you're not so good that day. [00:01:19] But the truth is your mind's making stuff up. [00:01:26] Now it doesn't mean you're bad, no. [00:01:28] I'm not saying that at all either. [00:01:31] What I'm saying is you won't know if you're functioning really well or not unless life really really starts tripping you up. [00:01:41] And if you're hanging out with a certain group of people and they'll have an acceptability of of the function level and you're in that group you you have no indicator otherwise. [00:01:55] You have no indication there's another way. So when I first heard that, oh there's people in higher consciousness, there's people that are living a different way to the average person. [00:02:07] So no, no, everyone's equal because I've been brainwashed into com com you know, communist style thinking or Marxist style thinking where we're all equal and we're all the same. We are all one thing. [00:02:18] That's a different thing to we're all the same. Everybody is a little bit different. [00:02:22] Everyone has different common sense levels, different artistic levels, mathematics levels and different things like this. [00:02:29] And then there's common sense levels but common sense levels are very important. [00:02:38] Where you can assess the situation and not be paralyzed by tribal concerns and actually function and see what's around you instead of dedicating your life to being concerned about what other things and what they think of you what they think of you and then worrying about what they think about you later when you've finished with that time with them. [00:02:58] So all the energy that goes into that you lose your common sense. [00:03:02] And I see it all over the place. [00:03:24] It's the most bizarre thing, isn't it? [00:03:34] And a lot of a lot of common sense, thank you. [00:03:37] A lot of common sense is it's about being present and seeing what's around you and not being paralyzed to move, unconsciously paralyzed. [00:03:48] Unconsciously concerned, unconsciously in your box sitting at your tea at the desk in the classroom scared to move because your teacher was grumpy or whatever or your parent, you know, without that paralysis. [00:04:00] Common sense is breaking through all that and just seeing what's happening. [00:04:06] Working out what's why somebody's and if somebody's in in higher consciousness or fairly switched on before you go change or or fix what they've done, make sure you've understood what's happened. [00:04:20] Make sure you understand and try and get why things are there that way and not assume you've got it worked out. [00:04:31] Come in and do something dastardly. [00:04:48] Common sense would be to check if you don't understand something, check. What's going on here? Why did you do this way? I can't see why. [00:04:57] Oh, I made a mistake that because your idea is better. I'll just do that. Or it's like that for a reason. [00:05:04] And people with common sense can very quickly tell who doesn't have much. [00:05:10] So the people without common sense end up working for people with common sense generally. [00:05:19] And they then they build them paper walls and checkboxes and checklists and they build them a whole frame for them to come in and work in and just tick the boxes because that's what they're able to do. [00:05:31] Just like school taught them. [00:05:34] And their fears contract them into. [00:05:40] So the switched on first person builds all the frames and the systems and then the not switched on have to sit within that and that's how it works. [00:05:54] Because your creativity dies when you when you live frozen and you live without common sense. [00:06:05] Or it's gonna be very limited. [00:06:16] When I say creativity, I mean your ability I'm gonna correct that a little bit and make sure it's understood correctly. I don't mean you can be an incredible artist and have zero common sense. I'm talking about the art of life. [00:06:27] The art of life, the true artist. [00:06:35] And you haven't been taught it why. [00:06:37] We you don't want a rebellious society. You want a factory worker society. [00:06:43] Or your culture especially. [00:06:45] Very very from birth to death you're completely covered. We're we're similar. We're not we're very similar. [00:06:52] From birth to death everything's covered. You just it comes with your passport. [00:06:57] Comes with your birth. [00:07:03] I'm not saying you don't have common sense. I'm just saying that when you have birth to death safety. [00:07:13] And then and just it can stifle you as a as an artist. [00:07:20] So what I I noticed today a very important thing is that everybody I know that's woken up that I see around it's woken up and a lot you know anything I know about them or any information I can find on them living or dead. [00:07:37] They seem to be very adventurous, which is a byproduct of curiosity, no? [00:07:45] Unstifled, prepared to step through the glass ceilings and the glass walls they've been given, prepared to stretch beyond what they think they are and what they were told they are. [00:08:06] Not comfortable with the boxes they're given. [00:08:13] It's a key factor. [00:08:21] And that leads them into plant medicines and you know your your mushrooms or maybe your LSD and their minds untangle a bit from there or they get to see beyond the mind and as an example and a lot of people sort of loosen up that way. [00:08:35] Or they they travel endlessly until they go there's nowhere to go. There's no happy village just over the hill where everybody's got it worked out. [00:08:43] It's some still unhappy. [00:08:45] The adventure and the curiosity brings them here at some point. [00:08:56] But somebody that just checks boxes and can't see anything is just stumbling in the dark. [00:09:02] While thinking they're doing incredibly well because they're getting rewarded by their boss. They get a paycheck every week. They're saying, "Why you're such a good boy, good girl." [00:09:09] So the adventurous is a byproduct of the curiosity. No no curiosity, no adventure. [00:09:17] And in your adventure you can learn common sense. You have to learn how to be because you're in the unknown now. [00:09:24] You have to learn how to function or you can surround yourself in a pack and travel everywhere there in a little safety herd, right? [00:09:33] Or you can step out and and and face the force of of the world yourself or cure your curiosity. [00:09:43] And let the winds buffet you. [10:02] So the non-curious live in a sense of stupor within constantly living in the frames of others. [10:10] Others who apparently know more than them or more experts or they build up a a a container, a shell that they live in and dying. [10:27] The pre-coffin. [10:45] An opportunity not living a pre-coffin. [10:50] If you wanna snap out of it and not be a sheep, see what's going on, understand what's happening around you, be aware. [11:06] Because there's plenty of people will give you likes on Facebook and Instagram for being a good sheep. [11:12] You'll be popular as you'll get rewarded left, right, and center, but you won't be happy. [11:18] People will love highly agreeable people because they're non-threatening and they can say and do whatever they want. [11:27] But highly agreeable people don't have very happy lives, as my experience. [11:33] It's way too much effort. [11:48] They have lives in a shell, in a pre-coffin. [12:00] There's no need you go around and be the rebel and cause trouble either. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying high agreeableness or the sellout character is not adventurous and curious. [12:14] So see what's around you, be here now. See if you've slipped back and disappeared repeatedly, wonder why you're doing it. Be curious. [12:22] Wonder why you you're making mistakes regularly. Be curious. Why am I doing this? [12:32] Don't hide and run and silver line and make stuff up to protect yourself. [12:37] Face the force of the universe. [13:00] An adventurous, curious person will be much happier to die than those that check boxes, which means they're freer.

• Common Sense
  The faculty of Direct Presence; the ability to see what is factually occurring and function without paralysis from ego-structures or tribal concerns.
• Domestication
  The societal and educational programming that dismantles initiative and trains individuals to be compliant 'box-checkers,' dependent on external frameworks.
• The Pre-Coffin
  A metaphor for a life lived within the safe but deadening shell of conformity, agreeableness, and fear-based agreements. An existence devoid of true vitality.
• Box-Checker
  An individual whose functioning is limited to following checklists and external rules, a direct result of losing the faculty for Direct Seeing.
• Direct Seeing
  The act of perceiving reality without the filter of the Mitoté (mental noise) or pre-existing agreements. The functional aspect of common sense.
• Art of Life
  The mastery of functioning in reality with presence and creativity, distinct from mere artistic skill. It is the application of Inner Engineering to daily existence.
• Curiosity
  Not idle interest, but the engine of deconstruction. The innate intent that drives one to question and step beyond the glass walls of their conditioning.
• Agreeableness (The Sellout Character)
  A survival strategy of the ego-structure that trades authenticity and vitality for social acceptance and the illusion of safety.
• Glass Ceilings / Walls
  Invisible agreements and limitations imposed by domestication that define the boundaries of a person's perceived reality and potential.
• Facing the Force
  The practice of meeting reality directly, without the buffer of mental stories, excuses, or 'silver linings.' To stand firm in what is.