The purpose of education is to prepare oneself with the knowledge and skills necessary to make good decisions and improve one's overall situation.
Education is basically about developing an increasingly accurate and useful understanding of one's overall situation, including one's own ability to modify one's overall situation.
Advanced Education is centered on helping individuals recognize their own abilities and supporting them in developing their abilities even further.
Advanced Education is focused on improving all of one's existing abilities. If you can see, you can learn to see more clearly. If you can think, you can learn to think more clearly, more creatively, more intelligently. If you can move your body, you can learn to increase your strength, dexterity, flexibility, agility, endurance and efficiency in your movements. If you can learn, you can learn to learn more quickly, more thoroughly. If you can make choices, you can learn to improve the quality of the choices you make. If you can enjoy living, you can learn to enjoy living more fully. If you can do something, you can learn to improve at it.
Advanced Education relies on the determination of individuals to improve their overall situation and the cooperation of others with complementary goals.
Advanced Education relies on an accurate perception of one's situation and one's abilities. One cannot make good decisions without an accute understanding of one's situation and one's options.
To develop a more accurate perception of one's situation and one's abilities, one must improve sensory, perceptive and cognitive abilities. To improve sensory and perceptive abilities, one must learn to be more alert to each moment of experience and pay attention to the details and to the larger patterns of experience. To improve cognitive abilities, one must learn to be more alert to one's own thinking and pay attention to the more subtle aspects of thinking, to pay close attention to all the cascades of thoughts that every experience triggers. To develop a more accurate perception of one's situation and one's abilities, one must pay close attention to one's current situation and abilities.
Advanced Education relies on the commitment of the individual to improve all their skills and abilities. To improve one's skills and abilities, one must use one's skills often and pay close attention to all one's actions as one is performing them. This provides instant feedback and assists in quick self-correction of behavior.
The most basic lesson in Advanced Education is to pay intense attention to the present moment. All other lessons rely on that lesson. With practice, paying intense attention to the present moment becomes easier as it becomes a normal aspect of one's behavior. The present moment is considered the most important moment because it is when one makes choices, and learning to make choices which improve one's overall situation is the main point of Advanced Education.
don't hurry
don't worry
just watch carefully
and do what is appropriate right now
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