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Choice of the Intelligence

Remember watching the movie Jurassic Park in the cinema hall. It made us jump out of our seats. Each of us remembers watching movies full of thrills. The hero takes unimaginable risks, finds highly innovative solutions, and emerges from danger with absolute presence of mind. We love to watch movies like Sultan, where the hero, with passion and perseverance, champions a game that is very difficult and dangerous to play. What is so great about these movies? Why do we want to watch them? We love daredevils on the screen, but when it comes to our own lives, then? We play it safe. We make decisions that invite the least risk. 

As if we are divided into two parts. The first one wants to explore and take risks, like the hero Sultan, and the Second one wants to stay away from risk. Often, the second part overpowers the first one in real life, and probably the first one gets frustrated due to these compromises, and that's why it goes to the cinema halls again and again to watch these movies so that it can live its life at least for a few hours. As the lights in the cinema hall are turned off, the first part takes on the role and enjoys every moment as the movie's hero. It remains completely vigilant during the movie. So much so that it feels every punch that hits Sultan's face. The second part knows this is just a movie, which is why it lets the first part enjoy those three hours. Suppose there is a fire alarm in the cinema hall. The second part will again overpower, and the hero would be the first one to run away from the cinema hall. 

Survival is a natural instinct of all human beings. There is no doubt about it. If there is fire, only a fool will not run away or try to escape. In the event of an earthquake, everyone has to run to safer ground. When there is a real danger, we will obviously be on high alert and do everything we can to protect ourselves. There are no two opinions about it. However, such dangerous situations are rare. Most of the time, we feel threatened due to our own mental stories. The story that if we run short of money, our lives will be miserable. If we do something that is not approved by our neighbours and society in general, our lives will be miserable. If we contradict a senior's view, he will make our lives hell. If we do not follow the rituals followed by the masses, we will not be accepted by society. Most of these beliefs are our own mental stories made by an insecure mind. When we restrict ourselves from exploring, which the first part of the self likes, we cause very serious harm to ourselves. 

Actually, the second part of the self can, at most, make us feel safe. It has nothing to do with joy and fulfilment. Of course, it has its own place. Unless we survive, how will we do anything creative in this world? Yet, once we are safe enough, being driven by survival is stupid. If we spend all our time and energy ensuring our survival, we are going to live a hollow life and die with the same hollowness. That's why any smart person would spend the minimum time and energy on survival so that he can use his maximum time and energy for exploration with love, working for a cause driven by compassion, creating something with like-minded people, playing a game to test the limits of endurance, writing books to explore the depths of a subject, to understand the occult, to understand and discover something that has been understood by none in this world, and to ponder over and really examine within and outside the most fundamental question: "who an I?". Intelligence knows that joy is not in surviving in more and more comforts or affluence. That's just a story which the mind has made. Joy is always in exploration. Joy is always in living with love and freedom. Joy is always in expanding the framework of life. Joy is always in challenging "who I think I am" to know "who I am". 

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