When you start looking inwardly to yourself, your emotions, your thoughts and sensations in your body you will notice that you can be a witness. You can start studying yourself, observing how your react and respond - treating your body as a laboratory.
You have to put aside all fixation, worries or thoughts and relax deeply. Recalling that state of deep rest while unconscious in deep sleep helps. Only you are wide awake and truly all alert. Fully in the present moment, focussed and on the ball.
In that state, there is no need for mind. Mind hinders. Mind rationalizes and intellectualizes and give you a loop of headaches.
Beyond the mind is not to use it at all. Only rest and letting go. Total surrender and trust to all the intelligence available. The air and atmosphere around us is full of intelligence and mystery. It has been here since beginless time.
The unknown is many times more powerful than the known. The mysterious is ever more powerful than the known. Most monks don’t prepare their talks or discourses. They just pluck it out it thin air. Complete in the momentness, complete surrender to spontaneity. Complete clarity of dialog and unpreparedness.
Intuition is seamless understanding with the cosmic consciousness. Practical intuition is interesting. It is the withdrawal of senses inward deeper and deeper to the depths of your soul. Digging into the emptiness of the moment, impromptuly. Being totally alert and sensitive with no hindrance from the mind.
Intuition reflects the intelligence from the universal force or energy unknown to man. It is an ageless energy with limitless intelligence and ever new creativity in the present moment. It is synchronicity and harmony within oneself with the flow of nature. It is the blending of harmonized energy. An openness of the being and heart does that naturally.
A blending of self with higher self. An osmosis of vibration in blissfulness of trust and courage of the heart and being. The mention of intuitive understanding in The Yoga of Jesus by Paramahansa Yogananda seemed esoteric and Gnostic at first but careful reading and relaxed openness revealed the Flow or energy which I experience first hand. Only criteria is don’t use the mind and trust the present moment … be like a feather in the wind. Move and drift with the spirit of the moment. Speak and act my truth relevant to the moment. It wells up abundantly, inexhaustibly from within the depths of your being.
One of the most fascinating thing about intuition is “…in appropriate respond.” There is no hard and fast rule about intuition. It is a frequency, resonating truth that fluxes/changes situation to situation and present moment to present moment.
“not always so…”. Even “not this and not that …” if we keep dropping our ideas, our mind and dig into soul, that emptiness – it seems at first like a void. There is no void. There is nothing not encompassed by space or air or the whole or the oneness. It is all inclusive and excludes non even intuition, even the unknowable.
Getting friendly and comfortable with the unknowable, the mysterious is a first step. Things are not linear in the gut-feeling world of intuition. You just know and it is enough. Better still is when you don’t question.
Questions are from the mind. No need to ask, no need to know. If it works – it works. Why is hot water hot? Why is love blind? No, don’t ask why. Just be and if you know you know, if you don’t know – it is just as comfortably fine too.
It is all good. It is as it is.
