Intuition arises in thé space between the intellectual, logical tind andthe more encompasing realm of prt. Logis how the sind knows reality; nition i how the spirit experiences realy Osho discussion ofthese mates i wonderily hic, occsion- ally fanny, and thoroughly engrossing. All people have a natural capacity fr inti, but often social condoning and Formal ed- cation work gaint People are taught to ignore thei instines, “gut felings,” and hunches, rather than to understand and use them asa foundation for individual growth and development and in the proces, the very rots of the innate wisdom that i scant to flower int into are undermined. Here, Osho als tout what non iad gives guideline for how dstinguish ‘between gene itv insight and the “wishflthinking” that can ofc ead to mistaken choices and unwanted consequences. “The meditation that fellows is technique to discover the space of whats often called the witness, which s where eal nto ition comes trom, ‘OsHo’s INSIGNT “Thee isa phenomenon called ineiton of which we have become almost unaware. We don know that anything like intuition exists, “nution isa totally diffrenkind of phenomenon from rea- son, Reason argues; reason uss a process to reach a conchsion, Tntiton amps—itis a quantum leap. knows no process. Itsim+ ply reaches t the conclusion without any proces "There have been many mathemaicians who could do any kind of mathematical problem without going into its proces “Theie Functioning was intuitive,TES eee eee eae eee 18} ACouse in Mediation “Mathematician have always been pursed by these freak phe- nomena, These people—how do they do i? Ifa mathematician were going to do this problem ic might take dhree hours or two hours or one hou. Even a computer will take atleast a fen min- ‘ues to doit, but thest people dont take a single moment, You say i and instantly. So in mathematies, intition is now a recogninad fac. When reason fils, only intuition can work. An all the great scientists Ihave become aware oft that all their great discoveries are made ‘not by reason bu by intuition, Madame Curie was working for three years upon a certain, problem and was trying to solve it fom many diretions. Every rection filed. One night, tterly echausted, she went w sep, and she decided, .. . The incident is almost ike Buddha, That night she decided, “Now itis enough Ihave wasted thre year Ie seems tobe a fatile search. Thave to drop i” ‘That night she roped it, and went to seep, Tn the nigh she got up in her sleep she went to her table and ‘wrote the answer. Then she went back, and fll nto sleep. In the ‘morning she could not even remember, but the answer was there fon the table. And there was aabody inthe room, and even if there hnad been somebody, the answer would not have been possible ‘She had been working for three yeart—one ofthe greatest minds cf this age. But there was nobody and the answer was there: Then she looked more minutely: it was her handwriting Then suddenly the dream surfaced. She remembered asifshe had seen a dream inthe night in which she was sitting at the table and writing some- thing, Then by and by everything surfaced. She had come to the conclusion from some other door which was not reason, It wae ar Inution Toon rom Wit ‘But fist the reaton had to be exhausted Intuition functions only when reason is exhausted. Intuition has no prota simply jumps from the problem to the conclusion. Its shortcut Tt isa fash, ‘We have corrupted intsition, Mans intuition is almost abso- Jutely corrupted. Womans intuition is not corrupted as much— that why women have something called # “hunch.” A hunch is just a Fragment ofintition. Now the woman cannot say how she now. There ie no way. Iti justa hunch, just a feling in the guts Bur that 10 is very corrupted, thas why itis just a flash. When yourhave dropped fixed ideas beeaute you have een taught that reacon is the only door to reach to any conclusion—when you Ihave dropped this fixation, this reason fixation, intuition starts flowering. Then ti not just ike a flash, itis a constantly available source. You can core your eyes and you can go into itand always ‘you can get the Fight direction from i ‘That’ what Ficher-Hofiman people [proponents ofa highly structure, ime limited, intensive psychotherapy) think of asthe side, Ihe process realy goes in... .Teis very dificult, beeause thot five layers have to be-erosed first. And I don‘ think many people are capable of it, even those who are in FsherHoffinan ‘therapy But the ideas perfectly right—if chose fve layers are bro- ken then something rises in you which can be called the guide, ‘You can always go into your intuition energy and you will abvays find the right adic. In the Bast dats what they have called the inner guru, your inner matte. Once your intuition has started functioning, you need not go and ask any outer guru for any advice Intuition ito bein tune with oneself, cotlly in tne with one~ self, And out ofthat tuning, solutions arse fom nowhere30 FA Gouneio Mediation THE MEDITATION: FINDING THE WITNESS “This technique,” says Osho in his Bot of Set, “is one of the very deep methods... Try to understand ths: eton ete o- ‘nau... Modern physiology, sient research, says that between the two eyebrows isthe gland which isthe mese mysterious part in the body. This gland, called the pineal gland, i the third eye ofthe Tibetans—isnts, the eye of Shiva, of Tantra. Between the two eyes there exists a nonfunctioning tied eye es there and can function at any moment, but i is not naturally fanetioning ‘You have to do something about it to open it. Ke snot blind, ii ‘Simply closed This technique isto open the third ee.” The Technique Gose your eyes and focus both your eyes just inthe middle ofthe «wo eyebrows Its asifyou ae loking with both your eyes, Give your total atenton ot ‘This is one of the simplest methods of being atentive. You «cannot be attentive to any other part ofthe body so easly. This sland absorbs attention like anything; if you give attention toi {your eyes become hypnotized by the third eye. They become fixed: they cannot move. Ifyou are trying tobe attentive to any ‘other part of the body ti dificult, This third eye catches at- tention, foes attention, It is a magnet for atenion. So spiritual tradition all over the word have used it Iis the simplest way to ‘rain attention, because no only are you trying tbe attentive, but the gland iself helps you; tis magnetic Focused at the third eye, suddenly you become & witness ‘Through the tied eye, you can te the thoughts running through Day as tnationTutlon fom Within $2 your mind lle clouds in the sky or lke people moving on the ‘You ae siting t your window looking tthe sky o at people inthe street; you are not identified. You are aloof, @ watcher on ‘he billdiffeent.Ifangeris there, you can look att as an object, [Now you dont fel tha you are angry. You fel chat you are sur- rounded by anger—a cloud of anger has come around you—but you are not the anger. Andi you are not che anger, the anger be= ‘comes impotent, iteannot affect you you remain untouched. The anger will come and go and you will remain centered in youre “This ean work in both directions: become a witness, and you willbe centered atthe tied eye... Try tobe a witness. Whatever is happenings try to be a witness to it. Ifyou are il the body i aching and painful, you have misery and suffering, whatever iti: be a witness tot. Whatever is happening, don't identity yourself with it, Be a witness—an observer. Then if witnessing becomes posse, you will be focused inthe third eye. The opposite is also the cate: i you are focused in the third ee, you will become a wit- ‘ness, These two things are part of one. ates win Na ntQuote of the Day (Once you star living the life of truth, ‘authenticity, of you orginal face, all roubles by and by disappear because your inner confit drops and you are no longer divided. Your voice thas a unity then, your whole being becomes an orchestra —0sh0