Intuition: Knowing Beyond Logic (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)

Like instinct, at the other polarity of your being—beyond the mind, which is the world of intellect—is the world of intuition.
Intuition opens its doors through meditation. Meditation is simply a knocking on the doors of intuition. Intuition is also completely ready. It does not grow; you have inherited that too from existence. Intuition is your consciousness, your being.

The intellect is fallible because it is new, a recent arrival. It is just groping in the dark, still trying to find out what it is and where it belongs. And because it does not have roots in experience, it substitutes experience with beliefs, philosophies, ideologies. They become the focus of intellect. But they are all fallible because they are all man-made, manufactured by some clever guy.

Instinct is what belongs to your animal past. It is very old, solid; it is the inheritance of millions of years. And when I say it is animal-like, I am not condemning it. With the word animal the priests of all religions have associated some condemnation—but I am simply stating a fact, with no condemnation at all. Our past was an animal past. We have passed through all kinds of animals; our evolution has been from fish up to man, passing through all the species of animals. It has been a long, long journey to arrive at mankind.
Intellect is human. It is our present. That’s how we function, through intellect. All our sciences, all our businesses, all our professions, whatever is going on in the world—our politics, our religion, our philosophy—they are all based on intellect. Intellect is human.

And if your head, your heart, and your body are all in a symphony, then to find your being is the easiest thing in the world. But because they are in conflict, your whole life goes on being wasted in that conflict, conflict between instinct and intellect and intuition.

Intellect has its use, but by some misfortune it has become the master of your whole being. That has created immense troubles in the world.

Reason is an effort to know the unknown
and intuition is the happening of the unknowable.
To penetrate the unknowable is possible,
but to explain it is not.
The feeling is possible,
the explanation is not.

Tennyson intellectualizes the whole phenomenon and destroys its beauty.
Tennyson represents the West, Bashrepresents the East. Tennyson represents the male mind, Bashrepresents the feminine mind. Tennyson represents the mind, Bashrepresents the no-mind.

And you can go on searching for God and you will not find him anywhere, because he is everywhere. The mind is going to miss him, because the mind would like him to be an object and God is not an object.
God is a vibe.

The trees are green, but the greenness does not transform you into a dancer, into a singer. It does not trigger a poetry in your being, because you know the explanation: it is chlorophyll that is making the trees green. So nothing of poetry is left. When the explanation is there, the poetry disappears. And all explanations are utilitarian, they are not ultimate.

Unless mind knows everything, it remains afraid—because knowledge gives power. If there is something mysterious, you are bound to remain afraid because the mysterious cannot be controlled. And who knows what is hidden in the mysterious? Maybe the enemy, maybe a danger, some insecurity? And who knows what it is going to do to you? Before it can do anything, it has to be understood, it has to be known. Nothing can be left as mysterious.