Intuition Is Never in a Rush

Yes, that’s a very good question, that’s a very good question. So, (what happens is that) don't try to know it too much in your head because that will also then become mental and the mind itself will use that to make you feel guilty. The mind itself will say ‘You are going too much in the mind.’ But I will give you some Hps. You will develop a kind of nose for it, you will be able to smell it a bit. So what will happen is that when the mind comes you will notice that the mind is always wanting something, it's grasping at something, it's always desires something or it has an aversion towards something. It's always saying that ‘Your life will be better if you just had this, if you just did this, if you just became Free, if you…’ it will have all these proposals for you. So first is that it's got a ‘clingy’ sort of smell, it's got a ‘needy’ sort of smell. We all have friends no? So we know some friends who always seem a bit needy, who always want something and some friends are just super chill, you can just be around them, they don’t have much expectations from you, it’s so comfortable to be around them. So you will notice that the mind is always like that needy friend, it's always like that clingy friend who is saying ‘Oh let's do this, let’s get this.’ So that’s the first Hp. The second Hp is that intuition is never in a rush and the mind is only in the rush. It [the mind] will say ‘Not only do I want it all, I want it right now. Do whatever you have to, just want it right now.’ It’s always rushing and it never allows you to be open for a moment. Anytime you are a bit open and empty it will come with some ideas, some prepositions saying ‘Why you are wasting time? Enquire or what’s this? You read a book, do something.’ It just doesn’t allow you to just remain open and empty by yourself. So that is the second Hp. It's always rushing, it's always saying ‘Get it, get it…but get it now.’ So in this way, so needy, rushy, it has those attributes. Notice that in your intuition, when there is intuitive guidance, it is not accompanied by feeling of resentment or guilt, it’s always a bit more spacious. But the mind when it’s coming with these messages it’s always oppressive, it seems a bit like it’s imposing (is maybe the right term). But intuition never imposes. It is just there, it may give you guidance in perceivable or unperceivable ways. But your mind will always come with a like (the best way to put it is) a bad smell, a bit of a bad smell. But now I have given you some clues and as you start to notice, you will start to recognize that more and more. Just make sure that as you are doing this experimentation don’t make it very mental; otherwise this mind will want to own this experiment also and say ‘Haan, haan lets find the mind, let’s figure it out, let’s do it now’ and you won’t recognize it because its saying all those stuff which I have said. It’s in a rush, it wants something but because it is claiming to be your friend then sometimes we say ‘Okay, you are going to help me on this path.’ But don’t allow it to play that role. Neither friend nor an enemy, just allow it to be a neutral set of appearances.

It could be my dear, there is no, there is no rule like that. In fact many times it is also said that ‘The first voice you hear is the mind’ so… And that also comes because for many people their idea of Freedom is full freedom for the mind. I don’t know if you understand Hindi (but if you understand) if you ask most people their idea of Freedom, if you ask them what is your idea of Freedom? They will say ‘Jo mann mein aya main karoonga’ it means ‘whatever my mind wants I will do’, isn’t it? That’s what most people think. So the mind has convinced them that Freedom is actually the freedom for the mind itself. Not from it! So that which we need to Free from that itself is convinced that ‘This one should get full Freedom.’ That is the thing. So if they follow that rules is that the first voice you hear is the true voice then the mind can have a field day. Because it has no problem coming up [Clicking of figures] with things fast. It can really come with very bad ideas very quickly.

It’s fine, it’s fine. You don’t have to balance anything. Even this is a daydream only. [Sangha Smiles] Don’t have to worry about that. Whatever is being met with your pure perception which means un-interpreted… Met with open and emptiness whatever imagery is showing up is just imagery perceptions that is showing up. We cannot have any real way of saying this is…like sometimes I ask some silly questions like ‘How do you know that this is not just a memory from some ten thousand years ago or how can we not be having this conversation in a dream and if we could be having this conversation in a dream then how do we know that this is not that dream?’ So we don’t need to be so concerned about that. Whatever the imagery may be coming as long as you are not buying into the subtitles or the narrative of it, it’s completely fine.