श्रीरामSatsang with Ananta
Awareness & Attention

Trust the Silence of Your Intuition

Trust your silent intuition over mental guidance, and when free from fear, recognize that life itself shows you what to do - the mind's categories of body and world are false abstractions.

Seeker

Like tuning fork… or the way to know or to sense when to do what. Maybe is the deeper undercurrent of the quesHon.

Ananta

When we are feeling unsure, when we are feeling fearful or unsure in some way then the tuning fork is our own IntuiHon. It is our own IntuiHon, our own Heart guidance which is… where something is just mental and something is intuiHve. So that's why I have been also saying that ‘Trust the silence of your IntuiOon.’ Because the IntuiHon is not like our mind which is constantly full of ideas, usually bad ideas. Trust the silence of your IntuiHon more than the highest noHon from your mind - which means that do not get disheartened if you don't feel like you got tangible guidance or worldly guidance about what to do. Trust that silence and allow it to unfold, be paHent with that. But if we are not fearful and we are not unsure and we are not looking for this kind of guidance ‘lee, lee or right, right’ then life itself is the tuning fork, life itself is a tuning fork. And in life itself there is no boundary around this body saying that ‘this is you and the rest is the word.’ These are just conceptual categories that we have named so that we can create a story. Like the humanity has made these conceptual abstracHons. So it says it's too complicated if you were to say ‘Okay head, neck, chest, stomach, thighs, legs, thighs, calves, toes’ so instead of that (like in every situaHon if you have to insert yourself in that way it would seem like too much work) we say body. What body? Body equals all of this. [One hand poinHng his body] And in every situaHon if you had to include everything that you perceive instead of using the term ‘world’ – ‘light, sound, this one, that one, space’ all of this then it would be too difficult for the mind to create a story. So therefore the mind loves understanding which is based on these abstracHons to which you can say ‘world’, ‘body’, ‘me’, ‘other’ (like this kind of abstracHon) without having to really look what is even being perceived. Have I gone too far with stuff like this? No, I am just asking us to look how difficult the life of the mind would be if we did not give it the ability to label just these broad categories in this way, then the story making would be so difficult and let's make it a bit difficult for the mind, instead of easier. [Smile] So these narraHves are all false. We know it is all false. When we look for even what to do and it's all right I don't want to sound too strong about this. It's all right, we look for what to do it's okay… we are obviously taking ourselves to be body- mind at some level when you are looking for that guidance and that's all right. But someHmes when we are not too much under pressure of the situaHon then we can also say ‘but guidance for whom?’ Who is the guidance for? Does that one actually exists? So just to clarify, when there is fear and there is a sort of wobbliness about ‘What am I going to do? What should I be doing?’ then we can go intuiHvely and do not rush into the answer. If there is no fear of wobbliness, life itself is showing us. Our feet, our hands, our mouths, itself is showing us. I have no idea what is going to come out of this mouth next but I trust it. It is just speaking, I am also hearing and it is very free. If I had to think about everything that is going to come out from this, it would seem like a lot of work. There is this trust. I am hearing these words just like you are not hearing these words, I am also hearing these words. It is coming, who is saying that? Just in the light of Consciousness they are appearing. So life is showing us what it is [and] then we can trust that and then when it is not feeling like so much pressure about decision making, we can just ask to ourselves as an inquiry ‘But who would who is here that would need guidance? Who is here?’

Key Teachings

  • Trust the silence of your intuition more than the highest notion from your mind - intuition is not filled with ideas like the mind
  • When there is no fear or wobbliness, life itself is the tuning fork - your hands, feet, and mouth naturally show you what to do without mental effort
  • The mind creates conceptual abstractions (body, world, me, other) to simplify story-making, but these are false categories that obscure direct knowing
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From: What Do You Find Without the Mind? - 21st August 2020