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

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.

When in such a state of no-mind you look, even a nazunia is transported into another world. It becomes a lotus of paradise, it is no longer part of the earth; the extraordinary has been found in the ordinary. And this is the way of a buddha. To find the extraordinary in the ordinary, to find all in the now, to find the whole in this—Gautam Buddha calls it tathata.

So what is success to us? Success is ego fulfillment, not bliss. It is just so that people will say that you have succeeded. You may have lost everything—you may have lost your soul; you may have lost all that innocence that gives bliss; you may have lost all that peace, silence, that brings you nearer to the divine. You may have lost all and become just a madman—but the world will say you are a success.
For the world, ego gratification is the success; for me it is not. For me, to be blissful is success—whether anyone knows about you or not.

Wisdom comes from the heart, it is not of the intellect. Wisdom comes from the innermost depth of your being, it is not of the head.
Cut your head off, be headless—and follow the being wherever it leads. Even if it leads into danger, go into danger, because that will be the path for you and your growth. Follow it, trust it, and move with it.

Be unworried. Sit down under a tree and just allow thoughts to drop and subside. Just wait, don’t think. Don’t create the problem, just wait. And when you feel a moment of nonthinking has come, then stand up and start moving. Wheresoever your body moves, allow it to move. You just be a witness. Don’t interfere. The lost path can easily be found. But the only condition is, don’t allow the mind to interfere.

Thinking can think only about something that is already known. You are lost in a forest, you don’t have any map, there is nobody you can ask. What are you thinking about? But still you think. That thinking will be just a worry, not a thinking. And the more you get worried, the less the inner guide can be competent.