Welcome home! Please contact lincoln@icrontic.com if you have any difficulty logging in or using the site. New registrations must be manually approved which may take several days. Can't log in? Try clearing your browser's cookies.
Intuition
ClayTheScribe
Veteran
What role does intuition play in your meditation practice and daily mindfulness practice?
0
Comments
In my practice there is some intuition in deciding what would be good for the practice. Or just intuiting that you are spending to much time on other pursuits.
Some of what we call intuition may come from our picking up subtle cues and information, and putting it together in our subconscious mind. Some comes from an unconscious reading of other people's energy fields and/or a subtle mind connection, if it's true that mind has non-local properties. Some may come from a tuning-in to ourselves and different levels of ourselves or our mind. It's a mysterious thing, isn't it? I like the direction in which this discussion is headed.
On a gut level we're often able to make use of our knowledge and experience in a way that doesn't reach our concious mind. Learning how to properly listen to this is tapping into our intuition.
There's also many anecdotes of people who have struggled with a problem for a while with no results. Then when they let go, either take a break or at night in their sleep, the answer suddenly just occurs to them.
Here's a link to a good public radio interview with an author and science blogger that studies how we make these unconcious decisions.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/10/24/midmorning1/
when one is free from thoughts. one can actively engage with other faculties. the eyes or non verbal. or the mind or non conceptual thoughts. how about feelings that are just non conceptual sensations.
when no story or clinging of experience occurs, then everything becomes utterly the same and pure.
but like all things.
it doesn't arise from somewhere, nor do you create it.
dependently arisen! staying for a moment and then ceasing.
With regards to mindfulness and buddhist practice, I have never really contemplated how the two merge. A lot of wisdom comes from simple observation, sitting and observing our world with the 6 sensory doors. Personally not being a good meditator to say the least, maybe in deep meditations your intuition becomes stronger, I do not know...
Everything is intimately here, not two. What is not here is merely abstraction.
Just these six streams of conscious experience. Seperate yet interdependent. Infinite finites arising and falling!
Come to find out later he had been one of America's Most Wanted for robbing a bank,among his many other crimes. He did time. He's on two out of three strikes legally. He is totally anti-social, but very "charming" by many accounts. There is much more to this story,however I will spare you the details.
I think intuition may depend on how you grow up to some extent, how we learn to read people by their body language,actions, or both. Intuition can border into paranoia depending on if there was abuse, for instance. It is then a trust issue.
People who grow up in a more insulated environ have fewer reasons to "alert" if you will.
So it could be chemicals like pheromones that people give off, body language, manner of speech,energy...just subtleties that we either consciously or subconsciously pick up on. Whatever it is I believe it to be valuable,personally.
Not sure how or if it applies in meditation, however I think it is a form of mindfulness, listening to our "gut" instincts.
the knowing that occurs prior to conceptualization is what i would call intuition.
The Institute of Noetic Science in CA did an experiment, scientifically controlled, that demonstrated that humans are able to foresee events in the near future. The researchers came to the conclusion that this is an innate ability. www.noetic.org There's a book advertised on the site: "Entangled Minds", that addresses aspects of intuition, non-local mind, etc., that looks pretty interesting.
@ClaytheScribe Eloquent post. I basically agree.
I do not know what force it is that interacts with us, ESP whatever, but it is there and some people are more sensitive to it than others, just like some people have a stronger sense of taste or better vision. Each sense uses a different phenemonena in this world, eyes-light, ears-virbrations and so on.
Also, a bridge collapsed in my town many years ago. A lot of people I know apparently had dreams of it collapsing a week before it happened. My girlfriend's mom included. They kind of stayed away from it then.
Not to mention little things happening, for example: one day I was taking my Xbox over to play with my girlfriend's nephew... and when I was about halfway there, I just had a weird feeling that I should check my backpack. I did, and some cords were missing. If I would have kept walking, I would have gotten there and had to have walked all the way back to get the cords. Strange that I just felt the need to double check my backpack when I was sure everything was there.
Like empathy....could be described as intuition. So could inferring patterns and reading between the lines.
Anyway, I was with one friend and his dog walking through an old quarry that has an exstenive walk way around it. It is shrouded in bushes and trees throughout. We were both on MDMA (ecstasy) and we decided to climb over this wire fence without thinking about why it would be there. It was very dark as it was night time and summer, so the trees were full of leaves shunning the moonlight out. We walked ahead a few paces whilst my friends dog was running around somewhere. We were both side by side walking through short trees and bushes not able to see anything at all really and I suddenly just stopped and subsequently so did my friend next to me. I suggested that we should get out the flash light and so he pulled it from his pocket and we then realized that literally now less than one metre in front of us was a 40 or so foot drop. That put him into a state of shock for a while and I did not say anything for a couple of minutes as we turned around contemplating what nearly happened.
I do not believe your experience is individualised or rare, it happens and it seems there are enough beings in this world now who share this. Sounds like a journey, thankyou for sharing it.
Namaste.