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intellect, and intellect is a lower phenomenon that intuition. The higher can understand the lower, but the lower cannot understand the higher. Intuition can understand intellect. It understands perfectly what it is -- just a bio-computer and nothing else, a mechanism, beautiful mechanism to be used -- but not to be used by it. But the mechanism cannot understand intuition. It is like: you are driving a car. You can understand the mechanism of the car, but the car cannot understand the driver. That is impossible!
You forget about it! You enjoy its unclarity, its poeticness -- call it its poetry, not unclarity. Enjoy the dim light that is there. It is not a twilight. Don't ask that it should be full noon. It is not and it cannot be. And go with it, trust it.
And I am not saying that you will always find that it has been profitable. Sometimes you will be a loser following it; sometimes you will feel you have gone wrong following it. I am not promising you that you will always be right. But one thing I can say certainly, absolutely: that it is better to be wrong with intuition than to be right with intellect. It is better to go astray with intuition than to be always right with the intellect.
Following the higher in itself is a virtue. Certainly when you start moving upwards you can fall, you can go astray. It is not a superhighway; it is a labyrinth in the jungle of life. You may be lost, but getting lost is beautiful. And you will learn much by being lost and you will understand much by being in the wrong, by going wrong, by going astray. Each going astray will bring you closer and closer to the home.
Snap Your Fingers, Slap Your Face and Wake Up!
Chapter #9
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9 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7906095
ShortTitle: WAKEUP09
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Veet Atito -- beyond the past....
The only problem that a seeker of truth has to encounter is the past. It is the past that stands between you and the reality; it is the past that functions as a barrier. It does not allow you to see that which is. It goes on interfering, distorting, interpreting.
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