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be suicidal. Don't continue to practice a technique that is not helping you. The method is for you, not you for the method. If something is not working for you, change it.
Practice Dynamic Meditation and awareness of breathing. In a very short time you will feel the change that is happening inside you. But you need a chaotic method -- one that will not become routine.
The Great Challenge
Chapter #5
Chapter title: The vital balance
6 January 1971 pm
Archive code: 7101065
ShortTitle: GCHALL05
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Question 1
IN OUR CIVILIZATION, PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE LIKE ME HAVE A PARTICULAR PROBLEM: WE MAKE TOO MUCH USE OF OUR INTELLIGENCE, SO MUCH SO THAT WE TEND TO VIEW LIFE THROUGH THE INTELLECT ONLY, THUS NEGATING ALL OTHER MEANS OF DOING SO. THIS TENDS TO MAKE LIFE BORING AND DULL, AND ROBS IT OF ITS LUSTER.
No one can use his intellect too much. It is such a great force, with so much potential, that you cannot use it too much. Not only do you not use it too much, but you never even use it totally. Ordinarily, you do not use more than ten to fifteen percent of your total intellectual potential.
And another thing: when you do intellectual work it does not necessarily mean that you are using your intelligence. Intellectual work, too, is mechanical. Once you acquire the know-how, no intelligence is required at all; the mind works just like a computer.
The real problem is not the use of too much intelligence but the non-use of emotion. Emotion is completely disregarded in our civilization, so the balance is lost and a lopsided personality develops. If emotion is also used, then there is no imbalance.
A balance of emotion and intellect must be maintained in the proper ratio; otherwise the whole personality gets diseased. It is just like using only one leg. You may keep on using it, but you get nowhere; you simply tire yourself. The other leg must be used. Emotion and intellect are like two wings: when we use only one wing the outcome will be frustration. Then the bliss that comes from using both wings simultaneously, in balance and harmony, is
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