Watch and Wait: relaxing and waking up - instinct and intuition (OSHO Singles) by Osho Media International

Author:Osho Media International [International, Osho Media]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Osho Media International
Published: 2013-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

Osho,

Please could you talk about the subtle differences between instinct and intuition?

Your individuality can be divided just for the purpose of understanding it; otherwise there is no division. It is one single unity, whole: the head, the heart, and the being.

Intellect is the functioning of the head, instinct is the functioning of your body, intuition is the functioning of your heart. And behind these three is your being, whose only quality is witnessing.

The head only thinks; hence it never comes to any conclusion. It is verbal, linguistic, logical, but because it has no roots in reality, thousands of years of philosophical thinking have not given us a single conclusion. Philosophy has been the greatest exercise in futility.

Intellect is very clever in creating questions and then creating answers, and then out of those answers, more questions and more answers. It can make palaces of words, systems of theories, but they are all just hot air.

The body cannot rely on your intellect, because the body has to live. That’s why all essential functions of the body are in the hands of instinct – for example breathing, heartbeat, digestion of your food, circulation of the blood – a thousand and one processes are going inside your body in which you have no part at all. And it is good that nature has given body its own wisdom. Otherwise, if your intellect were to take care of the body, life would be impossible because sometimes you may forget to breathe – at least in the night, how will you breathe while you are asleep?

You are already so confused just with thoughts; in this confusion, who will take care about the blood circulation – whether right amount of oxygen is reaching to your cells or not? Whether the food that you are eating is being broken down into its basic constituents, and those basic constituents are being sent where they are needed? Something is needed by your bones, it goes to the bones; something is needed by your brain, it goes to the brain; something is needed by your skin, it goes to the skin. And continuously, twenty-four hours, dead cells have to be removed; otherwise they will block the passage of blood circulation.

You may never have thought about it: when you cut your hair, why don’t you feel pain? Cut your fingers and you feel pain. Hairs are also part of your body, just as your fingers, but why don’t you feel any pain when cutting your hair? Hairs are the dead cells of the body; that’s why you don’t feel hurt. Nails are also made of dead cells of the body; that’s why you can cut them. And this whole, tremendous amount of work is done by instinct. You are not needed. You can remain in a coma; still the body will continue to work.

I have seen one woman who was in a coma for nine months. The doctors had said that she would never revive, and even if she did revive, she

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