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

Author:Osho
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

In a better world the people of intuition will be the guiding lights for those who can understand them I intellectually, And the intellectual politicians—professors, the intelligentsia, theoreticians—will be the guide for the instinctive politicians. Only this way can the world be at ease.

Buddha said, “You have just to be silent for two years.” That was a simple process for every challenger who came—and many came: “Two years’ complete silence and then you can ask any question.” And two years’ silence is enough, more than enough. After two years they have even forgotten their own names, they have forgotten all challenge, all idea of victory. They have tasted the man. They have tasted his truth.

So on the intuitive level there is no politics at all.

In a better world the people of intuition will be the guiding lights for those who can at least understand them intellectually. And the intellectual politicians—professors of politics, the intelligentsia, theoreticians—they will be the guide for the instinctive politicians. Only this way can the world be at ease, live at ease.

The light should come from the highest level. It will have to be passed through the second category, because only then may the third category be able to catch hold of something of it; the second category will function as a bridge. That’s how it was in ancient India.

It happened once … .

The really intuitive people lived in the forests or in the mountains, and the intellectuals—the professors, the pundits, the scholars, the prime ministers—used to come to them with their problems because, they said, “We are blind—you have eyes.” It happened to Buddha. He was conducting his camp by the side of a river, and on both sides armies were standing. There were two kingdoms and the river was the boundary, and they had been fighting for generations over which kingdom the river belonged to, because the water was valuable. And they had not been able to decide—so many times they had made the river red with blood and the fight had continued.

Buddha had his camp there and the generals of both the armies came to him. Just by chance, they each entered his camp at the same time and saw each other. They were shocked at this strange coincidence, but now there was no way to go back. Buddha said, “Don’t be worried; it is good that you have come together. You both are blind, your predecessors have been blind. The river goes on flowing, and you go on killing people. Can’t you see a simple fact? You both need water, and the river is big enough.

“There is no need to possess the river—and who can be the possessor? All the water is flowing into the ocean. Why can’t both of you use it? One side belongs to one kingdom, the other side belongs to the other kingdom—there is no problem. And there is no need even to draw a line in the middle of the river because lines cannot be drawn on water. Use the water, rather than fighting.

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