Zen Intuition

At the beginning of Zen training, you tried to be just rational - this was necessary to ensure objective perception - but after that, this sense of reality you acquired during the practice, mu, became your new intuition. 

Zen intuition can be considered twofold: first, it's the ability to perceive a situation as a whole; and, secondly, the ability to anticipate the future. In fact, these are two sides of the same coin: if you're perceiving a situation as a whole, every present moment is coming for you from the future, and vice versa. The practice described in this blog just such a perception develops.

The ability to perceive a situation as a whole, first of all, allows you to highlight the essence of the information you're receiving; it also gives you acumen and the ability to distinguish any attempt to manipulate you.

The ability to anticipate the future (usually it's about your future), above all, enables you to understand a situation without thinking: you begin to understand  what is happening around when you see what will happen next. But very often stupidity is the inability to see what will happen in the long term, which is not the case for Zen mind:* in fact, Zen intuition, that is, mu, is the understanding of what you should do in the long term although often you cannot predict what exactly in the long term will happen. However, it should be noted that following this guidance entails an exciting and rather extravagant way of living; if you have nothing anything against this, Zen practice will make you a wise fool: you will know exactly what to do though without knowing why - you're not a prophet - but on the other hand, you will also know what determines the expediency of your actions.

The ability to anticipate the future is also directly related to creativity. You can't create anything fundamentally new empirically. A new model, the very principle, must appear at once as a whole - as if somewhere it'd already been ready - only then the details become clear; you have the impression that the thought process in this case comes from the future to present.

I'm going to show you in the next few posts that all these benefits that I've just listed can be naturally achieved through the practice I describe in this blog, and I'll give you some practical advice as well.

There is also one more thing that I can't disregard anymore since this can hamper your practice. Sometimes it's very difficult to perceive things as they are - truth seems clouded - why is this so, and what can be done in this case? When I started writing this blog, I promised you that I'd unveil something scandalous. I also promised that I'd reveal how the very process of understanding works, didn't I?
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*It's only a Zen disciple can try to pour water into a basket, but an enlightened adept somehow becomes wise enough to understand that a basket is not suitable for such use.