Zen Intuition: The Ability to Anticipate the Future

 See also Zen Intuition and Zen Intuition: The Ability to Perceive a Situation as a Whole

Zen intuition in particular manifests itself as the ability to anticipate the future (usually it's limited to what concerns you), and in this cese it 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 run, which is not the case for Zen mind: in fact, Zen intuition, that is, mu, is also the understanding of what you should do in the long term although often you cannot predict what exactly in the long term will happen; it also entails an exciting and rather extravagant way of living - if you have nothing against this, Zen practice will make you a wise fool: you'll know exactly what to do though without knowing why* - you're not a prophet - but on the other hand, you'll also know what determines the expediency of your actions.**

The ability to anticipate the future is also directly related to creativity. You cannot create anything

Zen Intuition: The Ability to Anticipate the Future

 See also Zen Intuition and Zen Intuition: The Ability to Perceive a Situation as a Whole

Zen intuition in particular manifests itself as the ability to anticipate the future (usually it's limited to what concerns you), and in this cese it 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 run, which is not the case for Zen mind: in fact, Zen intuition, that is, mu, is also the understanding of what you should do in the long term although often you cannot predict what exactly in the long term will happen; it also entails an exciting and rather extravagant way of living - if you have nothing against this, Zen practice will make you a wise fool: you'll know exactly what to do though without knowing why* - you're not a prophet - but on the other hand, you'll also know what determines the expediency of your actions.**

The ability to anticipate the future is also directly related to creativity. You cannot create anything

General Rules for Overcoming Mental Problems

See also
The Main Obstacle,
One Wonderful Technique,
The Hell Gate 

 and here

At the heart of all mental problems are always ties (attachments in traditional Buddhist terminology); they hinder the expression of your true self, which is a pure negation. By mistake you identify yourself with your attachments, ie, instead of identifying yourself with your potential, you identify with the past. Therefore, in the long term, it makes no sense to separate attachments into 'bad', which cause suffering, and 'good', which cause positive emotions: to get rid of the former, you should start with the later, and there are several general rules how to do this effectively.

The Four Noble Truths :-)

The First Noble Truth: to reveal your true self, you should just remove the shit that obscures it; and don't be embarrassed by the fact that you have to create nothing but only to destroy.

The Hell Gate

See also
The Main Obstacle,
One Wonderful Technique,

 and here

So, What Makes the Female Aspect So Special? 

Let me remind you my thesis: if you have mental problems, obsessive thoughts, for example, you can't just remove them like a sick tooth leaving everything else as it was: you have to change yourself, change your attitude to the problem - sounds logical, but what does this really mean?

From my own experience of depression, if you feel depressed, in the end you still feel better, and only then you can change something. But if you already feel good, is it necessary to change anything?  And if yes, in what way? The first step, therefore, is to realize that you have problems not only when you're depressed but also when you're feeling high so the recovery will require much greater changes than just getting rid of some unpleasant symptoms. When we're depressed, we're obsessed with unpleasant thoughts, but the very thought obsession usually begins when we're feeling high - that's when we usually get seduced by tempting, happy thoughts, and later when we're exhausted, nightmares overtake us.

This is a general rule: unpleasant thoughts are preceded by pleasant ones; before unpleasant thoughts invade, pleasant thoughts must already prepare the ground for them: make us malleable. In fact, they are two sides of the same coin: pleasant thoughts are the cause of unpleasant - somehow they are associated - there is some reason why we became attached to our nightmares. So to get rid of a neurosis, you should start with its pleasant aspect - this at least will deprive the unpleasant aspect of its energy. What seduces you - I called it the female aspect - acts as a Trojan horse when it comes to entering within you, and the same substance is also the reason why negative experiences associated with it linger inside of you, so to reverse the neurosis, you should start again with its pleasant aspect.

Those dark sides of our personalities that Freud describes (and which shock some so much that they refuse to believe in them) manifest themselves only when we're merging with someone, that is, when we're creating new or maintaining old ties (any relationship, even altruistic, has its dark side.) But this doesn't mean that we're doomed to such duplicity: when seeking independence, we sever ties, we can well be honest with ourselves and others.

I prefer to talk about bonds, not attachments

It seems that everyone already understands that being attached to things is wrong. But somehow when it comes to attachments to people, especially our relatives and friends, even Buddhists don't dare to call things by their proper names. Therefore, to be clear, I will use the terms 'ties', 'bonds',  instead of 'attachment' whenever possible.

One Wonderful Technique

I continue describing the technique that will allow you to handle your mental problems - if you think you don't have any, perhaps you don't need this practice and this post is a reminder that for that you should already be sufficiently prepared. It's also about why the correct Zen practice is better than psychoanalysis, and in the end, I'll outline in general terms how works the very process of understanding, which would be just pointless philosophizing if in the following posts I weren't be going to give concrete practical recommendations how to have such an experience.