3. Beyond the head is the gate to loving Intelligence🔗

Once, a father and son checked into a cheap motel at night. The father tucked in the son to sleep and switched off the light assuring the son, ‘Don’t be afraid, son. The angels are watching over you.’ ‘I know,’ said the boy. ‘Two of them just bit me!’

Operating with intelligence is the process of going back to the innocence you were born with. It is not a process of becoming.

It is not attaining something new, it is discovering your very being. It is the true door to knowing you as you truly are. When you are intellectual, you operate purely from the head, from logic.

A small story: A man was working on his doctorate in philosophy. He was so involved in his studies and research, his wife thought he would forget her if he was not reminded of her once in a while.

So one day, she casually mentioned to him, ‘Honey, what is the one reason you love me so much?’

The man asked very seriously, ‘When you say ‘so much’ are you referring to the depth, quality, quantity or mode of expression?’ When you are too caught in the head, you start thinking that your logic, your head, can understand the whole of life. You try to frame everything in this universe with your head.

Another small story: Once, a student had freshly graduated in a course on plumbing. He went with his friends on a sight-seeing tour to Niagara Falls. He took a look at the huge Falls and said, ‘I think I can fix it!’

Your knowledge gives you the false illusion of knowing everything that exists. It keeps you firmly rooted in the head.

When your intelligence awakens, you drop from the head to the heart, from logic to love. Then, you operate neither from pure intellect nor from pure sentimental love. You operate just from loving intelligence, and you automatically radiate compassion to all of those around you.

A small story: Once, three wise men set out on a travel journey to the city with the hope that they would learn more about life. They entered a big city and were surprised to see a very tall building, a skyscraper in the distance. They wondered what it might be.

They grouped and discussed what to do. They were afraid to go near and see for themselves thinking what if it had something dangerous in it. What if they did not know how to come out?

So, they decided it was better to find out before they ventured inside.

They analyzed and came up with all the things it could possibly be, based on all their past experiences.

Finally, they concluded it was something too big for human beings and it must belong to giants. So, it was not safe for them to be in this city of giants. Very satisfied that they had gained this new knowledge, they picked up their bags and went back to their village!

So you see there is not much you can understand from past knowledge. You cannot think about something in the mind and try to understand everything about it in that way. You need to see it, to experience it in order to fully understand. It is like the man who saw the water of Niagara Falls in a bucket and thought he knew what the Falls looked like! You rely on thinking because you do not allow the natural understanding to happen. When you allow the understanding to happen, you don't have to think any more. Only a person who has not understood needs the crutch of thinking. One more thing: you can only think about what you have known, what you have experienced. Can you think about anything u n k n o w n ? You may fantasize about what the unknown could be, but that is still based on what you have seen in the past.

With thinking, the energy of intelligence and truth is not there, so the answer will be based on your limited experience and it will always lead to further questions and doubts. Understanding is intelligence, it is fresh and new.

Intelligence is clear, so it gives answers and not further questions. It is the answer from your very being, so it is nothing but the truth. Even if the answer that comes is 'I don't know', the ignorance is closer to the truth than pretending to know.

Not falling back on the answers rising from the past memory but functioning from your present consciousness is called understanding.