○Consciousness [11]

     When you are unsure whether to do something or when you are forced to make a decision, stop for a moment and become no-minded. If it feels natural to move forward, do so, and if it feels natural to retreat, then retreat. When it is time to move forward intuitively, you can decide to move forward without hesitation, and if you decide not to move forward, it was not a strong enough impulse. Even if you decide not to do something for the time being, you may end up doing it because you cannot suppress the urge.

    In addition to intuition, actions and ideas can arise from emotional judgments, habitual thoughts, desires, and hunches. At that moment, you might think it's intuition, but after some time and when you calm down, you may feel it was not. In this case as well, stop before acting and become no-minded. If you are confused, it's not intuitive. Then, proceed if it feels natural to do so, and retreat if it feels natural to retreat. There are times when judgment based on emotions such as expectation, anger, and sympathy is not no-minded, and therefore may be wrong. To understand in yourself what is intuitive and what is not, experience similar situations many times, and analyze yourself whether that judgment was based on intuition, or it was due to something other than intuition. Then it becomes easier to understand what is intuitive.

    The difference between intuition and misunderstanding is razor-thin.

    Being present in consciousness and following pure impulses to let life unfold can lead to actions such as starting to create something or beginning something new, for no apparent reason. After experiencing this a few times, you may faintly see the larger flow of life and feel that preparation for the next step is happening. In this way, when you become no-minded, the path you should follow naturally becomes visible. As this becomes normal, you realize that life is not driven by desire, but is a single path followed by intuition. Thus, consciousness uses humans through intuition, and humans live beyond their ego as consciousness.

    By quietly observing life, you begin to feel that everything that happens in life, no matter how trivial, is happening because it is meant to. At a stage where you don't think this way, it seems coincidental.