Into the Depths of I - Part1
Recording 01 of 02
Who ‘I’ am - Instinctual intelligence
The talk begins with wonder at nature’s instinctual life and turns that wonder into a demand: be intelligent now, not by thinking, believing, or remembering, but by being open and still in the body.
LENGTH: 56 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 2000
PLACE RECORDED: GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Instinctual intelligence, No I in Being, I me and my self
SUMMARY
Instinctual intelligence is presented as the only intelligence, immediate and without pause. Thought, belief, and feeling are described as second-hand, because they require a gap—an absence of now—and therefore cannot test what is being said in one's own intelligent experience. The pause before answering even simple questions exposes the lack of immediacy.
The teaching insists on first-hand listening: do not refer to what is 'known' in the body as belief or opinion, but stay open and still, so the words can be verified directly. Nature's ingenuity—crabs, insects, nests—stands as a living display of intelligence without an 'I'. Intelligence is not a clever mind; it is the living order that does not need to think.
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