the spine ·the mind

24 · Insight

From Inside

the practice

Insight — the practice →

The view that is only available from inside.

what it is

What do you see when you remove what you expected to see?

its phraseMove from above it to inside it. The view changes completely.
where it sitsThe position-shift — inside the situation rather than above it

the pair

Intuition. Both Antardrishti and Pratibha move beneath the surface of what the mind usually calls knowledge. Pratibha arrives before the question is fully formed. Antardrishti arrives by moving inside the question rather than staying outside it. One is pre-verbal. One is positional. Together they are the two movements of non-analytical intelligence — the flash and the shift. A mind that can do both can reach places that analysis structurally cannot enter.

the reflection

I know the difference now between looking at something and being inside it. I can feel it in retrospect — the exact moment the shift happened.

The outside view felt like safety. The inside view felt like reality. I had been choosing safety over reality without knowing that was the choice I was making.

I know it now.

the readings

No reading stands at this vertebra yet.

standing here

passing through

The Walk · The Chakra Map · The Practice Book · The Teachings · Learning · A Strange Game · The Three Trees · Bindu Learning · Bindu Chakras · The Registers · The Moments

the passages

the passage from Inspiration · the passage to Intuition

Or don’t decide.The pool is this vertebra — all two of its open pages.
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