Introduction to strategies for overcoming barriers to our intuition
Osho offers strategies for overcoming the barriers to our intuition.
The first strategy is to peel off the onion.
The second strategy is to function from the feminine.
The third strategy is to move from thinking to feeling.
The fourth strategy is to relax.
The sixth strategy is to find the inner guide.
The seventh strategy is to make happiness the criterion.
And the final strategy is to go for the poetry.
In the first strategy, peel the onion, he explains how barriers to our intuition are constructed. Just like an onion our truest being is in the center: simple and pure. However, it is covered by societal conditioning, which you can imagine as the layers of an onion. You need to peel the onion to discover your truest self.
This article is a summary of the peel-the-onion strategy.
Your physical senses have been trained. You see things if your society allows you to see them, you hear things if your society allows you to hear them. You touch things if your society allows you to touch them. — Osho
Our being is simple.
But it is coupled with our personality which is complex.
It is complex because we have multiple layers of conditioning.
At the core is our being, but like an onion, the layers of our conditioning hide its simplicity.
Secondly, these conditioning layers act as filters that corrupt anything you perceive before it reaches you.
Nothing reaches you in its pure and original form.
The filters are there to protect you from reality.
They protect your lies.
They protect your dreams.
They protect your projections.
By any means the filters avoid contact with reality because reality can be shattering and shocking. It is well known that our brain filters away much of our perceived reality. What finally arrives in our consciousness is a fragment of reality, reconstructed by our imagination with the assistance of the filters. That invention is a comfortable lie that protects us against bliss, truth and existence.
Please don’t take the lies away from humanity, otherwise man will not be able to live. Man lives through lies. Don’t take the fictions away, don’t destroy the myths. Don’t tell the truth because man cannot live by truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
💡THE ART: You must learn to peel the onion and come to your innermost core.
Osho illustrates 6 layers corrupting our reality.
The layers are as follows:
- The Physical Senses
- Conditioning
- Rationalization
- Sentimentality
- Repression
- Corrupted Intuition
Stay tuned! An article will be dedicated to each layer. If you enjoyed the article please give it a clap and comment with your thoughts.
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Source: OSHO. Intuition. Griffin Publishing, 2001.