Taoist methods of training & developing intuition

[Sanity Check]

This is a very interesting area of tao.

 

Is intuition something that can be trained without specialized knowledge or source material.

 

 

[Keith108]

Quote

The Tao masters of antiquity
Subtle wonders through mystery
Depths that cannot be discerned
Because one cannot discern them
Therefore one is forced to describe the appearance

Hesitant, like crossing a wintry river
Cautious, like fearing four neighbors
Solemn, like a guest
Loose, like ice about to melt
Genuine, like plain wood
Open, like a valley
Opaque, like muddy water

Who can be muddled yet desist
In stillness gradually become clear?
Who can be serene yet persist
In motion gradually come alive?

One who holds this Tao does not wish to be overfilled
Because one is not overfilled
Therefore one can preserve and not create anew."
Translated by Derek Lin, 2006, Chapter 14, Tao Te Ching

From here. Emphasis mine.

 

It might be useful to see how much silence and stillness one can bring into their life. Then, without trying, intuition appears. Be the observer, not the judge, and our true nature unfolds. 

 

eh, my two cents anyway

 

_/|\_

 

edit: there is a typo in the quoted part...it's Chapter 15, not 14.

Edited December 24, 2024 by Keith108
Typo Correction

[exorcist_1699]

The refined jing embedded inside qi helps accomplishing  the so-called intuition  ( here I refer to it being  a persistent process of the emptied mind or  no-mind , aiming to exploit  the energy from the genuine void)  . Dull qi , for example , qi from old or weak people which lack of vivid and delicate jing  likely cannot do .  Mastering the  spiritual  efforts or steps of  " no trying "  or " without trying " is the key . So accumulating and refining jing can be viewed as  the unique way that makes Taoism outperforms other spiritual systems .

Edited December 31, 2024 by exorcist_1699

[Sahaja]

I agree with both responses . Adding my two cents on the process of perceiving it. 

My understanding is that its nature is ziran. Attempts by the acquired mind to specifically make it arise likely work to negate it.  What one can do (actually a form of not doing) is to release logical discursive thoughts so that they do not exclude it from our conscious perception. Going inside with bare attention (without the tension caused by goals, desires, agendas or logical expectations) provides  an opportunity for one to perceive it as it naturally arises. 
 

I actually had a direct experience of this during a psychology class experiment at the university. It was a test of remote viewing - the class was put into a relaxed state through a guided meditation exercise and the viewer went out onto campus to “transmit” to the class. I remember having an image arise during the relaxed state but I quickly excluded it with the logical thought “I know this campus very well and there is nothing nearby like that”. The image was a spiral staircase which was what the remote viewer was looking at. My take away wasn’t a belief in remote viewing abilities (as who really knows what the causation chain was) but rather to be attentive/open to my perceptions and be careful about automatically heeding my logical discursive thoughts as they may be influenced by the interests of the ego/acquired mind.