Understanding

[ajay0]

Understanding can defined as the ability to comprehend something. This is ability is most commonly associated with the intellect.

It has been suggested that the understanding of things of a mystical or spiritual nature can be derived experientially though meditation, ecstatic prayer, or mystical experience. Those who gain such understanding often have difficulty describing such experiences with words, and claim that this understanding is difficult to grasp intellectually.

Can understanding occur on a level other than intellect? What would you call that level or part of you that understands outside of intellect?

I usually term it as experiential understanding or intuition.

And I have witnessed directly intuition at work, in others, and myself later on.

I was introduced to this at an intellectual level by the works of Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, Buddha and at a practical level in the company of enlightened sages.

Intuition as a faculty is toned by the practice of meditation as in Awareness or mindfulness. I have witnessed this state in people who had no training in meditation, and I attribute this to high prana or chi levels.

Once while practicing mindfulness while walking along a street, I was drawn intuitively to a shop where Feng Shui statues were kept. I have never had any prior interest in feng shui, but became interested in it, after this happened a couple of times.

It seemed from these incidents that was a direct correlation between mindfulness and positive energy.

I had many such experiences and this strengthened my faith and conviction in intuition as a valid means of knowledge. However it is also true that unconscious instincts and desires can also be wrongly perceived as intuition as well. So prudence is also important in this regard.

In the enlightened ones, intuition works like magic, and it shows the potential that is inherent in each human being, which has not been properly tapped due to the limitations of the world's education system in general.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Understanding can defined as the ability to comprehend something. This is ability is most commonly associated with the intellect.

It has been suggested that the understanding of things of a mystical or spiritual nature can be derived experientially though meditation, ecstatic prayer, or mystical experience. Those who gain such understanding often have difficulty describing such experiences with words, and claim that this understanding is difficult to grasp intellectually.

Can understanding occur on a level other than intellect? What would you call that level or part of you that understands outside of intellect?

Nice question.

I had to delete my book when I reread the question again.

I honestly dont know. I dont have the dichonomy to separate intellect from spiritual understanding. Ive always been an artist; and, if I write a poem, or do spoken poetry, I want to be able to talk about what I experience not just keep it to myself. It defeats the purpose for me when I cant translate my spiritual umph in words that others, say family members, would understand about my work. Most of the time they read into things that are close to them even though I wrote it with another intent in mind. I also let strangers do the same thing.

I wouldnt say its over intellect. I dont like that separation. Self expression isnt just to myself but with others as well. As such, I need to be able to talk in other peoples "languages". If I keep that intellectual (since I cant transmit my passion to them) to myself, it defeats the purpose of being an expression.

Theres no level of understanding outside of spiritual experiences. Intellect lets you describe in words what you experience either analogical or straightfoward "math" language. Spiritual experiences are stronger than intellect but, by no means, higher, lower, or separate.