I’m reading “Intelligence by Osho” now and trying to make the summary chapter by chapter according to my understanding. I hope it can help or relate to people who are looking for the answer for their own’s intelligence. As it is the on-going process, some ideas may not be illustrated well and there might be some wording and grammatical mistakes. Appreciate it if you could also share your opinion along the way or open to some discussion.
Chapter 1: Intelligence, what you are born with
The song from your heart
Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. Intelligence is what you are born with while you accumulate knowledge throughout the course of study and the influential environment around you. People tend to value knowledge more than intelligence. Parents send children to school to build up knowledge, students learn from teachers and famous people. During the process of learning, it shapes up their value of what is viewed as right and wrong, valuable and useless, smart and stupid. While they are thinking they develop something good in life, they are also silently killing their creativities and intelligence they were born with. As a matter of fact, we tend to believe that getting a higher education will guarantee a good future for us, but we fail to realize what we want in life, what we are good at, what we value, and what really matters to us. Some people want to be a fisherman because they like being in the ocean, a farmer because they like growing and harvesting things, a dancer because they have the talent for that and they are happy to dance. However, to become one is not an easy way as those careers may not be viewed as the top and well-earned job, and because of that their parents will try to step in and influence them to become someone else they don’t even care about such as a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer who are viewed and valued by the society. Like it or not, we are living in society connecting to others, we will be influenced by other people’s options if we do not use our heart to fight back those ideas.
The heart can be associated with intelligence, and the brain can be associated with knowledge. If you listen to your heart and use your brain to fulfill what your heart wants, then you will be happy with the result you achieve. Contrastingly, if you use your logic which directed by your brain to decide your career or matters, your heart will be the subordinate, which working in the reversed nature, and thus will result in not sustainable actions.
An individual who opens to new ideas
Intelligent people will be open to new ideas, learning from the past, but will not let the past experience be the obstacle to the new learning. “A policeman stopped a car, and the driver was very angry assuming he did not do anything wrong and that police just stopped him in order to give him a ticket. He yelled at the police without letting the police said anything. In the end, when he was calm down, he found out that what the police wanted to tell was that his back -car tire was flat.” Intelligent people will also be flexible. We don’t know how long we will be living for, will tomorrow ever come? What new experience can bring us tomorrow? Will the past experience still be applicable to use? Nature is the same, the river always flows to a different place every day.
Stay tuned for Chapter 2.
