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The Lunar Intellect - (5623)

Using the intellect for everything, one day makes us intellectual. 


To be intellectual does not really make us intelligent or smart. 


Becoming intellectual makes us, sooner or later, to become empty. The interesting thing is we don't think we are empty, but we feel empty.


There is a good reason behind the feeling of being empty. 


The reason is that the intellect gathers, or better said, borrows concepts, information and reasons. It does not generate anything of its own. It simply borrows from others.


After a while of continuously borrowing information and reasons, we end up bankrupting the natural intelligence of our own consciousness. This happens because we stop using our natural intelligence, and our capacity to access our natural intelligence atrophies.


When we stop using our natural intelligence we end up being parrots, empty tin cans making all sorts of sounds that lack substance.


This is very much like the Moon. The intellectual is lunar is nature. With one side visible and the other invisible - unknown and unaware.



When we are intellectual, the borrowing of information turns against us and we don't know it. Using the information in our intellect, we critique and analyse others with the same information we have collected from others. 


Being unaware of critiquing using borrowed knowledge us more unaware, and the next step is to critique while being the same. 


The constant critiquing makes us to feel 'full' as it is constant. It is a simple compensation. However, by the law of entropy, the critiquing follows the tendency to become negative. Then we slowly start to fill ourselves up with negativity. 


By the Law of cause and effect, that inner negativity spills out into our relationships and external life, and still not being aware it, we criticize-blame it on others. 


Then one day the karma takes the form of inner bitterness, loneliness and sadness that is really difficult to shift. As the unawareness continues, we feel 'life owes me happiness' and of course life does not deliver, and so we become needy, while still criticising...


The remedy to all of this is to be quiet both outwardly and inwardly and begin to disassemble all that we have borrowed.


End (5623).

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