Meditation brings answers

[Redchic12]

I feel the difference is that intuition gives you the answer to situation when you are not even thinking about that situation. It kinda pops up out of the blue.

But it’s usually the ego talking when you are thinking about that situation and a. Answer comes to you. Well this has been the case for me but it may be different for others.

[Still_Waters]

EXCERPT POST 10:

Originally Posted by Unseeking Seeker

When thoughts are rested and there is no application of conscious effort, the inspiration that inflows comes from universal consciousness, as of our heart’s chosen resonation.

Wherever ego is manifest, there will be conflict, a struggle.

In Zen circles, there is a saying that choice (or conflict/struggle in your words) is a sign of a confused mind. When such conflicts/struggles arise, the inspiration is unlikely to be pure intuition as you duly noted.

However, "when thoughts are rested and there is no application of conscious effort", how do you know that the lack of conscious effort is not due to unquestioned conditioning? This one is more difficult to assess (IMHO).

[Still_Waters]

EXCERPT POST 11:

Originally Posted by Redchic12

I feel the difference is that intuition gives you the answer to situation when you are not even thinking about that situation. It kinda pops up out of the blue.

As I mentioned in a previous post, "not even thinking about that situation" could mean that unquestioned unconscious conditioning could still be the source and not pure intuition. This is a condition that is not always easy to assess but your post is an excellent start.

[Unseeking Seeker]

Originally Posted by Still_Waters

EXCERPT POST 10:

However, "when thoughts are rested and there is no application of conscious effort", how do you know that the lack of conscious effort is not due to unquestioned conditioning? This one is more difficult to assess (IMHO).

Conditioning impacts identity, the ego. When our attention is internalised in silence, in an unending continuum, which is to say, mind melds with heart, operates from heart, we are empty, so to speak, with all coordinates of the Ferris wheel holding equal appeal.

Reworded, there is nothing to assess. Who assesses? Assessment is a function of mind, related to identity. We live spontaneously, in mood and mode both acceptant as well as celebratory. To be as such, is a shift in consciousness, not a doing by volition. How does the shift come about? It varies from soul to soul but process any, it requires ego to recede and heart to occupy centre stage, a quiescent heart whose fulcrum is in the void.