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Imagination is from the right, reasoning is from the left. The right
hemisphere is feminine and the left hemisphere is masculine, and these
two are bridged by a very small bridge, just linked. At the sixth
center – AJNA chakra, the third-eye center – these two hemispheres
meet and become one. Then your reason is not against your intuition,
and then your imagination is not against your logic. Then your logic
and your imagination both come together.
The divine melody, ch.5.
Human brain is divided into two parts, two hemispheres. Now scientific
research has shown many facts about the human brain. The right side,
the right hemisphere of the brain, functions in a totally different way
to the left side. They are bridged by a very small bridge and through
that bridge the gear changes. The left side of the brain functions
through reason – it is prose, it is logic, it is aggression, it is
ambition, it is ego, it is male, it is yang, it is very violent. This
left hemisphere of the brain is the hemisphere of mathematics, action,
analysis, sequence, masculinity, time, aggression, work – all kinds of
such things.
The two sides of the brain are bridged by a very, very fragile bridge,
and you continuously change from the left to the right, from the right
to the left. In fact, that's why your breathing changes. Sometimes you
are breathing through the left nostril and then there is a change and
you start breathing through the right nostril. When you breathe through
the right nostril your left hemisphere functions – they are connected
crosswise. When you are breathing through the left nostril your right
hemisphere functions.
Zen, the path of paradox, vol.1, ch. 5
Linguists have now become aware that there are two kinds of languages
in the world. A few languages function from the left hemisphere – for
example, English functions from the left hemisphere. It is a scientific
language, more rational. The language of the Hopis functions from the
right hemisphere. It is a totally different kind of language, more
pictorial, less scientific, more poetic, more colourful, more alive.
Hopis cannot develop mathematics very much.
We have been forced to remain more and more in the left hemisphere and
we have by and by forgotten the right hemisphere. We have forgotten the
world of the right hemisphere.
When you drop the ego this change happens inside, that's why all great
Masters have insisted on surrender. It has nothing to do with the
outside, it is something very deep inside. When you surrender your ego,
when you say 'I trust you and now I will follow you, now I will be your
shadow, now whatsoever you say will be the law' suddenly the left side
of your brain stops functioning. There is no need for it to function.
Doubt disappears. Reason disappears so doubt disappears. Argumentation
disappears. A totally new kind of energy arises in you – you become
more poetic, more celebrating, more joyful. And then growth happens.
The growth is through the feminine, the growth is through the right
hemisphere.
Zen, the path of paradox, vol.1, ch. 5
Even the brain is divided, everything is divided in the body. The only
thing which is one is the third eye – the witnessing. It is one. If
you want to be one within you, seek the point of witnessing
consciousness. While walking, watch. While eating, watch. While going
to sleep, fall asleep watching what is happening.
Hsin hsin ming : the book of nothing, ch.7
Your two hands are connected with your two brains, crosswise. Your
right hand is connected with the left brain, your left hand is
connected with the right brain, and these two brains have no bridge, no
communication between themselves.
Yakusan: Straight to the point of enlightenment, ch.1
The religious person goes through an inner conversion from the Greek to
the Hindu. He moves from the left hemisphere to the right hemisphere.
All yoga and all other techniques of meditation are nothing but bridges
to take you from the left hemisphere to the right hemisphere. Once you
have reached the right hemisphere, the world of poetry, the world of
beauty, the world of love, opens its doors. Then God is. No proof is
needed, one simply feels. It is a feeling. It is a feeling in the guts.
One simply knows, for no other reason. And once you are centered in the
right hemisphere of your brain you can use the left hemisphere also,
but now it will function as a servant. And the left hemisphere is a
good servant but a bad master.
The Guest, ch.14
These two hemispheres of the brain have to be understood, and very
deeply – because much depends on that. Now scientists are also in deep
agreement with the ancient mystic lore, that unless these two brains
are bridged and bridged rightly, a man remains schizophrenic. They ARE
bridged, but in a very very small way; just a small thread bridges
them. That thread can be cut.
Philosophia Perennis, vol.1, ch.3
These two hemispheres are very slightly bridged; a little communication
happens ordinarily. The more one becomes integrated, the deeper the
communication that starts happening between these two hemispheres. In a
Buddha those two hemispheres become one. He is AS logical as one can be
and AS loving as one can be.
Philosophia Perennis, vol.1, ch.3
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