21/11/2025
From the book "THE PATH" by Konosuke Matsush*ta
https://konosuke-matsush*ta.com/en/
“Put Intuition to Work”
Swordsmen face off. Breaking the tension, the sharp blades clash and fly apart as the adversaries lunge and parry in movements too rapid for the eye to follow. Their movements are not methodically thought our or logically reasoned. They do not think to themselves one step at a time such things as: the opponent’s sword came from the right side so I’ll parry that to the right. Rather, observing the subtlest movement and sign, the swordsman’s body springs into action, responding intuitively with a flash of movement that meets the attach instantaneously.
Some people may think of intuition as something not very scientific and certainly hard to define, but intuition that grows out of rigorous and continued training can achieve results even more accurate and appropriate than what can be calculated scientifically. What human beings can achieve through training is tremendous.
Most of the scientific discoveries and visions of our world are the result of the superlative intuition of scientists based on long years of training and constant effort to base their intuitive notions in scientific principles and apply them in practice. In essence, therefore, science and intuition are not mutually exclusive at all.
The key is training – practice. We should strive to treasure and make better use of our intuition and to accumulate as much experience as we can.
