Limits of the Intellect

Of course I respect that everybody here has read the same books that I’ve read. We all read the same books so we all know what the books say but of course we don’t really ‘know’ from reading books.
                 Reading books is okay to start with it’s better than not reading books, but it has a limited value. In fact even going to these kind of retreats or working with a teacher all has a limit if you yourself are not motivated to do the inner looking.
             There’s a very important process of taking intellectual knowledge and making a real understanding as only this real understanding will make any difference. All this intellectual stuff is alright but it doesn’t help very much
            Our ego is not going to easily accept that everything we speak is rubbish even though that’s the truth. So of course it takes some time to really accept the limits of our intellect.
                Its very shocking to realise that we’re so much caught up in something that’s not true, that’s completely rubbish. It’s really hard for us to understand that the spiritual work is  really different from the work we did in getting educated.
          It’s not about being the first one, it’s not about being the cleverest or most successful. It’s about being very ordinary, very humble all these things which are opposite to what we were taught as we grew up.
                We were educated to believe that we will become happy if we become the boss, we become rich or powerful. Some kind of success will make us happy. But in the spiritual work you discover that your True Nature is happy. You don’t have to do anything for that. So this is against all our so-called education.