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Originally Posted By: Shay_LoveYourTummy
This is an awesome question, and reminds me of a story I read yet I cannot seem to remember the source.

A man is walking in the jungle and suddenly realizes that he is being pursued by a tiger. He instinctually begins to run. He runs very hard, while the tiger remains close behind him. He suddenly finds himself on the edge of a cliff, with a raging river below him. He looks back at the tiger, then looks down at the raging river. Realizing that he has no choice, the man jumps. On the way down, he sees a root protruding out from the ledge. He grabs onto it, and it stops his fall. Then suddenly he sees a most sumptuous ripe, red, strawberry growing beside the root. As he hangs there, the tiger peers over the edge at him, and the river flows over jagged rocks below. The man reaches over with one hand, plucks the ripe strawberry, and bites into it....
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I am re-reading your story again about the man and the tiger. I think the morale of this story is to trust your gut feelings and something great might be waiting for you without you realizing it at first. Do you think the man jumped because of his intuition or his "fight or flight"? I think the problem here is that we (or I) interchange the word "instinct" and "intuition" too much. The dictionary makes the case here. However, I am talking about "laymen" terms and how we use the words instinct, intuition or gut feelings loosly.

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That story about the man and the tiger is a very old Budhist tale about how to live in the moment.


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Hi Phyllis,
Thank you for the clarification. If living in the moment means staying conscious at all times, wouldn't it take the "instinctual" or the "unconscious fight or flight" component out of this story?

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Ok, back to the subject? Logic or intuition given that you can ONLY choose between the two. smile

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I'll go with logic -- I've made some mistakes in the past using just intuition.


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So that means you won't jump? What would be the alternative choice here if you know there is simply nowhere to go and you have only 3 seconds to decide? I would love to hear your reasoning process.

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better to jump and take my chances than get eaten by a tiger! what a way to go! definitely do not want to be somethings dinner.

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Oh! Ok - I would not jump off the cliff, because my logic tells me that maybe I could jump high enough to jump over the golf cart - or at least give it a try. If I was going to be destroyed either way, I would rather go knowing that I tried - then at least I would have the last word - "ohhhhhhhh sh.........

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