Intuitive intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can compose music, generate images, write stories, assist in medical diagnosis and perform tasks that once demanded years of human training. As machines continue to advance, a deeper question arises: what, in this landscape, remains uniquely human?
The answer emerges from stillness. AI operates by analysing patterns, optimising outcomes and recombining what already exists. Despite its sophistication, AI cannot recognise the sudden clarity that appears in a quiet moment, nor sense the inner certainty that guides us when data and logic fall short. That intuitive intelligence - subtle, embodied, and often wordless - is a distinctly human faculty. Meditation offers a direct way to cultivate it.
Studies from institutions such as Harvard, Stanford and the Max Planck suggest that meditation enhances creativity and intuitive thinking. Brain imaging shows strengthened activity in the default mode network, associated with imagination and reflection.
The mind can be compared to a pool of water. When agitated, its depth is obscured. When it settles, deeper understanding naturally surfaces. We recognise this process in our own lives.
Meditation is not a retreat from the world but a return to our deepest capacities. In an age of relentless stimulation, it restores receptive attention - the ability to perceive without forcing.