Direct Realization

Life is dynamic and constantly changing Any thinking or verbal speculation about life even with regard to the future is always based on the past One may have an immediate awareness beyond thought or verbal speculation of one's existence but one cannot have direct contact with one's immediate existence through thought Words are useful in the attempt to communicate one's experience to another person but the use of words is merely an attempt to point to experience It can never give that immediate direct knowledge, insight or realization that comes from one's experience Words are like a map and experience is the territory A map can only give knowledge "about" the territory It can never give knowledge "of" the territory This can only be obtained through direct experience When one considers growth and decay as a continuous ongoing process of which human existence is a mere iota one realizes that there is an inexorable movement which encompasses everything that "is" including human existence which is a relatively recent phenomenon on the cosmic time scale One realizes the ethnocentricity or more specifically the "homocentricity" of the claim that human conceptualizations are capable of knowing things as they "are" This applies whether the claim is that of science, religion or any other system of thought When one examines the way the different lifeforms are interrelated one realizes the distortion created by thought when one attempts to isolate and elevate one lifeform particularly the human lifeform apart from the others The body has an intelligence of its own which manifests itself when thought ceases its attempt to know life It is a direct realization beyond thought There is a fundamental unity of everything that "is" and Love is a manifestation at the behavioural level of this unity