Direct Realisation

Why can one not realise and experience one's being directly in the immediate present without thought or verbal speculation? Certainly 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 realisation 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, which can only be obtained through direct experience.

The body has an intelligence of its own which manifests itself when thought ceases its attempt to know life.

When one considers growth and decay as a continuous ongoing process of which human existence is a mere iota, one realises 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 conceptualisations 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 realises the way the different life forms are interrelated, one realises the distortion created by thought when one attempts to isolate and elevate one life form, in particular, the human life form, apart from the others.

There is a fundamental unity of everything that "is" and God is that which controls and directs the relationship between everything.

LOve is a manifestation of this unity at the behavioural level.