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 cannot have immediate contact with one's immediate existence through thought.

Why can one not realize 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 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, which can only be obtained through direct experience.

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

when one considers growth and decay as a continuous on-going process of which human existence is a mere iota, one realizes that there is an inexorable movement which encompasses every thing 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 life forms are interrelated, one realizes 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.