Does that title make any sense? Can one really understand anything without forming concepts about the thing in question, without theorizing or classifying the object or event in question? One must investigate withing himself, what he means when he understands something about a thing. Say, I have understood how walking works! Nothing miraculous, but an immensely important revelation, indeed! And do I have to practice or revise or brush up my understanding in order to keep it fresh and alive? Or has it become a part of me, has it become ME? so that there is no layer of ideation or concept of theory of intellect in between? Now lets say, I have also understood how differentiation works, in mathematics, or how classical mechanics works. Can I be sure that in future it will always be available to me, without my making any conscious efforts to keep it update? This I think is the difference between TWO layers of understanding. You never worry about losing one, once you have got hold of it, for it has become a part of you, it has become YOU! While in case of other, there is always a doubt lingering, about its survival and being available to me in future. It is yet separate from you, an objective knowledge of a thing which you could study without becoming a part of it.
Now, can the mind give up its habit of conceptualizing and learn to see the things without any barrier of separate Observer or an independent Subject studying the Objective world? Can one give up this habit of rationalizing and generalizing and theorizing and drawing logical conclusions about our observations? Or more importantly, is this practice worth any application in practical life? What could one gain if he resisted or curbed the tendency of rationalization? Does it guarantee us the intuition, or more certain knowledge about the world? Is reason an obstacle in the flowering of intuition? Does one have to go beyond the limits set by ordinary mind to be able to feel the truth in its fullness and in an intimate way? And how do we know that the conclusion thus reached about the inadequacy of the rational knowledge or of ordinary conceptualizing mind is not another concept formed by the mind trying to run away from its own limitations, trying to overflow its own boundaries. Thats it! To know something as true and to prove it as true are altogether different propositions! Lets not bother about proving anything; if we are sure about the Truth of our knowledge, that will speak, through our faith, through our actions and through our very life! And when life speaks, you can not but listen! Nothing can resist those words of wisdom from LIFE, we know they are true, without theorizing or rationalizing or conceptualizing! What say?
Now, can the mind give up its habit of conceptualizing and learn to see the things without any barrier of separate Observer or an independent Subject studying the Objective world? Can one give up this habit of rationalizing and generalizing and theorizing and drawing logical conclusions about our observations? Or more importantly, is this practice worth any application in practical life? What could one gain if he resisted or curbed the tendency of rationalization? Does it guarantee us the intuition, or more certain knowledge about the world? Is reason an obstacle in the flowering of intuition? Does one have to go beyond the limits set by ordinary mind to be able to feel the truth in its fullness and in an intimate way? And how do we know that the conclusion thus reached about the inadequacy of the rational knowledge or of ordinary conceptualizing mind is not another concept formed by the mind trying to run away from its own limitations, trying to overflow its own boundaries. Thats it! To know something as true and to prove it as true are altogether different propositions! Lets not bother about proving anything; if we are sure about the Truth of our knowledge, that will speak, through our faith, through our actions and through our very life! And when life speaks, you can not but listen! Nothing can resist those words of wisdom from LIFE, we know they are true, without theorizing or rationalizing or conceptualizing! What say?
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