Please pay careful attention to the following two opposing statements:
1. That knowledge cannot exist without experience, i.e. without exertion, movement, action; and
2. That exertion, movement, and action cannot happen without knowledge, i.e. without the thinking of that knowledge and desire (will) to exert, move, and act by that knowledge.
Understanding the law of existence depends most on the accurate understanding of these two contradictory statements. These two opposing statements are facts that are known to us from our own experience and are as valid as the renowned fact that there can be neither chicken without egg nor egg without chicken.
To correctly understand and explain these opposites it is most important to grasp that this is about mutual causality and dependence of physical and psychological actions, which do not have the meaning of existence. Exertion and movement, as well as knowledge, equally do not exist just as the hen nor the egg exist. It is always and only consciousness which exists and which exerts itself, moves, works, and gains knowledge, i.e. consciousness which via its knowledge, movement, and work continuously and alternately builds and destroys systems of its movement and work which we observe as the chicken and the egg.
This cognition enables us to announce wrong and insignificant the question of the priority of psychological over physical or physical over psychological, i.e. the priority of egg over chicken or chicken over egg, because there cannot be a first or a last when neither exists. Chicken, egg (knowledge gained through the five actions of exertion, movement, observation, feeling, and memorizing), and thinking over knowledge and understanding it (knowledge usage through two actions) are only the physical and psychological actions of consciousness, with consciousness being the only one that really exists. The only question that can be posed in this case is if consciousness at the beginning of its existence firstly had the knowledge of all its movements and actions and by thinking over that knowledge, desired and decided to exert itself and bestir itself. Or, whether it firstly exerted itself and bestirred itself and only then, by that movement, did it gain knowledge of all its movements?
This question can also be posed in this way!
Did consciousness at the beginning of its existence firstly bestir itself, and then through experience and development gain knowledge about the chicken and the egg, or did it firstly have at its disposal knowledge about the chicken and the egg and then, having that knowledge, desired to exert itself, bestir itself and self-transform into the chicken and the egg?