A realisation of what or who one is depending on how one views one’s being: From a material perspective, it is all about the bare fact that is no more than ethereal constituents and or at the end of life one returns to those physical phenomena which a reflective philosophical materialist may say as everything comes to an end with the body having serves its purpose. From a transcendental angle, life may go on in some ways as one is never just that what is perceived about or around us. There is something that makes one feels, talks, responds when encountering others about. There is a quintessence of one’s being which is the real self, or a soul as the Vaishnava tradition for instance clearly sates and this is based on a knowledge above and beyond the mundane, requiring the subject to be delve into a kind of life not subjected to the merely perceived.
However, one sees life what is coming to the fore in this current climate of reflecting is the fact that there needs to be a restructuring of what or who one is. A question of getting back to that starting line up: There is almost a realisation that each and everyone has come reeling down with an apprehension at the the prospect of being what or who one is….. to be sure, one may observes there is a forcing to face that life rather than moving onwards with a feeling of inferiority or superiority. That sense of equality is being forced onto us….a way of being where those non zero attitude came crashing down.
Life may never be the same. No need to try and belittle others and or think that one is better than the other regardless of specifies even. Time for a real awakening is here. That one was a zero or being this, that and the other at the outset may not have been quite apprehended as it was all about a superficial way of life where others are downtrodden in order to have a strata which measures in terms of placing one above and beyond through subjugation of others. The slap from nature is more than clear. Stop, or face the tune. No more, of discrimination against any other inclusive of what or who the latter may be. That there is no need to go back to life as it was. One has seen the mess already, the tragedy that one is/was into with little global effort being made to the roots of the problem with each and everyone just passing the buck around and about.
Is it possible to be respectful to one another regardless of specie? Life may never be the same again. Let us pause and reflect. Why does one do or keep doing the kind of things that one does? Is there a case to rediscover another way of being? Which way should one go? Creating massacres about and a agedy about and around the world and the call is merely to reflect of where does go from here. To be sure, it may be just back to normal or a normality which induces others into subjugation for the sake of a few which has through perhaps not their own fault has become also a victim of a world system which carried on a mission aimed at bringing all things to a stop.
The slap from nature is ambiguously a welcome gesture to making one realise that verily each and everyone is a zero: A kind of a zero consciousness where there is a realisation of what one needs to do, or not to do plus importantly what one may not do. To have that essential and above and beyond the mere superficial is to cause one to halt and perhaps develop into a more reflective being without being a an automaton which or who simply engages through force of mundane knowledge or the artificial which has kept causing so much havoc and concern that it has a taken a magnitude of a gesture from nature to try bringing sense into humanoids all round the universe or re-intention our way of being. And or causing violence through one’s actions. Ahimsa, Srila Prabhupada the founder of ISKCON has remarked in his purport that it is not about a simple being non violent to some chosen way of life but more vividly that one may not do any action that causes any form of undue harm to any other not to mention the checking of progress of a frail innocent animal for the enjoyment of one’s senses.
There is and or should be a call to keep checking how or what has has to do both individually, as a community, society and the world at large. There are far too much abuse, anger and violence about with envy and hatred dominating the world arena. That sudden forceful pause since last month has helped both animate and in inanimate things about and around us.One needs to carry on questioning the way one has lived as a person or how to be. Keep throwing those abuse about in the form of belittling others, seeing oneself still as a superior being far above than any other. If one does not from what is being taught then naïve consciousness may carry on as if back to the superficial is the way to be.
What needs one do in the face of terror being about us. No one is spared from the attack from nature. What was required was one to step back from hectic way of being and to reflect.Do it and perhaps one may begin to appreciate the other. Ignore the warning and one falls into complacency. …..which may still puts one at risk as somehow one is better than any other about. It is a question of awakening in the midst of this crisis, that invisible enemy which continues to create havoc around and about us as we are not out of the woods so to speak yet and indeed unsure when all that may come to an end. The naïve still may think back to how it was is around the corner but it does not take a lot to imagine that we are in a dire situation which may require lots of perceptive insight proactively to move forward rather than await and reactively engage with life.
Verily it is a call towards moving to pastures new and in an ambiguous way, this warning is also a gesture about saving the planet from crashing down through an overload of environmental pressure. This halt will make all and every everywhere reflect on the question of how to be and what needs doing, or what one should refrain from doing.