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The birds provides a welcoming start to the day as being one positive unlike previously where all one may well have heard are the sounds of machines roaming and adding to the normal noises which one has associated normal life with. We are living in unprecedented times or are we? With so many theories about and well argued, it seems difficult not to lend attention to one and verily accept that as being perhaps making most sense.
That one is in a war zone against a biological virus created in the laboratory for the sake of imposing undue authority is a latest one that makes sense but whatever it is, one thing for sure is that we are in the midst of a great challenge, A challenge to be where it appears that no other may impose in that there may not be any winners in this tragedy which has taken the world by surprise with pertinent questions being posed as to why is that nearly every part of the world are made to suffer whereas some part remains non affected in spite of being geographically within a shortest striking distance from where the whole thing started.

Is it a simpleton that it arrived as it is widely believed emerging from a market in Wuhan? Or produced deliberately to create havoc around and about? Or is this nature’s way of calling time on the arrogance and the hatred plus violence against its own being? Perhaps it is God’ s plan may say some religious leaders as one not quite understand what fits in His plan. May be it is all kind of history repeating itself very so many 100 of years as we have already stated in previous writing. Or still another occurrence that occurs periodically just to ease the world of its burden! Perhaps it is created to puts us in check from the kind of perpetual abuse we have been engaged in. Or like the Buddhist may say that it is one way to apprehend that life is verily about suffering and that is a way of taking refuge. Whatever it might be, it is also interesting that the negative forces across the globe have been made to halt as well with their own agenda based on destruction, hatred, terror, undue violence and or other negatives.

Where one is to ignore the warning, the tendency would be to carry on as before as if all will be back to what it was before. All a temporary affair. The cry is that it will be the same as previously and that we may carry on with the gross malady of ignoring and or trampling on the other as a way to impose one’s being and carry on living in a fragmented style and keep causing divisions with its hatred at the core of one’s being whilst taking shelter of some powerful force to justify one’s style of living whether non secular or otherwise. Find a cause to live for and seek to create havoc and when this is repeated on oneself there is an uproar as if the norm is that other specie are not entitled to cry foul.

Organised rampant crimes in the form of injustices are everywhere. It is still prevalent in spite of the call to pause. Or how does one makes sense that only four months ago, one may see about five to six chickens roaming freely about in the garden of the next door neighbour to notice one day that there were hardly any in the small enclosure. Then one day, one saw the lady of the house, slicing that same chicken she cared for earlier like giving grains, water and other provisions. Or peeling and taking parts she would require for her own use. No problem for that lady as the naïve may even say at least that she gave them a free range life. Marginally better than those chickens a few miles from her house where similar living entities never see daylight but are slaughtered for the good of the people. Or some might say, at least in this instance she might have the force of the powerful to justify that killing. Whilst there is foul play if these were to be done to the civilised human, that same singular action of seeing a throat being sliced is seen or if done en masse, not seen as awful or when lining up hundreds and thousands of sheep, pigs and cows awaiting slaughtering are seen as ‘normal’. Denying existence ….viewed as normal. Trampling upon wild life and or causing undue subjugation being seen as a normal state of affair as long as nothing happens to the civilised human. The latter organised injustices around and about and keep slighting throats … with all these seen as normal.

Holocaust against other species has become part and parcel of the way of the world ,a world where the brute has its say, where the innocent are taken to places where they await in turn to provide for the wants rather than needs of a world which is bent upon denying some others being whilst crying out for fair play, peace and calm among its specie. Or an observer from an alien planet may see all these scenarios as no more than plain injustices, a way of plain denial of life which is of paramount importance to some beings but denied to others. That in itself is a plain injustice. When will one see that any other regardless of specie needs to be as equally cared for and not be denied life? Or perhaps realise that there may never be peace and calm in a world which is bent upon creating havoc upon some for its own pleasures. The vegans and vegetarians plus other culturally and religious groups already have espoused a way of life which does not trample upon any form of life.
Or what else may need to happen in order to make one as sensitive? That it is time to awake and take some steps towards pro activity which may questions all aspects of one’s life. Or should one just carry on like the lady mentioned earlier who may believe that what she does is fine…. Or the idea of slicing the throat of her chicken so she may feast whilst taking shelter of a powerful force so she may feel free of all guilt against a chicken which a week ago ….even a day earlier was roaming about and may have thought that she was her daily saviour until she revealed her true identity. Which way forward? Who knows?

That nothing is certain is now more than obvious; every other is apprehensive if not quite terrified in this present climate where one is forced to come to one’s senses; an imminent threat everywhere, echoing the Srimad Bhagavatam dictum that there is danger at every step. The other is emerging no longer as one with whom one may trust but as one who is in many ways a danger to one’s being. As if we have never been suspicious of the other, now one is  simply be made to threatened by the other through the exterior and so taking note that life is verily fragile. The wise may easily decipher as The Buddha did through reflection whereas for the rest of mortals it requires a special occurrence  in order to perceive what the former enunciated about life and living.

That there is perpetual danger.That one may not be. Existentialists called it the ultimate postponement not having to wanting to face reality as it unfolds in the crude mundane life to which we are exposed. However, the current climate of global lockdown where humanoids have either forcefully placed themselves into a retreat isolation voluntarily or otherwise is no surprise as for once every single member of the humanoid is made aware to try and be safe from a rare and special malady of danger all about us. A kind of being forced to take note of the call from nature that humans are no longer the master, the one who may decide what goes on or not.

It is a call to awakened from that malady of ignoring others about us in the ecosystem, a call that should we have carried on as relentlessly we were doing would have brought perhaps an end to existence in any case. The exterior danger at time of writing could not be more clearer. Be aware, that there is something unseen which is ready to attack and cause havoc to to anyone. And be prepared, being vigilant. Not to do so may mean that one may become complacent and when this emerges, that which is not seen, suddenly goes on the rampage. Everywhere, that same tune is being relayed: Take care and be safe. The prudent and diligent takes note of the warning as issued and realises particularly the strengths of that unseen which continues to create havoc around and about.

The world as it is in danger of collapse. It is at a halt in any case. The flirtation with the superficial, the mundane may no longer be an option as the world awakens to a crude fact and face the tune of years of exploitation and cruelty towards others inanimate and animate. Nature has taken the first step at correcting the injustices. Anyone who may observe that with everything at a halt there is only about in the air traces of pollution. The birds and other wildlife may be wondering where are they? those rascals who had for hundreds of years gone on a mission of destruction and spoiling everything about and around.Is the world being reclaimed for all? Or is it too early? But then these living entities just mentioned may still nurture feeling of deep chagrin towards their fellow brethren the cows, chickens, sheep and similar who are being stripped of life and wildly abused about by their abattoirs which are there still about and nothing has changed for them. They may well be reflecting on what else may happen before the 2 legged animals become more sensitive to one and all and not for just themselves who exploits and plunder about.

Dear Father, you may hear them in prayer, pray put some sense into them. Let not our brethren/sisten become a continued form of abuse, hatred and violence. One may also hear them during this time calling out to The Lord that ….is not life surely about respecting one another unconditionally. Is it not one’s dharma or duty to protect others and to be sure not to cause others to or participate in the acts of slicing throats of the weak, then sell, buy and create a new cemetery with one’s stomach …where one puts dead bodies inside. Or is civilisation the act of plundering the less abled of in societies to become a prey for the so called higher beings?

Father when may you help us as well one may hear the chickens and the sheep cry? Why us? Who gave them the right to rear us then nicely or otherwise kill us for their well being? Is it because we are weak and and not able to fend for ourselves. Or have you forsaken us? Interesting that no one wishes to die. When humans are in danger, they self isolate themselves. What about us, weaker vulnerable beings. When are you acknowledging our plea not to have to end up in the hands of butchers who takes our life away. Pray put some sense in them too. Or is it too much to ask so that we also may be free from undue harassments, attacks, threats, violence and hatred as we do not believe that some of your higher species are god fearing. They seems at best to try conning you with conditional prayers just for their petty self.Pray help the world sure but in the process do not forget the downtrodden…. Those of us who are perpetually being abused.

Just like the humanoids who are vulnerable now, we know the feeling of not to be at any moment or that there is danger at every step when our head are either twisted or sliced at any moment for the sake of perhaps most of the human specie. Just like they pray to make life better for them, likewise we pray that we may live a life free from torture, and to be sure not having to end up in someone’s stomach. It is appalling that this be so but no one seems to understand us. That is why we are calling upon you to speak on our behalf. Perhaps through one of your earlier miracle, you may help ending the animal holocaust which no one seems to care about.

To be sure, we shall keep the faith perhaps one day all will be well and we shall be free to roam about again just like the birds, cats and dogs besides also being subjects of love instead of violence where no respect is shown to us. We applaud your actions at making humanoids reflect on the question of how to be as they too start to ponder on being forced into a confined space.

In our continued confinement, we also pray for protection from you as we know you are also… The Father of each and everyone and that you will eventually protect us. How you choose to do so is your prerogative and we shall abide and keep asking for Your help in our endeavour to be equally as free as any other in this world which we know you have created for one and all but not merely for some. THANKS!

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.

That one may not be is no longer simply a proposition discussed as a plain philosophical exercise or just confined as in some theological quarters. The threat posed in the current climate with the world on its knees is an act which makes all that more than a theory is here rather than there. A sudden realisation that all those warnings that one is on a seven days’ notice not to be is suddenly being realised.One may no longer take shelter in postponing facing life as it is. Choose to do that and one has missed the whole point of being. Verily this no longer an option. Non existence is staring at us and ever ready to pounce!

There is a need to live in the here and now with the question of how would one live if there were a notice from life that exit may after all be sooner than one thinks. It is already written that one needs to take heed of the warning already put in place as one may no longer run away from that stark reality of non being or a project that one may no longer be a for itself but clobbered into an itself when others may do what they wish with oneself both physically and or subtly as the power to a abnegate the other’s take on oneself would have gone.
We also noted that the notice was always there except that in non authentic way of being, one would be running away. That one need not simply have exceptional circumstances to face the self. The warning that one may not be is always there. The Vedic sages talk of the fact that every step there is danger as one steps out within the material world, putting the subject on guard whilst the aspect of the notice as per above again were scrutinised as being absolutely to the point in that each and everyone is as per that notice except one does not know when one may not be. Or it may be any of the seven days except that one carry on running away from life whilst for instance the call is to pause and halt and re intention that is aim to do that which one should always be doing at all times in any case.Where this is not the case, one is deemed to be spurious and always running away from life as it is whether it is with not being there or facing that life tune as it unfolds. It is fine to be lost in projects and or engaging in aspects of life which takes one away but from oneself or that false consciousness of having a false ego syndrome where one feels that verily one is the lord of what one surveys. That kind of consciousness forces puts one at that mundane level of always trying to be lost in other projects and never being there or here facing that tune of being. As one takes the proactive step and moves from that superficial, there is a commencement at realising that life is not only about oneself but the other, indeed all others also have a being, a value, some value which due to ‘my’ purview always ignores the other about us even at the point of violence and or annihilating for one’s physical upkeep as if there are no other ways.

Superficial living also makes the subject justifies violence and those who are accomplices of non ahimsa view also adopts a theology of denigrating and or denying some living entities the right to life as they carry on plundering on others. The mundane has no limits as to what extent it may carry its speculative life at creating injustices.That there is call to precisely question life as it is may not be even realised as what may be happening in this current climate of halt may simply be a little fudge , a temporary affair and yes will say the naïve, back to what we were doing, is round the corner.

Calling to question everything is in a big way, nature calling time to make one looks at the self at the way of life so far li as if there were no tomorrow and or that it was always about being entangled in that materialistic culture. That humanoids have been asked to be at a halt is no simple matter. Ignore the signs of the times and one will be annihilated into oblivion. There is a cry for despair and and humanoids are forced into a retreat not of choice but coercing. Nature is calling on us to be diligent and prudent as pray take note. Can we take note of these warnings? Or shall we ignore and carry on engaging with our organised religions and other ‘sacrifices’ aimed to please a chosen deity or other highly elevated being? Is it time to re-intention? If so, how may one work in cooperation, with nature and with the other living entities who has have been spared the disaster awaiting humans if the latter fails to see what needs doing and what what needs not doing?

May one works in cooperation with others rather than using and abusing others! May there be a real change to one’s lifestyles? Nature has pronounced already. That it may not take it any longer, those petty and voracious ways at prying on the other life forms. Is it time fellow humanoids to awake from that culture of a non ethical way of being on towards another mode where no other may be subjected to hatred, torture, violence whilst depriving some the right to be. Is it time to awake and or re-intention one’s life no longer in that mode of the mundane but a way where every other is equally valued. What if one simply ignore such warnings? A world in lockdown. …where one is asked to simply asked to: STOP…..Pause…..Reflect. The question is if not now when. The alternative is that there is always a danger of apocalypse now as one already begun to witness. A world order based on nativity, superficiality, hatred and non-operation, where the less abled are down trodden upon, where they had had no say, where they have been taken for granted for centuries?

May one question everything? Or the basics of how one has been living? From anything to everything! Or just wait for it to get better so one may get to the way of being pre world lockdown. The question is will this ever be possible to indulge carry on that way of life which was taken for granted based on denial of others. The choice is about a how to be or else nature will interfere to put sense in the ruling species. Meanwhile, what has been always on the agenda needs be taken hold of and scrutinised…..

The idea of facing up to the crude reality is what sages have propounded from time immemorial. A case of being there and not running away here, there and everywhere or being lost in often non essential activities as invented by humans and given so mu h importance that somehow these made up aspects have taken over where become the way of being.

The new opium of the people in the form of sports had taken over the universe. And these seen to be the be and end of it all as if without it life may not go on. All our relationship in life are so geared towards. What will one do without it? Like the ritual in the middle ages or those addicted to non legal drugs some or rather most have been used to, or minus the UK Premier league or cricket or rugby…ti discover a crash. Even these are pushed aside suddenly to rediscover life and relating to it in a more authentic way rather than loosing oneself dare one add in some meaningless projects, where there is no time for reflection. Or you are forced to awake and be…. as humans are either in forced or voluntary confinement!

What is staring one is the fact that nature is forcing one to reconsider, and live life a la back to the basics. Only rare few are able to do that without recourse to and being indulged in frailties. The wake up call has been sounded. Siddharta Gotama encountered the 4 signs which was sufficient to make him move onwards and choosing a life of exploring and scrutinising life as it is through his research and other medication. Some would see how degraded life is that often they take again a more reflective route away from the maddening crowd into a life, taking a step backwards to ponder. King Pariksit accepted that time was called by his indulgence in those mundane forms and he asked for audience on the way forward…again taking a backward step to reconsider how to move onwards.

In the same manner, society as a whole is being asked to step aside and look inwards in the depth of what needs doing in the mode of how to be. The outer is the escape route and life has been fashioned in a way to be entangled in forms which puts one on from the moment of awakening onto the exterior. It is simply that one may not carry on. Enough is enough. The signs of the times are resounded. Awake and perceive rather than moving away from what needs to have been apprehended in the first instance.

Cooperate and you survive. Ignore the warnings and one is doomed.That is the message which is about for humanity to consider. No longer those superficialities. No longer those mundane and so-the bourgeois style of being where some are looked down upon and others revel at plundering the weaker ones. Indeed, a case of facing up to life with the stark reality being as clear. One may not be full stop. Forgot those running away, forget those mundane way. Forget the hate, bickering and the divisions. Either in togetherness or united there is hope or despair will take over. The crude reality is there.

The world plague is in the making. Life and existence is threatened to the core. Complacency leads nowhere.The call seems to be either you pause and and call time on that form of mundane mode which brutalises the other or existence may not be. The way one lives may have be questioned in more ways than one. It would be about separation of the weeds from the essentials or carrying on of the superficial which has in many ways brought the world to its knees. Verily, it would be question of pondering what really needs doing and not doing as well as how to be in the world arena.

Will there be a new world order not based on the survival of the fittest where the weak and the less able are pushed aside? May one even contemplate a return to that same style of life where things will simply go ahead. To be believe so is to err as humanoids as a specifies would have taken note of what hit it at the core of its being. There is no need to self destroy. Corona is teaching that one is no longer isolated. A case of either one moves onto more international cooperation rather than piecemeal attempt at trying to make sense of it all.The cry is to give one our life back and it is precisely that which is being questioned at this moment. That way which was posing a danger to the environment and other species which as rulers humanoids failed to act upon. There is a forced pause through nature’s attack which brought the halt and with it a more pollution free included.

As a specie is there a need to reconsider given that we are forced de facto to halt our lifestyle albeit temporarily. Only the naïve may think that the same style of living will be there once it is all over. Once, clearance is given with the slowdown or even disappearance of Corona, it is simply hard to see how one may get back to ‘normality’ as one may never trust the other ever again in proximity. Nor shall we even attempt to greet one another via the usual route. It will be case of trying to find new ways through this conundrum. Here as one never trusted any other anyhow, as there were always some movement onto impersonal approach at life but now it may be a more concerted way at future relationships. The other will be seen as a truly carrier of a deadly weapon at all times which would made a significant number to be on guard at all times.

Or may one find ways around such direct challenges in some effort at getting back to normal? Will there be a return to be among a crowd ever if at all or needs the world connives other ways of entertaining which moves away from what one has been used us. Will this be an end to all forms of gathering…. Whether it is clubbing, sporting , congregating for prayers and or similar social meeting? Time will tell but the appearance of social distancing will seems to be a new pattern that will stay in our midst.

Perhaps it may be a rise of further technology to take note of the imminent dangers whereby one may have to find yet other innovative ways of keeping one ‘happy’ in the new world order which is being slowly revealed…..

They used to say that it was impossible to change our lifestyles as we have become far too evolved:Our lives are too sophisticated. No way we may turn towards a simple life. It seems now that there ought to be a rethink about what to do or not to do or just how to be amidst perhaps the greatest challenge facing mankind. Lockdown in almost every country across the world have halted that normal way of life. One is forced to not only be in confined within one’s home but also made to start if at all pondering about what may be the next step. In the process our ‘modern life’ is being questioned or let’s say …should it be?

Governments everywhere unsure which strategy to use in face of that massive challenge about us. People are awakening to a life perhaps how it used to be. No cars, lorries, pollution, or aeroplanes. Humans in lockdown, forced to be or faced the consequences and these may mean one may not be. Far too much a risk to take. Try and break the lockdown and apart from the law in some places stopping you from venturing out, nature will attack. It is a potent a most virile form of almost terrifyingly aspect of an enemy which is deadly:unchecked and you are asking for trouble. It would become a plague, and if this be so, millions will be wiped out across the globe. …hence the silence in almost every corner of the world. You called upon to reflect!

The other free living entities are smiling as they wander about without fear from humanoids who thought they were in control and own every nook around and about. The latter are confined within a small place. One may hear the sounds of the birds even more clearly. Mother Nature is happy! Suddenly humanoids are forced to crawl on its knees and listen to its appeal even if be through a deadly weapon which it has launched to be heard. If there is an imbalanced, that is why things will be. So far, there has never been such a halt across the globe as far as one may recall in history but suddenly what seems to be required is indeed a more united international rather than piecemeal effort at making sense of all of this.

To make sense of it all does not mean that one ought to find a reactive cure at the threat and let’s all get back to what it was before. What it was before is no quick fix. The call is verily to reconsider not only as an individual, a society, a nation or more globally our naïve style of life. On a global scale, the terror which some would try to inject, that law of the jungle where the fittest are deemed to be the norm…. and where the weaker are made to crawl about. There is a need to reconsider whether one needs to go back to that same lifestyles as we were used to, a kind of a mundane and materialistic purge on the both the environment and other living entities where the naïve even tries to spiritualise aspects of materialism whilst creating a lifestyles which continues to plunder on others. …where violence becomes the guiding principle of one’s being and where there is no camaraderie about but plain selfishness where we one is mere reactionaries as in some sense one is doing now being faced with that sudden trauma which has forced global communities to call time on their frantic lifestyles.

The rulers as well as well as the public are hoping that all may just be a temporary affair and that one may get back to that same style of life. To do that may mean that one is no more that a reactionary and so go back to what? To that same, petrifying way of being where there is hate and divisions… whilst continuing in a way which pushes others about and or showing one’s strength in a brute way of being. Or perhaps continue to exploit the elements non-stopped? And or try to be aggressive and violent ?…and where what matters is only the me-ism about and so that saliency of negativity carry on reigning.

We wish to go back and keep the status quo whilst unfortunately all this means that we would be back to where we were.Only the naïve may think that such a state may be possible. A state where one lives a superficial life, a life based on the mundane where one does things simply with little or no reflection. There is a call to move away from that mere reactive approach to a more proactive one where is not confined and caught up in a particular way of being based on the epsilon’s type way of being to coined that Orwellian’s term and abide by what is thrown at us as pleasures and fun’s way to be based on what a few has decided. The call is to awake in the midst of a world crisis of being. It is all a about what else needs to happen to awaken us from that bickering and friction way of being? Shall one carry on living that superficial way of being or is there a need to be reflective rather than reactive? What does it mean be non reactive? Shall one continue to plunder on the lives of others and or learn our livelihoods by doing so.

Can one take that warning from Wuhan as a way to how to be? Or is it just a ‘Chinese” affair with the rest safe one ever it’s over so to speak. Or are we all in it regardless? How did it all happened? And why? What may I do as an individual. May one carry on trying to call upon some highly elevated being for help to secure a life for my family and me to the exclusion of others and or trying to have a list of order carrier so that all will be fine because I pray to some powerful entity or highly elevated being or some God or God to always keep one safe and happy to carry on doing the same things all over again.

Or is there a need to halt and plainly say that what one has been doing needs revising and cautioning is that it requires some clear drastic measures in one’s way of being. Has the time come to do what one needs really to do rather than be made to do as per the other’s demands whether the family, society or the world? Or should one carry on as all this warning is only temporary and one will be back with the cinemas once again opening up another way after the challenges has been dealt with.

To be sure, this again is one for the reader to decide whilst our humble style has merely been to make the other reflect through exposing rather than imposing. Meanwhile please carry on taking care and be safe.

All is at a halt: No need to do anything as what we are staring at is a non certain life except that one never realises it. Living in a lockdown brings home this crude fact things are fragile. At every step there is danger. It is war against an invisible enemy as coined by The French President Emanuel Macron…..where every other is a potential enemy! Nowhere is safe except perhaps what may call home but then one is used to run away from that home which took years of work, planning to design then taking it for granted. We are made to be around it, appreciate what is there not only of the inanimate but also those around whom we share a bond with. A case of making up on the quality time which is missed in frantic normal times. Perhaps, one may learn from this current upheaval on how to be and what not a to do rather than carrying creating distortions about. A time to take care and keep safe from that invisible enemy.As if we have not sufficiently beware of of others, every other now is seen as a threat, an enemy not to get too close to.
Life is at stake as no one wishes to get contaminated.Or this is what emerges Beware: In some ways all others, every other is a threat to my being in a kind of newly found out being conscious way.No need to be close to one another but a question of being overtly aware of the threat as posed by that unseen enemy which may attack any moment. The world is at time of writing in a shocked mood. In a strange way after the first few weeks although there are disruptions to one’s normal way of being, we are in a state of non certainty. In someways we have always been so except that we do not know it. The Virus has made us more conscious.Nothing may ever be the same again. No need to try to imagine a world of how it used to be. The call is to awake to a realisation that one is frail.Keep the two metres rule or similar with any other and you are safe. You never know who is a carrier although not necessarily one who has been attacked. A kind of a mistrust as if we always trusted the other.
In many respects the idea of togetherness are thrown upside down. Everything is all over the place. A world in lockdown, being confined to one’s place. You may no longer venture as there is imminent danger about. At every step one never knows what awaits. Safety is indeed at home, home being the place where one always made a point of running away from. One is now in forced or voluntary confinement. Suddenly, one is made to take actions against the environment, pollution and or doing things that one would otherwise not do.
The downside to all this is that the naïve still maintain hope that all will be the same. A question of time. Yes, but not as one would want. One has to be patient as to reach that 60-70% agreed state of affairs where most have had some immunity contact with the enemy may be several months away.The downside to all this is that lots of devastation would have been caused with ever rising deaths… more often taking away the elderly and frail ones who has other health problems Meanwhile a question of keeping calm and being safe whilst taking care.Or one way of looking at all this is the world order being so disrupted is verily to say that we are in it for the long haul. It is not something that will go away sooner.Only the naïve may think that normality will return sooner and that life as it was will resume. Verily, resumption may take another turn. People will be cautious: Greetings will be of a different kind.Wearing of masks may be a trend in the future as would being cautious.
In adopting a more calm attitude, one may take things in one strides and be more relaxed amidst the frantic whilst the mundane attitude is to merely look at the bodily self whilst doing other non responsible things like reverting to sub human standard as to each according to one’s strengths and power of stocking things for oneself whilst being absolutely inconsiderate to others.The civic norm is thrown aside: Just see what is happening about and around the supermarkets across the world.
Current lifestyle as we knew it may take some rebuilding. To be sure, it needs to go as has been argued beyond that that framework of mere physical where things are seen from a parochial aspect. It is me against the other. That beware aspect from a transcendental perspective remains to see the other not as a threat but a living warmth as one one’s own in confinement, one is nothing. There would not be an outside to go to or a world in its pluralism but a mere awakening to just oneself and a ghetto type life where all there would be is plain singularity and what would be lost is precisely aspects that makes life colourful.
Who knows what type of world may one be awake to when all things will be said and done. The current taking for granted world and lifestyle may not be.What may come forth a post corona may be a more cautious and aware world never taking things for granted and importantly perhaps ready to pause and reflect and thereby readily keep questioning one’s lifestyles at all time.
For the vulgar and the brute, perhaps there is no need for any other mode except their way of life which is dare one adds which is about maintaining a way which suppresses every other. It is precisely that such a naïve and intolerant brutal way which may have caused events to unfold in a way which now if unchecked may signal even the end of the world order as one knows of it.

Humanity at the crossroad: challenges are always there. The previous that one encounters always appears daunting but what the world now faces is surely unparalleled. What is in front of us is surely that which questions even our existence. In the process, there is no hiding place. One is called upon to face up to it whoever one is. A call also to look at the way one lives and questions the superficial and the mundane which should make us ponder and questions how the world has been living and particularly oneself.

Nature has a way of redressing their balance and perhaps what we are witnessing in the form of the global threat is a cry from Mother Earth and the environment to plead and ask humanoids to reconsider. For us, it is a massive problem, one which cause disturbance to our lifestyles: With self lockdown or otherwise imposed in many countries at time of writing; it is only really a question of when that the world as a whole is so confined. Life as it is may never be quite the same post the global threat. It is no longer an enemy easily identified which may be easily targeted. The challenge is that there is no counter instant remedy: in time and at what cost. Are we heading towards an apocalypse? Is there hope?

We are stuck in a limbo; not knowing which way to turn. Is the message clear enough? Or do we need to find another cure to get back to the way we were? Or is this a call to look both within and without? Should one call time on our use and abuse of the environment? From an environmental perspective is it all a welcome intervention? May one pause and reflect or carry on? Is it simply a case of survival of the fittest where if you are strong then one may override any difficulty as posed and so verily nothing to worry about as one will be all right as going on surely is around the corner!

Should there be actions to seek a solution so that we carry on in similar fashion as previously? Must our prayers simply be about forgiveness only to go back to ways which led to the inferno we are facing up to currently? Or is it the case that one has to seriously ponder on the way we have been living? To be sure on the considerations and discussions on these may surely lead to how it is proposed that one moves forward, in the realm of a way which is not simply about divisions and or hatred or frictions and or exploitations of the animate and inanimate.In brief may one try and dialogue rather than placing veils around and about? May one in all seriousness lead a life of non-frictions and reaching out? Is the call about enough on a particular way of being and of opening up to a different realm? That realm which sees the other as a comrade rather than as a figure to be ignored if not despised! Is there some sense about questioning the way one has lived? May we live a lifestyle which does not cause any form of disturbance to any other?

Is this possible? What is the way forward? Ask a scientist and he may provide an answer? Another one may disagree. Likewise, when faced to challenges different parties have opposing views as to resolve existing problems! Are we doomed in that we may never be able to be in dialogue with one another as there may never be consensus around and about how to be? It all stems from a single source of blaming the other whereas one is all right. The fact of the matter is that one is not. Nor is the lifestyle we have been living.

Can one agree that our lifestyles not as the other but all of us leaves a lot to be desired? And possibly it is that which may have brought us face to face with the current challenge emerging from and out of Wuhan and spreading at an almost furious pace everywhere.If only there is some broad agreement perhaps one may take a course of united action against that challenge with the alternative being to try getting back to more of the same.That more of the same where one has a destructive and violent society is not something that one happily subscribes where distrust, hate and frictions are part of the lifestyle that one subscribes to.

What is being questioned is that arrogant way of being and a lifestyle which puts others down and, in some way, it is being exposed that nature has pronounced: Enough is enough! It is ‘my’ turn to get back to you humans seems to be announcing mother nature who is after recreating a balance again in a world where far too much has happened. It is a cry calling on humanity to stop. And some think that it is merely correct that a redress needs to occur where a balancing act may arrive.

It is a war with an invisible enemy attacking mankind from within. Whereas, one does not know how to combat it at the early stages, all seems doomed. Grim news are circulated around daily almost with no hope but sheer management of a doom to follow in due course. What is for certain is that in this war there will be lots of victims whilst the latter not having any way to try facing up to it as it is far too powerful.
It is a proper world war where the other side seems to be winning, where the enemy is always on a firm footing where humanoids are still struggling as in spite of facing an enemy yet are still disunited with each group, nation choosing to tackle that invisible as they best feels fit to do without much unity or common cause and very few really knowing what to do or not what to do. It is unsurprising that all this be so in climate where one lives in friction and distrust of the other.

There is also a panic about as one is at a standstill where the foundation of modern life is questioned. The lack of trust is also revealed at an interpersonal level where the other viewed as the enemy to be at a distance as if by maintaining a social distance all will be fine.And around the world one has also witnessed how some has gone to the level of brutes whilst others have made attempts at reaching out.

We are at standstill: Life as if has stopped. First it was Wuhan. Then Italy, France, across Europe and slowly in UK and creeping all over the world. In some ways this is not a simpleton of a Chinese affair: The world is such a small place. There is no hiding place. Life as one knows it may be threatened. For the first time, one is forced into pause mood due to some real challenge: Survival will depend on how the world responds to this. Even with this being so, there is hardly much dialogue on how to move forward.

To be sure for the parochial, it is an opportunity to further lay the blame in some quarters where the subject is seen again not to be part of the mess but the other. It is always the other whereas one is free from all responsibility. Camus though in his imaginative celebrated novel ‘The Plague’ based on an imaginary village explored this aspect of arrogance where there was a shift from the egotistical where no one was spared to an ‘us-ness’ of being. Sadly, there seems to be some parallel which what is happening now. The point is each and everyone is affected whether one is in Wuhan, Milan, Paris or London or even in some remote non affected place in the world, one still feels it!

It is no long just a Chinese problem but one that the world has to face over. Not to do so may carry on causing havoc around as the emphasis has shifted from Wuhan to across Europe. We are all in it!

It is no longer an isolated concern affecting a group, a country or just a few. No longer an “I” thing but one where each one is faced with a simple fact. The idea that one may not be is no longer just a transcendental affair of concern to the few. It is a fact and at time of writing the idea that one may not be is real not a mere intellectual probe more so existential one.

For the rare few, this has always been so. From then onwards, it is always a question of how to be. Or what to do or not to do. For some it is business as usual and regardless of that dialectics as encountered, it is the same thing all over again. There is a further inward withdrawal where the brute self or its immediate extension is all that maters. It is me, me, still me and mine. That is why even in places where the wuhan effect has not quite reached in its ferocious way still people has resorted to leading a debased form of being which is apparent across Europe where some are into panic buying as if by doing so, all else will be fine.

Again, it is all a question about being no more but a victim of the ego as if one were to project such a way of living it is simply about the ego self or as I am all right who cares. In a way, one has not quite grasped the challenge ahead. Somehow, we have been made to pause and go in seclusion mode. Questions are being asked about life and its purpose. For once perhaps one is intentioned towards the aspect of how to be. The idea of one may not be is no longer something which just sages explore. It is a real concern to all of us.

The arrogant or so called those whose concern is merely for their petty selves, life is about a continuity of keep doing the same thing all over again in spite of the warning. Hatred and arrogance carry on. It seems that aspect of divisions is always all about us with no change in lifestyles. The superficial feels that things need to carry on as before. Yet there is a call to pause and reflect. Should one simply carry on as before and live the same way and lead an existence which fails to appreciate the other whether it is animate or inanimate. What else needs to happen to beware?

Is closing down of the system about the world not sufficient or is it that the challenge which started at Wuhan has not been quite assimilated nor appreciated?

Is it time to question what is most observable?  A halt to our mode of living and consider alternatives? Are we ready to explore in authenticity or is it all based our idiosyncrasies? What is the way forward? Who knows what to do? Medical sciences are working to find an answer to ease suffering but again that takes time or is it by the time something is discovered, a great damage to what we do or should not do may have been done. For sure even the violent seems to have paused or their way of being was dependent on a smooth functioning way of life which is no longer the case.

Or is all lost? Is it so much a threat that one has to give in? What is the way forward? Or is just a media frenzy aspect in an age where news travel as fast as light? Whatever it is, seems that it is all about a case to be concerned at least given that all has been made to halt or forcefully be on a pause mode. Whereas if done voluntarily, the aspect of reflection follows swiftly and there is an appetite which follows to scrutinise all things about us based on a more proactive mode of being. Yet the tendency to remain reactive is always part and parcel of the super way of living. Based on a mere bodily way the tendency is to ignore the warning. It is to move along a way of further withdrawal into a ghetto of me-ism meaning mere reactionary ways are used to carry on along the fragmented mode.

The way of the reactionary can not be clearer: All about oneself whilst the other is the cause of it all and if not the cause, then let’s try  and simply veil the self: The argument against such proposals is that precisely because of this way of being perhaps some may say that nature is having a go at humanoids asking us to not only pause but go on a reflective mode which looks at the question of how to be. It is also clear that even in this current climate there have been insufficient comprehensive dialogues about how to face up to the challenge. It is all being left to a particular nation state to decide. Or does it all demand more cooperation and being together rather than separateness? And perhaps more importantly is a call to change our way of lifestyle?

One always seeks to control things about us: It the nature of humans when living in non separateness of mode where one gives the self authority to do so. In this vein, the subject becomes a rash being adopting all the norms of materialistic tendencies and seek to promote a futile way of being at perpetually denigrating others. In this process there is no love lost in trying to recollect aspects of life of forging ahead based on some ways which seeks to upheld oneself whilst putting others down. All that matters is for the ego to have a partial view of living where the latter airs superior status whilst relegating others. The scheme is only successful partially in shouting others which makes the brute feels happy and content. Others are viewed in a paranoia way. A defence system is built about the self as if one is over and beyond all others. Humility is never in the vocabulary of one who vulgarises everything.

As it is, taking this further, all else is objectified and or materialised as if life is all about that aspect of the crude and vile. Or the vile, violent and the brute is in control, with a clear tendency to be arrogant and cause distress with every interaction. What the latter knows not is that there is another realm in this condemned from of the absurd where hope lies not in nastiness or imposing but verily at being able to perceive the beauty in that realm of transcendence. But for the ruffian all is about itself and its survival at all cost where some may even say that if one is to walk over the bodies of others, so be it. There is no vision of perceiving life alongside or with others.

Others simply do not matter: Only the crude self does or it is all about negativism proper. In its quest for superiority, the neophyte nurture a view of materialising all aspects of life even the distorted view of his transcendence unlike his counterpart which aims to sensibalise all forms of materialism to the point of seeing beauty and calm about everywhere unlike the subject which merely seeks to trivialise others towards aiming his/her own goal of inbuilt friction where no other is worthy of being-ness but itself. Or let us say, a question of how the subject perceives the world becomes the measure of being. A total lack of disrespect or even acknowledgement of any other. Others are merely stepping ladders, as they are objectified with only one subject, the wretched who wants and aims for all control. All is this swept aside, akin to how a dictator may move about and along.

After creating so much frictions about the pride ego which is all about itself and no other also promote arrogance from which conceit develops as if no one or thing matters but that being which fractionalised even all things as it encounters again keeping itself on top through either harshness, hate and sometimes violence. For such a being the other is condemned to be a servitor. It is seen as a lack which only the controller may affix but only on the latter’s term to the negligence of the subject. Acts of self control is non-existent in the one who seeks to be domineering whilst simplicity and or freedom from anger to be sure is a far cry in the scheme of the rogue who tends to see its ways as being the only one to adopt and follow. In effect, there is no concern about any other. Life is simply seen as an arena to impose with all lose measured in gains and loses. Our comrade herewith only has his/her interests to be upheld.

Tranquility or calmness and peace is foreign in such an equation. Rather there is a tendency keep faultfinding in others about them. Again, there may never be compassion for living entities as the latter are seen as objects and to some extent literally or how else may one view the cruel abattoirs about and around. Lesser beings are bred for the sake of those who adopt a pure superior tendency. In its quest for even higher status the non savoury cares little for any one, hence missing the aspect of gentleness in its ways of being. To be sure, there is no modesty of approach or humbleness but instead plain wretchedness in operation.

What the perpetrator fails to see is its lack of warmth in reaching out and abide in comradeship which at least acknowledge the other. That is missing in the vocabulary of the one who uses anger and hate as a strategy to relate to the world order. Likewise, gentleness or mercy is missing as would be freedom from envy, all based on trying to impose and be what one is not based from an attitude of materialistic perspective of life. The process of life is measured on an equally crude business mode: it is all about outdoing of the other. The better I get at this through any form of interaction the higher one status of life, one may achieve. It is all about amassing honours in the world as one believes and so the wretched happily leads a spurious life believing it to be the way of being.

No heed is taken of real and actual aspects which helps foster a togetherness. The crude merely sees its forlorn way as a paradigm of honour to be persevered with as it brings success and greatness in his mode of being. No need to take heed of the teachings of the sages but a mere fanatical approach mere claiming to be a follower suffice in their way of thinking. With this being so, further confusions are thrown about as others looking upon the leaders merely see no logic in following a lead of others who are a mere embodied contradictions taking one away from all hope of authenticity where the deplorable are seen to be hailed except in others also simply abiding and adopting a similar tone of the vulgar and superficial.

To objectify the other whilst hailing one’s subjectivity is the art of the crude where there is no interpersonal relationship, or if there is it is all about seeing the subject as of paramount importance whilst any other denigrated to a debased form of servitude and or forcibly made to curb either through strategies of anger, hatred and other violence.

The question of pause, stop and reflect is never there. Unlike Socrates, the arrogant ‘knows’ everything around, about everything in spite of always justifying its own contradictions or way of being often taken shelter of even some other higher principle…. which again further creates confusions. To be sure, a sad way to be!