5/12/18
Dear Chedet,
This is my idea work:
In this posting I shall attempt to answer the question about being.
At the very core of it, we are human BEing. Thus we must BE. To BE we must beCOME.
Who then we might be? There are many forms we take as humans. Some associate themselves with their religions, some through their vocations, some through football clubs, music genres and even political parties.
Well for me, my being consists of who I am and where I am heading. I am both a static and kinetic energy. It will be pointless to have one without the other. I need the potential and I need the action. If I have the potential and I don’t act, I am no different from a statute. If I act without the potential, then I am just dust in the wind.
To be me I need the being and become. Beyond any of the conventional labeling of what it means to be human, I am One and I am Many. I am not a drop in the ocean but as mentioned by Rumi, an ocean in a drop. What you see is just that. Beneath the surface are layers upon layers of beings. All these beings are intelligent. All my cells and tissues are driven by a single purpose; which is the survival of the being.
It is easy to see then that intelligence exists at all levels. Like peeling an onion, each layer is a complex of multiple intelligence by itself. Our lives too are no different. As much as we are a single being, we are to be more exact is a multi-cellular being. Without the synergistic coexistence that we have with mitochondria for example, we cannot even grow beyond a single cell organism.
It is very tempting to say that we as individuals can stand alone. However that may not be so. A single human all by himself will eventually perish. This is because we all interconnected in this biosphere, In that sense we are no different from the bacteria. We need one another to ensure the survival of our species and the survival of the planet as we work ourselves up the hierarchy of life.
So in the end our being is to start with us becoming a human but in the end we must become collectively responsible to the well being of the whole planet. If the microbes depend on us as a host, we too as a species need to ensure Earth is well taken care for it to continue to be our host.
In the final analysis the purpose of human beings is therefore to help each other to help him/herself. There is no 2 ways about it. Either we do that or we will not survive. So we should not squabble among us. Time and time again families were torn, nations crumbled and civilizations fell when we out of neglect don’t take heed of this advice.
I hope you like it.
Sine cera,
SJ
MSC 0072
5/12/18
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