I had a dream, which I always tell. In my journey to life,
stepping into the world of grown up, I have lost a few times.
Early of this
year, I saw this painted picture. I stood in front of it and I cried.
Dharma Drum Mountain, Taiwan. [人间净土]
Yesterday, I had a beautiful conversation between me as a Buddhist
and my senior mentor as a Muslim. He told me, if we see the interconnectedness
in all these, we will know the reason why we are doing. Though both of us do
not used to convey religion practices in English, however I am the fastest to
understand what he is trying to tell. He told me two values that are utmost
important in life: “Kasih” dan “Sayang”. For me, that is compassion, which I
can see from his sincerity and kindness. I know, we both have the same vision
on this world.
Here, I sat and listened to the conservationist. I admire what they did. But sometimes, we put others as opposition.
I think anyone in this world can be a conservationist. Only
if we started to see that the interconnectedness between human and the nature,
and we are actually part of it, not the god of it; only if we started to
realize the law of interdependence, that all beings are actually connected as one,
compassion will arise and there will have the greatest power to change.
But why many doesn’t see the way I see? Why most of us doesn’t
act the way we think? If we see careful enough, how many times that we are
actually mindful of what we are doing? For say when we drink water, when we take shower, when we eat. Do we realize where does the water and food comes
from, and feel a sense of gratitude? A lot of actions that we did, not only we
are unconscious of it, but most of the time with greed, emotions and ignorance.
We are used to driven by these forces that we are not aware of it. In the world
of marketing, we succumb with materials and wealth and we are actually very
used to it until it changes the values in life. “More is good” “Big is good” “Blond
is good”. We thought that that is happiness that we search for.
The world is getting complicated, and some says that the
solutions too need to be comprehensive (complicated in other sense). For after
all the thoughts, I still think that the solution can be as simple as to start
in ourselves, to be peace in ourselves.
Why I care? I don’t really know why and when I had such a
dream. Maybe it’s just like the others, a tendency of wanting happiness and
peace. Only if we can be at peace with ourselves, we can be at peace with
nature. Likewise, only we can starts to contemplate the true relationships with
nature, we will find peace in ourselves.
Belum Rainforest Summit 2016
Thanks for bearing my poor English. I am just trying to
practice my writing.
