Being Omnijective

It's only Thursday night but I'm already writing my blog article of the week. There's a long weekend coming up because of the Hari Raya Puasa holidays. The massive balik kampung exodus has already begun. There'll be much gaiety and celebrations all over the country, while I am looking forward to enjoy a less crowded city over the weekend. 

I was watching the SpaceX test flight launch of their most power rocket ever.  Space exploration is one of the most exciting things that the human species have pursued.  I applaud Elon Musk for having the courage to start up SpaceX and bringing it to the forefront of space exploration.  Only when we enter space, do we get a sense of how fragile and vulnerable we are in the immensity of the cosmos. 

The world will be a less quarrelsome place If only more of us care to lift our sights up and gaze into the night sky. We--every sentient being on earth-- are part of a single organism, Gaia. If we know how to shift our consciousness from an ego-centric perspective to one that encompasses the entire world, we would have made a baby step towards becoming a cosmic citizen.

We humans celebrate patriotism. It's well good that we all have some kind of allegiance towards our own family, tribe, company, state or country.  But again, these are progressive steps towards the extinction of the ego. A man who cares for his family learns to set aside his own selfish needs for that of his family. There's always a tension between need of the individual and that of the group. Family life is the first opportunity for us to learn to be altruistic.  

The universe is constantly pushing us outwards--to let go, albeit slowly, so that we may shift our focus towards embracing a larger whole. Ultimately, if the universe has a mind, we are part of it. It is foolish of us to be trapped in our parochialism and not being able to see the pantheistic nature of our existence. 

We get into endless arguments about the existence of God and its nature. What makes us think that these are even reasonable questions? We create issues by formulating questions in the only way we know, using human languages that had been shaped by our very limited human experiences. Is it any wonder that we assume God to be some kind of idealised alpha male leader, to be feted and feared?

We function in our lives as individuals, interacting with other individuals. Hence we conceptualise individuals, as 'souls', that has some kind of identity and reality, with a unique story arc. Every one is trying to achieve something or go somewhere. What makes us think that our 'identity', like a rivulet of water flowing between the crevices of rocks, has any importance in the cosmic scheme of things? 

The moment we speak, we are dividing the world into subject and object. When we are tired of arguing about the relationship between the subject and the object, perhaps we could all learn to just be. Being. For we are all processes that are part of a larger process that is part of a complex network of processes. To put it simply, the world is omnijective.