Kirinningen wrote a very important mail to me after our second mindblowing meeting in Japan:
Keep doing something to master is sometimes narrow and lonely path. Because when we think deeply and practice something seriously, we need to be alone. It’s tough way but, of course you don’t need to be alone all the time. And I hope we’ll help each other even though we live far apart.
Mastering something is usually a difficult goal, but I believe that it can be done with passion. Anyway, I don’t agree that we need to be alone to do that. Quite the contrary, we especially thrive when we are not alone. Sociabilité — that is the key of the human nature; the bonds we build between each other; the love we interchange; el cariño we show towards others and the will of helping them which moves us forward. This is what makes us humans.
If we are homo sapiens (Latin: sapere = to know), then why are we not using our minds? We seem so blinded by the words we built ourselves in the first place. We are slaves of our own species. We don’t seem to go beyond the knowledge. This historical knowledge we actually accumulated just to construct systems, norms and rules during ages. Foucault said that knowledge is the tool of power. That the created knowledge history rules upon us, it dominates us. Not only in the political sense, but also social.
In my opinion, people are lost in this webs of knowledge they wove, which makes them forget about what really matters in this world.
Firstly, the human — as a human seen from the natural perspective, is made to take care of the planet. We were always part of a living organism on Earth, we played a role in a repeating cycle of life helping other species to live. Even if we just spit a grape seed on the ground — we are still playing a role in the cycle. Letting live others, just by living. Along the way, we grew too much, we overpopulated the different natural habitats and somehow we lost our humanitarianism. We lost the sense due to social frames and almost fictional (from the basic point of view) systems.
Secondly, we are constantly losing the understanding of ourselves as deep and intermindly capable beings. This is where we should realize the meanings of our minds and see the insight. Probably then we would see ourselves as a part of integrity, of wholeness. This leads us to another important issue we are forgetting about: relations. Here I want to refer to the last phrase I quoted.
Hoping is something humans do constantly. But also it is helping each other. We are not alone and probably never will be. If we disappear, we will do it altogether, as a species. We are constantly bond to each other, we build webs of relations and we exchange some kinds of energy, which mostly should be called love or simply troska (Polish: care). This energy, these feelings which stream from our insides, should be trusted more than the imposed social standard behaviors. Our nature and our minds are much deeper than the system rules. Seems a paradox that people created rules based on knowledge, which leads them to distancing themselves from being humans. But humans (as the described fact proves) are not perfect. In fact, they are far from that (whatever this word could possibly mean). If we make mistakes and we can correct them, why could we not correct this issue? If we can hope for help, then why we can not just help?
Maybe I am too foolish to believe we can change. But since I can restore my knowledge and use it to discover the insight and realize what actually matters in this planet and for people, I believe others can achieve it too.
