Shree: self and sustainability

 

Shree: self and sustainability

Self is a misunderstood and thoroughly ignored idea of what it really means. At the core of sustainability, the sense of self is fundamentally to be realized having universal connections with all states of existences – from the invisible to visible and hence all things become relational and interconnected. If things are interconnected, how can harm or abuse be inflicted on any thing? All I am doing, is feeling the self through many phenomena!

This has repercussions on feelings, relations, built environment, density, landscape, action, process, engagement, climate, culture and many other things. It is far more than a causal relationship or one of variables and it can have many scales of time and space. The intent with which an action takes birth, evolves and manifests also becomes quite profound as compared to an idea of production and individual freedom.

At the two extreme levels we have people running like dogs and producing things without knowing the meaning or connections behind the cycles of production – they only care about producing or making some noise. At the other end we have action coming from depth of intangible spirituality which is happy within itself and doesn’t seem to give much notice to pressures of time and space. There in fact is no pressure – time and space are born through this dimension.

Increase in speed, increased individualism has a huge dent on environment, built space/ mass and resources. Fragmentation or individualism seems to make existence ‘unsustainable’. If sustainable is the idea, then interconnectedness and dissolving the ego and relationships should be at the core of undertaking. If that can be achieved, then actions can become truly sustainable.

Hari Om.