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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Apa peran Anda?

Sejarah manusia mencatat peran tokoh-tokoh besar yang sangat berpengaruh pada zamannya dan menjadi inspirasi generasi-generasi berikutnya. Beberapa tokoh terkenal karena kebaikannya, beberapa karena keburukan atau kejahatannya. Selanjutnya kita tahu bahwa akhirnya semua bentuk apresiasi kita ayunkan pada kebaikan yang diperankan oleh tokoh-tokoh itu.

"Baik" dan "buruk" barangkali hanya sepasang kategori moral yang paling mudah dipergunakan untuk menilai tindakan dan peran seorang tokoh sejarah. Memang pemahaman tentang baik dan buruk dalam kaitannya dengan suatu konteks kebudayaan tertentu masih selalu menjadi diskusi atau bahkan perdebatan. Namun kiranya disetujui bahwa semua diskusi dan perdebatan itu berakar pada upaya semua pihak untuk memahami eksistensi manusia dan martabatnya secara lebih matang dan progresif. Peperangan yang menyertakan aktivitas saling melukai dan bahkan membunuh adalah sebentuk ekspresi ekstrem dari perdebatan konsep paradigmatis tentang eksistensi dan martabat manusia di antara pihak-pihak yang terlibat.


Semenjak teknologi yang diciptakan manusia mampu menghubungkan bangsa manusia di muka bumi ini dengan aselerasi yang semakin tinggi, sepertinya impian akan terwujudnya kesepahaman universal tentang paradigma itu bukanlah hal yang mustahil lagi. Sekarang orang dapat dengan mudah berbicara secara lintas bangsa, lintas budaya, agama agama, lintas ras, lintas gender, dsb.


Munculnya tokoh-tokoh istimewa dan terjadinya peristiwa-peristiwa yang menyentuh kemanusiaan di sudut dunia manapun dengan cepat bisa diketahui oleh orang dari belahan bumi yang lain. Dan mau tidak mau tokoh-tokoh penting di setiap bangsa harus menyadari bahwa peran dan tindakannya, bahkan kehidupan pribadinya, akan menjadi perhatian semakin banyak orang. Penilaian berupa sanjungan atau hujatan terhadap mereka dalam iklim globalisasi sekarang ini jelas tidak hanya dari lingkupnya sendiri, tetapi bisa dari luar lingkupnya.


Singkat kata semua orang di muka bumi ini semakin mendapatkan
pembelajaran mengenai paradigma eksistensi dan martabat manusia seperti apa yang
akan diterima oleh seluruh umat manusia di bumi ini.


Nah, sekarang pertanyaannya adalah – dan ini pekerjaan rumah kita masing-masing: Apa peran kita dalam gerak proses seperti itu?


That will be our contribution to the human history, to the history of humanity! ***

Friday, September 28, 2007

Listening to others ...


What do you think about the two young men?

They are leaning on the backbone of one another. We can develop the following ideas:

  • What are they doing?
  • What's going on in their mind?
  • One is smiling while the other is looking at something beneath.
  • They are sitting on the same rock.
  • Look at the circumstances, where are they?

(Thanks to Bambang&Benny! Gambarmu dak pasaang, Dab! hehehe....!) ***

Thursday, September 20, 2007

About This Blog

BeautifyTheWorld.Blogspot.Com
What is it all about?


After many posts I’ve published at this blog, I think I have to refresh the philosophy which has been the driving spirit to go with. One of the results is the new header-banner above. You see, the banner has been changed for this reason. I made it more representative to describe the mission of this blog.


“Beauty” is to be the mean keyword followed by the word “world”. Behind the blog’s title there is a conception that the world should be more beautiful than it is now. Of course we have to believe that it is beautiful already! This belief enables us to recognize the present beauty now-here in our daily life. And it happens inherently in every action motivated by love to the ultimate beauty. Any action motivated by this kind of love then becomes an effort. That’s what I mean with the word “beautify”. It is an action. The experiences of this loving action would become the story to be shared to everyone else.

This blog is dedicated to any effort to make our world confortable to live in. The "world" here means a place where we live physically, but it could also mean anything correlated to our role by which we contribute most of our soul and body. Meanwhile, the verb "beautify" suggests us a touch of love as well as a touch of art in any action we can do for the goal.Let us explore any field arround us. What could we do with our creativities, activities, hobbies, etc. to make the dream of a better "place" come true?The result is beyond. But we believe, it reveals right now-here.

So, it’s all about love in its actions. Yes, it is!
Love is human. Art is also human. So is beauty. At least, it’s only human being who understands the meanings of them. We live in the world which is so human. Then the story is “all about making the world to be more human”!

What could we do to make this world a better place to live in? I could not make it alone... Big things come from the little ones.We can do simple actions to bear great effects upon our surroundings. So, why not to do a little beauty?

I am an Indonesian-Javanese (I’m sorry to mention it). There’s a Javanese traditional saying about how to run the role of living; it is as a vision and mission of man’s life: “Mamayu hayuning bawana, sepi ing pamrih rame ing gawe, narima ing pandum” – to take part of beautifying the world’s beauty, to go primarily for none of self-intention while working with others pro-actively, and to be grateful to the given role within the universe. It sounds so eastern culture point of view. However, it could be valuable interpretation and contribution to the living of the whole peoples on this planet earth.

How to be more human?

That’s the very question to answer. The real answers are beyond every single word we can say. They are in our actual life in relationship with other beings, our fellows, the nature, and of course The Creator of all beings.


This blog is just another heap of stories about human being. ***



Sincerely yours.
Kandar Ag.



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Monday, September 17, 2007

No looser to be grateful!

Once I've posted a subject of discussion at myLot.com in a question, "Does an atheist have a word "thanks-giving"?" One of the responses I got gave me an answer, "Sure, why not? I am thankful for a lot of things in my life. I just don't thank a god that I don't believe in. I just thank life in general."
I was surprised by the answer! Even an atheist has that word telling us an attitude of gratitude though there could be more explanation of the phrase "life in general".

Thanks-giving, thankfulness, gratitude, to be grateful ...whatever you say is to say that life is so valuable!

Just say "Thanks!" or "Thank you" or "Thank you God", so you recognize yourself standing before the greatness of someone else! You admit it without being a looser! You show your own great dignity as well as nothing taken from yours. Yes, it's a celebration of your own great dignity as a human being in relationship with others.

Show your beauty with your grateful living. ***



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