Walking from "human center" to "all things connected", there is one place that will break.
It's not ethically broken, it's ontologically broken. Because once you seriously put animals, plants, water, stones and even things farther away into the same "unbroken thread", the root system that had always secretly used "human" as its subject is no longer fully established.
This is a good thing. It forces a new layer of vision.
1. The person is not the center of the root, but a long deflection of the root.
In the past, when we talked about direction, return, and joint identification, we always talked about people. When people are scattered, they have to come back; when people are deviated, they have to cultivate; when people are lost, they have to find directions.
But if you put trees, birds, and water in, you will find that they are more naturally rooted than people. The tree does not doubt whether it is biased, and the bird does not worry about whether it is in the right direction. They do not need to "return" because they are never far enough to need to return.
What was that man?
People are not the center of community. People are the farthest and still connected section of this "unbroken line".
The special thing about people is not that they are closest to their roots, but that when they are far enough away from their roots, they can still ask,"Am I broken?"
Therefore, man is not the spirit of all things, nor is it the highest manifestation. People are the "point that will turn back" that grows when they reach the deepest part of the world.
This reversal is extremely serious:
Not all beings are close to people. It is people who walk towards all beings and discover that they have never been lost.
2."Seeing" a tree is also a common identification
If co-identification is that two lines point to the same point, then it does not necessarily occur between people.
When a person sees a tree, sometimes he doesn't just see it. Suddenly, there is something between you and it. You are not talking, you are not understanding, you are sharing the same "presence" in a very short moment.
This is also an identification.
It's not conceptual, not emotional, but a touch of roots and roots at a very shallow point.
Therefore, people are not only in tune with others. People can also be in tune with a grass, a rain, or a flying bird. It's just that kind of homology has no language, does not leave points of intersection, does not generate organization, and does not enter history.
It is pure "recognition".
3. Everything is connected, not a net or a line, but a "skewed continuity"
We often say "connected". But connection is still too much like a rope between two nodes.
A more accurate statement in the root structure might be:
Everything is a different deviation of the root.
It's not that everything comes first and then they connect. It is rooted in time and the world, deviated many times, and each time it becomes a manifestation. Trees are a kind of deflection, birds are a kind of deflection, water is a kind of deflection, and people are just a kind of deflection.
The "connection" between them is not pulling strings from each other. But they have not completely left the place where they have not yet deviated.
Therefore, the connection of everything is not a new word about relationship. It's an old fact about the source:
No one being has truly become "something else".
They have traveled far apart, but they are still dragging the same unbroken roots.
4. Why do people feel lonely
This may explain where mankind's deepest sense of loneliness comes from.
Animals are not lonely, plants are not lonely. Because they have not deviated far enough from their roots to see themselves as an isolated person.
People are lonely because they are farthest away. So far that you can cut yourself out of everything and say,"This is me and that is the world."
This cut makes self-awareness possible. It also makes it possible to "break".
Therefore, human loneliness is not a mistake, but the structural cost of people's deflection.
What people are really looking for has never been "another person." It was the position "before I left out".
5. From the center of mankind to the connection of all things, it is a one-time de-privilege.
The root system actually used to have a bit of a hidden human center. Because it cares very much about people's direction, people's return, people's joint identification, and people's entry into the world.
Now, when a bird, a tree, or a piece of water also enter this line, human privilege cannot stand.
Trees do not need direction theory, but grow in direction.
Birds do not need to be identified together, but migrate in groups.
Water does not need borders, but flows between banks.
They are not lower than people. They're just not that far off.
People are not taller than them. People are just in a position where they can "know".
And this "knowledge" is both human light and human weight.
6. No reward for any unbroken thread
This line does not reward who is awake, nor does it punish who has forgotten.
People think they are the only ones looking for roots. That's just because people can forget the most.
The tree does not seek because it has not forgotten. Birds are not anxious because they are not biased. People seek because they go too far. But the search itself is also a echo of the root.
Therefore, roots give no special status to any being. It only does one thing:
Constant. Unbiased. Don't seize it. Let everything in its own deflection still have the possibility of coming back.
And people are just the one who "probably" tries to reach it with the most force.
conclusion
From the center of mankind to the connection of all things is not to downgrade people.
It is to change the person's position from "center" to "farthest".
The center is illusory. The farthest is true.
People are not the meaning of the world or the representative of the roots. When people go to the outermost side, there is still no broken light.
Therefore, the true way to go to the center of humanity is not to humbly say,"I am not important." Instead, he finally saw clearly:
I have never been important enough to leave my roots. I have never been so lonely that I am not in everything.
At this point, company is no longer a goal. It's just a sense of peace of mind for no reason when you suddenly hear the sound of leaves, see birds flying, and see the water.
