Christophe wrote:Bin me, I think that the degradation of nature has perhaps entered ... in the "nature" of man ... I will try an explanation ...
I warn you go get pissed off ...
According to my observations and readings, the actions of the human being are guided by several factors:
- Desire : search for satisfaction, escape from suffering.
This quest creates or strengthens a permanent center, which experiences me, in the flow of sometimes contradictory desires that we have in mind.
This center can be named ego.
Ego = a center of permanence that privileges what brings us pleasure and rejects what makes us suffer, any experience reinforces it.
No different from an insect attracted by the light and fleeing the dim light.
Just that in humans, the patterns of attraction or repulsion, are a little more evolved and complex than for the insect.
- Security :search for security of this ego, in the face of the flow of sometimes contradictory desires, or in the face of the events of life which arrive beyond our control, which are insecure, lacking in stability.
the ego is this island of inner stability.
This center of permanence, the ego, only wants to last, because it takes root in the memory of past experiences.
Memory = last in time.
This ego is basically our survival instinct, for the preservation of the body.
The concern in man is that this instinct of survival enters the psychological sphere and in human relations, where the survival of the body, is not at stake.
Just see how an opinion debate becomes a verbal fight to death.
No examples in mind.
Just see the billionaire hoarding more than he can ever spend on 1000 lives.
The man is therefore sick of his search for safety, his survival in registers that have nothing to do with the survival of the body and is sick of his desires.
All this is unreasonable.
Man is sick of identifying with the desires that are born in his mind
Nobody masters, desires and ideas come to mind, it comes alone. In meditation we can easily see it. One can eventually master after the fact, respond favorably or not, free to self to identify or not (more easy to say than to do according to circumstances).
To answer you Christophe (finally!
), the degradation of nature comes from this center, the ego, selfish by nature who wants to continue and who by unconsciousness responds to his irrational fears and made a little anything by just wanting to survive.
As long as human consciousness does not extend to nature, as long as man remains ego-centered, he sees his personal survival as his primary objective and does not care about what surrounds him, so about nature.
All the more true if it is a city dweller (gross generalization because there are exceptions, being myself a city dweller and I meet peasants not very protective of nature, but the city tends to cut nature having the impression of living off the ground)
As long as man does not realize that he lives in a biosphere of finite dimension and that each of his actions has an action on the biosphere (given the amount of world population), he ignores nature, whereas it is the place that makes us live and shelters us.
The only way out, in my opinion, is the increase of consciousness by everyone, of what man is (his internal functioning described above), of his link with nature, the foster mother.
