Soil and Wind, and the Love of God

A Philosophical Declaration of Soyo’s Existence Ethics

The Dialogue of Soil and Wind

The soil said to the wind, "If you blow, I will disappear. So would you blow only a gentle breeze for me?’

And God said,

"I have made both soil and wind. If you remember only my love, you will never vanish."

This brief dialogue is not mere imagination. It is a parable that most concisely reveals the essence of human existence. Soil symbolizes human fragility, and wind symbolizes the power of the world. Soil can at any moment be scattered by the wind, and wind can at any moment destroy the soil. Yet at the depth of this relationship lies the Creator’s declaration: “Remember my love.” Soyo's Existence Ethics calls this declaration “the most primordial covenant of existence and ethics.” The fragility of humankind, the strength of the world, and the ultimate condition that sustains both these rest only upon the love of God.

The Philosophy of Fragility and Dependence

Soil cannot protect itself. It exists at the mercy of the wind. So it is with human beings. We pretend to be strong, but before sickness, before the years, before farewells, and before death itself, how easily we collapse.

Yet this fragility is not defeat. Rather, it is the door through which humanity is invited to return to the source of existence. Only in fragility do we remember God, hold onto conscience, and seek love. Just as soil asks wind for a gentle breeze, humans in the weight of life ask God for mercy and peace. Soyo's Existence Ethics declares:

“Fragility is not shame but the beginning of awakening to God’s love.”

The Ethics of Power and Mercy

Wind can scatter the soil, or it can embrace it. Power is always a double-edged sword. The power of civilization, technology, and knowledge can be either a gentle breeze that preserves life or a storm that destroys it.

Ethics is revealed at this point of choice. When the wind becomes a breeze that protects the soil, power becomes a channel of love. But when the wind turns to a storm and scatters the soil, power becomes the instrument of arrogance and destruction.

Soyo’s Existence Ethics teaches:

“When the strong protect the weak, only then does strength become true ethics.”

The Silence of God and the Response of Love

God enters the dialogue of soil and wind. But His intervention is not a command, it is a request of memory: “If you remember my love, you will never vanish.”

This reveals the essence of God’s silence. God does not directly intervene at every moment. Instead, He waits for human freedom, for choice, for reflection. The one who remembers God’s love holds onto eternal existence, even while scattered like soil or swept like wind. This silence is not neglect but an invitation for existence to face its own conscience, to hold onto love, and to move toward eternity.

The Expansion of Existence Ethics: The Parable of Nature

The dialogue between soil and wind is, in truth, the parable of all nature.

The flower testifies to the suffering before it blooms. The sea bears witness to the history of cycles. The mountain remembers wounds within its silence. Yet humankind sees only the beauty of the flower, the scenery of the sea, the conquest of the mountain.

In this unreflective age, the brief dialogue between soil and wind asks us to pause:

“What do you remember? What do you hold onto?” Soyo’s Existence Ethics answers:

“The providence of nature proves the very ethics of human existence. Yet humanity reduces it to mere natural phenomena. No, it is the order and providence of nature that exists as the evidence of God’s profound love for humankind.”

The One Who Remembers Love

Humans are as fragile as soil, and the world is as strong as wind. Yet beyond all this, there is a single declaration: “If you remember my love, you will never vanish.”

This is the core truth that runs through the entirety of Soyo’s Existence Ethics. The meaning of existence is not found in achievement, power, or strength. The meaning of existence begins only in the memory of love.

The dialogue of soil and wind is ultimately the dialogue of humanity, civilization, and God. And in the weary journey of existence, the one thing we must hold onto until the very end is “the memory of love.“

Soyo (逍遙) – Founder of Soyo's Existence Ethics, Author of The Silence of Existence, The Flame of Truth

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