The Breath of Nature and the Ethics of Humanity – The Path of Existence Flowing with the Breath of God - Chapter 43

Soyo's Existence Ethics (Existence itself is Ethics)

The Human Who Can Hear the Breath of Nature

Nature is always breathing, yet humanity no longer hears that breath, or perhaps refuses to. The wind in the mountains, the trembling of trees, the flow of rivers, the cries of birds, and the rhythm of waves are all the "breath of life" that God breathed into the world. That breath is pure and silent, speaking in a language of truth far older than human speech.

But humanity has turned this breath into silence.

We have learned only to objectify, analyze, and exploit nature.

The immobile creations of humanity, "lifeless structures" and "emotionless civilizations," destroy the ethics of nature. The proof of how destructive humanity has become is not in war or in technological progress, but in the ears that can no longer hear the whisper of the wind.

The Philosophy of Balance – Life Is Completed in Its Place

For a life to exist means that the balance of God dwells within it. When one part of a mountain collapses, the entire forest trembles; when one organ in the body stops, the whole existence sickens. Nature and humanity are not separate. When a part of the human body is lost, we call it a "disability." But when the human heart begins to hate another, the soul has already become an "ethical cripple." The balance of nature is both the harmony of ecology and the symmetry of conscience. This order is not merely a law of science; it is the reflection of the moral order created by God. When this order collapses, humanity loses civilization, and civilization loses humanity. Balance is not a static state; it is the unceasing breath shared between lives. Each time we break that balance, nature warns us through silence.

The Silent Nature, the Shouting Human

Nature never rages against destruction. It endures, dies, and then renews. After a typhoon, trees fall, but new shoots rise again. In that silence, nature speaks: "I am an ethics older than humankind." Only humans decorate their destruction with words, writing history, composing theses, and inventing ideologies. Yet nature, even upon fallen trees, blossoms with life again. This is ethics. Ethics is not speech; it is the breath of life that rises once more. The silence of nature is more truthful than the language of humans.

The Meaning of Circulation – Return, Restoration, and Repentance

Why does nature endlessly circulate? Because humanity, too, is such a being. Everything returns. The sun sets and rises again, rivers turn and return to the sea. So too is life. The human soul does not vanish in death; it walks the path of returning.

To return is not mere repetition. It is a process of maturation proportional to the weight of endured silence. This philosophy of circulation has been repeated throughout human history: destruction and rebuilding, despair and hope, hatred and forgiveness. Yet through all these repetitions, one power flows at the center of the conscience.

Conscience is the channel that connects humanity with the breath of God, and the rhythm of nature's circulation is in complete harmony with that conscience. The breath of God flows equally through the breath of nature and the conscience of humankind.

Existence and Essence – Soyo's Response to Sartre

Sartre said, "Existence precedes essence." But that statement confined humanity to the abyss of nothingness. Soyo responds:

"Essence leads existence, and existence proves essence."

Human beings are not meaningful merely because they exist. They are beings who ask, wait for an answer, and seek the source of that answer.

These three abilities: the capacity to question, the sensitivity to hear responses, and the free will to pursue truth, constitute the essence of human existence.

Sartre emphasized existence, but he failed to see the divine breath and the source of conscience that make existence possible. His philosophy mistook God's silence for humanity's loneliness. But Soyo declares:

"God is not silent. God speaks through the breath of nature, through the conscience of humanity, through the cry within suffering." That speech is not verbal; it is the trembling of existence itself.

Why Humanity Exists

Human beings are not mere biological products. They are existences bearing a divine ethical purpose. That purpose is not mere survival; it is to live life as ethics. Before humanity was created as a thinking being, it was created as a being capable of gratitude.

A human who cannot give thanks seeks to possess nature, and the one who seeks to maintain it will eventually lose themselves.

Gratitude is the center of existence, the first language by which we respond to the breath of God. To "be alive" is itself gratitude, and gratitude is ethics.

The Destiny of Existence – With the Breath of God

All existence is born within the breath of God and returns to it.

When we listen to nature, we are, in truth, listening to the breath of God.

When humanity breaks the balance of nature, the breath of God warns us through our conscience. Yet that warning is not a condemnation; it is love.

God desires that humanity return to its rightful place within nature, to the place of true existence. This is the true meaning of "circulation."

To return is not defeat, it is restoration, the homecoming of being.

The Breath of Nature Is the Ethics of Humanity

The one who can hear the breath of nature already lives within the breath of God. They speak less, give thanks more, and in silence, they hear truth.

For them, ethics is not morality but living breath itself.

Soyo proclaims:

"The breath of nature is where the purity of God abides, and the conscience of humanity is the breath of existence that bears witness to that purity."

Thus, human life collapsing and rising again like the cycles of nature is one ethical respiration answering the breath of God.

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

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