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Yen sira kasinungan ngelmu kang marakake akeh wong seneng, aja sira malah rumangsa pinter, jalaran menawa Gusti mundhut bali ngelmu kang marakake sira kaloka iku, sira uga banjur kaya wong sejene, malah bisa aji godhong jati aking.(Bila anda mendapat anugrah ilmu yang membuat banyak orang senang, janganlah kamu merasa pintar, sebab apabila Tuhan mengambil lagi ilmu yang menyebabkan anda terkenal itu, anda akan menjadi orang biasa lagi, malah lebih bermanfaat daun yang kering)

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Bumi iki bunder!

Donya iki pancen bunder! Mangkono ujaring atiku. Sanadyan durung tau ana ing awang-awang ing antaraning lintang rembulan , nanging aku yakin banget bab iku. Foto satelit bisa dadi bukti. Plengkunge cakrawala sing katon rikala numpak montor muluk (aku wis tau, hehehe...) uga bisa dadi tandha sing trawaca. Ilanging prahu layar saka ing pandulu, kaya-kaya angslup ing segara, uga aweh pratandha sing padha. Cekake, sacara wadhag kasunyatan bab bundere bumi iki ora kabantah maneh.

Nanging anehe, ing sajeroning pikiran lan pangertening manungsa isih sok ana panemu sing primitif bab donya iki. Coba wae rikala awake dhewe caturan bab kabudayan. Donya iki kaya-kaya awujud blebekan papan kang sinigar dadi pirang-pirang bagean: kulon-wetan, lor-kidul, tengah-pinggir! Ana sing diarani "budaya Barat" lan "budaya Timur", "negara-negara Utara" (negara sugih) lan "negara-negara Selatan" (negara miskin). Sing loro keri iki mbokmenawa isih rada tinemu akal marga nganggo dhasar tilas-laku-mayane srengenge. Iku wae isih bisa gawe bingung yen awake dhewe presis ana ing kutub lor utawa kidul! Yen arah jumedhule srengenge dadi landhesan panemu kulon-wetan, Semarang iku wetan tumraping Jakarta, nanging kulon trumraping Surabaya! Dadi, Semarang iku wetan utawa kulon?! Jawabane gumantung saka ngendi anggone nyawang! Dadi, relatif!

Lha, yen ditrepake marang kabudayan, olah pikir lan panemu, kaprigelan lan adat-istiadat, apa sing bisa didadekake dhasar kanggo nitik kabudayan iki "barat" lan sing iku "ketimuran"? Mbokmenawa gegayutan bab iki ana sejarahe dhewe, kapan presise tembung kulon lan wetan dicakake kanggo nengeri cirikhas kabudayan-kabudayan ing donya iki. Nanging dak anggep iku ora relevan maneh!

Awake dhewe isih sok ngarani yen cara mikire wong Amerika, Australia lan Eropa kana iku cara mikire wong (kabudayan) Barat. Dene cara mikire wong China, Kamboja, Jepang, Melayu, Indonesia, India, iku cara mikire wong (kabudayan) Timur. Agama iki duweke wong kulon, dene agama iku duweke wong wetan. Kepara anggone ngarani kaya mangkono mau kinanthen rasa-pangrasa, panggraita lan sikap sing cubriya, serik utawa memungsuhan; yen perlu siaga tata-tata amerangi anyingkiri siji lan sijine sing padha dene nganggep sabrang utawa asing!

Byuuuh...byuuuuh...! Saiki iki wus jamane donya njaba-njero bunder! Globalisasi wus dudu barang aneh maneh. Pasrawungane wong-wong sadonya iki wus ora bisa dipenggak maneh. Papan lan laladan wus ora pati dadi alangan sing pengaji banget. Bukti nyatane, teknologi cellular lan jejaring internet wus dadi barang darbe meh saben wong! "Halloooo...Mister, ini Agus! Walaaah... Agus Aguuus!" - isa dadi conto tandha-tengara anane globalisasi iku. Ambyuking wong sajagad menthelengi televisi kepingin nyipati lan nggatekake pelantikan Barack H. Obama ing Washinton DC uga dadi conto sing anget. Figur Obama sing getihe ireng lan putih, lan wus tau ngalami urip ing jangkaning kiblat papat "kulon-wetan-lor-kidul", ndadekake wong sadonya kaya-kaya duwe gegadhangan anane tokoh sing bundere jagad iki ora mung ana wadhag, nanging uga ana ing njero!

Dening Gusti aku wus kepareng lahir dadi bocah Jawa.

Esuk-awan-sore nyipati plethek nganti tekan surupe srengenge. Dene yen wayah bengi kasunaran lintang rembulan sing gawe tentrem lan padhanging kalbu. Srengenge, lintang lan rembulan iku sing uga mengkoni kabeh wong tunggal sabumi.

Gegadhanganing atiku: kapan aku dadi manungsa sing wutuh,

ora mung saperangan lan datan ilang Jawa-ku. [skd]

Monday, November 5, 2007

Sing digoleki, sing bakal tinemu!

Pamedhare Joko Lodhang
pranyata sasmita gaib
jumejere dadi jangka
sapa wae kang hangrantu
mangka pituduh yekti
margining gesang rahayu
yuwana lan niskala
tan minger keblating Widhi
pegat-pegat anyegat wijiling kodrat

Yen diupadi bedane, bakale mesthi ketemu apa wae sing beda.
Semono uga yen diupadi padhane, ya bakale mesthi ketemu apa wae sing padha.

Yen sing apik diupadi, samubarang sing apik bakal tinemu.
Yen sing ala diupadi, ya samubarang sing ala bakal tinemu.

Kari tlonjonging ati kepingin sing endi:
nggoleki sing beda, apa sing padha?
nggoleki sing becik, apa sing ala?

Sapa sing ngupadi, tundhone bakal nemokake! (bdk. Mat 7:8)

Sumangga. ***

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Gegarane Wong Akrami

Gegaraning wong akrami
Dudu bandha dudu rupa
Amung ati pawitané
Luput pisan kena pisan
Yen gampang luwih gampang
Yen angèl, angèl kalangkung
Tan kena tinumbas arta

Mak bedunduk ana ing ati aku kelingan marang pupuh tembang kang karipta dening R. Ng. Yasadipura, Pujangga kawentar saka kraton Sala. Esuk mau aku banjur muter VCD, rekamane kelompok campursari Sangga Buana. Judhule tembang "Lg. Dadi Ati" nganggo dibawani pupuh tembang iku mau. Mak nyessss rasane, mak prinding githokku, sasat kaya kumleyang ragaku marga ngrasa-ngrasaake surasane.
Rikala dak goleki ana ing internet, jebul pupuh iku wus akeh sing ngutip. Melu-melu! Hehehe...soale aku lagi nyawisake ati, tata-tata arep dadi manten!

Pupuh ndhuwur iku klebu tembang Macapat Asmarandana.
Tembang Asmarandana umume kanggo wong sing lagi gandrung kapirangu. Yen dideleng wantah, Asmarandana dijupuk seka asmara kang artine tresna, lan dahana kang artine geni. Mula saka kuwi, Asmarandana isine wuyung lan samubarang kang magepokan karo tresna.

Biasane pupuh iku sok ditembangake kanggo bawa sekar ana ing pawiwahan utawa mantenan (hehe...silak pengen dadi manten aku!). Pas banget minangka piwulang kanggo sapa wae sing arep mbangun brayat. Sanadyan gathuking ati pasangan temanten iku kudune wis suwe kelakon, nanging tembang iki bisa dadi pepeling, ngelingake yen katresnan jati iku dununge ana ing ati. Arepa bar kuwi, bar dadi manten, urusane luwih pepak. Jangkeping ati ya mesthine cak-cakaning katresnan iku ing urip sabanjure. Lha, iki sing marahi ati mau mak dheg! Antebing karep katantang, wani apa ora? gelem apa ora? Gelem ora gelem, pancene kudu ngono!

Saben wong dak kira sarujuk menawa "ati" kuwi pancen gegaraning urip. Awit, ati (heart) iku salah sawijining pandoming laku angga priyangga. Yen oleh kasebut papan, ati iku papaning janma bisa cecaketan karo Gusti Allah kang yasa uripe kabeh kang tumitah. Semono uga, ati uga asring dadi dhasar anggone mbangun paseduluran, nyawang lan naliti pengalamaning urip kanthi luwih jero. Saka ing kono bisa mijil sikap lan prabawa sing asli. Sipating wong biasane tumuju marang atine. Mula, ati sok angel diselaki.

Klebu bab jejodhoan. Yen ati wus muni, bandha lan rupa ora dianggep! (Kejaba yen pancen tlonjonging ati mung tumuju marang rong prekara iku! Ana ya, wong kang nggadhekake ati marang prakara-prakara iki!) Yen ati wus jodho, apa wae bakal kajangkah.

Aku kadhang sok ngungun dhewe, sejatine "tlonjonging atiku", "antebing atiku" iki tumuju marang ngendi? Rasane kaya ora ana sing didadekake garan yen atiku isih miyar-miyur ngadhepi urip sing bakal kelakon. Rikala wus ana sing diantebi, rasane urip iki dadi nggenah, lakune dadi krasa entheng, dalane kaya kasunaran pepadhang. Sanadyan ta kanthi ana sing diantebi, iku mratandhani ananing cecawis sawektu-wektu ngadhepi resiko. Pancene kudu mangkono!

Kepriye yen atiku kleru?! Pancen aku kudu tansah sadhar, atiku ora sing paling bener dhewe. Atiku isih kudu tansah digegulang kepriye bisane supaya luwih lantip lan pener. Nggegulang ati bakale pancen ora ana kendhate. Awit, sapa ta aku iki? Aku dudu Gusti sing yasa urip!

Sik...sik... kok dadi saya jero ta iki?
Ah...leren dhisik. ***

Monday, October 8, 2007

Life is a pilgrimage to "The One Determined Direction"

To Javanese people “life” is a “journey” (laku) of mankind coming back to God, The Sangkan-Paraning-Dumadi, The Alfa and Omega. The basic principal of laku according to Javanese is mystical union with God (manunggaling kawula-Gusti). God is understood as Sang Hyang Antaya that cannot be imagined at all (tan kena-kinayangapa) but emptiness (awang-uwung) or mysterious (gaib). The man's journey of coming back to God, then, must be accompanied by ascetic life to purify heart and soul from all kinds of egoism. Everybody must be free from self-profit and reward (sepi ing pamrih). This way of purification will guide them into their original being that is as a spark-fire of God.

Various conceptions of the mystery of God enable distortions and conterfeitings against the true laku to take place. This should become an important thing that Javanese should be aware of! The answers of many questions around the existence of God and man (such as: Who is God? Who is man) that Javanese wisdom has tried to find out seem to be completed from time to time. And it is possible as the Javanese are sincretic in philosophy as well as in religiousity. The characteristic has designed the Javanese culture as a culture that is easy to adapt those of others without loosing the core.

What is the core of the Javanese culture? To be honest I myself still have to find out more in the traditions I've received and lived up to now and forever. It is a sense (or feeling, rasa, taste) of being Javanese. While I am a Javanese, I am a Christian also. That's the matter. However, I feel okey since I know the faith I believe in. You know, I'm proud of being a Javanese as well as a Christian. I know how to critizise myself as a Javanese and how to critizise myself as a Christian. I am living a process of inculturation of Christian faith in a sense of Javanese. Which one is to be the prior? It's a dialectical attitude of living. That's the core of my own culture!

There are many religions exist among the Javanese. So there are many ways to live as Javanese. As a result, there are many "cultures" among the Javanese people, and they claim to be Javanese! And yes, we are!

The one thing that unites us the Javanese is the wisdom of Sangkan-Paraning-Dumadi, though each of us has specific conceptions according to the faith of each religion. And the tradition of laku itself has been interpreted and completed in each religion's tradition. The wisdom from the Javanese esoteric knowledge has preserved the moral to be completed: sepi ing pamrih, rame ing gawe, mamayu hayuning bawana. That's the way (laku) to go the journey. And as the aim of the journey is union with God, it's rather a pilgrimage than just a traveling or moreover an adventure.

The Javanese has a pretty interpretation from the pronounciation of the word "ziarah" (= pilgrimage). The wording of "ziarah" is "ji-arah", This word abbreviates two words: "siji" (one) and "arah" (direction). Thus "ziarah" (pilgrimage) is so-interpreted as "siji sing diarah" - just one determined direction - that is God, the Sangkan-Paraning-Dumadi, The Alfa and Omega of all beings! When the union happens, the universe (macrocosmos and microcosmos) would be so beautiful! How to achieve the state is a set of unending efforts to beautify the world (universe) intensively and extensively, no matter what religion!

And that will be the crown of human dignity according to the Javanese perception. ***