When people gather on any venue where there is no specific and objective for gathering, that is when we gather for gathering’s sake, a true gathering happens. Such a gathering is not restricted to a mere exchange of ideas, civility, and gestures of recognition. It does have the noblest of the noble causes–that is gathering for invoking our self-nature. A sacrosanct and sine qua none of Buddhist doctrine, self-nature is a belief and practice that only deed exists, not the doer. Since the advent of modernity to as of now, we valorised self, subject, semblance of egoistic gratification. We put the premium on innovation, technology, and the rapacious ethos of neoliberal model. Individuality has been so intensified that we forgot our own self-nature. In a world torn into divides and dualities, insularities and disengagement, we are exiled from the axis of self-nature. In this prospect, invoking self-nature in any context of gathering does induce strength, but this strength has to promote relational sense of oneness, a holistic outlook on being embedded in land, culture and topography-specific institution. Every culture, every community, every system, and every civilisation has its own preaching and practice as to how to foster and fructify self-nature. Not only Buddhism, but every culture-system and educational-paradigm has its own heuristic for actualising its formulary for reviving dormant self-nature. For instance, Ubuntu myth says, “I am because we are”. Hindus say, “the whole world is my family”. These maxims are not religious and philosophical utopian injunctions. They are heuristics for affirming and invoking our self-nature–an antidote to the society torn apart by egoism, insularity, self-delusion, rivalry, overt materialistic and neoliberal accent. Let’s emphasize a pedagogy that promotes self-judgement and self-nature. Let’s gather for strength, for self-nature’s resurrection.
