Understanding the Universe Through Taste

Understanding the Universe Through Taste One of Indonesia's most successful technocrats in pursuing science and a long life journey to the peak of personal fulfillment is Yusuf Habibie. At that time, all Habibie's love for the country was broken by the political atmosphere that did not support him to express his ideas and thoughts and love for the country. He was berated all the time. But in the end, the love story of Ainun and Rudi Habibie that was brought to the screen was almost watched by everyone. From the story, people can understand his thoughts and love for the country. But behind that, the understanding of the logical framework commonly used by technorats is that the pinnacle of logic is adab, the pinnacle of logic is ethics, and the pinnacle of intellect is refinement of taste. When one has arrived at the refinement of taste, then reason and intellect are merely ladders. Ultimately, the achievement is in taste. Indonesians fail to articulate the past. Because the past is considered a historical backwardness, considered an ancient civilization, considered a pantun, fairy tale, or mystical story. This failure has caused us to experience a tremendous leap in understanding the governance of thinking and in understanding the nation. The result is the blind adoption of ideas and problems in their application. Starting from a Sundanese philosophy that means that a complete Indonesian human being has 4 frameworks, namely the teachings of Papat Kalimah Pancer. Papat kalimah Pancer is the teaching of Indonesian ideology, namely that humans are built from four basic components: soil, water, air and sun. The Balinese translate this into four color perspectives: black (earth), white (water), yellow (air), and red (fire). All basic knowledge of human civilization is based on these four. The meaning of these four things is the integration of humans with nature as a whole, which begins with the dialectic of taste. Dialectics of taste in Sundanese philosophy means start everything with an open heart. For example, all knowledge begins with how the heart can open the horizons of the mind to accept knowledge from others. The egoism of a technocratic will have a wide impact on the development of knowledge if his heart is not willing to accept the opinions of others. In theology, the realm of the heart is called the realm of marca pada. In basic philosophy, it is called this world. The world of origin is called ruh. In this realm, humans have the same position and origin and are referred to as fitrah. This fitrah is the basic framework. This world is a material realm that is limited in time and space so all things have an age. Therefore, all things have limitations so everything must use the methodology of reason. Reason gives birth to logic. Logic comes from the material realm where humans have different brain capacities depending on the intake they receive, genetics, and environment. So from this perspective, there are regions that experience rapid development when the region's thinking is open without restrictions that limit everyone's logic. And afterwards, the State is present as the articulator of all ideas that are derived as development policies. So the state puts that knowledge that has an impact on civilization. And eventually, this led to the improvement of human resources, economy, and technology. This framework is the beginning of freedom of thought. Then humans will understand two realms, namely the realm of thought and the realm of taste. The realms of thought and feeling were developed by our ancestors. For example, the Jatiluhur reservoir is flooded even though the rainfall is low and the reservoir capacity has not been fulfilled. This happened because of Indonesia's lack of understanding in terms of development governance. The logic of development from adequate spatial planning is not working and the sense of understanding this universe is also not working. This concludes that Indonesian society is experiencing an extraordinary leap of thinking and this is an Indonesian problem. The impact is that people no longer believe in the mysticism built into the wisdom of their environment, to obey nature, the environment, in building socio-culture and turn into a society that obeys the law, whose technical implementation is not sufficient to be obeyed by the public. This has led to a chaotic life, where people are disobedient to leaders and laws. Bandung is parahiangan, parahiangan is alam maya pada, alam maya ada pada alam langit. Because nature is in the sky, nature is not for growth but a means of spirituality. Therefore, the mountain as the main force that must not be changed. Since independence, people are not proud of independence but proud of past glories. Past civilization is an advancement in civilization. For example, gamelan is made of metal, the maker is an empu who uses taste as a spiritual and technological basis in its manufacture. Secondly there is Borobudur which contains statues of people playing various types of musical instruments, there are two conclusions that all world music players play in the Bbororbudur area or Borobudur develops musical instruments throughout the world. From the above examples, we can conclude that we should be proud of our nation's past.