The Easefulness of Life

Investigating through hermeneutic-phenomenological inquiry on how Filipino value nakakaluwag provides conditions conducive to live sustainably in view of holistic relationality it furnishes common pedagogical ground where top-down bottom-up and middle-in approaches reach synthesis. Holistic relationality is a pedagogically-oriented frame for a sustainable living that comprises of the fourfold essential relations: God oneself fellow-human beings and nature which are applied as an interpretive-descriptive framework. The nakakaluwag lived-experience of the fourteen co-researchers that are embedded in their shared-beliefs and embodied in their shared-practices are unraveled by adapting Aronson’s (1994) five steps of thematic analysis by which a common interpreted-described theme emerged: “Anumang nakapag-uugnay sa Diyos sa kapwa sa sarili at sa kalikasan ay nakakapagpaluwag.” This theme compels an ethical-pedagogical bridge in concrete action by creating sustainable living curriculum. In other words relationships with God oneself fellow-human beings and nature make for the easefulness of life.