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The Attitudes Of Peace


The global knowledge civilization now growing all around the Earth is based on a global knowledge economy of plenty, which requires peace, so its necessary machines will not be broken by war.  The new knowledge economy is driving the world toward necessary peace.  How can we help.  We can encourage peace, by adopting the attitudes of mutual respect and peace instead of the attitudes of dominance, hatred and war.  An ethos is a group of unwritten rules by which people in a community live.  People in our one global community are adopting these attitudes of peace, centered on the four pillars of the new global ethos.  These are the attitudes of peace:

I. The Four Pillars Of The Global Ethos

 1. Every Person Is Precious.

 Each person is precious as a creation of the Divine, however that creation occurred.  Each person is precious to the individual, the family, the community, the knowledge civilization and to the universe.  New creativity comes from the individual.  Individuals working together and in teams create the new existence that makes the knowledge civilization blossom and grow.  Individuals seeking their own fulfillment as whole persons are inspired to be creative in ways others cannot imagine.  Each person is a fountain of new creativity and a nurturer of other individuals.  Therefore every person is precious.

 2. The Fulfillment Of Every Person, As A Whole Person, Is Precious.

A person who is fulfilled as a whole person is a balanced, harmonious person, free to responsibly develop new creativity, to organize his or her world, to be a provider, protector, procreator and nurturer of others to lead them to full life as a whole person.  In so doing and so being, to be a servant of the Divine Harmony.  This is the reward of maturity, being all you can be, living as you evolved to live, living fully as you were created to live, living in the center of your harmony as a whole being.  This is the goal of every human life.  Therefore it is precious, and every person should nurture every other person to achieve this goal.

 3. Every Relationship Is Precious.

We live in one global community, laced together by technology, bound together by our one global economy from which, directly or indirectly,  we all gain our sustenance.  We all eat from the same bowl, the global knowledge economy.  We all live in the same global community.  We are all neighbors.  When we meet someone, that person may be our customer in one product, our supplier for another product and our partner or competitor in another product.  We cannot afford to hate anyone.  Our troublesome competitor today may be our valued customer tomorrow.  Often we do not know our customer's race, religion, creed or ethnic background.  Yet all of these differences are precious, because they produce the vast variety the global knowledge economy needs to be robust and strong.  We need others as creative partners and willing consumers.  We need their special differences.  We need all the people of the Earth to make the global knowledge civilization strong and long lasting.  They are all, everyone, necessary to our keeping our home on Earth, and doing our duty to the universe and the Divine Harmony to reproduce our knowledge civilization elsewhere in space, and launch the era of the Flowers of the Universe.    We have no enemies, only neighbors all around the Earth.  So far as we know, there is no one from off the Earth to attack us.  We are neighbors at peace on our lonely blue ball in space.  We should love each other.  We each have a relationship with every other person on Earth.  Every relationship is precious.  Treasure it.  Nurture it.

 4. The Harmony Of Every Relationship Is Precious.

It is the harmony of the relationship that make it precious.  The shining jewels of this harmony of the relationship between two people are the teamwork to accomplish more than either could alone, the mutual gifts that the other does not have, the mutual trust and reliance, the mutual acceptance, the mutual caring, listening, consoling, approving, enjoying and the mutual love.  Nurture each relationship with another person, no matter how brief.  It is precious to you, to the other person and to the universe.   When you harm someone else, feel your guilt, acknowledge it, make restitution as you can, seek forgiveness and forgive your self.  Then restore the harmony of the relationship with the other person.  When someone wrongs you, do not think immediately of hurt and revenge, think immediately of how you can heal the injured relationship and restore the harmony of the relationship between you.  In seeking to restore the harmony, do not lose yourself, but do not lose the other person either.  Remember the power of forgiveness to clean out the tangles of emotion that keep you from growing and being joyful again.  Even of it takes time and healing, forgive yourself, forgive the other person, and find a way to restore the harmony of the relationship between you.  The harmony of your relationship is precious.

II. The Four Corners Of Mutual Respect
 


I Respect My Self        --       I Respect You

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You Respect Yourself      --      You Respect Me

These are the four corners of mutual respect.  When all four corners are present between two people or two groups, only then does mutual respect exist between them.

Notice that mutual respect begins with self respect.  You can be responsible for respecting yourself and respecting the other person or group.  Although you cannot be responsible for the other's respect, you can make it easier, by being worthy of respect and by encouraging the other to respect himself or herself.  Be a fountain of mutual respect.  If you respect yourself, it will help you with the other three corners of mutual respect.

Mutual respect is the foundation for a successful, peaceful global knowledge civilization.  Do your part.
 

III. The Bridge Of Harmony
 (Guarantor Of Mutual Respect)

1. Christian Question ______4. Share the Question_______  5. Buddhist Question
 3.  Live the                                                                               7.  Live the
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2. Christian Tradition                                                                6.  Buddhist Tradition
    (Christian Answer)                                                                      (Buddhist Answer)
 

 1.  As a Christian, when you have a problem, translate it into a Christian question.
 2.  Go down deep into Christian tradition, scripture, experience and reason and find a Christian answer.
 3.  Bring the Christian answer up into your current life and live the Christian answer.  Let your faith guide you on the right path toward your fulfillment as a whole person.
  4. When you meet a person of another faith, who has the same problem, share with him the question, not the Christian answer.

 5.  Go across the Bridge of Harmony and share the question to him.  Invite him to take the question and translate it into a question in his religion.
 6.  Then invite him to go down deep into the tradition, scripture, experience and reason of his religion to find an answer to the question.
 7.  Then invite him to bring the answer up into his current life and live the answer his religion has provided to guide him to full life as a whole person.

 Notice it is a bridge and not a tunnel.  Share with him the question, not the Christian answer.  Let him find the answer in his own faith.  Let him see you live your Christian answer successfully.

It works the other way too.  If a Buddhist has found an answer to a problem in his life, and he tries to give you the Buddhist answer, ask him for the question he asked that led him to the answer,  Then translate the question into Christian terms, seek the answer in Christian tradition, then live the Christian Answer.   Keep your Christianity and your friendship with the Buddhist.  He or she may be your partner in business, your source of supply, your customer, or all of these with different products.  Respect the other person's use of his or her faith to solve his or her problems.  Encourage that, and do it yourself.  The each of you may let your light shine to show the world and each other how your faith has helped you solve a problem in your life.

IV.  L E T

  The Principle of L E T is shown by the sandwich a woman made for her husband as he went off to work -  B L T with Love.

Believe your faith with your whole heart, even that your faith is the only true faith and where other faiths differ they are in error.

Live your faith passionately.  Let your light shine, so others may see how your faith leads you to full life as a whole person.

Teach, preach and evangelize your faith, so others will know its beauty and truth... then stop.  Do not try to force another to convert to your faith. That is not your job.  It’s God’s job.  It is the job of the Divine Harmony.  Whatever your understanding of the Divine Harmony, Whoever your god is, conversion of other people to faith is between the Divine and that other person.  It will happen in God's time and in God's way, not yours.  Do not presume to do God’s job.  Instead...

L E T the Holy Spirit change people’s hearts.

Do not let your different faiths drive a wedge between you and your neighbor.  Live in peace and mutual respect with your neighbors of different faiths all over the world.  Jesus Christ taught “Love your neighbor as yourself”, Luke 10: 27.

“And who is my neighbor?”
“The one who had mercy on him.”
“Go and do likewise.” Luke 10: 29-37.

Every person is precious.
Every person in the world is your neighbor, every man, every woman, every child.
Love your neighbor as yourself.

This is the new global ethos for the knowledge civilization now growing all around the earth.
These are the attitudes of peace.


 
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