Equality: Tolerance, Respect, Love, Concern and Care
In Malaysia, we have meet people who of different religion, race and cultural backgrounds almost everyday and today it has became part of our lives as Malaysians.
In Singapore and Australia particularly, the nations’ two governments have been diligently engaged in multicultural undertakings which bring different religious and ethnic groups together to resolve misunderstandings and conflicts.
We hope that everyone will do his or her best to contribute to inter ethnic, cultural and social stability as well as world peace. In order to achieve this, we must treat others with equality and learn to leave and adapt in harmony with people around us, regardless of their religion, ethnic groups, nationality, cultural backgrounds or social positions.
So, how do we apply this harmonious living in our lives? The key words are tolerance, respect, love, concern and care. We must therefore, broaden our minds and tolerate one another in our daily lives.
Without tolerance, conflicts and oppositions cannot be resolved. We must treat other with equality and respect and love one another. We must also be concerned about and look after one another.
In summary, we should help and work with one another as we are all in one family. We ourselves should initiate these practices first before we urge our families, friends and eventually others to practice it. If we cannot practice them in the first place, how can we ask others to do so?
What is the problem that people have today? They do not know the concept and importance of oneness. They have preferences, they discriminate and describe one another in different ways and manner, race, religion and cultural background and so on. As such, everyone of us are deeply divided by such perceptions.
Say, Islam is the eye, Christianity is the ear, Buddhism is the nose, Taoism is the mouth, Sikhism is the hand and so on. If we say Islam is greater, then Christianity is second, then Buddhism is in the third place and so on, it is just like saying eyes are healthiest, the ears are not so, the nose is dirty, the mouth is smelly and the hands are contaminated. In this case, this person is very unhealthy. If health problem is serious, then it can be fatal.
What it makes a healthy person? All are number and greater. There is no such thing of one is greater, the other is second, while another is inferior. Islam is number one, Buddhism is number one, Christianity is number one and so on. Same goes to ethnicity, Malays are number one, Chinese are also number one, Indians are number one, Kadazandusuns are number one, Dayaks are number one and so on. With every religion and race are number one and great, in this way can a body healthy.
Every country is number one, every race is number one, every culture is number one, then the world is healthy. Only when all of us know the concept of oneness can everyone be number one and everything will be number one. No one and nothing is secondary or inferior to one another. This is Equality.
Only then can everybody live and flourish side by side in a multicultural, multiracial society and have a happy life, stable society, politically sound and the world will be at peace.
This is time for Malaysia to seriously come into the term of Equality. But the real problem is can Umno really deliver this aspiration of ours?
In Singapore and Australia particularly, the nations’ two governments have been diligently engaged in multicultural undertakings which bring different religious and ethnic groups together to resolve misunderstandings and conflicts.
We hope that everyone will do his or her best to contribute to inter ethnic, cultural and social stability as well as world peace. In order to achieve this, we must treat others with equality and learn to leave and adapt in harmony with people around us, regardless of their religion, ethnic groups, nationality, cultural backgrounds or social positions.
So, how do we apply this harmonious living in our lives? The key words are tolerance, respect, love, concern and care. We must therefore, broaden our minds and tolerate one another in our daily lives.
Without tolerance, conflicts and oppositions cannot be resolved. We must treat other with equality and respect and love one another. We must also be concerned about and look after one another.
In summary, we should help and work with one another as we are all in one family. We ourselves should initiate these practices first before we urge our families, friends and eventually others to practice it. If we cannot practice them in the first place, how can we ask others to do so?
What is the problem that people have today? They do not know the concept and importance of oneness. They have preferences, they discriminate and describe one another in different ways and manner, race, religion and cultural background and so on. As such, everyone of us are deeply divided by such perceptions.
Say, Islam is the eye, Christianity is the ear, Buddhism is the nose, Taoism is the mouth, Sikhism is the hand and so on. If we say Islam is greater, then Christianity is second, then Buddhism is in the third place and so on, it is just like saying eyes are healthiest, the ears are not so, the nose is dirty, the mouth is smelly and the hands are contaminated. In this case, this person is very unhealthy. If health problem is serious, then it can be fatal.
What it makes a healthy person? All are number and greater. There is no such thing of one is greater, the other is second, while another is inferior. Islam is number one, Buddhism is number one, Christianity is number one and so on. Same goes to ethnicity, Malays are number one, Chinese are also number one, Indians are number one, Kadazandusuns are number one, Dayaks are number one and so on. With every religion and race are number one and great, in this way can a body healthy.
Every country is number one, every race is number one, every culture is number one, then the world is healthy. Only when all of us know the concept of oneness can everyone be number one and everything will be number one. No one and nothing is secondary or inferior to one another. This is Equality.
Only then can everybody live and flourish side by side in a multicultural, multiracial society and have a happy life, stable society, politically sound and the world will be at peace.
This is time for Malaysia to seriously come into the term of Equality. But the real problem is can Umno really deliver this aspiration of ours?
