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What Had Happened... on 20th Feburary
2003 at National Youth Park
A man of peace is not a pacifist; a man of peace
is simply a pool of silence.
He pulsates a new kind of energy into the world, he sings
a new kind of song.
He lives in a totally new way, his very way of life is
that of grace, that of prayer, that of compassion.
Whomever he touches, he creates more love-energy.
The man of peace is creative.
He is not against war, because to be against any thing
is to be at war.
He is not against war; he simply understands why war exists.
And out of that understanding he becomes peaceful.
Only when there are many people who are pools of peace,
silence, and
understanding, will war disappear.
"On War" by Osho, from Zen: The Path of Paradox,
vol II I would like everyone to know
that when my daughter and I marked World Harmony Day on
20th February 2002, we read it as a calling from the spiritual
power. Are we the spiritual seekers? I really don’t have
the answer except to be very honest with you that my heart
was crying out loud for humanity. The house is on fire
I just got to put it off! In short, I was not seeking
for anything but I just could not accept that to get one
man, America government got to bomb the whole country
and bring the whole world down. If Sept 11 was an insane
act, this bombing of Iraq was more insane then ever as
it destroyed the structure of the world law and order
besides destabilizing the whole world security and economy.
I did WHD to appease my soul and not to challenge anybody.
When I leave this world only my true partner who is my
soul will follow me, this mean when my soul is not happy
then my physical self will be affected too.
When we embarked on the second WHD, we did not begin with
very high hopes, we had no experience of holding such
a big event, but our spirits came together and it is overwhelmingly
astounding. People from just about everywhere are getting
together solely because they like the notion of a World
Harmony Spirit. I feel a family is born out of genuine
togetherness and this gave us the confidence and courage
to move on to create the amazing momentum we all witnessed
that night.
20th February 2003 is a very special day for Humanity and
especially for my daughter Greta and I. It should be a very
happy day as we were the founders of WHD, but unfortunately
it was a very sad day for both of us, as our souls were crying
out loud but no one heard us. Usually proposals such as this
come from the West and we from the Southeast Asia would just
follow suit. This time around, the initiative comes from Singapore
itself, so Greta and I thought the authority would appreciate
our effort. Instead, the authority misunderstood our good
intentions for WHD.
What disturbed me most was my realization that after the
event of WHD, even the members are confused of WHD objectives.
I supposed some of them have not thoroughly gone through
the website vigilantly and read all the information there.
Please do take some time to read the important story of
how WHD 200220022002 came about. It is very essential
to understand how WHD started, as it is very disturbing
in some aspects that some do not have any ideas how WHD
started and chose to create their own separate understandings
of our beginning. For example, planting a tree on WHD
or just focusing on motivation education for the children,
so on and so fore.
If the world is so peaceful, why are we doing WHD? WHD
is to create awareness that if we want the future world
to be ruled with love instead of fear, then we must be
proactive and make the change in our own mindset that
we can make a difference.
Therefore, WHD came about because the world is NOT in
Harmony and my conscience propelled us to take action.
WHD was born out of necessity because there is an urgent
needs to create an awareness and understanding that we
have only ONE World as our home, so please learn how to
share this world by caring and loving humanity so peace
and harmony could prevail.
In short, WHD is about asking us all to have "the
new consciousness". If it is not, then why did
the Inter Religious Organization and the Artist communities
felt compelled to host such an event in Suntec City and
at the Substation respectively, after hearing about our
event at the Orchard Youth Park?
Let me take this opportunity to share with everyone
the “World Harmony Day” declaration.
1) To remind everyone to have Consciousness
for the World Trade Center incident. It is a great awakening
for Humanity, which compels us all to take responsibility,
and play a part each day in bringing peace and harmony
back for the sake of children in the present and of the
future.
2) To promise ourselves that on this day forward 20th
February 2002 at 20:02, no more violence should be use
to resolve conflicts.
3) It is our utmost duty and responsibility to remind
the future generations not to take peace for granted.
If PEACE is what they want, they must be proactive in
shaping the future world not only for themselves but more
so for their children’s children.
World Harmony Day is not a new religious organization
it embraces common themes found in Judaism, Christianity,
Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism as well as many, many others.
Love and empathy, peace and tolerance liberate: all citizens
of the world, as they are all forms of the diverse range
of people participating in WHD.
It is a movement that embraces Peace Harmony and Unity
at its core. Anti–violence and seeks peace. WHD is a spiritual
movement of the consciousness, which brings the world
into oneness. It emphasizes is on valuing human lives,
cultivating good human relations and respecting human
rights. WHD is calling us to be humane.
It is a movement, which helps one to find their place
in spending time proactively helping others. This makes
our existence more relevant and contributing to the Bigger
picture in our lives and helps others.
Proper actions and decisions made by this current generation
will help to set the next generation up for better times
to help deal with Peace keeping. If it is not contained
then other chain reactions like hunger, disease, poverty,
refugees and degeneration of our environment, will need
to be addressed.
World Harmony Day’s “Seekers of truth, peace & harmony”
are people from all over the world who believe common
citizens working together can and will make a profound
difference. The true spirit of WHD is in bringing all
the citizens of the world together in Oneness. In short,
WHD goal is to plant “seed of peace”, to bring
Harmony to the world.
WHD is still at an infancy stage; maybe many of you are
not clear but with time I believed we would all agree
to uphold the declaration of WHD. WHD is for everyone...man,
women, young and old...the human race.
I hope after reading the website www.worldharmonyday.com
that you will support our cause and help us in whatever
way you can in order to further our mission and help bring
the world back into balance in our troubled world. All
WHD asks is for people wherever they are to remember this
day of Consciousness, 20th February at 20:02 and to annually
observe a 2 minutes Peace Silence.
From the bottom of our hearts, I would like to take this
opportunity to thanks all that have attended World Harmony
Day 2003 at the National Youth Park and spared 2 minutes
to help celebrate humanity with all of us in an attempt
to restore harmony and balance in our beautiful world.
Last but not lease, I hope all of you will remember that
“we do not inherit this earth from our ancestors;
we borrow it from our children” – Haida Indian Saying.
Therefore, the least we could do for them and their children
is to keep this world save for them.
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