Chairman Lee’s visit to the Maguindanao, Philippines inspires continuity for a genuine and lasting peace

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FUNDAY FRIDAY: A Heavenly Culture and New Perspective - World Peace

Culture and Perspective : what shapes your vision of the future?

Take a moment to have a look at the following image below and decide which line you think is longer:

Guess what?

They are the same length!

People in western societies tend to perceive the first line as being longer even though they are the same length. 
However if you come from a culture that does not use right angles (non carpentered cultures) you would not be fooled by such an illusion.

What can you see here?

Let me know your thoughts and comment below – what did you see?

Some may see a saxophone player others may be a woman.

When I looked at this picture, even though I am a woman, the first thing I saw was a saxophone player but almost instantly my perspective changed and I saw a woman.  Could this be because I love music, perhaps?

Apparently our culture, the way we were brought up and our way of life effects the way we perceive the world - something I feel - could be explored a bit deeper.

If we consider the American and western cultures for example, where individualism is buoyant, this could explain why understanding another person’s point of view can be somewhat challenging in an environment that value independence and self-reliance and advocate that interests of the individual should achieve precedence over the state or a social group.

However the eastern cultures, such as China, Korea or Japan, who encourage a collectivist attitude amongst its peers, a community that share and collaborate we can see a more proficient understanding and ability to formulate another person’s perspective, recently discovered by scientists.

Boaz Keysar, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago said:

“Many actions and words have multiple meanings. In order to sort out what a person really means, we need to gain some perspective on what he or she might be thinking and, Americans for example, who don’t have that skill very well developed, probably tend to make more errors in understanding what another person means,”

Without pointing a critical finger at Americans in particular, I would like to make the point that this goes for many cultures around the world that encourage, materialism, individualism and secularism of thought in an attempt to be liberated. 

Concerning the topic of peace, this can prove problematic in establishing peace when there are so many individual ideologies, separate goals, past experiences and different cultures which hinder the vision of peace becoming a possibility. It is not that peace is impossible; it’s just that the fact that no one has experienced it before in the history of our existence, blocks the view of seeing it become a reality. The greed of man could also play a big part to all this.

It takes a special individual to remove the tinted sunglasses of cultural and individual boundaries to see our world in beautiful HD and to be able to unite a world to support a peaceful existence.

Martin Luther King, Mahatma Ghandi, Mother Teresa and the late Nelson Mandela were all inspirational individuals who were able to take off the limitations of their tradition, circumstances and experiences to see the world as a place of freedom, love and hope.

Today, Chairman Lee of Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) and Chairwoman Kim of International Women's Peace Group (IWPG), are working to unite North and South Korea - a country divided since 1945 by Russia and America who conquered the Japanese rule.  They persistently share the love and hope of a peaceful future which we should all strive for despite the past suffering from the atrocities of war, the loss of homes, family and even the Korean culture – whilst under the Japanese rule.

Heavenly Culture - what does this mean? Chairman Lee is working under the culture of heaven - knowing that this culture has no limitations to the mind and thought of man. The fact is, Chairman Lee is spreading the message of unconditional love and respect that he strives to bestow upon the leaders, women and youth – whoever he meets around the world; just like the light, rain and air of the heavens have graciously given to mankind, without favour of persons, so does the peace messenger also by the same principle, bring peace to fruition and restore the light of hope in man.

Can we be those who do not rely on our past experiences but live in the reality of the good work that is happening today?

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