Kindness

Kindness suggests the human-heartedness or kindness that one person shows to another. “REN”, in Chinese characters writing, thus embraces kindness and humanity. To be kind and humane is to be benevolent, a quality which Confucius ranks as a special kind of virtue, that is, it embraces all the virtues combined. A “man of ren” is thus a “man of all-round virtue”. Kindness therefore encompasses a love for our fellow men, a virtue which prompt us to do good to others, as we would like them to do to us.

 

However, the turn of century sees the world on the threshold of change, the most significant of which must be the transformation of tradition. The issue here is that fundamental cultural values have shifted.

The shift has brought the world joy as well as pain. We take pride when great advancement is made in science & technology, and when our nation grows strong & wealthy. But these achievements bring with them insatiable desire for material gains. Moral values plunge and the human spirit is lost.

 

In a society experiencing fast-changing modes of living, can cultural values stay intact and yet still applicable to a modern society as well as a traditional one? Can these values still be depended on spiritually as a pillar of support?

 

In disengaging oneself from a traditional society through modernization, the importance of such values has been in differing degrees once again affirmed. A stable society, a good clean government, racial harmony, successful careers, family happiness —— these things are all closely related to one’s moral cultivation and cultural standard.

 

Let us join in to seek for in depth knowledge of ………………………………..

 

Find out what we have lost thru……………………………………………

 

Review our desires and strike for ………………………………..

 

Eventually, we can see light & purposes of next day to come.

 

Why are we here & not there?