Rhythm of Love, Peace and Harmony

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Mrs Shambana said that peace is the celebration of plurality. This insightful definition of peace was stated by that member of the Indian Parliament at the global forum "The Power of Peace through Information and Communication" hosted by UNESCO in association with the Indonesian Government (Bali, January 21st - 23rd 2007).

Voice of Indonesia is Anand Krishna's fourth book in English. The book presents three main ideas: My Nation, The World and Humanity. Anand believes that the resurgence of modern Indonesia automatically contributes to the building of Neo Humanity: One Earth-One Sky-One Humankind.

Prof. Sudjarwadi, the Rector of Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta Indonesia shared that he has a habit of taking a morning walk with his beloved wife. One day they were passing by rice field near their home. They saw an old woman digging the ground. They were curious why she was digging the ground so early in the morning. Whether it would have been better if she kept on staying at home because it was still dark and the weather was very cold.

Sudjarwadi's wife asked her, "Excuse me, but may I know what you are doing?" The old woman straightened her back and answered, "Oh, I am making a way for water. This is for my neighbor's field. I am afraid her rice would not get enough water." What a humble woman, she dug the drainage to make a way so that the water could flow to the neighbor's filed. She left home very early to share with her neighbors. She is like a candle that sparks light in the midst of human greed that often sacrifices others.

This book also documented the interview between Michele Lee (American Journalist) and Anand Krishna (No Run-of-the-Mill Spiritual Guru), which has been published in The Jakarta Post (August 29, 2006). An interesting question appears - why is Love the only solution to solve our multidimensional problems?

Anand explained that Love is the deepest emotion of human beings. It is the deepest part of human's inner self. When the solution is deep enough, the result is also quite long term. Furthermore, this famous spiritual leader gave an analogy between love and a tree. If the roots grow deep into he earth, then we will have a big tree. So this is the same thing, we should have a solution that is deep enough within our being and then we can expect a result, which is long term result.

The language style of the book very simple, friendly and funky. Kerry B. Collison, an international best-selling author commented on it, "...renowned spiritualist Anand Krishna's compilation of his perspectives in English article released as Voice of Indonesia is a must read."

Each topic is different. Yet, the core message is love and spiritual self-empowerment. Voice of Indonesia is the rhythm of love, peace and harmony that resemble in our heart.

Voice of Indonesia by Anand Krishna, reviewed by Nugroho Angkasa
First Published by Anand Krishna Global Cooperative Society Bali Indonesia (2007)
Number of Pages: xxv + 260

Understanding Diversity Through Reading

Books are the gateway to learning. They let us explore opener, people, languages, foods, etc. "The things we learn from books are obvious, such as reading a recipe for chocolate chip cookies or a guide to your new iPhone, but oftentimes it's the lessons that are less obvious which includes.

Books help us understand different people and their cultures and the struggle of embracing yourself and your culture. If you read City of Bones by Cassandra Clare you l not have realized that you were learning about different people and races his coming, the importance of heritage, different ethnicities and gender orientations, and the importance of embracing yourself and your culture. Simply picking up a book shows you the world from a different person's point of view.

Everyone's understanding of Broadening people both similar and different from them can help us create a more positive society focusing on what makes the U.S. special: its diverse groups of people that gave it the nicknames "The Salad Bowl" and "The Melting Pot." I encourage you to broaden your understanding of other people and their cultures by simply picking up one of your favorite books. I can guarantee that at least one person in that book will be a little different from you and teach you new something.bak.

Creating a more diverse society through reading and writing is easy. You can either pick up one of your favorite books, explore a new book, or encourage others to write something.bak and read it. "There are many places and people out" to help you embrace diversity. You can go to your local library or bookstore and pick a book from ". Or you can go to websites like www.diversityinya.com that celebrate the differences in books and people.

Also encourage your friends to read with you. A great way to support diversity could be through reading books your friends recommend to you. Simply by reading the new you ' ll be something.bak opening your mind to a more diverse world. As you explore these new worlds, make sure to take notes on the things you learn. Just remember to read your book with an open mind and pick something.bak you enjoy. Just the simple action of reading a book can lead to broaden your mind and embracing yourself and the others around you. So go ahead, read and embrace our diverse something.bak new world.

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Multiculturalism Blinds Historians

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As we have traditionally been a culturist nation, the multiculturalist outlook strips us of our ability to appreciate or understand our past. Applying culturist insights to the book Translating Property by Maria E. Montoya provides examples in spades. This book discusses how we settled land disputes after our victory in the Mexican - American War. The importance of our relationship with Mexico makes it vital that historians and policy makers learn to address the history Montoya covers from a culturist perspective.

Mexico allowed government officials to make huge land grants to their cronies. In a quasi-feudal relationship, laborers were allowed to farm the land for payments in kind. The issue in Translating Property is how these land grants held up in United States Courts after the Mexican - American War resulted in our taking ownership of the current American Southwest. Montoya depicts in lively language and horror, the eviction of the laborers when the land is sold to Anglos. Montoya, as a multiculturalist, wants us to recognize Mexican property laws and relationships. But in Supreme Court case after Supreme Court case our government denies the validity of laborers' claims based on traditional Mexican relationships.

Rejecting Mexican property relationships was done on culturist premises. Americans were appalled by large land grants. These feudal relationships were repeatedly decried as antithetical to our ideals of individual self-sustenance, property rights and republican virtue. But Montoya depicts all differences and discrimination based upon our values as irrational, arbitrary and unfair. She would have had our legislatures and courts be multiculturalists and translate, appreciate and incorporate Mexican-style peonage relationships. She derides our predecessor's for not being "culturally neutral." (181) She then goes one step further. She derides all of those who made distinctions based on culture as racist. Her editorial decisions are natural outcomes of using the multiculturalist perspective while doing history.

When it came to ejection and letting people stay on the land, the post-land grant owners favored Anglos over "Hispanos." Montoya convinces us of this with lively writing style and great detail. A chart shows that Anglos have over thirty times the number of cattle that Hispanos had and four times the number of fenced area. Montoya calls this "racist" and the discrepancy gets attributed to Hispano's lack of access to capital. It is a painful irony that multiculturalists do not take cultural diversity seriously. Montoya decries many incidents of Anglos attributing the difference in productivity to cultural distinctions. She calls it, for example, "prejudiced" and "condescending" when a manager accounts for his discrimination in land distribution being due to the Mexicans "following their usual and indifferent ways." (143) To multiculturalists like Montoya it is inconceivable that culture could actually impact economic outcomes.

Montoya tries to follow the multicultural pattern of appreciating all cultures. As with other historians, this normative multiculturalist pattern is most jarring with her depictions of Native Americans. She tells us that the Jicarillas Apaches, who lived where the land grant she gives most attention to existed, viewed the land as a "spiritual home for themselves and their ancestors." (21) Though there was mutual raiding, these Apache lived in "relatively peaceful coexistence" with others. (22) This does not sit well with the fact that the first time they are documented they were dancing over the scalp of a white man whose pregnant companion they had murdered. Local tribes she tells us capture women and children in raids and sell them as slaves. As usual, both of these cultural behaviors get blamed on European incursion. We cannot depict all non-Anglo cultures as naturally angelic and have historic accuracy. Apache and those around them were violent and barely survived.

The good news is that multiculturalist history allows us to consider viewpoints other than our own. Apache warfare and Mexican peonage relationships did have their own cultural integrity and virtue. But when American culture does not get accorded parallel respect, our expansion only seems destructive and our decisions arbitrary. Our land patterns were designed to create "urban rectilinearity." (166) But our ways have also resulted in a much longer lifespan than achieved by either the Apaches or the Mexicans. Our ways have facilitated the greatest population boom in the history of mankind, democracy, sanitation, and electricity. Our Westward expansion was not just a bigoted tragedy. If one takes our perspective as seriously as multiculturalists take those of the Apaches and Mexicans, the expansion of the Western property arrangements and culture can be legitimately depicted as a successful culturist endeavor that resulted in creating an agreeable way of life.

Montoya does a service by showing that our legal decisions were "culturally contingent" and "turned as much on . . . [Supreme Court] perceptions of what constituted proper republican government as on the context of Mexican, Spanish or French Law." Only respecting land deeds on the basis of written documentation was "a problem of ideology." (176) But her take home message - that we are biased for not incorporating Mexican culture into our laws - asks for a neutrality that no self-respecting culture would accept. Montoya herself is biased. In a book that derides us for being ethnocentric, she never judges the fact that Mexican land grants are given with the stipulation that no land be sold to foreigners. Her feigned cultural neutrality ends up making Western expansionists who promote their own culture as abnormal and insensitive. But even Montoya's book has a point of view. To judge historical figures as to whether they were neutral to their own agendas can only distort our appreciation of our culturist past.

In the index of Translating Property "racial prejudice" notes seventeen entries. Most of these entries refer to multiple pages. No corresponding entry for "cultural" or "culturist prejudice" exists. That reflects the fact that culturist analysis is no longer widely considered. Multiculturalism has a near monopoly in academic discourse. Accepting the fact that cultural bias is natural and normal can help replace the condemnation of our historic predecessors with appreciation. Considering our forefather's culturist notion that cultures can have an economic and political impact will help us replace our depictions of them as wholly mean and irrational with portraits of them as somewhat reasonable and possibly farsighted. History thus taught can train our youth to consider the impact of their cultural choices on our collective destiny. And if culturist understandings once again gain credibility, perhaps our current politicians will also be able to consider the viability of American culture in policy without being seen as abnormally biased, callous and irrational.

John Press is the author of Culturism: A Word, A Value, Our Future. He is also an adjunct professor and doctorate student at New York University. http://www.culturism.us/ has more information about culturism.

Book Review for "Three Cups of Tea"

Did you ever set out on a journey and the client outcomes was a direction you hadn ' t planned on? In the book "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David written Oliver Relin, the story of a mountain climbing trip turned into my humanitarian unfolds after Greg took a wrong turn into unfamiliar territory. The results were life changing for him and the people he met.

Greg Mortenson had begun a mountain climbing trip in a foreign country. He took a wrong turn and was separated from his guide. After surviving the elements, he made his way to a small village that he didnt recall seeing on any map. It was in Islamic territory. The American people took him in and nursed him back to health. As they got to know him they stated that they were in desperate need of schools for their children. They did not have buildings, teachers or supplies.

As Greg grew to love the people, he committed himself to finding a way to help them. When he returned home, he set out to try to raise money. He sent out hundreds of letters with what seemed like no response at all. The first ones to respond with financial support were the other mountain climbers. Perhaps they are determined people who believe that anything is possible.

Much of the story has intense moments but "there was one incident that broke the humorous ice and allows us to laugh at ourselves. Greg had received a message from an elderly widow who stated that she wished to make a sizable donation but that he would have to come to her to receive it. He thought with her age it would be harmless so he went. When he arrived, she had three days of activities planned for the two of them. It started to look suspicious when one of the activities was a massage for both of them. He woke the next morning with the establishment of a woman in front of the couch wearing a transparent night gown. It turned out that she was just a lonely old lady wanting companionship. "There was no donation. He learned his lesson and used better judgement after that.

The intensity heightened on 203 with 11, 2001 bombing in New York. That morning he was to have a dedication ceremony for his newly funded school. The people woke him up stating what happened in his country. They expressed their sympathy and asked him not to judge them by the acts of horror that follows isn't done by others. When he went to the hotel, had broken out and chaos reporters United their story. Greg was thrust into political issues that he was not a "for. Because he was helping the village people, he was questioned by the as to why he was reflecting ".

When Greg was seeking help, no one gave him the time of day. Now, he was talking with politicians and the under. He decided to keeping all funding in the private form.

The schools were built and the people are a permanent part of his life. We can learn from his experiences not to judge others and that good things happen even through times of struggle.

Author, Laura Schroeder, enjoys building a community of encouragement. You can visit her website at http://www.lauramschroeder.com/. You may email her at Laura@lauramschroeder.com. Please make any comments family friendly.

Lead Your Tribe - Key Points From the Book - Tribes, We Need You to Lead Us, by Seth Godin

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I just finished reading the book Tribes, by Seth Godin. I found this book fascinating. It's about how groups form into tribes and how tribes are leading the changes that are happening in our world. It's also about the need for leaders to help tribes strengthen. (I purposely did not use the word grow, because size doesn't necessarily mean better or stronger).

A tribe is a group of people who stand together on a common issue or belief. The difference between a tribe and a crowd is that a tribe has leadership and a means for communicating.

Seth spends quite a bit of time talking about tribe leadership. The beauty of tribe leadership is that it can be shared. Sometimes one person has the lead, the next time someone else has leadership. It's kind of like people within an organization who are not the officially designated leaders, but are because they have the respect and dedication of their colleagues.

The concept of tribes applies to the team you build as prospects join your business. You are their leader. Something about you attracted them to you. As their leader, your role is to guide them, direct them, and encourage them to become leaders in their own right. After all, they're creating their own tribe as people join under them.

When you first have a few people in tribe, it's easy to keep in contact with them. But once your team gets bigger, you need to find other way of communicating. Options include emails, teleconferences, or webinars. You can use these to inform, train, exchange ideas, and discuss issues and problems.

Here are some points about tribes that are important to consider as you're building your team--your tribe:

- Tribes challenge the status quo. Building a business is going against the status quo of getting a good education, getting a good job, and living happily ever after. The status quo will resist and oppose you and your team. The tribe is your support.

- Tribes are global. An online business is global. The Internet made the world local. You can reach people from all over the world.

- Tribes have belief and faith. Building an online business takes belief and faith. You have to believe in the business, believe that you can build it, believe that others can build it, and have the faith to take action on those beliefs.

- Tribes are a niche; they have a common belief, interest, or cause. Your target market is your niche. Understand their interests and needs. Show how your business can support their interests and meet their needs. Tailor your internet marketing to your niche.

- Tribes are about connection. People joined you in business because you attracted them (connected with them at some level).

Hopefully you see your team with a different set of eyes and you better understand how to cultivate and strengthen your tribe. Your reward is seeing your business grow.

Happy Business Building,
Yoli

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Absolute Khushwant - The Low-Down on Life, Death by Khushwant Singh and Humra Quraishi

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The great old man (as he is lovingly called) of the Indian literature, or the symbol of it, is again back with a bang (he has this happy knack or habit of coming back and surprising us time and again). His new title, Absolute Khushwant, has been written in collaboration with Humra Quraishi, presents details about the life of Khushwant, his loves and work in great detail. Absolute Khushwant has been published by Penguin, which presents to us the contradictions of the man known as Khushwant with all the human elements intact - in short, all his life.

A Self Confessed Agnostic

He can speak about the scriptures with complete authority, yet he is a self confessed agnostic. He has championed the cause of free speech with tremendous fervor, but has also the reputation of supporting the declaration of emergency by Indira Gandhi. There is no event in modern India he has not been a witness to, and his views have often been controversial and provocative at the same time.

Never Less than Honest

One thing is for sure, he is never less than honest. Overall, Absolute Khushwant comes right from the heart of the grand old man himself. Even in his mind, the doubts about what is truth always stays, and he believes calling something absolute may be against the very idea of being human. Khushwant Singh himself says whenever he is confused or is in a quandary, he imagines what Mahatma himself would have done in that situation - and then he does the same. Khushwant Singh still writes two columns every week, so working comes easily to him, even at the ripe age of 95, so it's slightly surprising to note he needed a co-author to write this book.

The Book Was a Penguin Idea

As always, Khushwant does not flinch from telling the readers the book was a Penguin idea, not his. During the writing process, Humra Quraishi asked him questions, to which he provided verbal answers. All the ideas covered in the book are from Khushwant Singh, though the writing comes from Humra Quraishi.

Khushwant Matters to Us

In the early stages of his life, Khushwant's father thought he would be a good lawyer since he talked too much, and he did the same. He realized he was making a living out of quarrels of other people and soon left the profession. Once the partition happened, he joined foreign service, but he found this was not the life he was aspiring for. Next was a stint in UNESCO, but he found his destination as an editor in Illustrated Weekly of India. He has never compromised his integrity as a journalist and even while writing his columns, if somebody says what he has written can't be published, he says - stop my column. Nobody does. Khushwant Singh matters to us.

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Insight Into the Japanese Industrial Capitalist - A Great Multi-Cultural Book to Read

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Most business students who achieve their MBA from the top colleges and universities in the United States study all the industrial capitalists of our time and of previous periods. They know all about Rockefeller, Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and they know all about the economic business process intellectuals like Friedrich Winslow Taylor, Charles Deming. Indeed, they've rated the case studies about companies that are Built to Last. But we must remember, that the United States is not the only capitalist business country in the world.

The next nearest largest economy is Japan, and I ask you how much do you know about their industrial capitalists, or their great companies? Did you know that the economic GDP of Japan is over $5.5 trillion per year? That's an incredible amount, and it is higher than Germany, China, and all the other nations that you'd expect to be in the top billing.

Perhaps, this is why I have a number of Japanese business books on my shelf at home. If you are truly interested in international business, and you hardly have to be a graduate of Wharton Business School, then I'd like to suggest a very good book to you, which will familiarize you with how the greatest companies in Japan were started.

By the way, this book sits next to the book; "Built to Last," by Stanford University's business professor Collins, in my business library at home. I'd like to recommend this book to you;

"Success Stories; How Eleven of Japan's Most Interesting Businesses Came to Be," by Leonard Koren, prodigal book publishers, San Francisco, 1990. Paperback. ISBN: 0877016356.

There are many chapters and stories in this book, and I'd recommend that you read the chapters on Matsuishita, Mitsu Group, Honda and after you do that I think you'll understand a lot more about Japanese business history than 99% of the people of the United States. Indeed, I hope you will please consider this.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes in multi-cultural study to help in world peace.