Basis Of Harmony Research Articles

KNITTING HARMONY IN DIVERSITY: A BEST PRACTICE FOR RELIGIOUS HARMONY IN THE PASALAE COMMUNITY-NORTH GORONTALO

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This research aims to describe the best practice of religious harmony in the Pasalae community, North Gorontalo. As a qualitative research, data collection techniques were used through direct observation of the Pasalae community activities in building relationships and practices of harmony which has been going on all this time. Interviews were intended to explore data from the key and regular informants as deep as possible, and documents aim to obtain data through articles related to best practices in Pasalae. The study results show that the people in Pasalae Village live in an excellent practice of religious harmony. The Muslim and Christian communities, living side by side peacefully and actively build relationships without being awkward. The basis of harmony in the Pasalae community is created through culture and local wisdom that is still rooted in society, economy, and kinship. The presence of religious groups considered fanatic is one of the threats in breaking up their harmony. Thus, the effort to prevent it is by increasing the awareness among the people of Pasalae so that they are not easily provoked, and building an intense dialogue on any problems that arise in the community.</p><p> </p>

An Assessment of Global Civilizational State, Evolutionity, Along with Global Solidarity and United Citizens Movement

As global crises of all sorts on our planet further intensify, Global Community may have no alternative but to show Global Solidarity and help each other out of crises. Such solidarity can only be built on the basis of harmony, cooperation and moderation, and on respecting the political and cultural diversity of our multicivilizational troubled world. Global Civilizational State and Evolutionity are proposing creative works toward saving humanity from self-destruction, and are a complex mix of higher levels of morality, religion, education, art, philosophy, technology, and material wellbeing. In fact both are also a continuation from the previous Modernity epoch inspired by the mechanistic and deterministic view of societies, and Postmodernity epoch been born out of our dissatisfaction with modernity, and characterized by issues related to the global warming of the planet, globalization, political instability and a social and political regress to irrationality. As Global Civilizational State and Evolutionity along with Global Solidarity and United Citizens Movement begin to take on a much deeper kind of global leadership, one that earns more respect than envy and more gratitude than hatred, one that can catapult the whole planet forward into a future where war is no longer thinkable between nation-states, and a legitimate and beneficial Earth governance is able to cope with global problems.

Social Intelligence, Life Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms among Adult Women

Most of the problems in our lives occur due to our failure in maintaining social relations. From family to nations, sound relationships are basis of harmony. Our well-being is directly dependent upon how well we are able to get along with others. In present study an attempt was made to examine the relationship of this ability i.e. social intelligence with positive and negative well-being. In positive well-being, Life satisfaction was assessed and in negative wellbeing depressive symptoms were assessed. Participants comprised of 50 adult women students. Social intelligence was measured by using Tromso Social Intelligence Scale, Depressive Symptoms was measured by CES-D Scale and Life Satisfaction was assessed through Satisfaction with Life Scale. After analyzing data a significant positive correlation was found between Satisfaction with Life and Social Intelligence (r= .46, sig. 0.01) and significant negative correlation was found between Social Intelligence and Satisfaction with Life (r=-.36**, sig. 0.01). Thus it can be said on the basis of results that social intelligence plays a role in determining well-being.

Research on Ecological Construction of New Rural in China

In recent years, new rural construction in China appeared in a large number of new rural construction of some of the problems and propose recommendations to address ecological Chinese new rural construction, ecology as the basis for harmony between man and nature as the core, modern technology as a means to play an integrated local resources and advantages, local cultural heritage, and to coordinate the new rural social, economic and natural complex ecosystem in our area, contributed to a healthy, efficient, civilized, comfortable, new sustainable rural construction development in China.

On wabi sabi and the aesthetics of family secrets: Reading Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the shore

Family secrets are commonly considered as a defense mechanism that conceals shameful content and evades guilt. As shame and guilt threaten narcissistic perfection, secrecy functions as a self-protective mechanism by evading acknowledgment of imperfection, thus conceptualizing imperfection as a psychological threat. However, the meaning of perfection and imperfection is culturally grounded, and, therefore, our understanding of family secrets may gain better understanding by examining different cultural perspectives of perfection/imperfection. In this context, we can gain insights to the process of family secrets through wabi sabi, a Japanese aesthetic ideal and philosophy that stresses imperfection as the basis for harmony. In this paper, I suggest an interpretation of family secrets that draws on wabi sabi aesthetics. The paper's main argument is illustrated through a careful reading of Murakami's Kafka on the shore, presenting wabi sabi of family secrets as distinguished aesthetics and a potential source for mental transformation and growth.

Integral Pluralism as the Basis for Harmony: The Approach of His Highness the Aga Khan

The approach of the Aga Khan as a Muslim leader of our times is a useful corrective to many of the misperceptions about Islam in today’s world. His words and actions illustrate not only the essentially peaceful message of the faith but also the perennial and universal relevance of its principles and values as exemplified in His Highness’ integral and pluralistic vision. It is a vision of a lived faith – of engagement with life through creating a bridge between faith and the world, a “bridge of hope” that places value in community while respecting individual aspirations, and that embraces diversity while remaining true to the principles of faith.

22nd Niwano Peace Prize Commemorative Address

22nd Niwano Peace Prize Commemorative AddressTokyo, November 5, 2005 Hans Küng There are dreams that never come true, and on the other hand one can experience realities in life which one would never have dreamt of. Indeed, when I first traveled to Japan as a young professor in 1964 and later when I visited Rissho Kosei-kai headquarters and had the privilege to meet founder Nikkyo Niwano in 1982, it never came to my mind that I might once stand here as a laureate of the prestigious Niwano Peace Prize. This prize is an extraordinary honor for me and I am deeply grateful to the Niwano Peace Foundation for having selected me as this year's laureate. I consider this distinction as a threefold encouragement: 1. For me personally as an acknowledgment of my life-long activities for ecumenism among the Christian churches and for dialogue among religions. 2. For the Global Ethic Foundation for intercultural and interreligious research, education, and encounter, of which I am the president. 3. For all those around the world who strive for a global ethic as a basis of harmony among human beings and thus a more peaceful world. I receive this prize precisely for my efforts to promote a global ethic and I would therefore like to recall some of its dimensions. Certainly you are all aware that: 4 Global Ethic is not a new ideology or superstructure. 5 It will not make the specific ethics of the different religions and philosophies superfluous; it would be ridiculous to consider Global Ethic as a substitute for the discourses of the Buddha, the sayings of Confucius, the Bhagavadgita, the Torah, the Sermon on the Mount, or the Qur'an. 6 Global Ethic is nothing but the necessary minimum of common values, standards, and basic attitudes. In other words, a minimal basic consensus relating to binding values, irrevocable standards, and moral attitudes that can be affirmed by all religions despite their undeniable dogmatic or theological differences and should also be supported by nonbelievers. [End Page 203] This consensus is formulated in the Declaration Toward a Global Ethic (Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago 1993). The Global Ethic as presented in the Chicago Declaration is based on two principles without which no human community or society can survive. First, what is common to all human beings is their humanity, and therefore "Every human being should be treated humanely," according to his or her inalienable human dignity, a foundation also of universal human rights. This principle still remains very formal and therefore the declaration recalls a second principle, "which is found and has persisted in many religious and ethical traditions of humankind . . ." This is known as the "Golden Rule" of reciprocity: "What you do not wish done to yourself, do not do to others," or, in positive terms, "What you wish done to yourself, do to others." It is striking to discover that this basic rule of human behavior appears already in the Analects of the Chinese master Confucius, five centuries BCE, and can indeed be found, in slightly differing formulations, in the teachings of all religions.1 In the scriptures of Buddhism it reads: "A state that is not pleasant or delightful to me must be so for him also; and a state which is not pleasant or delightful for me, how could I inflict that on another" (Samyutta Nikaya). These guidelines of humane behavior exist in all religions and also in nonreligious ethics and can therefore form the basis for a humanist ethic, in the sense that it should be acceptable for all human beings. A Buddhist leader at the Chicago Parliament told me that through the four directives he could hear the voice of the Buddha. He certainly thought of the four precepts formulated in the Dhammapada (183): "I vow to abstain from killing living beings. I vow to abstain from taking what is not given. I vow to abstain from sexual misconduct. I vow to abstain from lying" (a fifth precept—"I vow to abstain from taking intoxicants"—does not encounter consensus among religions; it only occurs in Buddhism and some other religions and is therefore not included in the Global...

Membedah Trilogi Keluarga Qur'ani Telaah Semantik Epistemologi Sakinah, Mawaddah dan Rahmah dalam Al-Qur'an

"Qur'anic" family is a family based on the basis of harmony (sakinah), affection (mawaddah), and love (rahmah). The ideal Qur'anic family is a family that is not only valuable for its own members but is also meaningful for its surrounding families. In other words, the Qur'anic family is individually, socially and vertically good family. The individually good family is reflected by the personal piety of the family members, and the socially good family could be seen from their concerns on amar ma 'riifnahi munkar (promoting good deeds and prohibiting bad deeds) and on distributing the zakat (tithe). In addition, the vertically good family is reflected by the family's piety to God and His messengers.

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Music is a study that is primarily an art; its scientific aspects have been recognized since ancient days. An outline is given of the physical basis of harmony upon which in turn are based the musical scales. A short outline of the historical development of the modern scale is included, the discords produced in the tempered scale due to natural harmonics and summation and difference tones being noted. In the electronic instruments the musical tones can be generated as such in the first instance, or may be produced as a synthesis of pure tones; instruments embodying these principles are described briefly. A method of the synthesis of musical qualities is described, and at the presentation of the paper, such tones were demonstrated using the Hammond (electric) organ, the wave-forms being shown on an oscillograph. — In conclusion it is suggested that the possibility of removing the limitations of the traditional keyboard instruments gives an opportunity of abandoning the tempered scale in favor of the just scale.