Tuesday, December 22, 2009

A Gift We Can Give to the World: 'Bayanihan'

To the world's vocabulary and values of consciousness, the Indians contributed karma and everything that it implies, the Romans gave quid pro quo, the Chinese shared their feng sui...

Can we Filipinos, deployed all over the world as we have been, getting along well with all other peoples. offer to the consciousness of Humankind our synergetic bayanihan?

Yes, but we'd have to revive it first in the mainstream of our lives, and then we'd be ready to "preach what we practice."

The term bayanihan necessarily carries an inseparable pair of words: magpakatao, makipagkapwa-tao. Without this pair at its innermost core, it can only be very shallow and fleeting.

Let's ponder this, dream it with enlightened enthusiasm, and... let's do it!

readdingz
subic, zambales
12-23-09

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