International Day of Peace

International Day of Peace (IDP) is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire.
This year’s theme is Actions for Peace, It is a call to action that recognizes our individual and collective responsibility to foster peace.
Peace is always something that I have yearned for since I was young as I grew up in a very emotionally chaotic household where I couldn’t run away from it. So in my younger years what I did was to find any excuse to go out and be with my friends and drink myself to death so I could numb my pain, anger and frustration. It helped at the time but never in the long run. Until I found a way to cultivate peace within myself that is when I started to feel better and my relationship with others got better too. I started to do meditation regularly, learned and practised Buddhism, read about other religions and philosophies, and learned and practised other kinds of spiritual practice as well. Meditation and Buddhism have helped me a lot as they taught me how to work and understand my own mind and behaviours. Most of the time we can not change the situation outside ourselves or change other people but we always can work on ourselves and our minds. It has been a long way for me and it is not easy, never easy. It took me many many years for my heart to open up to accept and have compassion for myself and others, especially the ones I do not agree with. I think Peace Day should be for every day not just one day a year. When we practice having peace within ourselves regularly, our perspectives and reactions can change when we deal with people, circumstances, beliefs and all differences. We become more tolerant and accepting, also more compassionate, and that can bring love into all kinds of relationships. For me, that is how we can bring Peace to our world.

Share in the comment how you cultivate peace within yourself and towards others.

Peace & Love ☮️💚🌎🌍🌏

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Freedom

In this era, human rights is something that needs to be considered and practiced as a way of life. We all want freedom and want to be able to express ourselves freely. We have our own mind to think and believe according to our learned experiences. Luckily, most countries are now having democratic government eventhough not quite there yet in practice. People often say we are all freeman, we respect human rights and we have democracy as a guideline. But sometimes when they face different opinion or different point of view, they just can not except it or they could be saying they except it but in the same time try to find ways or use some tactics in order to manipulate and convince others to believe that their idea and belief is better, more appropriate and somehow make more sense. I am not saying if it is right or wrong although sometimes I feel kind of a contradiction to respecting freewill. I think maybe it is in human nature or some sort of unconcious behaviour that some people need to prove their righteous. I personally do not think it is a bad thing to debate on our ideas because I believe a lot of good things can happen result from healthy debate such as new ideas, new perspectives, new way of doing things and so on. But the thing is, some people just can not except other opinions that are different from their own. They could even shout and scream at other people face condemn that other belief is wrong and sometimes try to convince others to follow and believe that their truth is the truth, the only ultimate truth, eventhough they are holding a sign saying “Freedom to all”. I believe they have good intention and strong belief that their idea is right and it is for the best of all, only they have forgotten that others also have their own thought and opinion as well, and it also valid and true to the person however may sounds stupid to some.

As long as we have freewill, there will always be diversity of opinions, thoughts and beliefs. We can not force others to think the same way we do and we need to except the differences from wherever it comes. Otherwise there will be war everywhere, big or small, our human rights will become just an illusion for modern man in a so call civilised world. It is not about right or wrong, win or loose, but it is about living together in harmony regardless our differences. The world is changing, we are closer and closer, mixed races and cultures are everywhere, internet and vehicles bring us all together eventhough we are worlds apart. So, the aggressiveness and forceful fighting is not going to be the way to connect us and the way to find solutions for our problems. Compassionate and understanding with an openminded should be the way forward if we want to live in a peaceful, democratic, free world full of freedom and inspiration where everyone can practice their freewill and creativity. If in any occasion we should debate over something, remind ourselves to do it with compassion, kindness and be open minded.