Essays on Harmony

Interfaith harmony is a condition which indicates the pacific coexistence of acolyte of various religious beliefs, with the aim to abolish violence. With the pragmatic framework of interfaith harmony, it proposes understanding of all faiths and respecting everyone’s beliefs without upsetting the surroundings. All religions...

Last Tuesday, I attended the peace conference here at Seton Hall. Leading up to the event I did not know what to expect. My lecture was the opening lecture on the second day. It was titled, “The Human Person’s Responsibility for Peace, Nonviolence and Human...

The East Asian philosophy has, at all times, strongly emphasized on proper order as the equilibrium for fairness, good value, and indispensable for the individual as well as general gain. This essay, therefore, seeks to analyze the proper order ideal based on the fact that...

The Dalai Lama speaks a lot about the health benefits of meditation. And quote ”Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health” refers to this useful action. Indeed, meditation is great for improving overall health, reduces the risk of...

Ever since concepts like the nation-state, citizenship, borders, sovereignty were established, there have been barriers for international movement demonstrated by physical constraints such as border control and systematic constraints such as immigration laws and visa restrictions. Both types of constraints embedded in a set of...

Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history and over a few thousand years of evolution has become a very rich and sophisticated system of medicine with multiple series and applications. It seeks to understand and facilitate harmony not only in human life but in the...

To begin with, the political factors have undermined racial harmony in post-colonial Africa. There is instability between races for example in Rwanda there is fighting between the Hutu and Tutsis. This Rwandan civil conflict can be traced back to the Belgian colonial rule of 1916...

Deshmanya Jayaratna Banda Dissannayake born in 16 April 1937. He is an Emeritus Professor and one of the leading authorities of the Sinhala Language. He was former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Thailand. Dissanayake received his primary education at Dharmaraja College Kandy and secondary education at...

Finally the day arrived. The first trimester of sixth grade had just started and I was on my way to school with smiles all over my face because a new subject had just been added to the curriculum-music. I had heard wonderful stories about music...