۱۳۹۰ مرداد ۲۳, یکشنبه

International Youths Day in Kabul

International youth day was celebrated in peace embassy on 12th of August 2011. This year youth’s day had coincided with 12th of Ramadan. The original celebration day to mark the day by mobilizing a cleaning campaign in down town Kabul was not implemented.  Peace voice members were to coordinate with certain civil society organizations and do a campaign of several hundred people to leave an impact in easing the tension surrounding the usual days of Kabul. But due to some shortcomings in coordination and lack of willingness in the part of possible partners, the campaign did not take place. Anyway, the youths in peace voice sufficed in marking the day by coming together and inviting youths to ponder on the importance of youths in the society, their roles, means to enhance their roles and so on.  They spoke each for a short moment and expressed their aspirations as youths and the priorities of the youths of Afghanistan. Noor Navayee talked about this year’s motto, voluntarism and importance of that. Ahmad shah Stanekzay explained peace voice plans in coming weeks and months.
The event took place in the evening, so all the participants were served a simple meal for eftari (meal to break their fast). Another part of the event was round singing. The theme of the songs was asked to be related to youths. They all sang, and Mr. Hashemeyan played the traditional damborah and sang afghan songs. All felt happy and energetic as youths and vowed to better celebrate the day in coming years by doing some concrete work in the community.

۱۳۹۰ مرداد ۲۲, شنبه

Spirit Cultivation

Friday Meeting
August 12, 2011
Seven people participated in this Friday’s meeting and discussed on the topic, spirit cultivation.  The topic was chosen based on the understanding that our spirits resembles a field. So, it is up to us what to cultivate in this field.
Noor Navayee introduced the topic, saying that our deeds are the seeds which we cultivate in our spirits. When we go certain course of actions repetitively, its form our habit patterns and by passage of time and walking on the same courses our deeds changes into our character. It simply follows that our good or bad character or our goodness and badness is a function of our habits and actions that we habitually practice. Linking this to Ramadan, Navayee noted that the main philosophy of fasting in Ramadan is to have the opportunity to cultivate our spirits, in addition to annually checking and rechecking ourselves and our values and evaluate the quality of our harvest, our character, so far. He read some versus of holy Koran, chapter ASH-SHAMS (THE SUN) in this respect; translation:
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, by the sun and its midmorning, (1) by the moon, which follows it, (2) by the day, when it displays it, (3) by the night, when it envelops it! (4) by the heaven and who built it, (5) by the earth and who spread it, (6) by the soul and who shaped it (7) and inspired it with its sin and its piety, (8) prosperous is he who purified it, (9) and failed is he who buried it!...”
In the above versus, God swears in most remarkable phenomena of the nature then emphatically reveal the truth about human sprit (soul), that is to say, human salvation and eternal prosperity or failure is dependent on his purification of his soul.
Ahamadshah Stanekzai addressed the situation in Afghanistan. He said that good deeds and piety has become just a matter of slogans in Afghanistan. Everybody speaks and boasts about being honest and faithful, but the reality is another way. The second problem he held that was greediness. He said that they have become very voracious; though the situation is much better than the past, people care of nothing but to collect as much of everything as possible.  In his opinion it is very important to do and repeat good works in Ramadan. He noted that originally it has been declared a period in which every Muslim has to take care of the poor people, of his community and neighbors, but now they only suffice in performing some formalities and rituals. He held that these days that we are desperately in need of reform and change in all aspects of our life, religion has to play an important role and its value and practice has to be closely connected to the realties of people’s life.  It should change people’s life and affect them positively and their relations in daily life.
Fayez cautioned of the bad effect of habits. He said that in habits people were repeating things mindlessly and such a repetition detrimentally affect human ability in long term. He mentioned the importance of observation and attentiveness in each moment of life. It gives us the capability to live in present free from past and future. It enables us to be exposed to life, live every second intentionally and enjoy the sensational fulfillment and flow of existence. He linked this to Ramadan, and mentioned that in Ramadan we have to be very attentive, leave what we were doing habitually, mind our steps, our actions our words and even our sleeps. This is called in his view observation which lead us to further happiness and freedom, each moment abandoning the anxieties of what we do not have and headaches  of the past and future and enjoying the beauty of a new world each minute.
Kaka jan expressed himself by saying that the youths did not have to be complacent to the elderly and their world and religious knowledge. In many ways, he said, elderly people who are increasingly regarded ignorant by their educated sons can have better experiences which help young people. In his view good and bad though has to be assessed according to necessities of time.  
Arif Sheva uttered that he was bored of doing things habitually. He said that life there was just doing the same things over and over. He said that doing things intentionally and mindfully is like being on the fore front, where we always think and are careful; in contrast, doing things as a result of habits mindlessly is being like stamping your feet of the surface with out thinking, just to pass the time.
Azim Hazhir divided the habits into two kinds: good and bad. He said that good habits like waking up early in the morning were good even if done just as a habit, and bad habits like smoking were bad. He said that most of the time we can’t be fully present at each moment and mindful of our deeds, so walk the known path and do things as habits.
Iqbal Shahrvand emphasized the importance of freedom in human growth and actualization of his potentials. He said that one condition was to be honest with what we are, and have the freedom to live what we are internally. He counted it as a challenge of current situations in Afghanistan, where one can not honestly be what he/she is. There have been undue pressures from different sides imposing certain values and habits especially on youngsters and this way damaging their growth.   

۱۳۹۰ مرداد ۱۶, یکشنبه

Spiritual Growth

Friday Meeting
Friday 5th of August coincided with the first Friday of Ramadan. Due to this, five people who had gathered for Friday meeting discussed the topic ‘Spiritual Growth’ and the importance of fasting and praying in Ramadan for getting to such an end.
Noor Navayee pointed to the fact emphasized in all religions, that is the growth of human being spiritually and the meaning and goal of life. According to his saying we generally live to get perfection and grow in our eternal self. All of our life is instrumental for this, but some particular actions have been instructed by religions whose significance is more to help us specially bolster this growth. As we normally live, relate to people and perform our daily life, we grow, besides doing what we have to do for the continuation of our earthly life. In worships, ordered by religions, despite considering the earthly importance of the worship the main purpose is our spiritual growth.  This is the case with fasting of Muslims in Ramadan. In this month, they do not eat, drink and do certain other activities. If we look closer, they have to deny the fulfillment of their material needs during the day. Besides, they have been directed to help others, serve others, and do other prayers during the day and night hours. They have been asked to deny their earthly needs so to highlight their spiritual needs. We are generally immersed in our daily life, in routines, in business, in study, etc. and forget what we need spiritually. We need to remind ourselves of this need, that we have to grow in our character in our permanent being, and our life on earth is just an opportunity for this growth. Ramadan is such a time.  Many people count other benefits as a result of fasting; however, all those benefits are secondary. For instance fasting may be useful for our health, but it is a secondary advantage of fasting. Ramadan is a time when we have to refresh and remember the way ahead and clear our conscience for the whole year so not lose sight in our journey of life.  
Mr. Stanekzay also emphasized on the needs of our spirit and religious teachings in this regard. He said that every thing taught by religion is aiming at this. We have to do good deeds so to build our permanent home; the home where we go when we die.
Arif Sheva expressed himself by saying that fasting is really a challenge in these long days of hot summer. On the other hand it is really rewarding:
“To tell my story, yesterday I had a long walk in down town. It took me almost all day to shop and walk in dusty streets. When I returned I almost fainted. I was numb, could not sleep and could not move. In the evening I had to move, we had guests. My father came and asked to prepare for the guest. We had khatm (collective reading in holy Koran). So I prepared things, our guests came and we all started reading Koran before the time of breaking our fast. As I was reading, I felt the blood circulating in my veins and energy generated in my body. After I read some pages, I was full of energy that did not feel hungry or thirsty until all of the guests were served. I realized one thing. There are needs on the surface; we always work hard to saturate these needs. If we deny these needs, they pressure us and drive everywhere for fulfillment. But after they face some resistance, they go away and another layer of our self becomes active. You discover another part of yourself, another kind of energy and type of consciousness. You feel happy and rewarded. You feel deep, patient and strong.”
Fayez conceded that he has heard a lot of philosophies and reasons for fasting. Fasting is said to be useful for our health. Our internal organs get rest. Those who are overweight and suffer from diabetes and other disease, Ramadan is a chance for them to change their habits. To be honest, Fayez said that he himself has not experienced the spiritual impact of fasting though he has fasted a lot. It is may be because fasting in Ramadan has become a traditional habit for us. We fast because we are socially and culturally punished if we don’t.  
Ebrahimi said that this age is the age of exaggeration in everything, in eating, in drinking and everything else. I think fasting is a good chance for those of us, who are indulged in extravagance, fasting is a chance to rethink our life style. Meanwhile, fasting is a good worship. I believe it is a way to perfection.  We intentionally deprive ourselves from things that we normally do for a higher purpose. We go beyond daily needs and daily life. I myself try to be for God all day and try to observe my life carefully. As a result I feel more pure, more responsible and more patient.
Conclusion: Fasting during Ramadan vacates a space in our life where God’s presence should be felt, where He can reside and rest. Ramadan changes the usual chorus of life and gives a chance for change and looking beyond the material boundaries. Ramadan is a chance to accelerate our spiritual growth.

۱۳۹۰ تیر ۱۸, شنبه

Party

People have party to celebrate a day, an achievement, an occasion and so on. In a party what is sought is to relieve oneself from the fatigues of routines, from the anxieties of study, from stress of work and so on. People want to release their pain and tension by laughing, singing and dancing together. Besides they want to energize themselves by reviving the feeling of friendship, group solidarity and togetherness. We might not intend all these, but we had a party on Friday night, 8th of July, Instead the party was seeking two other purposes, one honoring our Japanese guests, Mrs. Kowai and Mrs. Yamannoy and second bringing together the people behind peace voice, as many of them as possible.
Living in Kabul is living in dusty, smoky streets surrounded with the violent frown of every thing. You cannot see any thing soothing and relieving and any entertaining scene. What you see is always a depiction of some aspects of human misery and fall. How a human soul can thrive here? People are in a hurry, every body even the beggars and addicts whom you see in every step. Everyone is in a hurry, every one is highly alert and everyone is super vigilant. Worse than this people are careless. They are careless with everything, whether it is public or private, though some try to wash themselves out but throw the dirty water on neighbor’s window.
So, what a party means in such a situation. It means a lot, to be honest, but the there should be some one to do a lot to warm up and organize everything in a well planned way. It takes a long time and some effort to make people forget their yesterday, tomorrow and possibly the quarrel that they just had with the driver on their way to party. You need to skillfully entertain them, and at the same time manage the party in a way not to trigger anything undesirable for the atmosphere of a party. In this country there are a lot of thorns, you need to be very careful, once one steps on a blade of thorn everything changes into chaos in a blink of eyes.
We succeeded to do everything well in our party. 40 people were there of different areas of Kabul, all of them youths, except one or two who were middle aged. They sang, told jokes and laughed a lot. They did not dance; better to say there was no proper area to dance on. We had not met some of them for more than a year, so it was an opportunity to meet and revive memories of working for peace and in the underneath sketch some ideas for future works and cooperation.
Our Japanese guest sang for us Japanese songs. The very funny part was that Mrs. Yamanoy made us laugh for nothing, then laugh on laughing for nothing, one buddy said to her: “you made us laugh, first we thought there was some thing to laugh on, then we realized nothing funny was there then we laughed on ourselves’ laughter”.
This was a happy occasion; every body was happy and energetic at the end, so we were successful. We realized that how much the people in this city needed that kind of parties and gatherings, which bring entertainment and sense of meaningfulness and order together, an atmosphere free of suicide news, political tension and reenactment of conflicts and hidden pains.  

۱۳۹۰ تیر ۱۷, جمعه

Equality

Friday Meeting
08 – 09 – 11
This Friday 11 people participated, shared their hearts and talked about ‘equality’. This Friday was somehow special, for having guests from Japan, and also these days the exams of schools and universities are approaching, so many people are very busy. After praying, Noor Navayee started elaborating on the topic.
 He said that equality meant having the same rights and privileges amongst the members of human society. Essentially all individuals have been created equal; they have been gifted based on equal criteria, so in worldly systems they cannot be preferred over one another, while they stand on the same and equal footings. Most of the religious scriptures have emphasized this point. However, the reality has been far more different, and people have been discriminated based on different lines and deprived from their very natural rights.
One of the principles of creation is that each individual is unique and differing from others in their appearance, color, way of seeing the world and their beliefs. So, such a reality has led to the formation of different culture, racial groups, communities and nations. Equality means that none of these natural tenets make an individual, group or nation superior to others or better than them.
The lines of differences, in contrary to the original purposes of such differences, unfortunately have brought about an allusion to give a base for unjust discriminations. Difference in sex, difference in color of skin, difference in shapes of skulls and skeleton, differences in languages and cultures have been used to justify the prejudices, unjust treatments of one group by another.
Navayee, then, suggested focusing more on sexual equality. He emphasized that being male or female does not give an especial right to anyone. He asked the participants to talk on this and share their experiences. He quoted two versus of holy Koran, first versus 13 of Hojarat which reads; translation:
‘O mankind! We created you from a single pair of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes, that you might know each other. Verily the most honored among you in the sight of God is he who is the most righteous.’
The second, 195 of Al –e-Emran; translation:
‘And their Lord answers them, “the labor of any that labors among you, be you male or female – the one of you is as other.”’
The first verse teaches us of the fact that being differentiated in male, female, tribes and nations is a blessing of God, and a concomitant of human earthly knowledge, language, art and communication. At this stage of life these different characteristics make our lives possible and beautiful, at the end of the day we are judged based on our deeds and righteousness. The second verse rules out any discrimination on the basis of these differentiations in eternal judgment.
Javid: “We have been created equal and we have been given talents and potentials on equal basis, but the will for power has made us blind and has led to a culture of discrimination. In respect to women situation in our country, I can say that many reasons and conditions have created discrimination against women. If we go to the Independent Human Rights Commission or some other civil society organizations, you can witness women’s grievances. You see women who suffer from malnutrition, from husband’s violence, from ignorance (being denied from the right to go to school). They are given as BADS (when someone has been murdered, an unmarried female member of the family of murderer is given to the family of victim, so that to make peace), they are deprived of their rights to inheritance. Women cannot go out to work or to get education, and this is sometime justified as that we are respecting women; they are too precious to us that we do not want them to get dirty in the outside world. Look at something valuable such as gold and diamond, people keep them in boxes and in safes, same is the case for women, we do not let them go out because we respect them a lot. Look at this logic, this reasoning forgets that women are human; they need to improve their God given potentials just like men.”
“However, the situation of women has improved a little in our country. Now there are windows of opportunities for them. They can get education, they can work outside, and they can become lawyers and prosecutors and so on. Still we need to work hard and build on these.”
Asif Sultani: “Nowadays, the situation of women is better in cities, but in many villages if you go the situation of women is terrible. People have wrong believes and ideas about women. Some rural areas have changed dramatically, for example central Afghanistan, girls can go to schools and their conditions have improved. Now we have some organizations, at least, which can talk about women’s rights and raise the public awareness in this respect.”
Mrs. Yamanoy: “Men and women are equal, but they have different characters. It means that they seek life through different tactics and have different outlook on life and life affairs. For example most of the women want to talk a lot and be listened too. While man is in search of the points that he needs. Men are intentional and exact, but women are not only intentional but also emotional more. They do not talk only to make a point or seek something; in addition they talk for the sake of talking and feeling. Back in Japan, a friend of mine was telling that once, she had talked for three consecutive days until her husband had collapsed listening to her. I myself, in the beginning of my familial life, I used to talk a lot. My husband, however, was very kind. Once he also collapsed listening to me. Latter on I came to realize the differences, I tried hard to understand him, and through love and sharing we could understand each other more and every thing settled down peacefully.”
Mrs. Kawai: “In Japan people do not know a lot about Afghanistan, and the women in afgahnistan, only those who work here or their organizations work here know in detail about the situation of Afghanistan.”
“Talking about my own experience, I and my husband did receive especial teachings about the goal of life and family life. So, we had vey common base for starting a family. When I joint WFWP my husband supported me a lot. Now when I am too busy, he helps me a lot with routines. He never talks to me in bad way for, say why the food is not tasty. My husband is a doctor and a very knowledgeable person. He is very quite and never talks even to our close relatives. I try to help him in this regard and help in making relations.”
Arif: “Difference and variety is a blessing of Allah. So no one should try to assimilate people. Equality does not mean to get rid of differences. Equality means having equal rights and privileges in a legal, political and economic system.”
Ebrahimi: “Equality does not mean sameness in rights. It means having the rights to what one deserves. For example, in family context husband has to provide alimony and life expanses of his wife, while for this rights the wife herself has certain obligations. So husband and wife’s rights and obligations are not the same but they are equal.”
“In my own experience, as a child, I used to go to school, and my sister went too. When my sister got older, the family did not allow her to go to school, I could do nothing. It was the condition at that time. When the situation changed my sister started going to school again, but now she is a little older than her class.”
Miss Shafayee: “I am coming from a mediocre family in terms of education. My parents are literate but not very educated. My family went to Iran when I was a child. The culture over there was a little different. There the girls were free to go to school. My parents were good before though, the conditions in Iran affected them a lot. We went to school there. When we came back here, we had problems with our relatives. Most of them, especially my elder uncle did not like the girls to go to school. So they were always trying to stop us from going to school. My parents did not accept and encouraged us further to continue our education. I wonder why people in this country have so negative idea about women.”
Miss Moradi: “My father has studied ten grade of school, my mother is illiterate. I am very thankful to them, they encourage us a lot to go to school and get education. They tell us if we want to be someone in the future and be able to positively contribute to our country, we have to learn education.”
Conclusion: Navayee concluded the session with pointing to the fact that our very creation has been based on masculinity and femininity. So, any ideology, way of life and system that do not concede the equality between men and women will lead to an imbalanced family and society. The implication of this for us is that we need to endeavor to overcome the derogatory look and culture towards women in our own personal context, so to keep and develop our psychological integrity and improve the situation for next generations.  
 
   

۱۳۹۰ تیر ۱۱, شنبه

Basic Peace Seminar


On Thursday, 30th of June, Peace Volunteers organized a Basic Peace Seminar for 13 youths including boys and girls in Peace Embassy, west Kabul. Except one who came through Peshgaman English Language Course, the rest were coming from Arvin Educational Center. Besides, they were also school and university students, the young spirits who wanted to bring about a change in the monotonous day to day life. They all were invited through friends and connections of some sort. The seminar included theoretical and experiential activities and continued for one and a half days.

Theoretical Activities
Lectures, discussion and sharing experiences were the skeleton of this part of the seminar. All this activities aimed at awakening the deepest and original character shared by each individual human, that is to say, raising the sense of unity and morality based on the values shared by all human civilizations.
Based on the observable change in the participants, the seminar was quite successful. They all expressed their commitments and willingness to participate in next seminars and volunteer activities.

Experiential Activities
Words equal deeds were one of the values that the participants heard and discussed about. To a culture of indifference and vandalism which prevail in our society, it is a big task to bend oneself and take responsibility. A reinforced commitment to service is needed to light the candle of change.
Impressed with the lecture and the environment, the participants welcomed the suggestion of doing some tiny work of service. We did not believe, but even the girls took the gloves and masks to go out and clean the dirty alleys. They cleaned, discussed and had fun for one hour. To all of them it was a new experience and they had never such voluntary service work.
In reflection after the cleaning, they all expressed their ideas sparkled just in their mind as a result of experiencing service, to organize such activities in their communities and educational organization. They promised to become agents of change and expand the culture of peace through service and materializing the ideal of “living for the sake of others”.

۱۳۹۰ تیر ۱۰, جمعه

Give and Recieve Action

Friday Meeting
01 – 07 – 2011
This Friday 6 people participated in a meeting which was held by Voice of Peace members. A guest from Japan, member of Women Federation for World Peace, also participated in the discussion. The topic which was discussed was “Give and Receive Action”. Noorullah Navayee introduced the topic and the meeting started with a recitation in Holy Koran.
Navayee pointed to the fact that giving and receiving action is a principle through which all development in all over the world takes place. If we examine the natural world it is quite obvious, there is a subject role that starts an action, there is an object role which responds to the action of the subject. There is always a center or purpose preexisting as an underlying intention of the development. This intention will somehow determine the direction towards which the actual development will happen. There is movement and growth each moment. The process of this development is continuing seemingly endlessly if the intention and center of it is conforming to the existing rules governing the universe, and it will continue to the degree to which this rules can house any exceptions and freedom of deviation, in case the purpose of interaction deviates from universal principles.
The implication of this principle for our moral life and culture is that the interaction in this world also has to follow the same rule otherwise human world may face difficulties. If we want the harmony to prevail in our society we should mind the interactions which happen in different aspects of our relationships. We have to make sure that the roles of subject and object is played rightly, furthermore, if we want to expand a culture of peace and love we have to take steps and initiate. That is to say, we have to take the role of a subject and start giving with a higher purpose. We have to give and forget, it is the base of all noble cultures and peaceful collective mindsets. In Holy Koran God says: translation: “by no means you shall get righteousness unless you give freely of that which you love and whatever you give Allah kneweth it well”; Almodather, 6-7. This is very heavy and powerful. Whatever you love you should give. You should give your most precious thing, that is, you should give your love.
This is a little bit hard to understand. This even seems paradoxical, how one can gain by giving. The dominant view in our contemporary world is that you should have more, try to own more and try to win more. You have to gather as much wealth as you can, you have to learn as much as possible and you have to be big as much as possible. You always say mine, for me and to me. It is the dominant view of our cultures. We can reverse it, start giving and giving. More importantly, we have to try how to be a good giver and a better subject, and this way we learn more and gather more not for the purpose learning and gathering per se, but for the sake of giving and becoming a perfect giver.
Ebrahim Shayan: In Shayan’s opinion we can develop our heart by giving. Giving doesn’t mean that we give only money; one can give love, kindness and smile. One can teach. In different spheres of life, we can practice this, in our life, in our family, in our schools and in our communities.
“Once I clearly experienced this with my younger brother. My brother used to come late at home last winter. The usual reaction of me had to be scolding him. But did not go this way, and started to react in brotherly way. I started giving my love and compassion to him, and then I found out the real story of him and understood that he was doing a real job of learning and teaching. The way was so long, and he was too tired. As a result of giving my love and sharing my heart with him, now I am closer to him and happier.”
Ali Fayez: According to Fayez, life is a gift from God. It is the most precious gift that God has given us for free. In this sense, in all our life we have to return this gift. In fact we do not receive if we do not give. In many families, the cause of the problems is that subject and object roles are not respected or the people to the roles are assigned do not play them well. Sons play the role of fathers, daughters play the role of mothers or other ways the harmonious interaction that is expected to happen in family does not take place, and the whole families face difficulties and conflicts.
Fayez used to look at his elder brother as being exploiting him. Fayez was always suspicious of him. He changed his attitude towards his brother and found out that he himself was wrong. The situation has not been that static and too bad either. Fayez changed his behavior and the whole atmosphere in his family changed. He started giving respect to his elder brother, and the brotherly relationship began to develop.
Mustaf Seerat:  We do not have the culture that we really desire. We can change this. It is possible. We can do it. If you don’t believe in this go to Egypt and see the pyramids. Those big buildings were made by human beings. They made those because they had a vision and strongly wanted to embody what they had in their minds. We can bring change and establish a culture of giving and generosity if we really want to do so.”
Amin Ebrahimi: “Giving should be unconditional. If giving is conditional, it doesn’t have the value that it has to have. Giving broadens our heart, in other word, it makes us big. So, as much as we give more our capacity develops and we can place a bigger portion of the world in ourselves. Giving most of the time doesn’t need especial situations or conditions, we can practice every where, at home in our classes and so on.  My experience, what I can remember now, is one thing that I really started in my class. We clean our class by ourselves. In the morning small children are in our classroom, so every day the room becomes full of garbage. I started cleaning and giving my care to this. My purpose was not to gain something material out of this, but just wanted to clean out of my generosity and for the sake of my whole classmates and teachers who enter that class. The outcome, however, is bigger than I expected. Now we almost have a group of people- my classmates- careful and responsible. All of them are sensitive about this issue, and I am sure that they are not only sensitive about their own class but about the environment everywhere.”
Mrs. Cowai: “Things that you discuss are very precious points. When I encountered these things in my life for the first time, they seemed too strange. I could not understand the importance of giving and loving unconditionally. I only understood it when I became a mother. Now it has become a normal truth in my life and I really believe in the value of giving. You may saw the repercussions of tsunami in Japan. You know, Japan helped many poor countries around the world. Many Japanese were asking about the rationality of these helps, they might were expecting some returns for Japan’s financial and other kinds of assistance to the people and governments of many countries. Some others had their justifications that because Japan was a wealthy nation so they had to help poor nations and care for the common cause of humanity. After the tsunami, many countries, even the poorest ones sent their assistance to Japan. It was amazing; we understood how different countries looked at Japan and how they were really sympathetic with Japanese people. That was definitely due to the behavior and generosity of the people of Japan. What I would like to say is that when we give unconditionally, we gain more, besides, we play a role in decreasing the tension and conflict of human societies.”
Shayan: “When we give we receive, that is true. When you gently shake the cradle of a small baby even that baby smiles at you, and wants to reward you for you act towards it. The baby is in a pure natural status and purely reacts to your love.”
Conclusion: Giving any thing in any place is like dropping a small stone in a big pool. The waves and tidal are created in every corner of the pool and every molecule of the water shakes. If an action of unconditional giving is taking place centered on higher purposes, the whole universe shakes to respond. If you have an specific expectation out of you giving your expectation may be fulfilled, but you have limited the return. In human society you can start something good in a point; it multiplies like the different loops of a chain. This process can be called love creation, compassion creation, peace creation and so on, something like money creation in banking operations. You give love and it multiplies, you give kindness and it multi plies and so on. This way we can foster the culture of peace in a society.