World Cultural Heritage of the Wisdom Teachings
Universally recognized Truths — commonly shared Values:
Foundation of a harmonious world Community in the future
We are living in a time of globalization and of international cooperation. The global events of the last years have shown the importance of transcending the narrow limits of personal and national interests and to find the way to a global and humane culture of responsibility.
On the way to a global culture, characterized by holistic thinking and responsible action, it is of vital importance for humankind to share a common point of reference of universally recognized truths. Truths that are valid at all times and harmonious with all cultures, religions, philosophies and political structures. These everlasting values can be found in the insights of the Wisdom Teachings. The recognition and appreciation of these commonly shared values can become the foundation of a harmonious way of living in the future — qualified by mutual respect and a spirit of cooperation.
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1: Dharma Chakra, The Wheel of the Teaching
On the Way to a World Community Many great thinkers have pointed towards an
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"A
harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses, equivalent to a kind
of superconsciousness. With the Earth not only covered by myriads
of grains of thought, but wrapped in a single thinking envelope
until it functionally forms but a single vast grain of thought on
the sidereal scale. The plurality of individual reflections being
grouped and reinforced in a single unanimous act of reflection. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, Collins, Page 251 |
"The energies
of all the great world views
stream into Western thought.
Through the co-operation of these varied
forms of thought and energy it is enabled to
exalt into a universal conviction the optimistic
ethical concept which hovers before it's mind,
and that too in a strength which it has never
displayed in any previous age or in any other
part of the world."
Albert Schweitzer,
The Philosophy of Civilisation, Page 112