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Country: United States

Language: English

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Posted by: global on Oct 8, 2008

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global oneness project
Ubuntu
[♪ Group Singing ♪]
There is a bigger world. Within your own experience there is a bigger experience where it is possible for you to
get beyond your immediate experience and seek out that that is human, that unites us as human beings.
In Africa, we have this concept of Ubuntu which is humaneness. It means I am not human without you being present
and my allowing you to be present. I am human because you are human.
So out of that concept we then see that we have a shared experience, but also we can find one another and create a peaceful coexistence.
[♪ Group Singing ♪]
It is not something plain and simple. We are human beings and we should feel with each other and feel for each other.
This is Ubuntu. That I must do to other people what I want other people to do to me.
That I am a muntu, a human being, because of other human beings around me.
[♪ Singing ♪]
The spirit of Ubuntu means this thing of helping each other. Like in Zulu we used to say that the child is raised by the community.
If a child is mine, its not basically mine. Each member of the community contributes in raising that child.
So that's basically our cultural experience of Ubuntu and as a result, if I see my neighbor hungry, I have to make sure my neighbor eats.
That's the whole concept of cooperative living and helping each other.
[♪ Singing ♪]
I say its a concept that is present in Africa, but I also believe its present in all human beings, that is allowed to thrive and prosper.
This is a spirit of sharing. If I have something and can see that you are suffering and there's something that I can give to you,
which maybe is something I need, but I find that by giving this to you, I create a relationship with you.
I create a better understanding between us.
We operate from the fact that I am because you are. I cannot be myself if you are not yourself. You have to be ok for me to be ok.
These things are not only about me. Together we will be able to make it. If you recognize I am who I am because you are,
then everything else will be taken care of.
[♪ Singing ♪]
I must never allow my neighbor to go hungry while I've got a little food in my house.
I must never deny my neighbor water. I must never deny my neighbors animals grass.
We as human beings must sustain each other even in the hours of the direst time.
[♪ Singing ♪]
The concept of Ubuntu means that you as a living person should always be extending to people so that you can be equal to them
If you are better off, make them even better. If you are worse off, ask for something from someone so we can all live peacefully together.
If this is someone better than you, you bring them on board and you create a greater thing going forward, so that's basically Ubuntu.
[♪ Singing ♪]
I don't think in moving forward into the modern world we should leave behind those values that were critical to our existence.
One of the things, for example, is looking after the planet. We have to look after this planet. The earth was given to us
and we have to protect it. We have to leave it in a condition so that the ones that come after us can continue to exist
and enjoy what is given to all of us freely by nature.
[♪ Singing ♪]
We practice it by footing each path. We practice it by watching over each person's health.
In Africa, where there is peace, people greet each other and ask each other, "Have you taken porridge?
Is your stomach full? And if your stomach is not full, my neighbor, come into my house, let me fill your stomach full."
Ubuntu is nothing more or less than compassion brought into colorful practice.
[♪ Singing and Clapping ♪]
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