Comments - Debate on Gay Rights at Association of Medical Consultants - Mumbai - Community life competence2024-03-28T10:05:55Zhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2028109%3ABlogPost%3A15250&xn_auth=noDear Vivek,
This speech is f…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2009-11-11:2028109:Comment:152572009-11-11T03:40:20.040ZLaurence Gilliothttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/LaurenceGilliot
Dear Vivek,<br />
<br />
This speech is full of power and truth. Thank you for sharing it with us.<br />
<br />
We start almost every learning event with the question: "Are we human?" What makes us human? Do we all share these characteristics? Are some people more human than others, because they have studied, because they work in NGOs, because they are not drug addicts, sex workers, etc? Do we see that we are all the same?<br />
And whenever we go to a community our primary goal is to connect as equal human beings.…
Dear Vivek,<br />
<br />
This speech is full of power and truth. Thank you for sharing it with us.<br />
<br />
We start almost every learning event with the question: "Are we human?" What makes us human? Do we all share these characteristics? Are some people more human than others, because they have studied, because they work in NGOs, because they are not drug addicts, sex workers, etc? Do we see that we are all the same?<br />
And whenever we go to a community our primary goal is to connect as equal human beings.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.plumvillage.org/index.php" target="_blank">Thich Nhat Hanh</a> wrote in one of his poems in 1965 for the young people in the School of Youth for Social Service who risked their lives every day during the war in Vietnam:<br />
[...]<br />
remember:<br />
man is not our enemy.<br />
<br />
The only thing worthy of you is compassion –<br />
invincible, limitless, unconditional.<br />
Hatred will never let you face<br />
the beast in man.<br />
[...]<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.plumvillage.org/poetry/207-recommendation.html" target="_blank">Click here to read the whole poem</a><br />
<br />
Laurence