The Humanians – Level 01

The Humanians judge what God has sent down through The Messengers. Thus, they Protect and Practice The Human Rights granted by God to All Humans.

Living the ways of their Ancestors, they acknowledge the right for the needy and destitute where everybody is given The Right to a Basic Standard of Life.

They understand that their main objective as a society is to serve rightly to individuals and societies so everybody plays the part in The Smooth Flow of Life through Ethical Economics Activities.

The ethical economics activities are done by paying attention to The Inner Development of the individuals. The inner development which yielded the Right Moralities are important to the Economics Growth to individuals and societies. Thus, individuals and societies have better chance to overcome problems of the External Factors upon the activities.

The ancestors knew The Purpose of Life both as an individual and as a society is to submit to the will of God by being Righteous. This is the most important concept held by the ancestors be it politically, economically and socially. Whatever and whoever an individual and the society are, be it rich or poor, it is to be the righteous that is to do Good Deeds and to Avoid Evil Deeds. So everybody played the part in the flow of the society.

Knowledge should be developed in order to differentiate the differences between good and evil. Both Spiritual and Material knowledge are applied so individuals have The Total Awareness, aware of what is good and bad.

The Spiritual Knowledge together with The Material Knowledge is the way to be The Wise. The ancestors only select The Wisest of them as Leaders. Leadership were considered important as the alternate source of reference and in monitoring the smooth flow of life. The objective is to make sure everybody recognizes own responsibility both to the individuals and the societies and tasted the True Happiness in TRUE FREEDOM.

To be totally aware is to Understand Why Humans Are Created. In fact, humans are The Supreme Creation of God with various abilities. On top of that, humans are gifted the most precious gift of all gifts – FREEWILL to choose to do GOOD or to do EVIL. No matter what humans prefer to choose, it also means humans ARE TESTED. To test us humans is why we are created.

God is fair by giving us the GUIDELINES AND THE LAWS of what are good and what are evils. It is up to us humans to choose to do good or evil. In the afterlife, the righteous shall be rewarded Heaven while the wrongdoers shall be condemned in Hell.

A wise one is distinguished by his or her Wisdom. The difference between the mind of a fool and the mind of a wise one is a difference of Quality. The mind of a Fool is one where the thoughts are Confused. The mind of a wise man is crystal Clear.

The ancestors valued The Association With The Wise. It had helped them developing the discretions to be that of the wise.

The wise has The Artful Of Speech. This is how one is recognized. Basically the wise avoids Saying Too Much. Also the wise does Not Practice Unwholesome Speech. The wise understands the Good Components Of Speech, The Quality Of Artful Speech, and gives careful Considerations In Giving Criticism.

The Humanians – Level 01, protect and practice The Human Rights by giving priority to The Basic Standard of Living to everybody in the societies. The wisest of them are selected as Leaders as the alternative source of Reference and Guidance for The Smooth Flow of Life.

The wise are recognized through their artful speech which are essential for the next level of The Humanians in Acquiring Knowledge.

Principles of Public Speaking

There are many different recipes for success for public speaking in the world -- including those of the Toastmasters or Carnegie, but in general, they do not have principles which deviate far from the principals already outlined -- except for aspects of the delivery.

1. Sound body: This includes all aspects of non-verbal communication
2. Sound speech: This means speech that is pleasant to the ears, eyes and mind of the listener
3. Sound mind: Exemplifying the virtues which we talk about.

Those who don't appreciate artful speech

It is not as if we should speak in the most polite possible way to every person we meet. Some people cannot stand to hear polite language and may even criticize us because of it. They hear someone speaking clearly and accuse that person of being 'affected'. In such cases we might need to lower the grade of politeness of the language we use to make our language more direct, to shock the person into awareness. However, the rest of the four components of good speech must remain intact. The following sort of people might need to hear direct speech:

1. Those who have a superiority complex or like to pretend that everyone is equal.
2. Those whose mind is blinded to the virtues of the speaker by their lack of faith for that person.
3. Those who are in the midst of depression.

Special Considerations when giving criticism

The subject of appropriate occasion is something that is very hard to judge. In societies where there must be quality control and there does need to be evaluation and criticism of sloppy practices, then often one cannot wait for the right opportunity to come along by accident. In such a case we have to do our best to create the opportunity. Apart from keeping to all the five principles already mentioned, there are two extra considerations which we should bear in mind which can help to create favorable circumstances for giving criticism:

1. Praise them before we criticize them.
2. Smile when we give the criticism.
3. Don't criticize out of anger.

Qualities of artful speech

Applying the general components of speech to artful speech, we find that there are five components. If speech is truly good it must be good to five levels. It is not like a one-star hotel which is better than a hotel with no stars. If we are truly principled in the things we say, then every word we say must be five star. If it is any less, we will not let it pass our lips :

1. Speech must always be based on the intention of compassion.
2. Speech must be true.
3. Speech must be polite.
4. Speech must be useful.
5. Speech must be at the appropriate time and occasion.

Components of speech

From the meaning communicated by the things people say we can identify three major components:

1.The Intention behind the Words. We can see whether the intention behind the things someone is saying is based on greed (e.g. they would like to get something from someone), hatred (e.g. in order to try to harm someone) or delusion (e.g. out of the envy of someone). These are all damaging forms of speech. If speech is used in a good way then the intention must be good. Good speech may be said out of compassion.

2. The Sort of Words Chosen. The more true they are the less false they are. The more polite speech is the less rude it is and vice-versa. If the usefulness of words is reduced then they become more superfluous. Thus we can classify the speech of anyone in the world in terms of these three variables no matter what language it is spoken in:

a.True or Untrue
b.Polite or Rude
c.Useful or Superfluous - Words are either true or false.

3. The Occasion Chosen to say them. Sometimes this means whether what is said is appropriate to the time available and the place where it is said.

UNWHOLESOME SPEECH

Unwholesome speech which should be avoided:

1. Telling lies
2. Divisive Speech
3. Idle Chatter
4. Harsh Speech

Telling Lies - Telling lies means saying or writing words that are untrue in order to take advantage of someone else.

Divisive Speech - Divisive speech or malicious gossip is speaking divisively to set one person against another.

Idle Chatter - Idle chatter is speaking purposelessly just to pass the time.

Harsh Speech - Harsh speech includes swearing or insulting others to the degree that it upsets them.

Disadvantage of saying too much

Most people in the world believe that they are men of principle. However, when it comes to speaking, many find that they just say what they feel like. If people do have a governing principle about the things they say, then usually they just try to say the things that are pleasing for the other person to hear. The trouble with such a principle is that people will always say what is easiest to say instead of saying the things that need to be said. Such a principle, when we come to speech at the level of politicians or those in power will impede the progress of the country because politicians are always saying what is easiest to say instead of speaking out about the things in society which ought to be changed.

If one has no clear principles then the more we speak, the more damage we do. The people of old had the saying that, "The more we say the more trouble we create." The reason is that when we have already said all that is beneficial and necessary to say and we keep on speaking then the next things to come out of our mouths are worthless or harmful speech such as gossip, slander, abuse, chatter and lies. Thus the people of old said, "keep what we have to say to minimum and we will maximize our problems.

However if we refuse to speak at all then no-one understands us!" Thus we all have to say something, but for our own benefits we should clearly understand the nature of speech and the principles of artful speech that is beneficial so say so that we can be confident in selecting the things we say or keep to ourselves.

The Artful of Speech

Some might think the words coming from our mouths are relatively unimportant. However, when it comes to "making oneself useful to society" one cannot avoid communicative skills for team-building and for passing one's knowledge on to others. (I myself am learning particularly living in the world of internet like today).

Words can be true but they may not be pleasant to listen to. If words are both true and polite then the ancients said that they were both worth listening to and also worth hearing. If words, apart from being both true and polite were also useful, the ancients said that such words apart from being worth believing and worth hearing are also worthy of respect.

Why one mouth is ample

Without understanding the principles of artful speech, we are to say too much. The people of old would teach small children the way to look at ourselves in the mirrors. They would say, don't go looking at how beautiful or handsome we are -- because before long old age will rob us of all these things. Take a good look at our own faces. We will notice that even though our eyes have only one function, to look, we are given two. We will notice that even though our ears have only one function, to hear, we are also given two. We will notice that even though our nostrils have only one function, to breathe, we are given two. However, our mouths have two functions, to eat and to talk, but we are given only one mouth. It is as if nature is telling us to use our mouth in moderation -- not to eat too much and not to say too much!

Of course, not to write too much as well :-)