Anyone seriously concerned with the human condition today cannot but observe the presence ofunprecedented crises and disorder on so many planes of our existence from the spiritual, philosophical andpsychological to the social, economic and political to the environmental that now threatens the very webof life here on earth including our own. Instead of seeking that harmony between Heaven, Earth and Man,to use the terminology of classical Chinese tradition which has its correspondence in the other majortraditions of humanity from the Hindu and Buddhist to the Christian and Islamic, so many today seek tolive in disregard of this inner harmony and there are even those who go so far as to deny that such a thingis even possible or has any meaning. Ours is a world dominated by self-interest of individuals, ethnicentities, economic groupings and nations. We speak often of humanity but usually only in an abstractsense and when we do seek to be unselfish, it is usually in making our interests subservient to those of thegroup, organization or nation to which we belong and not to humanity as a whole, there being someexceptions that are still, however, very much a minority voice.
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