Know one's own roots to embrace others. Take time to explore your heritage-as it will always be reflected in your personal perspectives and values anyway. Find ways to understand yourself and share it with others.
Have Faith in others so others will have faith in you. Believe in one another. Strive to eliminate distrust and suspicion.
When the Way is not followed or family relationships are not in harmony, hypocrisy and pious advocates arise. Trust yourself in knowing. "Experts" may try to lead you from following your path to harmony by pushing numbers and statistics. Trust your students to help you continue on the path to harmony
Reduce selfishness, have few desires. Good teaching comes from within- it doesn't need material things."Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity.These are the ways to seek wealth in experience".
Do not see things in black and white.--context and culture make a big difference. Learn to see actions and events as part of a larger context, withhold judgement.
I started focusing on Multiculturalim in America in my undergrad and have been facinated ever since. I can relate to you when you said that you have to know your own roots in order to embrace others. I mentioned this in another blog...I can completly understand that your surroundings helped shape who you are into who have and can become. I think that we all have so much potential in life and who we are and where we come from molds and shapes us in many ways.
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