加载中…Life Lessons from an African Tribe 非洲部落的幸福观
(2012-09-08 19:25:15)
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A lovely lesson on how to live
but unfortunately as we get more “educated” and better endowed with “worldly” gains, the simple “lessons” of life tends to be forgotten.
Ubuntu: the essence of being human. I am what I am because of who we are ...
An anthropologist studying
the habits and customs of an African tribe found himself surrounded
by children most days. So he decided to play a little game with
them. He managed to get candy from the nearest town and put it all
in a decorated basket, at the foot of a tree.
Then he called the children and suggested they play the game. When the anthropologist said "now", the children had to run to the tree and the first one to get there could have all the candy to him/herself.
So the children all lined up waiting for the signal. When the anthropologist said "now", all of the children took each other by the hand ran together towards the tree. They all arrived at the same time divided up the candy, sat down and began to happily munch away.
The anthropologist went over to them and asked why they had all run together when any one of them could have had the candy all to themselves.
The children responded: "Ubuntu. How could any one of us be happy if all the others were sad?"
Ubuntu is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up as "I am what I am because of who we all are."
Bishop Desmond Tutu gave this explanation in 2008 :
"One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – Ubuntu – you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity."
Then he called the children and suggested they play the game. When the anthropologist said "now", the children had to run to the tree and the first one to get there could have all the candy to him/herself.
So the children all lined up waiting for the signal. When the anthropologist said "now", all of the children took each other by the hand ran together towards the tree. They all arrived at the same time divided up the candy, sat down and began to happily munch away.
The anthropologist went over to them and asked why they had all run together when any one of them could have had the candy all to themselves.
The children responded: "Ubuntu. How could any one of us be happy if all the others were sad?"
Ubuntu is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up as "I am what I am because of who we all are."
Bishop Desmond Tutu gave this explanation in 2008 :
"One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – Ubuntu – you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity."
From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
Ubuntu (pronunciation: English: oo-buun-too)
or "uMunthu" ( Chichewa)
is an African or humanist focusing
on people's allegiances and relations with each other. Some believe
that ubuntu is a classical African philosophy or
worldview[1] whereas others point
out that as far as written sources are concerned, the idea that
ubuntu is a philosophy or worldview has only been developed in
recent years.[when?][2] The word ubuntu has
its origins in the Bantu
languages of southern
Africa.
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