The content of this speech is about what
the state of human mind should be.
However, you cannot think in this way
unless you are happy in the real sense of the term.
It is enough for you to have money needed
to live.
Seeking excessive amount of money indicates
lack of spiritual wealth.
To be happy, you have to eliminate negative
thoughts from your mind.
How?
Just by observing your mind as it is.
You can change your mind only by yourself.
You cannot understand what happiness is all
about until your mind becomes beautiful like a flower garden.
Global peace starts with the peace around
you.
Masatoshi
Takeshita
January
9, 2014
Excerption from @video – December
11, 2013 –
The
Greatest Speech Ever Made by Charlie Chaplin (with Japanese subtitle)
I’m sorry but I don’t
want to be an emperor.
That’s not my business.
I don’t want to rule or
conquer anyone.
I should like to help everyone if possible;
Jew, Gentile, black men, white.
We all want to help one another.
Human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other’s happiness,
not by each other’s misery.
We don’t want to hate and despise one
another.
In this world, there is room for everyone. And
the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s
souls; has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped up into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us
in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical; our
cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much and
feel too little.
More than machinery we need humanity.
More than cleverness we
need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be
violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us
closer together.
The very nature of these inventions cries
out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity
of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions
throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children,
victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me; I say, “Do not
despair.”
The misery that is now upon us is but the
passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators
die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don’t give
yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave
you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and feel! Who
drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder!
Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine mind
and machine heart.
You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men!
You have a love of humanity in your hears!
You don’t hate! Only the
unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery, fight
for liberty!
In the seventeenth chapter, it’s written “the kingdom of Gods is within man”, not one man or a
group of men, but in all men! In you!
You, the people, have the
power to create machines, the
power to create happiness.
You, the people, have the power to make
this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then in the name of democracy, let us use
that power.
Let us all unite. Let
us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to
work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have
risen to the power.
But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise! They never
will!.
Dictators free
themselves, but they enslave the people!
Now let us fight to fulfil that promise!
Let us fight to
free the world! To do away with national boundaries! To do away with
greed, with hate and intolerance!
Let us fight for a world of reason, a world
where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us
all unite!
(Note)
Font change into red letters made by Mr.
Takeshita