Tâm Linh:  Spiritual - Tâm Lý: Emotion - Trí Năng: Intellect - Xã Hội: Social - Vú Trụ Quan: Worldview - Đạo Đức Quan: Ethics - Muc do truong thanh trong nhan thuc ve to chuc va quan ly: The maturity in the organization and management skills – Muc do truong thanh cua su nhan thuc ve quan he voi tha nhan: The level of maturity in interpersonal relationships)

 

The Buddha at the peak of his cultivation path no longer had the tribal-centric worldview but the cosmocentric worldview. He saw the whole universe. That was how he knew that there were countless universes beyond this world, innumerous and limitless universes.

Therefore he recognized the need for sacrifice in life, no need to hold on to or stay in the small tribe.

Thus, we have many levels of worldview, from tribal-centric to egocentric, then ethnocentric to globalcentric and finally, cosmocentric. When cultivate, we need to raise the level of our worldview.

 

The meaning of the circular stroke

 

1/ The circular stroke shows the maturity in the organization and management skills. We do not live alone, without any organizations. An organization can be a family, a group, a class, a school or a union, a community, a political party, a nation, or even an international community. Maturity in this area is very important. When we think from an egocentric point of view, the scope of our organization and management is very limited. When thinking and organizing with a group mentality, we can do more. Each organization is like a person. A person has many different parts, cells, and organs. If we are only the cells, we cannot know the whole picture that is the person. If we knew the whole person, then that knowledge would change our perception. The amount of knowledge we have when we get involved in an organization is very important. We need to know what we should do, and how we should organize and manage it. It requires a certain level of maturity to do that.

This logo shows that not only should we cultivate the spiritual, social, emotional and intellectual aspects, but we also need to cultivate mature management and organization.

 

2/ The next meaning is the awareness of the level of maturity interpersonal relationships. Each of us has this kind of relationship. The measure of maturity in our relationships with others is our ability to empathize, embrace, and forgive. How much can we empathize with someone? Can we easily apologize, make up, renew, and move on? It is because of our ability to accept, to love, to control ourselves, and to nurture those relationships that we will have more friends instead of enemies.

 

The level of maturity we bring to each relationship is very important. In our daily lives, this maturity will help us in our cultivation. When we lack this maturity in our relationships with others, the relationships will be broken and our efforts in cultivation will not turn out well. This area lies between the emotional and social areas. 

We all have these four dimensions, Spiritual, Intellectual, Social, and Emotional. They cannot be changed. These four aspects have their own ways of evolving. We are better off looking into how we can evolve in Worldview, Ethics, and the level of organizational and interpersonal maturity discussed above. These are the areas that we can cultivate.

Of course, there are more ways, more strokes, and more points among many in this circular path, but we have only mentioned these four easy-to-cultivate aspects. Together with the four original area, that is enough for us.

 

We cultivate all these aspects. When the logo is drawn out, the upward stroke moves continuously higher, the downward stroke grows thicker and the circular stroke opens wider to express that we should be like the light, constantly expanding in all directions. This way of cultivation is called the Holistic Cultivation.

 

This logo expresses a special feature – our continuous unfolding and evolution – called the holistic cultivation.