REALISATION 01: ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

A student asked the teacher:

'Why is that person's skin dark, while mine is light?'

The teacher smiled:

'When you look at a rose and a lotus, do you think one is uglier than the other?'

'No-because they are simply different.'

'Then you are beginning to understand.'

Difference is not for pision, but for enriching life.

1) Opening - the illusion of difference

People imagine they are different because of skin colour, appearance, or language. Yet those differences are only outer forms of one shared genetic stream.

Science has shown that more than 99.9% of human DNA is the same. 'Race' is, in essence, a social concept; it does not exist as a strict biological reality.

2) A shared origin - we are all African

Every human being on Earth is descended from the earliest groups of Homo sapiens who left Africa roughly 200,000"300,000 years ago. Skin colour, hair, and physical features are simply the result of small genetic variations that helped our ancestors adapt to climate and sunlight.

The differences we see say nothing about intelligence or worth; they only reflect the environments our forebears lived in.

3) When 'race' became a tool of power

From the seventeenth century onwards, the idea of race began to be used as a political and economic instrument. The skull-measurements of Samuel Morton and other misguided 'hierarchies' dressed prejudice in scientific clothing, laying foundations for slavery and colonialism.

Measures that appeared 'objective' were, in truth, sophistry-used to justify the domination of white people over the rest of the world.

4) When awareness began to change

In the twentieth century, anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Michel Agier pointed out a crucial truth: there is no fixed, essential difference between human groups-only differences of social experience.

Michel Agier observed: Race does not exist biologically; but the 'race' created by racism exists socially.

That sentence is a turning point. It moves us from separation to understanding, from judgement to healing.

5) Realisation - learning to unlearn

To unlearn is not merely to forget incorrect information; it is to loosen the deep beliefs embedded in our collective unconscious.

When we stop labelling others by skin, gender, religion, or nationality, we begin to see the human being as they truly are.

The Science of Spirituality does not deny difference; it honours it as the Creator's richness. Each person is a ray of the same Source.

6) Love is the final truth

Love has no skin colour. Light has no borders.

When the human heart is wide enough, it recognises that all souls beat with one rhythm. Realisation is not found in the fact that we are the same-but in this:

Even in our differences, we are still One.

Hoàng Nhật Minh
Excerpt from the book: Spiritual Science - A Journey Back To Your True Self

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