I express my gratitude to my mother, Sarah Confort Mpouma, for her example of strength and her never-give-up spirit in life.
I express my great appreciation to Sarah Lillian Mpouma for her constant efforts to be the best daughter in the w orld.
My thanks to Mary Phelan and Neville Johnston the author of The Hidden Language Code who have inspired me to write this book.
I express my profound gratitude to the SGI President, Daisaku Ikeda, for his encouragements and his great example of integrity and determina tion.
Everything that is said in this book is not by any means intended to upset or embarrass anybody, but to open up with myself physically, mentally, psychologically and spiritually. If anybody who reads this book feels offended, I sincerely apologize, because I hold no grudge to an yone.
I also express my profound gratitude to everybody who has directly or indirectly played a role in my life that I missed to mention here. My effort is to relate my life as it is, with my circumstances and feelings of each moment. Gladly! It was a great learning experience. Because its not what I have been through or achieved that really matters; its who I have be come.
S. A. Mp ouma
Any war, ever won is lost in adv ance.
(St. Augus tine)
World news these days is still marked by the rise of Arab revolutions. These liberal aspirations, although valid, cleverly sidestep the real issue, which is the human being inner fulfillment. If we continue with this tendency, we will for instance, stop all violent or obvious wars around the world, without realizing happiness in human being. Does that mean that a world in peace is the one where violence and physical scenes have ceased? We are going to find out! In order to magnify the links of cooperation, solidarity, and mutual respect around the world, the United Nations Educational, scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in its Constitution in 1946, after the war, argued that the wars taking birth in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that must be summoned defenses of peace. The establishment of the United Nations (UN) during that same period has not had real success in cessation of violence. As a result, we have always been at war in the world till today. The last event in date is the recognition of the Palestinian State, officially as a member of UNESCO. At the time when I am editing this book, the diplomatic fire flame lit under the thatched cottages, would not be near extinc tion.
The author of this book has the merit of having not paid into the sensational peroration like its congeners, opting for the improvement of all International structural systems already established still in difficulty in locals participation whenever there is a conflict on the gr ound.
What is the idea Salomon Alain Mpouma has developed in this book in relation to world peace? He went beyond our entire current thesis developed until now to channel the core of our being: which is the inevitable process of human revolution. A process that welcomes the transformation of each individual to reveal our Buddhahood or our true nature, on this planet where everything has the unfortunate propensity of tends to the dust. We all have the potential to transform our negative karma with the possibility to bypass our karmic repetition and retribution, celebrate our differences, our missions, choices, skin colors, not only this lifetime but throughout eternity is called world peace. This is the peace that takes into account, our wonderful cultural biodiversity. Thus engaging the process of transformation of our negative karma is called human revolution by praying, meditating, practicing or chanting whichever way we chose and in my case I chose Nam-myoho-rengue-kyo. All events and activities of the universe appear to the master-word of this book that emerged from the beaten roads. At the time when Asian philosophical currents have propelled their populations to the international scene, World peace must dig his way in peoples heart, but not in diplomacy which cannot change our karmic dimensions. Through this way, we are building a real peace of hearts! It is appropriate to consider this old wish of President Nixon, when he said to the NATO Council on April 10, 1969; We must strive to build an open world, open hearts, open minds. A world open to the exchange of ideas and people, forgetful of old dogmas and old doctrines. A world open for truth and to the advent of this true peace the peoples of the world bear in their hearts and by which they cherish the hope. The man who was the President of United States in 1969 spoke each of these words with emphasis by saying; we know that everyone will not be the friend of the United States; but we will do so that no one is our enemyWe must build an alliance strong enough to deter those who would threaten us to war, being realistic enough to consider the world as it is, and flexible enough to allow new constructive paths of cooperation. These are exactly the channels which are subject to the work of Salomon Alain MpoumaMeaning that each line of this book installs new defenses of peace in our life.
Harrisburg, November 15, 2011
By Pierre-Marie DJONGO, ed itor
Journalist-wr iter
Reform, in such matters, must come, if at all, from wi thin
The public as a whole is whatever the processes that o ccur,
for good or evil, in individual minds, may deter mine.
Harvard University Philosopher, Josiah R oyce.
Ever since I was a child, I have been fascinated by the stories of my grandfather and father. Even though I didnt have the chance to know either one of them, I was transfixed by descriptions of their behaviors. Their stories comforted me while I was growing up. My dilemma has always been, from an early age, that I have difficulty fitting in anywhere, and for many years I wondered what was wrong with me. Why couldnt I just be like everybody else?
I heard that my grandfather, Ngoutte Simon, had a reputation for speaking his mind and was dismissed as a troublemaker from most of the meetings he was invited to in the village or in the neighborhood. His nickname was Oboss, meaning the one who always messes thing s up.
He was very practical, authentic, and was not attached to formalities. On the other hand, my father, Samuel Mpouma, although very well to-do compared to others of his time and location, had this great dedication to the wellbeing of others that deeply touched my h eart.
In any case, there are certainly people, as I look around, who make their way in life through success after success. There is nothing wrong with that. But when I look back on my life, I find myself, for the most part and since I was born, on the other side of the fence, going through failure after failure with only this voice inside me telling me at the crucial moment: There is a possibility to go on living, as long as I am still breat hing.