MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : J. Donald Walters

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously.  
You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

J. Donald Walters 

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When Light meets Light, there is Victory
Have you heard of it?
very familiar sound? :)

This is a main slogan of MANNAM Volunteer Association.
MANNAM Volunteer Association considers people who have willingness to help others regardless of Nationalities, Religion, Sex, Ages.. as light which is so necessary.
A person who is light meets another person who is so, there will be a victory beyond darkness.
It's what Man Hee Lee, such a peace advocate said.

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Thich Nhat Hanh and peace advocate, Man Hee Lee

Everyday we do things, we are things that have to do with peace.
If we are aware of our life, our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh
via http://records.photodharma.net/

Thích Nhất Hạnh(born October 11, 1926) is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. 
He lives in the Plum Village Monastery in the Dordogne region in the South of France, travelling internationally to give retreats and talks. 
He coined the term Engaged Buddhism in his book Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire. 
A long-term exile, he was given permission to make his first return trip to Vietnam in 2005.

Nhất Hạnh has published more than 100 books, including more than 40 in English. 
Nhat Hanh is active in the peace movement, promoting non-violent solutions to conflict.

Man Hee Lee
via Stevens Lee's blog

Lee was born into a farming family in Gyeongbuk Cheongdo, on September 15, 1931, and claims to be the descendant of royalty from the Joseon Dynasty. His name was given to him by his grandfather, who had supposedly dreamt of a light emerging from the heavens before Lee was born. Lee was thus named "Man Hee (Hanja: 萬熙)", which means a complete and perfect light.


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peace activist...
Peace leader..
Peace maker..
Peace advocate..

In the present age, who is the true PEACE ADVOCATE?

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Mahatma Gandhi

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love.

It is the prerogative of the brave.

-Mahatma Gandhi-

Mahatma Gandhi

Name: Mahatma Gandhi
Occupation: Anti-War Activist
Birth Date: October 02, 1869
Death Date: January 30, 1948
Education: Samaldas College at Bhavnagar, Gujarat, University College London
Place Of Birth: Porbandar, Kathiawar, India
Place Of Death: New Delhi, India
Full Name: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India, Mahatma Gandhi studied law and came to advocate for the rights of Indians, both at home and in South Africa. Gandhi became a leader of India's independence movement, organizing boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience. He was killed by a fanatic in 1948.

Spiritual and Political Leader

Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India. He studied law in London, England, but in 1893 went to South Africa, where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. As a pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance through mass non-violent civil disobedience, he became one of the major political and spiritual leaders of his time. Satyagraha remains one of the most potent philosophies in freedom struggles throughout the world today.

Fight for Indian Liberation

In 1914, Gandhi returned to India, where he supported the Home Rule movement, and became leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating a policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to caste discrimination, with the ultimate objective being self-rule for India.

Following his civil disobedience campaign (1919-22), he was jailed for conspiracy (1922-24). In 1930, he led a landmark 320 km/200 mi march to the sea to collect salt in symbolic defiance of the government monopoly. On his release from prison (1931), he attended the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform. In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission which recommended the new constitutional structure. After independence (1947), he tried to stop the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal, a policy which led to his assassination in Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic.

Death and Legacy

Even after his death, Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and his belief in simple living--making his own clothes, eating a vegetarian diet, and using fasts for self-purification as well as a means of protest -- have been a beacon of hope for oppressed and marginalized people throughout the world.

Mahatma Gandhi's biography

What I believe can be my life.

It is actually my life :)

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Man Hee Lee

The way to fulfill World Peace and Restoration of Light.

I've thought of something while The 6th World Peace Festical : Culture and Sports Celebration of Restoring Light was on.
There are many religions in the world.
And they've struggled together and become bitter enemies exclusively, don't you think so?

However, we don't.
As Jesus said in John chapter 1 "Anybody who believe in God is a son of God from Him".

So we hope to hug everybody to achieve World Peace regardless of religion, tribes.
All are God's creatures.

So, what shall we do?
We need to let people be born by hevenly culture to become renew-creature.
Then we can be ONE.

10/21/2012      

Man Hee Lee, a honorary chairman of MANNAM Volunteer Association.

He is charged with an important mission.
Many people would judge him without knowing him.
I would love to show who he is and what he has been doing for world peace and people more.

He is called to help all the people in the world.
He has been giving hope to the desperate and poor by leading this such an association, MANNAM.

I am a member of MANNAM Volunteer Association to become a light to the people who need help.
I am sad to see some people blame him and MANNAM Volunteer Association since He and the people of MANNAM Volunteer Association are just lights for others.

Man Hee Lee, A great peace maker (4)

Man Hee Lee is the honorary chairman of MANNAM Volunteer Association.

He is the anchor of MANNAM Volunteer Association.

Those two representatives held another citizens’ festival to commemorate the 65th Korean Independence Day held August 14-August 15, 2010 at Seoul Olympics Peace Plaza. This event called the Festival of World Peace, Restoration of Light, and Victory, took place in front of the Peace Gate with about 200,000 spectators and several ambassadors from different countries.

This event, still considered as the flower of culture, has been something unprecedented until now. The large-scale palm-printed flag was put up high in the sky again on that day, and a laser show was performed on the background of this flag in the night sky of the event. The laser show portrayed how one person, who became a light, was added unto another light. The motto of the event was also displayed on the flag by the laser, which said, “When light meets light, there is victory.”

The chairman, Lee Man Hee, represented 33 people from various walks of life, and read aloud the declaration from the Korean Unification Monument. It seemed like the sky was going to explode by the hopeful shouts of the spectators. The Korean Unification Declaration Monuments are now standing both at the Goseong Unification Observatory, east frontlines [Korean border], and at the west frontlines, Imjingak.

Furthermore, Mannam hosted another festival to commemorate the 60th Korean War on June 26, 2010, at Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul. Korean War veterans and ambassadors from 60 Korean War participating and supporting countries were invited to cherish the memory of the deceased souls. As part of the preliminary events ahead of the actual commemoration, Mannam volunteers toured 21 locations at which the Korean War Memorial Monuments are situated including the UN Memorial Park in Busan.

The volunteers paid a silent tribute to the former war veterans. At the same time roughly 14,400 elementary school students from 17 different regions in South Korea participated in printing their thumbs to make national flags of the Korean War participating countries. These thumb-printed flags were presented to the ambassadors who were in attendance of the event.

On the day of the event, the ambassadors from 21 countries partook of creating a special bronze sculpture by agreeing to print their hands on it. The sculpture contains the determination from those ambassadors that they oppose warfare and desire to keep peace within this world. It is now being kept in the Yongsan War Memorial Museum, Seoul.

The participants also took part in creating a time capsule during the event. The time capsule contains the messages from the Korean War veterans, the messages of gratitude from the citizens, and the message that pictures the Korea that will have gained peace 10 years later, and so forth. This capsule is scheduled to be opened 10 years later in 2020.

The honorary chairman, Man Hee Lee and the representative, Kim Nam Hee have bound the globe as one and created Mannam International that surpasses borders, races, religions, and societies. They are leading the way of the volunteers worldwide. Who could possibly accuse them of wrongdoing unless insane?

In September 2012, the title of this event  is “The 6th World Peace Restoration of Light Culture and Sports Festival.” It was held in Jamsil Olympic Main Stadium, Seoul. In fact, the gate of the stadium was closed for the last 24 years until last year this festival was held. Twelve flames of fire rose to the sky on the day of the festival, and the 200,000 spectators stored the flames in their eyes and hearts. As all the participants were united as one, the festival was truly a joyous event for both people and for the spirits.

More than any physical battles that kill people’s flesh, spiritual conflicts within religious organizations where people insult and label others as heretics are much cruel. Unlike those existing conflicts, the World Peace Festival truly showed the possibility of peace and the restoration of light. It was a place of unity where everyone held hands together, rising above the walls that used to separate them before.

this is what he did in MANNAM last year, 2012.

The event was just so new and different from other peace event or festivals.

The contents, people and everything was so new and that was so real peace.

There were many news jounalists and reporters from all the world and they got so impressed and have been asking the leaders of MANNAM(the chairman, Nam Hee Kim and the honorary chairman, Man Hee Lee) to come to their countries and have interviews.

Furthermore, they have been coming to South,Korea to see them for world peace.

Well...guys!! World peace is really happening:)

Man Hee Lee, A great peace maker (3)

Man Hee Lee is the honorary chairman of MANNAM Volunteer Association.

He is the anchor of MANNAM Volunteer Association.

The honorary chairman of MANNAM, Lee Man Hee, was a Korean War veteran, who fought in the frontlines. Having been deeply deplored over the tragedy of the fratricidal war and the death of the citizens of his own, the chairman Lee refuses to take any money that the Korean government provides monthly for former war veterans. He is a peace activist who loves his own nation and citizens, and who vigorously runs in effort to bring peaceful unification to the Korean peninsula.

While watching the tragedy of the fratricidal war, Lee made up his mind before his dying comrades that he would accomplish world peace and restore the lost light for his own country and citizens.

Why, why, and why did young men around the world have to die? For whom did they have to die? The sacrifice of their lives is greater than the universe. The wish of the deceased souls was surely the world peace and the restoration of light. Their wish must have been to live in a world without war and without death. Everyone living in this globe is the same family that surpasses national borders, races, or religions. Why do we have to fight against one another? Why do people have to kill others’ lives that are granted by the light, rain, and the air from heaven?

The honorary chairman of MANNAM, Lee was the first person who led the Korean New Town Movement in his hometown, Cheongdo. By having met the behind-the-scenes volunteer, Kim Nam Hee, the Mannam representative, the chairman Lee has expanded Mannam Volunteer Association not only nationwide but worldwide as well.

Furthermore, these two representatives hosted a commemorative event for the 54th Korean Memorial Day on June 6, 2009 (otherwise referred to as the First Citizens’ Festival for the Love of their Country, Love for Taeguk, Love for Moogunghwa). This festival was hosted on the road in front of the COEX Mall, Seoul, South Korea. The national flags of the 16 Korean War participating countries were made into 625 kites, and the two leaders let these kites float in the Seoul sky and prayed for the rest of the UN war veterans and the deceased souls. The two leaders determined their minds not to let the sacrifice of the veterans go in vain. In order to cherish the memory of the deceased souls, they made a large-scale Korean palm-printed flag (60 by 40 meters), which required the participation from 17,337 people--including students from elementary, middle, and high schools, and universities; citizens, soldiers, international residents, and more. This large-scale flag was put up, and the memory of the deceased souls was cherished by many Korean citizens. As Korea’s largest palm-printed flag, it has been registered in the Korean Book of Guinness, and it has been kept in the National Cemetery, Seoul. 

Man Hee Lee, A great peace maker (2)

Man Hee Lee is the honorary chairman of MANNAM Volunteer Association.

He is the anchor of MANNAM Volunteer Association.

Through the 6th World Peace Restoration of Light Culture and Sports festival, the eyes and the ears of people, who have watched the event, have been opened. This festival has opened up their eyes and ears because it portrayed the culture of heaven where the spirit of heaven dwelt. Victory, joy, unity, and the flowers of love have bloomed widely, and the flames of peace have risen high.

The footsteps of world peace and the restoration of light have begun humbly, but prosperous will the end be! The seed of the light of life has been planted, and it will bear its fruit. Light has met with another light, and they will become a greater light. World peace will be accomplished, and light will be restored as everyone is united through love. All things will respond to the culture of the pioneers, who bring world peace and restore the light.

The representative of the Mannam Volunteer Association, Ms. Kim, has been watching the honorary chairman closely. There is a statement the representative Kim has been proclaiming during each and every festival she hosted. She has spoken several times in public how the honorary chairman, Lee, Man Hee, was someone that the Republic of Korea as well as the whole world absolutely needs, and that everybody should at least meet him once in their life time. 

During one of the opening speeches for the World Peace Festival, the representative Kim confidently assured everyone that the 6th World Peace Festival would surely let everyone understand why the honorary chairman, Lee, Man Hee, was an essential person to all mankind. If you were one of the spectators of the event on that day, you will know the answer to her statement. 

International participants around the world didn’t leave their seats from morning till late night. Shouts from the participants never stopped for a second. People’s hearts and thoughts were united throughout the event. This is the answer to her statement. The honorary chairman Lee is the embodiment of the true light, life and love, and he continues working to bring peace and to restore the light to the world. He is someone that all mankind should at least meet once in order to accomplish world peace.

Man Hee Lee, A great peace maker (1)

Man Hee Lee is the honorary chairman of MANNAM Volunteer Association.

He is the anchor of MANNAM Volunteer Association.

Lee, Man Hee, a descendant of the Korean royal family, who was sent from heaven as the light of love — Who is he?

Born to a poor peasant family on September 15, 1931, he was given a name meaning light. Why was he given such a name? Before his birth, his grandfather saw in a dream the ray of a strong light separating the dark sky and descending upon the mother of his grandson. Having had this extraordinary dream, his grandfather decided to name his grandson “light” before birth.

Lee, Man Hee, was a Korean War veteran, who fought in the front lines. Having been deeply deplored over the tragedy of the fratricidal war and the death of the citizens of his own, the chairman Lee refuses to take any money that the Korean government provides monthly for former war veterans. He is a peace activist who loves his own nation and citizens, and who vigorously runs in effort to bring peaceful unification to the Korean peninsula.

I would like to introduce Man Hee Lee to the readers for getting to know him more for more like series.

I hope you get well influenced by his beautiful words by short snatches of his songs. 

World Peace and the Restoration of Light

World peace and the restoration of light is the only way to resolve the unjust death of young people in war, and it will become the food for their spirits.

January 1, 2013

Young Adults of MANNAM

Volunteer Association

– International Division

This is what Manhee Lee, the honorary chairman of MANNAM volunteer association has talked about a bit of world peace.

And what I'd like to emphasize is he even mentioned of the restoration of light.

He does know how to put words together.

He doesn't flatter with beautiful skill to use words together.

He puts his heart while he speaks.

People easily say "world peace" but not with doing.

People could be just waiting for something happen by outside factors, but I should be the first step to reach out world peace and peace should happen in myself first!

MANNAM volunteer association is full of those kinds of people who want to do something first, not just wait for somebody else to do.

I am so proud of being a part of this such cool gathering.

Thanks, MANNAM!;)

The cornerstone of MIYC

When it comes to war, it is not the presidents, ministers, or legislators who go to fight. 

It is the young men who go to fight and die. 

How will this regrettable death be compensated for? 

We requested cooperation for our work of petitioning for the ‘ending war and for world peace and the restoration of light,’ and to have it turned into an international law, this is something they would do if they truly loved peace, their country and their people. 

They agreed to and signed the petition. 

The two presidents pledged to cooperate and participate with our country to work for the Reunification, and for world peace and the restoration of light. 

The broadcast announcing this content echoed throughout the global community.

We visited the Ethiopian veterans who fought in the Korean War, delivering, gifts and compensation funds.

We appeared in 8 broadcasting programs. 

The word seminar and meeting were held in South Africa. 

The word seminar was held at the City hall in the ‘mother city’ of Cape town, and the pastor meeting was held at the national assembly. 

I met with a pastor who had 350,000 (three hundred and fifty thousand) church members, and a pastor with 40 million church members. 

They promised they would participate in the work of ‘world peace and restoration of light,’ and will work together in the future. 

There were a couple more invitations from presidents of other countries, but I postponed the visits until January.

- by Man Hee Lee