Editor's note: Huang Yuanzi, President of Indonesia Harmonious Culture Foundation made a keynote speech in the 5th Nishan Forum on World Civilizations. The views are concluded here for readers.

Profound insight is not only a theoretical cognition, but also requires the cultivation of mentality and disposition, with which one can study the nature of things and acquire knowledge. Don't misunderstand that harmony is weakness and compromise. On the contrary, harmony is health and unity. The crisis of mankind originates from contempt for conscience and lacking of profound insight, and one only cares about his own interests and disregards the interests of the whole. The interests of the whole is the shared future of mankind. Individual interests and interests of the whole are interrelated. Utilitarianism and selfishness lead to the underestimation of the value and importance of conscience, causing a common crisis of the future for all human beings.

There are two kinds of knowing. One is the theoretical knowledge, and profound insight is about mentality and disposition. If the profound insight on mentality and disposition is restrained, or it only stays theoretical and cannot be conducted, it cannot prevail for long. Following the great way requires universal love. The great way equals universal love and great wisdom. It is necessary to distinguish good from bad and understand the importance of conscience and the power of conscience. The future of mankind is closely related and shared by all, which is called the " Great Harmony of the World".