One means undivided. One means unity and one means power. When there is unity there is power. Men try to gain power and glory and men knows that they cannot gain power and glory without unity. Men try to gain unity through many ways and history has shown us that most of the attempt to unite the people has failed. Men will unite when they have similarities and most great leaders of the past have tried to use the factor of race to unite the people. Genghis Khan has tried to unite the Mongol and Hitler has tried to unite the German. These great leaders try to achieve unity using race as the factor of unity. They unite their race by inculcating in their heart the same desire. They inculcate the desire to become great people by conquering other people and to amass their wealth. Without having unity of purpose people cannot be united unless they have the same desire or goal .Genghis Khan and Hitler inculcate in the heart of their people the same desire to become the Great people that conquer and control others.

In order to unite the people, the leaders try to make the people to have the same goal or desire .The easiest desire to inculcate is the desire to have power and wealth. However this desire is short lived and once this desire vanishes the strength of unity fades away. Genghis Khan and Hitler can only unite their people and become conqueror for a very short period of time. The empire that they have set up does not last very long. Once people have achieved their goal of achieving wealth and power they become disunited. They start to become jealous between each other and internal rivalry start to occur between them. As a result they lose their unity and their strength and finally they ceased from becoming a strong and powerful nation. The British Empire doesn’t last very long as they cannot maintain the unity between the nations that they have colonized.

Malaysia wants to unite the people with the concept of one Malaysia. One Malaysia is a concept and upon this concept we hope to unite the people. We must know the different between concept, goal and ways to achieve the goal. One Malaysia is a concept that we want the Malaysian to all agree. Will all Malaysians agree with this concept .One Malaysia must start with one desire. What is the desire that we want all Malaysians to have? When we do not have the same desire or goal to achieve then we will never achieved the united Malaysians. One Malaysian is based on what goal or desire to echieved.We must expound the goal or the desire very clearly to the people. We are only talking and singing the song of one Malaysia and this will only instill the awareness of the importance of having a united Malaysia but the real unity can never be achieved by just having mere songs and slogan. Malaysians are very fond of having grandeurs slogan and at the end of the day we still remain the same as we were before or even worse than we were. We must clearly know what we have to do in order to achieve our goal or desire .What is means by one Malaysia. Does it mean we are all the same in all respect or does it means all Malaysia have the same and equal opportunities to excel?

If One Malaysia means equal opportunities to excel then this is not a new concept. The poor Malaysians irrespective of race must be help to excel. The poor Malaysian must be given subsidy, scholarships and extra training to excel. The weaker students must be given extra care and training in order to excel. The weaker students must be given opportunities to study in the residential school rather than the good student. Everyone irrespective of their race is given equal opportunities to excel in their life. All Malaysians are the same in term of oppurtunities.The rich Malaysian must be asked to help the poor Malaysians. The responsibilities of helping the poor and the less fortunate must not only lay on the responsibilities of the government but also on the shoulder of the rich Malaysian from among the Chinese, Malay and the Indians. The Governments must have some ways of making the rich Malaysians to contribute some part of their wealth to the poor and the less unfortunate Malaysians.

Our goal and desire should be to make everybody in Malaysia irrespective of race to have equal opportunities to excel. Everyone who desire to excel must be given oppurturnities.There should be no hindrance to success for those who desire to succeed and all help must be given to them to succeed. Everyone must be helped to succeed. No one Malaysian should be left behind. Everyone must help each other to become excellent. The rich Chinese can help the poor Malay and Indians and the rich Malay and Indian can help the poor Chinese too. The sentiment that I should only help my people should be eradicated from the mind of all Malaysians. The Malaysians should help each other to excel and help each other to make Malaysia a land of equal opportunities to all.

Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
January 2010
Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre