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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tom Riddle" data-source="post: 16230838" data-attributes="member: 47610">පරිවර්තනයෙ කිසිම අවුලක් නෑ. Ajahn Brahm continued telling his story about how he was interviewed by a journalist regarding the news of a US marine flushing a Quran down the toilet. The journalist asked, “If someone took Buddhist holy books and flushed them down the toilet, what would you do? Ajahn Brahm answered, “First, I will call a plumber.” The journalist commented that it was the most sensible thing he heard all day. Then Ajahn Brahm continued by saying that you could flush books, destroy statues or vihara, but you could not destroy compassion, forgiveness and peace. You need to differentiate between the container and the content. Churches, mosques, temples are just container; it’s the content, the people that are important. Buddhist statue is a container, but it is the content such as  peace, virtue, compassion and forgiveness that are more important. What’s important is the Dhamma, not the book.<a href="http://www.buddhistfellowship.or.id/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=176:fostering-peace-in-multi-religious-and-multicultural-communities&catid=34:artikel-dhamma&Itemid=85" target="_blank">http://www.buddhistfellowship.or.id/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=176:fostering-peace-in-multi-religious-and-multicultural-communities&catid=34:artikel-dhamma&Itemid=85</a></blockquote>

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