Buddhist monks walking across the USA

bonty89

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    Just a thought. There are some Buddhist monks walking across the USA for peace. As they walk they are welcomed in cities, paid respect and taken care of. These monks I believe are from Thailand and Vietnam. I wonder why in Sri Lanka with so many priests and temples and talk of Buddhism, there are no such activity for any positive cause. All we see are monks seated in comfortable chairs preaching and basking in comfort and glory. Some are creating disharmony and disunity among the communities with their political rhetoric. I am sure there are priests who are living in difficult conditions and doing their best for the well being of society but the point is, there seems to be very little positive activity to educate and bring awareness to society of the need for harmony and peace.
     

    cat123

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    Our monks have more to do here for the lost politicians who were their superiors… most them are people in robes…
     

    lankalk

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    ලංකාවේ හාමූදූරැවරු කරා නමි මග දිගට සල්ලි එකතූ කර කර යයි😂
    ලංකාවේ හාමුදුරුවෝ තමා මුලික වෙලා උදවු කරලා තියෙන්නේ,ආණ්ඩුව සහයෝගය දීල නෑ.
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    Yeezus

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    Just a thought. There are some Buddhist monks walking across the USA for peace. As they walk they are welcomed in cities, paid respect and taken care of. These monks I believe are from Thailand and Vietnam. I wonder why in Sri Lanka with so many priests and temples and talk of Buddhism, there are no such activity for any positive cause. All we see are monks seated in comfortable chairs preaching and basking in comfort and glory. Some are creating disharmony and disunity among the communities with their political rhetoric. I am sure there are priests who are living in difficult conditions and doing their best for the well being of society but the point is, there seems to be very little positive activity to educate and bring awareness to society of the need for harmony and peace.
    Lord Buddah did not preach to walk across country in barefoot
    He explicitly said :

    “චරථ භික්ඛවේ චාරිකං, බහුජනහිතාය බහුජනසුඛාය ලෝකානුකම්පාය අත්ථාය හිතාය සුඛාය දේවමනුස්සානං.

    ‘පින්වත් මහණෙනි, බොහෝ ජනයාට හිත පිණිස, බොහෝ ජනයාට සැපය පිණිස, ලෝකානුකම්පාව පිණිස, දෙව්මිනිසුන් හට අර්ථය පිණිස හිතසුව පිණිස චාරිකාවේ හැසිරෙන්න’

    “මා ඒකේන ද්වේ අගමිත්ථ. දේසේථ භික්ඛවේ ධම්මං, ආදි කල්‍යාණං, මජ්ඣේ කල්‍යාණං, පරියෝසාන කල්‍යාණං, සාත්ථං සබ්‍යඤ්ජනං කේවලපරිපුණ්ණං පරිසුද්ධං බ්‍රහ්මචරියං පකාසේථ.

    ‘දෙදෙනෙකු එක මගකින් නොගොස්, මහණෙනි, ධර්මය දේශනා කරන්න. ආරම්භයත් සුන්දර වූ, මැදත් සුන්දර වූ, අවසානයත් සුන්දර වූ, අර්ථවත් වූ, පැහැදිලි ප්‍රකාශන වලින් යුක්ත වූ, මුළුමනින්ම පිරිපුන් පිරිසිදු බඹසර ජීවිතය (නිවන් මග) ප්‍රකාශ කරන්න’

    Did that peace walk "DID" something?
    Did it end any conflict ?
    What it did ?
    Nonsense !
     
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