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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kalyanamithra" data-source="post: 2397016" data-attributes="member: 99586">Fully agreed with your view... <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" />Buddhism has not been practiced properly (I mean by the majority of "Buddhists") in the past couple of centuries... It has already absorbed lot of myths; and versions like Mahayana takes a completely different Path from the original teachings... <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/happy.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Happy    :)" data-shortname=":)" /> [ Everything but Dhamma is for extending the samsaraic  existence... People should have realized that's why Dhamma is not appealing to our minds, unless we start to use it to analyze our lives... Too sad to see people not understanding the fact that what matching with their Avijjasahagatha (ignorant w.r.t. what disclosed by Dhamma) minds might not be correct... ]But luckily faithful Sri Lankans have protected the Scripts written at the time of the King Valagamba with the participation of Rahathan Wahansela... That's why we can at least think about practicing Dhamma again.. With the revival of practicing Dhamma we are seeing in Sri Lanka situation might improve... It's too bad if one fails to take maximum benifit of this revival (it won't last long; hopefully it will last till we die if this generation keeps on practicing)... Yes, Buddhism is not spread properly in Western Countries. Unfortunately it is the traditions like Mahayana that's spreading in the west... As we know the Path is no longer open for disciples of Mahayana, because they seek to becomes Buddhas themselves without being satisfied to be Shrawakas (Too sad to see them planning to undergo all suffering of samsara to find the same Dhamma in some unforseen future...). Nevertheless Meditation and many other practices are found in Mahayana as well. So westerners may not even notice the difference (given the fact that there are even monks in Sri Lanka waiting to embrace Mahayana tradition if it not had been for strong oposition from the public; Elaborating more: we can see traces of Mahayana practices like Bodhisathva Vandana, cultivating Paramitha, etc. among Sri Lankan "Buddhists").Your observation on the threads in ElaKiri is correct. I've seen it and commented many times before. This is because we lack true "Shrawakas" in Sri Lankan soceity. True Buddhists always strive not to give in to things that arouse Raga (desires..), Dveesha (hatred, anger..), Moha (delusion...). Too sad to see Hatred promoted in the name of Buddhism...How Dhamma sees the need for "openness" is well explained in the extract I have as the signature... Corresponding Sutta can be found through its reference..I fully agree with your comments... <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/happy.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Happy    :)" data-shortname=":)" />Theruwan saranai!</blockquote>

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