Reshmi85 said:
I have to remind you, that I am also a proud Sri Lankan like you though I live here now...
Ithin, matath Sinhala hondata therenawa, and I enjoy the little innocent things you enjoy and have fun reading them......
I'll try to explain the topic since I can see some are beginning to understand the thread.
Plus and Minus both has a value.
Most people do not recognize both.
Terrorist is minus and should be removed from society..
What is plus?
People like Buddha, Jesus, are plus. They are real heroes. Killing Jesus was a killing pure love.
The tragedy is many people who try to remove Minus from society have no sense of Plus characters... like Buddha or Jesus.
And people who follow them blindly has no worry about Prabhakara or Osama.
I think thats why all this difficulty with a simple neutral quote.
Death of a thought process has a negative or a positive value.
To undertand it fully one should know both. Plus and Minus
you talk plus and minus...... what reffers you to be neither plus nor minus?
if one sence the bad, how do you state him not sence the good? sounds so funny......
Reshmi85 said:
I think that we have been too used to readymade things... We don't want to learn.. we only want to pass exams, so we attend tution classes which we can get readymade answers for the exam... parents feed us grinded food so we don't have to chew... I think I've started to think being with indians..I had to. Here even little children are very sharp and broad inded.Actually Neo-indians who are more westernised in thinking, even surpassing westerners. It is said that the best computer programmers of the world are Indians..
Indians are brought up more disciplined and with more independance than us, Sri Lankans. They respect parents and teachers more than we do. To us it is more lip service.There are very poor schools here taught in English medium..
I feel sorry about Sri Lankan students who are still struggling with English.. I know one Sri Lankan Father who was against his clever daughter's admission to the english medium school. Principle begged him but he refuced. That is
the mentality of us.We are one of the very backward country in constant decline. You have to visit another country to see the difference. Whole system is made to make us more and more stupid... I feel so lucky to be here among with people whom I can grow with. Don't misunderstand me as condemning my own country.. but that is truth. As long as we cover our limitations with past glory we will never grow out of our limitations.
you call them sharp,indipendant, broad minded..... but this is according to your own mind verifications.... so first let us know how you yourself is broad minded,independant and sharp..... the way you speak i feel you just easy to deceive soul, even right now you are deceived by your own limited knowledge and understanding.
Reshmi85 said:
I am not yet married... And recently, I was deceived by the one I trusted most... Happy that he acted sooner than later...
Actually right now I am sick of affairs...
I trust friendship more than so called love.. What we call love is basically self love and we expect love from each other but no one is ready to love.Love in this era is a meeting of two beggers with huge begging bowls.
Silly... Just silly.
now now.... this is becoming more and more clear how you yourself is equipt(thoughts, understanding, knowledge....) to talk on some thing like this. go back to your own comments and take some time off studying your own nature of understanding and reading level. this convince exactly what i mentioned earlier... accept it you are neither indipendent nor broad minded as you think you are.
Reshmi85 said:
Hi... Nice to know that you too are in India... Andhra also nice.. I think Hyderabadians are closer to Sri Lankans..I think our local Gypsies (Ahikuntika) speak Telegu...
I agree with your explanations. I think Sri Lankans can surpass any nation if we followed Buddha's teaching as he wanted us. Indian Buddhists follow Buddha's teaching much deeper than us. I know many people here practice Buddhist meditation daily one hour morning and one hour.. There is are some very popular Buddhist meditation centers around.. The Government of Maharashtra had passed a Resolution that offers 10 days paid leave for senior government officials to undertake Buddhist Meditation courses.We actually don't know Buddha's teaching. We have only memorised his words like our monks and I feel very dumb among Buddhist Indians and ashamed of our parents and teachers who deceived us making Buddha as a poor God to pray. They talk deeper teachings very casually because they have been taught with the experience. For us they are mere words...As far as I know in Hyderabad too, Buddhist Meditation is popular..I agree that their education and development is not well spreaded.. but I think that many Indians are satisfied with what little they have... So poor don't suffer and they feel like affluent... This is my experience because once I visited a little village and they are very content with what they have.
you mentioned that they follow the teachings of buddha more deeper than us, what reffers you to tell that.....is that because they meditate? or for what they talk?.... the most importnt thing is the understanding of what you do and its consequence to you and for the others/society. after all with those meditation classes, how do you know the person engaged in taking tution for meditation have found the right thought and rythem? or that person has added any good to his life or thoughts?
as i told you earleir you are easily deceived and here you have accepted it.
this is so poor of you, if you had any space in your so called broad, sharp and independent mind for self understanding, you should knew that the teaching of buddha is not to be memorised or not to worship buddha as a god. it is clearly sead in buddhism not to embrace it for the sake of it, but to study and see the core of it.
don't talk big.... you are just another person who has very limited ability to link what you see and experience with the reality.