Mister President be a Buddhist with Loving Kindness and Compassion in heart instead of Anger, Hatred and thoughts of Vengeance.
Posted on May 2nd, 2016
By Charles.S.Perera
A President of a Country once elected becomes the President of every one. He will not only be the President of the Party he represents, but also those opposition parties which may have voted against him. Therefore he cannot be a friend of some of the people and the enemy of some. Because once he is elected President he becomes the President of every Citizens in the country
Therefore we cannot understand Maithripala Sirisena treating the former President and his supporters different from those who voted for him and promised their support. Even if those who voted against Maithripala Sirisena speaks against him and his policies Maithripala Sirisena has no moral right to take vengeance from them. To love your enemy as you love yourself is a great human quality, a way to get into the hearts of the people.
The President should be able to accept criticism, and remain honourable and equanimous without reacting to critics. That would show the greatness of a man who holds the highest office of the Nation. This is equanimity(upekkha), which distinguishes the goodness of the character of a person, from others.
But can we say this about Maithripala Sirisena ? No, unfortunately not.
He is acting like a cheap village thug, trying his best to use all the power of his office to take revenge from his enemies. He even stops the Joint Opposition from holding a separate May day Rally and gets his Judiciary to issue court orders to stop the use of the ground for their rally.
It is a shame for Maithripala Sirisena to come down to that low level of a thug using his force to stop his enemies from using their rights. His stopping the conduct of the Joint Opposition rally is anti democratic. His fear is that the Galle Rally of his will have a lesser attendance, that should not be the reason for him to act like an authoritarian leader without consideration for other people.
He is becoming an adharmistaya ( අධර්මිෂ්ඨයෙක්). The President of Sri Lanka should be a man of merit ( පින්වතෙක්). Therefore it is the Buddhist monks who should take him in hand to make of him a good Buddhist leader.
President Maithripala Siriseana is very boastful. He tell the people at meetings his generosity towards his enemies, like providing security to the former President and providing him with a helicopter to take him to Medamulana after the election.
He takes pride in the fact how well he is received by the West. He speaks of how the Queen Elizabeth took her gloves off to shake hands with him. He tell how the Prime Minister of UK David Cameron came up to the car that took him to 10 Downing Street, and opened its door for him to get down. He tells of him being invited to attend the G7 Summit meeting. But he little realises that these are the flatteries of Western Suddho to keep Sri Lanka within the Western fold. In reality it is sure these Western Leaders have a good laugh at his expense dressing him as a man to please ( ගොණාට අන්දනවා). Otherwise what could Maithripala Sirisena contribute to the G7. He is only the leader of Sri Lanka, a country which is in the grip of financial bankruptcy.
Even the UNP leader, his Ministers, and Chandrika flatter him without any great respect or affection. Maithripala Sirisena has served their purpose, and to that extent they speak respectfully of him. The President Sirisena is weak of mind not to understand that.
He does not realise that he will receive respect and affection of the people by changing his present position of an angry, vicious, revengeful man taking every opportunity to condemn and assail the former President Mahinda Rajapakse his family and those who are close to him.
Maithripala Sirisena should accept that Mahinda Rajapakse will remain a popular and a respected man amoung the people of this country. Mahinda Rajapakse’s service to the people cannot be equalled by another leader- past, present and perhaps in the near future..
As long as the memory of his elimination of the feared terrorism last, even if it is not for any other contribution he has made to the country, people will still be grateful to him and show their respect and affection. That cannot be removed by Maithripala Sirisena or even by any other National leader of Sri Lanka for years to come.
Maithripala Sirisena should stop his anger and vengeance against Mahinda Rajapakse. More he attacks the former President Mahinda Rajapakse, more will President Maithripala Sirisean be hated by the ordinary people of Sri Lanka. It is a fact that a large majority of the Sinhala Buddhists did not vote for him, and still refuse to accept him in preference to Mahinda Rajapakse.
Maithripala Sirisena has nothing to fear from Mahinda Rajapakse or his supporters, as he will be the President of Sri Lanka for the next four or five years. Mahinda Rajapakse is now only a Member of the Parliament and will not be a rival to him in any way other than perhaps taking away the affection of the people from him.
President Maithripala Sirisena should cleanse his mind with thoughts of Buddhist kindness (metta) and compassion( karuna) towards his supposed enemies. If he begins to understand his enemies and show sympathy, it will reflect back on him, turning his enemies to be his friends.
Therefore, please be advised Mr. President to stop your meetings to slam the former President Mahinda Rajapakse , to speak ill of him and ask people not to attend his May Day rally to be held in Kirilepone.
If Maithripala Sirisena could do that, even if he were to have a lesser number of people attending his May Day Rally in Galle, the people will reflect on Maithripala Sirisena’s goodness and begin to respect and show their affection to him in return.
May 2nd, 2016 at 4:20 am
It would have been better, if you made this PLEA to the PEOPLE of Sri Lanka.
May 2nd, 2016 at 5:41 am
Vairapala sorrysena has no backbone to stand up. He used to call pol pot ponil sir and one eyed bandit queen
madam before he became president. To make matters worse he is very short in brain department
with only grade 8 pass to his name. So it is very difficult to expect anything constructive from a person of his calibre. This is a real case of monkey with the razor.
Mad monkey in attacking mood ever since becoming president. Unfortunately against the very people who helped him to get to this
high position. The monkey is also a puppet under the alugosu pol pot ponil. So he goes after only easy option,
MR. What this pea-brained fool does not understand is every time he open his gob with vengeance, more and more
people start hating him. To make matters worse vairapala hasn’t done anything in more than a year other
than blaming MR who did so much for the country within a very short time.
Vairapala sorrysena never learns. He has very little intelligence and think ordinary people are more stupid than
him. That’s his mistake and people can’t wait to the see the back of him. He is going to be famous for being
the most hated president of Sri Lanka ever! Mother Lanka weeps for having a treacherous leader of this caliber.
May 2nd, 2016 at 2:24 pm
Charles,
Clearly your letter is directed at Sri Lankans in general, because Palwatte Gamaralage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena dare not heed your advice.
He knows what he has done and fears just retribution like all other traitors who went before him.
This is the dilemma of all those who engineered the TREASON of January 8, 2015 ….. they trapped FOREVER on this path that leads inexorably to their destruction and simply cannot acknowledge their treachery and backtrack for fear of being drawn and quartered by the people of Sri Lanka whom they betrayed.
There is a LESSON in this for all of us: Don’t let AMBITION, JEALOUSY and GREED turn you into a TRAITOR … that is a path of NO RETURN!
May 2nd, 2016 at 3:45 pm
Despite the name , “Compassion Paala” he has nothing to do with Buddhism other than knowing how to respect a monk properly by kneeling down and bending the upper body.
Why ? Because is a diabolical liar and worse still , not ashamed of lying. This qualifies him to the category of ” able to do ANY evil” according to Buddha’s own words.
Almost all politicians are liars but he is a special liar because he use a little thing to exaggerate and make it big.
“Compassion” is one of the 4 Brahma Vihara ( Noble Abiding) where the mind dwells in when reached. It is possible for a liar’s mind reach this noble level but once out of it, mind will follow the addicted evil.
This is why we should not hang on to persons but look at the policies. Unless these policies are in black and white, doubt the PERSON and ASK HIM TO SIGN the document.
May 2nd, 2016 at 9:08 pm
Great article as always by you Charles.Thanks I love every word in it. True this guy Soorasena is a pathatic guy with no value. He just appeared from nowhere and will suddenly dissappear in to thin air one day. No legacy in what so ever. He is a real joker and a evil man with little kknowledge of governing a country. You cannot compare him with any other Presidents of the past at all. Does anyone remember how MR treated the Opposition leader Ranil the crooked western backed darling of the west during MR time? MR gave every luxury to that rattle snake while that Govt was in power.They have all forgotten what that great leader did to them and to the country in whole.
I hope Soorasena or someone in his Govt will read this article and come to their senses or correct their mistakes and act fairly dealing with everyone in the society. MR deserves more respect than any other leader in this country.It’s unfair to put all the blame on his head. Because of him and his actions as a President we walk freely in this country. IT’S THE TRUTH. Be decent you idiotic leaders in this country.See the peoples power behind MR and think hard without governing the country we love so much blindly.
May 4th, 2016 at 10:55 am
ranjith, Even if they read, they will not show it President Sirisena! I guarantee it.
May 4th, 2016 at 4:17 pm
Kithsiri A,
No. He himself reads web forums , according to reports. But he is not man enough to apologise for shameless lies, a habit all Lankan presidents inherit.
This is why Ven. Mihindu Thero asked the “mango tree” questions from king Devanampiyatissa. To check whether the king forgets his origin ( “this mango tree”)