{"id":151959,"date":"2025-09-13T17:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151959"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:40:35","slug":"to-the-people-of-nepal-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/09\/13\/to-the-people-of-nepal-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"To the people of Nepal and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0By Palitha Ariiyarathna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace<\/a>.\u201d \u2014 Buddha<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf5 To the people of Nepal<\/a> and beyond:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us<\/a> not be swayed by doctrines that promise<\/a> salvation through division, nor by ideologies\u2014Eastern or Western\u2014that glorify destruction<\/a> in the name of freedom<\/a>. History<\/a> has shown us that when belief becomes blind, it breeds violence. Whether it\u2019s religious extremism, political fanaticism, or social media-fueled rage, the result<\/a> is the same: suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buddhism<\/a> teaches us that true liberation<\/a> is not won on battlefields or in viral posts\u2014it is cultivated in the heart. Peace is not imposed; it is practiced. Discipline<\/a> is not oppression; it is the foundation of wisdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nepal is not just a land\u2014it is a legacy<\/a>. A nation<\/a> born from the footsteps of the Enlightened One. To burn it in anger is to forget the very soil that gave birth to compassion. To destroy in the name of justice<\/a> is to betray the teachings that call us to rise above hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us reject the seductive noise of ideologies that have led to countless deaths across history. Let us instead embrace the silence of meditation<\/a>, the strength of unity, and the clarity<\/a> of wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conquer anger by love<\/a>, evil by good, greed by generosity, and falsehood by truth<\/a>.\u201d \u2014 Buddha<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not weakness. This is the path<\/a> of the strongest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 By Palitha Ariiyarathna<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0By Palitha Ariiyarathna Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.\u201d \u2014 Buddha \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf5 To the people of Nepal and beyond: Let us not be swayed by doctrines that promise salvation through division, nor by ideologies\u2014Eastern or Western\u2014that glorify destruction in the name of freedom. History has shown us that when belief becomes blind, it breeds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-119"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151960,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151959\/revisions\/151960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}