{"id":54302,"date":"2016-05-02T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T03:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=54302"},"modified":"2016-05-02T03:26:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T10:26:58","slug":"mister-president-be-a-buddhist-with-loving-kindness-and-compassion-in-heart-instead-of-anger-hatred-and-thoughts-of-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/02\/mister-president-be-a-buddhist-with-loving-kindness-and-compassion-in-heart-instead-of-anger-hatred-and-thoughts-of-vengeance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mister President be a Buddhist with Loving Kindness and Compassion in heart instead of Anger, Hatred and\u00a0 thoughts of Vengeance."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

A President of a Country once elected becomes the President of every one.\u00a0 He will\u00a0 not only\u00a0 be the President of the Party he represents, but also those opposition parties which may have voted against him.\u00a0 Therefore he cannot be a\u00a0 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<\/p>\n

Therefore we cannot understand Maithripala Sirisena treating \u00a0the former President and his supporters different from those who voted for him and promised their support.\u00a0 Even if those who voted against Maithripala Sirisena speaks against him and his policies\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

The President \u00a0should be able to accept\u00a0 \u00a0criticism, and\u00a0 remain honourable and equanimous \u00a0without reacting to critics.\u00a0 That would show \u00a0the greatness of a man who holds the highest office of the Nation.\u00a0 This is equanimity(upekkha), which \u00a0distinguishes the goodness of the character of a person, from others.<\/p>\n

But can we say this\u00a0 about\u00a0 Maithripala Sirisena ? No, unfortunately not.<\/p>\n

He is acting like a cheap\u00a0 village thug, trying his best to use all the power of his office to take\u00a0 revenge from his enemies.\u00a0 He even stops the Joint Opposition from holding a separate May day Rally and gets his Judiciary to issue court orders to\u00a0 stop the use of the ground for their rally.<\/p>\n

It is a shame for Maithripala Sirisena to come down \u00a0to that low level of a thug using his force to\u00a0 stop his enemies\u00a0 from using their rights.\u00a0 His stopping the conduct of the Joint Opposition rally is anti democratic.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

He is becoming an adharmistaya (<\/strong> \u0d85\u0db0\u0dbb\u0dca\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dc2\u0dca\u0da8\u0dba\u0dd9\u0d9a\u0dca<\/strong>). The President of Sri Lanka should be \u00a0a man of merit ( <\/strong>\u0db4\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dd9\u0d9a\u0dca<\/strong>). Therefore it is the Buddhist monks who should take him\u00a0 in hand to make of him a\u00a0 good\u00a0 Buddhist leader.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

President Maithripala Siriseana is very boastful. He tell the people at meetings his generosity towards his enemies, like providing security to the former\u00a0 President and providing him with a helicopter to take him to Medamulana after\u00a0 the election.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 He tell how the Prime Minister of UK\u00a0 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 \u00a0it is sure these Western Leaders have a good laugh at his expense dressing him as a man to please ( \u0d9c\u0ddc\u0dab\u0dcf\u0da7 \u0d85\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dcf). Otherwise what could Maithripala Sirisena contribute to the G7.\u00a0 He is only the\u00a0 leader of Sri Lanka, a country which is in the grip of financial bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

Even the UNP leader, his Ministers, and\u00a0 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\u00a0 is weak of mind\u00a0 not to understand that.<\/p>\n

He does not realise that \u00a0he will receive\u00a0 respect and affection of the people by changing his present position\u00a0 of an angry, vicious, revengeful man taking every opportunity to condemn and assail the former President Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 his family and those who are close to him.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena should accept that Mahinda Rajapakse will remain a popular and a respected man amoung the people of this country. Mahinda Rajapakse\u2019s service to the people cannot be equalled by another leader- past, present and perhaps\u00a0 in the near future..<\/p>\n

As long as the memory of\u00a0 his elimination of the feared terrorism last,\u00a0 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.\u00a0 That cannot be removed by Maithripala Sirisena or even by any other National leader of Sri Lanka for years to come.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>. 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena has nothing to fear from\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapakse or his supporters, as he\u00a0 will be the President of Sri Lanka for the next four or five years.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

President Maithripala Sirisena should cleanse his mind with thoughts of Buddhist kindness (metta) and compassion( karuna) towards his supposed enemies.\u00a0 If he begins to understand his enemies and\u00a0 show sympathy, it will reflect back on him, turning his enemies to be his friends. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Therefore, please be advised\u00a0 Mr. President to stop your meetings to slam\u00a0 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.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2019s goodness and begin to respect and show their affection to him\u00a0 in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera A President of a Country once elected becomes the President of every one.\u00a0 He will\u00a0 not only\u00a0 be the President of the Party he represents, but also those opposition parties which may have voted against him.\u00a0 Therefore he cannot be a\u00a0 friend of some of the people and the enemy of some. Because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54302","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=54302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}