{"id":59066,"date":"2017-07-07T22:08:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T04:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59066"},"modified":"2017-07-07T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T21:38:23","slug":"patting-the-backs-of-pseudo-buddhists-trapping-them-to-abdicate-place-of-buddhism-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/07\/patting-the-backs-of-pseudo-buddhists-trapping-them-to-abdicate-place-of-buddhism-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Patting the backs of pseudo-Buddhists & trapping them to abdicate place of Buddhism in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shenali D Waduge<\/span><\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/span>In 1815 the Chieftans, angry with the King, without thinking beyond their noses conspired and handed the sovereignty of the nation to foreigners who assured them that the Chieftans would continue to secure their perks and privileges and clause 5 maintaining the state patronage to Buddhism would remain. Both promises were short lived but with power transferred and abdicated there was little that could be done to reclaim that power. This is the underlying message of abdicating power \u2013 once given up, it cannot be taken back. Both Chieftans and the island nation was now occupied by invitation. Fast forward two hundred years to 2015 we arrive at the same predicament. This time round the players have learnt a few tricks and have created assemblies of pseudo-Buddhists perched in strategic roles whose task is to help abdicate the sovereignty of the country and totally remove the special place given to Buddhism by all of the kings who ruled the country. What good are praises and pats if the ultimate goal is to devour the nation, expunge its history and enslave our people by privatizing all state resources to foreign hands. <\/span><\/p>\n

The colonial rulers knew that the only way to break a scientifically proven religion\/philosophy was to mentally break the affinity Buddhists had towards Buddhism. To do that they needed to introduce education curriculum that would degrade Buddhism, make people feel that those who followed Buddhism were not sophisticated, they were the poor, low caste etc\u2026 and numerous other labels. As a better alternative the missionary education was projected as creating a class of people accepted by society, English education was to be their key to the future, those who converted and passed out from the missionaries were regarded as the elite of society and destined to be the future leaders. They were projected as the \u2018chosen people\u2019 while others were the discards. This was the basic impression projected upto independence when the colonials had created a bunch of brown sahibs to transfer power to whom they knew would not transgress too far beyond the expectation or limits set. Those that did ended up meeting their ultimate fate \u2013 Congo\u2019s Lumumba and Myanmar\u2019s Aung San both assassinated for going out of line. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In such a scenario of calculated conniving to dislodge the place of Buddhism from all corners, it is a matter of disbelief that Buddhism has managed to maintain its supremacy for 200 years and the converts have not gone beyond 7% of the total population. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, that status quo is now being legally attempted to be removed via a new constitution and the dangers at hand is that those drafting the new constitution and those now in government are either pseudo-Buddhists or non-Buddhists and the prelates that are supposed to be the guardians of Buddhism are in a cuckoo land totally oblivious to the geopolitics or the coup d\u2019etat taking place. \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To make the transfer more suave, these pseudo-Buddhists are given honorary titles, congratulated, given global awards, made honorary members at prestigious institutes, given scholarships \u2013 all areas that would meet their weaknesses, while others have their weaknesses satisfied in other ways which are later used as bribes if they show semblance of falling out of line. Once enticed \u2013 they are hooked line and sinker. So there is no going back. People of integrity will not get caught and those without will always be targeted and trapped. These are all age-old tactics that never fail. <\/span><\/p>\n

Many of Sri Lanka\u2019s leaders are Buddhist by birth but made to believe that they have to shrug off their Buddhist roots to take a secular line for vote seeking, while those born into Christian faith end up acting as Buddhists for same purpose of vote seeking. Eventually neither does any service other than lip service to Buddhist cause and hesitates to address challenges or incursions to Buddhism. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We have a PM who is the Asia-Pacific Vice President of the International Democratic Union which is a pro-Christian alliance of Western capitalist nations while also being the <\/span>President of the Kelaniya temple Dayaka Sabha. Then we have a former President whose father was born into an Anglican family while her mother\u2019s ancestry descends from Ratwatte Dissawa, Dissawa of Matale, a signatory on behalf of the Sinhalese to the Kandyan Convention of 1815. The former Presidents children are ashamed to be Sinhalese after just watching one soap opera by C4 while nothing gets said of LTTE\u2019s 30 years of mayhem and murder upon unarmed civilians. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The euthanasia injection given to most of these pseudo-Buddhists is the mantra reconciliation and peaceful co-existence and the fear psychosis built around doing anything outside of that. Proposals are being shoved to them and without reading or understanding the consequences they simply sign on any dotted line as a result of the injection. <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take another simple example. We have come to know from the daily newspaper that the Indian Government is to fund a training school at the Dalada Maligawa. What has the Indian Government got to do with the Dalada Maligawa- are there no other projects for them to sponsor? What exactly is this training to be on \u2013 Kandyan dancing, drums, ancient sculptures\u2026 let us not be na\u00efve to comprehend that India is doing its utmost to engulf Sri Lanka into becoming another Indian state, India is now claiming that the Sinhalese are virtually Indian, all types of bogus theories are now being floated and paid for too. In such a scenario all arts and cultures that have evolved in Sri Lanka are now likely to be infested with the notion that these too are rooted to India and false history will soon be written by people paid to write any lies. Yes, we need funds but we need to be prudent about the real intentions of some of those prepared to give funds. This is what we lack and it is unfortunate that the enemy is easily entering all of our most sacred places because of our own naivety and lack of geopolitical knowledge. Plagued with the mental disposition that we have to please, this is going to soon land us in a load of trouble. We are allowing our enemies to plant the seeds to change our history as well. We will not see these changes taking place any time too soon but definitely the history of these arts and cultures will be earmarked for drastic historical changes. India is taking great pains to ceremonially project itself as being a protector of Buddhism, which it most certainly is not. <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Essentially what needs to be reminded to all is that this country has a history, a very long history. The countries out to destroy that are created countries who have no proud history except plunder, murder and forceful acquisitions. They loathe countries that have history because they cannot match that history. So the best thing they can do is to wipe out that history, falsify that history or totally blemish the history with lies and distortions. Since they cannot do it openly they get a bunch of no-conscience, spineless, lacking in integrity locals to do their bidding and the success ratio is such that these locals even provide better suggestions to totally destroy and annihilate their nation and its people. Therefore the marriage of convenience is working quite well as we can see from the drastic changes taking place across the periphery of governance and administration in the country. <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Well paid propaganda is out to remove the perahera elephants, non-Buddhists are drafting the constitution and determining to omit the historical place of Buddhism, law & order with bizarre penal code changes are taking place, labors laws are being changed to suit the corporate foreign take over\u2026 just look around and connect these changes and see where the changes are going to lead to. This is really nothing about politics or political parties. Essentially, politicians have paved the way for the chaos however those that have played a sinister role in the background are equally guilty, perhaps even more. At least we can identify the treacherous politicians but it is only after the damage has been done that we identify those in the media, the activists, officials and others who have betrayed the nation and the people. <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Whether our people are crooks or good people, they are our people. We live in a world where there is no difference in public or private sector in terms of crooks, privatizing through the newly promoted public-private partnerships are all a means of handing our resources to foreign parties who will scoot off with the profits. What they take out will be far more than the local crooks keep inside the country! We need to balance much. There is no black and white today, there are only a handful of very honest people of integrity and that is the case globally as well. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We are facing very trying times, and people need to wake up to ground realities. They must never take things at face value. As citizens we need to ensure that we protect OUR country. Look around and see the catastrophes faced by other countries. We have gone through 30 years to know that it is in OUR hands to protect what has been given back to us with the blood of so many patriotic sons and daughters who sacrificed their lives. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We should not give OUR country into enemy hands. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Shenali D Waduge<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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