{"id":67988,"date":"2017-07-19T20:29:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T02:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67988"},"modified":"2017-07-19T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:58:52","slug":"serman-by-a-buddhist-monk-from-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/19\/serman-by-a-buddhist-monk-from-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Serman by a Buddhist Monk from Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I\u00a0 Was at a pre-alms giving function held at my brother\u2019s place last night .Serman was delivered by a \u00a0young monk who has come to Sri Lank from Bangladesh when he\u00a0 was small ( now \u00a0he may be in late twenties) gave an insight of our society .His controversial serman was about some monks and laymen claiming that they have achieved  Sothapaththa\u201d (So\u2019wan )\u00a0 and what a farce it is .People have not clearly understood that most of \u00a0the people in our society are full of hatred .ignorance and cravings ,That is why in Sri Lanka we currently have many national and political issues disturbing our well being and peace .We keep cheating ourselves rather than being honest. People and monks both \u00a0are cheating and pretend that we are pious .<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned that So\u2019wan means ,the person has become neutral and controls his mind in certain aspects .He\/she does not react when ever good or bad happens ,He\/she \u00a0controls his mind and trains him\/herself to not to react to any good or bad cause .<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned that Sinhalese are proud of having a long cultural heritage having over 180 kings and almost over 100 of them has either killed his son.wife.parents\u00a0 or being killed by his son or the father .Despite the fact that we Sinhalese\u2019s talk about our culture and piousness\u00a0 ,we are a nation who have not followed Buddhism in true sense ,( he as apologetic of being a non sinhala monk speaking eloquent Sinhala ) .<\/p>\n<p>We have to propagate that values of religious beliefs among the people and make them understand that we have to be honest and tolerant .We go on demonstrations, hate thy neighbour, peep into other people\u2019s affairs and talk about what a great nation we are \u00a0and it is a farce.<\/p>\n<p>I came out of the serman and thought, he should be in a TV program and preach so that our politicians and the people learn something to live peacefully in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera I\u00a0 Was at a pre-alms giving function held at my brother\u2019s place last night .Serman was delivered by a \u00a0young monk who has come to Sri Lank from Bangladesh when he\u00a0 was small ( now \u00a0he may be in late twenties) gave an insight of our society .His controversial serman was about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67988","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=67988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}