{"id":71391,"date":"2017-11-06T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71391"},"modified":"2017-11-06T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T19:56:28","slug":"wise-and-meaningful-advice-from-a-burmese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/06\/wise-and-meaningful-advice-from-a-burmese\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise and Meaningful advice from a Burmese"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Myanmar Buddhist HanMg Says:<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>November 5th, 2017<\/p>\n<p>The Buddha in his wisdom did not expect a nation or the rulers to be lame ducks in the wake of an enemy invasion. However Buddha\u2019s expectations from one who is training to be an Arhant whether monk or layman are different and it should not be mistaken with the Buddha\u2019s expectations from the laity burdened with numerous worldly responsibilities. It is also because the Buddha in his wisdom did not expect every \u2018Buddhist\u2019 to opt for Arahantship nor to become an ascetic renouncing the worldly affairs. To the majority Buddhism is a way of life rather than a faith, philosophy, or a religion.However it should be stressed that a soldier like all others is subject to the law of Kamma and will not escape the Kammic fruits of taking the Life\u201dof a sentient being (panatipatha) even though he may have had the overall noble intention of protecting his country and his people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has been easy to continuously silence Buddhists by making them feel that they should not be aggressive in protecting their religion or culture. Often the argument thrown at Buddhists is that they should be compassionate and calm bordering on pacifism and tolerance. Many Buddhists have embraced the argument that should rely solely on their inner strength\u201d and that there is no need to understand the external threats.<\/p>\n<p>WELL THIS WAS WHAT THE BUDDHISTS MONKS OF NALANDA DID AND THEY WERE ALL KILLED AND THE WORLD\u2019S OLDEST UNIVERSITY WAS BURNT TO CINDERS, THE BUDDHIST MONKS IN MALDIVES FACED A SIMILAR FATE WHEN THEY GAVE THEIR NECKS TO BE BEHEADED IN A COUNTRY THAT WAS ONCE BUDDHIST, IN BANGLADESH TOO WE SEE SIMILAR SITUATIONS<\/p>\n<p>FINALLY, ALL BUDDHISTS MUST REMEMBER NALANDA, AND PLEDGE NEVER AGAIN. WE CAN STOP INVASION OF BUDDHIST COUNTRIES BY BARBARIC FORCES STARTING BY RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXTERNAL THREATS. THE WORST THING WE CAN DO IS PUT OUR HEADS IN THE SAND\u201d AND DO NOTHING.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lankaweb.com%2Fnews%2Fitems%2F2017%2F11%2F02%2Fbuddhism-has-shaped-the-lives-of-our-people-the-identity-and-the-direction-of-the-society-in-sri-lanka-in-a-way-unmatched-by-any-other-religion%2Fcomment-page-1%2F%23comment-102856&amp;h=ATPOSL0kYgR5dUBMvUIPGLXBBqn5NCaw-k5hLB-smMTvpxs5HJpZqCg_Jko8Wz9he5K1DPuKPKVy1FHpLepVgacwBRXowZzedeXyeiLytIFeuSN20-I_orVcRd2VJ0s-J_lo94X1uIrGMgWvfVNCm5xJc_Adntlemm4If9puhB0tilZ3NmpfhFJ1whU6U3dwmx41E3k11iJK8YLd03C_u-4CXMnKUFZyrGm1HDYil_-ES59JkH8sv0TWvaMu8lqUTJSJRncf-tLxsJ9KwKjbGsd5nOavbZ7krt6jZnhtNDdcyA\">http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/\u2026\/buddhism-has-sha\u2026\/comment-page-1\/\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar Buddhist HanMg Says: November 5th, 2017 The Buddha in his wisdom did not expect a nation or the rulers to be lame ducks in the wake of an enemy invasion. However Buddha\u2019s expectations from one who is training to be an Arhant whether monk or layman are different and it should not be mistaken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71391","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=71391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}