{"id":86091,"date":"2019-03-04T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86091"},"modified":"2019-03-04T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T23:01:09","slug":"sri-lankans-should-be-more-compassionate-with-empathy-devoid-of-ego-hatred-ignorance-and-be-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/03\/04\/sri-lankans-should-be-more-compassionate-with-empathy-devoid-of-ego-hatred-ignorance-and-be-honest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankans should be more compassionate with empathy, devoid of ego hatred, ignorance and be honest??"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I was listening to\u00a0 you tube talk by one Buddhist monk ,who openly stated that we Sri Lankans ( most probably we was referring to Sinhalese) are hypocoristic people with no compassion ,He was referring to Theravada Buddhist practice in Burma ,Thailand ,Tibet and Laos ,where people look up to Buddhist cultural values and practice then in their daily life. In Sri Lanka behave like animals, we take alcohol during Pirith and Dana ceremonies our drivers are not polite but very arrogant with no concern about fellow drivers, our state workers and officers take bribes for anything they do. Females are sexually harassed in public transport, and get whistled or gazed by bystanders.<\/p>\n<p>And yet he said when he travelled most of the foreigners have been praising Sri Lankan for being very joyful and smiling!<\/p>\n<p>He says that it us so surprising to hear that from visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Should a political party be formed with a manifesto where they will take every endeavor to make this nation more compassionate and kind like in some Buddhist countries like Burma?<\/p>\n<p>Quote<\/p>\n<p>People in Myanmar<\/p>\n<p><em>People in Myanmar are simply awesome.\u00a0 They are kind and sincerely in general. Buddhism of the country taught the kindness to most people. Of course, recent communal violence between Muslim minority and Buddhist fundamentalist mobs also bring shame to the community. Hey, we all got some smelly eggs in family!\u00a0 But most people in Myanmar are simply honest and peaceful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera I was listening to\u00a0 you tube talk by one Buddhist monk ,who openly stated that we Sri Lankans ( most probably we was referring to Sinhalese) are hypocoristic people with no compassion ,He was referring to Theravada Buddhist practice in Burma ,Thailand ,Tibet and Laos ,where people look up to Buddhist cultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86091","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=86091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}