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A 21-year-old Buddhist nun was gang raped by five men inside a bus in eastern Nepal, media reports said Monday.
International Youth Conference on Buddhism Begins this Week• Approximately one-hundred youths of Buddhist
organizations from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and other nations will take part in an international conference for youths on Buddhism in Nepal.
• The organizer (YMBA Nepal)
The statistical data of 1993 by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and of 1995 by Korea National Statistical Office• Buddhists outnumbers that of Christians by 5 to 21%
among the people with religions over 30 years old. • The ratio between the Buddhists and the Christians
in their 20s is 14.4% to 18.5%• It is 11.4% to 22.6% in the age range of 15 to 19. • This tendency of decrease of the younger Buddhists
is identical with the result of the data of 1995.
Primarily in countries that have been ruled by communist governments that have worked self-consciously to undercut Buddhist institutional power and influence• This has happened in the Mongol areas of Central
Asia, in China (including Tibet), North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos → Nepal ??
The society of fast gratification Too many distractions to the practice Difficulty in supporting oneself if you are a
monk
पैतकृ समपती (ancestral Property)• Demographic distribution in peripheries of
Lumbini and Kathmandu valleyTwo schools of thought
• Some who say let people come to the Dhamma on their own, when the time is right
• Another camp that would like to help others come to the Path of the Dhamma in ways that might be seen as missionary.
Need to market the buddhism
positive thoughts• decrease लोभ (desire), decrease देश (anger) and
decrease मोह (delusion, incorrectly thinking that right is wrong and wrong is right)
meritorious deeds (कुसल)
• generosity (दान), morality (िशल), meditation (भाबना), reverence, self-less service, “transference” of merit (no actual transference, this is a simplification), Rejoicing in others' merit, listening to the Dhamma (Teaching), teaching the Dhamma, Correcting one's wrong views, would yield positive and happy minds
renunciation (nekkhamma)• Letting go of something valuable is what is
occurring, whether it be money, food, time, energy or knowledge, which is also called renunciation (nekkhamma) in Buddhism. You may have noticed that everything outlined here requires effort on our parts. To do anything good and worthwhile requires effort, but the results are worth it in the end. Happy giving!
Reverence is a form of self-discipline that subdues the ego when respect is paid to those who are worthy of it. It purifies the mind and lays a strong foundation for further progression along the path.• You can bow down and revere the mother or father
before leaving the house and get their blessings, which is a form of a protection you take with you.
• reverence to our teachers by standing from our seats when they enter the class room or lecture theatre in the Sigâlôvâda sutta.
Develop the opposing positive qualities in our minds.
Bring to mind the drawbacks of giving into these negative thoughts.
Pay no attention what-so-ever to the negative thoughts and to continue and concentrate with our present activity.
Degrees slow down the fast pace of the defiled mind and to analyze, find and then removing the root cause for the arising of defilements
Expend great mental energy to subdue and suppress strong negative thoughts as and when they arise.
Will you?• I do not wish to dwell on others' faults.• I do not wish to look at what others are doing. Let not one seek others’ faults, things left done and undone by
others, but one's own deeds done and undone.
• I do not wish to remember what (wrongs) others have done to me in the past. He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,”
in those who harbor such thoughts hatred is not appeased.
Young Buddhists need to take responsibility for our own actions and our own lives• Being independent does not just mean taking
control of our finances, accommodation, study and work, it also means taking control and being responsible of our actions (कमम) and our kammic destiny, without looking for approval from outside. This does not mean we don't ask wise people for advise, it simply means that we don't blame them or others when things go wrong, but own up to our own actions.
To be continued………
कमश …..
