Dear students,
Mankind has always dreamed of world peace and prosperity. People have always looked for the pursuit of happiness, and have always wanted to avoid suffering and to find joy.
While attending this summer course, monks and nuns take care and teach you many things. You are loved and respected by all people.
this must make you happy, right?
this means that besides the usual physical needs, people will be happy when being loved and respected
nothing is as miserable and catastrophic as war.
war comes from causes such as:
1/ religious, ethnic conflict.
2 poverty by overpopulation; inequality; natural disasters, pollution, environmental destruction and climate change.
3/ territorial and resource conflict
We will look through some pictures and clips, and you will see how we can contribute, even just a little, to world peace through simple things each day:
A/ saving water (turn off the tap, drink every drop, take a shower instead of the bath, only wash your motobike when necessary...)
B/ do not waste anything (food, clothing, utilities...) to reduce resource depletion
C/ saving electricity (not playing games, only using electricity when necessary...)
D/ eating vegetarian food (killing animals is the root karma to make war) - develop the love for animals - and contribute to reduce global warming.
E/ protecting the environment: saving fuel, picking up litter, recycling, not using wooden furniture, planting and protecting trees...
Technology today develops very quickly and is very advanced. When having a smartphone, you are able to chat with any friends in every corner of the earth, at any time and you can communicate in many languages. But sadly, immoral people can use the technology for the wrong reasons.
In 2014, ISIS (The Islamic State in Iraq ang Syria) appeared and became a force to spread horrible evil:
- killing prisoners by confining them in cages, pouring petrol on them and burning them alive.
- teaching children as young as 10 years old to behead their prisoners and hostages.
- abducting young girls and torturing, raping and enslaving them.
- terrorism such as bombings kill innocent people anywhere, anytime.
These atrocities are filmed and posted on the internet to spread. The problem is that many people believe in joining and providing financing for the ISIS. Including those coming from the developed and civilized countries.
What do you think about these things? What do you think when the nuclear weapons all over the world are enough to destroy 20 earths?
Watching television, reading the newspaper or online, you see people set pigeons free, light candles, praying...for world peace. But could those things silence guns, stop bombings, and end slaughters or not?
Unfortunately the answer is NO.
war happens because people have bad mind. Because humans are greedy - jealous - have hatred
we will have peace when we can eliminate human's bad mind and when good deeds spread everywhere
we protect the world not only because of the power of science and technology but also good deeds
the good deeds are a shield, and is the invisible armor to preserve and protect peace peace on this earth
peace will br absent when people are full of bad mind
war will cover the earth when people are full of sins.
I count on all of the beautiful faces reader today to have a heart full of love and to light and spread all of the good deeds everywhere, even as small as a drop of water in the ocean, even as tiny as a grain of sand in the sea...to build and nurture the dream of mankind for WORLD PEACE.
