Friday, September 27, 2013

Buddhist extremism and how we should react

So this is a sudden inspired post I'm making. There's this person who joined in one of the facebook group about Buddhism that I made and posted things that promote hatred towards Sri-Lanka Muslim in the name of protecting Buddhism. As I was the admin, I was notified and I took down the post and kicked out the person who posted them.

 Just now I spoke to the person on her facebook wall.

Here's the excerpt, I leave out her name to avoid directed hatred and direct prosecution. Please don't ask me who she is, if you met her yourself, you'll know then.


 HOPE TO GET ALL OF THE MUSLIM BAND &;;; CO LOGO PIC THAT ARE BUSINESS IN SRI LANKA...HOPE MY FB SRI LANKAN FRIEND OR BUDDHISM ORG DO RESEARCH OF ALL MUSLIM BUSINESS THAT OPERATE IN SRI LANKA LOGO TO CREATE IN PIC AND PASTE TO ME...NEXT TIME WILL NOT BUY THEIR PRODUCT &;;; SERVICE FROM THOSE MUSLIM CO &;;; WOULD LIKE TO SPEAD AT FB BUDDHISM GROUP TOO!!!!PLS CREATE THE PIC FORMAT &;;; SEND ME...THANK..
  • Ng Xin Zhao Are you practising loving-kindness while doing this? Unconditional love is one of the core practises of Buddhists.
    23 minutes ago · Like
  • WHAT WRONG ARE U TALKING???MY NOTICFY SHOW NO LOVING & KINDNESS???IS ANOTHER MATTER!!!NO INVOLVE OF AS YOU MENTION LOVING & KINDNESS!!!DONT WANT TO BUY & SERVICE FROM MUSLIM BAND & CO!!!YOU NOT CLEAR ON THEM!!!DEFEND & RESCUS & PROTECT SRI LANKA BUDDHISM!!!
    17 minutes ago · Edited · Like
  • Ng Xin Zhao As a Buddhist, if we don't practise or show loving-kindness (like the capital letters you're using, capital letters means shouting on the internet), it'll present a bad image of Buddhism. Thus in the long run it makes people turn away from the Dhamma instead of bringing them to the Dhamma.
    15 minutes ago · Like
  • THESE IS NOTIFY SO HAVE TO USED ALL CAPITAL LETTER TO SHOW IS IMPORTANT!!!
    13 minutes ago · Like
  • Ng Xin Zhao Yes, but in the comments session, you're also using capital letters, which is unnecessary. Anyway, we have to be mindful of our actions in society (and facebook is a part of society if you put your wall open to the public) and not do actions that causes more discrimination, separation and spread disharmony. Extremism is what is taught by the Buddha to be avoided. And promoting boycott of Muslim product is a form of extremism. Every time news like this: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/13/sril-a13.html pops up, friends around us practising Buddhist may turn to question us, "I thought you Buddhists are all about good one? Why produce such cases like this?" Then it's very hard to teach them about the 4 Noble truths, 8 foldpaths and so on, because they see one bad example, and got disinterested in Buddhism. Thus, as a Buddhist who wishes to promote the Dhamma, I think it's part of my duty to at least talk to people like you to have you see what you are doing to Buddhism.
Her: I am not all open public.have been saw samilar these already..bye...

Me: As I'm not your friend, and still I can see and comment on your wall, this means your wall is public. You can change the facebook privacy settings to make it so that only your friends can see it. But seriously think about what you're doing. If you're not practising the Dhamma, what good is protecting the container of Dhamma (Buddhism)? It'll be an empty container.


Ok now, so the main message that I want to present to you here is to speak out when you met such extremists, speak out and promote harmony instead of hatred (for whatever reasons). Please don't hate her too, it's against my religion to promote hatred.
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