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　　Compassionate actions based on equality

　　"All beings in the world posses the mark of the Tathagata”s wisdom," This quote of equality, proclaimed by the Buddha, is the light that guides us toward peace and compassionate life. We are human beings who wish to drive away suffering and gain happiness. At the same time, however, we are also capable of creating selfishness, craving and conflicts through the perceived "my religion is best". The perception of my religion is best places ourselves as being superior than others. Wars in the name of religious beliefs are then inevitable. I believe that the salvation in each religion attributed to the most loving-kindness, the most righteous and just, and the omnipotence of their worshipped God. If we believe that God has the capacity beyond what we could have possibly imagined, we should also accept that God has transformed the teaching in different ways throughout different times and civilizations to different groups of people so that the teaching could be well understood. With this perspective, do we still need to argue about superiority

　　It is a great challenge to each of us to implement equality in our life. When equality exists, the compassionate actions will emanate and peace is no longer needed.

　　Teamwork

　　To realize peace and harmony into our life, we need to unite resources from one another. Our distinguished talents alone do not suffice the needs of this great work. These talents need to combine with others so that we can gain synergy that will contribute to the effort of promoting peace throughout the Earth. Together Everyone Accomplishes More (TEAM) allows us to achieve the extraordinary result: peace.

　　Perseverance

　　Our everyday effort to realize peace may be hindered by the "Eight-Challenges" (profit and loss, defamation and fame, praise and blame, pleasure and pain). Perseverance will shield us not only from the adverse circumstances but also in favorable situations. It plays a tremendously important role to avoid the influence of negative critics and unnecessary compliments. Perseverance reinforces us to keep making progress in realizing peace and improving effective methods in bringing harmonious life. The era of globalization impacts the social and political evolutions. Many examples include one-sidedness economic which will only bring the advantage to the haves, environmental crisis, social and cultural disintegration, hectic lifestyles, and privacy invasion. These factors will lead into instability and potentially affect inner and outer peace. The moral perplexity of the era of globalization has rendered us to establish the effort to promote peace more than ever. For such global problems are often so complex and difficult, and no man is omniscient.

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　　[1] Craincross, F. 1997. The Death of Distance: How the Communication Revolution Will Change Our Lives. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

　　[2] English translation by Acharya Buddharakkhita

　　[3] Verses 399 - English translation by Acharya Buddharakkhita

　　[4] Chapter 6, verse 2

　　Ven. Seik Hui Siong

　　Abbot of Vihara Mahavira Graha Pusa Buddhist Building Indonesia

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