BUDDHISM

1. BUDDHISM

2. Contents • Introduction to Buddhism • Peace • Justice • Relationship between peace and justice • Human Right • Environment • Teaching on living and working with other faiths.

3. What is Buddhism? • Buddha’s teaching, Sasana • Philosophy of awakening • Liberation and redemption • Law of nature • Three gems: • Buddha: Enlighten and teacher • Dharma: Mental development, Social issues and law • Sangha: community

4. Main Buddhist Concepts Four Noble Truth • Suffering • Cause of suffering- craving • Cessation of suffering- Suffering can be overcome and happiness attained so-called Nirvana. • Path leading to end the cessation of suffering.

5. Middle path/Eight fold path • Right Understanding • Right Thought Wisdom • Right Speech • Right Action Ethical Conduct • Right Livelihood • Right Effort • Right Mindfulness Mental Development • Right Concentration

6. Five precepts • No killing ↔ Respect life • No stealing ↔ Right livelihood • No sexual misconduct ↔ Sexual Satisfy • No telling lie ↔ Truth/Honesty • No drinking alcohol ↔ Health (Physical & Mental)

7. Three main teachings • Not to do bad- Vinaya • Do good- Sutra • Purify our mind-Aphidharma

8. Peace • There is no way to peace, Peace is the way • Peace is ultimate reality of Buddhism, one of names of Nirvana- living life and after life. Peace begins with ourself… Slowly Slowly Step by Step… • Peace mean Dharma, law of nature, law of human being.

9. Grow National Happiness: Have enough for survival (human basic need & property by right livelihood) & quality of life (morality, generosity, justice, equal right) • Non-action is the source of all action. • Army of peace-We will shoot the people with bullets of loving-kindness

10. Justice Yuti Dharma refers to a just society with fair treatment and just share More than just the administration of law Right-wing +Left-wing=Rule of law, human right & human basic need.

11. Causes of injustice: Selfishness, greed, hatred and delusion • Greed: Capitalism and consumerism • Anger (Kodha): Militarism and injustice. • Hared (Dosa): Racism, Classism & Exclusive. Political enemies “them/other” because they are different, because they have something we want. Structural Anger turns up in our so-called “justice system” which many country use to keep in check and punish those who lack power. Punishment and revenge will remain structural greed & anger= structural injustice

12. Relation between peace & Justice • Interconnectedness/Inter-being: Personal & social justpeace. • The suffering of people has been deep. From this suffering come great compassion. Great compassion makes a peaceful heart….world. • Compassion & Wisdom must walk together. If you have one without another, it’s like walking on one foot. Finally you will fall down.

13. People try to killed and will be killed • Dali Lama: As a leader, you must respect the precepts more than those who stay in the temple because if you are tend to kill, it will affect broader. • When the king act injustice, the minister...farmer will act injustice… no rain….Climate Change

14. Buddhists respond to injustice • Umbrella revolution in Cambodia • Democracy in 1998 • Dhamayietra: Peace walk • Orange revolution in Myanmar • Tibet

16. Human Right • Human being are born with complete freedom and responsibility. • Rectus meaning straight. Rectus, in turn, can be traced to the Greek orektos which means stretched out or upright • Both "right" and rectus themselves, however, have a more remote ancestor in the Sanskrit rju (straight or upright). The equivalent form in Pali is uju (or ujju) meaning "straight, direct; straightforward, honest, upright.“.It would therefore appear that both the objective sense ("straight") and the metaphorical moral sense ("rectitude") of the word "right"

17. Right & Responsibility for 8 qroup • Each one of us has a role to play in sustaining and promoting social justice and orderliness. The Buddha explained very clearly these roles as reciprocal duties existing between parents and children; teachers and pupils; husband and wife; friends, relatives and neighbors; employer and employee; clergy and laity ... No one has been left out. The duties explained here are reciprocal and are considered as sacred duties, for - if observed - they can create a just, peaceful and harmonious society • Dharma determines not just "what one is due to do" but also "what is due to one."

18. Enviroment Buddha wasborn, enlighten, pass away under the tree. -Interconnectedness,

20. Tree-ordination and planting in peace walk • How Buddhists Understand Nature.All life is interrelated and interdependent. Nature, or we could say our natural environment, is alive and at least partly conscious. • Buddhist monks and nuns vow to follow moral precepts that prohibit harming of the environment. There are vows for protecting the purity of the water; for not killing sentient beings who live in the earth; for not killing insects, birds, and animals; for not starting forest fires; and for respecting the life of trees, particularly ancient ones.

21. Co-existence The sublime state.. Law of living • Loving-kindness • Compassion • Sympathetic joy • Equanimity

22. Victim of circumstance • Interfaith education/Inter-religious literacy • All religion walk together for peace • Respect, accept and appreciate the fundamental teaching in every religion-sympathetic understanding • Buddha: If you become angry when others condemn your religion, you are not follows of Mine. • Let us listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrine professed by others. • Sticking to the spirit of “ the law of the Dharma”, instead of just following “the letter of the law”

25. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has said that it is wonderful that so many different religions exist in the world. Just as one food will not appeal to everybody, one religion or one set of beliefs will not satisfy everyone's needs. • Hans Kung: Until there is no peace between religions, there can be know peace in the world. • There is no any single tradition monopoly the truth. • Treat others as your like to be treaded

26. Living Buddha, Living Christ • Indian Christian: We are going to here the beauties of several tradition, but it doesn’t mean we are going to make a fruit salad! • Thich Nath Hanh: Fruit salad can be delisious! • I don’t see any reason to spend one’s whole life testing just one kind of fruit.

27. Thank​ !