Buddhism I love and the Buddhism I Hate As I saw both
The Pathway for the New Constitution being Formulated
Yes Buddhism's
constitutional status, has to be ensured of elevating to a level of
respectfully accepted by all section of ethnic and religious communities within
the Nation, through fresh provisions to the entrenched status of the current
constitution for the New Constitution being formulated. This in order to
elevate the status and to preserve the valued rituals practiced by the Majority
Community - a deserved respect for them by other communities through
nonviolence means.
Yes since the
Independence in1948, the Majority community has been utter foolishly involved
in many means threatening and marginalization of the minorities, through violent
eruptions of looting and robbing periodically in order to attain what they
believed as a “respectful status”, by Buddha-Sinhalization
of the nation.
As a consequence of
Majoritarian Terrorizing out of fear over Tamils, that the Tamils would Up-rise
(Thamilar Ezuchchi or மேல் ஓங்கல்) in 1956, 1958, 1974, 1977, 1980
and1983 – the counter offensive Terrorism by the Tamil Youth was born and was
made to escalate into a haunting 30 year long war, - so that to exercise
the total enslavement, by bringing the whole majority Tamil speaking people
residing areas under direct clout of Sinhala Majority Defense Personals. It is a pity experience
that Government of Sri
Lanka cunningly used the extremism and extremists
within their own rank to instigate the extremism among minorities rather than nipping in the
bud.
But That is what the
Sinhalese Governments perceived and professed to achieve, using the Sinhala
–Buddhist extremists since independence and
they have achieved it very crudely and cruelly by the war that had been haunting and warping
to all communities of the nation.
That is the present scenario –
that is what the Sinhalese Government wanting to preserve and sustain that “post
war culture", forcing the “Sinhalese-thinking” on to the Tamils as
“reconciliation” - A bloody farce reconciliation at the gun point as has been
perceived and professed for, since Independence, that was made meant only for Sinhalese. The conduct of the Governments are clearly of
Dutta Kaimunu Saga, (Tamil meaning –the bad hand holder or Man who always does
evil things) primitive thinking
rather than based on the constitutions they enact as cover for portraying as
considerate for minorities –but never by their actions; particularly armed
forces and policing can be an example - for explaining the needs for improving
the cordial relationship among ethnic communities in one nation that is
religiously aligned – now the war was far over – 7 years had been lost
for the people who were the first to be displaced losing their lively-hood, sacrificing the self-respect for ever – to
the State’s misplaced warmth esteem towards the Security Forces. Defense
personals who are in State payroll are engaged in additional income generation,
through farming, agriculture etc., while the real owners of the lands occupied
are begging for daily shelter and food. The war excess - Hora Pusas have found the
taste of additional income – using the Power of a State and bringing up the
Buddha Statues with ostentatious devotion
to take
cover behind, off the absolutely contentious act of depriving right to
livelihood and shelter on their own land. When a Minister in charge of the
Resettlement – A Tamil by birth announces that a further 1000 acres of land
would be released back to the owners, the following day The State’s pet the area
Commander hora- pusa announces – “enough land had been released back
to owners, and there is no lands to release further” – now the cabinet
minister a Tamil pet of Ranil W cannot even bark at the Hora Pusas – because,
since independence forces had been unduly venerated and had been trained to
dance Sinhala-Buddhism command only! Why
you enact constitution?
The rulers, who are adamantly
reluctant to come out of the Karma befallen Medieval thinking introduced to
this Nation by a too exuberant juvenile of just 17 years old Prince who
rebelled and defied his own King father – to Kill 60,000 Saivist along with
King Elara in order to Establish Buddhism against extensively practiced
Saivaism, that pushed the majority of Saivist north of Anuradhapura, in
Thambatheevu. This particular incident had been described with injected
venomous racist booster latter by Therars Mahanama and Veera Muni medieval
thinking fictionalizers as of a great Buddha- Sasana establishing
accomplishment for Sri Lanka. Strikingly featuring medieval thinking of Mahanama
Therar that saliently contradicts Gautama Buddha’s Noble prescriptions for life,
and enlightenment 1000 years earlier, but still branded as Buddhism and have
been in preservation for generations in Sri Lanka since the Dutta Kemunu
period. This well explains the concocting
and conducting of all violent eruptions against the minorities by the State and
its’ religious pompous monks.
The Tamils of this Island are
not prepared to accept or to concede to these kind of nonsense – of Sinhalese
defined and destined Buddhism, but the Gautama Buddha Buddhism engrained of noble
philosophy that rejects assumptions and hate for alternatives, and that empowers
discussions against authoritarian and that promulgating rationalized
thinking against subordinate imaginations hence imaginative fears by fallacy
reasons. I have walked across the quite
a number Tamil families who follows Buddhism as their principal guide and their
shrine room consists of Statue of Buddha along with other, but quite
conspicuously shying off to declare themselves as Sri Lankan Tamil Buddhists.
The modern day “Dutta Kemunus”
All must understand first that
building a Temple or a Vihara is entirely different from enacting statues in
junctions surrounded by people not prepared to welcome it, for the simplest
reason, it is established by force – not by compassion and that they very
knowledgably understands the prince Siddhartha’s teachings that enabled him to
become Gautama Buddha not the one practiced by statues installers with concealed
reasons for the instigation of religious
disharmony, as the origin of statue worshiping is Saivist rituals, and the
defense personals posing, why not Tamil people cannot worship Buddha Statue as
well!
In Saivaism or Hinduism is if a statue enacted
it has to be maintained by Daily Pooja or Offerings ("Sahththupadi")
- otherwise the people erected the statue of deity become engulfed in sins and
cursed for generations. That is known as "Sahbam" in Tamil. This
ritual believe should be respected wherever Hindus or Saivist or even Catholics
reside in majority. But for the style of
Sri Lankan Buddhism - once the Buddha statue is erected - there is no need for
such maintenance but a "respect" borne out by standing still off
moving or standing off their seats for few seconds, when commuting in a vehicle
is enough - that is what the Defense personals wanted to achieve among the
people whom majority are not of following statue respect
Buddhism and - Using the Ruling Status or an Office to
Force the people to respect a statue - not the respectful principled Buddha teachings. A human being who is mindful of self - respect
will not accept what is forced upon him/her, particularly when they are aware
of true Gautama Buddha’s Teachings; Buddha never prescribed statue worshiping,
particularly of his own, but this practice was adopted from Hindu -Saiva rituals
for attraction and propagation and Buddhism attained a religious status. Hence the State aligned to a religion as main whatsoever
of rituals, shall exert control over erecting places of worship any
representing any religion or sect, particularly including that of State
affiliated, so that to emphasize the basic principles entrenched and emanated
by different religions. Such laws and appropriate constitutional reforms shall
ensure religious harmony in the entire island. There are should be a high profiled multi-religious body of the Central Government
as well as to Provinces based on the need of the population of
that particular province, which mandating to authorize the enacting of Viharai,
Temples and Mosques or any other place where people commune for veneration; it
shouldn’t be wherever or whenever as of someone’s right alone, but that ensures collective responsibility towards peace
and harmony that all religions basically prescribe.
The Buddhism is being a main State
aligned, with very much affiliation to the State of a Nation of
multi-ethnicity, It necessitate the State to curb the unnecessarily
over-reactive forces such as undisciplined monks and defense personals from
non-principled religious activities, the persona of both are totally of from
majority Buddhist community or in the latter of few numbered non-Buddhists
preferred to be aligned with majority community for the benefits borne by that state
affair status. A uniform wearing government officer shall instead involve in
actions accordance with Superior Buddhist Principles that inducts compassion
and attraction, towards the government and it’s State aligned Buddhism - the servicemen
representing. For the people, the six decade of post independent era has haunting
in many ways including to the majority
community but particularly for minorities, by the fact that constitution and
conduct ran contrarily, in fact contrast to the Noble Gautama Buddha Guidance in
the conquest for the political survival by the rivalry political parties subordinated
the noble principles – sought politically entrenched quantity instead of
(against) seeking the superior quality of practice of Buddhist teachings and
attraction towards it.
Seeking the
Quality instead of Quantity
It is an absolute assumption to
imagine and fear borne out of inferiority complex, all in total contradiction
to Buddha’s teachings that Buddhism and Sinhalese would vanish and disappear or
would be overrun by other religions despite being followed by an immense 70% or
more populace, and despite being State’s main Religion – ever ruled only by
Buddhists. There is no any barrier or physiological hindrance for Sinhalese or Buddhists
to reproduce and hence the assumptions– are
scientifically and mathematically false and farce and hegemonic for more and
more opportunities and benefits. Only thing that hinder the Sinhala
Buddhist population increasing, is their own ritual practice of offering
the Children to Sasana irrespective of their sex difference, and
I am typing this part on the 1st of October – The International Day for Children; it appears that Karma
has befallen on these children as both Hindu and Buddhist followers believe in.
In other words, if it is unchecked proliferation of monks and hence too many
ill-conceived interpretations of Buddhism, and it is the real threat for
expansion of Buddhism in its’ reputed pure form as a whole. It seems that Karma
has befallen on this country designed to protect Buddhism – that it allows
proliferation of people never wanted to recognize and understand the Gautama Buddha’s
Noble teachings and Guidance for
peaceful life, within its own ranks, unless the reputed pure form are taught to
them and are given options for modern education, or to leave or
stay within the Sasana when they attains self-reliance thinking; if a text book
describes brethren ethnic community as “napuru” (very cruel people), long
before Tamil counter terrorism was unleashed, that system has to look back its own path it
came through more conscientiously, than now.
Prince Siddhartha physically
liberated him from affiliations after completing one of the most important Social
Responsibility of Marriage, - that is after attaining the certain decree of Knowledge on life
maters, and would have never imagined that completely selfless innocent children would be offered as just
offering for Sasana, by the parents. Sasana and Buddhists leadership shall throw
light on this aspect of absorbing people for Sasana activities, pupil for the
Sasana should have attained maturity to understand the deeper meaning of the
guidance prescribed by Gautama Buddha and absorb it to be propagated
properly.
The notion that Country with
devolved power and power shared with communities other than the Sinhalese
Buddhists cannot protect Buddhism is only an idiotic hegemonic thinking – borne
again by absolute assumptions and fear – borne out of inferiority complex
again, of the ever nonconformists even after the Military victory against ruthless
terrorist organization, not wanted to trust their own governments – but ever
wanted to hang on to the 17 year old boy (bequeathed Prince) of the 5th century primitive
thinking – aroused in contrast to Gautama
Buddha’s Teachings but had been claimed to be stamping the authority
over Saivist.
The
present day Sinhalese leaders shall come out this medieval thinking for the
sake of the entire population of this Nation than for any think else. Gautama
Buddha has prescribed equality consideration for all life, all human beings,
alike. In a multiethnic country it is the responsibility of the State to
ensure, equal treatment of its citizen not only on writing in the constitution,
but shall through its actions that emanate the message of guaranteed equality
considerations across the nation as well as within its’ State Machinery.
Devolution
of Centralized Power within a Nation is one way of ensuring political equality,
particularly within a Democratic Nation. Democracy is Classless Rule of the people, by
the people that ensures equality to all, sustaining and defending the supremacy
of the people through elected Parliament and Neutrally functioning systems,
which include Independent Judiciary neutral to all ethnic communities.
Democracy is developed into various devolutionary packages to ensure the
equality of the rule of the people by the people for different ethnic group of
people within a Nation – such as federal, canton councils, provincial councils
etc.
The two main political parties, who ran The
Government of Sri Lanka, ever since independence through politics of bi-partition was able to
sustain and propagate racism and discrimination as
a tool for political gain as well as a policy of the GOSL conveniently through
ostentatious decoration of "Buddhism Prescribed Democracy"
to be indiscernible for whoever question or doubt their actions. The Democratic
Nations were nonexistent when Buddha was living, and thus only prescribed it
for so as to settle small squabbles and disputes of finger countable village
committee, no way can be thrust forcibly into another ethnic communities different
language or religions. This entire episode is the core resulted in a war and
was unnecessarily protracted the war absolute subjection of Tamils and
minorities.
The
present devolution known as 13th Amendment, is a fallacy for the
meaning of devolution of powers that suits the hegemonic aspirations rather
than of the minorities and further engraved by the rulers of hegemonic politics
towards Centralization since its introduction. Two
separate States or Nations within the Island of Sri Lankan is not possible any
means topographically nor demographically, both renounce the peaceful existence
or forever, or ever happening. All political pipe-dreamers the Rulers and opposition
shall understand this notion of two nations are just a pipedream only and shall
be intelligent enough to go forward with devolution of powers with
demographical alignments – as much as possible Tamil speaking People’s aspirations to
be cleared of heavy dependency on Majoritarian Bi-Partition politics since
Independence have to be satisfied through maximum devolution and effective
power sharing objectively. The sole
objective of devolution is, to address the Tamils’ Political aspiration, in the
context of central majoritarian rule and that objective can be achieved only
joining the Tamil Speaking areas and if necessary with pockets of Union Central
Rule –for the minority of the Province, enough is experiments with two separate
provinces for Tamil aspirations as Minorities.
The
political parties in power shall renounce the Monarchial fantasy for the sake
of the people and shall delegate themselves to further strengthening 13th
amendment towards the provincial Governments so that the people of the
respective provinces enjoy the devolved power rather only few in the Centre. No any hindrance can be foreseen, for Sri
Lankan peoples’ to continue practicing Buddhist Rituals that originated since
Monarchial era, either Centrally or peripherally by such full strengthened devolution;
actually by such devolution, the ritual practices of the peripherals are
promoted and enhanced to be conducted with plump and pomp as of Central, (if
the central authorities are not cast concerned of any) I don’t think anybody
would oppose this, unless for personal schemas. The present way of implementing the devolved
powers – more or less resembles the prior -13th Amendment of 1987 with
Police and Judiciary and Land powers has been completely held back, Education,
Health, Irrigation, Agriculture etc. travels in two boats turbulently and just
eating into the economy with lesser output – finally Central Government take the burden for weakly
performing provinces as well.
Therefore
the Central Government shall delegate all the powers prescribed in the 13th
Amendment completely through new constitution and it shall assume an astute competitive supervisory
role – e.g. once The Central Government totally delicate the
powers of Education Ministry Administration, National Schools – It will keep
back all the National Examinations and processing within its purview for
analysis and progress guidance.
