2015 Vesak Day

Vesak Day is one of the most important day in Buddhism believe. 

The day when they commemorates the Birth, the Enlightenment and the Death of Buddha Gautama. This year I have the chance to visit Borobudur Temple, Indonesia during the 2015 Vesak Day. 

Thousand of people join the celebration with festival, meditation and praying with their own Buddhism tradition believe. 

Something catch my attention during the festival, when the Buddhist monk marching down the street with heavy arms security force. The reason behind this because there's a bomb threat.

Perhaps this bomb threat was connected with what have been posted in many social media lately, the Rohingya Incident in Myanmar.

I don't quite understand how people this day still are so easily to be provoked with old news.

One of 5 basic principal law of Buddhism stated that "we should not Kill." The Karma law teach that all the deeds that we did to other will return to ourself. And we should grow the Metta - Love to others as much as we could.

So i don't understand when the Buddhist monk that should teach all this love but instead provoking their follower to do the killing in Rohingya incident.

I also don't understand when Muslim want to revenge under the name of Islam.

King Jordan give a speech at the European Parliament this year.
This is the transcript of his speech:

"This is why it is important to clarify what it really means to be a Muslim. I and countless other Muslims, have been taught from our earliest years that our religion demanded respect and caring for others. The Prophet Mohammad, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “None of you has faith until you love for your neighbour what you love for yourself.”

This is what it means to be a Muslim.

Among the very names of God, we hear: the Compassionate, the All-Merciful. All my life, every day, I have heard and used the greeting, Assalamu aleikum — a wish for the other to be blessed with peace.

This is what it means to be a Muslim.

More than a thousand years before the Geneva Conventions, Muslim soldiers were ordered not to kill a child, a woman or an old person, not to destroy a tree, not to harm a priest, not to destroy a church.

These are the same values of Islam we were taught in school as children: not to destroy or desecrate a place where God is worshipped, not a mosque, not a church, not a synagogue.

This is what it means to be a Muslim. These are the values I teach my children and they will hand on to theirs."

Later on I also find out that there are 3 Buddhist monk that receive the Peace Award from World Religion Parliament in Oslo, for their act to save the Muslim Rohingya during the conflict. 

During the conflict in 2013, this 3 monks risk their own life to save 800 muslim during the riot in Meiktila, Myanmar. The muslim witnessed how this 3 monk went outside the temple and talk to the riot that they have to go through his body before they can kill any muslim inside the Buddhist temple. 

The King Jordan speech and the act of this 3 Buddhist monk has overwhelm myself with feeling grateful that we still can find the true people who not only believing but also practising the true teaching of their religion and love.

We should not blame anything to religion, because the purpose of religion is to teach people to be a better person, to be harmony, and to live in peace.

Sabbe Satta Bhavantu Sukhitatta
May all creature are free from suffering
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu