Advanced Thai Conversation (Nibbana Topic) The chief constituent of peace

                         

 Thai Language (NIBBANA Topic) : ธรรมทาน ๒๓ The chief constituent of peace


          Every living human being in this world who claims to want to build peace should as least be able to discern the fact that if we were to adhere to the path of the mundane (lokiya) world alone, that is, to do things as cutomarily done in the manner of the mundane world, there will be no such a day when peace can be built because mundane ways are often initiated and supported by insatiable(very greedy) human carvings or desires.

          For the world to be able to have peace, it needs at least to abandon its innate character of being a mundane world by  'lifting' itself to the 'lokuttara' or supermundane sphere proportionately untill there are at least some 'spiritual guardians' who may help to steer the world to the right path. The availability of such spiritual guardians provides the opportunity for us to learn to understand clearly Buddhist teaching at the fundamental level at least so that there will some form of moral disciplines and order and not too much chaos and confusion in the world. Also there may be perhaps some premises or gleams of hope of true peace appearing in the world ; then humankind will stop deluding themselves and learn to love the truth more than what is false and delusive.

          As for this matter of 'nibbana' which is the chief constituent of peace, it ought to be arranged as a matter that is to appear in the front page of printed papers and advertisements in general, as a kind of daily education for everybody, because 'nibbana' which implies spiritual liberation and while being something which is related to and inclines towards the instinctive wants of all human beings, is also something meaningful enough for us to adhere to so that it can fit in with purpose or meaning of human being' daily deeds at every level and age as well as the manner of work performed, all of which aim at a liberated survival which can be liberated survival (or deliverance) of any kind so long as it is not delusion.


From : 'Nibbana'  Buddhadasa Bhikkhu 
Translated from Thai to English by Dr. J. Ratana Nantho Bhikkhu

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