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