Loudspeakers, “Buddhist like” Monks and Nirvana.
Finally Sarath N Silva did something I can thank him for, banned loudspeakers at night. 10 pm to 6 am. Not enough – but a good start. Now monks are appealing against it for reduce the time period to 5 in the morning.
If these monks don’t know, people have a thing call Radio now days. If we want to listen to chanting, we can put it on, and actually voice come out of it! You don’t have to “broadcast” that metallic irritating noise in the morning and disturb my morning meditation.
Please, stop “broadcasting” that all night. Last thing I want to hear when I’m trying to have sex with my wife is, you people chanting. You don’t have to put that on loudspeakers, I know you are staying up all night and chanting at my neighbor’s house already, because I just send them tea, coffee and bottle of old arrack.
Once I happened to live in a terrible place close to a Buddhist temple, which “broadcast” Pirith for three nights straight. I’m pretty sure even Buddha could not have stand up for that noise for three days straight. I’m so glad now I’m not any closer to any Buddhist temple.
Ruwanweli Maha Seya, is one place I always love to visit. There is nothing peaceful in the world like just sitting by the inner wall and look at that big white emptiness. It is so peaceful and relaxing, until… they installed loudspeakers around it, and destroyed the whole purpose of that place. A temple supposes to be a peaceful, quite, place so we can have an escape from our everyday loud busy life and have a movement of silent and meditate.
I have nothing against some good natural chanting, but I don’t want it in daily loudspeaker dose. I don’t want an early morning short of Pirith either. Let me have it organic next time. If you really want to chant early in the morning, get up early, and chant in your natural voice. And then go out and help someone in need, like Buddha did. Running a cassette on loudspeakers is not chanting, That is a playback.
Remember monks, back in the days, Buddha told monks to stay inside the temple in the rainy seasons just because he didn’t want you to disturb people in name of Buddhism. When Buddha said Niravana, he didn’t mean the rock band nirvana, what he meant was the quite peaceful statues of mind. So before you put on your loud ass speakers next time, learn the spirit of Buddhism. Be a Buddhist. Then you will realize how important to have some silent in our life.
If these monks don’t know, people have a thing call Radio now days. If we want to listen to chanting, we can put it on, and actually voice come out of it! You don’t have to “broadcast” that metallic irritating noise in the morning and disturb my morning meditation.
Please, stop “broadcasting” that all night. Last thing I want to hear when I’m trying to have sex with my wife is, you people chanting. You don’t have to put that on loudspeakers, I know you are staying up all night and chanting at my neighbor’s house already, because I just send them tea, coffee and bottle of old arrack.
Once I happened to live in a terrible place close to a Buddhist temple, which “broadcast” Pirith for three nights straight. I’m pretty sure even Buddha could not have stand up for that noise for three days straight. I’m so glad now I’m not any closer to any Buddhist temple.
Ruwanweli Maha Seya, is one place I always love to visit. There is nothing peaceful in the world like just sitting by the inner wall and look at that big white emptiness. It is so peaceful and relaxing, until… they installed loudspeakers around it, and destroyed the whole purpose of that place. A temple supposes to be a peaceful, quite, place so we can have an escape from our everyday loud busy life and have a movement of silent and meditate.
I have nothing against some good natural chanting, but I don’t want it in daily loudspeaker dose. I don’t want an early morning short of Pirith either. Let me have it organic next time. If you really want to chant early in the morning, get up early, and chant in your natural voice. And then go out and help someone in need, like Buddha did. Running a cassette on loudspeakers is not chanting, That is a playback.
Remember monks, back in the days, Buddha told monks to stay inside the temple in the rainy seasons just because he didn’t want you to disturb people in name of Buddhism. When Buddha said Niravana, he didn’t mean the rock band nirvana, what he meant was the quite peaceful statues of mind. So before you put on your loud ass speakers next time, learn the spirit of Buddhism. Be a Buddhist. Then you will realize how important to have some silent in our life.
posted by Sam at
8:46 PM
3 Comments:
Believe there were already laws regarding noise and disturbance, but they were simply ignored.
Religious leaders, be they Christain, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist must understand is that religion is a matter of private belief, not something for public display.
For the most part, religious leaders seem to be under the impresion that the louder the noise they can make, the greater the piety they achieve.
In my opinion, loudspeakers must be banned at ALL tinmes, not just night time, but at least this is a step in the right direction.
When I lived in SL I used to like going to temples (poya days and even non-poya days) because it was so peaceful there. Now I avoid it as a matter of habit because the word peaceful simply cannot be associated with a temple anymore; they're usually full of pushy people all in a mad rush to offer more flowers than their neighbour, to chant 'saadu saadu' louder than the person next to them and then the loudspeakers only add to the chaos. It's almost as bad as a fish market, and yeah I think loudspeakers should be banned at all times too:)
Most of these rituals, bells, whistles, flowers, pooja's, and acts are truly not related to the teachings of the philosophy or religion in almost every single case. All of them are man-made for maintaining personal power and also for commercial reasons. The true essence of almost all religions is a personal relationship between the individual and his beliefs. We rarely see this around us today, sadly.
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