Rajapaksa Dilemma: KP or the 13th Amendment

Saturday 28 of January 2012

By: Upasiri de Silva

(Lanka-e-News-29.Jan.2012,1.30AM) “Thanhaya jayati soko – thanhaya jayati bhayam, Thanhaya vippamuttassa – natthi soka kuto bhayam”“From greed arises grief, from greed arises fear, for him who is free of greed, there is no grief and no fear (Dhammapada)Lord Buddha’s point of view, Thanha is the strongest bond which binds us to pleasurable sensations in the hope of making them permanent. If not corrected quickly this bond of desire steadily is able to completely take over your life – both your thoughts and your actions become irresponsible and unrealistic, leading eventually to a very demented state of mind that stops all progress towards any spiritual fulfillment. In a majority Sinhala Buddhist country, where Buddhism is the religion of the majority of Sri Lankans, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who publically announced that his house hold is run by his wife according to the Christian religious guidelines at a meeting with then Bishop Malcolm Ranjith (now Cardinal) in 2005 while apologizing for criticizing the Christian religion at a election rally, has discarded this Buddhist point of view and selling the country to the highest bidder and now the North and the East as well to keep the illegally earned money and the two LTTE ships handed over to Rajapaksa’s by KP and the LTTE remnants, (now called the World Tamil Federation-WTF).

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