|
Why Restoring? Restoring Stupas to Eliminate Hunger in the World |
|
Although they are not yet sufficient, many initiatives have been taken to help people in the poorest areas of the world who suffer from famine and die of starvation (about 24,000 people a day – 8,760,000 a year – source FAO).
Analysing this reality we can recognize – besides the deplorable indifference about this tragedy among wealthy populations – that there is a precise interdependence between the experiences of suffering and dying from hunger and the inner and external causes of people reduced to such miserable conditions.
Removing the direct internal causes specific to these individuals – causes that intrinsically determine this reality – is a substantial element allowing for conditions to change and to alleviate and eliminate this tragedy, which after aging is the second cause of human deaths in the world.
The means to remove the personal causes of every type of suffering are deeply defined in the spiritual practices for mental development in all of the world’s religions.
In this case we have to use every effective and speedy resource that can transcend the direct involvement of the people experiencing this reality of suffering, resources that can stop this carnage unbearable to mankind.
This is how we arrive at the real benefit of the “Stupa Rebuilding Project”. As it has been explained in the section about the benefits of a stupa, we can recognize the great benefits that expand and radiate from stupas. Stupas have the qualities of purifying deeply the causes of the suffering of all sentient beings, and of bringing peace and natural development to their surroundings.
The rebuilding of 24,000 ruined and abandoned stupas in the Himalayas (the roof of the world) and elsewhere in Asia can create enough positive energy – directly through the environment and the Earth’s soil – to purify the inner causes of the suffering of these people. People will gain immediate benefits from the Stupa Rebuilding Project, a project that will contribute effectively to changing the external conditions connected with the harsh reality of hunger: poverty, war, drought, logistical obstacles, indifference, etc.
The Stupa rebuilding Project begins with the determination to create the energetic conditions necessary to ensure that 24,000 human beings do not have to experience the atrocious reality of slowly dying of hunger in a place hostile to nutrition, living the last days of their lives seeing the same destiny in the eyes of their dear ones.
Stupas are symbols of Holiness, Love and Peace. Their restoration is our real and direct contribution to finding a solution to this tragedy. |
