My Voice

The world’s end can never be reached

by means of traveling through the world,

Yet without reaching the world’s end,

there is no release from suffering.

 

Therefore, truly, the world-knower, the wise one,

gone to the world’s end, fulfiller of the holy life,

having known the world’s end, at peace,

longs not for this world or another.

 

-Buddha, “The Connected Discourses of the Buddha”

 

How much we want to live in peace, we are not be able to make world completely peaceful. War is becoming a continuous  process in this world. Ukraine Russia war is continuing for three years. The smoke from Palestine and Israel war is not subsiding. We got another kind of war, which does not have boundaries.  These days, I was disturbed seeing young children, standing without parents. It seemed that they cross the border between USA without parents. I have seen such scene in Ukraine also during war. Do we think that parents can send their children along far away? It is Obvious that they find that their children are not safe in their own country. Drug Mafias, killers have history in Central America. If we see the documentaries of jails in Central America, we can find out that how difficult they are.

I saw a film- The Children’s train, in which children are sent to north Italy for the war period, so that they can study and live normal life.  It was successful up to a limit. I again think  that children are future of the world. Can’t we save them, develop their skills, so that they grow as world citizens.

 

We all know, there is an end of the world.

Rati Saxena