
Asphalt Jungle
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Asphalt Jungle
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🇦🇺 Aussie In Thailand🇹🇭 | Motorbikes 🏍️ Love MotoGP 🏁 Like Golf⛳ Family Man | Retired in Land of Smiles and Sydney. Be good and help others.





On my shrine, I keep a small piece of sandstone that came from one of the two massive carved Buddha statues at Bamiyan. These statues stood for more than 1,400 years in central Afghanistan. A lay devotee gave me this stone nearly twenty years ago, having obtained it while visiting Bamiyan with an international organization. By that time, the statues had already been destroyed by the Taliban. The stone is only a fragment from the ruins. Human-made structures may appear solid and unchanging, but nothing is guaranteed. Religious monuments built to last for centuries may survive natural disasters, yet no one can know how future generations will view or use them. About two hundred years ago, British troops used the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon as a military fort. Many ancient Buddhist sites in India that escaped destruction were later renamed and repurposed by other religions. Whether Buddhism endures in the future does not depend on objects like sandstone or even granite. It depends on sustaining the light of the Dhamma in the hearts of all beings. There is no need to struggle against impermanence. Understanding it is enough. — Teaching of Ajahn Jayasaro Ban Rai Thaw Si Monastery, Nakhon Ratchasima facebook.com/share/p/1AvMuY…

































