Buddhists Who Are Willing To Change Their Point Of View
Ramya Jirasinghe
The Crucial Element Missing for Peace in Sri Lanka: Buddhists who are willing to change their point of view
A few months ago The Sunday Time’s Talk at the Café Spectator column ran a snippet on President Rajapaska’s response to a journalist who had found the President exercising on his head in a room at Temple Trees. The President, with his characteristic flare for turning every situation into a joke, had said; “mang beluwe oluwen hita gaththama kohomada mata rata penne kiyala”. During times of turmoil and crisis, real gems of wisdom surface in the guise of black comedy. This is one such gem. The need of the moment is precisely that: someone willing to change a point of view that will invert the world as we view it.
