Friends in birth, old age, suffering, and death, both members and non-members of the W.F.B, our world nowadays has fallen into the whirlpool of danger, so much so that we inevitably have to solve the problems arising from this situation by the method of ‘exchanging Dhamma while fighting.’ But those who are fighting have never realised this truth and they may not even be ready to listen to it. This is the point I have taken here to complain about. When things are like this, what should we do? This is the point that I want to present for discussion.

Here even among us Buddhists some may doubt and think ‘Why should we play a leading role in all the affairs of the people in the whole world? Let us be only interested in our own internal Buddhist affairs. Would not this be more proper?’

– Buddhadasa Bhikkhu –

A teaching distributed as a handout at the 9^th General Conference of The World Fellowship of Buddhists on 15 April 2512 (1969) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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