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Energy grid system - Buddhists are doing it

edited December 2010 in Buddhism Basics
I notice that Vajrayana Buddhists are doing projects that are related to global energy grid system.

This is one example

http://www.siddharthasintent.org/peace/index.html

Blessed vases are planted all over the globe in critical locations to aid world peace.

There are also similair projects like building 100 000 Lotus guru / guru rinpoche / padmasambhava and distribute it all over the world for world peace.

This is similair to another secular groups who distribute energy converting divice (they call it orgonites) to purify and convert energy fields in various location to reduce bad energy and promote good ones.

I wonder about such effectiveness but it's interesting to bless the earth with more positive prayers.

One things I know for sure is that it's beneficial that people around the world, regardless of faith, send love and compassionate energy to the whole world to open up more positively. The practice is similair to metta meditation.

Comments

  • edited December 2010
    This is all very good, but I would simply hope that it doesn't take resources away from more tangible efforts to bring about improvements in the lives of people on a more mundane basis- like providing food for orphanages in poor countries or providing medical services for those unable to access them.

    It would be unfortunate if people who participate in these activities simply do these activities and think they are accomplishing something effective without following through on the more mundane level.

    One Vajrayana group is in the process of creating a very large jade Buddha in Australia, apparently at considerable expense. One thing they are doing to solicit donations is promising to engrave the names of the donors on the back of this Buddha. I could be wrong about that, but that's the way I remember it.

    How many hungry people could be fed if the time and expense of things like this were applied to more direct aid?

    Edit: I just did some checking on the jade Buddha mentioned above and note that it is valued at $5 million, and is currently being taken on a world tour for world peace. How many hungry children in Africa could be fed with that $5 million, and the extra money being spent to take it on a world tour?

    http://www.jadebuddha.org.au/docs/Jade_Buddha_Fact_Sheet.pdf
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