A Few Timely Advises and a WARNING to All Buddhists in The World

1. Be in good terms with your fellow Buddhists. Help each other, as Buddhists. Get together regularly at the local temple or elsewhere convenient, and discuss peacefully what's going on around you and in the world.

2. Pay special attention to what's going on in the Buddhist world, and come up with ideas to respond to them. Follow the 7 rules to avoid destruction, laid out by Buddha himself.

3. Most importantly, among them, get together, discuss, and disperse peacefully. Get together regularly. Keep the women of the community safe.

4. Listen to the elders and ppl with more experience, especially when it comes to the threats coming from certain anti Buddhist parties.

5. Marry as soon as possible, have as many kids as possible, and teach them dharma well. Those couples who can't have kids, please already adopt from somewhere, and make sure that those kids follow Buddhism.

6. Otherwise, don't adopt at all. Help a poor Buddhist family so they can have more and more kids. Buddha said that the sons are the treasure of humanity, so more sons, the better. I should have said earlier but lemme say now.

7. The reason I thought I should make this post is for two reasons.

1. Buddhist community is projected to diminish in both number and percentage

 2. Buddhists are persecuted at different levels wherever they are the minority.

So,

8. The only way we can make sure to overcome this is,

1. Marry asap

2. Have as many kids as possible

3. Men start working asap

4. Women train yourselves for household duties.

9. I don't think a woman's place is in the kitchen, but, this is a crisis situation that we're going through, so please bear with me till we're through.

10. It might take more than one generation, but your good efforts will be rewarded handsomely in the afterlife, and very likely this life too.

11. So, marry soon, have many kids, and most importantly, I've heard that virgin women can make more kids, so, I request all Buddhist women to stay virgin till marriage (I know most of you do it anyway. This call is for those who possibly don't.).

12. Buddhist men should do just by the women and should stay virgin till marriage too. Don't feed into modern narratives that says that virginity is a bad thing; it's not. It's a purity and a sacrifice for Dhamma.

13. Becoming a monk is an important aspect to discuss here as we know monks aren't supposed to have sex OR any other family affairs. To overcome that problem, I'd suggest two things

14. Before becoming a monk, have as many kids as possible as a father/mother. It's better if the women actually remain as mothers as long as they in order to make sure they make the highest amount of kids they can.

15. Men who become monks later, make sure your wives are taken care of well IF they don't enter the monk life along with you or around the same time.

We need to follow a little different tradition now.

16. We need to a new role to our community; a regular Buddhist that lives in a temple, takes care of it, teaches Buddhism and organizes the local Buddhist community regarding their activities.

17. This person also should have a family elsewhere and he should be able to take care of the family and father as many kids as possible. All Buddhist kids. He's not a monk and thus shouldn't dress like one.

18. His duty is, in a few words : to take care of the protection and expansion of the Buddhist community.

19. He should teach ppl Buddhism and what's going on against the Buddhist community today, and organize them to act, just like I'm doing now, or even better. 

20. Regarding the non Buddhist affairs, live with them peacefully until they attack you first...now, this part isn't gonna sound very Buddhist at first, but please bear with me first.

21. Since you're at peace with the non Buddhists, if any ppl of any certain community attack you, consider that as that particular community declaring war against the Buddhist community, and fight back wherever you can fight back.

22. The Buddhists who are in a position where they can't fight back, should do one of these two things.

1. Prepare enough and fight back.

2. If it's obvious you can't fight and win, leave the land and go to lands where you can settle, prepare, and take the war back to the land you left behind.

23. They've driven you outta your lands so now you should drive them outta your lands which they've occupied.

24. Don't act in a way that benefits them, especially when it comes to allowing them to expand into the Buddhist territory in any way.

25. Expand the Buddhist community into their territory, but never let them do the same to you. If they seek to buy your land, refuse the proposal peacefully, or ask them to become Buddhist 1st. 

26. If they refuse and still demand your land, fight them through legal means or otherwise. Fight those who fight you and those who are commanded to fight you, but don't fight an innocent community.

27. That'd be wrong. Fight them the same way they fight you or better than the way they fight you, but don't fight if they don't fight you first.

28. If they don't fight you now, they might be waiting for a certain opportunity to start fighting you later so prepare for war during the times of peace. Buddha appreciated the service of a soldier to the community.

29. You're on the right way. The only think you should buy from them but should never sell them, is land or property. For the rest, the rules are opposite; sell them goods and services, but don't buy from them.

30. When you act in a way that's beneficial to a non Buddhist community, you promote the worst deed a Buddhist can commit : the definite false sightedness.

31. The definite false sightedness aka niyatha michcha dhitti in Pali, consists of 10 parts and the 10th part is the disbelief in Buddhas who understood the truth as is and taught to the world.

32. There are those who say "Buddha didn't reveal the world the truth," and there are those who say "Buddha revealed the truth, but it's been corrupted with time."

33. Both groups are non Buddhists, and you should never, ever, act in a way that benefits them. Speaking of acts that benefit them, what about interfaith marriage? It's better to avoid such marriages at all costs.

34. But, if it's a situation you can't avoid it, this is what you have to do.

35. Always make sure that the Buddhist party has the upper hand regarding all matter of the marriage, before, during and after it takes place. Lemme explain further.

36. If a non Buddhist seeks marriage with a Buddhist, ask him to become a Buddhist 1st. If he truly seeks the partner, he'll convert, right? If he refuses to convert, it can be because of a few reasons.

37. He seeks to continue his relationship with his cousins and friends and becoming a Buddhist can stand in his way, sometimes even violently. There are groups who violently respond to those who leave their religion.

38. If a member of such a group seeks marriage with the Buddhist community, I'd say the best is to flatly say NO and make sure no trouble comes to the Buddhist member from members of this community, later on.

39. If not, ask him to convert. If it doesn't work, here's what to do. Make sure the offspring of the marriage turn out Buddhist and this non Buddhist also follow a through what the Buddhists follow through.

40. In their household, only Buddhism should be promoted and preached to the kids and others.

41. Members of the non Buddhist person's community shouldn't be visiting the house, especially at times in which the Buddhist presence in the house is weaker than the non Buddhist visiting party.

42. The offspring shouldn't be sent to educational institutes where the said non Buddhist party has the upper hand over the Buddhist party, unless the Buddhist party can make sure such an upper hand poses no threat to such kids.

43. Honestly, there are a lot of things to be careful of if we let such a marriage take place so let's be a little more realistic : what's the point of spending this life together only to let karma set the two apart in the next life?

44. If you truly love your partner, you'll wanna be with him/her in your next life too, but if only one of you dies as a Buddhist, that's very less likely to happen, because you two mismatch in seela, one of the four components that should be similar between the couple, if they seek to be together in the afterlife too.

45. Seela means the discipline in Buddhism, and only a Buddhist can acquire that because it requires belief in the word of Buddha.

46. So, as you can see, interfaith marriage isn't a good idea for Buddhists, especially if the other person belongs to a community that's violent or expansionist (or both) community. So, that's all for now.

47. It's a lot, I know, but please, we need to protect Buddhism for those who come after us 

48. and we should help as many people in the world as possible while we still can. Thank you for bearing with me till now.

49. The post will expand later with added suggestions. Lemme know your suggestions too and I'll add them to later tweets on the same thread.

50. Also, if you see this link shared via a social media post, you'll be able to send me a message through the social media itself. To all Buddhists, may Dhamma protect you.

51. To all others, come and join us, so Dhamma will be your guidance to eternal freedom and happiness.

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