I took my daughter to Battersea Park we visited the Peace Pagoda it should have been a lovely visit. The sun was shining and it was indeed peaceful...
We then heard some shouting their was a Tibetan cleaner who looks after his buddha and cares for it... Anyway some young tourists came and began to climb all over it, and he shouted
at them "Please come down" Over and over for about 15 minutes he was so upset..
The young man in question did not and walked all around it the cleaner getting more and more frustrated.
Buddhist people do not usually resort to anger or violence even though he was upset the man still shouted "Please come down your are making me angry." Another man threatened the man who was shouting while another was trying to explain to the young man he was wrong.
Anyway the parks police were called for and the young man got down. I was thinking how disrespectful this act was... for the Tibetan man and maybe the young man being ignorant... It made me think and made me a little sad to to think that this is what we have come to... I am a
Christian but i try to be tolerant of other peoples beliefs we live in a multicultural society especially where i live and we all have to respect each others beliefs... or learn to anyway i mean that is what Peace is all about... Peace that passeth all understanding... we all have to learn to be more tolerant of one another and like the pop song
Where is the Love? if it does not come from us... Daisy.