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A third, perhaps a more disturbing aspect of modern life, is what with the world getting closer, communication barriers breaking away, and scientific and technological advance becoming so rapid, we have come face to face with several problems in terms of economic and political rivalry, pollution, population explosion, scarcity of resources and the indiscriminate use of resources that might not be replaced. With these comes a host of other issues which can be plainly labelled as ´´survival´´.

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Related to that would be modern life understood in terms of science and technology. Man in his attempt to conquer nature, disease , natural barriers, has performed certain feats of a technological complexity which is quite mindboggling. That is another aspect of modern life.

Buddhism in Modern Life

Dr. Ananda Guruge

Dr. K.Sri Dhammananda

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Chapter one. Part one.

The topic as it stands has several parts to it;

What is modern life? What is Buddhism? And what role has Buddhism to play in modern life?

Modern life in itself is very difficult to define. One might say that modern life is characterized by the fact that the world is getting smaller ; that people are having greater access to each other ; that communication barriers are fast disappearing; that it is possible for one to know what happens everywhere in the world within a short time, and thereby participate in the life of a larger cross-section of the world than one could have ever thought of. That would be one aspect of modern life.

Science does not give a satisfactory explanation with regard to the development of the mind, which is infinitely more important than the machinery of man`s material body.

Pray not! The darkness will not brighten ! Ask nought from the silence, for it cannot speak! Vex not your mouthful minds with pious pains! Ah! Brother , Sisters, seek

Nought from the helpless gods by gifts and hymm , nor bribe with blood, nor feed with fruit and cakes , within yourselves deliverence must be sought. Eachman his prison makes.

``Light of Asia`` by Sir Edwin Arnold