Mechanism of Buddhism, the Bridge for World Peace

Abstract

Peace is the dream of the world. However, it still wants peace in the conflict of humankind, who have passion, desire, anger, and infatuation as the important basis of life. It appears in the world since the physical conflict through the war to the collapse of society and mental conflict through the happiness index of humankind. Although it will be the new century, the social conflict still has a more complex level under ethnicity, religion, language, and skin color, based on nationalism that each society thinks is their own identity, until making the hated behavior of humankind become a social value that is difficult to fade away.

The hatred of humankind has penetrated deeply into the people's minds. Buddhism is a bridge of peace that has the effort to resist hatred and people’s conflict in the world with life that is based on kindness without segregation. That is to say, in the Buddhist view, all human beings are world mates, sharing birth, old age, pain, and death. It is not only transmigration, but also we may still have been parents and relatives in future lives. Besides kindness, Buddhism still emphasizes wisdom for reaching the truth, helping humankind look over the bias of ethnicity, language, religion, and skin color, for human beings to be one. Buddhism has the process of building humankind peace through the Buddhist way to integrate with intellectual society and calls that "Mechanism of Buddhism."

Mechanism of Buddhism, social mechanisms such as principles, beliefs, values, customs, activities, culture, and lifestyle of Buddhism, show that it can build relationships in the family and community. Including community has still various gatherings, providing the relationship system for living peacefully. There are customs, systems, regulations, and various ceremonies, the way of society members, both present generation and young generation, are abode by peacefully, including there is promoting and depending on methods, kindness, harmony, and creating power in promoting happiness state of sustainable society forever.