Buddhism for overcome Youth agitation

Kundasale Subhagya Meheninwahance
Lecturer, Religious course coordinator;
Intercollegiate Sri Lanka Education
Affiliated to the University of Peradaniya

For the continuation and useful existence of a society and for the event of a rustic youth is lifeblood and therefore the main vigorous active facet of a country that perceptive everything from the society effectively and sensitively. The restlessness will be recognized united of the dominant factors that demonstrates ethical, moral and social degeneration of the younger generation.

The agitation can be defined as “characteristics by showing inability to remain at rest, unquiet, uneasy as a person, the mind or the heart”. The youth agitation has been recognized as a very important social undeniable fact that ought to obsessionally be mentioned and given effective solutions. The arising of youth agitation may be seen in varied varieties of social phenomena like social, instructional, economical, sexual, relational, non-secular etc. the explanations and effectives for growing up youth agitation in each social context need to be recognized and understood to seek out solutions.

As a country in which the Buddhism exists, a certain contribution can really be gained in applying the teaching of the Buddha to overcome the youth restlessness before being a stringent social problem.A pressure group is one that attempts to influence decision-makers or ‘governing elite’ for its own interests or the interests of a larger group that it represents. It wants the existing norms to be interpreted to benefit it. In an agitation, there is always a pressure group tactics but in a social movement, it may or may not be there.

The difference between an agitation and a social movement is that social movement may take the form of agitation but every movement does not do so. Many movements are peaceful, for example, women’s liberty movement, the prohibition movement or the anti-nuclear move­ment. These peaceful movements are the result of cultural drift.

Youth agitation is the behavior of the youth whose goal is neither injury to a person nor destruction of public property but social protest. It is neither the result of innate destructive drive nor it is an inborn reaction to frustrations. It is a learned behavior. Various forms of youth agita­tions are: demonstrations, slogan shouting, strikes and hunger strikes. We can see many solutions from the Buddhism for this agitation.

Buddhism does not want people to be like a withered log or a dead fire and to talk about the sufferings of this world in a serious manner all the time. Buddhism is a happy religion and hopes that everyone will find supreme peace and happiness. If Buddhism is a happy religion, why does it emphasize the suffering of life? It is because if you do not know suffering, you will not know happiness. Buddhism manly connects with the mind and teaching about the psychological background of the mind. Agitation is manly connecting with the mind setup. According to the Buddha, agitation cause to many social corruptions.

Jayaverapasavati
dukkhasetiparājito
upasantosukhaseti
hitvajayaparajaya.

(Dhammapada Verse 201, KosalarannoParajayaVatthu)

Every sentient being is so unique and has been gifted with talents to deal with life in their own way, since every one of us are coming along with habitual collection of so many different experiences through many lifetimes. Even in this life, we come across different people, environments and are influenced accordingly. So, the process of judgment differs from one person to another, due to different frames of references, different conditional process and simple habits that we are ingrained within from childhood. So, no book and person can meet the various requirement of every individual. Therefore, I am here to share some of my ideas to deal with conflicts and disputes.

To be continued on 12th of July Asala Awa Atawaka Poya paper