Monday, July 09, 2012

An interview with Ven. Loun Sovath

34 comments:

Anonymous said...

ព្រះសង្ឃដិកានៃព្រះតេជគុណ លួន សាវ៉ាត
មួយម៉ាត់ៗពោរពេញទៅដោយពាក្យខ្លឹមសារ
ដ៏ប្រណិតចាប់ចិត្តចាប់អារម្មណ័ជាអនេកប្បការ។
នេះជាទឹកព្រះទ័យដ៏អង់អាចក្លាហានមុះមុត។
ព្រះអង្គជាវិរសង្ឃមួយអង្គដែលពុទ្ធសាសនិកខ្មែរ
ក្នុងប្រទេស ក្រៅប្រទេសកោតសរសើរ។
មិនតែប៉ុណ្ណោះ ព្រះអង្គត្រូវបានអន្តរជាតិ
គាំទ្រ និង សរសើរ។
សូមឲ្យសត្រូវមកពីខាងមុខព្រះភក្ត្ររំលង
មកពីខាងក្រោយខ្នងព្រះអង្គរលាយ។
សូមឲ្យរាស្ត្រក្រោកឈរឡើងទាមទារសិទ្ធ
សេរីភាពគ្រប់យ៉ាង ដើម្បីជាតិខ្មែរ ទឹកដីខ្មែរ។
អ្នកដឹកនាំខ្មែរមានហើយ ខ្មែរគ្រប់រូបត្រូវដើរតាម
វីរសង្ឃ លួន សាវ៉ាតជាស្ថាពរ។

Anonymous said...

Ah HENG SOY TURN HOCHIMONK?

Anonymous said...

Ven. Loun Savath,

You are an inspirational figure in present Cambodia.

Your name will live forever in Khmer people mind.

Anonymous said...

We all need to support him. Your voice can make a difference.

Anonymous said...

KHMER KOUR YOK PREAH SANG LUON SOVATH,
DEUK NOIM SROK,
TEUP SOK SARN,
TOR REANG TOV !!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

KHMER KOUR YOK PREAH SANG LUON SOVATH,
DEUK NOIM SROK,
TEUP SOK SARN,
TOR REANG TOV !!!!!!!!!!!

Srey Mao

Anonymous said...

KHMER KOUR YOK PREAH SANG LUON SOVATH,
DEUK NOIM SROK,
TEUP SOK SARN,
TOR REANG TOV !!!!!!!!!!!

Srey Mao

Anonymous said...

KI-MEDIA'S fans are dumb and lop..lop rely on USA GOVT. SSI BENEFITS if they're in USA. HOW COULD THESE FOOL JOIN THE POLITICS? I guess khmers at abroad are most of the junks..junkssss disability people. They hate YOUN but they buy stuffs from YOUN'S store to feed the families. I guess these khmer are so dumb, ignorant couldn't run the daily life.

Anonymous said...

8:44 AM,

Do you have a grocery somewhere?
We can go to your store in US or in Cambodia.
Do you know that Khmer in US sent dollars to help Khmer in Cambodia. If you do not know you are A LOP.

If you make a mistake and no one tell you, how can you correct your mistake?

Anonymous said...

KHMER KOUR YOK PREAH SANG LUON SOVATH,
DEUK NOIM SROK,TEUP SOK SARN,TORREANG
TOV !!!!!!!!!!!
KHMER KROP TI THAN PRATHNA JORNG BAN
TAE SACHKDEI SOK TAE VEA MIN BAN. YERNG
SREK KLEAN KLANG NAS NEAK DEUK NOIM
DAEL PROKORB DUY TURSPIT REACH THOR,MIN
THA LEUY SDACH RIR BUKOL NA OY TAE MEAN SAMATHAPHEAP KROP KREAN NUS VEA JEA KAR
DOR PROSER NAS JOMPURS PROTES JEAT.
JEANG SAM SEP CHHNAM NEAK DEUK NOIM KHMER
SOP THGNAI BAN TVER AVEY SOMKHAN KLAS CHUN
PROTESJEAT,YERNG KHERNH PEL OS LUY CHHLURS PROKAEK KNEA TVER BARB PROJEA REAS DEMBEY OY BORATES PDOL JUMNOUY TEAT.REUNG KHMER
TEAL TAE YUON LENG ROVOL CHHOP TVER ANANIKUM NUS TERP KHMER MIN SONGKHIM, SUR THA THGNAI KHAE CHHNA NA YUON NING CHHOP KRUP KRONG KHMER?ORKUN SREY MAO DEL BAN JOL ROUM PDOL MATEK.

Anonymous said...

ខ្ជិលចង់ស៊ីស្រាប់  ត្រាប់ជាអ្នកបួស
លន់ទាបចង់ខ្ពស់​​​​​  ប្រឈ្លោះអ្នកមាន
ធ្វើតិចស៊ីច្រើន   ផ្គើនរាស្រ្តក្រឃ្លាន
លន់ចេះមិនរៀន  ព្រោះខ្ជិលធ្វើការ

Anonymous said...

Quelle poésie de trou de cul!!!

Ce mec a compris ce qu'il a dit ou pas!!! à cause des Khmers à la con comme ce mec, le Cambodge est sous contrôle des Viéts à nos jours.

Bravo le Héro de la nation Khmère qui ose défendre l'intérêt des cambodgiens et du Cambodge. Vive le Cambodge éternel. On résiste aux traitres de la nation tels que Hun Sen, Var Kim Hong et leur clan.

Anonymous said...

Dear 8:00PM,

It takes one to know one,so speak for yourself. Put it back where yours belong.

ពពួកអាត្មា(ត៍)ហុតទឹកសម្លឹងកាក!!!!

Anonymous said...

The causes of this situation are obviously linked to the dictatorship, which is perpetrated by Hun Sen and his political party, CPP, for more than 30 years now. They hold absolute power with their tight control all over the institutions of the country, especially Justice and Army which are used for political purposes to eradicate Democracy for which all Cambodians have aspirations.
Their methods are well known: political assassination, usage of the justice system to intimidate and oppress people, hijacking of election process for the advantages of CPP, systemic corruption and so on.
The consequences of this dictatorship are the accumulation of power in the hands of a small group of leaders and their clan with a high concentration of economic and financial assets, which is self-sustained by the systemic corruption. All of this practice is perpetuated to the detriment of the whole population, who become poor and don’t have any future because all Cambodia’s resources are decreasing due to the plundering for political and personal purposes.
With this dictatorship, Cambodia and Cambodian population become economically weak as its resources are decreasing. The economic and political weakness and the overwhelming poverty of the population will reduce the position of Cambodia while the economic and territorial hegemony of the neighboring countries is growing continually.

Anonymous said...

The poor will vote for whoever compensate them for their votes.

Opposition or ruling party is going after the same pot of money they do not possess.

Rule and run the government is the best way to be wealthy over night.

Hun Sen is not going to care for the weak and poor because those can't give him wealth.

Suggestion to main opposition party,it's time to make Comrade Kong Korm the president and let the founding president be the emeritus samdech president until the majority and victory secured in 2013, then the plan can be altered.

Winning small battles will not secure the victory for the long haul war. Know how to fight does not make you a winner.It is know how to win that make you a winner,especially in Nom Benh moi.

Anonymous said...

The communist countries were/are
trying to eliminate all religions.

Cambodia(Khmer Rouge regime),
but after this regime failed;
Khmer Buddhist believers and monks
are growing up more than Sihanouk
era.
There are million monks in the w0rld such as in Asia,Europe,
(European Buddhist monks,Australia,
North America,South America,even
in Africa.
Not just Asian monks,but foreign
monks too.

80% of Khmer people are poor;they
are lacking of jobs.They do what
they can do survive.
20% of Khmer are very rich,Hun Sen
and families,high officials,and
his clans.

A lot of monks under Hun Sen rule
became a tool of Hun Sen.
When jobs developed,
the numbers of monks decreased.

Some monks are good and the others
are bad because they are human beings.Monks worked too.
When people are dead,they need
monks.

Even Christians,(pastors,and their subjects)need money to feed themselves as monks also.

If anyone is a nonbeliever,keep
your own business.Don't bother
other believers.So monks have the
rights to be monks.

Anonymous said...

Correction:

They do what they can do to survive.

Anonymous said...

Ven. Luon Savath became monk not
because he is lazy,but he is working
so hard for innocent Khmer people.

Ven. Luon Savath is a top monk
hero in Cambodia.

Anonymous said...

A saying that even repeated by Gandhi," Eat to live not live to EAT."

That's what most Xmer monks do: eat,sleep and sleep more.Ask Comrade Tep Vong and Royal fea,Ngorl Nget...

Worldly known corruptive career is to be agents of the so named God (inexisting element of biological evolution).

Anonymous said...

This monk is no hero monk, more like a coward monk just like others. He is just like sam rainsy and other guys who started to fight for human rights, usjustice for khmer people, but when their lives were threaten, they tucked their tails and ran or surrender right away. Real hero is the person who sacrifies his life for others. look up the definition in the dictionary or read the meaning of hero in the wikipedia then you will understand. This monk, and just like other monks before, they have started to fight for what they beleived but they have not accomplished anything but received an honorable title from some idiots who did not understand what hero real means. I'm sick of stupid people gave these idiots so much credits for something they have not actually succeeded or finished what they have started.

Anonymous said...

ScmaSRP and their followers couldn't win or gain any of their old useless paranoid political agenda in any given elections, now they're using this ungly monky to do their dirty fight, at the end they still a big looser and still dump asses refugee potato diggers cockroaches. Long live Hun Sen, down go to hell all ScamSRP and their stupid brain dead followers. Pi Anh.

Anonymous said...

As Khmers and passionate for justice, we have the duty to pursue and lead this fight to the end at whatever cost, for the sake our country’s future. In this case, it looks exciting and hopeful.

Our ability to turn this enormous hope into a unique and wonderful opportunity for our homeland, lies in our unity and solidarity.

It is in these terms that the Khmer is appealing to the conscience and the generosity of all. By standing united and showing solidarity, imagine that with a financial contribution that is almost insignificant for an individual, we have the opportunity to bring Hun Sen and his cronies to Justice, and to reshape the future of our beloved Cambodia.
Do not wait anymore, LET’S UNITE!!!

Anonymous said...

Buddha Gautama was a man of his own integrity and principle of only oneself can save oneself by self doing(reliance)to become good human,not God.

He was once a wealthy prince of the feared King father but yet he was not about to live off his father wealth or his fellows.

During his long search for enlightment in days and nights meditation,he vowed to eat twice a day of what he could find on his own such as mud at the bottom of the river or leaves, if no generous food donor would come to his sanctuary.

Note he chose to live in the forest not in a plush shelter or riding on luxurious carriages which all he could do without problem as a prince of the imperial dynasty.

Unlike Xmer monks nowaday, claimed to be Buddhists but practice non Buddhist in ways to gather wealth and embellish own greed to suit individual lifestyle after monkhood.

Some sported themselves in expensive sunglasses and expensive wireless gadgets to self promote like this person in article above.

Look how fat and hypocritical, this fellow is.He preaches not practice his nonsense vocation.

Folks, I admire,non-other beliefs or religions,Buddhism and its teaching principles. No Gods existed before men,men can do evils to men not Gods.

I felt embarassing, if I had to be fed by others,even family members. Because I felt, I was born equally in physical and mental capability to live on my own efforts.

What I see in Cambodia now,many monks become so corrupted,and in that, I felt pity for folks who blindly bowed heads and poured out their meager resources to support those lazy exploiters.

In abroad is no difference, monks are lazy and self serving individuals under the saffron robes.

To me,they are criminals or leeches in taking advantage of the religion.

In Cambodia,individuals with crimninal and colourful background can become monks at any time and anyplace for example just look at Tep Vong.

Enough said, this fellow is no hero to a real yard stick of common sense.

He is a drum beater to feed his ego and self promotion. Monks and Royalties are the same.They do less but get more to afford comfortable living out of the poor.

Cambodia needs men who can feed himself,not beggar.

Anonymous said...

The West world intellectuals and
scientists are turning to Buddha,
but not God.

Time has been changed.
Know what you knew the ones you
don't know you don't know.

Buddhism is the second old religions after Hindu.

The UN,in New York,voted Buddhism
as religion of peace.The 196 countries celebrated the birth
of Buddha a very single year.

How about other religions,did UN celebrate them?

All human beings in the world have
the rights to believe and practice.
The rules of laws in UN and every
countries accepted,even in communist countries.

The every poor countries in the
world are beggars,including
Cambodia,Thailand,Vietnam,Lao,and
Africa etc...
Maybe one of bloggers above will
be a beggar.

Today you are millionaire,
tomorrow you will be a beggar or
a monk.Who knows?Time can be changed.Don't get mad,if you are sad.

Anonymous said...

I applaud what you said 736 pm.

Dan said...

8:34 PM

Where did you get your survey from?

Some of those Scientists thought that they knew everything, but the facts they cannot even properly predict the weather.

You only read a few pages from somewhere that FIT your mind then claimed only among the 99% ignorant Cambodians such as yourself?

GOD is only ONE the Almighty One, who created the Universe, Buddhas are many Holy men that sent to teach GOD's version of Love, Peace and live the life of humility.

You heard only one Buddha but you did not hear of so many Buddhas before this Buddha. Why? Because your small society (Cambodia) is mostly rusty stupid.

Here you have one man such as this Ven. LS then you jackass jumping claiming of what you don't know about.

When you read from the jealous Indian scholars sure you got what you're looking for, but if you have a TRUE FAITH in your heart, you would have not been so stupid as you are now.

I watched the whole Biography of this last Buddha through PBS, again and again, I understood a lot, but to read and watch the stupid Cambodians practice Buddhism, I said to myself "No wonder!! They deserve to be destroyed by their neighbors. Because they are so stupid".

You haven't explored more in every corner of this little planet how many people knew Christ (GOD's incarted to a man), then you are not qualified to compare GOD with His Holy men who served Him. Padre Pio (or Father Pio) can be equally compared to Buddha in term of miracles and lived His life of poverty, humility and obedience. Have you every heard of him? Of course not. I only brought one example for you stupid Cambodian to learn and explore more, before you claimed to know GOD or Buddhas.

You are just a foreigner of minority tribe called Khmers led by the Indians, so do not forward so fast what you don't know.

To me this Ven is just a simple Cambodian nationalist of your miserable country, he is NOT following Buddhism of Buddha. He betrayed Buddha, all of you betrayed Buddha, Buddha DID NOT Teach people to fight, but to give all and to END the sufferings, END the Desire of being rich of having Kingdom etc./ All the teachings are from GOD. GOD is the Father of all creatures in the universe.

The Holy men came to teach and spread the humility... of GOD's message. GOD is merciful with love and peace, but He will severely punish when we sin against Him. All the Buddhas and all Saints punish no body but to preach only, and their preachings are all the same. If you blaspheme GOD (Christ) then you also blaspheme the last Buddha who taught you "I am not the only Buddha, there were so many Buddhas before me, and there will be the greatest one "Se-Ar Metreyya" who will teach...will be loved by the Universe.."

We have no records of the many Buddhas before this last Buddha, but the scholars took His words for it. How can we know if this planet had been shifting for who know how many million times, and million records may be destroyed into the sea (Atlantis is one example, humans just found).

If scientists are so great for everything then why cannot they know how many times the earth was shifting? How come they cannot unmask where are those Aliens came from? How many times human civilization were buried under the sea? How can some cemetery still haunt humans, and some don't, and so many trillion unknown things humans encountered and scientists don't know? You talked of some scientists and I talked of many scientists who knew GOD.

It is only through TRUE FAITH and Open mind, one can know and meet GOD. It is only through true FAITH and open mind, humans can understand all the Holy Being's teachings from GOD.

Anonymous said...

Buddha (Gautama( was a wealthy Prince who was spoiled by his father. Prince Gautama had many women by his sides, and the most 3 beautiful girls (called Mara's daughters) who almost destroyed his enlightenment. Gautama loved the 3 concubines more than his own wife (first cousin) whom he married. But it was his time to becoming Buddha. He preached of how to end the sufferings.

Francis of Assisi (in Italy) was a son of a very wealthy man in Assisi met a noble beautiful girl Clara, but he found himself to have no more desire of being a wealthy young man. He gave everything his father had to the poor while his father was on his business trips. Francis left home and begged on the streets to feed the poor and the sick (lepers). He begged for piece of stone/rock and bread to feed the poor and to rebuild an abandoned Church.

Francis of Assisi was known to perform many miracles which he claimed that were not from him but from God who did miracles through his body. He met the Sultan of Egypt and preached God's love and peace.

Father Pio in the 20 century miracle man was a poor boy and at 5 he wanted to be a priest. His holy life since 5 until his death was full of miracles. He healed so many sick people around the world, and he too claimed that he did not do those miracles, but God did all through his body.

..So may Holy men who took the vows of poverty, humility and obedience, but we heard nothing about them. We are stucked by Buddha whom we don't even follow His teachings, and if we do then Cambodia should be given to Vietnamese our historic enemy.

I prefer to be an open mind and silently seek a guidance from the a the most unknown powerful or mighty force to guide me to walk on a holy path.

I am a Buddhist by birth, but I chose God, because He allows me to fight and to reclaim my Kingdom against my historic enemy. He will protect me when I am seeking His helps and obeying Him. He will deliver Vietnam to Cambodian someday, in GOD I Trust.

Anonymous said...

11:11PM,
How is God looked like?Can you tell readers in one sentence,please?

Could a bastard claimed he was the savior and son of God and a virgin was pregnant by God?This God is pervasive and neurotically insane to destroy an innocent girl to bear shame and humiliation.

Get real,11:11PM

Have you ever seen any animal not to say human was pregnant by the ghost spirit?

History proved human race created Gods of all colours and forms,but not in reverse.

Ron Hubbard created his own religion that seemed ridiculous to intelligent folks.But those believers claimed it legitimate.

True is Buddha had never claimed he was the son of God or supernatural,none of other religions can say that.

Amen is the opposite of men!

Anonymous said...

1:59 AM

You should try to be a civilized person instead of cursing other people who do not share your belief. Your blaspheme, pouring anger toward Christ is so evil. Is it how Buddhism teaching you?

GOD is a Almighty force, or Spirit, we cannot see Soul or Spirit or force but we may feel or sense it.

All Buddhas were humans and they didn't have pictures of photos to prove how they really look-like. But people created status of them, though those status were not really the faces of those Buddhas.

People back then had experienced or witnessed what happened, so they passed the story of Buddhas from one generation to another generation, here wee are, you believe but I don't. I believe everyone can be Buddha but not GOD.

Cambodia was built by Indian men who were Hindu, so the people of Cambodia were fotced to adopt what the leaders ordered, and the leaders were Hindu.

In the middle east, through north Africa (Egypt), people learned and knew their roots (at least from Abraham time).

People back then also had experiences and witnessed in their lives, they wrote through stones and the books (Bible).

The prophecies through many prophets since before King David or before or after Moses that a Messiah will come, and David was born about 500 years before this last Buddha. People didn't just believe it, but they witnessed what happened to them.

GOD is the Almighty One and He can do everything that is impossible to humans. GOD is perfect and He has to be born from a perfect and pure being (Virgin Mary).

GOD incarnated to a holy child (Jesus Christ) born in the virgin Mary whom you are cursing and whom billion people around the world worshiping.

Jesus Christ is an incarnation of GOD, people called GOD the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit after His Resurrection, but the three are ONE.

You joined and listened to the wrong crowd or you may be born as an evil anti-Christ(GOD). There are evils building Temples to make money and there are evils building Churches to becoming rich.

Bu there are real holy men and women building GOD's houses to feed the poor and heal the sick.

I have had many experiences in life, I was shown heaven, purgatory and hell. I witnessed miracles and encountered with Jesus Christ(GOD).

But I don't impose upon you, because you are a blasphemer and I am a true GOD's believer based on my experiences. I abandoned Buddhism brought by the Indian men who once ruled over Khmer Empire, I am a free man who found GOD (Jesus Christ) on my own.

Buddha cannot claim to be GOD, because He is not GOD, but a holy man. There are million Hindus reached the level like Buddha, but why aren't they proclaimed Buddhas? If Buddha claimed Himself GOD then Saint Francis of Assisi and many other Saints through Saint Pio can claim that too.

Keep cursing GOD (Christ) as you always do, because soon you will meet HIM on your way out from your body means when your soul departs from your body (your death day). Amen

Ps: "Amen" is Hebrew word means "to conform" or "So be it".

Anonymous said...

Ron Hubbard ? :))) That idiot who had never done well in schools? He waa one of crazy dudes we usually see in this 21th century like Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, ...David Karess...Charles Menson, .../

Most really great Scientists believe in GOD, but a few minority fake Buddhists in a very poor tiny country Cambodia are mostly dumb, they like to curse others and to choose evil side. No wonder they are doomed.

Why are all countries that believe in God saved, except a few small poor countries like XCambodia and Laos are miserable losing?

Anonymous said...

Don't be bothered by a stupid person. Some who read or believes in a psycho Ron Hubbard is sure a psychopath her/himself.

Stay strong and continue to have faith, we will be saved.

Christianity keeps growing to 2.5 billion. Growing fast in Asia mainly in China and Vietnam, but declining in Europe. It will rise again in EU in ~ 2030.
Islam growth to 1.6 billion
Hinduism 1 billion
Buddhism 400 million
1.12 billion are atheists.


BTW: Nepal was Buddha's country is declared a Hindu State.


God will Triumph at the end.

Anonymous said...

Why care to converse with a low class person whose country is already part of Vietnam?
The psychopath Ron Hubbard was one of the 8% who bash God while 92% of American believe in God. The Europeans will go back to believe God because they see the US is a greatest nation and its people believe in God.
I knew and watched the apparition at Portugal in Fatima in 1917, God's messenger prophesied that Russia will create Communism, but then fallen, and Europe will return to God in 2020's and stronger than ever.

Anonymous said...

Violence and words of war done by 133pm and 151 pm has no place in decency.

Look up for what bastard mean in Aussie's Longman Dictionary,please.

Wasn't Christ a bastard,was he?

Can't describe God,can you?
Need help?

Take Xanax ok? It may calm you.

Anonymous said...

Hello Evil 7:28 PM

No Christ was not a bastard. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and was born in the Virgin Mary.

GOD, Son and the Holy Spirit: are ONE. GOD needs no man with a woman to conceive His Flesh.

I don't have to look up the dictionary you evil recommended, I visioned meeting GOD and He was Christ. He was GOD Himself. GOD can do all impossible things that we humans cannot.

I used to bash people the non-Buddhists worse than you do now, but I visioned meeting GOD, His Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary whom you and a few minority people blaspheme. I am awaking from a dark side to a bright light.

You will meet Him or meet His Mother, the Blessed Virgin "whom GOD chose to carry Him. She is serving GOD until the end. It said in the Revelation" when you are ready to die. The day of your death, you will meet GOD(Christ) and His Mom, the Virgin Mary. GOD (Christ) will give you the last chance to repent.