Post-Bulletin (Rochester, Minnesota)
We are members of a Rochester group that has met weekly over the past five years to learn how to meditate and to support each other in that effort. Among the members of our group are monks and lay people from the Cambodian Buddhist temple in Rochester.
It's with great sadness that we've learned about the repeated acts of vandalism against the Cambodian Buddhist temple in recent weeks.
Many members of the Buddhist temple in Rochester have a lot of experience with being victims of violence, having left Cambodia during the genocide there between 1975 and 1979, which claimed two million lives.
We hope that law enforcement works quickly in Rochester and that members of other faith communities in Rochester step forward to show their support of the temple. In the meantime, we offer this loving-kindness prayer that Buddhists offer when they become targets of violence, hatred and aggression:
"We pray that we may clearly understand the roots of these violent acts and that we respond to them not out of anger or hatred, but rather with wisdom and compassion. To both the perpetrators and to the victims of these crimes, we pray that you be safe. We pray that you be protected. We pray that you be happy. We pray that you be at peace."
Doug McGill
(For 21 members)
Rochester
It's with great sadness that we've learned about the repeated acts of vandalism against the Cambodian Buddhist temple in recent weeks.
Many members of the Buddhist temple in Rochester have a lot of experience with being victims of violence, having left Cambodia during the genocide there between 1975 and 1979, which claimed two million lives.
We hope that law enforcement works quickly in Rochester and that members of other faith communities in Rochester step forward to show their support of the temple. In the meantime, we offer this loving-kindness prayer that Buddhists offer when they become targets of violence, hatred and aggression:
"We pray that we may clearly understand the roots of these violent acts and that we respond to them not out of anger or hatred, but rather with wisdom and compassion. To both the perpetrators and to the victims of these crimes, we pray that you be safe. We pray that you be protected. We pray that you be happy. We pray that you be at peace."
Doug McGill
(For 21 members)
Rochester
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