Seeing a cleaner dusting a stupa that housed the Buddha’s relics.
I wondered what would happen,
should it be left neglected?
It will become buried,
swallowed by the sands of time,
forgotten and lost in history.
Like a precious relic that is the Buddhadharma,
or our Buddhadhatu (Buddha-nature) too,
it will be obscured by dirt and such.
As stupas stand for the peak of enlightenment,
there will be a monument less
that reminds us of this ideal.
[The scenes in the two pictures above and below these lines
were a little unnerving as I wasn’t sure if the men were repairing
other structures in the compound or dismantling them.]
[The identity of the main stupa and its compound can be seen below,
at the two signboards present.]
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Like our mind, if we do not dust off defilements moment by moment, we will be buried by them in no time. :dizzy:
Ya!!! When I see the locals standing on the stupas, I felt uncomfortable too. Worse is at Sarnath, the locals PICNIC there. And we call that our SACRED place. 🙁
At Borobudur too, you can see non-Buddhists treating the monument like a playground
:shocked: