Thích Quảng Ðức
I can not do nothing after I’ve bumped into this photo. It may be quite disturbing but at the same it has a deeper meaning to it.
Thích Quảng Ðức, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, has set himself to fire and burned to death in 11 June 1963 in a busy street of Saigon. It’s an act of protest of the way the government is suppressing Buddhism.
It’s claimed that throughout the entire process, he remained peaceful, didn’t make noise and move a single muscle.
I know some of you may think it’s very cruel and may not portray Buddhism well. But I’m not here to judge whether the act is wrong or right. There are always both sides of the story. Two sides of the coin. It’s just this photo to me is trying to say that to create change it has to start with ourselves not others. Burning ourselves is definitely too extreme and I’ll not even attempt it to my little toe. -.-
For more information on this event you can click here or go to Wikipedia for a more summarized version.
