Chapter 80 Buddha smiled

Originally, we would definitely pass through customs and enter India today. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden news that the Indian authorities only allowed us to enter, not the car.Then we have to continue negotiating with them, we are waiting in Lahore. In a border city like Lahore, it is easiest to trigger thinking about the relationship between the two countries.The flag-lowering ceremony yesterday afternoon has been lingering in my mind.If it is a small farce, then behind it is a great tragedy with a severe atmosphere. Pakistan and India have been arguing and fighting for many years around the destination of Kashmir. At that time, it seemed to outsiders that it was two brothers who were separated from each other. There was a strategic game of superpowers behind it. They didn’t take it seriously. We in China just because It's too close to pay attention.But who would have expected that in May last year, first India and then Pakistan, the two countries conducted five and six nuclear test explosions respectively, that is to say, they conducted a total of eleven times in just ten days!This has shocked the world, and it has become one of the few major human crises at the end of the twentieth century.

The place where the Indian nuclear explosion occurred is not far from the India-Pakistan border, in a place called Bokran in the south of Lahore where we are now staying.The place where the Pakistani nuclear explosion occurred was not far from the road we took from Zahedan, Iran to Quetta that day, a place called Chagai. Neither India nor Pakistan is a legitimate nuclear-armed country as stipulated in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, but judging from the number of consecutive tests, they are all a bit crazy.India, in particular, is not only the instigator, but also publicly announced that it will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons when necessary. This is undoubtedly the most terrifying voice that mankind has ever heard.There is no hesitation in using nuclear weapons. What will this mean to the world?

What saddens me the most is that the race that makes the most terrifying voice, this kind of voice, once chanted the most compassionate and melodious scriptures in the world. As I write this, the overwhelming sound of evening prayers came from outside the window, which came from the Badshahi Mosque not far away.This mosque is said to be the largest in the world, but I don't know if it is true.There is the largest mosque on the border, symbolically indicating that the conflict between the two countries has a religious origin.The partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 was designed by the British colonists and divided based on religious characteristics.In this stroke, more than 6 million Muslims moved from India to Pakistan, and more than 2 million Hindus moved from Pakistan to India, and another Kashmir was suspended there, finally turning the distant religious differences into real political conflicts.

Speaking of which, both religions have a long and bitter account.I think nothing better illustrates the bitterness of the two parties than Ayodhya, a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The bitterness of Hinduism is that they had a main god called Rama very early on. Even the last words of Mahatma Gandhi before his assassination and death were Hi, Rama!It is equivalent to people from other countries saying: Oh, my God!Rama is the sky in the eyes of Hindus. He was born in Ayodhya, where there has always been a Rama temple. Unexpectedly, the Islamic rulers in the 16th century demolished the temple and built a Babri on the original site. mosque.

In fact, the tragic experience of Hinduism at that time is indescribable and inexhaustible. More than just one temple was demolished.As far as I can read, the bloodshed suffered by India after the tenth century can only be compared with the cruelty of the Assyrian dynasty in the history of ancient Babylon.But in all fairness, this has nothing to do with future generations of Islamic believers. They just go to the Babri Mosque piously to worship from generation to generation. How did they know that this place used to be the holy place of Hinduism.But Hindus did not forget that there were many violent conflicts with Muslims there, until December 6, 1992, the Babri Mosque, which had a history of more than 400 years, was destroyed into rubble, and then the A makeshift Rama temple.It seemed that an old historical debt had been repaid, but in the following months, the conflict between the two sides became fierce, and nearly 5,000 people died, and the old historical debt became reality.

This is a sad religious confrontation, which has happened with other religions in history, but once it is connected with real political attempts, such as India's long-standing dream of a great power, it gradually escalates into a nuclear confrontation .Religion and nuclear power are so strangely twisted together. What makes people dumbfounded is that the code word for India's first successful nuclear test more than 20 years ago was actually the Buddha who laughed.Buddhism is the most peaceful religion among all religions. It never shows off its martial arts. Because of this, it has lost its status in India. How come the time of nuclear adventures makes Buddha smile?

This touches on another crucial part of civilization.Religion can be both the initial state of civilization and the final state of civilization.A civilization is incomplete without religion, and likewise, a religion without the direction of civilization is also undesirable. I have seen a religion here making statements again and again, saying that the next generation has the freedom to receive education and the freedom not to be educated. Now they want to defend the freedom not to be educated. Farewell to civilization.Of course, the worst thing against civilization is to wage war, no matter how religious the reason may be.

Since the ratification of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, among the countries hovering on the nuclear threshold, only Israel, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and India we have passed along the way this time.I don't know how much restraint human beings will have on themselves in the future. If not, then the destructive detonation of civilization will happen overnight.Human beings' intelligence reserve for thousands of years has suddenly become the cause of self-destruction. I really don't know what kind of sigh will be left in space. Now, we pass by the two nuclear test sites, pass through the country gates where soldiers from the two countries are waving their fists and kicks, and go to worship the civilizations of thousands of years ago. Dusty family tree.

Can this family tree make the sword a little more restrained, or more fierce? December 11, 1999, Lahore, overnight at Avari Lahoue Hotel