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Buddhist

Nonviolence

& Non-action

"Buddhism was an inspired protest against the oppressive conservativism, superstition, greed, racism, and belligerence of the world into which it was born."

-David Brazier, The New Buddhism, p. 1

 

 
What is Buddhist Protest? It is to not do anything. It is to stop acting, behaving, rather than to carry out any sort of action or behavior. Or, as David Brazier says, it is to renounce.

What does nonviolent protest mean? It means that if there is a person who, in the name of some sort of protest, commits any act of violence of any sort, to a person or building, a monument or a mind, they are not part of a nonviolence movement, and have no part in our movement of civil disobedience, and nonviolent civil disobedients have never supported them or aligned with them, even if they try to align with us.

Violence has never solved an issue in the past and was never needed in the past (including World War II), and thus should not be needed in the future.

More information coming soon.