Indian Society for Buddhist Studies

Author(s): Prachya Vidyapeeth
Publisher: Prachya Vidyapeeth

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A Crisis of Human Values in the Contemporary World
Sonam Lamo, Jammu
In the modern era of globalisation and technological driven world, human values have been at major stake. People these days are truly face a huge crisis or challenge in terms of practicing and maintaining the true human values. We have been creating or shaping the face of technology and now the technology is shaping or creating our world and it has somehow limited the space for the growth of true human values such as deep respect, genuine consideration, trust, faith and spontaneous and reliable love for each other and for all sentient beings.
People these days value the things that less matter while neglecting the things that truly matter. It may be due the fact that reality created by the virtual world has been so pronounced so far that we have been facing de value or de-generation in the real human values. Many researches' have been conducted in this context so far, but somehow we are failed in balancing our own world.
Now, what truly lacking here is the Moderation which is the keyword employed long ago by the Buddha. The Challenge these days our youth and world is facing is lack of wisdom in seeking moderation of our both physical and inner realms.
The technologies or any kind of endeavours will appear or emerge as per the needs of human with changing modes of Space and Time, but excessive usage of any of it will somehow deeply impact the natural growth of human mind and more importantly the Human heart or Human values, which maybe the key cause for all the upheavals or imbalances in our world.
Therefore, this paper will try to highlight the very sacred verses or wisdom of the text Dhammapada of the Buddha so that our generation would know how to discern the necessary from the unnecessary or in other words, how to articulate the