From the study of the Buddha’s teaching especially from Kinti Sutta that I just raise above, we can see that negotiation is one of the best ways that the Buddha taught his disciples to solve the conflict. In many cases that the Buddha used negotiation to solve the problem such as the conflict in case of Rohini river between Kapilavatthu and Devadaha about the lack of water, a case of Kosambi or a case of Vidhuthabha, the Buddha went to each side and talk to them, explain them the reason that they should not quarrel to each other.
In some other cases, the Buddha also use his power or Buddhist supreme law to solve the conflict, such as the Buddha do the miracle on the mango tree to defeat six outsider teachers and their disciples at Savatthi to stop the conflict between Buddhism and other religion during that time, or he asked venerable Ananda to punish venerable Channa by Buddhist supreme law after his death. The way to solve the conflict of the Buddha is depend on the situation of the conflict. However, among those ways, negotiation is one of the best ways that he frequently uses.
In the negotiation to solve the conflict, one must find the reason or benefits that both sides can accepted or can compromise to each other. The person that should be the middle of the negotiation should be a person that is appropriate to the conflict that both side can trust and accepted, and also is a person which has more experiences in solving the problem.
This way of solving the problem has been used by people in the modern day to solve the conflict which happen between person to person, organization to organization, or even between country to country. We can see very often in the modern time that people use negotiation to solve the problem especially between countries to country such as the negotiation prepare by the united state to solve the conflict of Israel and Palestine which is still going on now. This is the way to solve the conflict that Buddhists have already used since more than two thousand five hundred years ago.
So, the Buddha’s way to solve the conflict of the world has already applied by people in the modern day to use for solving the problem, which is referring to the negotiation to solve the conflict. However, this way of solving the problem, is not easy to apply, as we can see that people in the modern time are not easy to compromise to each other. They all have more ambitious to deal.
In this case, to apply Buddhist teaching to solve the problem, we may try to find other teaching of the Buddha to help in solving the problem.
One Buddhist teaching that we can apply is the teachings that can make people understand the doctrine that is more important than the benefits they are trying to get now. We must be able to show them the real benefits or the real results that they can attain in the present time which is better than what they want.
We’ve already known that what the united nation trying to create now is peace of the world. This is why the negotiation has been applied to use in every where to solve the conflict instead of using weapons because the world need peace. But, some people do not need peace, they need power or some need interests. This is the difficult thing to deal in solving the conflict that we must find the solution that both sides can accept.
In trying to make those people understand the Buddhist teaching about the impermanent, non-self, or the benefit of peaceful mind is a very difficult thing to do during the time that they still need to get benefits.
However, applying Buddhist teaching to solve the world problem is not without any benefits. There are many benefits that we can reach. At least, for those people who are interested in the teaching of peaceful mind which bring them more happiness that any other things. We can show people the benefit of Buddhist meditation that lead to the peaceful mind, and that is the real peace that everyone can attain in the present time. That peace is the happiness that is more comfort than the rest. When there are more people understand this teaching, the world will understand, and that is the way that we can apply the Buddhist teaching to reduce the problem of the world.
If the majority of the world understand this teaching, the rest are easier to deal with. We can use the majority to explain them. Then we can apply the Buddhist teaching to solve the conflict of the whole world.
This is the way that we can apply Buddhist teaching to solve the conflict in the modern world. It is the way that we show the Buddhist teaching to the world, and shows them the benefits of practice, and the benefits that they can experience by themselves in the present time. When Buddhist teaching have been used by the majority of the world, that is the exact time that we really apply Buddhist teaching to solve the conflict in the modern world.
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