Friday, 17 May 2013

Regarding the ongoing well planned self-immolation of young chinese buddhist youth in china

Response to online Tibetan province China guy regarding China invading Tibet...

"My friend, China cannot invade China. Australia cannot invade Arukun or Pormpurraw in remote Queensland. Tibet Province is part of China and has always been, and every country in the world acknowledges this formally, legally, as true.  The UN, and all its decisions, come from a general world consensus that this is actually true, as is the real human history.
Where China has fallen down in Tibet Province areas is in the provision of good mental health services to stop Tibetan-Chinese youth from committing suicide by setting themselves on fire.
This is a terrible thing.
In all countries in the world youth suicide is a terrible thing.
You are quite correct if noting that China is not doing enough in Tibet Province and in the surrounding provinces to provide adequate mental health services for all youth, especially the young men. Courses in meditation and Mindfulness would be most essential, as would a job and a social role. 
There are some very good videos I can send you about this.
The horrible thing about this form of youth suicide is the terrible pain for the person, and the shocking trauma for all the good people seeking to stop this from happening...and then dealing with that trauma for the rest of the life.
The good street sweeper has to deal with this horror for their whole life because this Buddhist boy obeyed his religion and sought special meaning, as the Arab youth do in strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up supermarkets.
Even the people who clean up the mess that remains are forever traumatised.
Yes, there are real social problems that China needs to address in Tibet Province, for sure. Perhaps if these young men had some job and some sense of self-worth, they would not be so easily persuaded by their religion that their lives meant nothing except a form of protest for not having a job in China even though the China Govt pays them to be Buddhist monks.
China has many problems and I do agree that the mental health in the Tibet Province is very important to address and to fix for the sake of all the people of China.
China needs to be very very direct in responding to this awful feeling of individual meaninglessness that some young men have in those places, and to make sure the practice is stopped at its start.

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