Sulak Sivaraksa

Sulak Sivaraksa (March 27, 1933) is a Thai social activist, professor and writer. He is founder and director of Thai NGO Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation (SNF), one of the first social organizations founded in Thailand.

Sivaraksa in 2007

Quotes

Global Healing: Essays and Interviews on Structural Violence, Social Development and Spiritual Transformation (1999)

• People seeking to live spiritually must be concerned with their social and physical environment.
• Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously.

Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Societ (1992)

• It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.
• The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.
• We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.