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Pope Francis greets a delegate from the United Association of Humanistic Buddhism based in Taiwan during an audience in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican March 16, 2023. He told the delegates that places which inspire people to live wisely and well are needed in today's fast-paced world. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Places that inspire people to live wisely, well are needed today, pope says

March 16, 2023
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Places that serve as “oases of encounter” are needed today so that visitors can be inspired to live wisely and well, Pope Francis told representatives of a Buddhist organization.

The world today is marked by rapid changes that affect humanity and the planet, and the pace of life and work has intensified, he said in an address to delegates from the United Association of Humanistic Buddhism based in Taiwan.

“This reality also affects religious life and culture and calls for a fitting formation and education of the young in timeless truths and in tested methods of prayer and peacebuilding,” he said during an audience at the Vatican March 16.

A delegate from the United Association of Humanistic Buddhism based in Taiwan shows Pope Francis a scroll depicting calligraphy during an audience in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican March 16, 2023. The pope told them that places that inspire people to live wisely and well are needed in today’s fast-paced world. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

“Throughout history, religious believers have created sacred times and spaces as oases of encounter, where men and women can draw the inspiration needed to live wisely and well,” the pope told his guests.

“Such oases of encounter are even more necessary in our time,” he added.

The pope expressed his condolences for the death Feb. 5 of Venerable Master Hsing Yun, who was a Chinese monk and teacher based in Taiwan, founder of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist monastic order and a major leader in the humanistic Buddhist movement which seeks to integrate Buddhist practices into everyday life.

“He was also a master of interreligious hospitality,” the pope said about Master Hsing, who had met St. John Paul II in 1997 and Pope Benedict XVI in 2006.

The group’s “educational pilgrimage” to Rome, Pope Francis said, represents an opportunity to promote “the culture of encounter, in which we take the risk of opening ourselves to others, trusting that we will discover in them friends and brothers and sisters, and in the process learn and discover more about ourselves.”

“An interreligious educational pilgrimage can be a source of great enrichment, offering multiple opportunities for us to encounter one another, to learn from one another and to appreciate our various experiences,” the pope said.

“The culture of encounter builds bridges and opens windows to the sacred values and convictions that inspire others,” he said. “It tears down the walls that divide people and keep them prisoners of preconceptions, prejudices or indifference.”

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