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...Hiep says the hot line has logged 50 calls since January, resulting in 37 panhandlers being sent to rehabilitation centers for job training. But the homeless are adapting to the heat. They've started dressing better, disguising themselves as legitimate postcard sellers or even Buddhist monks. Many, however, have got the message, Hiep says, and have moved elsewhere. It remains to be seen whether foreigners will invade once again now that the panhandlers have lost their paradise at China Beach...
...biggest enemy is within—from the Buddhist point of view, they are fear, anger and insecurity,” Sulak says...
This kind of socially engaged Buddhism—in which the Buddhist ideals of compassion and justice are not only internalized but also actively extended to the outside world—is a movement Sulak has strongly and consistently supported...
...contrast to the current U.S. attitude toward Iraq and terrorism, Sulak encourages an alternative approach inspired by his Buddhist ideals...
Sulak says his dual role as both a Buddhist and an activist reconcile naturally...