Shu Xian Leong has spent most of 2020 in a tiny apartment, thousands of kilometres from family. She fell into a 'bad cycle' of stress and binge-watching TV, until an ancient book gave her solace.
Mahsheed Ansari, a lecturer in Islamic Studies at Charles Sturt University, says it's understandable that people have used their religious beliefs to help them cope with mental hardships during the pandemic.
This belief doesn't negate the devastation of 2020, Dr Ansari says, but it drives people to seek deeper spiritual meaning and "see the mercy" amid calamity. "The only thing I could really turn to was my Buddhist faith ... to help me deal with the worries, the fears and the anxieties, and really come face-to-face with my mortality."
Bhante Akāliko and Bhante Sujato have been live-streaming meditation three times a day during the pandemic."We should be providing something which is more of questioning of our values, and an aspiring to a deeper sense of values," he says.
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