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It calls us “to shift gears, to change bad habits, so that together we can dream, co-create and act to realise a just and equitable future” (Preface to Laudato Si’ Reader, 13).
The dialogue reveals the profound richness that our respective religious traditions offer in supporting efforts to cultivate ecological responsibility.
By following the teachings that the Buddha left as a legacy to his disciples (Pratimoksa), including the practice of metta, which involves not harming living beings (Metta Sutta sn 1.8), and living a simple lifestyle, Buddhists can achieve compassionate protection for all beings, including the earth, their habitat. Christians, for their part, fulfil their ecological responsibility by being good stewards of creation, the work that God has entrusted to them “to till and to keep” (Gen 2:15).
Once again, I thank you for your visit, which is most welcome, and I trust that your stay in Rome will be both pleasant and enriching. I am also sure that your meeting with the officials of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue will be an opportunity to explore further ways of promoting ecological conversion through the initiatives of Buddhist-Christian dialogue, both in Cambodia and throughout the region.
Upon you and all in your noble country, I invoke abundant blessings from on high.
