Small message for the future generations in Buddhism after Lumbini Buddhist University Conference

A meaningful life—and, in particular, a meaningful youth—is built not by focusing on the past, but on how you live from now on. That positive, forward-looking attitude is the key to greatness and victory.
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Youth is the period of Human life that has tremendous potentialities for its impact, good or bad, on modern societies.

Today, as we stand at the threshold of the new millennium, our world has become a living paradox. It is a world of immense wealth, but also of grinding poverty where many live in constant want. A world has achieved tremendous advances in medicine, health care and technology, whereas a large number of people also die annually from diseases that are easily curable, A world where the daily trade in lethal weapons numbers in the millions of dollars yet where many millions of children die of hunger each year and many millions are severely undernourished. A world where information technology disseminates information around the globe in a second while many millions of people are still illiterate and uneducated. In the religious field, there are many beautiful and huge churches, monasteries, religious buildings, icons and centers but at the same time people are morally degrading. And perhaps most alarming of all, a world bent on unlimited economic growth on a planet whose finite resources are rapidly dwindling. Thus our bold strides towards the future, our world still suffers from painful wounds, and the need for a solution, for a cure, has become ever more insistent of humanity is to survive intact through to the end of the coming millennium. Needless to say that the changes are efficient when it is done in time, when people are still youth both in energy and intellectual.

'Youth are foundations of human beings,' Buddha declared twenty-five hundred years ago. At present, we also say that youth are the pillars of a nation and in a similar vein; Buddhist youth are the pillars of Buddhism.

https://www.budsas.org/ebud/ebdha200.htm