They represented Montenegro at the World Buddhist Peace Conference

Montenegro had its representatives in Myanmar at the World Buddhist Conference on World Peace.

They are Mladen Ivanovic and Al-Ammar Kašić, who recently returned from a long trip. They say they are not Buddhists in the religious sense, but more in the philosophical sense.

The two were representatives of Montenegro at the World Buddhist Conference on World Peace.

They were in the former Burma for 20 days. They saw and experienced all kinds of things.

Mladen Ivanovic and Al-Ammar Kašić have just returned from faraway Myanmar. Full of impressions. New knowledge, experiences and life energy.

"One huge experience, I recently visited the West, America, now I visited the East, Burma, and I can finally see the picture of the world," Ivanović pointed out.

"Like a kind of dream, that you can't believe what's going on around you, and you're constantly looking for some trigger to wake up, because you can't believe how different things can be compared to what you're used to everyone days," Kasic said.

It is not easy to get to Myanmar, that is, the former Burma. It takes a long time to travel and it costs a lot.

"It is a world conference for improving peace in the world in some way. Over 55 countries participated, among them we as representatives of Montenegro. In essence, like any other conference, the conclusion is that people with the same interests should come together and try to benefit the environment, in this case for world peace," explained Ivanovic.

"Our idea is to have peace in the world, then we have to nurture it, to ourselves, to our neighbor. To someone who supports another club, I don't need to break his head because he supports another club, because I need to understand, ok , we can co-exist together, live together, so that game exists for us to compete, not to break each other's heads. That's how we should observe the development of everything, we are all condemned to live together, so why not live in peace, the choice is up to us, there are enough resources," Kašić said.

They are not considered Buddhists in the religious sense. Philosophically, perhaps.

"They don't have, but they give. It's incomprehensible to our Western mind, because we always need to have more. For what? For what we don't need. Just like that, that's how I felt such warmth and beauty of giving, not to give in order to owed you, but to give because I think it's good and nice to give. They constantly gave to us and they didn't have where to come from, that leaves so much on you, responsibility above all, that nice feeling of connection between the fact that you can be better if you want to be better," Ivanovic said.

"Their philosophy of life stemmed from a reconciliation with the fact that this is the situation we have, and that it is up to us what we will make of it. Like this day today, ladies it is raining, how many people complain that it is raining, why sorry it's raining why don't we just do what we wanted to do today even though it's raining that's their philosophy even though i don't have it today i can still give someone this but not only why what i want to give them I take money, but why will it be good for me, in this life in which we only suffer", says Kašić.

Finally, Ivanovic and Kašić advise you to search. To work on yourself and do good things, no matter how banal it sounds.

You can see the complete story with them in our magazine Bez granica on Monday evenings.