06/08/2024
On June 1st, we began our two-week bi-annual retreat here at Plum Village, France. As part of this retreat, we are broadcasting four live meditation sessions to collectively generate the energy of peace and compassion for everyone in conflict zones.
Here is the text we read and listen to while practicing Touching the Earth.
Generating Peace | A Prayer for All Who Suffer from Armed Conflict:
“We, the multifold community, have gathered at this moment to send our love and spiritual energy to support all Palestinians, Israelis, and other peoples caught up in the tragedy of the latest conflict in the Middle East.
Our prayer is also for Ukrainians, Russians, the people of Sudan, and all who presently suffer from war.
There are more than 100 armed conflicts going on around the world, some of which have lasted more than 50 years.
May all people be safe and secure. May they find peace in themselves even as they live daily with danger and hardship.
May our world leaders be awakened to the energy of compassion so that, together, they bring an end to the killing and immense suffering caused by war.
May we actively cultivate openness, non-discrimination, and non-attachment to views so that we may transform violence, fanaticism, and dogmatism that are at the very roots of war and conflict.
In this moment we invoke your name, Avalokiteshvara.
We aspire to learn your way of listening in order to help relieve the suffering in the world. We will listen with all our attention and open-heartedness.
We will listen without prejudice. We will listen without judging or reacting. We will listen in order to understand.
We will listen so attentively that we can hear what the other person is saying and also what is being left unsaid.
Just by listening deeply we already alleviate so much pain and suffering in the world.”
Please join us for the upcoming live sessions and send our prayers together as a community.
- Sunday, June 9 / Thursday, June 13
- Time: 8:45pm CET / 11:45am PDT / 2:45pm EDT
(plumvillage.org/articles/ancient-path-for-modern-times-applied-buddhist-ethics-generating-peace)
