MEDITATE W/ THE WORLD COMMUNITY - THE SPEAK PEACE PROJECT

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Members of the Seattle Sangat have been spearheading the below effort

Find a way to get involved!

Sat Nam,

DS

 

http://www.speakpeace.org/

 

April 15 - 17, 2005

 

Speak Peace is a grass roots organization that helps facilitate

expressions of peace within existing communities. We encourage four main

types of expression: art, activism, spirituality and conversation, with

the mission of bringing people together and helping to foster the

experience of peace through communication and listening.

 

April 15th - 17th is the inaugural Speak Peace Project. Over these

three days, there will be events and discussions and expressions of

peace manifesting in thousands of places and thousands of ways. Your

participation can be as simple as wearing a button that speaks of peace,

or as complicated as organizing and/or participating in an event.

 

World-Wide meditation/prayer for Peace: The single universally

orchestrated event is to come together as a world community at 1pm PST

Sunday April 17th, 2005 and to take a few moments to "speak peace" with

prayer, meditation, or intentional words. This can be done in an

organized group setting, or be just a few conscious moments incorporated

into whatever you might already have planned for this time.

 

Possible ways to get involved:

 

1. Participate: Find an existing event to take part in, or make your own

expression of peace no matter how small it may seem. Examples - put a

message of peace in your car window for these three days. Instigate a

discussion with your family about what Peace is and how it can be

fostered. At 1pm PST, take a few conscious moments to meditate or pray

for Peace.

 

2. Organize: Create a group activity such as a candle light vigil, a

group meditation, a pot luck gathering, or concert for Peace.

 

3. Lead: Create a vision for a focus community and work with organizers

to help manifest that vision. Example - Working with a school district,

help create the opportunity for numerous schools to develop projects

conceived by students and carried out by them, teachers, parents and

administrators, perhaps culminating on Friday April 15th. Think Big!

Get others involved.

 

4. Share: Please visit our website, share your planned activity, leave a

message on the message board, and spread the word to others about Speak

Peace.

 

Visit: http://www.speakpeace.org

 

Where you can search for existing events

 

Or post information about one you're creating

 

What might YOU create to help bring the experience of Peace to your

community and your life?