Peace Prayers

[Guest guest]

The time for healing of the wounds has come.

The time to build is upon us….

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people

From the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation,

Suffering, gender and other discrimination…

There is no easy road to freedom…

None of us acting alone can achieve success.

We must therefore act together as a united people,

for reconciliation, for nation building,

for the birth of a new world.

 

~~~ Nelson Mandela

President, Union of South Africa

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Let us pray for world peace, social justice, and

environmental balance, which begins with our own

breathing.

 

I breathe in calmly and breathe out mindfully.

 

Once I have seeds of peace and happiness within me, I

try to reduce my selfish desire and reconstitute my

consciousness. With less attachment to myself, I try

to understand the structural

violence in the World.

 

Linking my heart with my head, I perceive the world

holistically, a sphere full of living beings, who are

all related to me.

 

I try to expand my understanding with love to help

build a more nonviolent world.

 

I vow to live simply and offer myself to the

oppressed.

 

By the grace of the Compassionate Ones and with the

help of good friends, may I be a partner in lessening

the suffering of the world so that it may be a proper

habitat for all sentient

beings to live in harmony during the next millennium.

 

~~~ Sulak Sivaraksa

Social activist and recipient of the Right Livelihood

Award, Santi Pracha Dhamma Institute, Thailand

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