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12/1/17 Annual Holiday Peace Project - Renewing Hope

December 1, 2017

Please join us for our 2017 HOLIDAY PEACE PROJECT…
 
 Photo:  Serg Dombrovsky

Each December we create an intention to support a focus on peace during the busy activities of the holiday season and into the New Year. This year's intention highlights the theme of restoring and renewing hope:

"During each day of this holiday season and into 2018,
I will strive to speak and act in ways that renew and inspire hope.
I will make choices that rekindle my own hope.”

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.
Help someone's soul heal.
Rumi


9/21/17 Join us for our 5th year of Peace Link

September 21, 2017

Today begins our 5th year of Peace Link,
on the International Day of Peace!
 
Join us every day at NOON and/or 3:00 PM,
whenever you can,
and pause for peace...
 


Use this brief pause to center yourself in your heart,
link with others,
and re-affirm your intention to 
contribute to peace each day through your actions and choices.
 
May peace live in your heart, today and always...


1-20-17 After the Election - a Buddhist perspective by Jack Kornfield

January 20, 2017

Dharma for a Difficult Time

JACK KORNFIELD

Whatever your point of view,
take time to quiet the mind and tend to the heart.
Then go out and look at the sky.

Remember vastness, there are seasons to all things—
gain and loss, praise and blame, expansion and contraction.
Learn from the trees.
Practice equanimity and steadiness.

Remember the timeless dharma amidst it all.
Think of the best of human goodness.
Let yourself become a beacon of integrity, with your thoughts, words and deeds.
Integrity in speech and action, virtue, and non-harming bring blessings.

Remember the Noble Truths, no matter the politics or the season:
Greed, hatred and ignorance cause suffering.
Let them go.
Love, generosity, and wisdom bring the end of suffering.
Foster them.

Remember the Buddha’s counsel,
“Hatred never ends by hatred but by love alone is healed.  This is the ancient and eternal law.”

The human heart has freedom to choose love, dignity, and respect.
In every circumstance, embody respect and cultivate compassion for all.

Let yourself become a beacon of dharma.
Amidst the changes, shine with courage and trust.

This is your world.  Plant seeds of goodness and water them everywhere.

Then blessings will grow for yourself and for all. 

 

From:  After the Election:  Buddhist Wisdom for Hope & Healing 


12-1-16 Annual Holiday Peace Campaign - Healing a Divided Nation

December 1, 2016

 

Please join us for our 2016 HOLIDAY PEACE PROJECT…
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Each year we create a holiday intention to support a focus on peace during the busy activities
of the holiday season and into the New Year.  
This year's intention focuses on healing a divided nation:

"During each day of this holiday season and into 2017,
I will make the effort to build bridges in my relationships. 
I will strive to recognize all that unites us, and
to embrace all that divides us with compassion, patience, and forgiveness.”

“We must recognize that we do have within us the capacity to love,
 to understand,
 to be compassionate,
 always.”

Thich Nhat Hanh


9-21-16 Join us for year 4 of Peace Link!

September 21, 2016

Today begins our 4th year of Peace Link,
on the International Day of Peace!
 
Join us every day at NOON and/or 3:00 PM,
whenever you can,
and pause for peace...
 


Use this brief pause to center yourself in your heart,
link with others,
and re-affirm your intention to 
contribute to peace each day through your actions and choices.
 
May peace live in your heart, today and always... 


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