Key Instrument To Heal The World and Attain Everlasting Peace

A unique feature of this new millennium is that we live within a powerful form of collective existence. The essence of that collective existence is our total interdependence. We are interdependent of each other in every sense.  We are interdependent with nature and with all living beings.  But, our values continue to be individualistic, materialistic and insensitive to the existence of others.   

Inner peace is indeed the fundamental platform and the most sustainable dimension to reach global peace. Silence through meditation, contemplation, prayer and inner awareness is a powerful instrument to both nurture and develop inner peace and world peace.   Silence provides each person an ideal and an effective road map and organizing principle, whereby our human consciousness expresses itself freely and enables us to unfold the deepest forms of love and compassion that sustain our inner peace.  There is no doubt that the conditions of our external environment or, to say, the quality of our “container”, play a fundamental role in effectively attaining everlasting peace.  Because the outer is like the inner and the inner is like the outer, one cannot disregard the current world conditions that spouse violence and conflict.  These are the conditions that destroy human hope and weaken our individual and collective existence (i.e. Inequities, poverty, marginalization, environmental destruction, corruption, discrimination).    We must change the inner and the outer conditions. What should we do next?

First, recognize that we are not at peace and make all efforts to create a new and embracing, universal culture of inner peace. 

Second, identify very simple ways to creating a culture of peace.  We need no money to love, contemplate, meditate, pray, and be in deep silence. 

Third, think about peace as a form of empowerment, peace as a form of human ethicsPeace as a form of human transformation, and peace as a form of our collective destiny. 

Fourth, eliminate all forms of fears.  Fear is the most powerful cause of violence.  Fear is central to human insecurity and human insecurity brings fundamentalism.  Fear is the destroyer of universal values and collective welfare, in favor of individualism.  Fear is the most effective vehicle to debilitate all processes of human empowerment.  Fear is the foundation of negative dimensions of our ego. 

Fifth, rebuild, and when appropriate, create new collective institutions, including the family, the work place, the neighborhood organizations, the political systems, and the international organizations.

Sixth, stop immediately existing wars.  This should be a non-negotiable item.  Stop now.  Yes, stop now. 

Seventh, have a new “Marshall Plan” to assist victims of war, those who are in camps, those who are homeless, those who have no medical or psychological assistance, and those who are abandoned. 

Eight, create new mechanisms to redistribute wealth, give new economic opportunities to the poor and bring high levels of human security. 

Ninth, disarm everyone.  This is not naïve, this is not a utopia, and this is urgently needed.  Defensive postures are a major source of conflict. Promoting human insecurity is a violent act.  It is a criminal act.  Let’s stop now. 

Tenth, love, love and love.  Do not stop loving.  Have no fear of loving.  Just love yourself, love your neighbor, love your friends, and love your enemies. 

Silent meditations are being organized in many countries in the world.  As such it is an activity that demonstrates not only the deep commitment we have for world peace, but also it is an instrument to enhance our abilities to unfold our individual and collective inner peace. Traditional instruments for world peace are failing everywhere, as they are not rooted in the self-realization of peace.  Thus, at best some moment without conflict is achieved, although this is not sustainable and it is not really a state of peace. 

To let peace to have a chance, we must enter into ourselves and unfold peace from within.   

The most powerful practice you may adopt to bring peace, love and compassion is“to increase your ability to become the other without losing your own identity” .

This is the essence of peace.  This is the nature of your inner peace. You will become yourself through the self realization of peace. You must become walking peace everywhere you are. 

Be a transformer, not a passive or indifferent being. Through silence you will learn to communicate in a very effective way, you will learn to communicate heart to heart, and you will learn to communicate soul to soul.  

Go and let all people know that peace is not just ‘another option’ but our only destiny.  We come from Peace and we are to go to Peace.   

This is a call.  Peace be with you.  Peace be you.  Peace is you and you are peace Join this world movement for everlasting world peace!