Peace

[Dharmavidya]

Let There Be Peace

O let there be peace!
Let the differences between people be celebrated.
Let them be our strength and richness.
Let it not be thought that we can only be at peace when difference ceases.
Let us love those who are different from ourselves
And let us appreciate each in their unique glory

Let there be happiness and sorrow appropriately.
Let us meet suffering in good spirit.
Let people love each other, have a friendly nature
And be moved by the troubles of others.
When love fails, or meets with frustration,
Let us help one another to rise rather than fall.

Let us be creative and inventive.
Let us co-operate, even when it is difficult.
Let us have faith in the future.
Let there be safety on every street and in every home,
But let there also be wild places and challenging frontiers.
Let people walk together with commitment and patience
Vigorous in their engagement, inspired in their work.
Let us give rise to healthy cultures in all diversity

Let us be compassionate to every creature.
Let us have the courage to live by the little wisdom that we have gleaned.
Let religion remain alive and be a cause of fellowship and inspiration.
Let secular life be based on something more up-lifting than self-interest and uniformity.
Let caste be abolished and inter-communal relations be harmonious.

Let us smile on the ordinary person
Complete with his or her greed, pettiness and limitation,
Knowing that a true saviour will love all without qualification,
Not merely those who have become saints and angels.
Let us know that though we are not gods, we can live in a similar light
As long as we do not lose our knowledge
That we too are ordinary and vulnerable

Let us live in the ideal of non-violence and
When violence nonetheless comes
Let us keep to a loving heart for all parties
Knowing that we are not innocent.
Let us strive to overcome the negative effects of discrimination.
Let neither women nor men face humiliation
But let us not be too proud to make amends
When we have acted improperly

Let us build a world of fellowship and faith.
By small acts, bold visions and warm embraces
Let us have minds and hearts big enough
To encompass all that is in this real world
That our love for one another may be the fountain
Of universal peace.

17 April 2009
Amida France

[Emma]

Silence and stillness of the heart,
accepting all that comes,
willing to help all that ask,
happiness of mind, never grasping
brings all together from afar in true peace.

Never an attack, yet ever reaching,
empowering all that it meets,
still and unfolding it goes forth
opening up a world of infinite peace.

Black and white, dont matter to us
language or not, all are welcome
To come to the fold
and join the creation,
Of everlasting Peace.

Silence of mind, stillness of heart,
ever passing, ever changing
recount the steps to Amitiba's start,
and find the truth of infinite peace.

[richard meyers]

Peace -

Manifesto of hope
for the past
the present and
for the future:

With peace in our heart
nothing else is needed

The tulip nods its head
and lets its petals fall
quietly peacefully

With peace in our heart
Love may enter
with a whisper
as our hands reach out
to hold

Peace -

is a walk beneath trees
a jugfull of mirth
your arm in mine

is recieving a gift
is sitting still

Peace -

Gets up and walks
Amitaba
Namo Amida Bu
Over to you

Bows his head to bare ground
Nine times.

[richard meyers]

Another Peace Poem:

Peace is often stumbled upon
and found in unexpected places
as in the knowledge
that she has gone
and there will
be no returning.

Inside the ache
there is peace
not to be sought
peace arrives
gift wrapped as
something else.

When at last
travail returns
peace sits
in the storms eye
and quietly waits
musing
smiling like a
Zen monk that
for breakfast
swallowed
a canary.

Peace
picks his teeth
with a rose thorn
sits and sub-
audibly recites
his prayer
sad at heart
wistfully
watching
reality unfold.

Piece
by piece by
piece peace arrives
at first light
a robust thrush returning
to the same predawn
praise over and over.