Twelve peace prayers and two meditations
Friends in Faith -- Below are prayers and meditations sent to share --
----- Original Message -----
From: Dawn Shepard
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 5:46 PM
Subject: 12 Peace Prayers
Dear Rev. Rehberg,
Thank you for your organizational efforts and great website. Although I've
never protested against anything before, I am definitely against this
government's push for war in the Middle East.
Although I don't have funds to give, I have been e-mailing information,
sending e-mails to congresspeople, meditating, and sending out prayers and
meditation.
I've never been a religious person but find that we can indeed manifest
positive change through focused, loving intentions. Below I have cut and
pasted 12 Peace Prayers along with a short meditation and the science of
prayer. Please feel free to use and share any of this information to anyone
open to these possibilities. Know there are millions of people around the
world, meditating, praying, and gathering for peace.
Thank you for your work!
Sincerely,
Dawn Shepard,
Santa Clara, CA
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Peace Meditation
Link with Collective Mind and imagine Peace—personally, interpersonally,
socially, nationally, and planetarily. Combine your thoughts together to
strengthen the creative force.
Imagine pure peace within. Exhale any old hurts, guilts, sorrows, grudges,
fears, or pains. Inhale peace into the center of your heart. Exhale
anything prohibiting complete experience of personal peace. Allow yourself
to come into alignment with your own divine source of peace, power, and
love. Feel it, create it, become it.
Expand this peace out to all the people you are closest to. Exhale any
friction. Inhale and surround each person with the peace you feel. Expand
this thought to everyone in your town. And now, the nation. And
finally…the world. Expand this vision and see the Earth existing in a state
of peace with the rest of the solar system, the galaxy and the Universe.
Align your soul with Heaven and all creative forces. All is transformed
back to the pure thought of peace and Love.
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Feeling-based prayer: knowing that our prayer is already answered
1. We witness all events, those of peace and those that we see as the
absence of peace, as possibilities without judgement of right, wrong, bad or
good.
2. We release our judgement of the situation by Blessing those conditions
that have caused us pain. The Blessing does not condone or consent to the
event or condition. Rather, it acknowledges that the event is part of the
single source of all that is. (Please see the book, Walking Between the
Worlds: The Science of Compassion, for details.)
3. By feeling the feelings of our prayer already answered, we demonstrate
the ancient quantum principle stating that the conditions of peace within
our bodies are mirrored in the world beyond our bodies.
4. We acknowledge the power of our prayer and know (feel) that the focus of
our prayer has already come to pass.
5. Our prayer now consists of:
Acknowledging the peace already is present in our world by living from the
knowledge that such changes have occurred.
Empowering our prayer by giving thanks for the opportunity to choose peace
over suffering.
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The Twelve Peace Prayers
The Prayer of St Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred . . . let me sow love
Where there is injury . . . pardon
Where there is doubt . . . faith
Where there is despair . . .hope
Where there is darkness . . light
Where there is sadness . . .joy
Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled . . .as to console
To be understood . .as to understand,
To be loved . . . as to love
For it is in giving . . that we receive,
It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned,
It is in dying . .that we are born to eternal life
Baha'i Prayer for Peace
Be generous in prosperity,
and thankful in adversity.
Be fair in judgement,
and guarded in thy speech,
Be a lamp unto those who walk
in darkness, and a home
to the stranger.
Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light
unto the feet of the erring
Be a breath of life to the body of
humankind, a dew to the soil of
the human heart,
and a fruit upon the tree of humility.
Buddhist Prayer for Peace
May all beings everywhere plagued
with sufferings of body and mind
quickly be freed from their illnesses.
May those frightened cease to be afraid,
and may those bound be free.
May the powerless find power,
and may people think of befriending
one another.
May those who find themselves in trackless,
fearful wilderness---
the children, the age, the unprotected--
be guarded by beneficial celestials,
and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood
Hindu Prayer for Peace
Oh God, lead us from the
unreal to the Real.
Oh God, lead us from darkness to light.
Oh God, lead us from death to immortality.
Shanti, Shanti, Shanti unto all.
Oh Lord God almighty, may there be peace in
celestial regions.
May there be peace on Earth.
May the waters be appeasing.
May herbs be wholesome, and may trees and
plants bring peace to all. May all beneficent
beings bring peace to us.
May thy Vedic Law propagate peace all
through the world.
May all things be a source of peace to us.
And may thy peace itself, bestow peace on all
and may that peace come to me also.
Jainist Prayer for peace
Peace and Universal Love is the essence
of the Gospel preached by all
Enlightened Ones.
The Lord has preached that equanimity
is the Dharma
Forgive do I creatures all,
and let all creatures forgive me.
Unto all have I amity, and unto none enmity.
Know that violence is the root cause of
all miseries in the world.
Violence, in fact, is the knot of bondage.
"Do not injure any living being."
This is the eternal, perennial, and unalterable
way of spiritual life.
A weapon, howsoever powerful it may be,
can always be superseded by a superior one;
but no weapon can, however, can make Peace.
Zoroastrian Prayer for Peace
We pray to God to eradicate all the
misery in the world:
that understanding triumph
over ignorance,
that generosity triumph over indifference,
that trust triumph over contempt, and
that truth triumph over falsehood.
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Muslim Prayer for Peace
In the name of Allah,
the beneficent, the merciful.
Praise be to the Lord of the
Universe who has created us and
made us into tribes and nations
That we may know each other, not that
we may despise each other.
If the enemy incline towards peace, do
thou also incline towards peace, and
trust God, for the Lord is the one that
heareth and knoweth all things.
And the servants of God,
Most gracious are those who walk on
the Earth in humility, and when we
address them, we say "PEACE."
Native American Prayer for Peace
Oh Great Spirit of our
Ancestors, I raise
my pipe to you.
To your messengers the four winds, and
to Mother Earth who provides
for your children.
Give us the wisdom to teach our children
to love, to respect, and to be kind
to each other so that they may grow
with peace of mind
Let us learn to share all good things that
you provide for us on this Earth.
You are the one who does
not hesitate to respond to our call.
You are the cornerstone of peace.
Shinto Prayer for Peace
Although the people living
across the ocean
surrounding us, I believe
are all our brothers and sisters,
why are there constant troubles in
this world?
Why do winds and waves rise in the
oceans surrounding us?
I only earnestly wish that the wind will
soon puff away all the clouds which are
hanging over the tops of mountains.
Sikh Prayer for Peace
God adjudges us according
to our deeds,
not the coat that we wear:
that Truth is above everything,
but higher still is truthful living.
Know that we attaineth God when we loveth,
and only victory
endures in consequences of which no
one is defeated.
Christian Prayer for Peace
Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS,
for they shall be known as
the Children of God.
But I say to you that hear, love your enemies,
do good to those who hate you,
bless those who curse you
pray for those who abuse you.
To those that strike you on the cheek,
offer the other one also,
and from those who take away your cloak,
do not withhold your coat as well.
Give to everyone who begs from you,
and of those who take away your goods,
do not ask for them again.
And as you wish that others would do to you,
do so to them.
Jewish Prayer of Peace
Lord of the World, I stand before you
and before my neighbors—
Pardoning, forgiving, struggling
To be open to all those who have hurt and angered me.
Be this hurt of body or soul, of honor or property,
Whether they were forced to hurt me or did so willingly,
Whether by accident or intent,
Whether by work or deed—
I forgive them because we are human…
I am ready to take upon myself the commandment,
Love your neighbor as yourself.
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