The Symphony of Peace Prayers builds upon our diversity to create a sense of oneness. Through our collaboration, and by bringing our hearts together, we are building a peaceful world.
– Masami Saionji, Fuji Sanctuary, 2012

Building a peaceful world begins with each and every one of us. We are being called upon to transcend our differences in faith, creed, ethnicity, nationality, and background, and come together with an elevated consciousness to forge a new path of light going forward. The Symphony of Peace Prayers aims to be the vehicle for this global transformation.

The Symphony of Peace Prayers (SOPP) is, as the name says, a ‘symphony’ of different faiths, traditions, and cultures coming together in harmony to pray with one voice for peace on earth. It is a worldwide peace event that is celebrated every year in May.

I love traveling by livestream to Mt Fuji each year to be in this rainbow field of children of the earth being peace, praying peace…

Let us all join in by adding our voices to this vast, ever expanding symphony…

Gratitude for All Life on Earth
Thank you, dear Oceans.
Thank you, dear Mountains.
Thank you, dear Earth.
Thank you, dear Animals.
Thank you, dear Plants.
Thank you, dear Minerals.
Thank you, dear Water.
Thank you, dear Air.
Thank you, dear Sun.
Thank you, dear Planet Earth.
May Peace Prevail on Earth.

Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi

may the power of love overcome the love of power over so that we may know peace…

today, the United States in violation of international and domestic law and the constitution without congressional authority has committed a criminal act of aggression with airstrikes on Syria…

i pray that all our relatives will join me in joining in a collective moment of peace… may we all feel peace right now in every wild cell creating a continuous wave of peace flowing throughout the cosmos and awakening us all to the wisdom that violence only begets violence and for their to be peace it must be built on justice guided by love…

may we all come together in this moment as instruments of peace to stand together in love for love reaching out our “hands” and tuning into our one heart of peace…

om shanti, shanti, shantihi…

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

~ Dr Martin Luther King, Jr ~

i awaken today with the feeling of tears, of loss, of letting go and witness these clouds as a natural flow and a cue to tune into  the mystery of trust by being thanksgiving for whatever is here… many metaphorical miles and hours later, i hear of the death of Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz survivor, eloquent witness, messenger of the oppressed, messenger for dignity and atonement and peace, Nobel laureate for peace who implored each of us to see ourselves in each other and make real the vow of “never again”…

to honor this being of peace, listen to some excerpts from a prayer he published in 1997…

A Prayer for the Days of Awe

Master of the Universe, let us make up. It is time. How long can we go on being angry?

More than 50 years have passed since the nightmare was lifted. Many things, good and less good, have since happened to those who survived it. They learned to build on ruins. Family life was re-created. Children were born, friendships struck. They learned to have faith in their surroundings, even in their fellow men and women. Gratitude has replaced bitterness in their hearts. No one is as capable of thankfulness as they are. Thankful to anyone willing to hear their tales and become their ally in the battle against apathy and forgetfulness. For them every moment is grace…

Auschwitz must and will forever remain a question mark only: it can be conceived neither with God nor without God. At one point, I began wondering whether I was not unfair with you. After all, Auschwitz was not something that came down ready-made from heaven. It was conceived by men, implemented by men, staffed by men. And their aim was to destroy not only us but you as well. Ought we not to think of your pain, too? Watching your children suffer at the hands of your other children, haven’t you also suffered?

As we Jews now enter the High Holidays again, preparing ourselves to pray for a year of peace and happiness for our people and all people, let us make up, Master of the Universe. In spite of everything that happened? Yes, in spite. Let us make up: for the child in me, it is unbearable to be divorced from you so long.

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saluting the source flowing through all our relations, may we join together as the one heart we are in the stillness of love and the silence of peace