Silent Peace Walk Around Central Park, NY, Sunday October 7, 2012
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Silent Peace Walk Around Central Park, NY
sage: A walk around Central Park, in silence, to ponder peace. What a wonderful idea. Thanks to Habiba.By Sage Hawkwynde, Achieving World Peace Now!, Oct. 2, 2012
http://achievingworldpeacenow.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/silent-peace-walk-around-central-park-ny/
Original at: http://nypeacewalk.org/2012/10/01/silent-peace-walk-around-central-park/
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND WORLDWIDE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2012
Please join us at 2:30 pm for an opening event with the walk leaders at the NY Academy of Medicine (1216 5th Avenue @ 103rd).
“There is so much joy we give to each other simply by sharing our lives. A silent walk together, with all our dreams and hopes for peace upright in our hearts, is the most beautiful expression of sincere, spirit led, activism. Though the road is long and full of obstacles, we know Friendship is the prize of peace. What else is as worthy to win? We will be friends, and walk this path together; nothing must stop us.” Alice Walker
The first large US silent Peace Walk is being planned for Sunday, October 7, 2012 in New York City’s Central Park. Following an opening gathering at 2:30pm, the walk will circumnavigate continuously Central Park allowing participants to join along the way. The walk is intended to be slow, beautiful and dignified, without flags or signage, an expression of the goodwill and friendliness of people who live together. It empowers us all to be peacemakers.Instead of shouting in the name of peace, peace will be embodied by our quiet presence. ‘There is no way to peace, peace is the way’.
With over 8 million people living in New York City, it is one of the most densely populated and ethnically and religiously diverse cities in the world. Home to over 100 ethnic groups, including several million Muslims and Jews, the walk is intended to demonstrate that people of all faiths and origins can live peacefully side by side.
The peace we long for in the Middle East and Worldwide is actually possible. We call for the urgent cessation of violence in the Middle East and a serious and committed movement towards a sustainable and peaceful coexistence.
The walk will be led by Jack Kornfield, one of the leading Buddhist teachers in America, Dr. Stephen Fulder, founder of Middleway, an Israeli-Palestinian group applying mindfulness and spiritual insights to peacemaking, Rabbi Ingber, the Founder and Spiritual Director of Romemu, Daisy Khan, Bernie Glassman, Sheikha Fariha and many others.
Large silent peace walks have become famous in Israel and Palestine, for 10 years and Dr. Fulder has been a central teacher and visionary for these walks.
Addendum
Dear Friends, and Daniella, please note.
At the same time we will have the peace walk here in NY, an additional peace walk was supposed to take place in BethLehem.
Stephen Fulder, a peace-maker, and the funder of Insight Meditation Israel, has just notified us with some sadness, that the Bethlehem Walk cannot go ahead. Instead there are plans to hold some kind of activity of Palestinians in Bethlehem and a simultaneous activity of the Israelis in Israel. It is a sober reminder to us all of the realities on the ground and what we are facing. There is so much pain and out of that some Palestinians are expressing rage at Israelis who come to Bethlehem and walk with Palestinians. It is neither respectful nor safe to go there under these conditions. Please see the article in the Jerusalem Post below. Our NY walk is so important – also because it it possible, and may help to spread the message where walking together cannot happen.
Our walk here in NY will take place as planned. Please come. It is possible and necessary to do it here.
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