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 Bringing About World Peace One Person at a Time Through Meditation
The meditation community is diverse with many different disciplines. Each approach to meditation might have a different goal based on it's religious or cultural history. In modern times, meditation has become a focus of the health community with good reason. Medical science has discovered what the ancients have known for centuries and that is the fact that meditation can have a profound impact on health, prolonging life and even helping to cure disease or recover from illness or injury.
Many of the most ancient branches of the meditation movement have their grounding in religious teachings. Through meditation, the individual can realize a greater peace within which draws one closer to God and produces spiritual tranquility and enlightenment as well. But the teachers or "gurus" of meditation have a lot to teach us about how we can use the power of meditation to bring about world peace as well.
It is no secret that world peace seems even further from becoming a reality than it has ever been. What is not often discussed is that in some countries where meditation is a big part of the culture, world peace within the confines of that country has often been achieved for centuries in the past. Even today, there are countries that seem to never get involved in conflict. One reason for that is that when a population reaches a level of individual inner harmony and peace, that affects the culture to avoid conflict as well and to seek harmony with the rest of mankind.
Genuine and long lasting individual peace that can then spread to world peace must start within the heart of the individual. A culture cannot become peaceful and then spread that worldview to the citizens. Transforming peace always spreads from the inside out. The reason meditation actually can bring about world peace is that it has that kind of transforming power.
Meditation is about more than just a moment of sitting quietly. It literally changes the individual bringing serenity and an inner self-actualization that exudes that peace to everyone around you. When the individual begins to generate that inner peace from within to the culture around him, it has such a powerful effect that world peace can be achieved.
We only have to look at the transforming power of certain historical figures who brought world peace beginning with their inner tranquility. Such figures as Jesus Christ and other profound religious leaders most certainly included meditation as part of their regimen of inner spiritual strength. And when that spiritual strength began to shine out, others around these persons could not help but join them and that transforming power became so overwhelming that world peace became possible.
There is a song that includes the lyric, "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me". That is a perfect summary of the goals of the meditation movement to create serenity in the individual and then allow that inner tranquility to cause world peace. To the logical mind, it seems impossible for one individual to cause world peace through meditation. But the transforming power of community has an almost mystical nature to it. And as you and I become more at peace, that can start a wave of serenity that can spread person to person then to a wider community until world peace becomes a reality.
Meditation also teaches patience and perseverance. So as we all use meditation to begin the movement toward world peace one person at a time, we naturally acknowledge that world peace may not happen overnight or even our lifetime. But if we of us makes our contribution by generating inner serenity to the cosmos that we achieve through meditation, we will realize world peace at some time for ourselves or for those who come after us.
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