Walking Meditation for Ukraine

and for anyone, anywhere suffering from violence

image courtesy of adobestock

Sometimes we suffer in silence,
and we think it’s the only thing we can do.

But it’s not.

We can let clamor the rabid chaos of the world,
and still press peace into the ground
through our feet with every single step.

We can refuse to break in the face of breaking news.
We can hold the world, instead, with a consciousness
bigger than all its pain, a space much more vast
than pain itself.

We can press peace into the ground today
with every step we take. Consciously,
we can press peace into the ground —
peace that reaches all the way
through and into and around
the world.

Be quiet.

Terror screams through our screens,
Russian atrocities shock us from our scrolling,
and in slow motion, everywhere on this planet,
mother nature has had it. She tosses whole neighborhoods,
whole cities over one shoulder and then the other
with her own arsenal of hurricanes, floods, fires,
snow…