Peace sit & Peace walk

PEACE SIT & PEACE WALK

Sandown Sea Front

Saturday 31st March 2012

Meet at 2p.m. outside Dinosaur Isle entrance

Please bring something to sit on. An opportunity to share and spread peace alongside other organised peace sits and walks around the country on this day. Connecting with the major ‘Peace Sit’ event taking place in Trafalgar Square, (part of Zen Buddhist monk and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh's ‘Cooling the flames’ tour of the UK).

Make time for peace within: tread lightly, tread slowly, be in harmony with nature, enjoy each moment

Sun blessed Sunday peace walk

breath in breath out

A warm Spring morning greeted the 'peace walk' on Sunday. Mark and Angie gave a short introduction to the mindful activity drawing on the teachings of the Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Everyone set off in silence taking in the beauty of the trees and surrounding park at Appley, soon we were setting our own pace and taking time to enjoy each moment.

Peaceful walking

 View towards the seafront at Ryde
from Appley Park

Walking in harmony with nature

Rain blessings

Rain rhythms :

 'and with rainy eyes. Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth'.
From Richard ll by William Shakespeare.

It rains in my heart
As it rains on the town:
What is this languorous ache
That wounds my heart?

Gentle, the sound of rain
Battering roof and ground.
How sweet the sound of rain
For the heart in pain!

Paul Verlaine / Translated by Manu Bazzano (Zen Poems) MQ Publications Ltd.