peace prayers of different religions

Hindu Prayer for Peace
Oh God, lead us from the unreal to the Real.

Oh God, lead us from darkness to light.

Oh God, lead us from death to immortality.

Shanti, Shanti, Shanti unto all.

O Lord God Almighty may there be peace in Celestial regions.

May there be peace on earth.

May the waters be appeasing.

May herbs be wholesome, and may trees and plants bring peace to all.

May all beneficent beings bring peace to us.

May thy Vedic Law propagate peace all through the world.
May all things be a source of peace to us.

And may thy peace itself bestow peace on all.

And may that peace come to me also.

Buddhist Prayer for Peace
May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings

of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses.

May those frightened cease to be afraid

and may those bound be free.

May the powerless find power,

and may people think of befriending one another.

May those who find themselves in trackless,fearful wildernesses - the children, the aged, the unprotected - be guarded by beneficent celestials,and may they quickly attain Buddhahood.

Zoroastrian Prayer for Peace
We pray to God to eradicate all the misery in the world:

that understanding triumph over ignorance,

that generosity triumph over indifference,

that trust triumph over contempt, and

that truth triumph over falsehood.

Jainist Prayer for Peace
Peace and Universal Love is the essence of the Gospel

preached by all the Enlightened Ones.

The Lord has preached that equanimity is the Dharma.

Forgive do I, creatures all,and let all creatures forgive me.

Unto all have I amity, and unto none enmity.

Know that violence is the root cause of all miseries in the world.

Violence in fact, is the knot of bondage.

"Do not injure any living being."

This is the eternal, perennial, and unalterableway of spiritual life.
A weapon, howsoever powerful it may be,

can always be superseded by a superior one;

but no weapon can, however,be superior to non-violence and love.

Jewish Prayer for Peace
Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

that we may walk the paths of the most high.

And we shall beat our swords into ploughshares,

and our spears into pruning hooks.

Nations shall not lift up sword against nation - neither shall they learn war any more.

And none shall be afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.

Shinto Prayer for Peace
Although the people living across the ocean surrounding us,

I believe, are all our brothers and sisters,

why are there constant troubles in this world?

Why do winds and waves rise in the ocean surrounding us?

I only earnestly wish that the wind will soon puff away all the clouds which are hanging over the tops of the mountains.

Native African Prayer for Peace
Almighty God, the Great Thumb

we cannot evade to tie any knot:

The Roaring Thunder that splits mighty trees;

the all-seeing Lord up on high who sees

even the footprints of an antelope on a rock mass here on earth.

You are the one who does not hesitate to respond to our call.

You are the cornerstone of peace.

Native American Prayer for Peace
O Great spirit of our Ancestors,

I raise my pipe to you;

To your messengers in the four winds, and

to Mother Earth who provides for your children.

Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,

to respect, and to be kind to each other,

so that they may grow with peace in mind.
Let us learn to share all good things that

you provide for us on this Earth.

Muslim Prayer for Peace
In the name of Allah the beneficent, the merciful.

Praise be to the Lord of the Universe,

who has created us and made us into tribes and nations

that we may know each other,

not that we may despise each other.

If the enemy incline towards peace,

do thou also incline towards peace,

and trust God, for the Lord is the one

that heareth and knoweth all things.

And the servants of God,

most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in Humility,

and when we address them, we say "PEACE."

The Baha'i Prayer for Peace
Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity.

Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech.

Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness,

and a home to the stranger.

Be eyes to the blind,

and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring.

Be a breath of life to the body of humankind,

a dew upon the soil of the human heart,

and a fruit upon the tree of humility.

Sikh prayer for Peace
God adjudges us according to our deeds,

not the clothes that we wear;

That truth is above everything,

but higher still is truthful living.

Know that we attain God when we love,

and only that victory endures in consequences

of which no one is defeated.

Christian Prayer for Peace
Blessed are the Peacemakers

for they shall be known as the Children of God.

But I say to you that hear,

love your enemies,

do good to those who hate you,

bless those who curse you,

pray for those who abuse you.

To those who strike you on the cheek offer the other also,

and from those who take away your cloak,

do not withhold your coat as well.

Give to everyone who begs from you,

and of those who take away your goods,

do not ask them again.

And as you wish that others would to do you,do so to them.

SACRED OFFICE OF PEACE

Hindu Prayer
Oh God, lead us from the unreal to the Real.

Oh God, lead us from darkness to light.

Oh God, lead us from death to immortality.

Shanti, Shanti, Shanti unto all.

Buddhist Prayer
May all beings everywhere

plagued with sufferings of body and mind

quickly be freed from their illnesses.

May all beings swiftly attain Buddhahood.

Zoroastrian Prayer
We pray to God that understanding will triumph over ignorance,

that generosity will triumph over indifference,

that trust will triumph over contempt,and

that truth will triumph over falsehood.

Jainist Prayer
Peace and universal love is the essence of all the Gospels.

Forgive do I creatures all,and let all creatures forgive me.

Jewish Prayer
Oh come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

that we may walk the paths of the Most High.

And we will beat our swords into ploughshares

and our spears into pruning hooks.

Shinto Prayer
We earnestly wish that the wind will soon puff away

all the clouds hanging over the tops of the mountains.

Native African Prayer
For you are one who does not hesitate to respond to our call, you are the cornerstone of peace.

Native American Prayer
Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,to respect and to be kind to one another, so that we may grow with peace in mind.

Muslim Prayer
Praise be to the Lord of the Universe, who has created us and made us into tribes and nations that we may know each other,not despise each other.

Baha'i Prayer
Be a breath of life unto the body of humankind, a dew upon the soil of the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility.

Sikh Prayer
Know that we attain God when we love,and only that victory endures in consequence of which no one is defeated.

Christian Prayer
Love your enemies,do good to those who hate you,bless those who curse you,pray for those who abuse you.Blessed be the Peacemakers,for they shall be called the Children of God.

let me apologize

We truly Are

One Nation, Of God,

Indivisible,

because We Cannot Divide The One Heart

no matter what We may say

or do to One another.

But let Me apologize to every God

for what We’ve done

in That name.

Let Me apologize to every People

for what We’ve each Believed,

as We took a Life.

Let Me apologize for every One

Who has forgotten

Oneness.

For Conquests.

For Slavery.

For War.

For Conversions,

and Missions.

For Rape

of Animals, Peoples, Planets.

Let Me apologize

for The Innocent

who

don’t even know

Their Guilt.

m.claire

The Three Statements of Ultimate Truth are:
1. We are all one.

2. There is enough.

3. There is nothing you have to do.

Taken together, these three statements are all that we would really need to know to live our lives joyously.

The first statement, in particular, carries sufficient power to eliminate all of the humanly created problems currently faced by the human race. If we thought that this statement was really true, the behaviors that we exhibit and in which we engage on this planet would disappear from our experience forever. That is because we would never do to ourselves the kinds of things that we do at present to each other. If we thought that we are all one, it would change the way we hold the experience of being human. We would then understand that what we do to another we do to ourselves and that what we fail to do for another we fail to do for ourselves. Most human beings are reluctant to embrace the idea that we are all one because to them it feels threatening. They imagine that they are going to lose their individuality and their sense of themselves. This fear of lost identity is what creates our lost identity. Through fearing that we will lose our very sense of self, we, in fact, make it impossible to...
...ever have a true sense of self. We do not know who we really are and we never will know who we really are in our experience so long as we imagine ourselves to be separate from others. The idea that we are all one is salvific. Adopting such an idea in our political interactions, in our economic interactions, in our military interactions would save us from ourselves. It would change everything in all human interactions. It would make military might virtually unnecessary. It would set our worldwide economies on their ear. It would alter the nature of politics, turning this human interaction into what it was always intended to be.

The second of the three statements of ultimate truth is the pronouncement that “There is enough.” This statement, too, offers immediate liberation from the most violent and destructive and self-destructive behaviors of the human race. Nearly all of our killing, almost all of our violence, and the vast majority of our self-destructive interactions with the world around us are caused by the idea that somehow there is not enough of something. There is not enough love, there is not enough time, there is not enough money, there is not enough oil, there is not enough power, there is not enough of whatever it is we think we need to be happy, to be safe, to be secure, or to be what we imagine is fully human. Conversations with God says there is enough of everything we need to be happy. It is all given to us here on the planet Earth, and the problem is not a problem of insufficiency, but a problem of inadequate distribution. In short, the human race has not learned to share. We have allowed ourselves to live within a system in which 5% of the world's people hold or control 85% of the world's wealth and resources. It is a matter as simple as that, and as soon as we get that we are all one, such a system could never remain in place. The statement “There is enough,” taken into our personal lives in a serious and meaningful way, would change everything on an individual level as well. The point here is that not only would this extraordinary insight alter human society on a macro scale, it would shift everything in our ground of being at the individual level, too. Our interactions with others, our love relationships, our encounters with life at virtually every level would be far different from the way they are now if we thought that this statement was true. The sad part about is that the statement is true, and very few people know it. Very few people have faith in it. Very few people understand or practice the Theory of Sufficiency as a part of their daily interactions with life.

There is always “more where that came from.” There is always more love, there is always more time, there is always more money, there is always more oil, there is always more of whatever it is you think you need to be happy. And if you can't find its exact duplicate, you can find some other substance or experience in the Universe which provides the same outcome. And so, for instance, if the oil truly runs out, we can use the energy from the sun. This is a simple example of what I mean.

The third statement of ultimate truth is widely misunderstood. The idea that there is nothing you have to do does not mean that there's nothing that you will do. It simply means that there's nothing that you have to do. It means that Doingness is not a required function of humanality. All human beings are doing something all the time. The question is not what are they doing but why are they doing it. This is the heart of the matter.
When Doingness springs from a state of being, it is a demonstration of who we imagine ourselves and create ourselves to be. When Doingness is an attempt to arrive at a state of being, its mission is distorted, its purpose is misunderstood, and the outcomes it produces are very seldom in alignment with the outcomes that we had hoped for.

The idea that there is “something you have to do” runs rampant through human culture. It was placed there by humanity's largest organized religions, which imagine that God has set down a series of requirements which must be met in order for us to enter heaven and receive our eternal reward. This mind-set now permeates the largest portion of human society, and translates itself into not only sacred and religious interactions, but also occupational and relational interactions as well. Indeed, nearly all of our interactions with life at whatever level we may want to consider are based upon a preconceived notion that there is something we have to do in order to be interacting in a way that is “right.”
The statement “There is nothing you have to do” is therefore also intensely liberating.

The Three Statements of Ultimate Truth are equally liberating, and, taken together, free the human soul at last to express itself in a way that has been designed by the Universe to allow humanity itself to reflect divinity in all of its creative, excited, and limitless expressions, opening the door of possibility wider than most people ever imagined possible.
Study these three statements carefully. Say them over and over again to yourself as your daily mantra. Use them as your constant companion. Allow them to form the basis of your every interaction, with yourself and with the world around you. But be careful. These statements are more powerful than they may on the surface appear to be. They can change your life forever.

how to deal with your significant other

Is there another way to experience partnership in terms of romantic relationships? Have you really understood the real purpose or the true meaning of relationships? Unfortunately, there’s no school that teaches these things. You can’t take a high school class in Relationships 101. It’s hard to even find such studies in college. We think we’re teaching it in Social Studies, but that’s not even scratching the surface. It’s going nowhere near the real issues. We have to keep our schools as non-controversial as possible, passing on to our children only that with which everyone agrees, and so we pass on no Grander Wisdom at all.

..., the startling statement “Relationships Work Best When You Always Do What Is Best For You.” All my life I had been taught that the way to make relationships work was to do what was best for the other. And so, I’d been going around trying to make the other person in the relationship happy, trying to make the other person satisfied, trying to make the other person glad, and fulfilled, and complete.
Now with CwG (Conversation with God) book it's telling me that I’ve got the emphasis all wrong. It is me that I’m supposed to worry about. It is me that I’m supposed to please. It is me that I’m to pay my attention to. Fascinating!

CwG says that there are only two questions to ask when considering a romantic relationship:

1. Where am I going?


2. Who is going with me?

And the important thing, CwG says, is not to reverse the order.
All my life I had been doing that. “Who is going with me?” I would ask, then I would decide where I was going. Or, more accurately, where we were going, which was, more often than not, not where I thought that I was going to be going.

In relationships, it’s important to keep things going well by going where you were going to be going. If you’re not going where you were going to be going before the relationship began, then you may not know where you are going—and the relationship may soon be going to hell.

What this little play on words means is that we had better not give up who we are in order to make a relationship work, because all we will do is lose who we are, and the relationship will not work anyway.

You cannot abandon yourself in order to find yourself.

So often in my life I thought that I had finally “found myself” in another. I hated being alone, and so would trade almost anything to have the company of another. What is understandable is wanting the company of another. Humans are social creatures. We do not do well in isolation. That is because we know, intuitively, deep down inside, who we really are (one with everything and everyone), and we wish to experience that. What is sad is wanting the company of another so badly that we give up the company of ourselves. That is, we disappear ourselves so that another may appear.
I did this over and over again in the first five decades of my life. Yes, that’s right, I said the first five decades. It wasn’t until I was a half-century old that I began to figure things out. And here is one of the things I finally figured out:
I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my “significant other” for “making me” do that—and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.
I now see clearly that the rock-the-boat truth in Book 1 of the CwG series—that relationships work best when you always do what is best for you—is a life-altering insight. It saves relationships, it does not destroy them. It creates harmony, it does not disrupt it. That’s because all we are talking about here is honesty. You must act honestly in relationships—that is, you must be true to yourself—and only then do relationships have a chance to really work functionally. Oh, we can have dysfunctional relationships very easily, and all we want, but if functional relationships are what we prefer, then “to thine own self be true” becomes a maxim that cannot be ignored.

the real secret of relationships—which is their purpose.
If you want to have some fun sometime, just go around asking people a simple question. Tell them you are taking a survey. Ask them, “What is the purpose of relationships?” You’ll be amazed at the answers you’ll get. What will most surprise you, though, once you’ve read CwG, is the one answer that you will not get. At least, not very often. In fact, hardly ever.
“The purpose of relationship is to provide a Contextual Field within which you may choose and declare, express and fulfill, experience and become Who You Really Are.”

And this is done not through what you get out of your relationship, but through what you put into it.Relationship does not exist to give you something, relationship exists for you to have something to give.
Outside of the context of a relationship with some other person, place, or thing, you will have no one and nothing to give to. And it is the giving of Who You Are that brings you the experience of it. And, of course, experiencing Who You Are is why you came here. It is the purpose of all of Life.
So now it looks as if we have come full circle, yes? First I’m saying, “Do what is best for you,” and now I’m saying “it’s only what you give to others that brings you happiness.”
I can see how, at first, this could seem like a contradiction, but stay with me here.
What if giving to others IS what’s best for you? Then you are doing what’s best for you WHILE you are giving to others.
Yet how could giving to others be what’s best for you? Only if you decided that the definition of YOU was larger than your previous definition, and included others. Perhaps, even, ALL others.
If you decide CwG is correct in declaring that We Are All One, then your definition of YOU suddenly takes in everyone and everything—and it certainly takes in the person you say you are in love with.
Therefore, what you do for that “other,” you do for yourself.
Now we have a whole different ballgame. Now, what formerly looked like selflessness begins to look like selfishness. Which is how it should be. You should feel SELFISH when you do something for another—because there’s nobody else in the room but you.
This depth of understanding of the true nature of relationship renders resentment virtually impossible.
But wait. Does this mean that we have to give up the wants and desires of the “local self” in order to satisfy the wants and desires of the Larger Self?
For me, the answer is no. For only when I have made the Local Self happy can I begin to be happiness for the Larger Self. That is why self-honesty has become so important to me. I have to be honest with my Local Self first, and act in accordance with what I know my own truth to be, before I can even start to think about moving out from there to the Larger Self.
Interestingly, this is what the Larger Self wants!
I know of nobody who is going to feel good if they think that I am sacrificing everything I am and everything I choose in life in order to make them happy. What they really want is for me to be clear about what makes me happy, then to come from that clarity and to live that clarity in all my announcements, choices, and actions. Then they can decide accurately, not based on false data, whether they can be in harmonious relationship with me.

This is what everyone wants. Everyone wants to be in a relationship that works. And that means a relationship that works for everyone—not just for one, not just for some.
Is it possible to achieve this? Is it possible to create it?
I believe it is. CwG says that it is.

posted by Neale Donald Walsch

questions teenagers would ask God

If you could ask God any question, what would it be?

Why do You let children get abused sexually and physically?

How come everyone wasn't born smart?

Why is the world filled with hate?

What’s the deal with the generation gap? Why can’t parents just talk with us? And why is there so much pressure—from parents, from school, from everyone?

Is my life controlled by fate?

Why are we taught facts, and not ideas, in school?

Will I return to You, and will You be happy with me?

How come I have to pay adult ticket prices at the movies when I’m 13, but I can’t see an ‘R’ movie? That’s stupid.

Why do we have to have three hours of homework after seven hours of school?

I’m confused and scared about what to make of my newly found sexual identity. How can I present that to the people I love?

How come people make such dumb laws?

If You made us, then who made You?

How is that a God of mercy can be such an isolationist and so intolerant to other views?

How can a God of infinite mercy condemn anyone for anything?

Why condemn magic that heals?

Why condemn for eternity those transgressions that are momentary?

Why is it that my parents notice only the things that I do wrong? How come adults want respect but don’t give it back?

Why do people die? What can't we live forever? What really is life after death?

Why is it that I can die for my country at 18, but I can’t enjoy a cold beer on a hot day? I feel like I need to be successful—at everything. My parents seem to desperately want that. But what is ‘success’?

I don’t know whether to hang with the popular “preppie” kids or the castoff “grungy” kids. Why does everyone have to separate?

Why do my parents freak out about sex? My God, they freak out.

Now aren’t those great questions? They’ll all be addressed here, as will many others that were asked—questions about dealing with authority, about choosing the right career, about drugs, about marrying or living together, about how the experiences of our lives are created, and even about what God looks like. (if you know any teenagers with questions such as these, you may want to direct them here!)

Why do you let children get abused sexually and physically?

There is so much sexual abuse in the world because there is so much sexual repression in the world. Humans have been taught from the time they are very young to be ashamed of their body parts and embarrassed or guilty about their sexuality. The result is that millions of people have sexual hang ups you wouldn’t believe.
you did not ask me why there was sexual and physical abuse in the world, you asked me why I allowed it—and I’m aware that that’s an entirely different question.

Yes, it is. So why do You allow it?

When I created life as you know it, I did so by simply separating myself into countless smaller parts of me. This is another way of saying that you were made “in the image and likeness of God.” Now because God is The Creator, that means that all of you are creators, too. You have free will, just as I have free will. If I had not given you free will, you could not create, but only react. If you could only do what I tell you to do, then you could not create, but only obey.
Obedience is not creation. It is an act of subservience, not an act of power. God is not subservient to anyone, and since you are a part of God, you are, by nature, not subservient to anyone, either. That is why, when you are made to be subservient, you immediately revolt. It is against your very nature. It is a violation of Who You Are at the very core of your being.
Teenagers know this more than anyone.

But what about those human beings who have done things with their free will that has been very hurtful to others?

There have been many people like that, and it is true that I could have stopped this. I did not stop it because the Process of Life itself is the expression of free will. Anything less than that is not life, but death.Even when the expression of free will does not serve the highest good, it must be allowed, or freedom itself is a mockery. The word “freedom” and the word “God” are interchangeable. You cannot have one without the other. For God to exist, freedom must exist.
The beauty of freedom, however, is that it can be expressed by all beings, not just a few. This means that the people of the Earth are free to eliminate the experiences of sexual abuse and physical abuse from their collective experience forever. They are also free to eliminate other conditions of cruelty and misery that they now endure. How?

Answers to some of the questions will be posted soon.....