United Nations Days & Years Meditation Initiative
2016 International Year of Pulses
Meditation Outline
Individuals and groups can help to make the International Year of Pulses more effective through meditation and prayer. Here you will find a sample meditation outline, but you may prefer to create your own meditation outline.Click here and here for information on the Year. Click for suggestions on how to participate in this Initiative.
Pulses, also known as grain legumes, include dry beans, dry peas, chickpeas, and lentils. They are high in protein, fibre, and various vitamins, provide amino acids, and are hearty crops.
Pulse crops are one of the most sustainable crops a farmer can grow. They also contribute to soil quality by fixing nitrogen in the soil.
The Year of Pulses marks the beginning of a bold new global agenda for Sustainable Development with 17 Goals aiming to end poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change over the next 15 years. Achievement of these Goals depends on the will and support of people of goodwill in every part of the world.
Meditation on the Year of Pulses can help to create an environment of thought which fosters right relations between humanity and the plant kingdom as well as a popular will to implement Sustainable Development Goal 2 (End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture) by 2030.
Sit comfortably, alert and with the spine erect. Breathe quietly and regularly. Raise your consciousness to the centre between the eyebrows and without strain hold this focus.
Imagine that you are part of the group of all who love and serve.
Visualise this group as a living network of enlightened will, bringing a new civilisation of sustainability and right relations into existence.
- Say aloud:
May the Power of the one Life pour through the group of all true servers
May the Love of the one Soul characterise the lives of all who seek to aid the Great Ones
May I/we fulfil my/our part in the one Work through self-forgetfulness, harmlessness, and right speech. Sense the life and being of that community of plants known as grain legumes.
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Imagine people planting, caring for and harvesting pulses.
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Consider the vast community of human beings who are inspired by SDG Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030. Imagine the will to achieve this goal being empowered and electrified.
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Hold in the light of a higher wisdom, all the events being held around the world during the International Year of Pulses. Imagine these events contributing towards humanity’s wholehearted participation in the Global Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Close by using the World Prayer, the Great Invocation, or an affirmation of your choice.
From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into human minds.
Let Light descend on Earth.From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream forth into human hearts.
May the Coming One return to Earth.From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide all little human wills
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.From the centre which we call the human race
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out.
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth
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