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Thailand: One Million Children Gather, Meditate for World Peace

Written by Akeem Alao

It is an annual ritual in Thailand to gather one million children who join the Buddhist to participate in the annual meditation event for world peace tagged V-Star Change. This event is held at the Phra Dhammakaya temple near Bangkok.

It is believed that when all these children meditate together for a whole day it will help change the world.

The V star children’s project is an event where children wish good for the world and meditate for its well-being. It happens once a year, and when it does, these children come together in prayer and meditation, hoping to heal the scars humanity has inflicted on Mother Earth.

The first event was in 2008 and it was part of the World Morality Revival project that had been initiated by the abbot of the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Buddhist Temple, Luang Phor Dhammachayo. They have continued to do it traditionally every year since.

These children come from 7000 schools in Thailand and various other parts of the world. The abbot’s objective was for school children to come together and support one another by sharing with each other the good deeds that they do daily.

The beautiful thing is that they all migrate from different places, to this one temple, to take part in this programme, all with the desire to invoke world peace. The way they see it, the more children there are together sending positive vibrations into the universe, the bigger the effect will be, and the more the world will benefit.

Spiritually speaking, it can unlock one’s full potential by dissolving the ego. According to certain schools of Buddhism and several spiritual theories, it is believed that there is a special vital life force flowing through every one of us and meditation awakens this life force.

Scientifically speaking, they have discovered that when they meditate, it increases the electromagnetic energy that the human body generates. As a result, this improves the function of their bodies. Furthermore, meditation is a powerful medium that teaches us how to tap into our inner selves and therefore be more at peace with ourselves.

Also, since everything is made up of electromagnetic energy, then it could be safe to say that a huge group or gathering could easily give off positive vibes in a mass meditation event.

This event is a great idea because it brings the future leaders and people of the world together to think positively and wish good out to everything and everyone. There’s nothing wrong with that.

Children are the future. Instilling them with good morals and values to become positive responsible adults is a very good thing. Also, the future is for our children, and they are the best hope we have. By helping them learn meditation, they are being taught a positive way of thinking that will benefit them physically and mentally. That will in turn benefit the world at large.

About the author

Akeem Alao

Akeem Alao trained as a language teacher. He graduated from Adeniran Ogunsanya college of Education where he studied English/Yoruba Languages and Ekiti State University where he obtained a degree in English Education.

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