TO DEFINE THE GLOBAL PEACE WALK
To attempt to define The Global Peace Walk would be to attempt to define the
wide range of all human aspirations for "Global Peace Now!". There are so
many reasons for the need for global peace and so many survival issues to
address, and problems to be solved, that it seems an impossible task.
However, we are convinced that the cause of global peace and the solutions
to all of these problems, or obstacles, will be effected by the same
mechanism: A genuine spiritual reawakening by all of humanity to the truth
about the divine spirit embodied within us that correctly defines our
relationship to all life, as All Our Relations.
Today, all over the world, people are confused about this fundamental human
relationship to nature, and are distracted from it by the attractions of the
senses and the world of material comforts. We believe that ancient
knowledge, religions, and prophecies are today blending with the forefront
discoveries of modern science into a more correct understanding of the
nature of the human mind that will clear the way for this spiritual
reawakening so desperately sought in these times. This is the root of
"Global Peace Now!", our prayer which we offer as a universal human resolve.
To bring out this prayer and resolve, the Global Peace Walk was initiated in
1995 as a continuation of the spirit of the peace walks of Mahatma Gandhi,
Martin Luther King, Jr., the Indigenous Americans' Longest Walk of 1978
(initiated by the American Indian Movement, whose spiritual leader, Leonard
Peltier, is still falsely imprisoned) and of the nonviolent social justice
actions of religious practitioners like Cesar Chavez and Mitch Snyder. The
Global Peace Walk is to unite the aspirations of all of the cultures of our
one human race into the affirmation of this resolve.
During the time of Gandhiji's struggle in India to obtain independence from
the dominance of the culture of western materialism, he was inspired by the
prayers and the teachings of a lone Buddhist Monk in India at that time, the
most venerable Nichidatsu Fujii of Japan, who had gone to begin the revival
of Buddhism there according to his interpretation of the Lotus Sutra
prophecies espoused by St. Nichiren. When in later years the Atomic Bomb
fell on Hiroshima on his 60th birthday, this man (whom Gandhi called his
Guruji) initiated a revival of the spiritual practice from ancient India to
construct the Peace Pagoda or Stupa, Peace Pole, as a tangible symbol in the
material world of The Message of Peace, The Tree of Life, whose
understanding is fundamental to this spiritual reawakening. In his last
years of life, Fujii Guruji encountered the cultures of the Indigenous
American spiritual practitioners and offered his support for their guidance
of the global peace movement to success. This is part of the legacy that we
have inherited in conducting the Global Peace Walk for the future
generations.
The Global Peace Walk was initiated to commemorate the 50th anniversary of
the United Nations and to remember and empower its original purpose to
remove the scourge of war from the future generations. The inspiration for
the initiation of the Global Peace Walk came through the person of a
contemporary colleague of Fujii Guruji, one of the last generations of
Buddhist Monks schooled in the traditional system and culture of Japan, Rev.
Yusen Yamato, a Zen Shiatzu Meditation Practitioner, who received the
personal blessing of His Holiness Dalai Lama for this project.
As His Holiness has observed, "correctly understood, Buddhism is not so much
a religion as it is a science of mind", so the Global Peace Walk has
naturally gained the respect and support of politicians, religionists,
scientists and other human beings, of all beliefs and all walks of life, in
its mission to fulfill the predictions of the advent of true peace, harmony
among all life and free natural abundance as paradise on Earth.
This is my best brief attempt to define The Global Peace Walk, for Global
Peace Now!
To fulfill this mission we work for the dedication of many Sister City
Global Peace Zone Proclamations to create a Global Peace Zone 2000, for
Global Peace2000.
David Crockett Williams, Jr., February 6, 1999
Bachelor of the Science of Chemistry, 1969, Cal State University
Northridge
Chartered Life Underwriter, 1971, American College of Life Underwriters
Coordinator, Global Peace Walk 1999-2000
Initiator, Global Emergency Alert Response
"Love All, Serve All"