Dear Wake Up Family,
we hope you are well and enjoying the miracles of summer within and around you!
We are writing to ask you to join us for a Wake Up Day dedicated to the young Plum Village
monastics at Prajna Monastery in Vietnam, whose basic human rights have been taken
away for over 3 weeks, as well as the people who are causing difficulties for these monastics (for
Let's altogether organize a day (at home or wherever you are) to nourish the seeds of peace,
happiness, understanding, love and compassion within ourselves, pool our energy and send
it to those who are suffering and (=) those who are causing suffering to others.
This Wake Up Day will take place on Sunday, the 26th of July 2009.
Together we will enjoy practicing
- sitting and walking meditation
- mindful eating
- touching the Earth
- chanting the name of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara / singing songs which nourish
understanding and love
You are me, and I am you
Isn't it obvious that we interare
You cultivate the flower in yourself
so that I will be beautiful.
I transform the garbage in myself,
so that you will not have to suffer.
I support you;
you support me.
I am in this world to offer you peace;
you are in this world to bring me joy.
-Thay-
Please join us and spread the word - let us flow together like a river!
With unconditional love,
European Wake Up organizers
