Veggies for peace

My sweet assistant, Kasey, found this on her cybertravels-a peace sign veggie peeler. Peace is everywhere.

The other day I was exceptionally tired so I made a cup of caffeine tea to take with me to Visions Medical Center where I counsel one day a week. I used my travel mug from the World Peace Prayer Society. All around its edges, the phrase “May Peace Prevail on Earth” appears in many languages. Several team members noticed my mug and commented on it. Peace is everywhere.

On a recent holiday to New York City, we saw an SUV with a peace sign on its hood. My partner looked into the shadowed windows and raised her fingers in a peace sign. The driver returned a peace sign to her through the sun roof. Peace is everywhere.

These instances are all about the meditation of “things.”

I know, I know, we are so often encouraged by spiritual teachers to release things, or, more especially, our emphasis on things, but here is another way to be with our things. We can let our things be a message unto ourselves and others.

How much time do you spend peeling vegetables in your life?

Doesn’t it make sense to include peace as a contemplation during our vegetable peeling?

How much time do you spend using a travel mug?

Doesn’t it make sense to have your travel mug carry a message of peace?

How much time do you spend driving your car?

Doesn’t it make sense to have your car—of whatever kind—spread a reminder message of peace? (This is why my current license plate reads: PAXYES.)

So much of our visual input, certainly in North America, is advertising. It makes sense to me to use whatever visual opportunities we have as contemplations on the issues, ideas and visions of the realities we want to establish.

Now, I’ll cop to it. I’m not going to buy a peace veggie peeler, but someone did think of it, and make it, and it’s one more way to remind yourself of your commitment to peace.

Peace, my friend, is as everywhere as we let it be.

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