The Shared Responsibility of World Peace : หน้า 5/50

organisation. We have come to believe that creating peace is not our duty but the domain of someone else who has power, holds a governing position, has budgets, and is somehow more organised than the average citizen. So our home is left to endure wars and political, economic and religious conflicts. Establishing world peace seems as unattainable as catching shadows in one’s hand. The dream of global happiness seems to deteriorate with the news of each bomb explosion, each person senselessly killed, each hateful word uttered. Although peace is profoundly complex and deeply important to all humanity, let us define it simply for now as a sense of happiness and wellbeing. Indeed, peace can exist everywhere – within your heart, your family, your neighbourhood, your society and nation; even encompassing the entire world. The term ‘world peace’, then, can be generalised as ‘the world’s happiness’ in which everyone on the planet experiences and shares this sense of contentment. We all long for it, yet a vast majority of us have not realised that we are the most significant and essential element in which peace can flourish. Changing this world into a place of true peace is the responsibility of all of us. Born as intelligent beings who inhabit this earth, are we then not responsible for world peace – a happiness belonging to the world as well as to ourselves? We cannot claim that peace-making is the work of the others. In concert with the efforts made by national governments, organisations and dedicated individuals who tirelessly seek ways to cure the ills of wars and conflicts through technology and strategies. Luang Phaw Dhammajayo, the Most Venerable Phrarajbavanisudh, the abbot of Dhammakaya Temple and president of Dhammakaya Foundation, offers his distinctive solution. Ordained since 1969, he is dedicated to