🎉 We Have Reached 1 Million Followers! 🎉

 

Last night at approximately 11:55 PM PT on Day 78 of the journey (January 11, 2026), our official Walk for Peace Facebook page reached 1 million followers! We are overwhelmed with joy, deeply humbled, and profoundly grateful.
When we opened this page on November 8th—just 12 days after the journey began—we could never have imagined that within just 64 days, 1 million hearts would choose to walk with us in spirit.

 

This milestone represents far more than a number. It represents each and every one of you—one million individuals who have chosen to support this mission of peace, compassion, mindfulness, and unity.
You are not simply followers on a page. You are integral to this peaceful journey. Through sharing our message, visiting us along the way, holding us in your prayers, and walking with us in spirit, you have become part of the Walk for Peace itself.

 

From the depths of our hearts, thank you.

 

Thank you for believing in this mission when we were just beginning. Thank you for sharing our message with others. Thank you for your unwavering support, your prayers, your presence, and your love. Thank you for choosing peace.
We are so honored and humbled to walk this journey alongside all of you. Together, we are proving that peace is not just a dream—it is alive, it is real, and it is growing stronger every single day.

 

With overflowing gratitude, profound joy, and the deepest humility.
May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏💛✨

 

 

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📌 Public Announcement – Update on Aloka’s Surgery | January 12, 2026.

 

We are deeply grateful to share that Aloka has successfully completed his surgery, which was originally estimated to take 2–3 hours and was completed in just 1 hour. He is now in recovery and resting under close medical care.

 

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the incredible medical team at Charleston Veterinary Referral Center (CVRC) for their extraordinary compassion and generosity:
Dr. Patricia Sura – Surgeon, Medical Director
Dr. Sophy Jesty – Cardiologist
Dr. Emmett Swanton – Anesthesiologist
Transporter/ Coordinator: Rhonda
Holliman Guardian: Louis Hai Thai
Surgical Nurse: Tiffany
Assistant: Loren

 

They offered their professional services entirely free of charge, demonstrating true loving-kindness in action.

 

Please continue to keep Aloka in your prayers and thoughts as he heals. We will share further updates as he recovers.
With sincere gratitude and appreciation.
The Walk For Peace Team.
📸 Credit: Charleston Veterinary Referral Center
May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏

 

 

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🪶 In recent days, everyone may have noticed Bhikkhu Pannakara carrying a beautiful feather fan—a gift that holds a meaningful story.

 

This prayer fan was lovingly crafted from feathers gathered from birds who had passed away, found resting on the street. What others might have seen as something to discard, someone saw as material for something sacred. With care and intention, those feathers were transformed into this prayer fan—a tool for blessing, a bridge between hearts.

 

Bhikkhu Pannakara accepted this gift with deep gratitude, and now he uses it to offer blessings to those who need them, anyone who wishes to receive a blessing but whom he cannot touch directly due to the monastic rules he follows.

 

By gently touching this fan to their heads, he can extend the same care, the same spiritual connection, the same tender wish for their wellbeing—honoring both his vows and the human need for blessing.

 

But this fan carries meaning beyond its practical use. It reminds us: nothing in this world is inherently positive or negative, beautiful or disposable. Everything depends on how we perceive it, how we choose to use it.
Feathers from birds who have died—something that might seem sad or overlooked—have become a bridge for blessing. What was once abandoned has been given new purpose. What had ended has been woven into something that brings comfort and hope.

 

This is the truth the prayer fan whispers: transformation is always possible. What seems finished can serve anew. What appears broken can become part of something beautiful. What we thought had no value can, with love and intention, become sacred.

 

Nothing is too small or forgotten to matter. Everything holds the potential to become meaningful when we approach it with an open heart.
May you and all beings be well, happy, and at peace.

 

 

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