Today, the Walk for Peace Sangha crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, offering chants and prayers in remembrance of those who suffered and lost their lives there.

 

Together with everyone present, the venerable monks and the community released flower petals into the river from the bridge as a symbolic offering of our prayers. With mindful steps, loving-kindness, and quiet reverence, we honored history, healed through compassion, and dedicated merit for peace and the well-being of all beings. 🙏🕊️
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The Bridge of History’s Wounds
That bridge—Edmund Pettus—
stands as a witness beyond words,
where joy was once purchased with blood and tears,
so that peace might arise amid profound suffering.

 

On a winter afternoon, sharp with cold,
the bridge grew tender beneath falling petals—
carried by the river toward stillness,
an offering of remembrance for those who laid down their lives.

 

Chants and prayers rose, full and sincere,
blending with the wind, entering the boundless Dhamma.

 

The wind itself intoned a silent verse:
May all beings be free from sorrow and distress.
That bridge remains—a quiet bond,
patient through the turning of years and worlds.
Within its silence, smiles appeared through tears,
as wholesome hearts stirred and resonated together.

 

With deep gratitude for noble vows,
for loving-kindness carried in the footsteps of practitioners,
healing unseen fractures of the heart
in the long night of saṁsāra’s impermanence.

 

Peace begins in what is small and near,
when the heart ceases its distant searching.

 

Gratitude to Alabama—land warmed by human kindness,
where rare and wholesome conditions gently converge.

 

— Lay devotee Thy Lam
December 19, 2025

 

 

 

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