A large meditation events in Thailand, aimed at peace and moral education, involve one million students and teachers through initiatives like the “V-Star Change the World” project, promoting harmony and mindfulness. These events, linked to Buddhist shrines, emphasize collective calm over competition. Additionally, historical data from a 1993 project in Washington, D.C., suggests that mass meditation can lead to a significant reduction in violent crime, indicating potential non-local impacts of such practices worldwide.
One million children join a Buddhist annual meditation event called V-Star Change the World at the Phra Dhammakaya temple near Bangkok. They believe that when all these children meditate together for a whole day it will help change the entire world.
The V star children’s project is an event where children wish good for the world and meditate for its well-being. It happens once a year, and when it does, these children come together in prayer and meditation, hoping to heal the scars humanity has inflicted on Mother Earth.
The V star children’s project is an event where children wish good for the world and meditate for its well-being. It happens once a year, and when it does, these children come together in prayer and meditation, hoping to heal the scars humanity has inflicted on Mother Earth.
The first event was held in 2008 and it was part of the World Morality Revival project that had been initiated by the abbot of the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Buddhist Temple, Luang Phor Dhammachayo. They have continued to do it traditionally every year since.
These children come from 7000 schools in Thailand and various other parts of the world. The abbot’s objective was for school children to come together and support one another by sharing with each other the good deeds that they do daily.
How beautiful is it that they all migrate from different places, to this one temple, to take part in this historic occasion, all with the desire to invoke world peace? The way they see it, the more children there are together sending positive vibrations into the universe, the bigger the effect will be, and the more the world will benefit.
Spiritually speaking, it can unlock one’s full potential by dissolving the ego. According to certain schools of Buddhism and several spiritual theories, it is believed that there is a special vital life force flowing through every one of us and meditation awakens this life force.
Scientifically speaking, they have discovered that when we meditate it increases the electromagnetic energy that the human body generates. As a result, this improves the function of our bodies. Furthermore, meditation is a powerful medium that teaches us how to tap into our inner selves and therefore be more at peace with ourselves.
Also, since everything is made up of electromagnetic energy, then it could be safe to say that a huge group or gathering could easily release positive vibes in a mass meditation event. It’s bringing the future leaders and people of the world together to think positively and wish good out to everything and everyone. There’s nothing wrong with that.
Children are the future. Instilling them with good morals and values to become positive responsible adults is a very good thing. Also, the future is for our children, and they are the best hope we have. By helping them learn meditation, we induce a positive way of thought that will benefit them physically and mentally. That will in turn benefit the world at large.
By eliminating the things that cause hurt in the world through meditation, the goal is to make relationships between people peaceful. Things like sex, gender, race, sexual orientation, political opinion and everything else that isolates people and causes conflict are aimed to not be an issue again.
The vision stems from the idea that we are all one. The project promotes the idea that with enough hard work and a combined effort, the future of the world can be altered for the better. The chants that ring out from the temple grounds reflect this vision. The children can often be heard repeating, “We are the leaders of a moral revival project.”
The Minister of Education, Prof. Dr. Suchart Thadathamrongvej, congratulated the children at the event: “Today I am very impressed when I see lots of children coming here together to do good deeds.” He went on to say, “I’m confident that Luang Phaw’s method is right and correct to change this world to be beautiful because of morality again.”
