Manifest

Once I asked myself: how can I stop war? It’s been happening on our planet for thousands of years.

The only meaningful thing I have found so far is to practise 10 minutes of non-doing everyday I don't know what can happen in those 10 minutes, but I do know that a lot of things won't happen if every human being on planet Earth practises non-doing for 10 minutes daily. Imagine a soldier shooting a gun. How many rounds can he fire in 10 minutes? And then imagine all the soldiers on our planet. How many shots can all of them fire in 10 minutes?

We, human beings, find it difficult to agree on so many things: borders, our politics, the distribution of resources. Seems we can hardly agree on anything at all. Why is it so? Maybe we have too many things to agree on. So can we agree on just one thing? What if we agree to do nothing for 10 minutes every day? How about practising non-doing every day at noon in your time zone? With each passing day, more and more people will join us, and one day the war will stop.

At least for 10 minutes. Miào Shàn