{"id":176,"date":"2015-01-01T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/?p=176"},"modified":"2018-03-11T20:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:02:15","slug":"past-present-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/past-present-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Past Has Manifested the Present and Together We Create the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 529px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vdy-saint-john-divine-cathedral-1980_orig-800x1024.png?resize=529%2C678\" alt=\"Venerable Dhyani at Saint John the Divine, 1980\" width=\"529\" height=\"678\" data-id=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vdy-saint-john-divine-cathedral-1980_orig-800x1024.png?resize=800%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vdy-saint-john-divine-cathedral-1980_orig-800x1024.png?resize=234%2C300&amp;ssl=1 234w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vdy-saint-john-divine-cathedral-1980_orig-800x1024.png?resize=768%2C983&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Interdenominational Peace Gathering, Saint John the Divine Cathedral, 1980(?)<br \/>Pictured: Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo and Wallace Black Elk, Lakota, (behind VDY) Photo: Margie Joy Walden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe past has manifested the present and together we create the future.\u00a0 Let us energize, let us visualize a world of harmonious balance and co-operation. A reminder that each of us may hold a candle to illuminate the night and uncover joy and methods of reconciliation. May each hold a candle of discerning observation to see behind appearances, the one truth from whence all arises.\u201d (Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In December, 1980, Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo, representing Sunray Meditation Society, joined leaders and individuals from the spiritual, indigenous and other communities around the world in a candle-light, interdenominational gathering at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York, New York. This gathering was a call to create beneficial awakening, change and the setting aside of divisiveness that conspired to blind human beings to our shared humanity.\u00a0 It was a time of exploring what we, as human beings, share in common and how our spiritual views ultimately can harmonize into pathways of skillful co-operation.\u00a0 This gathering included a panel discussion on peace making from different religious views, which explored pathways to planetary health and methods to transform confusion and aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cThe past has manifested the present and together we create the future.\u00a0 Let us energize, let us visualize a world of harmonious balance and co-operation. A reminder that each of us may hold a candle to illuminate the night and uncover joy and methods of reconciliation. May each hold a candle of discerning observation to see behind appearances, the &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/past-present-future\/\" aria-label=\"The Past Has Manifested the Present and Together We Create the Future\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunray"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}