MEDIT-ACTION: RAISING AWARENESS FOR ACTION
Love, the absolute emergency
Humanitarian emergencies, medical emergencies, social emergencies, economic emergencies, environmental emergencies... the list is long of these world emergencies that are getting worse.
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted a glaring bias in our assessment of the emergency. At the peak of the crisis, there were more than 7,000 victims per day worldwide, who were the sole focus of public attention, in a context of panic and almost universal containment.
Every day, 25,000 people die of hunger, including one child under the age of 10 every five seconds... Invisibility of these victims, whose fate is perceived as a fatality rather than an emergency in the discourse of politicians and the media. Invisibility also of the millions of migrants who flee their homes each year because of war or natural disaster. The homeless at the foot of our buildings in the big cities are also invisible, as are the growing number of food insecure people, one in five in France for example.
What if all these emergencies were symptoms of another emergency? An absolute emergency? A forgotten emergency? The urgency of loving upstream of crises, to eradicate the structural causes of the emergencies of hunger, extreme poverty, the lack of hygiene and access to clean water, the predation of resources at the origin of multiple environmental disasters.
Be The Love Medit-Actions for human dignity
To realise the urgency to love is to realise the need to recognise the intrinsic dignity of each person, as set out in the Preamble and the first article of the 1948 Universal Declaration. We will not be able to constitute ourselves as human beings as long as peoples and social categories remain invisible. Human dignity will remain an artifice of discourse as long as mental formatting and social conditioning prevent us from embracing each and every one of our brothers and sisters in humanity in a loving way.
The Be The Love Medit-Actions, involving 5 levels of consciousness, lead each of us and the SDG CHAMPIONS to experience the power of our dignity and sovereignty, moving from individualistic, alienating patterns of consciousness to altruistic, universal patterns of consciousness that liberate us and lead us to act for a better, just and happy life on the planet.
Be The Love Medit-Actions and the 2030 Agenda
The Be The Love Meditations commit us to an authentic sense of universal responsibility, realizing that our dignity remains incomplete as long as the dignity of all, human and non-human, is not respected.
The Be The Love Medit-Actions are symbolically represented by the Hand of the Heart, illustrating the 5 Principles of Ethical Action - Unity, Inner Peace, Universal Responsibility, Love and Altruistic Action - correlated with the Hand of the SDGs and its 5 Pillars - Peace, Partnerships, Planet, People and Prosperity.
The powerful symbolism of the human hands calls on everyone to become an agent of change and, through the power of love guiding their hearts and hands, to build a better world.
Sofia Stril-Rever, co-founder of Better We Better World, initiated Be The Love you want to see in the world, echoing Gandhi whose injunction "Be the change you want to see in the world" has become the mantra of our time.
Be The Love are declarations of love to Mother Earth, to humanity and to future generations by charismatic personalities and the Righteous of the planet, anonymous heroes of our time.
Be The Love is also Medit-Actions and a Manifesto for Human Dignity and the 17 SDGs, presented in the book The Urgency of Love, published on 8 October 2020. Based on the practice of loving-kindness and neuroscience, the Be The Love Medit-Action protocol develops inner peace, universal responsibility and heart intelligence, correlated with the commitment to achieve the 17 Goals of the 2030 Agenda, at this crucial time in human history.
A graduate in Indian Studies, author and lecturer, Sofia Stril-Rever is the French biographer of the Dalai Lama, with whom she has co-authored four books translated into some twenty languages and whose story she adapted for the screen in the documentary Dalai Lama, One Life after Another (Arte). She is also the author of several books with Sister Emmanuelle, including La Folie d'amour and her Testament spirituel.
