If you have seen or heard about the film “The Cove,” then you know what happens there. The season for killing dolphins and whales in the Cove began September 1 and will continue through March. This past Thursday, 24 to 26 pilot whales were acoustically captured by Japanese fisherman and forced into the Cove. Three of the whales were caught and will be sold into captivity. The rest were killed brutally on Sunday, September 9, despite heroic efforts by Sea Shepherd and Cove Guardian activists to try to stop the murders. There is an online article at http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/332430.
Today let us honor those beautiful, innocent whales. Each one of us can hold our own quiet memorial for each one of them. May they swim to the Light on the ocean of tears that are being shed for them by those of us around the world bearing witness to their horrible suffering and death.
We also need to hold in our prayers the Cove Guardians whose hearts are broken again and again as they try to stop this brutality. Let us also send our prayers to the men who are doing the killing. Our prayers have the power to lift them out of their ignorance, greed, and unconsciousness. Truly they do not know whom they are torturing and killing. May each of them look into the eyes of just one whale and be transformed. May their souls meet eye to eye with the souls of the whales and in that moment see the Truth. It is in seeing that Truth, that they will gain the peace and liberation that comes from protecting and loving all beings and never again staining their hands with the blood of innocent whales and dolphins.
Thank you from my heart to yours—we are all connected in Divine Love and Truth.
May all beings, including all people, be happy and free.
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