Sept. 23, 2019 | Peace Day begins at SKYLANDING

September 23, 2019 - Peace Day, Chicago

Master Charles Kim, President of the Chicago Peace School and son of the founder of Peace Day in Chicago in 1978, began this year’s Peace Day in Chicago in Jackson Park, the site of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and where the world came together for the first time as a global community with a shared vision for world peace. 

At sunrise, there at the center of Jackson Park, Master Kim visited SKYLANDING,  a 12-petal lotus sculpture and symbol of peace designed by Yoko Ono which is located on the Wooded Island in the Garden of the Phoenix. There he mediated and breathed for world peace.

Peace Breathing combines the vital energy of breath with the powerful energy of thought to calm your mind, body and spirit and open your heart and find peace within. By attaining peace within, each of us creates strong, peaceful energy which forms the foundation for a broader peace in our families, schools, communities, nations and world.

SKYLANDING was designed by Yoko Ono. It brings the artist’s sense of her hopefulness to the public at large. Her intention during its creation was to invite visitors to walk in to the center of the lotus that rises from the ashes of the Phoenix Pavilion destroyed by arson in 1946, and to look inside ourselves and realize that peace and harmony beings within each of us. In 2015, Yoko Ono conducted a ground healing ceremony at the site. In 2016, SKYLANDING was dedicated. In 2019, with Peace Day in Chicago, and the meditation of Peace Breathing by Master Kim, SKYLANDING is activated as a place to inspire world peace to begin within each of us.