Maitreya’s Priorities: Sharing as the Path to Justice and Peace

According to Share International, Maitreya’s priorities are focused on the essential needs of every human being: adequate food, housing for all, healthcare and education as universal rights, the restoration of the environment and the establishment of peace. At the heart of these priorities is a simple but far-reaching principle: a more equitable sharing of the world’s food, resources and technology. Share International summarises this message in the words attributed to Maitreya: “Without sharing there can be no justice; without justice there can be no peace; without peace there can be no future.”

This message is especially urgent today. Humanity faces a deep divide between those who have more than enough and those who lack even the basic necessities of life. Recent global data show that around 700 million people faced hunger in 2024. At the same time, billions lack access to safe water, sanitation, or adequate housing, and about 250 million children and young people remain out of school.

Share International presents this global inequality not only as a moral failure, but also as a danger to peace, social stability and the environment. A world based on competition, excessive consumption, and the blind pursuit of market forces cannot create balance or justice for all. Instead, it deepens social division, environmental destruction and insecurity.

The proposed answer is the principle of sharing. Sharing is not presented merely as charity, but as a new basis for economic life and international relations. It means recognising humanity as one family and accepting that the world’s resources should be used to meet the needs of all people, not only the interests of a privileged few.

According to Share International, Maitreya will call for a reordering of global economic priorities so that food, housing, healthcare and education become universal rights. This would also include protecting and healing the environment, and building economic systems based on sustainability and sufficiency rather than overproduction and waste.

Ultimately, Maitreya’s priorities place humanity before profit, cooperation before competition, and responsibility before indifference. The choice, as presented by Share International, is between continuing on a path of division and destruction, or accepting sharing as the foundation of a just, peaceful and sustainable civilisation.

Source: Share International, “Maitreya’s priorities.”