The Occupy Wall Street protests have spawned nationwide rallies, marches, demonstrations — and meditation. Yes, you read that right: meditation. Friends from the Baltimore Shambhala Center, with which I’m affiliated, have begun regularly heading downtown to Occupy Baltimore — cushions in hand — to engage in sitting meditation. As a Buddhist adage says, “Don’t just do something, sit there.” Meditation helps to generate calm abiding and what we call bodhicitta, or the enlightened mind, a mind capable of boundless...



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