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Meditating on the connectedness of life could help reunite a divided country – here’s how ‘interbeing’ works

  • Written by Jeremy David Engels, Liberal Arts Endowed Professor of Communication, Penn State
imageMeditation can make us more aware of the miracle of existence of everything in this world.Anna Sunderland Engels

The late Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh often emphasized the interconnectedness of everything in this world. He explained how meditation can change our perceptions about the things we encounter in our daily lives by revealing this...

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