Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The meditation pagoda at the International Meditation Centre in Rangoon, Burma, in 1961. Pariyatti Silent retreats have become ...

St. Paul encourages us to “not be anxious about anything.” But how to attain such peace in our world so filled with peril and strife, as it surely was in Paul’s day, and in every chapter of history?

HOUSTON — Mindfulness is a tool that helps people manage anxiety and stress, but the practice of meditation dates back thousands of years in Asia. For Buddhists, it is a spiritual practice.

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