‘Truthfully, the act of meditation is just learning how to sit still and hush up and to give yourself some space to breathe.’ Black Zen, a meditation group in the Twin Cities, seeks to make meditation ...

To mark its 30th anniversary, Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul is hosting a 30-hour-long meditation “sit-a-thon” on March 23 and 24. Yes, that’s right: Thirty straight hours of meditation.

On a trip to Japan last year, one of the places I visited was Kyoto, home to over 2,000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. During one of my daily walks exploring the city and its forested borders, I ...