Buddhist meditation - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 12 Jul 2018 06:17:14 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Buddhist meditation - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Buddhist meditation kept the Thai boys calm in cave https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/07/12/buddhist-meditation/ Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:51:56 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=109250 Buddhist meditation helped the 12 twelve members of a junior football team keep calm and survive their ordeal. Their 25-year old coach, Ekapol Chanthawong, who led them on a hike into the cave when it flooded on 23 June, trained in meditation as a Buddhist monk for a ten years. He taught the boy to Read more

Buddhist meditation kept the Thai boys calm in cave... Read more]]> Buddhist meditation helped the 12 twelve members of a junior football team keep calm and survive their ordeal.

Their 25-year old coach, Ekapol Chanthawong, who led them on a hike into the cave when it flooded on 23 June, trained in meditation as a Buddhist monk for a ten years.

He taught the boy to meditate during their almost three-week wait for rescue to keep them calm and preserve their energy. Read more

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