Zen Commuter

Zen Commuter

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Zen Commuter episodes

  • 1031: Teaching Children How to Meditate
    If you have been meditating for a while you know the benefits that you are experiencing.  You hopefully have increased your ability to focus, your kindness and compassion and your sense of peace, to name a few.  How cool would it be if your kids experienced the same thing.  Of course you know they can.  Today an article from the Huffington Post talks about how to make that happen.
    14 min
  • 1028: The Best Way to Restart Your Meditation Practice
    A meditation practice works best when it is performed daily.  Ultimately, it is the best daily practice you will have for the rest of your life.  But the thought of doing anything for the rest of your life seems daunting to some people.  Regardless of desire, there may be a time when the hustle and bustle of life pushes your meditating to the side.  What do you do to restart the habit once it has lapsed?  Let's talk about it.
    12 min
  • 1027: How to End Your Meditation Session
    Of course I talk about what happens within a meditation, what happens to your body and your soul.  But every meditation session has to end at some point, and for some people, the next steps seem a little confusing.  Today I want to talk about how to end your meditation session.
    16 min
  • 1026: Creating and Taking Your Own Meditation Retreat
    I get a kick out of blog posts that list the top meditation retreats around the world or around the country.  The very thought that a meditation facility or retreat center would care about accolades is funny.  The truth is, you don't need to spend a ton of money, or even any money, to go on a meditation retreat.  Today, I talk about how to get it done.
    18 min
  • 1025: Why You Don't and Why You should, Connect with Everyone, Strangers and All
    How many people do you see in a day?  I mean, think of them all, friends, family and total strangers. depending on where you live, you see a lot of people in a day.  And yet many times, the majority of them are invisible to you.  You willingly and unwillingly, pass many people in the day and don't even connect with them.  But does that serve you, treating some people as strangers, as insignificant?  Today I talk about why you treat some people as strangers, and how your life will change when you don't.
    18 min
  • 1025: Is It Possible to Be Compassionate and Also Eat Meat?
    I have always prided myself on being a kind person.  In my life now, I seek to follow a buddhist tenet of never killing.  However, I still wrestle with my love of, and consumption, of meat.  Listener Michael Brooks asked me to address this conundrum on the show.  Today, I talk about the apparent controversy between eating meat and not killing.
    19 min

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Zen Commuter is about meditation and how it can improve the quality of your life. Thom Walters speaks with acclaimed meditation teachers, authors and everyday practitioners, to help listeners…