Practicing Meditation at the Texas Capitol: The MedMob Social Movement
Practicing Meditation at the Texas Capitol: The MedMob Social Movement

Video: Practicing Meditation at the Texas Capitol: The MedMob Social Movement

Video: Practicing Meditation at the Texas Capitol: The MedMob Social Movement
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Practicing Meditation in the Texas Legislature
Practicing Meditation in the Texas Legislature

More recently, we wrote about how local yoga lovers gathered for a flash mob in the English city of Cardiff. At first glance, it is not easy to reconcile such a fast, impulsive and modern hobby as flash mob, with a thoughtful and calm meditation … However, there is an informal organization of people that demonstrates over and over again that this is possible. This organization is called MedMob, and her actions prove that you can and should meditate everywhere, always and to everyone! Even the hippie crowd in the state capitol.

Practice of meditation in the form of a flash mob
Practice of meditation in the form of a flash mob

Just a month ago, on the last Sunday of January, lovers of meditation practices gathered in Austin, Texas: they tried to improve state karmic well-being … Whether they succeeded or not, but together with them the same spontaneous groups of people meditated in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Asheville … But where exactly did Texans have such faith in the power of their meditation? The fact is that they gathered in … the main legislative body of the state.

Practice meditation in the political heart of Texas
Practice meditation in the political heart of Texas

Of course, the fat and venerable sheriffs guarding the state legislature might suspect that there are somehow too many suspicious women in light suits and bearded rastaman appearance … But they did not notice anything of the kind, and therefore the suddenly formed circle of people sitting and singing "OM" (not a unit of resistance, but "original mantra"), at the first moment greatly surprised everyone.

Practice Meditation for the Benefit of the State
Practice Meditation for the Benefit of the State

However, in America, morals are much freer than ours, and therefore the eyes of the visitors of the institution, although they crawled out on their foreheads, looked at the mobbers quite good-naturedly and with understanding. And by the appearance of many it was clear that they themselves were not averse to taking part in the singing, only they did not know the words.

Practicing tree meditation
Practicing tree meditation

Having finished their meditation practice, the mobbers burst into applause, overjoyed for the improved spiritual health of their native state. And then they scattered through the park, settling down for meditation. in the most unexpected places: on tree branches, old cannons and pedestals (just like the participants in a lying mob) In general, the park was just littered with yogis … Although this contradicts the canons of the flash mob (after the action, all the participants instantly disperse in different directions, without even trying to get to know each other), but meditation is a long, serious and spiritual matter, you cannot do it in five minutes.

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