A daily-style reflective newsletter from the Tea and Zen project and its nonprofit, Meditation Sans Frontières, mixing personal essays on grief, sobriety and friendship with contemplative writing on presence, humility and love. Readers get intimate personal stories alongside meditative reflections and updates about the institute's work.
Website: https://www.teaandzen.org/
Poems, short essays and reflections from poet David Whyte, often prefaced by notes on how each piece came to be written. Issues also include announcements for his live events and material from his Three Sundays Series.
A free daily devotional pairing a Psalm verse with a short personal reflection on memory, grief, rural life and small daily mercies. Each issue ends with a brief prayer written in a quiet, first-person voice.
Sasha Chapin's essays explore long-term meditation, describing the strange perceptual shifts and the loss of a sense of self that come with deep practice. Recent issues also argue for surrender and letting go of self-chosen plans as a route to a happier, more generous life.
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