We recently caught up with the dynamic Cyd Crouse, technologist and co-founder of the incredibly useful app Meditation Studio. Listen as we take up meditation practice generally, as well as the development and soaring popularity of the app. And of course the West Texas of the Midwest.          

A man on a sunny bench in the park decides to be more present. He gathers his resolve, closes his eyes and begins to focus on his breathing. In comes the breath; out goes the breath; in comes the breath; he wonders if those pigeons are someone’s flock or if they’re wild; if they’re wild, he wonders if they survive on handouts only. He races to retrieve his mind as it gathers speed chasing after the pigeons and brings it back to his bench and once again focuses on his breathing. In, out. In, out. If they’re someone’s flock, he wonders if whoever owns them counts them, or if he just feeds whoever shows up. And if the flock ever recruits other birds and the […]

Those who have integrity, who do what they say they will do, said the sage, These are the people who can tell the future. What does it mean to keep one’s word? The question is incomplete, because keeping one’s word is a symptom, even a lesser one, of a broader quality of integrity. The old man in the small fishing village who walks the same path every morning opens his shop and prepares for the business of the day. He does this, day after day, year after year, until a time comes and he is very old. On one day a storm strikes the village. The rain falls and the wind blows, threatening flood. The old man walks the path. He opens his shop. As […]