Wildmind Meditation News
Nov 24, 2011
Monks teach meditation to incarcerated teens
Melissa Russo: Some of New York City’s angriest teens are learning the way to a more peaceful path with a little help from the Buddha.
Inside the Crossroads Juvenile Detention Center in Brownsville, the contrast between the street kids in their orange detention suits and the monks in their brown robes could not be more pronounced.
The group of monastics files into the facility, and they’re unlike anything these kids have seen in their neighborhood: soft-spoken, barefoot and bald.
“It was pretty interesting,” said one 15-year-old. “I didn’t think they were real.”
“When I saw them walk through the door, I was …
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