[Back up] We Love Mass Meditation

Please join us in the Emergency Meditation (daily at 2 PM UTC) and place a special focus on Japan, along with calming the wildfires, hurricanes and typhoons presently happening around the world.  Yet another natural disaster has struck part of Japan, continuing a summer of chaos that has seen the country weather deadly floods, typhoons, earthquakes, landslides and heatwaves. At least seven people were killed when a magnitude-6.7 quake struck the northern island of Hokkaido early Thursday, causing landslides which buried a large number of homes at the foot of a ridge. More than 150 people were injured by the quake. Dozens of people are missing in Atsuma, near the epicenter of the quake, where four of the deaths occurred. Public broadcaster NHK reported that flights and public transport across the region had been brought to a standstill. Nearly 3 million households lost power, according to the Hokkaido Electric Power Company.   In this aerial image, houses are buried by multiple...