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Sam Houston's Zen Practice

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Mike Cox
Feb 13, 2026
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Well-read as he was, Sam Houston would not have understood the 21st meaning of words like “meditation” or phrases such as “being in the present moment.”

But just as surely as Siddhartha Buddha sat with his legs crossed under the Bodhi Tree for seven days straight in ancient India awaiting enlightenment, the man who served as the first president of the Re…

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