I skim through a number of online newspapers almost every day. Every now and then I read a few paragraphs, but that does not happen very often. By and large, the titles are enough for me. Yesterday and today I have been going through a number of versions of the same story, however. Wang Jianxin, a fifty-two-year-old construction worker from China, survived two hours buried alive in mud. He was digging a deep ditch on a construction site in Ningbo when a wall collapsed. Stuck underneath, the Chinese Buddhist survived by meditating. He realized there was some air trapped under his helmet. “I knew it would not last,” he said when his comrades dug him out with their bare hands, afraid that their tools would injure him. “So I made myself relax and concentrated on slowing down my breathing by meditation.” One doctor who examined him afterwards said that one could not normally live more than five minutes under such conditions. “It’s a miracle that he’s alive after being buried for two hours,” he added. Actually, the story is wonderful precisely because no miracles are involved. And because meditation is available to all, including construction workers in Ningbo, a city of more than five-million inhabitants that lies on the coast of Zhejiang province on the East Sea north of Taiwan.