What Life Taught Tina Turner

Most people think of me as being in perpetual motion: dancing across a stage, strutting down a staircase; even hanging from the Eiffel Tower. But life has taught me that some of my most meaningful and memorable moments happen when I’m in repose, sitting, meditating, contemplating.

– Tina Turner
Excerpted from My Love Story
Simon and Schuster, 2018
p. 14

In the following excerpt from a 2000 interview, Tina Turner talks about practicing Nichiren Buddhism and chants the Buddhist prayer, Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō.





Related Off-site Links:
“Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll” Tina Turner Dies at 83 – Mike Davidson (Reuters, May 24, 2023).
How the Practice of Nichiren Buddhism Sustained Tina Turner for 50 Years – Ralph H. Craig III (The Conversation, May 26, 2023).
The Buddhist Path That Transformed Tina Turner – Donald Brackett (Lion’s Roar, June 5, 2023).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Cultivating Stillness
• The Beauty and Challenge of Being Present in the Moment
• Today I Will Be Still
• A Sacred Pause
• Aligning With the Living Light
• Mystical Participation
• The Source Is Within You
• Diarmuid O'Murchú on Our Capacity to Meditate
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Andrew Harvey
• Seven Principles for Living With Deep Intention
• Rhone Fraser: Quote of the Day – May 24, 2023
• Remembering Tina Turner

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