Zazen Notes

I had to read that first sentence a few times: “According to Buddhism all suffering is due to a gap between our views about reality and the way reality truly is.” Also the second and subsequent sentences! Ha ha!

Now I would say according to the Gautamid suffering is the five groups of grasping, and again per the Gautamid the origin of ...  read more

“Does that mean you focus on skin on exhale only or on both inhale and exhale (sorry but your last paragraph is a bit hard for me to understand).

Thanks.”

Focus on the occurrence of consciousness, the impact of the occurrence of consciousness on the fascial stretch in existence as consciousness occurs, and the ability to feel opened by ...  read more

Reverse breathing: the ilio-lumbar ligaments (yellow) engage in the movement of breath.

The autonomic respirations coordinate through the place of occurrence of consciousness (illustrated with a gyroscope) to cause action that opens the nerve channels between vertebrae; thus, the place that consciousness occurs has impact and opens feeling, through ...  read more