Zazen Notes

I’d like to try to describe what I see in the lines of the illustration from “The Secret of the Golden Flower” (a Chinese meditation manual now dated somewhere between 1668 and 1692):

The lines up the leg parallel the ilio-tibial tract, a fascial band which stretches from the lower leg to the pelvis, and to which the tensor ...  read more

I have a friend who is a newcomer to sitting. I sent her a link to Sister Elaine McInnis’s video (“Still Sister”):

In the video, Sister McInnis says:

We give people a, shall I call it a techinique, to become one with the breath; I teach ‘being the breath’… to put all our powers of perception ...  read more

I wrote to a friend:

I have now collected some of my writing into a single PDF, which I titled “A Natural Mindfulness”. I have included some of your responses to “Waking Up and Falling Asleep”, at the start of the work.

I put the collection together because I felt that I had come full circle in my ...  read more