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I just sit on the zafu thinking about this stuff. Except when I’m not thinking.
The motion of the sacrum is how I sit the lotus; I don’t put my mind in my left palm the way Suzuki advocated, yet I do find my mind where my little fingers touch the abdomen a lot. And the reciprocal of that, which is in the stretches around the sacrum. Those ...
I went up to Sonoma Mountain Zen Center today, and the lecturer reminded the audience of advice from “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind” about placing the mind in the left hand of the mudra.
Chris the lecturer also spoke about Zhengjue’s “The Lancet of Seated Meditation”, which Chris said could be translated as “The ...
I think he did mean “make”, but in this sense: contact between a sense organ and a sense object results in consciousness, the occurrence of consciousness affects balance and impacts the fascial stretch in existence as consciousness takes place, the stretch of fascia generates activity that opens feeling; to make the inner like the outer ...