Some people practice throughout their entire lives just by paying attention to breathing. Everything that is true about anything is true about breath: it's impermanent; it arises and it passes away. Yet if you didn't breathe, you would become uncomfortable; so then you would take in a big inhalation and feel comfortable again. But if you hold onto the breath, it's no longer comfortable, so you have to breathe out again. All the time shifting, shifting.
- Sylvia Boorstein, "Body as Body"
Received as Daily Dharma from Tricycle.com on the 27th of December 2010
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A gentle nudge towards humility - we don't need a special and challenging Gongan (Koan) or Huatou, we don't need bells and gongs, we don't need to sit in a special posture - we have everything we need in this body to practice and to wake up.
Thursday, 30 December 2010
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