Scott Tusa,Tricycle[br]Meditation happens in the body. I assume we can mostly all agree on that. For a wide variety of Buddhist meditation practices, our embodied experience is the object of our meditationbe it the rise and tumble of the breath, or the sound that hits our ears,or the sensations on our skin. Yet when we sit down to meditate, we often end up trying to catch and subdue an out-of-control mind, and apparently forgetting about the body's role in the practice. Why does this happen? fraction of the reason is that being in the body is tough.
For many of us,our bodies can be a painful and confusing dwelling because our...
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