>From: Dan Gutwein <dfgutw@wm.edu>
>Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:24:30 -0500
>Subject: posture
>
>This is really a question about practicing Zen meditation,
What is remarkable about Zen is to make your mind flexible
and your legs numb. Most people specialize in the latter.
- Kazuaki Tanahashi, *Brush Mind*
Being one of the latter, I found a couple of books (you did mention
that you liked reading :-) by Will Johnson on posture and alignment
that proved useful:
*The Posture of Meditation:
A Practical Manual for Meditators of All Traditions*
and
*Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient:
The Physical Foundations of Mindfulness*
The first is good for suggestions on how to sit. The second is
helpful for dealing with the havoc that 50(+) years of living
does to your ability to sit. It's also pretty good for just
relaxation - also essential to shakuhachi playing.
Available at fine bookstores everywhere (and online at
http://www.shambhala.com/)
bj
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