Continuing with the body and breath, these instructions explore how to recognize subtle qualities of quiet joy and pleasantness in the body and allow them to become a support for practice. Calming and quiet joy can nourish one another, deepening ease and steadiness in both sitting and walking meditation.
Techniques in the practice take many different forms. Some questions include how to work with grief after recent death of one's mother, how to deal with sloth and torpor, how to do walking meditation, etc.
Beginning with the preliminary practices that establish a foundation for meditation, these instructions explore mindfulness of the body in sitting, walking, and everyday movement, with an emphasis on curiosity, kindness, ease, and continuity of awareness.
