Descriptions for supportive postures and attitudes in walking and sitting meditation. In all postures, body offers the sense of ground and strengthens presence through the pull of stories and feelings.
(Given on Asalha Puja, commemorating the occasion when the Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths.) A lot of our practice is about squaring up to the first noble truth of suffering rather than wriggling away from it. Mindfulness of body provides a channel to open up to suffering, where it can be experienced in terms of energies rather than thoughts and emotions.
