The Three Seasons of Warrior Discipline

"Happiness almost filled my heart. The only hindrance was in the thirst and the hot body," he writes. "I suppressed a strong desire to plunge my face into it, but I could not keep my eyes from staring at it." Standing upright in water from sunrise to sunset was one way of putting the body under the rule of the spirit,. Not any drink of it was taken. It was not permissible to move the body except for keeping the face towards the sun.