Sense of Embodiment in Zen

Sazen is an effort to continuously aim at a correct sitting posture with flesh and bones. We don't divide body from mind, imagining that we are engaging in the meditative activity of paying attention to the body. Instead, our intention is to temporarily forego our mental wanderings in order to settle into the truth of our embodiment. If we become aware of a pain in our knee, for example, thereis no need to construct a self centred narrative about how i am meditating. The direct experience of the pain in our leg requires no effort or abstraction whatsoever recall uciamerose's instructions to continuously aim  at a correct sitting position - leave everything to that.