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Not Too Hard, Not Too Soft: Finding the Sweet Spot in Practice

Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

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The Sweet Spot on Your Couch

The Buddha advised Sona to treat his practice like that. Neither to practice too tightly nor too loosely, but always to find just the right pitch of effort. Here's a common question with practitioners. And it comes out both in sashin and outside of sashin. But implied in that question is the thought that there is a static state to achieve like the sweet spot on your couch.

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