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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 or in Your Bed

As long as we're alive, our practice will be alive. We have to just move along with it. To nestle down and do that sweet spot on your couch or in your bed is what's most comfortable. When the eyes are too lowered, it's like they're closed. So raise them just a tad bit to let some light in. That death grip is going to show itself in the body. Our breathing will get quite tight in our shoulders and our faces to let that go. Allow it to dissolve. This is from stories of the spirit, stories of the heart. Once Abbot Anthony was conversing with some brethren, and a hunter who was after game in the wilderness

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