(see previous post for basic guidelines)
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With COVID-19, many of us may be finding more time on our hands, with less options for social and other worldly engagements. I find myself doing more standing meditation than I might in other circumstances, and I want to share here some very streamlined and basic instructions, should anyone in the midst of their sequestering want to enjoy the practice.
I present this practice as an exploration, a playful engagement within the vast range of attention/consciousness/awareness that is possible to us. Even a 1 minute stand can be interesting, and extending it up to 30 minutes can also be interesting. Below, I will give my briefest possible overall guidelines for all standing meditation, and then I will follow it up with one particular more specific approach for an individual session. Over time in this blog, I intend, one by one, to add more of these specific approaches. Again, these are to be undertaken in a playful. exploratory way. Nothing somber or heavy here. Not a discipline we have to will ourselves to follow because we think it might be good for us. No, it can actually be enjoyable, interesting, and ideally, open up some new territories of experience, even providing a glimpse into less confining definitions of self, a more spacious and less-boundaried way of being. I am currently studying qigong with Roshi Teja Bell, of Qigong Dharma. A wonderful teacher of embodied spirituality! Since relative to him, I am an early novice, any errors in my suggestions here reflect my level of understanding, not his. For all the practices that follow:
Meditation I. Free Fall
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