Comments on: Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (Part VIII)

By: Joshua Sellers

Joshua Sellers — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:13:07 +0000

Jundo and Taigu, I cannot thank you enough for these lessons. Very inspiring, informative and encouraging… thank you ,thank you thank you!

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josh

By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:38:50 +0000

Hi everybody, Joyce here again,
I just browsed YouTube and found the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB87Tgl91OM
For everyone who, as I, encountered technical difficulties here trying to watch the clip. Enjoy!
Jundo, thank you for the inspiration!

By: Joyce

Joyce — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:40:58 +0000

Dear Jundo,
I am absorbing all your words from parts 1 till this one, but it stops at 5 minutes and 46 seconds… At first I thought it had to do something with my pc or connection, but that's not the case… Could you check out what's wrong??? I'd love to see/hear your complete story. Thank you so much!

By: Richard Shelmerdine

Richard Shelmerdine — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:22:41 +0000

Thank you. These instructions have been excellent. Long series too.

By: Shogen

Shogen — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:57:50 +0000

Thank you Jundo this particular teaching has been very helpful. Gassho

By: Jundo

Jundo — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:36:16 +0000

Thank you, Taigu. Wonderful advice, and I look forward to hearing more on Monday. Gassho, Jundo

By: taigu

taigu — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:17:19 +0000

Hi everybody, I shall talk about it on Monday. I posted the following on the forum:
http://www.treeleaf.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&a…

gassho

Taigu

By: amindfulbeing

amindfulbeing — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:36:10 +0000

Many thanks Jundo for your kind and very helpful suggestions which I am sure will be of general interest. I will explore them all.
Gassho

By: Jundo

Jundo — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:28:07 +0000

Hi "amindfulbeing" …

I have asked Rev. Taigu to comment as well, as some may have to do with adjusting the posture. For example, I would ask if you are keeping the backbone and neck comfortably erect, neither too taught nor loose and hunched over. When feeling a bit foggy, give the neck and backbone a slight upward stretch, very lightly (as if a string running from the top of your head to the ceiling were being pulled upward a smidgen).

Is your breath flowing naturally through your nose, fairly deep breaths using the diaphram (avoiding overly shallow breaths). We will talk about breath in the coming days, and generally we do not cause the breath to do anything but find its own, easy, natural rhythm. However, overly shallow breaths are not good.

What time of day are you meditating? At the end of the day, after being exhausted from work? In the morning, but not getting proper sleep? Get more sleep! (Although, a hard request to so many working people these days). If it is the end of the day, you may want to switch to the morning if you can (midday or break time perhaps).

We do accept sleepiness as "just what it is", and do not reject the experience … but really, it should only be once in awhile. Yes, our attitude is "when sleepy, just be sleepy" … but, nonetheless, we still should seek to avoid being sleepy most of the time.

Taigu may have somewhat different perspective on posture and such, so I hope he will add a comment.

Gassho, Jundo

By: John

John — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:20:28 +0000

It is nice to see that Jundo is doing this over here. I disliked the layout and pop-up ads on the BeliefNet site. Looking forward to more posts.

Cheers,

John
http://www.zendirtzendust.com