Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
words have great power, we could tell ourselves, “The pressure is on, but I feel completely relaxed.” We can be aware of our breathing in a relaxed way, and notice and feel the space and the air around us, and in this way actually feel that we have less pressure and more space.
Tulku Thondup • The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment (Buddhayana Series, VII)
As we have already seen, the function of this exercise is to nourish us with joy and happiness and to heal the wounds within us. But we have no doubts about letting go of this joy in order to embark on the work of observation. Joy and happiness come about because of physical and psychological conditions, and are as impermanent as all other physical
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trying with mindfulness to stay more at contact, we find that it is actually a delightful way of being. Lighter, more easeful, less burdened by the complexities of papañca, we also enjoy the vivid brightness of the present moment, the beauty of ‘nowness’, and the relative spaciousness of less self-building.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
With our mindful breathing and deep awareness of our body, we are able to leave the zone of cogitating, discriminating, and analyzing, and enter the realm of interbeing.