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Breathing Deep: Cultivating the Absorbent Mind
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The talk delves into the practice of zazen as an absorption rather than consciousness, emphasizing the concept of "sitting inside the column of breath." This practice seeks to awaken the "absorbent mind," a state of deep familiarity obtained through focused attention on the breath as it interacts with various parts of the body, fostering a sense of interiority.
- Sitting Zazen: Discussed as the practice of absorption, contrasting with the mere act of sitting consciousness, and highlighting the engagement with the breath to cultivate an "absorbent mind."
- The Column of Breath: Explained as a metaphor for focusing on the physical sensations of breath as it travels through the body, significant for enabling practitioners to "disappear into" or merge with the experience.
- Absorbent Mind: Proposed as a state cultivated through zazen, which forms the foundation of interiority—a central concept for attaining deeper Zen understanding.
AI Suggested Title: Breathing Deep: Cultivating the Absorbent Mind
Sitting inside the column of breath. Sitting inside the column of breath. Sitting zazen is sitting absorption. not sitting consciousness, sitting absorption. But the absorbent mind is... the deep feeling of it, familiarity with it, takes a while. So sitting in the column of breath can awaken the absorbent mind.
[01:17]
You can feel the breath touching your lungs. It touches your lungs just like your hand can touch your arm. So you're really feeling the inside of the column of breath. The breath caressing the throat and larynx and lungs. nostrils. So give some attention, gentle, easy attention to this feel of the inside of the column of breath.
[02:27]
See if you can just disappear into that feeling of the breath caressing the column of breath. It's possible just to let go into that, and that, it's possible to just let go into that and then that open into your feeling of interiority interiority and the this absorbent mind is the basis of that interiority
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