Dear Friends,<\/p>\n
In the Satipatthana Sutta<\/a>, the Buddha mentions several postures for practice:<\/p>\n Thinking about lying down, I remember the following poem Susie read at the retreat I went to in May:<\/p>\n Nancy Paddock: “Lie Down”<\/a><\/p>\n Lie down with your belly to the ground, <\/em> I find lying down meditation can be challenging as my body says, “Oh good! Sleep time!”, so I tend to not do a lying down meditation first thing in the morning or last thing in the day. For me, it also helps to be on a less comfortable surface – like on a mat on the floor – but with supports, like a rolled up blanket under my knees. You can experiment with what posture works for you.<\/p>\n The beauty of a lying down meditation is that my body can really let go into the support of the earth – I can surrender to gravity. There is also a neat perspective of looking at the world from the ground – seeing things under a chair or table, or noticing the way the sunlight, reflecting off a shiny surface, dances on the ceiling.<\/p>\n So maybe you want to try Jeanne’s body scan meditation (~20 minutes) while lying down… With best wishes, Dear Friends, In the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha mentions several postures for practice: “Again, bhikkhus, when walking, a bhikkhu understands: ‘I am walking’; when standing, he understands: ‘I am standing’; when sitting, he understands: ‘I am sitting’; when lying down, he understands: ‘I am lying down’; or he understands accordingly however his body is disposed. Thinking about lying\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[47,32,52,50,51],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2016","tag-body","tag-jeanne-corrigal","tag-lying-down","tag-nancy-paddock","tag-susie-harrington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nlike an old dog in the sun. Smell <\/em>
\nthe greenness of the cloverleaf, feel the damp <\/em>
\nearth through your clothes, let an ant <\/em>
\nwander the uncharted territory <\/em>
\nof your skin. …<\/em>
\nLie down with your belly <\/em>
\nto the ground, flat out, on ground level. <\/em>
\nProstrate yourself before the soil <\/em>
\nyou will someday enter. <\/em>
\nStop doing. <\/em>
\nStop judging, fearing, trying. <\/em>
\nThis is not dying, but the way to live <\/em>
\nin a world of change and gravity. <\/em>
\nLet go. Let your burdens drop. …<\/em>
\nLie down with your belly to the ground <\/em>
\nand then rise up <\/em>
\nwith the earth still in you.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.jeannecorrigal.com\/guided-meditations.html<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAndrea G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"