Don't Think the Breath

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stacheman101
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Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:27 am  

"Don't think the breath, be aware of it."

I have to remind myself of this often during meditation. It's so easy and so "invisible" for thought to get in between the breath (or whatever the object of attention is) so that we end up with a sometimes very, very thin but very, very real layer-- of concepts--which separates us from what we're attending to.
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BioSattva
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Location: Beijing, China

Fri Aug 30, 2013 4:14 am  

Indeed - the ego is so crafty at being that unnecessary middle man who 'cashes in' between one's source and point of delivery. The two can be one and the same.
"Compassion – particularly for yourself – is of overwhelming importance." - Mark Williams, Mindfulness (2011), p117.
"...allow yourself to smile inwardly." - Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living (2005), p436.
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