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Breathing Through the Whole Body - The Buddha’s Instructions on Integrating Mind, Body, and Breath by Will Johnson

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Meditation Practices

Publisher : Inner Traditions (January 25, 2012)
ISBN : 978-1594774348
Paperback : 96 pages
About : Explaining how stillness in meditation refers not to a rigid and frozen body but to a quality of mind, Will Johnson examines the Buddha’s own words at the core of the Satipatthana Sutta: “As you breathe in, breathe in through the whole body; as you breathe out, breathe out through the whole body”--an instruction often overlooked in the majority of Buddhist schools. Exploring the Buddha’s complete series of steps for deepening awareness of the breath, he shows how to invite natural, responsive movement back into the posture of meditation by extending breath awareness beyond the nostrils, lungs, and abdomen to the entire body--a practice that unifies the breath, body, and mind into a single shared phenomenon...

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