Let's get comfortable.
Whatever that means for you right now.
You can take a few deep breaths and use these to examine the body.
A deep breath creates substantial movement.
It can actually help us to see where we might be holding any tension.
Seeing tension,
We can simply relax.
Do not follow the temptation to put yourself in a position.
This is interference.
Allow the body to be as it is.
You may encounter the perception that the body is in an unusual position.
If the usual position of the body includes any tension,
Then to release this tension will put you in an unusual position.
This is good.
Better than the present position.
Discern any difference between observing the body and attempting to micromanage.
To use your meditation as an opportunity to attempt to arrange the body into some kind of perfect posture.
We tend to want to avoid pain and discomfort.
And so we might shift the body this way and that.
Attempting to find greater comfort.
But the feeling sense is relative.
There will likely always be parts of the body which are more comfortable and parts of the body which are less.
So it can be said that chasing comfort is like a dog chasing its tail.
Having relaxed the body as much as you're able.
Just settle in to accepting whatever sensations arise.
Cz Allowing the sensations that arise in the body is no different to allowing anything else that occurs in our experience.
Maybe a thought.
Maybe an emotional tone.
Maybe a sound.
Maybe a visualization.
Maybe a sound.
Whatever phenomena arise in your experience,
They are all transient.
They all appear and disappear,
Leaving no trace.
We may continue to think about something,
But is that continuing exactly the same as it occurs?
Or is it changing?
You might even challenge yourself to attempt to think of exactly the same thing for a period of time.
How long can this be done for?
Our meditation together will come to an end,
Eventually.
What then?
How long will this be?
How long will this be?
We may have the experience of a thought coming back again and again,
But is it the same each time?
When we cling to something that happened in the past,
Perhaps we bring up some old memory in rumination over and over again.
Is it really the same each time?
I think it would be quite an impressive display of memory if it were.
As we observe these differences more and more,
In even the phenomena that we take to be the same each time they arise,
We gain insight into impermanence.
Everything is changing.
Always.
Even you,
Who is taken to be the thinker of the thoughts,
Is different every time.
No.
No two bodily sensations are the same.
No two emotional tones are the same.
No two thoughts are the same.
No two selves are the same.
No two senses are the same.
No two senses are the same.
May we all experience the relief that comes with insight into impermanence.
