To sit through sensations (makyo?) or not?

[Jundo]

I do like the advice that folks gave about playing with your posture a bit, seeing if that has an effect. For posture, we are each our own teachers. If it feels balanced and comfortable and causes no strange symptoms then, well, it is balanced and comfortable and good posture.

Here is the book we recommend about each of us being our own "sitting posture teacher" ...

Book Recommendation: - THE POSTURE OF MEDITATION

https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?6913-Book-Recommendation-THE-POSTURE-OF-MEDITATION

I actually think it more helpful than the "one size fits all" attitude sometimes found in Japanese Zen groups. Even if we were in a "bricks and mortar" Sangha, I really cannot get inside your head and body to tell you what is best ... but you can.

Gassho, Jundo

STLAH

[Tokan]

Without knowing you Steve it is difficult to offer recommendations as to what you should do, but you have my support, and you clearly have some good info from the community already! For me though, when I have had "neurological" phenomena like tingling hands I will experiment with posture and position, and have adopted some quite unorthodox positions in the past - preferring the sitting over the "form" of sitting. Other phenomena that are not distressing, but perhaps are distracting, I try to treat with patience and accept them as conditioned experiences like any other. I hope you don't find my words patronising as I do not know how experienced a sitter you are. Best wishes, Leon

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