Kekkafuza posture questions

[somanaut]

Thanks for the input.
Best Regards
Jesper
#sattoday

[Frank]

Hi Jesper,
live tried many positions over the years also.
when I was younger, full lotus or half lotus was fine.
my knees have been pretty beat up,over the years,(48 years of martial arts, 14 years running in boots in the Army, powerlifting, and just plain old getting older) so,I sit comfortably.
if that means Burmese, supporting my back, in a chair, whatever allows me to be comfortable.

IMO, I wouldn't get too caught up in the details of your posture.
if it is pulling your mind away from shikantaza, let it drop away.

I admire you,for asking questions. It is wisdom that is seeking wisdom.

Gassho
Frank

Sat today

[Jundo]

In the little talk during today's Zazen, I touched on what can be called "True Lotus Posture". This "True Lotus Posture" is not a matter of crossing or not crossing the legs.

Of course, we want to find a balanced, easy, comfortable, supporting position, for such nurtures a balanced mind. It may vary by person to person, even day to day or sitting to sitting. Some of us have health conditions that mean that whatever posture we take, it can never be truly "easy and comfortable" in ordinary sense.

However, if one is sitting in the most graceful and beautiful lotus posture, like some golden buddha statue, but one's mind has even the slightest judgment about it, comparisons with less beautiful and graceful ways to sit, goals for reaching some "dropping away of body-mind" state, then one is far far away from the "True Lotus Posture" no matter how lovely. Mind and body are not dropped.

On the other hand, if one sits as best one can, in sickness or health, in a gorgeous lotus or in traction in a hospital bed, in a chair or seiza, standing sitting walking or flat on one's back ... but beyond all judgments of grace or disgrace, ugly and beautiful, sitting as nicely as one can but dropping away all goals of some better state to reach ... then one embodies a Golden Buddha in True Lotus Posture. Of course, do as one can do sit in a comfortable, balanced, quiet way ... but know the True Comfort Balance Quiet that sweeps in all comfort and discomfort, silence and noise, and which can never be unbalanced even in a typhoon at sea. Understand? In such sitting, mind-body ... the mind and body of judgments and goal and hunger and feelings of lack ... is dropped away.

True Lotus Posture ...

(Please have a listen if you can, from about 56:30 I think) ...

Gassho, Jundo

Sat Today (but needed to get up twice to fix the netcast ... all good sitting)