Shaking during meditation

[Sunya]

Read "Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice "

http://www.amazon.com/Opening-Hand-Thought-Foundations-Buddhist/dp/0861713575

 

It describes how to make the cushons to ease the pain of a learning the Lotus, in a Japanese Buddhist monestary, as well as a description of what it takes to do 8 hours of meditation each day.

 

Of course there is a system of exercises that make you limber - That can be learned from any 1st year karate class - that is not in the book.

 

Personaly, I used the lotus for about 15 years untill I discovered the bus seat where I could meditate and travel at the same time.

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It does not tell much else though.

 

Exercises for "growing a lotus"

 

http://zenmontpellier.voila.net/eng/lotus/lotuseng.html

[~jK~]

Exercises for "growing a lotus"

 

http://zenmontpellier.voila.net/eng/lotus/lotuseng.html

Excelent website ! These limbering up excecises were the same that I've learned when I was 17 and been reintroduced to throughout my life.

 

#4 is the one I use to release sexual tension and is the one I have found to be most valuable - although- I practice all of these at some time or another.. . Ususlly in the morning.

[Mark Foote]

Read "Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice "

http://www.amazon.com/Opening-Hand-Thought-Foundations-Buddhist/dp/0861713575

 

It describes how to make the cushons to ease the pain of a learning the Lotus, in a Japanese Buddhist monestary, as well as a description of what it takes to do 8 hours of meditation each day.

 

 

Somewhere in his books, Uchiyama reveals that he did three shots of whiskey every night to get the feeling back in his legs. I still have no idea how anybody can do what they do at Antaiji, sitting sesshin with 14 fifty-minute periods a day I think I read?

[skydog]

I have a book called shaking medicine...you shake on purpose/allow the shake to happen and dance to music..

 

After a while I started shaking whilst doing EFT/Yoga/Meditation..

 

I think it is to do with Kundalini and it always feels good afterwards..

 

Also I was doing Trauma Release Exercises/TRE and when you stay in a certain stance your body shakes and this is the whole point of this exercise to allow the shaking to heal, apparantely most animals shake off their trauma after an attack, but humans dont most of the time