So we sit to awaken and we awaken by coming into our bodies and our senses and

starting to see the laws which govern life so we can come into a wiser

relationship with it. What does this mean for our lives? Well this kind of

teaching really teaches a way of wholeness and awareness of bringing our body and

mind together and our heart and our action, being conscious with our speech,

conscious with our eating, conscious with walking, making it a part of what

allows us to grow and live.

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To start meditation practice as many of you have done with this day of sitting

and walking was actually quite a lot. Some people will start with a 20-minute

sitting and do that for a number of months or go to a class and have some

instruction and sit for a little bit. There are people who also will come to

attend a retreat or we've even had a few kind of unusual people sign up for

three-month retreat who'd never meditated before and say, well I guess I'll just

do it. But as you can discover even in just one day of sitting, although some

things are interesting and you learn some from it, it's also not so easy. There

aren't a lot of distractions and diversions. All that's left for you really in

this place, it's pretty simple, is your own body and mind. There's not a lot

to take one away from that. I'd like to speak a little bit about the heart of the

practice meditation. By posing some questions which may or may not be ones that

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