Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host Thomas McConkey.

Thanks so much for listening today.

The teaching today, the practice is simple, but I think profound.

Not for any profundity of my own, but when we pay attention, life itself is profound.

And I think that's a lot of what this practice is. On mindfulness plus, we pay close attention to ourselves, to our lives, and we realize that life is revealing

profound lessons to us all the time, something like that. So I thought it'd be a good episode

to talk about the body, I talk about posture, because when we practice mindfulness, when we practice meditation, we're always doing it in a body, even when we're having an out-of-body experience, for those of you who have experience with that.

There's still a body somewhere on the earth with, you know,

breathing lungs and a beating heart. So if we're going to go far in this practice, we do well

to set up a posture that supports the practice. I thought we would spend a little time on posture

today. And I wanted to talk about, there's a teaching that I hear in Zen, I hear in many traditions, but I'm thinking of Zen when I say it, that there's this saying of sit like a mountain.

So how do you sit like a mountain?

Well, first, I have a story.

You can see what you think about this.

I was somewhere outside of Seattle.

This was sometime in the last 10 years.

I was just meditating in a quiet, cozy little room

with a few colleagues of mine.

And the breakfast bell rang, or it was about to ring something like that and it was

time to get up and I had this thought in my mind time to get up and the moment I had this thought

time to get up it was as if I could feel the mass of the entire universe. This could sound trippy. Look, you don't need to have

this experience and you don't have to even believe that I had this experience to be a good

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