Q1-19890301-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-anapanasati_full_awareness_of_breath_series_tape_6-33809 Leandra Tej

Talk: 19890301-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-anapanasati_full_awareness_of_breath_series_tape_6-33809 Leandra Tejedor Start_time: 00:00:52 Display_question: I would like to share about what I noticed with being sensitive to the whole body, in daily life. Keyword_search: subway, walking, automatic pilot, breath, mindfulness, sensitive, action, awake, alert, mental notes, buddho Question_content: Questioner: I think in my case, that I found particularly in like, riding the subway to work, or in walking, that when I looked more closely, it's very easy in those circumstances, to fall into a kind of automatic pilot. And when I was looking at either, the right, or the left, or the back, the fact that I was trying to look more closely, helped me be more focused. Larry: Yeah, it puts a little bit more…you have to work slightly harder. But be careful there because in daily life, riding the subway, that's different. You can't hold yourself to quite that precision. If you try, what you can do is really defeat the whole purpose of the sutra. Because remember, the breath is in the service of, general mindfulness. It's not to become so obsessed with the breath, that we bump into walls, or don't carry out our job. That is, it’s to help us be more sensitive, more alert, more awake, and for our actions to be more appropriate. If the breath doesn't help you that way, that is, being in touch with the breath while, let's say, in action. Of course, I think you'd have to try it for a while, to find out if it does, then don't use it. The main thing is the mindfulness. All the techniques are for that. Break_line: Those of you who've done mental notes, it's the same thing. Or if you use buddho, there are many other techniques as well. The crucial thing is being awake in the moment. And if the breath helps you with that, great. But if you become so concerned with the breath that you lose sense of what… especially when we're out in the world, a sense of what is happening, or what's appropriate, then that's a little bit off. But in situations like the T, et cetera, you can sometimes go very, very deeply and you can work the way you were working. End_time: 00:03:04