Q1-20110921-Larry_Rosenberg-CIMC-dogens_instructions_for_the_cook_some_useful_suggestions_for_vipass

Talk: 2011-09_21 Dogen's Instructions for the Cook - Some Useful Suggestions for Vipassana Yogis.json Start_time: 00:57:18 Display_question: How can you be mindful when you’re lying down? Keyword_search: mindful, lying down meditation, posture, sleep, corpse pose, savasana, standing meditation, Thailand, monastery, standing meditation Question_content: Questioner: How can you be mindful when you’re lying down. Larry: Same way. Now, if you do it at first, again, I don't know you well enough. So typically, when you lie down, we've had a lot of practice in that particular posture, and it leads to sleep. So, at the beginning, that will tend to happen, because we have conditioning that when you're in that posture, you wind up going to sleep, but you can learn how to… Look there's a practice in a…a yogic practice. It's called the practice of the corpse, savasana, yes. Where the body goes completely asleep and you're totally awake. So, it can be learned. But in principle it's no different than anything else. Now if you find that when you lie down, you're having a hard time doing it, take some help. Like put your hand on your tummy, and just feel that rising and falling. You can use the breath, or if there's some other method, whichever method you're drawn to, and you will fall asleep, you'll drift off. If you don't get discouraged, the time will come where you can learn how to do that. Break_line: People have different preferences. Some people do standing meditation. In the monastery I practiced out of one of them, in Thailand, yogis would stand for sometimes an hour and a half doing meditation. They weren't just numb, stuff was going on. It was very rich. So, and then some people hate standing meditation. Some people can sit forever, right? Some people hate to sit. So, you got to work with your own predispositions, but you can learn how to do it. But in principle it's no different. End_time: 00:58:58