A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
The breath is an element, part of the wind element. Awareness of the breath is something else. So you’ve got two things that have come together. Now, when you can separate them—through realizing the breath’s true nature as an element—the mind can stand on its own.
Buddha as Psychologist, Buddha as Somatic Therapist With Will Johnson
The Buddha says, “As you breathe in, breathe in through the whole body. As you breathe out, breathe out through the whole body.” In our latest Dharma Talk, author Will Johnson provides instruction on how to breathe in this way to transform our consciousness.
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