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**vigraxtru** · 07-27-2010, 08:50 AM

Thank you to Cobalt, Aloka-D, Sobeh, Frank, Snowmelt and Kaarine Alejandra for your opinions and thoughts

Your wellcome Heartbeat dear...

For every sitting bar one or two I had the most amazingly strong pain in the left side of my back.
I had a great meditation object. The pain was 9 out of ten...like pains of childbirth..the tears flowed with pain and I had waves of heat and then cold.
This pain when sitting lasted for five days. 4am to 10pm

The teacher instructed me to sit longer...1 and a half hours at a time instead of one. but it was relentless.
It would leave only when I stood up ...but three minutes into each sit it was back. I was exhausted.

I don't know if this kind of teaching is correct but at least the experience I had at the seshin I did for a weekend I really enjoy zazen even when it lasted for 2 hours each period. We are allowed to stop any time we feel some pain and mostly if it is too intense. The posture in zazen should be in such a way that we can be enough comfortable so to keep going into Shi and Kan (concetration and observation). The idea of seshins are just to keep mindfulness as much as possible so to skill and discipline the mind and to bring that learning for our daily life...

07-27-2010, 08:50 AM	#18
vigraxtru Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 421 Senior Member	Thank you to Cobalt, Aloka-D, Sobeh, Frank, Snowmelt and Kaarine Alejandra for your opinions and thoughts Your wellcome Heartbeat dear... For every sitting bar one or two I had the most amazingly strong pain in the left side of my back. I had a great meditation object. The pain was 9 out of ten...like pains of childbirth..the tears flowed with pain and I had waves of heat and then cold. This pain when sitting lasted for five days. 4am to 10pm The teacher instructed me to sit longer...1 and a half hours at a time instead of one. but it was relentless. It would leave only when I stood up ...but three minutes into each sit it was back. I was exhausted. I don't know if this kind of teaching is correct but at least the experience I had at the seshin I did for a weekend I really enjoy zazen even when it lasted for 2 hours each period. We are allowed to stop any time we feel some pain and mostly if it is too intense. The posture in zazen should be in such a way that we can be enough comfortable so to keep going into Shi and Kan (concetration and observation). The idea of seshins are just to keep mindfulness as much as possible so to skill and discipline the mind and to bring that learning for our daily life...
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