Cattāri Brahmavihārā

As I continue to work with the breath and incline the mind towards it in all postures I am realizing great benefits but not in the way I would have imagined. In short, although I do not often experience feelings of ease as a result of the breath during daily practice I at least have the sense that there is some place to go when storms rage through the mind. What is strange but gives me hope is that this is a non-discursive kind of reliance; it is as though I have learned that the breath is a safer place to put the mind much in the way I have learned to play the trumpet or ride a skateboard. It is a kind of knowing that is more holistic and less purely intellectual than those that normally occupy me throughout the course of the day.

May our uposatha observance be fruitful!