Embodied meditation is a very different and far more fruitful way to practice than the disembodied path we have been following.  But this leaves us wondering just how to carry out our meditation in an embodied manner and inhabit our body in practice.  Most fundamentally, meditating with the body involves paying attention to the body in a direct and non-conceptual way.  This calls for very focused work and requires regularity, steadiness, and an ongoing commitment.  In fact, I would say that once we “catch on” to what meditating with the body is all about, we enter a path that will unfold as long as there is life.  At the same time, the experiential impact of the work is immediately felt, so there is confirmation of the rightness of what we are doing and as an evolving natural trust in the process that is beginning to unfold.

Reggie Ray