Prior to sitting we might imagine that awareness is a kind of thinking, and that the purpose of meditation is to purify the mind. This creates an urge to banish intrusive or banal thoughts.By giving awareness to specific sensations in our head – our head, not our mind – we notice it’s impossible for a thought and an awareness of something sensate to exist at exactly the same time. The thought is not destroyed. But it’s experienced as something energetic – it’s embodied. By reconciling the mind with the head in this way we can then extend it throughout the body, resolving the mind-body dualism.
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