8/20/09

Telepopmusik - Breathe




Your breath should be light, even, and flowing, like a stream of thin water running through the sand. Your breath should be very quiet, so quiet that even the person next to you cannot hear it. Your breathing should flow gracefully like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to control ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used...after about 10 to 20 minutes, your thoughts will have quieted down like a pond on which not even a ripple stirs.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness

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