From website.
Awareness (Kakusoku)
Do not concentrate on any particular object or control your thought. When you maintain a proper posture and your breathing settles down, your mind will naturally become tranquil.
When various thoughts arise in your mind, do not become caught up by them or struggle with them; neither pursue nor try to escape from them. Just leave thoughts alone, allowing them to come up and go away freely. The essential thing in doing zazen is to awaken (kakusoku) from distraction and dullness, and return to the right posture moment by moment.
Instructions from insight timer about Soto zen. Ben Connelly
Places of contact. Stomach breath.
Feelings like your listening. Choosing to care about emotions. But you may not notice anything and that’s ok. Like you may not notice sound in a quiet room when you are listening.
It’s ok if you don’t feel emotions. It’s the caring that’s important. The turning towards. Or what you’re hearing. You can still listen.
Notice body and emotions and tend to them. Also other phenomena heard. Thoughts visual images whether open or closed eyes. Smell taste.
Allow whole field of awareness to be known.
Let awareness be so broad. Incorporated all these things. Trusting that you don’t need to fix control judge any of it.
Let aware as be know.
Begin again with breath. The. Let awareness expand
Not about being other than who you are.
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