Monk Cheats for Sitting during Meditation

Monk Enō
4 min readNov 15, 2020
Kodo Sawaki Unknown author — Antai-ji (Hyogo, Japan) archives

Sitting comfortably during long meditation blocks is a challenge most of us face, particularly when beginning. I am not naturally a great sitter and would still need to break things to do full lotus. Fortunately, I can be stubborn and manage a so-so half-lotus. Adding the following over the course of almost two decades now made things easier.

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Monk Enō

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