Zen master Seung Sahn and taoist Miao

[glance left]

So, in observing my breathing during this last session, it sinks down into the belly where expansion and contraction occur almost exclusively. It sinks below the chest and becomes slow and smooth...with frequent pauses after expiration. Awareness expands outward into the air around me with this breathing and the perceptual shift surges, cm by cm, through this space.