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Start with 20-30 min. Can sit in lotus or half lotus. Neck/head align with spine.

Try to maintain a half smile and let everything go.

“If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us… we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes.”

Breath to match you inhale to exhale. Be conscious of everything that is happening to you.

I just read the translator’s preface by Mobi Ho and I’m feeling very excited to get into this book. He mentioned that Thich Nhat Hanh recommended that he write the translation slow and steady, in order to maintain mindfulness. I want to apply that same practice to reading this book, going slow and steady. One chapter per sitting, with time reserved to sit in reflection after.

Live and fee the present so you can practice mindfulness