Yogacara practice
Sensation only
When thinking will not stop but the body is available.
How to do it
Put a hand where the trouble lives in the body. Drop the story and stay with temperature, pressure, movement. Let it be sensation without a name.
Where it comes from
Yogacara, sometimes called the Mind-Only school, studies how experience is constructed by consciousness. It shows how habits of perception build the sense of a solid self facing a solid world, and how that construction can be seen through.
Drawn from Living Yogacara: An Introduction to Consciousness-Only Buddhism by Tagawa Shun'ei.
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