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The Zen tradition tends to emphasize upright sitting.

And I found that to be particularly helpful.

Like lying down for me, I fall asleep or I quickly start to daydream.

If that's the only option that your body has, you definitely can meditate lying down.

But yeah, the Zen tradition tends to emphasize sitting upright.

And I'm somebody, I started meditating when I was 18. before I was 20 so I um and I like had flexibility like I was a gymnast early in life I was athletic so it wasn't hard for me to sit in like the cross-legged postures that I was that were demonstrated to me when I was first learning to practice and went to a zen center um But people sit in chairs.

And so maybe talk a little bit about what was advantageous about sitting with others in a monastic context.