Kevin Griffin: Dharma and Recovery
Oct 13, 2026 · 59 min · 8 segments
Reflecting on suttas about self-love.
Kevin GriffinHost
And I think that stillness of the body is one of the more important aspects of how we hold our body.
While the posture itself can be supportive, being erect, it's not really necessary.
You feel the body, you feel the mood, the sensations, underlying subtler feelings when you're not moving, when you're turning your attention inward.
Inward in the sense of just feeling sensations of the body, but also being aware of mental states or mood.
How are you feeling? And if you're comfortable with tuning into the body, if that feels safe for you to take some time to intentionally relax and scan the body for areas of strong sensation, distinctive sensation.
And sometimes, if we're not used to this practice, we can actually have a hard time feeling the body or sensing it at all.
Just taking some time to see what, what you can be aware of, what you are aware of through the body.
This doesn't mean that we're trying to shut out anything else, but just let the breath come into the foreground of our awareness.
And then often when we start to focus on the particular experience like the breath, we'll find that that attention is interrupted by the wandering mind.
So we include this in our practice to see when the mind wanders, to bring the attention back, gently though, with kindness.
In fact, seeing how the mind wanders, where the mind goes to, all of this can be useful, the basis for insight.
And I think that stillness of the body is one of the more important aspects of how we hold our body.
While the posture itself can be supportive, being erect, it's not really necessary.
You feel the body, you feel the mood, the sensations, underlying subtler feelings when you're not moving, when you're turning your attention inward.
Inward in the sense of just feeling sensations of the body, but also being aware of mental states or mood.
How are you feeling? And if you're comfortable with tuning into the body, if that feels safe for you to take some time to intentionally relax and scan the body for areas of strong sensation, distinctive sensation.
And sometimes, if we're not used to this practice, we can actually have a hard time feeling the body or sensing it at all.
Just taking some time to see what, what you can be aware of, what you are aware of through the body.
This doesn't mean that we're trying to shut out anything else, but just let the breath come into the foreground of our awareness.
And then often when we start to focus on the particular experience like the breath, we'll find that that attention is interrupted by the wandering mind.
So we include this in our practice to see when the mind wanders, to bring the attention back, gently though, with kindness.
In fact, seeing how the mind wanders, where the mind goes to, all of this can be useful, the basis for insight.
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