Oct 5, 2026 · 15 min · 5 segments
This week Andrew discusses selected verses from the opening chapter of the *Dhammapada*, exploring how the ways we cultivate and relate to the mind shape our experience. The talk reflects on breaking…
and just allowing the body to breathe naturally.
What would it feel like if we set down any control at all and just allowed the body to breathe all on its own? And allowing the mind to settle into that natural rhythm.
Just like waves.
Up, down, being with the full inhale, the full exhale.
To the best of your ability, just setting down some of the pressures of daily life.
For these next 10, 15 minutes, there's nowhere to go.
Nothing you have
to
do, no one you have to be.
So just allowing that planning mind to kind of fall to the background.
Letting your body and your breath and your immediate experience come to the foreground.
And as your mind settles into the breath and the body, Just beginning to scan through the body and notice any places where the body might be holding tension.
Maybe that's the face, the eyes, the jaw.
Maybe the muscles of the mind.
Maybe the shoulders.
Relaxing the arms, the hands, the fingers.
Just starting to tune into this embodied awareness, being aware of the body from the body.
Softening the chest, the stomach, the lower belly.
allowing some of those protective muscles to just start to release, inviting in a sense of safety.
Scanning down through the legs, just feeling the contact where the sit bones are meeting your chair or your cushion.
And relaxing the upper legs, the knees, the lower legs and the feet.
And then bringing the awareness to the whole body.
And letting the breath continue to be the anchor.
So we sometimes say the awareness is global, wide awareness.
And then allowing the attention to rest on the rhythm of the breath.
and just allowing the body to breathe naturally.
What would it feel like if we set down any control at all and just allowed the body to breathe all on its own? And allowing the mind to settle into that natural rhythm.
Just like waves.
Up, down, being with the full inhale, the full exhale.
To the best of your ability, just setting down some of the pressures of daily life.
For these next 10, 15 minutes, there's nowhere to go.
Nothing you have
to
do, no one you have to be.
So just allowing that planning mind to kind of fall to the background.
Letting your body and your breath and your immediate experience come to the foreground.
And as your mind settles into the breath and the body, Just beginning to scan through the body and notice any places where the body might be holding tension.
Maybe that's the face, the eyes, the jaw.
Maybe the muscles of the mind.
Maybe the shoulders.
Relaxing the arms, the hands, the fingers.
Just starting to tune into this embodied awareness, being aware of the body from the body.
Softening the chest, the stomach, the lower belly.
allowing some of those protective muscles to just start to release, inviting in a sense of safety.
Scanning down through the legs, just feeling the contact where the sit bones are meeting your chair or your cushion.
And relaxing the upper legs, the knees, the lower legs and the feet.
And then bringing the awareness to the whole body.
And letting the breath continue to be the anchor.
So we sometimes say the awareness is global, wide awareness.
And then allowing the attention to rest on the rhythm of the breath.
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