Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘You can say there is a “right posture” for sitting. Many times during sesshin you hit that “right posture” and then swing away from it, then go back to it. You understand what right posture is for you. You can see it, perceive it—it relates with your mind-state at that time. Right posture in sitting creates the contents of sitting from all that you have been experiencing up to now. It requires detachment from your desire to do it; you let it happen by itself. So right posture is not that you are doing sitting; right posture itself is the sitting, and the system of your whole body is going into that posture.’ (from the newsletter of Jikoji Zen Retreat Center)