This Fathom Long Body

Diggin' the Dharma - A podcast by Jon Aaron and Doug Smith - Sundays

"Yet it is just within this fathom-long body, endowed with perception and cognition, that I declare that there is the world, the origination of the world, the cessation of the world, and the path of practice leading to the cessation of the world.” In this quote from the Rohitassa sutta the Buddha addresses the knowing body. All that we know and experience is in this body. So embodied practice is not the practice of cognitive understanding (though this is i...