The Body as Home: 14 days of mindfulness of the body
Fourteen days of mindfulness of the body: breathing, postures, everyday awareness, walking, eating and the elements.
Mindfulness of the body is the first of the four kinds of mindfulness meditation in the discourses, and the texts return to it often. This path works through it the way Mindfulness of the Body (MN 119) and Mindfulness of Breathing (MN 118) do: the breath, the postures, awareness during ordinary activity, and the body as made of elements.
The sits include body scans, points of contact and slow walking.
Scope. Day 1 is a complete free preview. Days 2–14 are part of Daily Dharma Plus.
All 14 days
- Day 1Breath, an aspect of the bodyMN 118
- Day 2Whatever posture, know itMN 10
- Day 3Awareness in small movementsMN 10
- Day 4Keen and prudent while walkingAN 4.12
- Day 5The jar full to the brimMN 119
- Day 6One thing that includes the restAN 1.575–615
- Day 7Taking the mind’s hintSN 47.8
- Day 8Sitting down under a treeMN 62
- Day 9Only to sustain this bodyAN 4.37
- Day 10Earth, water, fire, and airMN 10
- Day 11The charioteer at the crossroadsMN 119
- Day 12When the mind is sluggishSN 47.10
- Day 13Breath and feeling togetherMN 118
- Day 14The body, arising and vanishingMN 10
Day 1 is published here in full. Days 2–14 are in the iPhone app with Daily Dharma Plus; each title above links to the source text it is built on, which is free to read.