Questioner: Should I wait until I’m tired or just start that from the beginning? Do I try sitting first and try until I start getting sleepy?
Gil: If it is a real common pattern and you know it is coming, just start that way. Sometimes when you do walking meditation, it brings a nice kind of energy and it might wake you up. Then, if you want to sit, you can come in and sit. Or you can walk the whole time. Walking meditation is a great practice and is as valid as sitting.
Questioner: Thank you.
New Questioner: I was noticing in my meditation tonight that as I put my attention on my breath, it would change what I had been attending to, and that was really confusing to me, to have that thing of going back and forth.
Gil: Can you say a little more about why it was confusing, or was it a pre-existing assumption about the practice?
Questioner: I don’t know if it was a pre-existing assumption. It was as it the noticing of it brought up the question of ……I don’t know– it was just sort of odd to be able to see something from different sides.