Body Focus

The body is the main focus, the well from which awareness springs.

You can consult ancient scriptures like in the following quote from the Samputa Tantra,

“If you don’t know the nature of the body [through direct experience], all the [other] methods that the Buddha revealed in his 84,000 teachings will not yield any fruit.”

Or you can listen to present-day experienced practitioners and teachers like Professor Reggie Ray who recently summed up the view in these words,

“The somatic view of the vajrayana has revolutionary implications for our meditation practice as modern people, and for our spiritual journey altogether… It means that our spiritual life, far from involving a distancing and separating from our body and all the realities of our physical incarnation, requires just the opposite: we must turn toward our body and our life as the proper and possible arena for authentic spiritual development – as the only place where our path can unfold and as the only true access point for genuine realization.  Anything else is a chimera, a dream… Connecting with our body and ordinary life are not add-ons: they ARE the practice of spirituality.  They are what the spiritual journey is all about.”