Are there any instructions on the pose of hand during meditation?
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As I see and learn there are typically two different positions of palms and hand that
I see people meditating in.
One is keeping the palms turned up and kept on knees like this picture; which is a classic yoga pose
and the other way is to keep the palms in your lap with thumb tips touching each other, like this; the classic zen pose.
When I meditate I keep on changing between these two, as I feel comfortable. The two poses yield different mindfulness for me.
I think, most of the Buddhist meditate like the second pose, but the first one also yields better meditative awareness.
I want to ask are there any instructions in the suttas about this. Is there a Buddhist pose and Non-Buddhist pose?


Asked by The White Cloud
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Aug 15, 2021, 02:05 PM
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