hand positions for sitting meditation

[sunshine]

Anybody of you familiar with the different hand positions, their meaning, what they do etc.?

 

there is the lay one hand in the other and out both thumbs together

 

put thumb of one hand on PE-5 and makr a fist with the other hand around the thumn

 

put two hands open on the legs

 

 

 

so. what do they do, what do they mean... what are they good for?

 

curious as always

 

Harry

[thelerner]

I've learned a couple of them. I tend to use Zen fingers together on the bottom, thumbs forming level roof on top. Or upside down church & steeple, ie pointer fingers together and up, rest of fingers in and curled.

 

I've always seen that kind of mudra as psycological. If you're calm and meditating when you make them, then they become Pavlovian which is very important. There are Ninja arts that take them very seriously.

 

Peace

 

Michael

[el_tortugo]

try this thread..

http://www.thetaobums.com/forum/index.php?sho...c=597&hl=mudras

[sunshine]

try this thread..

http://www.thetaobums.com/forum/index.php?sho...c=597&hl=mudras

5785[/snapback]

 

That link is pretty cool. But I do not speak so much about Mudras for certain intentions but the basic meditation ones, to know which one to choose...

[voice]

Mudras are cool to play with. I got "Mudras: yoga in your hands" by Gertrud Hirschi a few weeks ago. Some of the mudras are classical ones, others are ones that she made up. For many of them, she suggests holding them for 30+ minutes many days in a row. I haven't done that, but I feel shifts when I use a mudra. The book is great for showing so many amazing mudras - very creative.

 

So, get a book and have fun!

[GrandTrinity]

How about this one?

 

JUST KIDDING:

but for real, http://nqa.org/articles/pureyanghandmudra.pdf]EXPLORING THE MEANING OF PURE YANG HAND MUDRA by Zhongxian Wu[/url]