While sitting tonight I had a bit of an epiphany which led to much confusion (then thought, then monkey-mind ops: ). I realized that when I sit I tend to place my focus somewhere; usually it is on the coming and going of thoughts. Arise, observe, drop, etc... but in doing this, I do not "drop" the mind. The body? Yes. I become absorbed in watching my thoughts come and go and thus drop the body. It works in the reverse as well. When placing all my concentration and mindfulness on the body, the mind seems to drop but, again, not the body.

So my question is: Both or Neither? Pardon the following intellectualization but this is how I see it: The mind cannot simultaneously think two thoughts at once, because that would mean that two minds exist. Thus, if one were to "focus" on both body and mind, neither could be focused on. A cancelation of sorts. OR! Are we "supposed" to not focus on anything at all?

A sheet the body and a clothesline the mind.
Seeing the sheet flutter, there is no line,
Seeing the line shake, there is no sheet.
Seeing both flow, are there are no longer two?
Seeing neither, is there no ground to stand upon?

(My capping verse of sorts)

Gassho
Taylor