VIPS

I had accepted to sit on a pillow, to try the real experience, as opposed to settling for a chair. And this was proving very challenging. I had brought with me from France my robust fuzen pillow to add some comfort. I was alternating between 2 positions: sitting cross-legged with my buttocks perched on the fuzen, or kneeling down with the fuzen supporting my crotch. Both positions would have been okay for 20 minutes, but for hours and hours they were both proving terribly painful. Sitting cross-legged was slowly killing my back and neck, while numbing my right leg. Kneeling on the fuzen was helping keep my back straight, but was so tough on my right knee it was beginning to swell. My left knee and leg proved much more flexible than the right, something I had never noticed: my legs were not created equal. Some older or bigger people around me had chosen to sit on a regular chair, or on a ground-level meditation chair with back support