In the actual practice of zazen, on the other hand, a great importance is placed on a regulated sitting posture and a mental attitude of openness to the arising of perceptions without allowing one's attention to be sequestered by them.
Up in the gallery, thirteen Negroes were sitting in attitudes of fatigue and despair.
The fact that such things can be recounted out loud, without any sense that the anecdotes and the attitude sitting behind the anecdotes are in any way troubling, tells you everything you need to know about the hyper-complacent state of collective political consciousness.
They have suggested wide variations across the capital from borough to borough but also from ward to ward, sometimes depending on who the sitting MP is or attitudes to particular local issues and often on how well organised (or otherwise) different tendencies within local memberships are.
Sitting still — just sitting!
Some men and women were just sitting with a contemplative attitude, making their houses as if "dreaming awake".
The girl in green was sitting in the universal attitude of anguish, her head bent, the fingers of one hand spread along the hairline on her brow, the wrist brought down on the bridge of her nose.
Kovalchuk wasn't subtle when asked about keeping a positive attitude while sitting on the bench.
Which was alluded to earlier by Ferguson Donnelly about Cosgrove's attitude, while sitting next to Roger Sterling in Sterling's office, as perhaps the main reason he gave to Cosgrove about firing him.
Continue to raise the nose to the point where the airplane's pitch attitude matches the pitch attitude when its sitting on all three wheels.
Their experimental results showed that participants sitting with "confident" posture truly felt more confident about themselves, and held more positive self-attitudes when evaluating themselves as potential professionals.
