Author’s photo of their meditation stool and cushion
Author’s photo of their meditation stool and cushion

Learning to Sit on a Chair, or The Vipassana Kid Rides Again.

Tales from the Happy Farm: Taking A Different Perspective

Jim Laing
5 min readOct 2, 2024

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A retreat from the usual routine

Most days in my job I make a lot of stop-start movements because I’m fetching and preparing things for sale all within the same small department.

The free exercise app on the phone registers these movements as steps even though I wouldn’t qualify it as walking. There’s also a lot of going up and down stairs, but it all counts on the app.

A few weeks ago however I aggravated a long-standing niggle in the right Achilles tendon. After each annual ten-day Vipassana meditation retreat, It’s sore for some time, but it always returns to normal within a couple of weeks.

However, the change from sitting at a desk office work to standing all day retail, with the constant type of movements described above, prolongs the recovery period.

To compensate for this I’ve been doing my morning meditation sessions sat in the chair in my home office here, which is little more than a cupboard with pretensions to be a room.

Learn to listen to your limits

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Jim Laing
Jim Laing

Written by Jim Laing

Knowledge opinions fiction. Edinburgh based writer, poet & obsessive music fan. Curious to see if I can find, and keep an audience.

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