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Prostrations as practice
lobster
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As we all know, 'difficulties are the new ease'. After all if practice was easy, we would have to find ... eh ...
https://samyeinstitute.org/wisdom/prostration-why-and-how/
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I remember being in Bodhgaya seeing people doing the Tibetan 100,000 prostrations retreat. I think I remember that it takes people about a month of day long prostration practice. I also remember a story of a monk who did the walking prostration all the way from Tibet to Bodhgaya.
Personally I haven't done them in a while but when combined with the additional mental "prostration" work they can be powerful.
I remember reading it’s very bad for the knees...