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Hard to Sit in Lotus Position for Meditation?

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Buddhas of Light Your sweetness will be retained at the time of your enlightenment.... ~DGR ~~~ we train ourselves in meditation to visualize the Buddhas and deities as translucent, not solid. This is the sambhogakaya realm Wir üben uns in Meditation, um die Buddhas und Gottheiten als durchscheinend und nicht als fest zu visualisieren. Dies ist der Sambhogkayabereich. Sitting in lotus or half lotus posture is easy, comfortable and natural for Eastern people raised to sit that way from childhood. The bones adapt. Western people are trained to sit in chairs. Their bones form that way, eventually. Chair sitting is painful for those raised to sit crosslegged. Why has lotus meditation posture become a kind of pain therapy for Western meditators? Hmmm? Sit comfortably, but not so much so that you fall asleep easily! ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Für Menschen aus dem Osten, die von Kindheit an dazu erzogen wurden, ist es einfach, komfortabel und natürlich im Lotussitz oder Halblotussit...