The strong, sometime obsessive focus on posture in Zen teaching is also an upaya, a clever means and, through a detour of pedagogical engineering, presents itself as a diversion from egotistical hijacking.
As our true nature unfolds, this postural tropism tends to disappear.
Then remains the posture, what it is,
Without all the fuss.
Notes & Silence 
So, it is taught until it becomes second nature.
Yet, it is just a posture, at weever stage.
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