At a formal dinner party the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

The poor monkey quietly seated on the ground seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.