WALKING MEDITATION

 WALKING MEDITATION

The Buddha said that the samadhi you develop from walking meditation is much stronger than the samadhi that you develop from sitting meditation.

Very important to know because in the moving process if you can stay with that, the awareness is stronger.

When you walk it is the sensation that should be the object of meditation. Not the seeing of the ‘lifting’ of the foot in the mind.

How do you feel in the muscles? And also the mind, how do you feel in the mind?

As you do the walking meditation what is in your mind? Let the mind choose the object, and just be aware of it. What is it doing now? What does it know?

It is important to know and note what is the mind doing. 

You can take any object in walking meditation as long as the mind is known.

Don’t go to objects let them come to you.

Do you have greed, anger, expectations, or aversion in that mind that is meditating?

If you don’t see your own mind (seeing your own mind is meditating) as you are meditating, and your own attitudes, your own mindsets, opinions views and ideas in that mind, you can’t say that you are practicing.

Attention of 50% to body and 50% to mind. Gradually go to 100% mind. Use the step as an anchor, begin by putting your attention at the heel of the foot, when mental activity appears turn your attention to the mind for as long as it takes.

Deal with it until it clears, then return to your paying attention to your walking, until something appears in the mind again. en turn your attention to the mind, observe the mind.

If some powerful, overwhelming mental state appears, stop and deal with it. Sit down on a chair if you have to, giving it 100% of your attention for as long as it takes to deal with it.

~ Cittanupassana