Walking Meditation - What we should know to practice
When practicing walking meditation, we should go slowly, keeping a calm, relaxed attitude combined with a smile on the lips. When walking meditation, we are not limited by time. In addition to walking out, there's nothing else we need to do or worry about.
With each step, we let the anxiety and busy aside. We should step by step in such a way so that we may dwell in the happiness of calm while walking.
This is not beyond our ability. Each of us can do this because we all sincerely desire to be in peace of peace.
Walk with peace
In our daily lives, we walk with steps filled with anxieties, anxieties - weighed down by fear. You can say that our lives are built by the months and years of anxiety. That is the reason we can not walk peacefully.
This world is full of beauty, with many beautiful and charming ways to choose. There are paths scented with the scent of flowers, and are adorned with elegant colors.
But we go through them unconsciously, not stopping to admire the surroundings with the stumbling steps of an uncomfortable person.
Walking jong-grom is training the way we go so that we can learn to walk peacefully.
When I was a new person in this Dhamma-Vinaya training, I started walking without confidence, without persistence. At first, we all like that. But then, after a few weeks, we can walk steadily and steadily, in the clear and calm - completely natural.
Our lives are often messy and messy. We constantly run into this problem, the problem is under pressure. But where are we going? This is a question that we often ask ourselves.
Walking jong-grom is like walking. We do not have to set any specific goal or set a deadline for it. We walk meditation is just walking meditation. The goal is just a step, no goal to achieve. Walking meditation is not a method - it is a purpose. Every step we take is our life.
Each step is a happy happiness. That is why we do not walk in a hurry. That is why we step with a decent, mature attitude. There is no place we have to go, no goal pushes us forward. Walking like this, we walk mindfully, with satisfaction on our faces.
We practice walking meditation to get rid of anxiety, anxiety once and for all.
Assuming we have the eyes of the Buddha, we can see the footprints of others printed on the ground - deepening their accomplishments of their own worries and sorrows. We can recognize these traces as they pass by as a scientist observes the bacteria through the microscope.
The secret of walking meditation or walking meditation is how to keep nothing except peaceful happiness in every step. To walk like this, we must learn to shake off all our worries and sorrows, no other way.
Go in a place where there is no dirt
We have to go the way of a person without anxiety. This means walking in a clean, pure place. In such a place - there will be beauty, peace and immense happiness.
If you find yourself in such a place, how would you walk? Are you really sure that you will not leave traces of the anxiety and sorrow of your life in the footsteps of that pure place? If you bring sadness and anxiety and print them on the ground, we will make it dirty and pollute the ground by our bleak tracks. If we live in this world with purity and happiness, surely we will walk with peace, serenity that starts from this moment onwards.
If we can walk on this earth with happiness and peace, then we do not need to go to the Buddha Land. Both mundane and pure things are born here in this mind of ours. At any moment in which we feel free, peaceful and happy, the world is pure and the world is pure. There is no place we need to go, we do not have to rely on the footprints of the historical Buddha to leave there.
The moment that we experience that mundane and pure are born from our minds, we are filled with happiness. We are happy because we know that in the dust there is both dust and freedom. If we open our eyes and stride, mindfulness, peace and happiness, we will walk in that pure place. This will inspire us to walk the gong every day.
The way we go through life
When walking meditation, walk naturally, no need to fold hands in front of chest, or keep a rigid posture. Choose a quiet and peaceful way to make walking meditation in the forest, in the park, on the river, or in the monastery or meditation center.
We can practice all the time. If anyone sees you, they will know that you are walking meditation and will not bother you. Whenever you meet someone while you are walking, just make a simple gesture to pay homage: Put your hands together and put it in front of your chest, and then again meditate. operating.
I usually walk jong-grom early in the morning and in the afternoon when I live in the forest. Forest animals - my neighbors - often come and shout when they see me walking. They are unfamiliar with the movement of one who is walking in peace. But, if I go fast, they usually think, "Kia is something normal", and no longer interested.
Most of us today go through life - whether we go, stand, sit or look at all the different things in the world and its different creatures - as if we are being sleepwalking . We have no idea what we are doing, or what direction we are going. Our awareness will depend on whether we can walk with mindfulness. The future of all beings on earth really depends on the way we walk.
"He who follows the footprints of his mind will escape the screen of Mara."
Go to the training of mindfulness
Walking jong-grom can open our eyes and open our ears to the wonders of the universe, and change the world to bring it into a place of peace and contempt. It can help us to go out of suffering, sadness, sorrow and anxiety, and bring us the happiness of peace. Similarly, it helps us to see clearly in life. If we do not see what arises in front of us, and how we can expect to see our own nature?
Seeing our own nature is not like imagining it through our closed eyes. On the contrary, we must open our eyes and see the true nature of things as they are.
Opening the eyes will help us to see nature within ourselves and our inner nature (Buddhahood): It is awareness. The hardships, the hardships of poverty, and the temptation of wealth - even the power of these things that put pressure on us can not separate us from our core essence. we.
Paths of walking meditation on thick leaves and other plants, covered with fallen leaves, are the walking paths in front of us. We should rejoice when walking meditation on such paths. They will not lead us astray. As we go, we will observe and record, be aware of the true suffering of the world.
Each path in this world can be the path of walking meditation for us. When we have awareness, we will not hesitate to walk on these paths.
Are not the sufferings of life merely arising from doubt, hesitation and anxiety? Having a clear understanding of the suffering of our human existence, we will no longer feel any difference to all beings beyond kindness and compassion, like a Bodhisattva.
Breathing with mindfulness
Breathing with mindfulness is different from normal breathing. Breathing with mindfulness means that when we breathe, we know that we are breathing. When we breathe in long we know we are breathing long. When we breathe in short we know we are breathing short. When we breathe in a breath, we know we are breathing in a breath. How can we focus on breathing and walking at the same time?
One way is to combine breathing and travel together using counting techniques. We can count the number of steps we take. Or, in another way, we can measure the length of the breath in the number of steps: When we breathe in how many steps we take? And when we exhale how many steps?
Let's practice it for a while - for a few weeks. Try it out to see it. Take slow steps but do not slow down, and breathe normally. Do not try to prolong your breath. Try to practice it for a while and then begin to notice: When you breathe in, how many steps are there?
Using this method, our attention at the same time will put both on the breath and the footsteps, and we will develop a close connection between peace and clarity with the breath and footsteps. our. This raises our attention, peace, contempt and happiness. It soothes and makes the objects of our attention more pure, pure.
This is awareness. This is clever. And this is wisdom.
Luang Por Liem Ṭhitadhammo, born in 1941, is a traditional Buddhist monk who practices in the jungle. After ordained as a monk at the age of 20, he first practiced in some monasteries in the village before arriving at Wat Nong Pah Pong, a famous monastery of Ajahn Chah in Ubon in 1960. Before Ajahn Chah passed away, he appointed Luang Por Liem Ṭhitadhammo as the abbot of Wat Nong Pah Pong and he continued to hold the post until today.END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.5/2/2018.
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