Episode 29: Walking Meditation

According to the Buddha, there are four main postures for meditation: sitting, walking, standing, and reclining  •  walking meditation is often a part of group meditation practice, where there is alternation between sitting meditation and walking meditation  •  it provides a way of transitioning from sitting still and simplifying, as we do in sitting meditation practice, and re-engaging with the world  •  walking meditation helps us learn how to mix our meditation mind with the activity of daily life that we return to again and again after each setting session  •  Walking meditation is usually done quite slowly—but not super slowly; it has a contained and mindful quality  •  it is a very deliberate type of walking: step by step you engage the world with mindfulness, awareness, gentleness and appreciation  •  walking meditation is also working with the idea of gesture: can you take one true step? can you be fully, wholeheartedly engaged in a single step?  •  to do so is a way of expressing your entire life—the inspiration for all that you do—in one gesture, one true step.