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“When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one’s mind on the act and the doing of it, not on ones’ relation to the act or tis character or value.”

ASHVAGOSHA

You have known for a long time that meditation is not only good for the soul but for the physical body as well. Until recently, you followed a comfortable routine, returning day after day to a quiet area where you were able to sit almost motionless for thirty minutes or more at a time, still your mind, and open yourself up to a new awareness. Lately, however, you haven’t been able to sit still or remain inactive long enough to meditate in that same way.

You might want to try walking meditation. The very act of walking will allow you to channel your thoughts, providing an array of repetitive motions and sensations on which to focus your mind. There is the measured swing of your arms, the weight shift of your body, the sensations and pressures in your legs as they contact the ground, and, of course, there is the steady rhythm of your breathing.

Then, too, walking will put you in touch with your own life force, always providing something new to see, to hear, to touch, or to smell. Walking, and the meditation that becomes part of it, will sharpen your appreciation of the world around you and inside of you.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

There are no boundaries or rules for meditation.