{"id":6088,"date":"2018-05-11T07:58:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2018-05-11T07:58:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:58:42","slug":"thich-nhat-hanh-walking-meditation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/thich-nhat-hanh-walking-meditation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thich Nhat Hanh – Walking Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walking Meditation
\nby Thich Nhat Hanh<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Take my hand.
\nWe will walk.
\nWe will only walk.
\nWe will enjoy our walk
\nwithout thinking of arriving anywhere.
\nWalk peacefully.
\nWalk happily.
\nOur walk is a peace walk.
\nOur walk is a happiness walk.<\/p>\n

Then we learn
\nthat there is no peace walk;
\nthat peace is the walk;
\nthat there is no happiness walk;
\nthat happiness is the walk.
\nWe walk for ourselves.
\nWe walk for everyone
\nalways hand in hand.<\/p>\n

Walk and touch peace every moment.
\nWalk and touch happiness every moment.
\nEach step brings a fresh breeze.
\nEach step makes a flower bloom under our feet.
\nKiss the Earth with your feet.
\nPrint on Earth your love and happiness.<\/p>\n

Earth will be safe
\nwhen we feel in us enough safety.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a> \u2014 from Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh<\/a>, by Thich Nhat Hanh<\/font><\/p>\n


\/ Image by Leonid Afremov<\/a> \/<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

Something for us today by Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen monk, peace activist, author, meditation teacher\u2026 <\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t feel entirely like a \u201cpoem\u201d to me; it\u2019s more like rhythmic, chant-like set of instructions. Reading these words I can almost hear Thich Nhat Hanh\u2019s gentle voice offering these suggestions to us as we engage in walking meditation.<\/p>\n

Often we imagine a very stern notion of what meditation is, and it involves sitting rigidly still. Walking meditation invites us to move, to interact with our environment \u2014 but with a sense of presence, with full awareness, with resting mind. This allows the body to move in its natural fluidity without growing stiff. It encourages a full, easy flow of the breath.<\/p>\n

But, in walking meditation, we are not marching from point A to point B\u2013<\/p>\n

We will enjoy our walk
\nwithout thinking of arriving anywhere.<\/i><\/p>\n

We are dropping the purpose and destination from our stride. The way we walk is important. Resting mind, allowing mind, welcoming heart.<\/p>\n

It is not an easy thing to move through a garden or down the sidewalk without becoming attached to the thousand things we see or think. The reflex is to collapse the awareness with each small encounter, like a fisherman with a net, trying to ensnare and possess the world. But to keep that net of awareness open, spread wide, to witness the magical moment, to watch it dance for its instant in the sun, and then to allow it to drift past, that is the gentle work of the meditator.<\/p>\n

To walk through the world, with a sense of peace in the heart and belly, feeling simple happiness beneath the worries of the day, touching the earth and being touched by the earth, seeing and encountering without constricting the awareness, secure enough to know ourselves, where we are, what we are part of\u2026 we are doing walking meditation.<\/p>\n

Kiss the Earth with your feet.
\nPrint on Earth your love and happiness.<\/p>\n

Earth will be safe
\nwhen we feel in us enough safety.<\/i><\/p>\n

Have a beautiful day!<\/p>\n


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<\/a>Recommended Books: Thich Nhat Hanh<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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