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    Walking Meditation
    Walking Meditation
    Walking Meditation
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    Walking Meditation

    By Thich Nhat Hanh and Nguyen Anh-Huong

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    What if every step you took deepened your connection with all of life and imprinted peace, joy, and serenity on the earth? With Walking Meditation, you will enjoy the first in-depth instructional program in this serene spiritual practice to help you walk with presence and peace of mind whether in nature or on a busy city street.

    Walking Meditation features esteemed Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh along with one of his principle students, Nguyen Anh-Huong, as together they illuminate the central tenets of this powerful meditative art, including:

    • How to recognize the miracle in simply walking—not as a means to an end, but as the opportunity to touch the fullness of life
    • Reversing habit energy through the unification of body and mind
    • Using walking meditation to work with difficult emotions such as anger and anxiety, and much more

    There is a Buddhist concept known as Apranihita, or the spirit of wishlessness, in which one neither pursues desires nor flees from discomforts. With Walking Meditation, practitioners from every spiritual tradition will rediscover our home in the here and now, as the long road we all must walk turns to quiet joy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSounds True
    Release dateAug 1, 2006
    ISBN9781591798828
    Walking Meditation
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    Thich Nhat Hanh

    Thich Nhat Hanh (pronounced tik-not-hawn) waas a world-renowned writer, scholar, spiritual leader, and Zen Buddhist monk. Since the age of sixteen, he was a Buddhist monk, a peace activist, and a seeker of the way. He survived three wars, persecution, and more than thirty years of exile from his native Vietnam, when he was banned by both the non-Communist and Communist governments for his role in undermining the violence he saw affecting his people. He was the master of one of the most prominent temples in Vietnam, and his lineage is traceable directly to the Buddha himself. A prolific author, Nhat Hanh has written more than one hundred books of philosophy, poetry, and fiction. Nhat Hanh lived in a monastic community in southwestern France that he founded, called Plum Village, recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism. He died in January 2022 at the age of 95.  

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      Walking Meditation - Thich Nhat Hanh

      INTRODUCTION

      Peace Is Every Step

      Peace is every step.

      The shining red sun is my heart.

      Each flower smiles with me.

      How green, how fresh all that grows.

      How cool the wind blows.

      Peace is every step.

      It turns the endless path to joy.

      TINH THUY

      senior student of Thich Nhat Hanh

      In the midst of our chaotic world, we tend to lose touch with the peace and joy that are available in each moment: the sunshine, the birds’ singing, the autumn leaves, a baby’s smile. The practice of walking meditation brings us back to being fully present and alive with every step, filling each moment with peace and joy.

      Over the past four decades, my teacher, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, has offered walking meditation practice to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. It has transformed many people’s lives, including my own. I was introduced to the practice in 1980, and it has stayed with me and become my life. I have shared it with many people at mindfulness workshops and retreats at the Mindfulness Practice Center of Fairfax in Oakton, Virginia, and elsewhere.

      This book includes a complete program of meditation instruction that you can use to create your own walking meditation practice. Be sure to read the instructions for each practice before listening to the guided session. You will also be instructed when to watch the video, which features archival footage of the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh instructing students in the basic practice of slow walking meditation. All five guided audio meditations and the instructional video are found on the Walking Meditation page of the Sounds True website at SoundsTrue.com/walkingmeditation/meditations.

      It is with great happiness that I share the art of mindful walking with you. If you follow this training program wholeheartedly, the value of your practice will be beyond measure. The boundary between practice and non-practice will eventually disappear, and every time you take a step, it will be a peaceful one. Every time you walk, it will be a walking meditation.

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      CONSCIOUS BREATHING MEDITATION

      The Welcoming Path

      The empty path welcomes you,

      fragrant with grass and little flowers,

      the path paved with paddy fields

      still bearing the marks of your childhood

      and the fragrance of mother’s hand.

      Walk leisurely, peacefully.

      Your feet touch the Earth deeply.

      Don’t let your thoughts carry you away,

      come back to the path every moment.

      The path is your dear friend.

      She will transmit to you her solidity,

      and her peace.

      THICH NHAT HANH

      Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future. By practicing the art of stopping, we can enter the present moment and be nourished by the beauty and wonder of life in and around us: the smell of flowers, the warmth of sunshine, the color of the sky. To practice mindfulness is to begin to realize that we have a choice—to stop and rest or run, to be angry or happy. Once we choose to stop, everything will be okay.

      Before learning walking meditation, we begin by learning how to breathe mindfully. This is the best way to help us learn to rest and stop. When we breathe and know that we are breathing, our wandering mind begins to rest on the pillow of our breath. A feeling of calm and ease then naturally arises.

      The fundamental practice of conscious breathing meditation is to nourish your mindfulness and learn how to keep it present, alive, and strong. When you learn how to generate the energy of mindfulness and allow it to penetrate everything you do, understanding, compassion, and loving kindness will naturally flower in you. At the beginning you may think that you are practicing mindfulness only while walking, but then one morning you might make some tea; you pick up the mug and suddenly you can smell the tea more keenly than ever before. And as you take a sip, the tea becomes more delicious because the energy of mindfulness that you have developed allows you to taste it more directly and

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