Status Updates From How To Walk

"Walking brings the body and mind together. Only when body and mind are united are we truly in the here and now. When we walk, we come home to ourselves. It you're busy talking while you walk, or planning ahead, you won't enjoy your in-breath and out-breath."

"Sometimes I say that I walk for my mother or that my father is enjoying walking with me. I walk for my father. I walk for my mother. I walk for my teacher. I walk for my students."

"Often when we walk, we are already talking to someone next to us, or thinking of what we have to do next, or even staring at our phone, not looking at where we are or where we're going. When you walk, try to just walk. Try not to walk and talk at the same time. If you need to say something, stop altogether and say it. It won't take too much more time."

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Relajante. Reflexivo. Poético. Para la acción

The mind can go in a thousand directions,
But on this beautiful path, I walk in peace.
With each step, a gentle wind blows,
With each step, a flower blooms.

Or

The mind can go in a thousand directions,
But on this walking path right now, I walk in peace.
With each step, my body steps with awareness,
With each step, breath takes harmonious,
And my mind naturally returns to ease.

A practice of slow walk, about 6 feet, no step until you have fully arrived to present, 1 small step with breathe in, another breathe out. Checkin and wait for yourself

Breathing in, i go back to the island within me,
Breathing out, the peace expands

I give up, Buddha you walk for me

When we open the door and go out into the fresh air, we can be immediately in touch with the air and the Earth and know it is alive matter. Steps like these have the power to save our lives. My friend Shri Ananta Das also mentioned the latter

"While you are walking, smile - be in the here and now. By doing so, you transform the place where you are walking into a paradise."

After a while, you don’t make any effort, there is no struggle or practice, just walking natural, and happiness follows(paraphrased)

As the book reading only called over time, i reached the page, “mindful steps can be one step with breathe in, three with breath out to one step with each breath in and another with breath out”, it was such as revelation and gift during Toluca park, Mexico volcano hike with ups and downs at 12,000 to 15,000 feet elevation

As you start walking mindfully, you might hear your cosmic body(soul) saying, “i don’t want to run anymore. I want to stop. I want to live my life. I don’t want to miss the wonders of life”

Mindfullness is to remember that life is a wonder, we are here and we should live our lives deeply

Let your lungs tell you how much to breathe,
In breath, 1 to 4 steps, out breath 2- 6 steps will follow

When the past and future can’t pull you away anymore, every step is solid. This is foundation for happiness

Don’t force it, you do not need to progress, but be at ease

Make a contract with stairs

We do not talk when we walk.

The practice of mindfulness helps us from tendency to run into the future in order to look for happiness and see that everything we have been looking for is here.

Walk to feel earth, the wind, the grass and birds, walk as a reminder you are here and strong to be able to do that in this way.

When we learn to walk, we learn to be ease during the walk and beyond(paraphrasing)

During the walk, stay with the walk

Read a selection of about 20 pgs-
contract with the stairs to do mediation while climbing/descending

gathas- walking/breathing in sync w/a poem

never heard of jogging/running meditation but it makes sense- i did it sometimes unknowingly as a teen

a wave only lasts a few seconds but it returns to its ocean body

-birth/death- waves- thought of Uncle Johnny, Shawn, and his sons, so sad but also some joy

Let go of the future and take care of the past, so the present can be more appreciated.

Woke while walking

Walk to honor those who cannot anymore, it is a privilege

We learn to walk, so it brings peace and joy.

Allow yourself to sink deeply into the here and now, because life is only available in the present moment.