Monday mindful walking..

[Jim T]

“If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can
transcend our fear, despair,
and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to
look at reality with
mindfulness and concentration. Meditation is essential for our
survival, our peace, our
protection.”

“Every time we make a step during walking meditation, we are moving
like an organism, we are
moving like the cosmos, and all our ancestors move with and take steps
with us. Not only our
ancestors, but our children and their children move with us. The one
contains the all. When we
are capable of making a peaceful, happy step, all our ancestors are
making the step at the
same time.”

“When we have enough insight, we are not caught by many difficult
situations anymore. We can
get out of difficult situations very easily. When we change our daily
lives – the way we think,
speak, and act – we change the world. It is important for us to live
in such a way that in every
moment we are deeply there with our true presence, always alive and
nourishing the insight of
interbeing.” –

The World We Have, Parallax Press