Walking Meditation

This booklet contains essays on walking meditation by three Buddhist teachers.

Walking meditation is an important, but often neglected, part of Buddhist meditation practice. Through walking meditation, energy can be aroused, concentration stabilized, and the Buddha's teachings penetrated through using wise reflection. Many meditators have become enlightened while doing walking meditation because of the mental alertness and sharpness that it arouses. Modern scientific studies have showed that walking, besides its physical benefits, is also beneficial for the mind—improving memory skills, learning ability, concentration and abstract reasoning, besides reducing stress and uplifting ones' spirits.

The three essays cover all aspects of walking meditation and describe how it is used in the various Theravada Buddhist meditation traditions.

 

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