walking meditation: should I do (some weirdly specific thing like slow zombie walking)?

 

Re: Walking meditation

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Post by frank k » Wed Oct 26, 2022 2:06 am

Mangaka wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:42 pmHello everybody,
does anyone here know, what is the proper way for practice of walking meditation? Should one be aware of steps itself (like contact of the feet with floor) or it's right to focus on meditation object like breath, mettā or foulness of the body? Or are both methods right?

see AN 3.16
https://lucid24.org/an/an03/an03-v01/index.html#s16

The Buddha says do sitting or walking meditation, all the time.
He doesn't tell you how to allocate how much to do each, so it's an individual choice.
Other suttas mention all four postures (standing, lying down).
So it's not about the posture, or whether you use a chair to sit.
It's the same set of meditation techniques in any posture.
All the weirdly specific walking meditation techniques they teach in modern times, didn't come from the Buddha.

As long as what they teach is in accordance with Dhamma, then nothing wrong with trying it out and seeing if it helps you.
But don't think there's something special you need to do for 'walking meditation'.