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kinhin (walking meditation)

In Zen, and often Theravada Buddhism too, periods of sitting meditation (zazen) are alternated with periods of walking meditation (kinhin). This achieves two things – it allows the legs to stretch and blood to flow, and also is a practice of meditative awareness in its own right. Movement occurs slowly, step-by-step, breath-by-breath, feeling the body shifting from one posture to another, and finding a new equilibrium. Our awareness is totally embodied and resting in the experience of life, just as it is.

one footstep
after another
temple bell

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