Walking

I think that walking is natural and healthy. With mindful walking we can have an experience that can be found no other way. Zen walking, can be any walking when we are mindful of everything. This 'everything' depends on our consciousness. Everything even includes nothing...the spaces inbetween the individual things. So how many individual things and nothings make everything? The more the merrier, in my opinion. But everything in it's totality is the zen experience.

Zen is often translated as meditation, but I'm not sure that zen is what the English word meditation means. But zen is being quiet and still...zen is living our connection to everything and interacting from this place of being.

We call this Nin-Gen-Kan-Sei (to be a human being...to be a complete human being...some say even, to be a perfect human being)...but isn't being human mean not being perfect? What is it that makes us human? What elements of us are reserved only for humans, and not other animals? But aren't we animals too? All of reality counts.

But zen is also a practice, a practice of being here and now...in this moment. And in this moment quiet and still, these questions fade away and we are left knowing what it is to be human. Sit, Stand, lay down, Walk...be in this moment only, fully, and completely...and know you are...