Hello Mel: The awareness of the breathing while doing activities does not require of any particular posture but just awareness of the movements of the body...doesn't requires to walk as if one was at a low speed motion. One could perfectly make use of the awareness of the breathing while running a marathon. Awareness doesn't have more requirements that the one of being aware of what is going on in body and mind. If the body is in movement then one acknowledges that movement. That's all. Mayka
--- On Sun, 10/10/10, Mel <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mel <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Quaker 'meditation' To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 10 October, 2010, 11:33 From: audreydc1983 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 6 October, 2010 10:00:24 PM Subject: [Zen] Re: Quaker 'meditation' >I've always been a worrier. Unfortunately, so am I >I adopted reading as a coping mechanism, and eventually started working my way >through the Sherlock Holmes collection. At home, it is so easy to just sit and meditate, and I do calm down(except during one occassion). It's much harder on the road because I can't just stop in my tracks and start breathing in the proper posture. So, I try my hardest to concentrate on my breathing whilst on the move, and saying something appropriate to the Heavenly Father as I go along >he likens the mind to an attic. An attic only has limited space - so he >chooses his knowledge carefully, so as not to "clutter up" his "mind-attic" >with useless knowledge. I found it a terrific analogy, and it seemed to help >me to realize that remembering >everything is not necessary, nay, it is >detrimental to your working mind. So now I don't feel so guilty about letting >go of some useless knowledge, when I realize that it's happened. :D ....(*smiles*)...Yep, I can relate to that.... in peace Mel
