Close Your Eyes ...

You don't pick and choose the spot as you take the next step, and you develop a level of trust and balance, knowing that you are safe in allowing it to be as they are in the moment. Your heightened awareness determines the degree of pressure you put on the ground, bonding more fondly with blades of grass and tiny leaves, or treading more carefully sensing the dry sharpness of a twig between your toes!

There is a moment when your thoughts are flung into a space in future, echoing in your minds eye the blueprint of what to do or say to your best friend about the experience of this moment, instantly but unknowingly disconnecting you from this moment, and you know it happened again - the disconnect from this moment - and with a knowing smile you are back again mindfully to the sensations of grounding, here and now.

Mind finds a space in the future again, and again, and again. Or it finds a space in the past, and with a smile you bring it back again to the awareness of the sensation under your feet...

Looking down, you begin to see your extension of life in the leaves you were about to step on, and you pause, stepping on them gently because you have no choice, but with enough care to not cause them hurt. Humility blossoming deep within. In your stillness, you see the row of crawling ants in pursuit of their grains or nest, and you allow them to pass, unhurt. Empathy radiating from the core of your being.

Walking in stillness, experiencing the silkiness of the awareness, you begin to feel the synchronization of breath, alignment of purpose, and a tinkling sensation of energy flowing through the tip of your fingers.

You may experience all these and more. You may experience none of these at all.

The blankness is in and of itself an experience, just as it is in its fullness. You cease to walk when you do walking meditation.

What's remaining is just experience. Experience is then everything.

Shahir