At the beginning of the meditation walkway, do not cross your hands in front of you or behind you. But this do not apply to everybody. When you walk, walk as if you are shopping.Walk just like the way you walk to the toilet. If you do it like this, you can apply it to your everyday living. Walking meditation is a moving meditation exercise. LuangPu Dul (Venerable Grandfather Dul) has written in his book . Energy gained from the concentration that have reached the inner peacefulness by means of walking is greater than the energy gained from sitting or sleeping.” We can really apply it to our everyday lives. Those of you who have already practiced this walking meditation. When you go back home today, observe your practice whether you have a real mindfulness or not. If you do it correctly, whenever your feet move in your everyday life, you’ll be mindful and your mind will be alert. You’ll be awake. When you start writing while working at your office desk, your mind will be awake. That is, if you do it correctly. But if you observe that nothing happens, then you must have done something wrong. Most of the time, the incorrect practices are either at the beginning or the ending of the meditation walk way. Before you walk, do not cross your hands in front of you or behind you. Walk the way you walk in your everyday life. Before you walk, be mindful. How to be mindful? Now, close your eyes. Try closing your eyes, I’ll show you how to be mindful. Do you notice that it is cold? If you notice that you are cold, nod your head. You can either nod or shake your head, but you have to keep your eyes close. Otherwise you’d think that you see it with your naked eyes. Being mindful is the feeling from the inside. You feel it with your mind. Now, nod your head up and down, up and down, and relax. Don’t force yourself to nod in any patterns. You can also turn your head left and right. It’s up to you. Now, try smiling. Open your eyes. It should be bright because you’re smiling. Being mindful is like that. It’s not being tight or clear. It’s not about being good either. Now think about those who meditate. Like you, when you observe your breath, you’d want to see it clearly. You’d want it to be good. For you, this is all there is to it, just being mindful like this, but let’s talk one-on-one later. So this is how it’s like to be mindful. Now, I feel that this thing is standing, just like you’d feel that your body is sitting. That’s it, that feeling that this body is sitting.That it feels cold, that’s all there is to it. Then walk, walk like you normally walk. At the end of the walkway, stop. Don’t do anything, just feel that this body stops moving. This body is standing Then turn naturally. No pattern, No step Now be mindful, but don’t start walking just yet. If you turn around and start walking right away, your mind will bounce off because greed will take over your walk. So be mindful first. Feel that this body is standing, then walk. The question that is frequently asked is where to put the mind while we’re walking. The answer is if the mind see that this body is moving while walking, then just acknowledge that it sees the body. If it sees the mind that wanders off to thought, then acknowledge that it sees the mind. So it depends on what’s more prominent at that time. This answers your question. What’s more prominent at that time? just be aware of it. You do not have to pay attention to it. Because during that time, it’s the time that we learn the truth about this body and mind. After you’ve walked for a little while, you’ll start to be mindful more often and more frequent. You’ll observe that it wanders off to thought more often until you can no longer keep track of it. Then, you have to be mindful that your mind is being restless. So when your mind is restless, observe that your mind will not like it. Your mind doesn’t like the restless mind. Do not try to pull it back, you know. If you pull it back, it’ll be tight. Just be mindful like this. Just walk casually like this. Dhamma is nature. It’s natural. It’s ordinary. It’s this body and mind. Our body and mind, not anybody else. So we walk like this. The body is moving. The mind observes that this body is moving as if we are observing a robot. Then we stop. Be mindful that this body is standing… Turn around.. Then be mindful first, and start walking. Walk naturally like this. Now do not expect that your mind will be calm or your mind will not be restless. We work hard all-day-long, so it’s normal that the thought will keep popping up “our kids wanted this”, “our customers wanted that” “Tomorrow our employee wants this”, “Tomorrow we’ll have a meeting” It will wanders off to thought like this. Our job is to be aware that the mind wanders off to thought. The mind’s job is not being calm or not thinking. Luang Por asked that you do this for how many minutes? Just 10 minutes. When you do a formal meditation, what’s more important is continuity not quantity. If you go for quantity and say you had set your mind to practice for one hour everyday for 3 months, you might be able to do it for 3-7 days. On day 10, you might be able to do it for an hour but it might be an hour of struggling of forcing yourself. You’ll no longer feel comfortable and you will not be able to see how the body and mind works. Alternatively, if you set your mind to practicing every day for 10 minutes, just like what LuangPor had suggested, for 3 months, and if on the first day you have managed to formally practice for 15 minutes, the 5 extra minutes you have achieved is your profit that you get. Now if the guy who had wanted to walk for an hour can only do it for 45 minutes, his mind will be gloomy. So if you only set it to 10 minutes and can do 15 minutes, your mind will be satisfied and fulfilled. Tomorrow, you’ll do it again. Those who practice correctly will be willing to practice or the mind will have will. Then,will, effort, dedication, and examination automatically occurs.