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meditative walking or when we walk normally to do any business, as we step—step left, right, left, right—we have the awareness to observe the tonjit. To know just before we lift each foot—to be aware of the phenomenon before each foot is lifted. This is to observe tonjit—tonjit and phenomenon come together. As we are aware of tonjit, as we are aware before we lift each foot, then what do we contemplate next? We then contemplate the phenomena, as we feel before we lift each foot, after the awareness, then the phenomena that follow the foot-lifting, the movement forward—how do we observe?
As mentioned before, we need to observe the movement forward has what characteristics. When we move each foot, what are the phenomena? It is stable or shaky, or does it have a linear phenomenon, or does it move haltingly? These are the phenomena that we should observe for both walking as a minor bodily movement and for meditative walking. But, when we walk as a minor bodily movement, we need to walk faster than when we do meditative walking. That is we need to walk normally. Now, how do we observe, where do we contemplate? Try to be aware that as we move each foot, between lifting the foot and touching the floor, the point of impact and the lifting phenomenon—which one is clearer? We should observe the most apparent phenomenon then our awareness would be in the present.
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