Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Walking Toward Enlightenment

Through producing your thoughts, speech, and actions, you create your environment. You always have the opportunity to arrange yourself and arrange your environment in such a way as to water the positive seeds in yourself. That is the secret to happiness.

We can economize the energy by training our mind consciousness in the habit of mindfulness. Mindfulness keeps us in the present moment and allows our mind consciousness to relax and let go of the energy of worrying about the past or predicting the future.

If you are absorbed in deep reflection, you don’t see, you don’t hear, you don’t touch anymore. In that deep place of reflection, mind consciousness is working alone.

It’s very important to surround yourself with people who have loving kindness, understanding, and compassion, because day and night we are influenced by the collective consciousness.

We shouldn’t say that consciousness is born from the brain, because the opposite is true: the brain is born from consciousness.

So if you want to save your energy, don’t think too much, don’t plan too much, and don’t worry too much. Allow your store consciousness to do most of the processing.

When you walk, who do you walk for? You can walk to get somewhere but you can also walk as a kind of meditative offering. It’s very nice to walk for your parents or for your grandparents who may not have known the practice of walking in mindfulness.

When we understand the interconnectedness of our bodies and our minds, the simple act of walking like the Buddha can feel supremely easy and pleasurable.

In meditation you usually use independent mind consciousness. We close our eyes, we close our ears, we don’t want to be disturbed by what we see or hear. The concentration is being performed by mind consciousness alone.