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Walking Meditation: A Discourse on the Practice
The nine cinnamon trees at Upper Hamlet celebrate their first birthday during the Autumn Retreat, symbolizing a year of practice and growth for the sangha. In the next three days, there will be a grand first-year ceremony with cake and tea meditation as offerings, encouraging, “Just say one sentence, my child, don’t say too much,” to practice simple and sincere communication.
- The Mahayana tradition emphasizes insight—the Dharma body present everywhere—and the power of others—sharing the merit for all beings.
- Sharing the merit (as in the Samantabhadra’s Aspiration Prayer) does not diminish insight but rather increases it, manifesting great compassion and skillful means, creatively bringing forth new teachings.
In Vajrayana, the world is the direct manifestation of the Buddhas (Dharma body), with the five principal Buddhas being Vairocana, Akṣobhya, Ratnasambhava, Amitābha, and Amoghasiddhi. Body, speech, and mind are unified through yogic posture, mantra, and contemplation to awaken the energies of yin and yang (Kundalini and Shiva/Durga). Tantra is divided into two schools: the right-hand path (keeping precepts, transforming negative energies) and the left-hand path (rituals involving killing and sexual acts), of which only the right-hand path has endured due to its integration and preservation of the root of insight.
