Talk Eighteen: Walking — Observing Anicca (Step by Step)
In walking meditation, it is often easier to contemplate two points—stepping and putting down the foot—than three points. This makes discernment of anicca more accessible (in comparison with lifting–stepping–putting down).
This is normal walking, which can be practised anywhere. At this stage, one is not yet seeing insight knowledge; rather, both knowledge and objects are still arising together.
During walking, path knowledge can arise. When an object is repeatedly contemplated as anicca, clinging to it gradually falls away. In the same manner, when contemplative knowledge matures, path knowledge arises—that is, when clinging falls away from both the contemplated object and the contemplating mind.
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