The practice of walking meditation is not to underestimate. The benefits are numerous not only on the physical and mental level but also in facilitating deep liberating insights into the three general characteristics and the deathless.
Confidence is crucial for any undertaking, also for our spiritual journey. Our confidence in the teaching, the actual practice, and in our ability to do the practice grow and deepen as we move along the way.
We entered retreat as “personal packages” that unfolded into a collective field of Dhamma. This field has immense capacity to hold wholesome potencies beyond the world of space and time. We can continue to enrich and access this field after leaving the retreat form as support for our ongoing Dhamma practice.
Imagining there is only an hour left to live, recollect what has been meaningful and of value. The word just acts as the suitcase, then we have to open it and get a feeling for it in the heart and body.