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PRACTICE OF ISNESS IN US

 There are many sorts of meditation and to me they are all good as long as they allow the effective return to BEING in us. Yet, through experience, we all come to privilege one sort of meditation of which we know the results better. Personally I choose to keep meditation the less possible separated from everyday life. I believe that two months of seated meditation, twice a day and for some 15 minutes each time, should be enough to experience BEING as pure OBSERVATION. After these two months we can gradually integrate meditation to our life activities. In Zen Buddhism, KINHIN is the walking meditation. It is practised between long periods of the seated meditation known as Zazen. Practitioners walk clockwise around a room while holding their hands in shashu (叉手), with one hand closed in a fist and the other hand grasping or covering the fist. They also put their feet on the ground in a certain way and follow many other rules that would be too long explaining here. Faithfully following