WEBVTT 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:07.920 I have arrived, I am home. 00:00:08.144 --> 00:00:11.624 It's very simple, but that is the practice. 00:00:13.363 --> 00:00:18.263 And walk in such a way that you arrive, and you feel like home. 00:00:19.927 --> 00:00:24.137 You do not walk like a sleepwalker anymore, 00:00:24.648 --> 00:00:30.428 you are walking as a free person, you are walking like a Buddha. 00:00:31.694 --> 00:00:37.244 To be a Buddha and walking on earth is possible. 00:00:37.751 --> 00:00:42.891 A Buddha is a man who is awake, who can be in the here and the now, 00:00:42.891 --> 00:00:45.645 who can enjoy the present moment. 00:00:45.645 --> 00:00:50.010 You can be a Buddha, walking on this beautiful planet. 00:00:53.708 --> 00:00:57.648 Is very important that you feel at home in the here and the now, 00:00:59.231 --> 00:01:01.621 only when you feel at home in the here and the now 00:01:01.621 --> 00:01:06.953 that you really have peace. 00:01:07.409 --> 00:01:11.819 Without peace, there's no happiness and joy. 00:01:12.985 --> 00:01:16.975 Peace is the absence of conflict. 00:01:21.408 --> 00:01:28.578 When you deny the here and the now, when you are not satisfied with yourself, 00:01:28.578 --> 00:01:31.743 what is there when you are searching for something else, 00:01:31.743 --> 00:01:34.900 you are not at peace with yourself. 00:01:36.084 --> 00:01:40.564 When you breathe in and bring your mind home to your body, 00:01:40.994 --> 00:01:45.024 you make peace between mind and body. 00:01:45.746 --> 00:01:52.136 Very often, in your daily life, you left your body alone. 00:01:55.689 --> 00:02:00.449 When you spend two hours with your computer, 00:02:01.399 --> 00:02:04.119 you forget completely that you have a body. 00:02:06.888 --> 00:02:09.698 In that moment, body and mind are not together, 00:02:09.698 --> 00:02:11.710 you are not truly alive, 00:02:11.710 --> 00:02:17.041 when body and mind are away from each other. 00:02:19.450 --> 00:02:27.121 So, breathing in mindfully you ride on your inbreath 00:02:27.121 --> 00:02:29.251 and go home to yourself. 00:02:29.573 --> 00:02:32.093 You bring your mind home to your body, 00:02:32.093 --> 00:02:36.540 eternally, you are fully present in the here and the now. 00:02:36.979 --> 00:02:41.399 And that's only two seconds, three seconds of breathing in, 00:02:41.399 --> 00:02:44.322 to bring the mind home to your body. 00:02:44.322 --> 00:02:47.339 And there, mind and body together, 00:02:47.339 --> 00:02:49.417 you are established in the here and the now 00:02:49.417 --> 00:02:53.150 and you get in touch with the wonders of life. 00:02:56.133 --> 00:02:58.103 That's simple enough. 00:03:00.464 --> 00:03:06.474 So, every breath you take, every step you make, 00:03:06.474 --> 00:03:09.178 should be able to bring you home to the here and the now, 00:03:09.178 --> 00:03:11.426 that is the basic practice. 00:03:14.140 --> 00:03:20.340 And you don't have to struggle, to force yourself to do that, 00:03:20.340 --> 00:03:24.397 because breathing in like that can be very pleasant, 00:03:24.397 --> 00:03:28.980 and making a step like that can be very pleasant also, 00:03:29.607 --> 00:03:34.527 there is no violence, there is no forcing, just awakening, 00:03:35.445 --> 00:03:41.505 to wake up from a long dream, from a long sleep. 00:03:43.374 --> 00:03:47.654 You wake up to the fact that life is available in the here and the now, 00:03:47.654 --> 00:03:53.057 that you are alive, that the wonders of life in you and around you, 00:03:53.057 --> 00:03:57.370 and you can enjoy being alive, right here and right now. 00:03:57.648 --> 00:04:02.988 And you have more than enough conditions in order to be happy, 00:04:04.093 --> 00:04:10.653 so that is insight, that is mindfulness and concentration. 00:04:11.974 --> 00:04:17.004 That back the value of your breath and your step; 00:04:18.127 --> 00:04:21.897 a breath made like that, a step made like that can bring you 00:04:21.897 --> 00:04:24.621 a lot of freedom and happiness. 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:28.340 I have arrived, I am home. 00:04:30.087 --> 00:04:37.387 You feel comfortable in your home, your true home is not in Germany, 00:04:39.205 --> 00:04:44.905 in Holland, in Singapore, your true home is the here and the now, 00:04:45.765 --> 00:04:51.285 where you can touch the wonders of life, your ancestors are available 00:04:51.285 --> 00:04:53.323 in the here and the now. 00:04:56.444 --> 00:05:01.274 I have arrived, I am home, in the here and the now. 00:05:01.383 --> 00:05:03.973 The here and the now is where I arrive, 00:05:03.973 --> 00:05:06.074 is my true home. 00:05:06.853 --> 00:05:10.613 I am solid, I am free. 00:05:11.490 --> 00:05:19.850 This is not wishful thinking, solidity is what you cultivate by walking. 00:05:20.453 --> 00:05:25.643 Every step helps you cultivate more solidity. 00:05:26.973 --> 00:05:33.573 To be solid means to be established truly in the here and the now. 00:05:33.573 --> 00:05:37.905 The past cannot pull you away, the future cannot pull you away, 00:05:37.905 --> 00:05:40.331 you are well established in the here and the now, 00:05:40.331 --> 00:05:43.344 you are solidly established in the here and the now. 00:05:43.774 --> 00:05:49.584 And with one step, breathing in, you can contemplate that solidity, 00:05:50.210 --> 00:05:53.430 and you are free, I am solid, I am free, 00:05:53.734 --> 00:05:57.774 you are free because the past and the future, 00:05:57.774 --> 00:06:02.201 your projects, your sorrows cannot pull you away anymore. 00:06:04.513 --> 00:06:10.043 So, while walking you cultivate more solidity and freedom, 00:06:10.409 --> 00:06:13.279 and that has the power to heal you, 00:06:14.916 --> 00:06:19.086 and to bring you happiness. 00:06:22.153 --> 00:06:28.203 So there's a song everyone may like to memorize 00:06:28.203 --> 00:06:34.124 in order to practice walking or breathing, 00:06:34.124 --> 00:06:39.949 "I have arrived, I am home, in the here, in the now. 00:06:40.273 --> 00:06:48.103 I am solid, I am free, in the ultimate, I dwell". 00:06:52.118 --> 00:06:59.288 In the ultimate means that you see that 00:07:02.492 --> 00:07:09.102 this physical body of yours is not the only body you have. 00:07:11.431 --> 00:07:14.641 You have a cosmic body, 00:07:16.618 --> 00:07:20.008 and you have to recognize your cosmic body, 00:07:22.454 --> 00:07:28.234 if you look into your physical body, you see your cosmic body, 00:07:28.458 --> 00:07:33.738 the air, the water, the heat, the soil, 00:07:34.202 --> 00:07:39.272 and you are made of stars. 00:07:43.696 --> 00:07:48.576 We know very well that without the sunshine, 00:07:51.467 --> 00:07:55.177 there would be no life on Earth. 00:07:59.731 --> 00:08:03.271 So you are made of sunshine. 00:08:06.476 --> 00:08:09.456 And the sun is a star, 00:08:10.710 --> 00:08:15.380 is one of the biggest stars in the whole galaxy, 00:08:16.468 --> 00:08:19.248 and that star is very close, 00:08:21.181 --> 00:08:25.931 and because the sun is there, life on earth is possible. 00:08:26.155 --> 00:08:32.685 So you are a son of the sun, you are a daughter of the sun, 00:08:32.685 --> 00:08:37.144 you can call that star "Father Sun", 00:08:38.791 --> 00:08:43.561 and you are a daughter of Mother Earth, 00:08:44.084 --> 00:08:48.534 a son of Mother Earth, you are made of stars. 00:08:52.437 --> 00:08:55.797 And you have, if you look deeply you know that, 00:08:55.797 --> 00:09:00.509 this physical body is not the only body you have, 00:09:00.509 --> 00:09:03.728 you still have a cosmic body. 00:09:05.582 --> 00:09:12.222 Suppose you contemplate a wave that is born on the ocean, 00:09:15.663 --> 00:09:19.203 that wave has come from the ocean, 00:09:19.387 --> 00:09:25.987 and she will go home to the ocean in order to be reborn again 00:09:25.987 --> 00:09:28.527 as another wave. 00:09:30.470 --> 00:09:38.590 So the wave has a wave body and also an ocean body, 00:09:39.435 --> 00:09:46.355 and the moment when she realizes that she has an ocean body, 00:09:46.355 --> 00:09:49.299 she'll lose all her fear, 00:09:49.465 --> 00:09:52.345 fear of birth and of death. 00:09:56.467 --> 00:10:01.567 Look at the clouds in the sky, 00:10:01.567 --> 00:10:04.105 they also come from the ocean, 00:10:04.105 --> 00:10:06.864 and if they meditate well enough, 00:10:06.864 --> 00:10:12.231 they'll see that, although they have a cloud body, 00:10:12.231 --> 00:10:15.773 they have also an ocean body. 00:10:16.940 --> 00:10:21.760 Is very important for the cloud to realize that he has an ocean body, 00:10:23.103 --> 00:10:31.413 so when he's no longer a cloud, he still has his ocean body. 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:36.630 So the ultimate is that, 00:10:37.447 --> 00:10:40.487 God is the ultimate, 00:10:40.487 --> 00:10:43.343 nirvana is the ultimate. 00:10:44.926 --> 00:10:53.146 Nirvana is the true nature of reality, the nature of no birth and no death, 00:10:53.146 --> 00:10:55.914 no coming and going, 00:10:56.352 --> 00:11:00.382 God is the ultimate, God is nirvana. 00:11:00.419 --> 00:11:05.589 So you have a nirvana body, you have a God body, 00:11:05.589 --> 00:11:12.377 you have a cosmic body, and if you walk deeply in mindfulness 00:11:12.377 --> 00:11:16.842 you can touch our cosmic body, we can touch the ultimate, 00:11:17.402 --> 00:11:20.412 we touch our nature of no birth and no death. 00:11:20.545 --> 00:11:25.195 So walking meditation can bring very deep insight 00:11:25.195 --> 00:11:28.040 and dissipate all kind of fear. 00:11:28.859 --> 00:11:31.559 Is a simple practice, 00:11:32.176 --> 00:11:36.106 and practicing walking not only you can get in touch with the wonders 00:11:36.106 --> 00:11:40.679 of life that can be nourishing and healing, 00:11:40.757 --> 00:11:48.207 but you can touch also the ultimate, in order to be liberated 00:11:48.207 --> 00:11:52.146 from all fear and anxiety.