1996-07_05 Vipassana Retreat, Part 5 of 8 - Q&A 11

Talk: 19960705-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-vipassana_retreat_part_5_of_8-43309 Start_time: 01:22:06 Display_question: May I share how I was mindful during speedily walking? Keyword_search: walk, walking, fast, automatic, pace, stop, slow, speed, attention, felt, feel, adjust, conscious, sati, mindfulness, Pali, right, helpful, useful, magic, invisible, Question_content: Questioner: When I'm in my office… Larry: Could we just stay to here? Questioner: It's related. Larry: Okay. Questioner: Well, okay. I'll just come directly to here. I was walking here, and I was walking fast. And I guess something about it felt as if this was not the pace. It felt automatic. Something was carrying me that I didn't really need to walk at that pace. And what I normally do is just stop and then somehow try to sense which speed I need to go and then pick up at slower speed. This time I just paid attention to the speed I was going at. Just how I felt, how it felt, and it just adjusted itself. Normally, I kind of consciously slow it down automatic to a place I think it probably should be at, but it just adjusted itself very quickly. Larry: The word mindfulness is sati in the Pali language, and it has many connotations. But one of them—mindfulness, sati means mindfulness—one of them is “that which sets things right.” In other words, it's always helpful. Mindfulness is very useful. It has some kind of magic. I mean, it's invisible. Where is it? It doesn't weigh anything. It has no color. And yet, when it touches something, something happens. Yeah. End_time: 01:23:33