What is Meditation ? | Standing Meditation | Buddhist Studies Link
Change positions when physically tired, but not as soon as you feel an impulse to change. First, know why you want to change - is it physical fatigue, mental restlessness, or laziness? Notice the suffering or unpleasant feeling of the body. Learn to watch openly and mindfully both comfortable and uncomfortable feelings. This is mindfulness of feeling, sensation (Pali: Vedananupassana) both comfortable and uncomfortable.
"Effort in practice is a matter of the mind, not the body. It means constantly being aware what goes on in the mind without following like and dislike as they arise." A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah, complied and edited by Jack Kornfield and Paul Breiter, 1991.
If you need to stand up, you may do so with mindfulness and awareness by keeping your mind with your body as you move from sitting to standing. When you complete the standing posture, you may stand for two to three minutes, or more, by observing the body both standing and touching, standing and touching, standing and touching. The body is standing and the body is touching the floor. The mind knows "form standing." Note the feeling of the body from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, from the top of your head down to the bottom of your feet, and feel your body (form) standing as a whole. You also can observe standing meditation for a longer period of time by just moving your legs, one by one, a little bit and observe the feeling at the moment as you move. When you need to move from standing to walking, or turning left or right, say to yourself "Intending to turn," then "turning, turning and turning." When you complete turning, keep standing for a moment, repeating three times, "Standing. Standing. Standing." Then say to yourself; "Intending to walk," and observe walking meditation for the required time
By Ven. Chuen Phangcham,Ph.D
