The morning walk

This is a silent exercise.
Walk in silence.
As you walk, look at everything you seeas though it doesn’t have a name.
As you walk, begin to name the thing that your eyes rest upon
as if you were God, naming things for the very first time.


 Use only “first-generation” names.
For example: sky, flower, insect, tree, concrete, shoe, woman.


As you notice thoughts moving one more generation away
(for example, “wonderful morning” or “what a beautiful tree!”),
notice, gently stop, be still.


Return to simple, uncomplicated one-word, first-generation names:
ground, sky, woman….


The morning walk is meditation.
It is about noticing.
It is a silent exercise.xercise.

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